Daily National Intelligencer

Private accounts from the Congress Frigate, which bore our three Commissioners, Rodney, Graham, and Bland, to the South, and which was, at the last dates, at Rio Janeiro, represent the conduct of the Portuguese authorities to our Commissioners, not to have been marked by any very friendly feeling or hospitable deportment. On the contrary, it is suggested that they were received with a sort of indifference, amounting nearly to rudeness. Some difficulty arose, too, between the officers of the Congress and the government, respecting a seaman of the frigate, required to be delivered up as a Portuguese citizen; in which Captain Sinclair is said to have exhibited the spirit which belongs to our naval character. Of these occurrences we have heard only from general report, and know nothing of the particulars: nor, perhaps, if we did, would they be sufficiently important to narrate. If they are, we shall no doubt have them in time.