Letters were received yes...
Letters Were received yesterday from Rio de Janeiro, dated the 3d of May. No event of prominent interest had transpired at the seat of Government prior to that date. There were three or four Frenclh ships of war in the har- bour in the beginnihg of May; one a line-of-battle ship, having arrived on the 1st frbm France. There were, in all, said to be seven or eight cruising on the Brazilian coast. -The private letters. v2ieh mention the fact of the arrival of the slhip Of the lIie, also state that several Frenelh vessels of war, hae gonie round Cape Horn. The -EMPEROR, it is said, had gone to Campos. The packet for England was to sail about the 10th.