The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have received several communications which we are
compelled to postpone until our next, when, by means of
our supplement, we shall be enabled to bring up arrears.
In our report of a late meeting of the burgesses of Aber-
crombie Ward, we mentioned that Mr. Reuss had seconded
one of the resolutions. This was a misprint. It should
have been Roose.

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TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1840

We have been favoured with extracts from private
letters just received from Monte Video, by a respect-
able house in Liverpool. They bring down the intel-
ligence from that place to the 24th of July, and that
from Buenos Ayres to the 20th of the same month.
The French vessel of war Alagane, from Brest, had
arrived at Monte Video on the 22d of July, bringing
accounts of Rosas's proposals having arrived in Paris.
A vessel had been ordered to return immediately to
Monte Video, with the officer who carried out the pro-
posals. The President Rivera had openly declared
himself against Lavalle, and it was expected that he
would shortly declare against the French also, as they
were pressing him for £40,000, advanced to him by the
French agents, to co-operate with Lavalle against Ro-
sas. Produce continued very scarce and dear; in fact,
cargoes could not be obtained, and several vessels were
on demurrage. There had not been such a season
since 1833.

According to letters received from Buenos Ayres,
Lavalle had been repulsed in an attack that he made
on Echague's position, on the 16th of July.
From the above statements, those persons who are
conversant with the state of parties will draw the fol-
lowing conclusions :—That Rosas and Rivera are act-
ing in unison, and have one object in view, namely,
their mutual defence against France; and that their
union will either lead to a blockade of Monte Video,
or the occupation of the town, either of which would
be equally destructive to British trade. If the town
should be blockaded, then nothing will be allowed to
he exported. If the town should be occupied by the
French, then will Rivera refuse to allow any thing to
enter. With such a prospect before the British mer-
chants, it surely must be deemed incumbent on the
British government to take some decided measures to
avert the losses which are likely to ensue. Is it possi-
ble that our ministry will look with calm indifference
on these extensions of French blockades ? Ought not
the naval forces in the Plate to be considerably rein-
forced ? But, alas ! what with our war with the Ce-
lestial empire—our interference in the affairs of the
East—and the destruction of our ships at home—the
present government would find some difficulty in de-
taching any part of our naval force for the protection
of our commerce in South America. We greatly fear
that the favourable season for interference has been
suffered to pass by unimproved.

The British public can scarcely be aware that France
has 25 vessels of war in the river Plate, while Great
Britain has only four. The extracts before us state
that " the attitude of France is warlike, and should war
ensue in Europe, the consequence that would follow
on such a desparity of forces in the Plate, would be
the entire destruction of the British merchant vessels,
of which, for some time, there have never been less
than 50 in the port of Monte Video." The writer pro-
ceeds,—" As a merchant interested in the trade of the
Plate, I trust these few remarks may meet the eyes of
our foreign secretary, and that a sufficient naval force
will immediately be sent to these seas, for the protec-

Lion of our countrymen, and the very large amount of
property, which is exposed to imminent risk in the
event of a blockade of Monte Video, or of a war with
France." The latter alternative. having become more
probable than ever, the government of this country is
still more imperatively called upon to extend its pro-
tection to our mercantile interests in South America.

We have been favoured with a file of Rio Janeiro
papers to the 12th of August inclusive. They do not
furnish us with any political news of importance. We
make the following extracts from the Rio Commercial
Reporter of August 12 :