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Mexico m*o her safe-keeping.***
Alt this and more may be attemp
i*din this age of political mira
cles*
To check the daring progress
* f the republic of the United
States, has been openly avowed
by British statesmen, and is now
bpsnly inculcated by the British
writers of the present times. If
tiiegiidle that was proposed at
Ghent to encircle this country,
could not be accomplished, that is
‘*o reason why Great Britain will
hesitate now to plant her sceptre
i:i the vicinage of the U States.
Americans be on your guard.
Be assured that the coalition of
legitimates in Europe are dispos
ed lor a crusade against whatever
people or country that have hoist
ed the banners of liberty.
M exicb free and independent,
ond allied to the United States by
interest and gratitude as well as
by the laws of nature, would be
of more importance to the human
? tee and to the civilized world
than any event that has occurred
Muce the 4th day of July 1776.
Jose Alvarez Dt Toledo.
ST7rii E pTvPER,
Convention between Great-Britain
and Austria , signed at Paris ,
August 2d. 1315.
Napoleon Bonaparte being in
the power of the Allied Sover
eigns, their Majesties the King
o? the United Kingdom of Great-j
Britain and Ireland, the Emperor I
of Austria, the Emperor of Rus
sia and the King of Prussia, have |
agreed, in virtue of the stipula
tions of the Treaty of the 25 th of
March, 1815, upon the measures
most proper to render all enter
prise impossible, on his part, a
gainst the repose of Europe.
Art. 1. Napoleon Bonaparte
is> considered by the powers who
have sig the Treaty of the 25 th
of March la.vt as their prisoner.
2. His custody i s especially
entrusted to the British govern
xnent.
ihe choice of the place, and of
the.measures which can best se
cure the object of the present sti
pulation, are reserved to his Bri
tannic Majesty,
3. The Imperial Courts of
Austria and of Russia, and the
Royal Court of Prussia, are to ap
point commissioners to proceed
40, and abide at the place which
his Britannic Majesty’s govern
ment shall have assigned for the
residence of Napoleon Bonaparte,
and who, without being
ble tor his custody, will assure
themselves of his presence.
4. His most Christian Ma
jesty is to be invited, in the name
of the four above mentioned
courts, to send ii the like manner
a I* rcnch commissioner to the
place of detention of Napoleon
Bonaparte.
5. His majesty the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain
nnd Ireland binds himself to ful
fii the engagements which fall to
him by the present convention
6. The present Convention
shall be ratified, and the ratifica
tion shall be exchanged within
hfiecn days, or sooner if possi
bis.
In faith wh-creof, respefcb
ive plenipotentiaries have Signed
the present convehtion, and have
affixed thereto the seais of their
arms.
Done at Paris the August,
in the year of our Lord 1815.
(L S.) Castlereagh ,
(L S ) lVellingtoHy
(L.S.) Metlemich.
A similar convention is signed
between G. Britain and Prussia,
and G. Britain and Russia,
gnw-winpan n ini imi—rromw
KINGDOM Os BRAZIL.
( Translated for the Nat. Intel.)
Don John, by the Grace of
God, Prince Regent of Portugal,
of the Algarves, of Guinea in Af
rica, of the Conquest, Navigation
and Commerce of Etheopia, A
rabia, Persia, and of India, he. ‘
he. he.
Be it known to all those who
shall see the present law, that al
ways preserving in my royal mind
the most earnest desire to promote
the prosperity of the states
which have been committed by
divine providence to my soverigi;
rule, and at the same time to give
due importance to the extensive
ness and local position of my do
minions in America and also to
the abundance and variety of the
precious sources of wealth vVhich
they possess; and being moreo
ver, convinced of the advantages
to my faithful vassals in general,
a perfect union and indentuy of
!my Kingdoms of Portugal and
;thc Algarves, with my dominions
of Brazil, by raising the latter to
that great and political rank,.to
which, in consideration of the a
foresaid reasons they ought to at
tain, and in which rank my said
dominions were already viewed
by the plenipotentiaries ol the
power who formed the Congress
of Vienna, as well by the treaty
ofaihance concluded on the Bth
of April of the present year, as
by the definitive treaty of the said
congress: the purport whereof
having been duly weighed, it is
toy pleasure to ordain as follows :
K That from and after the
publication of the present law,
the state of Brazil shall be
raised to the dignity, pre-em
inence, title and denomination
of the kingdom of Brazil.
2. I hat my kingdoms of Por
tugal, Algarves and Brazil,
shall henceforth be one sin
gle kingdom, under the title
of the United kingdom of Por
tugal, Brazil and the Ai
gavves.
3. T hat instead of the titles in
herent in the crown of Portu
gal, and which have been
heretofore used, there shall
be substituted in ail diplom
atic acts, laws, alvaras, ordi
nances and public acts, the
new title of Prince Regent ol
the United Kingdom of Por
tugal, Brazil, and Algarves,
of Guinea in Africa, of the
Conquest, Navigation and
commerce of Etheopia, Ara
bia, and India, he. he.
