Portuguese Captures In Br...
The annexed document, was received yesterday from Bahia, enclosed in a letter dated the 18th of August. It is a communication from the Minister of Finance at Rio de Janeiro, to the Junta of the province of Bahia, and is worth notice, from the explanation giveni in it of the mo- tives for th! numerous captures of Portuguese vessels made by the Brazilian navy, at a time when similar acts of aggression were wholly abstained from by Portugal, and for the delay of the prize courts at Rio in their condem- nation. It will, however, be far from an lio0nourable pro- ceeding towards Lord COcHRANE and his brave associates, if their interests are sacrificed to an affair of political ex- pediency. " Mariano Jose Pereira, of his Imperial Mlajesty's Council of State, Alinister of Finanec, and President of the Treasury, &c. " I make known to the Junta of Finance, at Balhia, that there having been presented to his illajesty the petition of Pedro Gomez Ferreira, the proprietor of a rope-manufactory in the said city, in which lie prayed the respective authorities to confer upon him pos- session, independently of public sale, and only by valuation, of a warehouseon the quay of the said city, belonging to the property of the Portugucse emigrant, Jose Antonio de Segucira Braga, which property is sequestrated, paying it, at the price Of valuation, into the coffers of the State in the department of the arsenal, in articles of the above-mentioned manufacture, at the requisition of the In- tendant of Illarine; and, taking all the information necessaryonsuch a subject, his Alajesty has been pleased to declare to the said junta, that the sequestration of the estates of the Portuguese is a measure of mere precaution, taken in order to oblige that nation to acknow- ledge our independence, which being acknowledged, the saine estates, with the proper deductions and equitable liqui(lation, may berestored, along with their rcnts, to the proprietors; it being Hecessary to pro- ceed to the sale by auction, not of the estate, but of the rent, if that has not been stipiilated with the proprietor, for in this case it shall not be altered . and if apublic sale of the latter takes place, the peti- tioner may hid along with other bidders, lodging the price in the publictreasury. This is comniunicated to the junta, for its guidance andi execution." Silvester Ferreira Pereira dcrew up this decree on the 28th of June, 1824, in Rio Janeiro. PORTUGUESE CAPTURES IN BRAZIL.