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ment, in the object of the cause for which the present contest is maintained. The Cartes ordered that the report should be referred to a special Committee. It was also ordered that there should be referred to the same Committee the last dis patch presented in the secret Sitting by Don Cayetano Valdes, in which Connt Bourdesoulle, Commander-in- Chief of the French corps in line, stated that the re ply of his Catholic Majesty to the c:enmunication yes terday made to Doe Aliguel de Alva, not having been satisfactory, and the Duke of Angouleme declining to enter into any di , cessien, unless upon those bases, he (Bourdesoulle) hoped, that by eight o'clock that night the said satisfactory reply world be given, it beit:g un derstood, if the contrary he t!ee case, that all ne gotiation was broken off, and that affairs must 'evert to their ordinary course. Reference was also made to the Committee of Senor Valdes' answer, which stated that the Government having thoeght proper to convoke the Cortes Extra ordinary, no reply could be given by the hour pointed out, but that it would he transmitted on the next day. The following proposition was then read The Cortes will be pleased to resolve, that there be granted to the Junta of Defence appointed by the Governor of Cadiz, the most ample powers for adopting every means which may be considered requisite for the delence of the Gaditanian Island." After some discussion, in which Senors Asian and Canga supported the motion, the propo..ition was adopted, and the Cortes adjourned. A Royal Ordonnance decrees that, in order to com plete the collection of the forced loan of eight millions of reals, the unpaid quotas should be made good, with an additional charge of 20* per cent. anticipating the period of payment of the 10th day, the time axed in the Royal Ordonnance of the 11th of August last. SOUTH A 31E1L1C.4. A Santa Martha Gawk of the sth of August has been received, which contains the following intelligence: " MARACAIBO. The Governor of this garrison has received advice, from the Head-quarters of Rio de la ['ache, under date of the 3d instant, which contain propositions for granting an honourable and advan tageous capitulation, made by the Colonel D. N. Lopes, second in command of the Spanish army, and Lieut.-Colonel D. L. L. Quin tana, as Commissioners for General D. F. T. Morales, to General Manuel Manrique, and the answer given to the same by the latter." The proposed terms of capitulation follow. Many of them were negatived on the part of the Colombian Ge neral; and it was the general opinion at Santa Martha, founded upon ad vices from Rio de la Hache, that Gene ral MORALES would, within a day or two of the date of the above proposals (August 3), surrender at discretion. The last arrivals front South America bring an account of a correspondence between the Republican General MANRIQUE and the Spanish General MORALES, which appea , el in the Colombian°. General MAertnaue's letter is dated on board the brig Independencia, at anchor at Maracaybo, June 23, and remonstrates with General MORALES on the atrocities committed by his troops, whom he charg es with having " dealt destruc tion among the peacefu inhabitants and defenceless in .drliduals met with in the streets—among these, Cap tain JOSE GUEVARA ; and treated mot shamefully the military characters whom fate has made prisoners—in whose number is found Sub-Lieutenant FELIPE URDA NZTA, who, after the severest threats and insults on your part, has been placed in the rank. as a private, whereby the regulation of the war, agreeable to the treats , agreed upon and sanctioned, has been publicly trampled upon." General MANRIQUE states, that he understands General MORALES has declared a war of extermination. Ge neral MORALES, in his answer, which is vet y haughty,• to General M AN atQuE, says—" The declaration of those persons who have informed you that I have declared a war of extermination, and that I had committed the atrocities which you have minutely laid to my charge, is void of truth. You and your adherents are the pro moters of all the misfortunes and desolation of Vene zuela, and it is only to colour and draw off the atten- tion of those who are marking your footsteps, that you charge me with having been guilt of these atrocities. It is the Colombian Chiefs alonellbo are capable of disturbing the quiet and assassinating the defenceless and peaceable inhabitants. Witness the two old men whom their troops assassinated at the look-out of this city on the 18th inst. Jose MARIA FAME, by trade a tailor, was asassinated in the street of San Juan de Dios, at his own door, and his house and those of many others • plundered, only because it was suspected they had money ; so, although you eulogize your troops ever so much, their actions give the lie to your