Given o-t’ Palace of Rio
Janeiro, the 17th of Decem
ber, IS! "s7
By the Prince Regem,
(Sign and) Mirquis De Aguiar.
locjisfllle t T
u “ AFTttlgTTslier ~
£s*The Rev’d. Mr. Beaman,
of the Presbyterian Church, will
preach In Louis vile* on Sunday
next.
Our affairs with Spain become
evtry day more interesting ——
The perplexities w hich the Span
ish authorities have subjected
our commerce to, must bring a*
bout a more serious state of
things, if their policy be not speed-,
ily abandoned,
\Ve have this day given rootn
to the communication of fose At-,
varets De Toledo —This pqblica-!
lion will be read with sensations j
of admiration & re- j
gret! Americans well know 7 how |
to set the value On a production j
tending to the advancement of i
Liberty —And while they ad j
mire his noble defence, they will
regret that it has not heretofore
been in the power of the United
States, to render the Patriots of
Spanish America that assistance
they so richly deserve, in their
struggle against slavery, both
bodily and mental. This gentle
man, like some of the noble sons
of France and Ireland, who have
left their native land—all the en
joy merits of domestic life^-—and
arranged themselves under the
banner of the American Repub
lic—-is worthy of our unfeigned
regard. Shell spirit 9 kindle new
life in the breasts of the sons of
Columbia, and wifi at some future
day richly remunerate them for
the hospitalities extended to the
oppressed of ail nations.
A PLAN,
To stop the currency of Foreign
Change Paper in Louisville.
Let ten or twelve responsi
ble men of the town form a
Change Company, and issue a;
sufficiency of Change Bills to an
swer all the purposes of trade.—
Such paper would be readily re
ceived in the vicinity,and would]
lessen the evil—in as much, that \
we should not then be imposed
>n with :nyriads of spurious pa
per.
The Spanish authorities acting
mder Ferdinand VII. upon the
Main are acting in the most un
precedented h unprincipled man
ner towards American vessels
A detail of a particular case has
been submitted to our perusal;
and we hav.e advised the parties
injured to send a statement of the
transaction to the secretary of
state, a mode which we conceive
preferable to laying the case be
fore the public in a newspaper.
Norfolk Ledger.
Salvator de Mozo, Brigadier
general and captain general of
Caracas has issued a proclama
tion, announcing that every ves
sel, whether Spanish or foreign,
which shall resist any Spanish
ship for the purpose of aiding the
cause Os the patriots, shall be
confiscated, and the master and
principal persons on beard hung
up at the yard arm ; likewise the
|crew, if as culpable as the rest;
iif not, one in every five is to be
(LaWft and subjected to like ptift*-
ishment. _ j > ■.
On the return of peace, both
in Europe and America, it was
imagined, by sojne people, that
what is usually denominated
NEWS, would become altogeth
er dull and uninteresting.
are not now indeed amused with,
battles and murders and huifca m
slaughter on so large a scale $4
formerly, but the affairs of ban*
j hemispheres are as important
| ever— *Europe is still convulstt, {
(is still the grand theatre, on which
are exhibited every thing that can
interest the feelings and the imet*
ests of blinking & benevolent men
—wh ere the last quarter of a cen
tury, the evil lias predominated
ovei-the good Principle. The
late peace, it is to be apprehended,
is only a prelude to new wars, &
new encroachments on the civil
and religious Eights of Man.
Under a despotic government,
there may be a constrained calm,
or a constrained tranquility, as in
Spain, and as the legitimates are
now endeavoring to force upon
Francs, when the intellectual
mind, may be chained in prisons,
or buried in the dungeons of the
iqutsitipn. In this happy portiou
of the globe, we have better pros
pects, both moral and political- *
here the mind is free, arid open
to new discoveries, to new im*
provemems, and to new hopes, a.*
rising from the possession of ail
those prtviltges which enlightea
and t noble the sons of men * ‘
Where there is freedom, there
will be emulation, and a laudable
desire to learn wisdom from the
faults and follies of other nations.
Instead of saying, “that there
is now a want of every thing in*
teresting,” on the contrary we
think there never was a time,
when our curiosity should be
; more alive.-—The agony is nos
yet over in Europe, the last chap
ter of its eventual history is hot
yet opened.—The convulsions iu
j South America, also are deeply
\ interesting to every man in these
United States—and our own af
fairs acquire constant attention,
and the most wakeful vigilence, to
guard our Palladium from the
machinations of foreign or domes
tic enemies.— —Balt. Amer.
The national bank till has fi
nally passed both Houses of Con*
gress, and wants nothing but the
signature of the President to be
come a law. ,
The House of Representatives
has passed two bills admitting the
Indiana and Mississippi Territo*
ries into the union as additional
states. Should these bills pass
the Senate, of which there can be
little doubt the whole number
will be twenty.
• Gazette*
It is very satisfactory to per
ceive that the public buildings oc
cupied by the different offices are
already repaired, we might al
mpst say rebuilt, so as
condition much superior to.” tbdft
n which they were before thesfc
.onflagration by the torch of our
ite enemy. The department p£
jtate is already moved into