Star.
London, England, 1828-02-21 00:00:00

FROM THE LOWER ELBE. Fn. 4.

You may consider the following as the official com-
munication of the Special H insiatic Minion to Rio de
Janeiro:

"The Merchants, we think, will not be dissal,fied
with the treaty which we concluded on the 17th Nur.
1827, All goods, without distinction of their origin,
exported from the Hansiatic cities, in Hansiatic ships,
or in the ships of other favoured nations—that is, when
these nations give the same privilege to 11 anseatic
ships—are to pay, from the day *hen the ratifications
are exchanged, an import slut y 0115 per cent. instead
of 24 per cent. which th y have hitherto paid. From
the entrepot of northern productions, which is thereby
encouraged, and the more e any competition with the
North Americans in corn, flour, and provisions .1
all kinds, we promise ourselves almost Brea er ad-
vantages than from the increased exportations of
German manufactures, which cannot fail to take place..
For the manufactures of the Prussian Rhenish provinces
and Westphalia, as well as for the whole South of Ger-
many, this treaty is still more important than that
concluded by Prussia, which limits the reduction in the
Import duty to Prussian goods in Prussian ships, and
besides stipulates troublesome formalities of certificates
of origin."
This treaty is equivalent to a total abolition of the
difference of import duties in Brazil; and we cannot
but wonder, after the late tteaties with Franey
and Prussia, and especially after this most recent
convention with the Hanseatic cities, that the Go-
vernment of that county dues not rather, once
for all, decree an equality of privileges for all nations,
which exists in point of fact, as it has been strictly ob-
served in the former Spanish co!onies in South Ame-
rica from the beginning of their independence, notwith-
standing alf the influence of England and North A merica.
VIENNA, Vas. 9,
The Russian Counsellor of State Chevalier Kataskasr,
who was appointed diplomatic agent in attendance upon
Count Von Heiden, arrived here to-day from St. Pe-
tersburgh. AU that has been said is public journals of
a mission with which Prince Philip of Hesse Homburg
was to go to St. Petersburgh is one of the numerous
fictions with which the public is daily aanused.—Alge-
wine Zeiiimg, Feb. 14.
Idetalliques, a a 16.—Bank Shares,lo4s.
ExcwAssas ON Lomax.

MILAK, 6.-90 d. 2943. ROUE. J.a. 31,47.
FININICIPOIT, Pis. 15, 2 M.-14 Sh.
Eztracts from the Jamaica Aptra to tbc Si J.ivary,

I received at the North and South American Coffee-house.
by the Hain's transport :
• PROM THE JAMAICA tOURANT 07 JAN. 2.
We understand the Island- Agent has presented a me•
morial to the Board of Trade, on the subject of the
extra duties charged by the Colombial States, upon
articles imported through the Colonies ; and as the me.
morial was accompanied by official documents from the
Colombian Consuls, proving the fact, We have no doubt
the British Government will institute an inquiry into
this unfriendly feeling toward the Colonies.—By the
Espiegle, we learn that Admiral Laborde, in the Spa-
nish ship of the line Guereiro, with a 50 gun ship, and I
a heavy brig or 20 guns, had artiired at [lotto Rico,
from the Havannah.
It is rumoured that Sir Henry Torrens Will be ap-
i.ointed Governor of Jamaica, and that Sir John Keane
goes home, to succeed him as Adjutant Galleon.

Ertl-act of a letter from Cadiz, received by the Fr tilt!)
Papas this morning:
CADIZ, Fla. I.

We learn by the goele,te Irene, arrived from Porto
Rico in days, that on the 93d December Admiral
Laborde set rail from that Lland, after having had a
conference with the Authorities,