pinegyrics, and, at the same time justify the conduct of those under my command. Ensign URDA SETA, VillOin you mention, has been treated with that regularity which corresponds with his rank, and it is an easy matter to convince your self of it by changing him for one of equal rank of my battalion of casadores, Don VICENTE MAP." tracted, by operations enormously grievous to the State; thr'~by increasing the capitals, gratuitously doubling the iinerest; and giving acknowledgments, some without the necessary proof, others purely gratuitous, and with exorbitant additions to many ; appropriating for their payment even revenues that did not belong to the Re public, as the fifth part of the precious metals which may be coined in Colombia, of which scarcely three per cent. accrues to the Republic ; and, in short, admitting as proportions the obligations or debentures which the same M. Zea had given to the creditors of the Repub lic, in virtue of the act concluded in London on the Ist of August, In% without their respective accounts having been legally authorized and liquidated, inde pendent of other obligations which he also put into cir culation in the same arbitrary manner, without having duly iequested, waited for, or ever obtained the indis pensable alio-Libation of similar transactions. " 3. That on the 12th day of July, 1821, the two pro vinces of New Gr anada and Venezuela being united in true national body, under the denomination of the Re public of Colombia, by a solemn act of its legitimate re presentatives assembled to sanction this new political as sociation, and its fundamental institutions ; by the said act the faculties of all its former functionaries and public agents ceased, and in consequence the powers granted ander date of the 24th December, 1819, in the city of Angostura, in favour id the Ex-Nlinister Zea, also ceased; not only disabling him from continuing, in virtue of the same, the diplomatic operations to which his instruc tions were confined, but principally restraining him from entei ing into financial negotiations, for which he thought' fit subsequently to extend the said powers, although al ready apprised of the important alteration, as he quotes the new laws in the bonds which he issued the 13th of March, 1822. " 4thly and lastly. At the same time that it is a duty of Congress to guard against the dissipation and waste of the property of the nation, whose rights are deposited in its hands, it is no less so religiously to fulfil the just obligations in which its responsibility, honour, and re putation are involved; and wishing to consult ancrbear in mind all these considerations, and not invade the just rights of individuals, decrees that— .. Art. 1. The transactions entered into with the creditors, loans concluded, and other financial operations effected in Europe by the Ex-Minister Francisco Antonio Zea, are disapproved. " 2. Notwithstanding, all the sums that the creditors may prove to have been legitimately furnished for the Republic in money and effects, and their respective interests, are recognised. " 3. For the liquidation of the same, the Executive is amply au thorised to effect it in the manner in which it may think fft. " 4. The Executive are also authorized to approve and ratify, either individually or by the person or persons whom they shall direct for that purpose, the result of the liquidation, that it may call in the obligations, debentures, or bills put into circulation by the deceased Francisco Antonio Zea, and substitute such as it may deem neces sary, to the amount of the sum which may be liquidated and ap proved, the same to be signed by the President of the Republic, or whoever may be charged with the executive power, only the person who shall be strictly authorised by the same, so that these new Bonds or Debentures may be admitted as numeri cal accounts in any other new Loan that may be decreed; and lastly, to name arbitrators, judges, and amicable conciliators ' in the event of any disagreement arising with the creditors, either in the territory of Colombia, or in any other country in Europe. " 5. The same executive authority may agree on the period for the redemption of the sum that shall have been liquidated upon the mortgages with which credit shall be preserved, and upon the method of paying the interest, till the consolidation of the National Debt, upon which subject the Congress is employed. " 6. Finally, the Executive is authorised to remove all difficulties that may occur in the execution of the present law. " Given in Bogota, the 30th June, 1823. " The Vice-President of the Senate, (Signed) " GER. TORRES." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1528. