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W ill • NE 7 -- 11 i'," ^ . .- -....... , " •. • ..... ~. . • -_ . - - . 1)... ":: • . • ; . . ..j.; . 4 ' . • ' ~, - . • .. 'lO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND Gammas, lIHE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the East 1 India Company being appointed for WEDNESDAY, the 11th Aran. next, the Favour of your VOTE and INTEREST is requested for the following Gentlemen, viz. John RaiHie, Esq. James Law Lusbington, Esq. James Rivett Came, Esq. John Petty Muspratt, Esq. William Wigram, Esq. Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble Servants, East India House, 31st March, 1830. Charles Mills. John Loch, John Morris, William Astell, Charles Elton Prescott, Jodas Du Pre Alexander, George Raikes, Henry Alexander, John Goldsbonsugh Ravenshaw, Robert Campbell, George Smith, William Stanley Clarke, James Stuart, Neil Benjamin fkilmondstone, John Thornhill, Robert Cedar Ferguason, Sweny Toone, Hugh Lindsay, Henry St George Tucker, John Muterman, William Young, TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. Lames AID GIDITLEIUM, HAVING the Honour of being recommended to you by the Directors of the Rut India Company, as Candidates for the Direction to be Chosen this Year ; We take the Liberty of requesting the Favour of your VOTE on the DAY of ELEC TION. WEDNESDAY, the 14th April next. We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and most humble Servants, John Bailtie, James Rivett Carnac, James Law Lustrington, East-India House, John Petty Maspratt, the litst March, 1830. William Wlgrant. NEW AND ELEG ANT EDITION OF DR. ROBERT SON'S WORKS. Just published in it vols. 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Those who honour him with their commands may, by visiting his Agency Office, at No. 57, Conduit-street, Ragan-street, make their selection from an elegant assortment of the most splendid Looking Glasses, both as to style and dimensions ; also original Designs, Plans, &c. of Furniture, and Interior Decora tions in every variety, well worthy the attention of the fashionable world. COLOMBIA. PROCLAMATIOT4 MIVAR TO THE COLOMBIANS. Colombians !—To.dayiceaX to rule over you. I have already served you both as a soldier and a magistrate twenty years During this long period we have re-conquered the country, liberated three republics, stifled many civil wars, and four times have I returned to the people their omnipotence by re.asaernbling, spontaneously, four constituent congresses. To your virtues, valour, and patriotism, these services were due; to me the glory of having directed them. The constituent congress which has been today installed is charged by PROVIDENCIL to give to the nation the institutions she desires, following the count of circumstances and the nature of things.—. Fearing that I am considered an obstacle to the seating of the re. public upon the true base of Its happiness, I, of my own accord, precipitate myself from its chief magistracy to which your goodness has raised me. Colombians !-1 have been the victim of ignominious suspicions, the purity of my principles not being even sufficient to defend me. Those who aspire to the chief command themselves have plotted to tear me front your hearts, attributing to me their sentiments ; mak- I ing me appear the author of projects which they alone have con. ceived ; representing me, in short, as aspiring to a crown, which they have offered me mote than once, and which I have rejected with I the indignation of the most stern republican. Never, never, I swear to you, has the ambition of a kingdom once strained my thoughts, although my enemies tare artfully forged such pretensions to destroy me in your opinion. Undeceive yourselves, Colombians! My only anxiety has been to contribute to your liberty, and to the preservation of your repose. If for this 1 have been to blame, I merit more than any other your indignation. Listen uot, I beseech you, to vile calumny and foul intrigue, which create discord in all parts. You allow yourselves to be deceived by the impoeition of my detractors. Be not blinded, Colombians ! Assemble round the constituent congress—it Is the national wisdom, the legitimate hope of the people, and the last point of re-union of the patriots. Our lives, the happiness of the republic, and the Colombian glory, depend on its sovereign decrees. If by any fatality you should be induced to abandon it, there is no other safety for the country, and you will plunge yourselves Into an ocean of anarchy, leaving crime, blood, and death, as an inheritance toour children. Fellow citizens ! Hearken to my last voice upon terminating my political career. In tke name of Colombia I request, I beg of you, to.'remain united—that ye become not the assassins of the country, and your own executioners. Bogota, Jan. 20, 1830. BOL I vim. THE PRESIDEN T ' S A E TO CONGRESS. Fellow Citizens !