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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