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 83*, for the Account, at which price they remain steady up to this hour, with little doing. Owing to there being no arrival of Expresses this forenoon from Paris, which is attributed to the heavy gales of yesterday, we are without information ; nor are there any reports on 'Change. FOREIGN FUNDS. • The chief business transacting this morning in the Foreign Mar ket is in Colombian and Spanish Roads. In all other Foreign Se curities them is scarcely a bargain done. Colombian opened at 52k, 53, and 55k; Old Spanish Ponds 31k, k, 32k; French Scrip ti; Russian 83k. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 88 V s 3 / 8 1 / 4 4 per Cents. New 102 3 / 4 7 / 8 India Bonds 665. 70s. pr.—New Anns. 82 1 / 4 Etch. Bills (E 1,000) 40s. 41s.— Small 395. 41s. pt. India for Acct. 266%—Consols for Acct. 833 i. A continued and very considerable increase in the Revenue of the Country is what every person must ex pect from that prosperity, the fruit of a wisely preserved peace, which he witnesses everywhere around him ; it has, in fact, ceased to be, as formerly, a matter of news, that some million or half million more have been received, during a Quarter, from an increased consumption of ar ticles that pay taxes and duties, than during the Quarter preceding. It may, nevertheless, be agreeable to the Pub lic, as confirming their grounds for satisfaction with things as they are, to know from time to time how the accounts actually stand. Those for the present Quarter (being the Nlichaelmas one) will not, we believe, be made up till the 10th of the month ; but we are already enabled to state, that so large is the general improvement of the Revenue, that in the Customs alone there is an average increase from the sth of July to the 27th of September, of not less than 032,848. DIWAND, and to it, on the following day, he returned the accompanying answer, in his own hand-writing• TRANSLATION, SIR, M BROTHER AND COUSIN—Spain is delivered from the revolutionary yoke. A. few fortified towns now only serve as an asylum to implicated persons. The King, my Uncle and Lord, had thought (and events have in nowise changed his opinion), that your Majesty, restored to liberty, and using cleinency, would think it advisable to grant an amnesty necessary after so many troubles, and to give to your people, by the convocation of the ancient Cortes of the Kingdom, guarantees for the reestablishment of order, justice, and good admi nistration. All that France could perform, as well as her Allies, and the whole of Europe, in order to conso lidate this act of your wisdom, I do not hesitate myself to become a guarantee, shall be done. I thought it my duty to remind your Majesty, and through you, all those who may still prevent the evils which threaten them, of the feelings of the King, my Uncle and Lord. e It, in five days hence, I shall not have received any sa tisfactoi y answer, and if at that period your Majesty shall still be deprived of your liberty, I shall recur to force in order to to-tore it to you. Those who should listen to their passions in preference to the interests of their country, will alone be answerable for the blood that may be spilled.—l am, with the most profound re spect, your •ery affectionate brother, cousin, and servant, (Signed) LOUIS ANTOINg. From my Head•gturters. sit Port St. Mary's, this 17th of August, 1823. ANSWER. SIR, MY BROTHER AND COUSIN—I have received the letter of your Royal Highness, dated the 17th instant, and it is in truth very remarkable, that, till now, the intentions of my Brother and Uncle, the King of France, have not been manifested to me, when it is now six months since his troops invaded my kingdom, and are causing, in support thereof, so many.calamities to my sub- jects. The yoke from which yourßoyal Highness pretends to have delivered Spain, never existed ; nor am I de prived of any other liberty than that of which the ope rations of the French Army have stripped me. The best manner of restoring this to me, and of leav- ing the Spanish People in possession of theirs, would be to respect our rights, as we respect those of others, and that a foreign Power should cease to interfere by means of an armed force in our internal affairs. The paternal sentiments of my heart are, with regard to myself, the most secure rule, and the most powerful stimulus to estimate and seek a remedy for the wants of , my subjects. If greater guarantees for the preservation of order and justice should be wished by them, with them I will agree on the same, and in the meantime let me be allowed to state to your Royal Highness, that , what with this view you point out to me is as incompa tible with the dignity of my Crown, as it is with the actual state and political situation of things, with the rights, customs, and prosperity of the nation which I govern. To raise up again, after three centuries of obli i vion, an institution, as varied, changeable, and as mon strous as the ancient Cortes of the kingdom were, in which the Nation was