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London, England, 1826-07-11 00:00:00

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AND BUENOS AYRES.

The fajowing extract of a letter from Rio de Janeiro,
br the last Brazil Mail, gives the best account of any
we have seen of the state and prospects of the war with
linenns Ayres 3 •
The war with =Arse ie. illat likely to terminate so men
es was nreledit ies falai can be named when it may
pettishly be bailliglift% an fed alter by force of arms or by treaty.
Tough there le tiserly ell 'she arazillan naval force,ansonnting
'to near eighty vest b, is the River Plate, little has een effected
either in eassylsi the Awl or in preserving the blockade.—
Admiral Breen, byllte Ism and activity, makes up feeble
want of force. amid the war be prolonged into the winter gems
which is now amiss es, the large ahipi of Brasil, during the pert:
*dicta storms which then weer, wiU be driven to sea, as they can-
not enter the harbour of Monte Video, and there is no other shelter
for them in the river. At Rio Grande there is a very large body
of Brazilian troops, but they have been kept in a state of Inactivity,
nor is ft likely they will be very effective daring the winter season,
as most of them are from the tropical part of the country, and un.
accustomed to the weather, Whirls will du more harm amongst
them than the enemy. It is reported that the Duenos.Ayreans have
purchosed the Chillan squadron, which is soon expected round tills.
way. They do net appear to entertain any expectation of receiving
lid from Bolivar. This unhappy war has produced serious evils on
our commerce, by depriving us of a market for our surplus imports.
Both parties are expending immense treasures, and buffering equally,
aisoegh in different ways, by the contest."

THE SLAVE TRADE. •
The execrable traffic inlitiman beings still continues
to flourish in lastrible vigour, under the flags of France,
Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. A series of do-
cuments ordered to be printed by Pailiament last Ses-
sion are no,v before us. They consist of copies and
extracts of the Correspondence between the Admiralty
and our Naval Officers on foreign stations, engaged in
't!'e suppression of this abominable barter. This Ccir-
respnisdenee comprises a period of about nine months,
from March, 1825, to January, 1826 ; and the list of
horrors rerpetwed under the flags of these four Con-
tinental Trading Powers, our subsidised Allies, within
that interval, is downright appalling. ',The British Go-
vernment is unceasing in its efforts to extinguish this
infernal trade, and our Naval Officers omit nothing
that zeal and gallantry can accomplish. But while
this Black barter is protected and sanctioned by the
oatnans, whose flag it has so long disgraced—and while
the unlimited rigbt of search, on every sea, is denied
to its, by these Powers—to long this accursed traffic
will still outrage humanity—be the curse of Africa—
and the di-grace of the civil zed world.
The first communication given in these Papers is
From Commodore Sullen, dated on board his Majesty's
shin Maidstone, at Sierra Leone, in March, 1825. This
active and excellent Officer states that keeping close in
shore, he visited Sugurry, and the River Gallinas (the
great haunt of these Corsairs), where he disturbed a
great number of Spanish schooners, who were bargain-
ing for-their cargoes of human beings, and wa'ong the