—Permit me to congratulate you on the meeting of congress, which in the name of the nation is about to discharge the sublime duties of legislation. Arduous and grand is the work of constituting a people which escapes from oppression by means of anar chy and civil war, without being previously prepared to receive the , salutary reform to which it aspired. But the ex a mpl e s of hi s t or y, b ot h ' in the old and new world—the experience of twenty years of revolu tions, have to serve you as so many beacons placed in the midst of the obscurity of the future ; and 1 Hatter myself that your wisdom will be sufficient to overcome, with fortitude, the passions of some, and the ignorance of the multitude--consulting, as far as possible, the enlightened reason of men of sense, whose respectable opinions are a precious auxiliary in the solution of questions of a high poli tical character. Besides, you will also find important counsels to follow in the very nature of our own country, that compre hends the elevated regions of the Andes, and the scorch. ing banks of the Oronoko. Examine it in all its extent, and you will learn from it what the congress has to adopt for its happiness and welfare. Our history will tell you much, and much our necessities; but the cry of our griefs for want of repose and secure liberty will be yet more persuasive. Happy will be the congress if it secures to Colombia the enjoyments of those supreme blessings, t'or which it will merit the most pore batedictions. The congress being convoked to compose the funda mental code which shall govern the republic, and to name the high functionaries who shall administer it, it is the due of the govern- 'tient to lay before you the information >o by the rupee. live ministers of the present situation of the state that you may be able to legislate in a way analagous to the nature of things. It belongs to the president of the council of state, and ministers, to lay before you its labours during the last eighteen months. If they have not corresponded to the hopes we had famed they have at least overcome the obstacles which turbulent circumstances of exterior war, and intestine convulsion, o to the march of the administration, evils which, thanks t o IL vi ne Providence, have ' ceased by the application of clemency and peace. Lend your so- I vereign attention to the origin and progrese of those broils. The disturbances which unfortunately occurred in 1826 obliged me to come from Peru, notwithstanding I was resolved not to accept the first constitutional magistracy, fur which I had been re-elected du ring my absence. Called upon with anxiety to re-establish con. and, and to avoid civil war, I could not refuse my services to the country front which I had received that new honour and unequivo cal proofs of confidence. The national representation began to con sider the cause of discord that agitated men's minds, and, convinced that they existed, and that radical measures onht to be adopted, they submitted to the necessity of anticipating the meeting of the grand convention. That body was installed when party spirit was at its height, and dissolved itself without the members who com mitted it being able to agree upon the reform they meditated. Seeing the republic menaced by a complete dissociation I was obliged in such a crisis to sustain it anew ; and had it net been that t he national opinion had united promptly to deliberate on its own PRICE 7n. conservation the republic would have been torn to pieces by' the bands of its own chisens. The national opinion honoured me with its con. fidenea—a confidence that I ought to respect as the most sacred law.' When the country was about to perish could I hesitate ? The laws which bad been violated by force of arms, and by the diem:nations of the people, wanted vigour ; the legislative body had already de creed, knowing the necessity, that that assembly should meet, which could reform the constitution ; and the convention had already de. dared unanimously that reform was most urgent. So solemn a de claration, united to the preceding ones, gave a mortal blow to the political compact of Colombia. The constitution in the year 11 ceased to exist—horrible was the situation of the country, and more hoe. rible was mine, because it thrsw me at the mercy of opinions and ensoicions. Yet the tarnishing of a reputation acquired in a long se of service, in which similar sacrifices have been necessary and frequent, did not Impede me. The organic decree I issued ea the VIE of August, 181111, ought to convince all that my most ar. dent wish was to relieve myself from the insuppeetable weight of unlimited authority, and that the republic should return to con. stitute itself through the medium of the representatives. But scarcely had I begun to exercise the functions of supreme chief, when opposing elements burst forth with the violence of the pas.. skins and the ferocity of crime. My life was attempted • civil war kindled by this exampl e , and through