never assembled, and never pos- sessed a true Representation, would, on the other hand, b t the same or worse than to renew the States• General in France; it would, besides, be insufficient to secure tranquillity and public order; without affording ad vantage to any one of the classes of the State, it would produce the difficulties and inconveniences which in for mer times were experienced, and which have always been known when this subject has been treated of. It is not the wing who is the proper channel for the _ _ . suggestions your Royal Highness has thought it your duty to make, neither is it possible norjust that he should be called upon to prevent evils which he neither causes nor merits; this appeal ought rather to lap made to the voluntary author ofthem. I wish, together with my nation, that an honourable and solid peace should put an end to the disasters of the present war, which we have not provoked, and is as prejudicial to France as to Spain. I have on this sub ject communications pending with the Government of his Britannic Majesty, whose mediation has also been solicited by his Most Christian Majesty, from which I cannot depart, nor do I think your Royal Highness ought. If, notwithstanding these declarations of mine, force should be used under the pretext your Royal Highness insinuates, those who do it will be answerable for the blood spilt, and your Royal Highness will be peculiarly so before GOD and man, for the evils you may bring upon my Royal person and family, and upon this meritorious city. Goo preserve your Royal Highness, my brother and cousin, many years, &c. Cadiz, August 25. (Signed) I ? the KING. A letter from Cadiz, which is said to gi contain the sen timents of the Spanish government, and tbe leaders of the popular cause," thus alludes to the above corre spondence: Throne, and the fate of the r that if the threat is carried ini being rejected, the person of roily may be in danger; destru silence, and all the love and I may not perhaps be able to sh of men in despair. If the En object to rid themselves of mily of Spain, they coAld SC4 suitable measure than the 5 —The Spanish Government must and do protest against committed by the French. the King of SPAIN, all the Mi 4 decided interest, as well as emergency in which the Span ment placed."- The following accounts h: Madrid : MADRID, SEPI The Government has recei health of their Majesties con' 15th, 16th, and 17th current. The government has also b tue of the capitulation conc Count Molitor and Don Franc the latter bound himself to within his territctry should be the Regency of the Kingdom of the Castle of Las Penas d ingly recognized the supra) mu' during • the captivity therefore deliver up the salt General George Bessieres. any irritation or ill-humour thing was cpnducted with litary frankness, the 4ir resoui Rey! Piva d dercita auxila garrison the fort came from four leagues of this place. Castle seven pieces of aytiller them useless), SOO quintals o quantity of other ammunitic 198 of rice, 900 of oil, 500 c and a considerable quantity a deposit of tobacco and :null Yesterday the go)* Guar, rain, marched from this capi ~~~ Jamaica Papers arrived th August, but bring very little have been received from Card the Colombian forces were in EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM " Since yesterday the mer met, in consequence of het armed vessels (pirates) were a ing they would attack the force, it has been agreed that the ne;t oppottunity;" COLOIIa N LOAN. In the STAR of yesterday we gave the answer of the Minister of Finances of Colombia to Mr. Joßas, the Agent of the Contractors, on the subject of the Colom• • bian Loan ; and we now give the proceedings of Con gress on the subject. " The Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Colombia assembled in Congtess. " The Message from the Executive Power, with all the accomranying documents, being seen, in which it sub :tits to the de:tberation of the Legislative Body the conduct observed by the deceased Minister Plenipoten tiary of Colombia, Francisco Antonio Zea, in regard to his financial operations in Europe ; and taking into consideration, " 1. That even if the Ex-Minister Zea had been legi timately empowered for financial operations, and with competent authority to solicit loans in the name of the Republic of Colombia, he should only have negotiated and contracted for them, but in no wise concluded them definitively, and much less received and disposed of their amounts, without having first obtained the prior con - ..nd it ,tho- The following is published as an authentic copy of a correspondence which took place at the beginning of last month, between his Royal Highness the Duke of moral t[o L'! F. kIIIidLCII VgIII)6JY• , AV. 4.I••••.•••• -,........•••••••• 1 ..•... ...••• h dd L I R competent authority to solicit loans in the name of the of not less than 032,848. —........