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LONDON. The following statement respecting "Riego is from (lie Courier. The particu- lars of his capture are said to be given by an eye. witness 6c After having been completely de- feated by the French, Riego wandered in the ffl°tt0ta'ns' about twenty follow- ers on horseback, fifteen of whom were superior officers. Exhausted with fatigue and h"«ger> he met the Hermit of La Torre de Pedrogil, and an inhabitant of Yilches, named Lopez Lara. He took them aside,;and said^—My friends, you have (IOWan opportunity of making your Z5 own and fa,mllles' fortunes; you have only to COllauet me unobserved by any one whatever, to Carolina, Carboneras, r and NavaS e *_°losa, where 1 have good friends, vv 10 procure me. a guide to Estrerna/urf,' anther J a5n desirous of p,oceefli»g' lhe hermit and his com- panic0 ie l,M ( ls °ffers but Ri^gn caus- ed the01 to and mounted upon two mules, deeJaflllg to them at the same time, l'ia W >et willing or not they should se.rVftafS f,0?68 to the troop. <( u'g j1 t ley proceeded onward. liieg0 SP°ve 0 companions of his jourr,ey r0n! 'iar,(^ into Andalusia, of the plat'eS W /,re e ^0lirid acquaintance, &C. The concluded from this un- guar'l^ '"ntl eis^u>») tiiat he was the famous tv,e»°* r°m that moment the brave fopez was only occupied in for deltverin this notori. ou ,it,iittlat iiito the hands of.justice. At day-brea th. cy found tIemselves near the farm Baqaev.zones. Rieg0 Said that th woalddem.anj 11 asyll,m there; on which Lara k°° a*" door, and it so hap- pened t',at was one of his own brothers, lJamed Mateo, who came and opened it. a ilieao, feiritig that too numerous an escort 'would betray him, would only per- mit three of his faithful followers to enter With hi M. One of these was an English Colo lie'' who, impressed with mistrust, hastily closed the door, locked it, and pocketed the key. They fed their horses I and reposed themselves in the stable with their drawn swords by their sides. Riego, on awaking, peremptorily said to Lopez Lara that he must get his horse shod.— 44 Well," replied the latter, who felt all the importance of the occasion," I will go and g-et it done at ArguiUos." Riego refused, and expressed a desire that his brother Mateo should undertake the com- mission, not by leading the horse to Ar- guiilos, but by fetching a farrier. Lopez had only time to whispvr his brother, This man is Riego, give information to the Magistrates, and say that we are pre- pared to do our duty." Possessed of the same intelligence as his brother, Mateo agreed upon the way in which he would act, and he promised so to manage that Riego should be at breakfast when the armed force should surround the house. 44 Riego, in fact, sat down to break- fast immediately on learning fr.om Mateo that the farrier was coming forthwith but the Englishman, constantly impressed with his fears, did not quit the window, from which, with a telescope, he kept a look-out all round. Suddenly he ex- claimed, Commandant, we are lost In- here are armed persons advancing." i( Arm!" cried Riego; but that in- stant Lopez and Mateo seized the car. bines, and cocked and levelled them at the traitors, saying, first who moves is a dead man They had al- ready grasped their swords but there solution of Riego all at once forsook him. He let them tie his hands behind his back. He even said politely to Lopez, calling him (vuestra merced,) H Have the good- ness to tell the meii who are coming not to hurt us, since we are your prisoners. "I The Alcade entered, followed by an anned force. Riego supplicated him in a simiiiii, manner not to do him any harm, arid, as a pledge, to embrace him. The Alcade feit much repugnance *° etfibrace a man who had brought so Z5 ™any evils upon his country but the in- Wt Lopez urged him to do so in the of Christian charity. Riego then the .-Alcade's men all the money tr>a about -him to be treated with hu- of ^jty; which the Alcade forbade any pri* accepting? and addressing the facets, said, "Justice will decide your I, illo soo l'he Civil Commandant of Argu.illos and ilfter arrived with a mounted guard, to away the prisoners. «hc* hermit and the two countrymen and i6(1 throughout this affair a devotion -grittit igence which hlSUre thetll the U(le of all loyal Spaniards,' We have received Brazil Papers to the 5th of August, which, however, afford scarcely any information relative to the state of affairs in that country. The news from Europe, and more particularly that from the Spanish Peninsula, fills most of the columrts, of the Diario de Governo.