The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-02 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Fail of DarEnron's Fox-hounds wiU meet on 'Wednesday
at Camp /fill; and on Friday at 3lonson's near Itedale,
each day at half-past 10.
The Lamhton Fon-lionnds will meet on TOCA4IIIV at 3lowton-in-
the-lVhins ; Thursday, at Burnoplide; and, on Friday, at Tim-
one!, each day at 10. These hounds hunt front Sedgetield on
311,inday, Stir. Gth.
The Quorndon Hounds meet on Weilnesilae. at Bunny
Thursday, at ‘Vidmerpool ; Friday, at Kirkby ; and Saturday, at
Swithland Wood, at half-past 11.
31r. Meynell's Hounds mect on Thursday, at the Flourish Inn ;
Saturday, at :la:theme, at half-past 10.

The !Treat match OW, was to linve been run at Newmarket be-
tween Augusin and Bizarre if off—the proprietor of the forma paid
tortlit.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

COLOMBIA, PERU, .4ArD BUENOS-AIRES.

We extract the following from a new periodical work,
entitled . 7'.ce Arne, icon .1f.r411,r, a work to which, as it is
particularly devoted to the afflirs of South America, we
arc desirona of attracting the attvution of our Comtuercial
readers.

" Colombia, a new state former! out of the old Spanish
vice-royalty of New Grenada, and of the general captaincy
or Caraccas, is, of all the new states of South America, that
which has most attracted the attention of Europe for a
long time, and created most interest and curiosity. Having
entt rtsl one of the first into the career of a stormy inde-
parch nee, it has undergone all its vicissitudes with a per-
severance, which will command the admiration of posterity.
Indeed, as soon as Venezuela had obtained an independent
govr-rnment, in Iglu, the chiefs of the revolution wished to
substitute in each produca their own private authority for
die sovereign one, and to establish a federative republic after
the model of that of the United States ; but the intellect of

the Spanish Americans was not yet equal to that degree of
liberty, and a few hundred men who came from Cora,
under the orders of Monteverde, sufiiced to overthrow a
feileratireFovernment, whose organic elements were al-
ready disunited by division. Thus, the provinces which
now compote the republican unity, were for six successive
years the sport of their intestine dimensions, tearing each
other, and contending for sovereignty; and overthrowing
one constitution after another, while the cannon of Morillo
resounded in their cars. _

"The subsequent union of all the provinces under a
central government, brought en It last a change in the
state of things. Bolivar, who in the midst of the storm,
hail never despaired of the public safety, was able to resist
the veterans of Menlo,i to cross the Andes over the bodies
of the Spaniards who defended thou, to change the cha-
racter of the war, and to compel his ferocious enemy to
observe the laws sanctioned by civilized states, by con-
cluding an artnistice with a nation, which he had long af-
fected to consider as a horde of banditti.

" From that moment, this extensive part of the New
World, by dint of constancy and sacrifices, obtained at last
its independence; ■nd consolidated, under one and the
same commonwealth, the political existence of that im-
mense country, which extends from the Caribbean sea to
Peru, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
"At the present moment, not only does Spain no longer
possess a single inch of ground in that vast region, but she
is actually pursued by the victorious arms of Colombia,
who, after having cor.quered her own independence, is now
tak.in up with the liberation of the neighbouring countries:
Bolivar has himself led troops to Peru, to free the cradle of
the Inas from the presence of the Spaniards.
" The internal regeneration of Colombia keeps pace with
the success of her arms. That republic has already acquired
a degree of civilization which no other state of Spani;h
Am:iica has yet attained, and one cannot see without ad-
miration, the rapidity with which each branch of her social
existence is now improving under the protecting egis of her
internal constitution. Tranquillity, general submission to
the common law, security for all rights lawfully acquired,
a wise and vigorous government acknowledged and res-
pected in every part of the territory—such are the characte-
ristic :features under which the republic of Colombia, so
feeble, so insignificant, a few years ago, now offers herself
to the view of the civilized uliverse.