other means they en. couraged the government of Peru to invade our departments of the south, with views of conquest and usurpation. My user-1 tions, fellow.citisens, are not founded on simple conjecture ; the facts and documents th a t accre di t i t are authentic. War became inevitable. The army of General Lamar is routed in '!'argue, in a way most splendid and glorious for our arms, and its relics are saved by the generosity of the victors. Notwithstanding the tug. nanimity of the Colombians General Lamar (breaking the treaties) renewed the war and commenced hostilities whilst I answered him by inviting him once more to peace ; but lie calumniated us and outrageously affronted us. The department of Guaya qu il betimes the victim of his extravagant pretensions We, being deprived of a naval force, intercepted by the inundations of the winter, and by other obstacles, had to await the favourable seasons to re.occupy the place. During this interval a national sentence. according to the very expression of the supreme chief of Peru, vindicated our coo. duct, and freed our enemies of General Lamar. The political aspect of that republic being thus changed, opened the way for ne gociation, and by an armistice we re.occupied Guayaquil. In fine, the 12d Sept. the treaty of peace was concluded which put an end to a war in which Colombia defended her rights with dig. nity. I congratulate the congress and the nation on the satisfactory results of the affairs in the south, as much for the conclusion of the war as for the unequivocal proofs of benevolence that we have re ceived from the Peruvian government, nobly confessing that we were insidiously provoked to war. No government has acted more satisfactorily to another than Peru has to us; for which magnani. mity she is deserving of the most perfect esteem on our part.— Fellow-citizens, if peace has been concluded with that moderation that was to be hoped for between sister countries, ought they not to lay down their arms, consecrated to liberty, and their mutual corner. ration ? We have also extended our hands towards the unfortunate people of the south, who allowed themselves to be dragged into civil war, or who were seduced by the enemy. It is gratifying to me to inform you, that to terminate these do mestic dissensions, not a drop of blood has satisfied the yen. geitn e of the law ; and, although a gallant General (C or d o v a ) an d followersul is c have fallen, their punishment comes (tom the hand of the ALMIGHTY, when from ours they would have enjoyed the clemency which we harm shown those who have survived; all enjoy liberty, notwithstanding their errors. The country has suffered too much from these shocks, which we shall always remember with grief; and if anything can mitigate our affliction, it is the consols. tem we hayc that uu pelt of its origin eau be attributed to us, and of our having been as generous to our adversaries as lay in our power. We have to lament the sacrifice of some delinquents at the altar of justice; and, although patricides merit no indulgence, many of them, and perhaps the most guilty of them, have received it at my hands. Let this picture of horror wh ich it bee been my misfortune to lay before you serve as an example ; let it serve us for the i future as one of those formidable visitations which Providence awards us in the course of life for our correction. It belongs to con. grass to gather sweet fruits from this bitter tree, or at least to keep at a distance from hs venomous shade. If the honourable task had not fallen upon me of calling on you to represent the rights of the people, that you may, according to the wishes of your con. atituents, create or ameliorate our institutions, this would be the place to call your attention to the result of twenty years devoted to the service of the country. Besides I ought not even to hint to you that which all citizens have a right to ask ; all can and are obliged to submit their opinions, their fears, and wishes, to those whom we have constituted for the amelioration of society, disordered as it is by trouble and misery. I alone sin deprived of exercising this civil privilege because, having convoked you, and assigned your attributes, I am not permitted in any way to influence your counsels. Besides, it would be unfortunate to repeat to the elected of the people that which Colombia has published with chant. ter* of blood. My only duty is to submit myself without re strictions to the code and magistrate that you gave tar; and all I aspire to is, that the will of the people be proclaimed, respected, and fulfilled by its delegates. With this view I took the necessary steps that the people should express their opinion with full liberty and security, without any other limits but those which are preeribed by order and moderation. This has been done, and you will perceive in the petitions which are submitted to your consideration the ingenious expressions of the popular wish. All the provinces await your resolutions ; in all parts the meetings which have been held with this view have been presided with regularity and respect to the authority of government and the constituent con. mess. We have alone to lament the excess of the meeting at Careens, of which your prudence and wisdom ought also to judge. 