- It would appear that the invasion of Spain was considered a subject of paramount importance in Brazil; but the counter- revolution in Portugal, accounts of which had arrived at Rio de Janeiro, was cal- culated to excite a still more intense in- terest. Odessa, Sept. 3.—We have accounts from Constantinople to the 36th of Aug. which state, that the negociations relative to the differences with our Court are on the point of leading to a decision so that it is thought possible that the desired result may be produced while the Empe- ror is in Bessarabia. Lord Strangford having received fresh instructions, pre- sented, on the Ilth of August, an ener getic note, caused by an expression of the Reis Effendi to M. Chabert, the Drago- man of the English Embassy—that he would hear no more of the affairs of Rus- sia. In this note, the noble Lord said, that it would seem there were in the Divan, partisans of the insurgents, who were charged with the direction of the affairs of Greece, but who had conducted them to the detriment of the Porte. The ob. stadeswhich they have thrown in the way of the trade of Russia in the Black Sea seemed calculated to irritate Russia that the Allied Courts Were obliged to Confess that the honour of that power prescribed othpr measures; that they had till now endeavoured to prevent them, but could do so no longer that the Di- van had. no more, time to lose, and ought to come to a resolution. The Ministers of Austria and Prussia presented similar notes, which seem to have produced their effect, since, on the 16th, the Sultan dismissed Drohonib Ef- fendi, who. was at the head of the fanati- cal party in the Divan A Hamburgh Mail arrived this morn- ing from, which we extract the fol- lowing:- Viéilrza, Sept. *2: — The accounts from the island of Ctndi'a it,e' a' a in favotira I) I to the Greeks; who have, it is said 3-4,00.0 men in arms there, without reckoning Sphackiotes, who form guerillas. The principal fortresses of the island are again strictly blockaded by the Greeks. The complaints of the general stagna- tion of the, trade with the Levant continue to increase. Some of the rich Greek houssin Italy have contributed large sums towards the expense of fitting out the fleet, and to stop the murmurs of the sailors, who were dissatisfied by their pay being so much in arrear, so that it may be expected that the fleet will act with more vigour than ever. Berlin, Sept. 20,-The necessary ar- rangements are already making in the Hotel of the States, in the Spandau-street, for the assembly of the States of Bran- denburgh and Lower Lusatia; from which it is supposed they will be assembled this autumn. However, the ordinance re- specting the mode of election, &c must be first issued, and an office must be es- tablished in the Home Department, un- der which all the affairs relative to the States will be placed for the preparation of all such affairs. We then expect Or. dinances for the organization of the States of Silesia and those of the western provinces, which last will certainly differ from the others, on account of the differ- ent legislative and local relations; but the principle of the division into the equestrian order, citizens and peasants (or landholders) will be retained. From, South America,.r—k. change, bordering on a revolution, had lately taken place in the Peruvian Government, as the late Government had entirely been su- perseded by the new, Long has the blood of the patriots of this most interesting portion of the South been wantonly shed, since the commencement of San Martin's administration down to the present time, through the perfidious cabals and intrigues of a set of Buenos Ayreans who have held the reins of Government over these un- happy people. Fortunately they have now applied a remedy to the evils which they before experienced in the sacrifice of the armies in detail, in the insulting explosion of their allies, the Colombians, from their aid, and in beholding the keys of the gates of Lima, the last dependence of the Peruvians with her exhausted trea- sures, and her inhabitants in the utmost consternation at the approach of a mer- ciless enemy, in the hands of infamous traitors and rascally priests.

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