Star. — London, England, 1825-03-28 00:00:00

F I - 'l.l. !t • }~ )c . 1 11111111110111 11. 111 1 1116 •• 4 •ammisia....aimrrib i CUNMiRCE WITH fOLOMBIA• =Mier OT • =MI TROITINTo HIOIDERSON, 00SOWL• OMNIJUL AT InGOTA I TO MIL lITNITIT, lITO•iT4ST 10 Lunn's, DATED BOGOTA, xoviseua 29, 1824. e--Some difficulties having arisen in consequence if srkisb shipments being made to the ports of Colom bia, evidently from the want of a perfect knowledge of her commercial laws and regulations, I have deemed it expedient—more particularry on account of several re cent changes in them, which may not be generally known—to transmit to you a summary of the whole, for the guidance of those merchants engaged, or about to engage, in the trade of this country. COMMERCIAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF COLOMBIA. DUTIES OF IMPORTATION. Fordsn Vessels Europe or the United States Pay. :per can. l'i i •10 Rerope or the United States. tent. Ist. Iron in bus Tin sheets Copper sheets Papa' of everf doseriptits AU aorta of McAdoo basica! Instruments Pitch Tar Cables Cordage Anchors (a) Id. All blade of cattail goods (a) Ditto Woollen ditto (a) Ditto Thread (a) Ditto Hemp (a) Ditto Worsted 3d. Umbrellas Beaver Hats Woollen ditto Cotton ditto Silk ditto Wax or Spermaceti, ma nufactured or in hs na tural state Wines Vinegars Oils of every description field and Silver Watches Laces Saddles Playing Cards European Earthenware Myna! and Glass of all kinds 4th, Silks, and all Silk' goods of the growth and manufacture of Europe PredouStunes and Jewels Tanned Skins Thread and Silk Lace Handkerchiefs Artificial Flowers l'lumes of Feathers Looking-glasses Perfumes Fdifiences Sweet scented*Walera Fruit,, dry, or in Wine, Oil. or Brandy Olives Capers :111 sorts of Pickles sth, Shoes Baas Al sort s of House Furni ture Ready node Clothes All sorts of Furniture and Utensils of Copper,Com- Laskin's, iron, Steel, or _ _ _ Tallow, in its natural state or manufactured Flours Salt Meats AU kinds of Foreign Pro visions All other sorbet Nerdsan dise and Consourcial Ar ticles not connected is the above Hawes Foreign Vessels from M. Fo. reign Vessel, from else• Except all goods wham ever of the growth and manufacture of Asiatic Nations or European settlements in Asia, ex cepting those of Spain TF 20 • per centages are at present collected agreeably to an Arancel, having only, in many instances, two or three valuations (or articles that have a great variety of gradations in value; come ineptly the above duties can scidowbe levied with accuracy. Goods coming from such of the former Spanish Colonies as are now independent States, whether in na tional or foreign vessels, pay no more duties than if tfrom Europe or the United States, provided they be of growth and manufacture of the aforesaid former oases ; -other goods are considered as coming from Colonies. and do not enjoy the difference of duties on amides from Europe or the United States, unless by treaty it be otherwise determined. (b) Merchants must either pay the duties of importation immediately, or find two good sureties; in which latter case three and six months are granted for payment in moieties. If the payment be anticipated, one-half per cent. per month is allowed ; but if the indulgence be accepted, one per cent. per month must be paid. (c) The province of Riobacha is exempted until the Month of August, 1833, from the payment of duties or importation on foreign provisions necessary for its consumption. Foreign merchandise, wines, gin% grape brandies, beers, provisions, and articles of the first necessity of life,' imported with the design of being exported from Colombia to fr,endly or neutral mitions, have the du ties returned, provided the importer at the time of im porting states his intention of so doing, and that the exportation be made within the space •of six months. The repayment of the duties to be made on the day of the salsas of ,the vessel, of which right days' notice most be given, 2i ter cent. being . reserved tor the benefit of the State. These udder, Imported with the intention of being exported, cannot be disposed of in without special permission. 