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- ; metciptaincy of tW'sarr.e n^ffiPr imnn/i ‘and -Rio Grande, 5000; there are other tov/ns in these captaincies of one, two, and N three jßiousand. The remainder of the population “S J* scattered in villages, faent houses, and planta tions, occupying patches of cultivated lands, sur rounded by forests and unsubdued tracts. The climate is salubrious and temperate, the ther mometer rarely rising above tlieeiglty-fourth de gree ; anti thesoil, though difficult to bring into cultivation on account of the luxuriance of spon taneous vegetation, yield? in prodigious abun dance. The pure atmosphere and healthful cli mate pave tone and sensibility to the physical or gans of the inhabitants, while nature spreads be fore them a perpetual banquet, and unceasingly regales their senses with the mingled beauty of flowers and richness of ripened fruits. The provinces of South America were nodoubt reminded, by our revolution and subsequent na tio -al importance, that they were but colonies, though they might be independent and powerful states ; yet the Pernambucans, with the other in habitants of Brazil, lived on in contented and in glorious loyalty, till Bonaparte drove their sov ereign front his European capital. The news <?f the prince’s voyage having preceded him, the governor of Pernambuco fitted out a vessel laden with provisions, to meet the royal fleet, and the people testified their loyaltv and joy by voluntary contributions of ail sorts of delicate refreshments witlv which to welcome their sovereign. On his arrival and establishment at Rio Janeiro, they thought that the era of the glory and happiness of the Brazilians, had commenced. These hopes were disappointed, as was to be expected,but the disappointment was riot sudden, and produced little sensation among the people. They antici pated some great and glorious good, they hardly denned to themselves what, which, when they failed to realize, they felt rather the regret of parting with a pleasing illusion, than resentment, at having sustained a serious wrong. They have never, like us, been in the habit of coining over their grievances till they had learned them bv note, or reiterating remonstrances and demand ing re with respectful, but bold and per severing importunity. Bat though they were not Versed in the arts of resisting and controlling the ad m-ri strati on of government, and “had not made a multitude of political maxims a part of their ha bitual system of acting and thinking, still they were not regardless of the’ rTtrirs of government, Or tmcoascio’is that they had personal rights and inte-ests. The moral and political commotions, that have been agitating society, produced some se mtbn mi the port ijfietp colonies ; and the in-- Cites ring and stead y splendour of reason, as well as the fitful and glaring coruscations of the new phiiosonhv, emitted faint glimmerings into that distant region .of mental obcurity. Tj\ ey hail been taught by iritertipurse with Englishmen and Americans, that kings were at least, made as . v \’ w \ , l\ * ! sixth, , j|L c arrest of Dotnin to prevent alarm,/the officer was ordered to direct Martinson wait upon the governor. He readily attended the messenger through the streets, and over the bridge that separates the different parts of the town, till they came to the common gaol, when he was informed that he was a prisoner, and was put into confinement. Three military officers were in the meantime arrested, one of whom, by name of Domingos Theotorio Jorge, understand ing the cause of the arrest, exclaimed against the injustice and tyranny of the proceeding, as he was passing through the streets to the place of his confinement, and called upon the citizens to take up arms. It was now about one o’clock, when another officer went to the quarters of the soldiers, to arrest a captain by the name of Joze de Barrosj Lima, who drew bis sword and stabbed the offi cer, and being seconded by his son in law, they killed him on the spot. Intelligence of this .trans action being carried to the governor, another of his officers, coveting the glory of bringing rebels to punishment, offered his services to go and fetch Banos. The governor would have dissuaded him* but he persisted, and was accordingly dispatched. on the commission. But he volunteered his ser vices in an unfortunate enterprise, for the scene that had just been acted, and the address and ap peals of Burros and his son in law, had-wrought up the soldiers, about two hundred in number, to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and desperation, sp that oh coming to their quarters, he found them under arms, and was saluted with the cries of liberty , long live Joze de, Barros Lima, long live our country ; and as soon as the soliders saw him, they exclaimed another tyrant, there is tour