opportunity to ship them and sail. On the 15th of
Jumary, 1825, the Commodore saw off the mouth cf
fort Antonio, Prince's Island, a suspicious armed
schooner, at and or under the forts. This, he after-
wards 1' :reed, was tht Pyladts, a Spanish vessel,
Ortnsd wi h sit 18 pounders, and well manned. thco
takinaln water and provisions, prertratora to proceeding
in Vl'hydalios here her cargo of slaves was in reainvss.
!'see Commodore then states, the capture of one of our
ships, the Swinger, of a Brazilian veraehe Wm Fin,
with 146 slaves on board ! And the (*aria% capture by
another of our vessels, the Athol, of the Spanish
schooner, the Esraniola, with 260 Slaves on board ! just
shipped in the Gallinas River I
letter from Captain Moorsom tb Commo-
dore Christian, dated on board his Majesty's ship An--
diem:4or, in Simon's Bay, in May, 1825, stares that
the Aftican Coast from Delagoa Bay to Cape Delgado,
is under the nominal authority of the Portuguese. That
their actual power is limited to certain spots, where forts
are erected ant troops maintained, the principal of
which are St fah and Mosambique, and that their chief
trade is in Waves to Brazil, of whom the Export, in
1823, amomited to 160(10! This letter corroborates
Mr. Buxton's statements in the Commons' House, last
Session, respecting the slave trade in the Mauritius.
Captain Moorsom says, that the Seychelles Islands are
dependencies of the Matuitius, as ate also the several
groups called the Almirantes, and others adjacent.—
That by means of these islands, a slave traffic is carried
on with the Mauritius, a British Colony; and new blacks
are introduced into them to supply the place olthe old
slave., transtet red to the former island, under the sanc-
tion of 'he law !
A sixth letter, from Commodore Bullen, dated in We t
Ilay, Prince's Island, in September, 1825, states the de-
tention of a blig, under Dutch colours, belonging to
St. Eustatius, and then on a voyage from St.-Thomas,
its the West Indies, bound to the river Andony or Sons
bi e;cs, having on board a very valuable cargo for tra.'e,
and fined in every respect for the reception of slaves.
This vessel carve wi hin seven, of the nine additional
Articles of the Convention, concluded with the King of
the N therlands in Jan. 1853, and was therefote subject
to capture. She was a fine brig of 152 tons, well manned
mutt armed.- lies cargo was ostensibly, by the list of
shipment, the property of British subjects, resijela
at St. Thomas! 'Mere being, among others, the names
4.1 the houses of Bear, Murray, and Co.! Walrond, ,
Brown, and Co.! and Ogilvie and Buchanan! Her papers
v ere correct, but not a Dutchman on board of her !
en.l the vessel and cargo were properly sent to Sierra
Leone for adjudication. The Slave Trade, in place of
diminishing, appears to be increasing, under eircum-
-stances the most appalling. Commodore Balton, in the
same letter we have just quoted, states the capture of a
slave trader, the " Bon Jesus" (what a name for such a
Gmail 1) under Brazilian or Insurgent Portuguese
colours, with 283 slaves, bound from Lagos to Bahia.
The horrible condition, this Commodore states, this
trader was in, was truly dreadful, having scarce a week's
provision for her wretched cargo! And how she was
to have reached the port of her destination in such a
state, the Commodore adds, is a miracle, unless calcu-
I oing on a great reduction by death! Need we add any
t' isis more to this list of atrocities, to souse universal
ist