11$1111011111 tflfit /SOK SUITING aerial or DOINITATION. !rioted bombs in any language. taps. georepl cans. pbi. beelike' Monmesots and apparisus=vings, "virm • legatees, mistaism of astiquides. baste, and ben lossimsents of ark:Mare. Maim Mid seeds. Madan and utensils fir the celebration el hod, and the preps. ratios werbing et ks preektisos. Tabs masamessad IMMO& width is my maw contribute to toollittashe inselsolos all maids* of nistak, ellelinetels. and aboisie. An el Isiah may conduce to be sassikratien do el ides and seism Ai and i sad imaging imagin g to tbe iscreme el domestic momboaoss el me metes. Nadosal Viesesis in •Ifq •15 22 •171 National Vessels from Asia. National Vends from 1 ehrwitere - Tannuesses, masa% ass appiiratils, bdattNttt is ad ult s or straggen. prpfeesers of any iberal or meehanit art, who mat strive at the ports of the Itersbne, with the 10010d0,1 of establishing tic=in its territory, and exercising their profession. machines and apporatus,trm and printexe ink. Precious metals, either coined sr in Millen. Lead and muskets. If the muskets be of a superior quality, fit to be received by the Government authorities, it is enacted that they shall be paid for faithfully within the space of four months ; and soy quentity of merchandise of a value equal to that of the muskets and lead imported in the same vessel, shall pay S per cent. less than the regular importation duties; and if no merchandise be imported In the same vessel, an equivalent to be paid within four months. AILTICLIN PSOODIOTID TO BB MILIOSTIO. i Corey, cacao, indigo. man, (d) and molasses. All groductions and manufactures of Spain and her dependencies. Gunpowder. Tobacco, whether in leaf, sepn, mg, or type. Foreign spirits extracted front the sugar.cans,or their compounds. Foreign salt. awry. (e) Three per cent. upon the valise of imported articles; which, if disposed of in the eea-port, the ditty to be there paid either imme diosdy, or by giving security, within the term of six months, one per cent. to be paid every six months ; and if disposed of in the Wterior, to be paid there under similar conditions. DIFFUS Or SZPOITA2IOII. (f) Undressed Hides . .10 per cent. upon she market price. (f ) Cacao . . . 16 ditto - (f Cam . . . 6 ditto (f ) Indigo . . . S ditto (f ) Dye-wood • . S ditto ... Mules . . 20 dollars a bead Horses . . . 16 ditto • Asses . . . 6 ditto Cattle . . 14 ditto Coined Gold . . 3 per cent. Gold is bars from the province of Veragua . . 3 ditto Slier from the 'lsthmus and Guayaquil . . 3 ditto ° Mother articles . . 4 ditto AMICLIS /PLIMPTZD /SON PAYS MG MITI'S OF IMORTATION. Cotton, rice, sodomize, or Indian corn. . -Awrsokss eaommeen TO as neowno. Mares and cows. Uncoined gold, except bars of gold from the provinceof Veragna. All silver except from Guayaquil and the Isthmus. Bahia, tinder penalty of losing the metal, and paying for each Rind a line of 50 dollars. It ii masted that all vessels before sailing shall be examined. 10XXAGR DUTY. - 4 teals per to 1 ditto. Foreign vessels pay National - - - - Ditto proceeding from one port to another of the Republic, pay for each ton exceeding 20 Ditto, not having SO tons burden, pay no ton nage duty. The Colombian ton is SO quintals. The registers, manifests, and license of merchant vessels are taken possession of by the collectors of the Custom-houses, and not returned until the tonnage is paid ; or they are delivered to the Consul of the nation to which the vessel bel3ngs, who becomes responsible for the payment of the duty. (g) of ditto. DUTY. Collected upon the old Spanish system, and appears to average about two dollars for every 120 tons. SPICSAL TRIIIINIALS Or COMMIRCIF ire established in various cities and towns, to decide exclusively as :ommercial disputes and differences. MULTI= ON ?HI DESILAUDRIIII or CUSTODMIIIIUSE DUTIES. ustom.house officers.—Lou of situation ; double the defrauded Owners of the contraband property.—First offence: confiscation of the contraband articles • and if they exceed in value the fifth part of the cargo, the loss of the whole cargo, and the transaction to be published in the Government Gazettes. Second offence : confis cation of the contraband property ; and if it exceeds the tenth part of the cargo, the loss of the whole. Third offence : confiscation of the contraband goods; and if they exceed one-twelfth of the the loss of the whole, and suspension for tell years from the of a cititem Consignees are subject to die same pehalties as the owner s are also responsible to the consignor. Aiders.