1 tear with some foundation, that my sincerity, in speaking to you of the magistrate who is to preside over the republic, is I doubted. But the congress ought to persuade itself that its own honour is opposed to its thinking of me for that station, and mine most decidedly to accept it. You will, perhaps, cause this precious attribute to fl ow back upon him who h a s pointed it out to you. Dare you, without disgracing your own reputation, concede me your suffrages ? Would not that be actually appointing myself ? Far be from you and me an act so ignoble—obliged as you are to constitute the government of the republic, within and without your own circle, you will find illustrious men who will discharge the pre sidency of the state with glory and advantage—all, all my fellow citizens enjoy time inestimable fortune to appear innocent in the eyes of the suspicious, I alone am taunted with aspiring so tyranny. Free me, I beseech you, from the censure that I may expect if I continue filling a station that never can clear itself of the accusations of ambition. Believe me, a new magistrate is already indispensable for the republic. The people wish to know if' I will at any time cease to govern them. The states of America view me with a certain inquietude that may bring down some day upon Colombia evils similar to those of Peru. In Europe itself there are not wanting those who fear that I discredit with my con. duct the fair course of liberty. Ah, how many conspiracies and wan have we not suffered to attack my authority and person. These attacks have ruined the people, whose sacrifices might have been avoided if from the commencement the legislators of Colombia had not forced me to support a load which has borne me down more than war with all its afliictions. Show yourselves, fellow-citizens, worthy of representing a free people by repelling every idea of my being necessary to the republic. If one man be necessary to sustain the state, that state ought not, and in the end will not, exist. The ma gistrate you may select will, no doubt, be the rallying point of do mestic concord, the link of fraternity, and the consolation of the dejected. All Colombians will rally round this fortunate being ; he will unite diem in the embrace of friendship; he will (min of them a family of citizens. I will obey this legitimate magisuate with the ma cordial respect; I will follow such an angel of peace; I will sustain him with my sword, and with my utmost powers. I will use energy, respect, and submission, in aiding the projects of the msgtstratee you may elect. 1 swear it, leOlaton ! I pro mise it in time name of the people and the Colombian army.— Happy will be the republic if, upon admitting my resignation, you appoint president a citizen beloved by the nation. The republic will be loot if you persist in re-electing me. Hear my prayers ; serve the republic ! save my glory. whicS is that of Colombia; dis. lose of the presidency which l respectfully abdicate. From today I am no more than a citizen armed to defend the country, and obey the government. My public functions cease for ever. I make a fransal and solemn delivery of the supreme authority which the national sulinges have conferred on me. .You belong to all the provinces; you are the moat select citizens; you have served in all the offices of the state; you know ha local and its general interests; you want nothing farther to regenerate this repmmbhic, perishing as it is in all the branches of its administration. Let nay last act be to recommend to you the protection of the sacred religion we profess, a tnuntain over&wing with Ithasings of /leaver. The national tinarce demands attention, prtieularly in us system. The public debt, which is the gargles v ..t Colon,' is, reclaims of ycu its float sacred rights. The army, a hid' possesses infinite titles to the national gratitude, requires complete orgtosies. dolt. Justice requires codes capable of defending the rights and innocence of freemen. It is necessary to create every thing, and you ought to lay the foundation of prosperity in establishing the general basis of our political organisation. Fellow-eitirens ' 1 blush to say it, independence is the only good we have nerptimtl, at the expense of every other but it opens the dour for the recover) of all good under your sovereign auspices, and duo, tun, with nll splendour of glory and liberty. Bogota, Jan. 20, 1130. Sl3loti BOLIVAR. 