•
Sus•ccniPTiott IoR THE GREEKS IN PRUSSIA.—.BER-
-1340 Jose 25.—The subscription for the children,
u and aged, in Greece, are very satisfactory. All
classes, high and low, take a warm interest in the cause.
Yet the calm observer is of opinion that the Greeks, in
hatever light tlle'r contest may be considered, have
not hitherto shown themselves worthy of the interest
that Europe takes in them. The Pius:inn Association,
which is resolved entirely to steer clear of politics,
could net consider itself a branch of the,French and
Englith Societies, which have assumed a political cha•
s acter. Under those circumstances, the only thing that
can be done is to send a special agent with the Plussian
contribution to that unhappy country,

Consols opened thh morning at. 7111 j, but soon. after were done
at VII e, and for money 7111. The market appears In an unsettled
state—Forty Thousand Con►ob have been sold for Exchequer'
Billy: for next time they may be quoted at 713 bliyers.
In the Foreign Market, South Americas. are a shade better.
Current prices : Old Spanish 71 I, Mexican 44i, COlomblan
281, Rusulan 791 j. Exchequer falls 10 to It prem.'
CITY, ONE acLocK. ,
Consols are now at 7103 i for the Account, with little doing.—
Consols for next time 783.

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Long Ann. 18 .13-16
India Stock 226% ez div.
India Bonds 17 15
£l,OOO Excheq. Bilk 10 11 9 prem.
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Through the kindnes, of Out eminent merchant in the
City, we have been favoured with an extract of a letter
from Smyrna of the 10th June. It gives a lamentable
account of the unprincipled piracies of the Greeks, and
the injury they do to British commerce in th• Archi-
pelago. It also announces, on the authority of a
French Vessel arrived from NApoli, that so far from
Isamum PACHA being exhausted, or resting in inac-
tivity, his army was in sight of that fortress. The fol•
lowing is an extract:

la I have now to announce the arrival of ;be " Vo-
:usia,4 from Glasgow and Malta, she has also been
plundered by Greek pirates, and the Ciptain has been
wounded. They have take,' out thirty or forty
packages. We have drawn up a strong letter to the Con-
sul, ah;ch goes sap to day by rxpress to hit Excellency
the Ambassador, of whicli the following is art extract :

At a moment like the present, when on land the Greeks have
' been driven to their fast fortress, and by sea every kind of sub-
' ordination seems to have ceased—when the Greek vessels appear
' to have abandoned aU hope of success, as well a. to have ran-
' quished all efforts aping their enemies;—we say, et a moment
' like this, with a number of Greek vessels, armed, without any
chance of existence but plunde► left them, the prospect is an awful
one for BIWA Commerce, iu the passage .of her shipping up and
' down the Archipelago, without the powerful assistance of his
• 31.jesty's Government is speedily rendered for its protection ;'_

" and also requesting that the pirated property which
may come to this matkct for sale, as .some has done
already, may be seqnestered at the Custom House here,
until the apparent owners prove they came rightfully
by them, either by the production of invoices, or an Act
of condemnation by the Greek Court of Admiralty.—
We urge the necessity of informing the Consular Agent
at Milo (who, by the way. is a Greek), that it is his
duty to warn all vessels, calling for pilots off Milo,
of Ce dangers they- expose themselves to by coming
up the Atchipelago without convoy ; and finally beg
the Consul to require all the Consular Agents in the
islands in the Arch;pelago to report to him, from
time to time, every detail respecting suspected pro-
perty—from whence it may come, where it may be
going to, and generally every information which
may appear to be useful, and likely to lead t,
elucidation.—We further hint at the good that might
result from appointing British subjects as agents in
the Islands near which piracies took place, adding,
that from such agents much good might rettlt, but that
our experience allowed us to hope much less, certainly,
from the appointment of people of the canner y.—l
calculate that the property plundered by the Greeks
from the Helen, Diadem, and the Volusia, mast at
least amount to eighteen thousand pounds sterling.'
A French vessel of war, just arrived from Napoli di
Romania. reports the advanced Guard of Ibrahim
Pacha's army to have been in sight of that fortress when
they came away.

Although the Greeks have not for many months
gained a single advantage over the Turks, yet a general
opinion prevails that the worst is past, and that the
classic land will ere long be free. There is no doubt
that unlimited confidence in Lord CCCTIRANIS is the
principal ground for this opinion. It may also be
a.lded that, since the fall of Missolonghi, IBRAHIM
PACHA has been in a state of absolute inactivity; he
has neither improved his advantage, nor intimidated
the Greeks, tun made a single movement of any con-
sequence, nor has he even succeeded in keeping the
Porte or his own troops in good humour. In the
meantime, while lastantst is disgusting the Porte by his
inactivity, and disappointing his Arabs of their pro-
mised booty ; and while RaDSCHID PACHA is vainly
endeavouring to recruit his forces in Northern Greece,
the Greeks are making greater exertions than ever.
Letters from Toulon stile, that all the ships there
capable of putting to seal and those stationed on the coast of Spain,

have received owlets to proceed to the Leant', where tome remits
aro repented to oke place._r•-rowmova—.—
Q.lebec Papers have been reeetved to the 6th of June;
but they eintain nothing if Consequence. •
In our first page will be found some interesting
particulars of the movemects of the Briti-h Army in
India, with some details of minor events pending the
renewal of hostilities in that quarter.

By the arrival .of a Lisbon Mail, st•e have received
Gazettes to the 27th ult. They announce that the Conde
DR CAZA FLORES had a private audience with her Royal
Highness the Infanta DONNA Isa BICLLA MARIA, to pre-
sent his credentials as Ambassador front Spain. It is also
stated, that her Royal Highness would, on the 22J ult.
proceed to Villados Caldasda Rainhor, foi the benefit of
her he Ith. It is remarkable that the title of Regent,
and afterwards that of President, are now dropped in
speaking of this Princess. The following are extract.:

LISBON, Jim 20.

