To The Editor Of The Time...
Portuguese Cousui-ate Office, London, May 6, 182 . Sir,-In compHiance with the insct-olom whieh I hate received, I request that you wi)l publish, for the information of the publicbhis Mlost Faithful 31aiestvs a -ipr, - 3 hf 0h- 10th nf 3fn.rLh last. F. T. SAMIPAVO. Conwl,Genml, "% LITSR(N. IllAt-et 11). ' orderm are issued from the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Afiitrs, that all the Portuguese diplomatic agenits at foreiahj (Courtm, do, each in the court in whieh he resides, cause to be pubs liShed, that 'hi F'tliful laj'est 'never will retognite, tnor consider himself bound to* fulfil4 any contract or engagement entered into br the present Governient de facto of Rio de Jr.a-. neiYo for obttnining a loan; and that eVerv other agreement of - sitmilar nature, whatever be the guarantee or hypothec on which it is secured, shall ever be regarded, by hi, Alajesty-the Kingof Portu- galns null and of no val;)e. Thesaid agents ie iaso ordered 'to matte pnblic, that Bra2il vool, gold dust; and-Braziidiamoonds are articles belonzing exclutively to thtC Crownz;, arid '+hich may be re- claimed on the part of his Faithful tMajesty in eiery instance in whichthe have not been sold for feh account and by thb order of his Government. Consequently, every conti7te; f6r a loan on the hypothec of such articles, whieh, inaismucb as they form objects of Roval commerce, caynot bi.t be regardea at property of his Most Faithful Majesty,.must be deemed itlegal. -_Lison Gaett1e. PO TH.. EDITOR OP TfIE TI.ltS.