—A fine of from 200 dollars to 500 dollars; and if that cannot pay, four to six months' imprisonment. Captains and Supercargoes concealing the number of pieces, packages, chests, or trunks, in the manifest, are punished with the loss of the noel. ON COLOMBIAN BILISRIA. Any vessel, wherever it may have been built, can be inscribed as a national vessel of Colombia, provided it be the property of a Colombian citizen, the owner making oath that it in no manner belongs to any foreigner, and binding himself that the vessel shall never bear any other flag than the Colombian ; and that whenever she sails, more than one-half of the crew shall consist of citizens or natives of the country. Any one offending against these provisions, shall be fined 50 dams for every 10 tons of the vessel, besides being sull/cot to the punishment inflicted on perjurers. Intendants of the maritime departments can grant, in the name of the Republic, and for the term of four years, merchant registers for navigation to foreign vessels, whose owners intend to naturalise themselves. For this purpose the proprietors must present the registers of their vessels to the Castom-house of the port where they reside. The titles of navigation must be renewed whenever the vessel is transferred from one citizen to another, or any important alterations be made in its quality and construction, or its:neme changed,or the number of its tons diminishedor increased. No Colombian merchant vessel can navigate without the register patent, and roll of its crew, under penalty of bring embargoed, and the confiscation of the vessel, its sails, rigging, and utensils. Vergeh trading with the Mosquito and Guajira coasts must enter and take out licenses at some of the Colombian ports, for which one dollar and a half per ton must be paid. independently of unavoid able expenses of pilotage, anchorage, &c. The following are the ports of Colombia open to foreign com merce:— Irt mut Arcarric.—Pampata, Juan-griego, Antlgua-guayana, Santo-comas de Angostura, Cumana, Barcelona, La-guaira, Puerto cabello, Coro, Maracaibo, Riohaca, Santamarta, Cartagena, Chagre, Portovedo. In nu Pacinc.—Guayaquil, Esmeralda', Buenaventura, Pa nama. (a) Except such as are afterwards mentioned in other classes. (b) By separate treaties with Peru and Chile, the vessels and pro ductions of those nations are received in Colombian ports on the same footing as if they were Colombian, not paying more duties of importation, exportation, anchorap, or tonnage, than the latter. (c) This is a recent regulation, the payment of duties not being previously effected by any defined system. (d) The term " sugars" is here considered to imply the raw ma terial, as well as every denomination of refined sugars. (e) This has been recently substituted for the San Lazar° Averia, and Akabala duties, rendering the system of internal duties much less complex. (f) At the end of each month the collector is obliged to fix on the door of his office the market prices of the sea-port. (g) The Colombian Government has been recently induced to adopt the above measure, for the registers of ships to be deposited with the Consuls, in place of with the Collectors of Customs. EkCAPC FROM THE KING'S BENCH PRISON...•••A Gen tleman, of the name of George Horatio Scott, was a detenu within the walls of " Abbott's iory"for a short period, but having been before the Chief Justice and given bail to the action, was refused his discharge from an informality. Whim the Judge's order was received at the office, the Marshal said it was irregular, the word " Gentleman" being omitted ; and of course not agree ing with the papa, he refused to obey it by discharg ing him from custody. Mrs. Scott and many friends were in the daily habit of visiting him, and his associates were of the first class in Banco Regis. On Sunday (the 20th instant) be accompanied Mrs. Scott to a dinner party at a friend's room in the State House, and while Mrs. Scott was preparing tea he retired to his own apartment, disguised himself as a female, and taking', advantage of the confusion from the great efflux of visitors Cate on a Sunday evening, contrived to elude t h e v i g ila nc e of the turnkeys, passed with the crowd through the lobbies, and eventually bolted without the gates of the prison. Fe rely Vends from Co. Per cent. 17i 41i 22e 27; or- • se=ciaifftsz==twiirsAr&forlrmlof=t 2 iiPms THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. -......- MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1826. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK' Cassels opened this morning at 95# # for the Account, and re main steady at the above price, with not nisch doing. in the Foreign Market all kinds of Shares are rather brisk this morning, and South American Stocks remain steady. Spanish Bonds seem on the decline, and are done at Ilse, owing it is my. posed to their coming lower from Paris. Current Prices: Old Spanish 22k, Russian 94i, Mexican gob Chili= 90e, Colombian New 94, Austrian 9s, Brazil Scrip 31 B,pm. Mexican Scrip lb Greek Scrip 5 4i. PS ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Cons. 93 1 / 2 34 1 / 4 4 per Cent. New 105% 'Vs £l,OOO Excheq. Bills 5S 55 1:500 ditto 56 53 £lOO and £2OO ditto 55 53 Cons. for Acct. 93% FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Mez.Boods, 5p Ct. 791 / Ditto Ace. 80 79/ Ditto Scrip 1825, 1 Oi Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. 171 18 Ditto Arr. Basilian Bonds Ditto D Scrip, 5 per Cent. Ditto Acct. 01 pm - Ditto Scrip 1825, Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct. Buenos Ayres Bonds, Perue. Bonds, 6 per Ct. Milian Bonds, 6 p Ct. Ditto Acc. Ditto Ace. Portuguese Bonds Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. Ditto Acct. Ditto Aec. 901 1 I Prussian Bondst 822, S p Ct. Ditto Bonds 1824, 90 Russ.Bonds,lB22, sp. Ct. Ditto Acc. 90/ 891 , Ditto Acct. Danish Beads, 5 per Ct. Spanish sp. Ct. C. 234 4 24 31 Greek Bonds 51; Span. 5 p.t.'t C. 1823,23/ 24 31 Ditto Acct. 511 Ditto for Acc. 18 Ditto Scrip 1825, S 41 die French Renter, 5 per C. 1021 f. 1 Ditto Acct. Account 251. lee. BRITISH AND Fs3REIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. MINES. Anglo Mexican - Anglo Milian Brazilian - MARL PAID. PAWS rim sHA AL • £lOO -415. iss. dt.l pm. £lO2 100 102; - 100 - 5 - .13 12e 13 124 - 100 - 5 - -22 23 22i 23 19 18 -36 145 15 135 155 . 255 25 265 25 83 95 9 , 3 5 dis. 211 2 pas. - 120 Chilian • 100 5. Colombian - 100 - 5 - Chitin% and Peruvian Company 5 General Mining Asw. 100 - 5 - Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 - Peruvian - 100 - Royal Irish £1 1 Is. 3d. 2 prem. Rio de la Pbta - 100 - 3 • United Mexican 40 - 20 - Welch Iron St Coal 25 - 5 - - 7 i 1 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. AU.Brit.For.FirekLife 100 - 10 . Do. Marine - 100 - 5 - IRON RAILWAYS. • ••••• • I a Landis and lkinal MISCELLANEOUS. !MARL PAID. PRICI lit SHARE. - ,ElOO - .ClO -,8118 11 100 - 1 - 268 27 t 100 - 5 - 9* BSI 98 50 1 ii i i SO - I - 2a a a 100 5 - 108 10 25 - 2 - 18 i 18 Atlantic and Pacific Australian British Iron Company - Canal Gas Engine - Equitable Loan Bank - General Steam Navigation Great Westminster Dairy Hibernian Joint Stock Banking - London Brick Company 50 1 Slexicati Company 100 10 Metropolitan Fish Company 25 1 Pearl Flattery £25 sh. £2 pd. its. £lO pm. _ Pr. 1 2 I 18 171 18 11 9 21 20 Th:s forenoon we received the Etoile of yesterday by express. It contains a very extra.wdinary document— an Extraordinary Gazette, published at Madrid, claim ing a most decisive victory over Boum! Toey are so completely at variance with the official intelligence from Lima, bsought by the Llos cutter, and inserted in the STAR of the 2d inst. that we give the Spanish story as a proof how far delusion and exaggeration may be carried. The Spanish Extraordinary Gazette, and no Gazette ever de3erved the term better, states that on the 17th September, CANTERAC, after having drawn BOLIVAR into the plain, and reunited his own forces, attacked him between Guamanga and Cusco; the action was general, and m tintained throughout both lines; a single charge of the bayonet decided the victory. The