1311 1 EIIIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDSTIII/118DA 1". The Royal Assent was given by commis s i o n t o severa l p u bli c a nd private bills. The boas CHANCELLOR ' the Earl of It °SALT N, and the Earl of SHAIPTEIBURY, were theCommissionets. Among the bills were the indemnity bill ; the smujwiere s maintenance bill : the Palatine of Durham bill; Ardglass 11111,,mr bill; St. Giles and St. George's, Bloomsbuty, vestry bill; wick-square, Brighton, bill ; Liverpool docks' bill ; Gainsborou l lit road bill; and lord Ellenborough's divorce bill. The private bills on the table were advanced one stage. The Earl of SHAFTBSBURY laid on the table, by command of his majesty. the eighteenth report of the commissioners of real •. slastical inquiry in Ireland. The Noble EARL also laid on the table the twentieth report of the co • ~ioct.ra inquiring into certain charities. The fluke of RR:111110ND presented a petition from Jos. ma, a freeman of the city of London. foram alteration in the systuoi of granting licenses for the sale of spirits. Sir A. GRANT, with other members of the House of Common , . brought up the four per cent. annuities' acts' bill. the lEtylitark,., removal bill, and a private (road) bill, which were severally read a first time. The honourable members also brought up (agreed to by the Commons.) the bill for indemnifying witnesses= the East ltetfori disfrviehiserner.t bill. 3lr. Tondins, from the Treasury, presented at the bar an account of the superannuations granted since the year 1814 to the rrill of Ja nuary, 1830. . - I mthe motion of the D u k e o f R ICHMOND, t h e ev id ence taken before the committee of the House of Commons, relating to Seutcia and Irish vagrants, laid on their lordships' table on the 25th er March, was ordered to be printed. The noble DUKE presented a petition from the freeholders of the county of Louth against the introduction of turnpikes in that ce.unt y. Lord UALTIMRPE presented several petitions from dis‘rntit.r, -congregations of Blackburn, Lancashire, against the practie.• of sut tees and infanticides In India. Lord STHATIIALLEN laid on the table tile second rrl•,•e: or the evidence taken before the select coutmittee 0:1 India afl:Ar.. I b. printed. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the inhabinwts of Woburn against property. On the motion of the Earl of Sttat•T EMIL' I: V, Ilicif lutdrhip. ad_ journal to Monday, the 26th of A lxil. tl , - ..„.„- ...-',- --------------'' . : .'----- -,,_ <- C 1 IffrXir 2. 1 . 0 ._ 3 a l O VILDTO 74. 4 0 9 4v. . .r HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tnu tesnA v. The SPEAKER communicated to the house his having aticiiii.d the House of lords, and heard the Royal Assent given by comink. lion to Lord Ellenborough's Divorce Bill, and a number of u:iier bills (for which ace House of Lords report). POTAIS BONDS: Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition from a female, natine Mary Ann Lloyd, stating that from the representations made to li r e she had been induced to embark the whole of her little properly in the purchase of what were termed " Poyais Bonds," but had od es received but one dividend, amounting to Ms. She further stated she had represented her case to his majesty. who had been graciously pleased to grant her 1001. She prayed that the house would cause ' inquiry to be made into the fraudulent scheme for raising money on what were called Poyals Bonds, but which proved, in fact, nothinl but mere waste paper.—The petition was laid on the table. Mr. SADLER presented a petition from the licensed victuallers of Sutton Ashfield, against the proposed alteration in the liceti,inj system.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. W. HORTON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Neweastle.under.Line. Stafibrdshire, praying for a free trcde ti , India. Also a petition from the same place, against the practice of burning Hindoo widows. Both petitions were referred to the corn. mittee on East India affairs. Mr. W. HORTON moved fur a copy of an official letter hem Mr. IL W. Hay, dated from the Colonial Office, 7th .Ipril. 1823, relative to the expenditure of Sierra Leone and the Cape of Goo!. Hope.—Agreed to. NAVIGATION OF THE RHINE. Mr. C. GRANT rose for the purposeof putting two or three ques tions to the right hon. gentleman near him (Mr. Peel,) upon a sub. jeer, in a commercial point of view, and otherwise, of great import ance to this country. It related to the navigation of the river Rhine. It was well known that, by a treaty executed 15 years ago, (that of Vienna In 1815,) the free navigation of that river for British and other vessels had not only been recognised, but fully stipulated for and guaranteed. The very first article of that treaty applied to the free navigation of rivers, and particularly to that of the Rhine, at. lowing vessels of all nations to ascend and descend that river without any prohibition whatever. Notwithstanding which, the King of the Netherlands, acting on his own opinion, and disregarding altogeths r the terms of the existing treaty, had thought proper to adopt those measures which served to exclude entirely all vessels from the riv..r, with the exception of those of the Netherlands. Now it did appear to him (Mr. C. Grant) a circumstance of very extraordinary occurrence that a treaty of so much importance should be allowed to remain dormant for the space of 15 years, during which time this country was deprived of a portion of her commercial rights and pri vileges, without exciting the notice of his majesty's government.