enemy, and immediately’ discharged their pieces at him, and he was perforated by so many balls, that “ his body was,” to use the narrator’s ex pression, “ like a sieve.” This had passed in a short space of time, it being now about 2 o’clock, when Pedro de Silva Pedroza, a captain of artillery, put himself, at the head of the soldiers, and led them towards* the prison, which they forced, and set Martins, whom we have before mentioned, and about 200 other prisoners, debtors, Ike. at liberty. Martins harangued the soldiers, demanded ant s for the prisoners, and called upon the citizens toespouse the cause of their country. He was answered with shouts of enthusiasm and applause. A bo dy of five hundred was instantly formed, who, with Peilroza and Martins at their head, proceed ed directly to the treasury, where the marshal was already stationed with about four hundred militia hastily assembled, they hardly knew for what cause. Both parties seemed tobe fully sen sible of the importance of the four millions of dol lars deposited there, cither in promoting or ob structing a revolution. They proposed to the Marshal the alternative of surrendering, with the promise of departing in safety to the fort, or re sisting without the hope of quarter. He chose ,th e former, and very jkmlently, as appears from eventh, tlie governor, v s d him, took Ins depar .being guarded by the .bor, and till he was beyond . and insult. Bands of music g in the streets, as signal of ui>vi j>eace. £s\\/ on the eighth, the people were assem bled in the court of the treasury, to hear anil ap prove a paper, signed by thirty or forty of their . leaders, in which Jacio Ribeiro Pessoa,a priest; %?r /'Martins, already mentioned a merchant; Domingos Theotorio Jorge, a military officer, and one of those arrested ; a land holder, who had al so been a colonel of militia; and Joze Luiz de Mendonca, a lawyer, were proposed as the mem bers of a provisional government. The people elected them by acclamation, after the manner of the French revolution. During all this time and a few following days, patriots were flocking into the town from every direction, armed, some with guns and others with pikes, or whatever other rude weapon they could hastily fabricate or procure. But their be ing no service for them to perform, they return ed peaceably to their homes. Many of tne priests took up arms, and ottered their services to the go vernment. The students of the college of Olinda were formed into a’ military company, for the practice of martial exercises. Spine of the plan ters offered all their horses to mount the cavalry that was forming, and presented great supplies of provisions for the. use of the army. The vicar of the Cape of St. Augustine, a ,to\yn on the coast eighteen miles south of Pernambuco, came into the hall where the new government was sitting, on the Sunday morning after the revolution, which took place an Thursday, and offered to to make them a present of all his own property, and told them, that if the public exigencies re quired it, the silver candlesticks of nis church should be at their service. In the afternoon of the same day he brought in a slave, the only one of which he was master, whom he declared free, that he might enter the public service as a soldier, declaring at the same time, that he himself should be ever ready to die by the side of his manumit ted slave, fighting in the cause of liberty. Intelligence was soon received that the capt aincies of Paraiba and Rio Grande of the North, had followed the example of Pernambuco. At Paraiba the women ottered to the new govern ment all their jewels and trinkets, and even desired to bear arms by the side of their husbands and brothers, and proVe themselves worthy de scendants of the heroes who drove the Dutch from Paraiba in IG4O. On the ninth, the new government published a proclamation, calculated to quiet the apprehen sioni of tlie Europeans, and unite them in tlie pat riotic cause. This proclamation was the first thing ever printed at Pernambuco. It was fortunatpfor the patriots, that about 2 years ago, a Mr. Cathauho had imported a printing press into Pernambuco. He had spent the intermediate time and about twelve hundred dollars, in conducting a petition through the ministerial avenues to the throne, and a few days before the revolution, had procured a royal license to print at Pernambuco, s*ch things as the governor and Ins council might! approve. He had sold the privilege and the pr&s to Mr. Marlins, who made a present of the press to the new government. A second publication issued from His press on the tenth, which was an account df the revolution that had just taken place, and the translated title of -vhich is prefixed to this article. This paper is drawn up not without ability; & tyyvell adapt ed to the circumstances under which it was ■- ■ ■ , or Wolcott, of