—_ .' CADIZ. SEPTSMBER 2, 18 . 23. them also, ave iscovere Republic of Colombia, he should only have negotiated • si The arrival of an Aid-de-Camp from the French unveil their de s p er ate desi g n and contracted for them, but in no wise concluded them The following is published as an authentic copy of a head-quarters with a letter addressed to the King, and f correspondence which took place at the beginning of the publicity of an answer having been transmitted C ra t er s m.ore ty concerned should miracles should t definitively, and much less received and disposed of their While old Dr. Troy lived it 0 amounts, without having first obtained the prior con- last month, between his Royal Highness the Duke of thereto, have in some measure obliged the Ministers to miracles, but he was scaicel I sent and approbation of Congress, or its express autho- rity, to receive and dispose of the same, without which A NGOULEAIE and King FERDINAND of Spain. The allay public anxiety, by communicating to those in their the jugglers commenced opt cce,sary requisites the lenders could not guarantee the letter of the Duke was brought to C a d iz b y a Fren ch confidence the co n t en t s thereof, a s w ell as their own hone,t man; he would not ti y or any frauds. But let then i • same to him without spontaneously subjecting them- Colonel of Infantry, in one of the boats belonging to sentiments on the communications made ; a sacrifice miracles the better—Ahß sy! selves to the contingency of an approval or disapproval, squadron, bearing a flag of truce.— most assuredly due to the leading men in this place, flesh and execrable bearin • that might subsequently to given by the Legislative the b l oc kading .g. He landed on the 18th instant, at the gate of Se- who have made every sacrifice in behalf of their af; brutalizing inenthey pptc Body, exclusively privileged by the fundamental law of . ville, whence he was conducted to the house of Ge. flitted country.... tinctly for the barbarous tr.; i • the Republic to contract debts on the credit of the na- . Lion, and to dispose of its funds. neral VA LDEI, in a coach, by which conveyance "Notwithstanding the ardent wish of the Spanish qn. will not tv, frightened out phantasmagoria, not cheated I . "2. That the Ex-Minister 'Lea not only contracted he soon afterwards returned. From the moment he vernment to put an end to this disastrous war, the on ly in Europe a Loan of two millions of pounds sterling in l anded vain pretensions to benefit till he was out of hearing, he is said to have proposal hitherto made to it pn the part of France, inT trar to naturea nd moralit) the name of the Republic, but has also received, distri- willof • 'A ' been saluted from the wharfs with shouts of " riva Ia dependent of duo tone and terms in which the same is . e bored, and expended the greater part of it on his own immense concourse assembled on conveyed, is of such ana that it cannot be acct to tf i c i s c ir o v . sz , atr al egioter oi ed i in the t n• ui t. authority, taking up prior accounts without due liquids - Consiiimcions" from an flits Lion, and subsequent ones which he himself has con- the occasion. This letter was sielivpred t.O Kin FER. without dishoriour, the sacrifice of the dignity of tlys kiiii anctstawo:l'f i WC rrie4l I=• IIMMIIIMP•MI Yesterday his Excellency Extraordinary and Minister I jest)? the King of Peussm, join crimp, and ac!eompanied by i lic, cancelled and deposited in amount of forty thousand po the Prussian Loan, negociati ctimp in 1818. Private accounts from Cc spiracy of Priests and Monks detected, and several of the conspiracy appears to have stance of Moatt.co having rl sessors some alienated Chun Monks, upon the entry of thi tained poisession. ELI TION Of A POPE.—A recent date details some fact going on in the Papal Palace 'The greatest number of vote of individual Cardinals, ha Cavalchini, Turiozzi, and B ult. these candidates still ma The first of them had several teen votes. This Cardinal v of Rome, and is said to ha great justice, moderation, and middle classes in that lection of his former happ) as their future master. Wit ever, admit his merit, he is rather upon cardinals Somm tend that the election of tithe to france. As the latter is ex that acconnt, to be best suppc We were quite right in o that the performance of until the first day of Januarl flounced to believers at the day. We early foresaw t 1 get up frauds of this kind si The thing would not do—th thirty days, sqlficient time tf and to contrive all the mina the necessity of postponeme culties surrounding the hip have discovered them also, 1 unveil their desperate design any more miracles should fraternity concerned should While old Dr. Troy liyecl miracles, but he was scarce] commenced pp( • would not But let then r--the sy! beari .they Arai's htened f id*