The Brazilian vessel Bomfma arrived yesterday In MI days from
Bahia; bywhich we learn that, on the 11th of April, an English vessel.
from Lisbon, had brought the melancholy news of the death of his
51airsty the late King, and that his august Son sailed on the 22d of
March, accompanied by the same ships that went with him, and by
a French frigate. It seems that Sir Charles Stuart hardly staid
two days at Bahia, and left it in the same frigate that brought him.
It was not said what was his destination.

6th.—The Gazette contains a v. ry long Alvan, to facilitate to
members of the regular orders and congregations the admission to the
office of teacher in the public schools. The following is the preamble:
I, the King, make known to all these who shall see this Alvan,
that, desiring to promote public instruction, and to facilitate the
means of obtaining it, and taking into consideration, that the in.
dividuali who compose the orders and regular congregations may
be usefully employed in the education of youth, not only front the
nature of th. it profession, which renders them most qualified to
give a moral and religious education, which is of all the most im•
portant, hut also on account of the resources which are afforded by
the abundance of libraries, the tranquillity of the Colonies, andthelr
exemption from domestic cares ; and as I must, for these reasons,
hope that the more easy admission of the Regular will be preduc.
five of great advantage to my faithful subjects, I have been pleased
t• ordain as fellows. (The regulations in fifteen articles are added).
In order that this favour granted to the monks may not interfere
with the observance of their statutes, none are to be allowed to teach
in the schools who are bound,by the rules of the orders to meditation
and prayer,and to seclusion from society, or who are bound fit attend
on therich of the dying; and as they cannot live out of their convents
without a violation and relaxation of monastic discipline, no one
can be admitted as a candidate for a professorship, or place of
teacher, except in a plate where there is a convent of his order in
which he may reside.—The Alvan is dated the 14th June last.
The

_ account of the stale of the Duke of YORK yes-
terday was very flattering—" His Royal Highness is mending fast."
The Royal Dyke was so much better, we are happy to say, as to
be able to ride out on horseback in the morning, from Mr. Gamut.
wooo's villa, towards Hampstead. Sir HEIST HALFORD, after
attending his Royal patient, called on the Duke and Duchess of
Choucaarza, to report the state of their Royal relative. The
Princess AUOVITA and the Princess Sorties visited the Royal Duke
yesterday. His Royal Highness transacted military business with
Sir 11t1111111T TAYLOIL

The Earl of LivertPont. arrived at his residence at
Whitehall yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon Earl BA niußsr returned to
town from Strathfirhimy, where his Lordship had bern on a visit
to the Duke of WaLavotott:

YesterdAy the Neapolitan Minister transacted business
at the Foreign Mee.
Tne Marquis of WATERFORD is seiieusly indisposed.
Lepers from Biter, utrt itgi that an etlsrthous plea
of ordnance (102-pounder) which has been car ured, is about to be
sent to England, to be presented to his MAJNITT.
BRIGHTON, JULY 9 About the out offices at the
Pavilion the painters have been employed in brightening up the
exteriors for several days past. Scioto sun-set yesterday, we were
refreshed by a succession of showers, throughout the tight. A
lovely day has succeeded, and our slogan:a have all appeared in
public today. Lord and Lady Owert.ar for town, and Mr. and
Mrs. NORTON, are the last departures from the Royal York lintel.
Sir JOHN &MUM STONEY is U 2 its arrival list.

ChieF Ju%tice BEiT was very much indisposed wi ile
at the Bedford Assizes, and during the long trial of the case of Sir
Gamow, PAGR 'fugues, Bubappeared to suffer much. !Ifs Lord-
ship's indisposition arose from an attack of the cholera morbus
while sou the road to Bedford.

The watering places begin to assume a gay and rvely
appearance. Margate continues the rendezvous of the citizens;
the Steyne, at Brighton, is the favourite lounge of the Dandies;
and Bognor has a sprinkling of fashionable visitors who suffer
much from the hot weather and ennui.

