The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

SOUTH AMEIIICA.

The following communication from the British Consul
(leneral at Bogota, dated 29th April, 1826, was on Satur-
day afternoon received at Lloyd's.
Bogota April 29, lifx,
Sir,-1 beg to transmit to you the copy of a decree, conceding:to
the Port of Esmeraldus and the Bay of (;ataccas, on the PAtific
Ocean, an exemption for fifteen years of half the duties payable c„,
imports sod experts; and I beg likewise to state, for the guide,
of British commercial interests, that the advantages held our by
the decree cannot for the present be encumpssised but at the ex.
pence of great, although not insurmountable, difficulties. The
small village of Esmeralda is about eight miles above the mouth
of its river, and is little more than accessible to canoes ; sad as
mere is no port at the nitaith of the river, vessels can find no shelter,
and are insides exposed to the inconvenience of having their an.
chars choked by the sand which the river, in its general course of
four miles an hour, brings with it. Indeed, the tide never me"
I it, for the volume of its waters, extending over a mile ands lug u
its mouth, drive buck the seas, at every ebb, to the distance of halt
a league. The Port of A tacanies, aboat live leagues to the south.
west of the Vigia, or book-out-House, at the mouth of the Eirne.
raldus, is sheltered to the south, from whence. with slight deviations
to east or wo.t, the wind blows on the whole of the coast for ten
months in the year. Large vessels may anchor in the, fill, and
I seven fathoms within 390 yards of Point :IQs, to the westward of
the vida.is of Atacama, and small vessels can enter, if necessary,
within the Point, and anchor in three fathoms. Atomises is sera.
rated by a thick and unexplored forest, of only about twelve mules
fiom Esmeralda, and although it enjoys the advantage described,
end its clumite is temporal by the sea breeze, the air of Esmeralda
being close and stagnant, yet it is necessary that British nterettains
should be informed that goods imported at Atammes will nut, foe
the present, enjoy the exemptions of the decree.
The advantage of a commercial inlet by Emzieraldos to the de.
pertinent of the Equator, idol particularly to the province of Pi.
chinetta, on the conditions of the decree, would be the demander'
foreign trade by a population of nearly 3001009 persons • Quito
(Meow 60,004 P) and its surrounding places,St °tonal°, Ibsen, La.
lacings, Ambito, and other smaller alone possessing nearly
tie half of the number.

The access from E..meraldos to Quito, which would bacon* Bo
principal commercial depot, is by four days of luta eabrapjmie
to the port of I:arigue (one day and a half being only assiggirco
descends, the hire of a canoe, and three men for the dl stwassli arg
much more than seventy miles, bring about W.
nom the port of Carigue to Quito, a distance of eigbry46l
miles, in the main part through almost impervious Wrests, inaeceisia
ble to beasts of burthen, goods ore conveyed by Indians at dw
charge of six dollars for a cargo of lbelbs. weight. The Bird
Caracas, in the province of Manabe, and situated in half a Avis
of south latitude, affords safe anchorage, but is surrounded by
deep forests, tor the present L:ss practicable as a cosonionicative
with the more populated districts of the Department of Guayaquil,
than by Esnieraldos. Amidst the rich vegetation of the unties/ed
fertile districts of the Esmeraldion coast are the commercial pro.
ductions of tobacco, cotton. cacao, and rice, besides timber, tor.
toise.sitell, and hides. It may not be unimportant to obratre, dist
the prisoners taken during the disallixtions in Pasco are employed
in slowly openings mad trout Quito towards Esmeralda..
(Sired) Jas. HENDERSON,
John Bennett, Esq. Lloyd's. H. B. M. Consul General.

(TRANSLATION.)

LAW, GRANTING EXEMPTION IN VAPOUR OF THE °PERIN.