whole Colombian army was dispersed like smoke! The Cavalry performed prodigies—the enemy lost six thousand in killed, wounded, and pri soners, besides all their artillery and baggage, and the entire tuaterielof the army ! Among the prisoners are four Generals—MlLL la, the Englishman.; Soca; the Colombian; CORDOVA, the Grenadian ; and NICHOCA, the Peruvian. The cavalry pursued the fugitives for fifteen days, and drove them as far "as Trusillo, a pursuit of 350 miles ; very few of them saved themselves ! !! Botivan, almost exhausted, had arrived at Guyaquil , after having three horses shot under him. He sent orders to Panama, which arrived there on the 19th October, to suspend the march of the reinforcements for Guyaquil, where they would be intercepted by the Asia, which is gone to that roadstead. To favour the pursuit of the fugitives,he had directed the reinforcements to be sent forward to Benaventura, in order to cover Santa Fe; but his orders did not arrive in time, for the Co lombians had marched on the 15th October. Truxillo had hoisted the Spani,h flag, and it is expected that Guayaquil and Chili will do the same. The entire elite of the Colombian army has thus perished in one day !!I Martial Law was published in Caraccas on the Sd December, and a levy-en-masse ordered. Such are the details in the Madrid Gazette &freer dietary of the 19th instant. Circumstantial as the de tails appear, there does not appear to be a word of truth in the whole story, from beginning to end. The battle of Guamanguilla was fought on the 9th of December, and not in September, and, instead of proving the anni. hilation of the Peruvian and Colombian armies, termi. nated in the total defeat of the Royalists, and the libe ration cf Peru. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, on the dis- cussion of the Indemnity Law, M. B. CONSTANT moved that the sum should be limited to sixty millions. The motion was negatived. The French Papers now state, in a positive manner, that Patras really surrendered to the Greeks on the ,6th ozoU February, so that all doubt respecting the, .~ T -- 7'7 setbendckt of the fee seeds to be blithely remota. The total dispersion of the party which had taco arms against the Greek Government is confirmed, gild also the important fact, that the Loan Rion Cosniissugsait of the lonian Islands had refused admission on the lonian territory to the chief rebels. akturday, Preach Resta iO2l. ler. he Waft ; heTiak,iettia Charleston Papers to the 25d, and Norfolk Papers to the 18th February, have reached us. The Norfolk Paper of the 17th contains the following articles ALVARADO. JANUARY S. A few days ago the schooner Susan, of Baltimore, Was brought in here as a prize, on the charge of haviog been bound with supplies to the Castle. On the same day, the Sd, another American schooner anchored be• tween the City of Vera Crus and the Castle, and is said to have been sunk at her moorings by the fire from the city. The Castle opened its batteries against the City, and the firing continued for 24 hours. This forenoon we teceived Hamburgh Papers to the 21st inst. and Dutch Papers five• days later. They contain no political news, unless the following may be considered as such : FROM THE MAINE, MARCH SO. We learn that the following persons have lately been banished from Russia : Pica, Betaro, Bernard, a FrereA painter and musician; Zofrey, Professor of Belles Let tres ; De Teranti, a Papal subject and musician; Marsh!, `physician ; Lebrun, language waster ; Guistry, Eccle siastic ; Plantin, physician ; Bastin and May, professors ' Sidroon, Schacht, Rokhoff, and Teresti. The Russian Government has made an arrangement with that of Prussia, that these persons may pass through the Prus sian dominions on their return, but not stop there. HAMBURGH. MARCH IP. The Duke of Cambridge has ordered 25 (at tho most 30) horses to be furnished by each regiment of cavalry to assist in the work necessary for the reparation of the dykes in H Anover ; 124 of these horses are to go, at the end of the month, to the Duchy of Bremen, and afterwards the remaining 80 or 90 to East Friesland. These horses are afterwards to be given away to the poorest of the sufferers by the late floois. His