E4tly vestryday morning the shoe-warrhouse of Mr.
Francis, No. 132, Oxford.street, was entered by means of false
keys, and upwards of 500 pair of Ladies' boots and sknes stolen.
. Tlirl NI, a butcher of Ilirmingh.tm, 70 years old,
rode to Nottingham and back in one day, during the late electi4n, a
distance of 100 miles!

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CUSSITER ELEOTIONEERI NG A NFCDOTES..---.The elec-
tion wonderfully alters pricesr-a blackbird's notes have been known
to fetch, in certain boroughs, twa hundred sovereigns.—ln Chester,
a thriving :mown, in a good aspect, would fetch some 10 or 15
Iguineas ; a good tempered Tbris Cat was worth (for the value of any
commodity is what it will fetch in the market) Wt. and a rabbit cf
a particular breed was absolutely purchased fur upwards of two
hundred and/0y pounds (without the hutch) besides all the costs and
charges of a cuuveyauce in due and proper form.—Chester Coutunt.
Mr. Cultrltl S, M lot Sus.t• x, on rettirning a ome last
Tuesday, after his election, was met by great numbers of freeholders
and yeomanry, and his•carriage drawu.by the populace to Windmill
Hill. &x hogsheada of strung beer were given to his draushtstutu.
Herbert, the deserter, at Bhortpot e, has been hanged,
pursuant to the sentence of the Court-Martial, on the morning of
the.suth January. . .

. ll..spatches have been received at Calcutta from
Captain BURSTS', Envoy at Siam, annotincing his arrival at Bankok
on the 4th of December. He had his brat audience of the King of
Sub on the 16th Dec. and experienced a gracious and friendly
reception.
Tuesday, a young man named HURRAY, Went out in
the neighbourhood of Rugeley, for the purpose of shooting a wild
duck be had noticed near that place. He succeeded in his object ;
the duck, however, fell into a stream of water, and in endeavouring
to obtain his prize, he became entangled in some weeds and was
unfortunately drowned.
proposed improvements in Pall Mall extend as
far westward as the Duke of Rocca/Guam's mansion. The only
I houses to be left standing are those of Lady DYSART and Mr.
Evans, the celebrated bookseller. The house between bis and the
Duke of Becintorram's comes down to make a paloage to the new
Terrace fronting the Park. The Herald's College, the Traveller's
and the Athenuan Club-houses will occupy the greater part of the
space in Pall-Mall.
FIRS.---This morning, at ten o'clock, an alarming fire
broke out in the premises of Mr. Penfold,a baker, tea, Drury-lane,
and corner of Stewart's Rents. The fire, it is said, was occasioned
by the bursting id the flue of the oven; the effect was instantaneous

—the Limes liming from the front of the shop In an Immense vo-
lume, quickly caught the corner house adjoining. kept by Mrs.
Mills, a small chandler. These houses and indeed the whole of
those in the rear, forming the close called Stewart's Rents, are let
out in single rooms to persons of the most bumble circumstances.
and Noe distress and confusion occasioned by the sudden appearance

of this devouring element can hardly be described. Three or four
females, inhabiting the second and third pair in Mr. Penfold's house,
were so alarmed, that they jumped out of the second pair win.
iow into a van that was brought ender them, and providentially
essaped serious injury. The two houses, and three or four others in
their rear, were almost totally destroyed before the engines could
play upon them with efect : and several others in Stewares Rents
mre greatly damaged, although the firemen are using their utmost
esideavoun to confine the llamas frost spreading further. A poor
woman having just laid in, and who had a dead child laying by her
in now of the rooms adjoining where the fire broke out, was with
didisilty removed. The distress of the poor creatures who have
lost their all, in almost a messent's warning, is heart-rending.
We understand that the small pox has been raging in
Cloth with unexampled virulence, and that there bad been no less
dim 700 victims to it in nee district in the short period of a month.
The Agent had also made its appearance in the force encamped in
the neighbourhood of lihooj ; but by the last accounts had nearly
disappeared, though it still continued" to prevail by, the surrounding
villages."

NEE TUESDAX AM. SILL PR OVER.
NE -TVLSDAY THHtTt THOUSANDS.
NE TUXSDAY 40TTE1tIEll END FOR .F.VER.
!ME UVENING STAR.
LONDON.

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1526.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.