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usually numerous for nie %vs, and have brought
us letters from Rio, liabkhaziniclact, and Pernam-
huco ; also from New Toile, and other 'parts of tlie
'United States.

The Countess of Bute sailed from Rio Janeiro on
the 7th of March, and arrived one day before the
Diana Packet, which sailed from the same plice on
the 21st of February. The commercial letters by
each of thek conveyances are by no means of a gra-
tifying description. They complain of an almost to-
tal want of specie, and represent trade as extremely
'dull in consequence. One of the letters has the fol-
lo*ing gloomy sentence :—" The markers here for,
soft manufactured goodi ire worse than ever."
Letters from Pernambuco' of the date of the 28th
of February,.brought by the Waterloo, which has ar-
rived at Liverpool, give the same unfavourable ac-
count as to the state of commerce in that quarter ;
where the markets are described as glutted, both with
manufactered goods and the produce of the coun-
try :. cotton uncommonly plentiful, and selling at
almost any price. The Chevy Chace, and several
other vessels for Liverpool, laden chiefly with Cot,
ton, sailed from Pernambuco the day previous to the
Waterloo and have in all likelihood arrived before
this, as they were seen beating about the Chops of
the Channel several days. ago. •
The letters frem Liverpool represent the arrivals
of Cotton and Colonial produce generally, as larger
than at any former period cf the greatest commer-
cial prosperity ; and the demand for home consunip-
tion greater than the existing state of trade would
lead us to expect.
A letter from Trinidad, dated the 10th of March;
contains the following paragraph We have been
doing very little here in the way of business for some
time past ; and#l never recollect matters so flat and
inactive as they have been these last six months, nor
have we any prospect of their becoming better—
Great part of last year's crops are on hand, and many.
'of the Planters will inevitably be ruined; if there be
not a favourable change before the commencement
of the elisuing season. There has likewise been a
great falling off in the shipping arrivals, particularly
from America ; .and, on the whole, commerce never
%vote a worse aspect than it does with us at present"
In addition to the above communications, a respec-
table Cloth-house, in Yorkshire; has received letters
from Palermo, and likewise from Koningsbeti, which
are quite in urrison with those received from the other
side of the Atlantic. One of the letters, from Ko
hingsberg states, that thrdemand 'for British'nfain-
factured vods has almost ceased in thafqbarter;
and that there are many bales on hand that hive re-
mained unpacked these two years.
The private letters received yesterday from all
parts of the Continent, contain unfavourable accounts
of the state of commerce. Two failures have taken
place at Stralsund, one at Stettin, one at Petersburgh,
and a fifth at Lubeck. It is further stated, that the
most perfect stagnation prevails in every department
of business, and not a single article could be named
for which any demand existed.

The price of weaving ginghams having been
lowered 2s. per cut, at Carlisle, caused some excesces;
and a• mettles of the weavers, last Wednesday, in
that'Cily, whin they resolved to petition the REOZNT
to send *thetst.all to America.

• The following letter ha* been received this morn-
ing atLfirres.. It id Tainfill *to think, that such
itinciousiiutrages • sho.uld.continue to be committed
under the Independent flag, against' -the lives and
properties of the subjects of neutral nations. The
facility with which letters of margete are obtained
from the New Republics of South America, has cc
vered the Seas with a set of adventurers, who are all
bltt ht. name, pirates of the worst denription :
• - de MAILANNAN Mascot 15, 1819.
"..Ssia.—The ship Duly *I Wellington. writ,
tou late Master,
arrived yesterday from Rio de Janeiro, having during the voyage
been forced into PetnambuCo by an Insurgent privateer—the
Commander of which, after having wantonly fired into the Duke •
of Wellington (thee shout three leagues to the westward of Cafel
St. Augustine), by which her late;2llaster was killed, required;
the. vessel to go into Pernambnco, for proof that. the cargo on
board was British property. The privateer was a low brig of
about three hilndred tons burthen, mounting twenty-tWo guns.
Her boat's clew stated, when on board the Duke of Wellingtotr,l
that a schooner in company, mounting is guns, (a Spanish ape
of. war) had been captured. six days before, on her way front'
Cadiz to Rio de Janeiro, after a short action, in which 40 inen
were killed on board the Spanish vessel • The remainder of her
crew have been sent into Pernambuco. The brig and schooner
were then cruising hi company, and it was stated that the brig
had been out live motile from Baltimore, and had captured
eight vessels. " I am, Sir, &c.
' (Signed) " ROBERT HESKETIL
" British Consul, and Agent to Lloyd's.
" To Mr..Tohn Bennett, jun. Secretary to Lloyd's."
" ifen..—The Nereyda Spanish brig of war, from Cad to
Rio de Janeiro, was taken in tat. 9. long. 54. W. by the Ir-
tosistUale X'atriot brit, and carried into Margaretti lith Na ch."•

The accopnts from the Cape of Good HOpe, stating
that the.CAffres had made an incursion and murk
dered a: number of _people, both civil and TA-
rary., are contradicted by a contemporary, who states
that no intelligence to this effect had reached Go-
vernment. We are assured that there are accounts
in town confirming the intelligence, though we doubt
not,that the affair has been exaggerated. The 24th
Dragoons are arrived- at Portsmouth, add they state
that a squadron of that regiment had been ordered to
proceed to Orange River, to assist in suppressing the
tumult, but Were•counternanded, probably from ac-
counts being received by the Governor of tranquil-
ray being restored. The report at the Cape was, that
three British Officers lad been killed.
REPQRT MADE TO TIIE BRITISH CONSUL AT RIO,
AND COMMODORE BOWLES IN tflE PLATE.
" Rio jiWZIRO, MARCH 6.
Lord COCHRAWR hid hoisted his broad pendent at Valparaiso,
in the frigate Maria Isabel, of 50 guns, commanded by Captain
FOSIRH, hairing on board 400 excellent seamen, and he bad 10
sail of vessels of war, of all classes, under his command, which
were perfectijre2dy, and in the mast efficient state, for sea ; two
of them mouated 40 guns.' Thatjais lusedshipled, by a special
message, requested an interview with the Cassia of the On-
tario, and that the questions. put to, him by his Lordship were
evidently intended to ascertain whit was the amount of the
spikle 'chiefs had.bern shipped in his Majestj'eship Andromache,
6**"110; and /3115uont, CuPt• mom; end whether the
seine was the attailisroperty of tbeoSponialt Government, or of
any cif its Autkpr4:-., thom two ships jaciu& on tqc coast
with it on board,..-4The itßiresslod remilninton the nittl of the
Captain of the Ontario 'ivas,l Y.-041Np well ism-
taift this lattee 'point, it isfielsitinViaMiltainalleepttilese
and seise the property. So soon as this report was made to Com-
modore Ihren.ss, he proceeded rowel Cape lions in the Cte•le."