Royal Highness has further ordered that the cavalry regi ments shall not be drawn together this year, as they usually are,and that the saving which will accrue (about 1000 dollars for each Regiment) shall be applied to the relief of the distressed. We have only roorr777•7lefer to the Tariff of Colombia in another part of our Paper. It is a fine practical comment on the admirable speech of Mr. HUSKISSON, and the liberal policy of our Ministers, as relates to commerce. Some of the rattrictions retained in the Colombian Tariff are unnecessary, but for so young a State it is a bold and decisive advance towards establishing freedom of trade. THE KING. WINDSOR, MARCH 27.—This morning h's MAILSTY attended Divine Service at his new private Chapel, con tiguous to the Royal Lodge. Service was performed by the Rev. Mr. SUMNIR. The principal part of the Royal Household were present. His MAJRSTY after wards took an airing in the Great Park. THEATRES. —ism— DRURY.LANE THEATRE. Saturday night, Mr. KLAN performed the part of Othello, in the Tragedy of that name, with his usual ex cellence. The House was excessively crowded, owing to its being announced that he was about to retire from the stage for some years ; but this was a mere theatri cAl rose de perm which, if Mr. KZAN and Mr. ELLIS* rots live and hang together, will be played off hereafter. At the conclusion of the Play, Mr. KEAN was called for, when he addressed the audience in a speech, which was, to say the least of it, in excessive bad taste. The public had forgiven his double adultery and forgotten Mrs. Cox, we therefore know no reason why Mr. MIAS should revive the subject, unless out of mere bravado. Alluding to the public press, he denominated it, " a most powerful engine placed for his destruction," and boasted that he 'sad risen superior to one of the most malignant attacks to which a performer had ever been subjected. This is rather ungrateful of Mr. EDMUND KEAN, who was as much indebted to the public press for his present eminence as any actor ever was ; nor is it true that he, though the chief of sinners, has been most severely punishei. MACKLIN was driven from the stage by clamour, and so was that beautiful woman and clever actress, Mrs. Warm, by imputations which are now known to have been false. Now, as to Mr. KEAN'S last appearance, how does the matter turn out? Why, that he will commence a new engagement in June or July next, when the public will again be humbugged with " limited number of nights," and more " last appearances." When Mr. KEAN had finished, the audience got a glance of Mr. Eudwrotr, and fancying be only wanted an invitation w make a speech, they called for him, when he deli vered himself of an incoherent oration, which termi nated with a hope that for many years " the public would have the opportunity of receiving Mr. KEAN and himself"—the Palau and Orestes of the Theatre. Saturday afternoon a Cabinet Cnuncil assembled, agreeably to summons, at the Foreign Office, Downing.etreet. There were present — The Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Liverpool, Harrowby, Westmoreland, Bathurst; the Chancellor of the Exchogorr, Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Secretary Peel, Sm. The Cabinet sat in deliberation till nearly five o'clock. About eleven o'clock on Friday night, the Duke of Yost left town in kis travelling carriage, for Belvalr the sc.c of the Duke of Raman., on a visit to his Grace foe a few days. His Royal Highness is then expected to proceed to Newmarket, for the purpose of attending the first week of the Spring Meetings.— It is understood that the whole of his Royal Highness's house. hold, together with all the fniniture, &e. in Yotk House, will be removed by the third of April, in consequence of his Royal High ness's re4 ence being about to be pulled down, and the materials ,*old in l. Part of the Royal Duke's collection of pictures, &A, t ere•packed up and removed on Saturday, to his Royal Highness'b temporary residence in South Audley-street. Tile Duke of CLARENCE, travelling under the name of Count de Muserrea, landed on the e2d at Ostend, with his ft .ntly. He arrived at Ghent op the SW, and set out on the 24th, ,on Ms way to Germany.