— - Two years ago, when he had the honour to fill oisoe , an appeal had been made by the excluded powers to the government of the Nether lands for a relaxation of their prohibitory system, and for the just fulfilment of the Vienna Treaty ; and he hoped that, locebefuee this, government would have seen the necessity of complying with the terms of the treaty. To his surprise, however, he had learned that the powers bordering on the banks of the Rhine were making 'a am. vention with the Netherlands for dut regulation of the free amigo don of that river. Those powers were France, Prussia, Bavaria, and some others most interested in the navigation, who were securing to themselves exclusive privileges, without one word being said or thought of with respect to England. Ile believed that the treaty bad not yet been ratified by France ; but he was told that an under standing existed , that, if that country did ratify it, the other powers would do so likewise. It was, therefore, evident that this country would be deprived, by this compact, of hose commercial rights amid privileges which were necognisecn the Treaty of Vienna in 1815. Ile therefore wished to ask of the right hon. Secretary of State-- font, whether any proposition had been made to his majesty's governmee to become a party to the treaty to which he alluded, f ur t h e f ree na vigation of the river ? secondly, whether, when that treaty should be officially communicated to this country, his majesty's ministers would have any objection to lay it before that house? and, thirdly, whether any measures had been put in force for preserving the rights of this country, in common with those of the other power, to the treaty ? Mr. PEEL expressed himself willing to give the amplest in. formation upon this subject in his power. It sou true, as stated by the hon. member, that, by the treaty of 1815, the navigation of the Rhine was thrown open, and made free to all nations. Soma difference had arisen, he believed, as to the terms of the treaty, which was drawn up in the German as also in the French language , with respect to the boundaries to which the free navigation was to be confined ; but, as regarded the terms of the treaty, a copy or which was in this country in the French language, he (Mr. - Peel) could not see how a possibility of doubt could arise as to its con. struction. It was understood, at the time of forming the treaty, that the free and open navigation should extend from the com mencing of the river to the sea, and the words were.—" jusqu'a la 31er," which were sufficiently definite. But it had been contended that the free navigation was to extend into the sea. (A laugh.)— Some disputes had arisen as to the free channel from the see; to the mouths of the ri.er • but, in his opinion, th e t erms o f t h e treaty were complete and distinct defining, the river to be accessible to ships of all nations. With respect to this country, the government had always contended fur the navigation of the river to be free. subject to the imposition of moderate duties, for the preservation of the paths on the sides of the river, and for the maintenance ref the proper police. With respect to the question relative to the sap. posed treaty, he believed that a project was on the triple for carrying into effect the terms of the treaty of 1815, in the necessity fur which all panics concurred. The hon. member must be aware that there was a connitiesion existing for the management of all aides that related to that river. It was denominatetethe Crone! Cons. minion, and wax composed o f delegatel from'esch of the countries on the borders of the river, and was then si t ting at 3l ay sose. The subject was at present un d er : their consideration, but he believed no treaty had yet been sigradL The project he believed, was far a treaty tnore particularly between Prussia, who was mostlyinteresud, and the Netherlands; butt's,' central commission had Dee vrn their assent, and, therefore, until that was dune no treaty cou be ratified. When the rati fi catioo should rake place the natu re er * the treaty would be officially connnuniautd to this goverment en sat fultend fosmal eemanner that he could riot see any eitpsetjenrisvern ' ment could base to a copy bf it being laid before that house.- ' lie apprehended that whatevu twisty might be made Er.gteed would be allowed to participate in the ..gtir privileges ;sat all none this government would not waive those catatonia rights recog. Poised by the treaty of 1816, nor allow any subsequent fusty to