Connecticut, experi at of apoplexy on Wednesday or Tnurs yox last week. Although the attack was at first'alarming, it passed off, and we understand his friends in this city have received intelligence from him within a dayor two, that he was so well as to be about, and was considered as nearly re covered. wV. V. Daily Jldv. 16 th inst, Brownsville, (penn.) jcne 25- Citri.ous.robbery. .time since, a horse thief stole ahorse near Steubenville, Ohio, ip, the following manner :—during the night, he.’wentto a field, adjoining the. mansion house, in which were two horses—one a young horse, >vhich was difficult to catch, the other an old one, easily caught. While he was attempting to oatth the young horse, the owner awoke, apd listeimng, heard a man say to himself—” since Ican’t calrh you, I’ll take the old one.” The owner, knott ing that with the young horse;. Im cohid the thief, permitted him to proceed. Assam nr* he was gone, tlie owner caught t)**’ and went directly, properly arrfed> in iorsuit of the thief. On observing that he was pursued, he left the horse and run into a deserted cabin by the road side. The owner tied his nag, and follow ed the thief into the c^bin— who had by this time climbed to the top.'of the chimney; jumping down, he ran to tne young horse, untied ana mounted hi n, and was clear off, before the own er returned from the cabin. , A good German Story. —The son of an old farmer, by some chance or other had travelled through several remote countries, and as is not uncommon in such cases, returned home much richer in lies than in knowledge. A few days af ter his arrival, he accompanied his father (a pret ty shrewd old fellow) to a market at some dis tance from the village. It happened that a mas tiff dog passed that way, which as soon as the young man beheld, “ Bless me, father,” cried he, “ this dog p-ts me in mind of one I saw in my travels, at least as large as the largest of our cart horses.” “ What you tell me,” replied the father, grave ly, “ astonishes me ; but don’t imagine “that in this country we arc wholly without prodigies; by and by we shall come to a* bridge, which we shall be obliged to pass, and which is much more ex traordinary than the dog of which you have been talking. They say it is the work ot some witch,. All 1 know of it is this, that there is a stone in the middle of it, against which one is sure to stumble, as he passes on, and break a leg at least, if it so happens that he has told a lie in the,course of the day.,’ The youth was a little startled at this strange account “At what aerate you are walking, fa ther ! but to return to the dog—how large did I say ? As your largest horse ? Nay, for that mat ter, I believe it might be saying a little too much ;4 for I recollectit was but 6 months old; but I wobiip be on my oath that it was as big as a heifer.” Here the story rested*until they were a mile or two advanced on their way. The young man was very far from being comfortable. The fatal bridge appears at a distance. “Hear me, fa ther; indeed the dog we have.been speaking of was very large, but perhaps not quite so large as a heifer ; 1 am sure, however, it was larger than a calf.” At length they arrived at the foot of the bridge. The son stopped shprt—“ Ah father,” says he, “ you cannot be such a simpleton as to believe I have seen a dog of such a size; for since I must speak the truth, the ifog I met in my travels was about as big as the dog we saw an hour or two ago.’’, Loncton pa. At Ajaccio, in Corsica, six brigands lately suf fered the punishment of death for their crimes, with a degree of obdurate ferocity which may e oual any thing in'the annals of hitman turpitude. Three of them were brothers, of the age of from twenty to thirty years. When asked, a few hours before their execution, if they would eat some thing—We will give you (spiel the gaoler) what ever you desire.” “Ah well then,” replied they, “ give us the heart of naming one of their enemies ! /fr, • . & jA nd \he But no omm, ted, ex some twelve or ,a these exclama- ulicy of the old y between the *is, the plain It offices and ier. It speaks ■normous ex ns tlie people ulcates upon ty of views, • agriculture it neither the placed, and f functions, \at activity ents in the ening the an tive regi :sand five ll|discip ..lufwas in in®! of fif yAihkjbe e jKir.g can that, at a \y A hurt of what . ike interior, -coniiiiiially hur dling them off one conquerors. .rk, that oi;e of the entirely ot blacks, Ore row of considerable xeJy to be so, if the revoiu- ;ount to be somewhat favora as it probably is, 6till it ap ve among them no inconsidera ence, and liberality of views.— fee advantage of circumstances . and address, and’ to use every nding and multiplying their re vyhatever be their talents or cour nt that their limited resources ren dependent on the disposition of the ‘Brazil.