" Peru, which, once freed from the Spanish dominion,
must be, by its geographical position, one of the states the
least exposed to new attacks. is, however, the only ancient
Spanish possession, where war has been carried on with
any activity, for the two last years, and where the re-
mainder of the metropolitan army has fought with some
success. Sheltered behind the mountains where it was
very difficult to come at them, the enemy could, with im-
punity, range over various parts of that immense con-
tinent, and even attack the capital (Lima) which they
have, by turns, taken and lost, and under the walls of
which the independent armies of Chili and Colombia,
commanded by General Bolivar, have probably, at this
very moment, consummated the grand work of the !there-
tion of America, by the total annihilation of General Can-
! tsrac's army.
" Be it as it may, we cannot conceal that this country
meets with great obstacles on the road to its regeneration •
that private ambitions have blazed out on all sides, and
that, if, in order to put a stop to so many calamities, the
National Congress bad not adopted the wise resolution of
investing General Bolivar with the most extensive powers,
it would be difficult to fathom the abyss into which anar-
chy, conjointly with the external enemies, would have
hurled Peru.
"Three distinct parties are still contending there for
power, with advantages nearly equal at present. We
may thus distinguish them: The partisans of absolute
power ; the constitutional royalists ; and the republicans.
" With respect to the real end aimed at by these three par-
ties, it seems that the constitutional royalists wish to do in
Peru what O'Donojou did in Mexico, namely, to erect that
country into an independent empire, and to call to the
throne a prince of the house of the Spanish Bourbons ; and
that the independents, ranged under the banners of the
Congress and Bolivar, are openly fighting for the consoli-
dation of the republican government. As for La Serna and
his satellites, it is useless to say that their only aim is the
re-establishment of pure despotism.
" Buenos-Ayres has long been secure from any hostile
measure of Spain, which having no point contiguous to
that country, to receive her fleets or equip her armies (a
resource which, by-the-by, she has little need of) as site
still possesses the Havannah, against Colombia and Mexico,
must consider the provinces of the Rio de la Plata as irre-
trievably lost to her.
" That portion of Spanish America was the first to throw
off the colonial yoke, and which proved the most persever-
ing as well es the most successful in the defence of its inde-
jendence ; and the wisdom of its internal administration,
oined to the dignity and loyalty of its relations with thej
whole world, has long since proved that this country is
worthy the liberty which it enjoys.
However, civil dissensions have caused frequent changes
in the form of the government of those provinces. The
partisans of a central government, and those of a federal
union of the independent provinces, have preserved a hos-
tile attitude till the moment when the direction of affairs
was entrusted to the able hands of M. Itivadavia. The
exaggerated pretensions of the province of Buenos Ayres
have chiefly excited, at various times, the jealousy of the
other provinces of the union, and even sometimes set them
in arms. Those seeds of dimension were extirpated by the
wisdom of the latter government; and it seems that, at this
very moment, the only point in discussion is to determine
which province shall be the seat of the National Congress,
next session; every thing denotes that it will be Buenos-
Ayres.
"Phough perfectly secure with respect to the western
frontiers, the republic of Buenos-Ayres is not unmindful
of the dangers with which the political dissensions and
civil war which desolate Peru, may threaten, if not the
independence, at least the tranquillity of its western pro-
vinces. It bas therefore adopted, at Salta, such military
measures as may, in case of need, repulse all the attacks
that might be made by the enemy's vanguard ; and we
learn from a sure source, that the government of Buenos-
Ayres has addressed a circular letter to all tbeconfederates,
to engage them to send a contingent of men, for the orga-
nization, at Buenos-Ayres, of an army intended to act
conjointly with that of Salta, for the common safety ; and
that in the plan adopted, a provision is made for remune-
rating every man who shall join the ranks for this object."

BRISTOL. SESSIONS, OCT. 27.

CONSPIRACY TO LOSE A PRIZE FIGHT.

TRU ZINO, ON THE PROSECUTION OP JOHN COOS. JOHN
rurtrx, AND JOHN LEWIS TRIPP, WM. Francs AND

JAMES SATIXT.

FA. t.a. • •
These defendants wen fer a conspiracy to bribe one
Strong (better known by the name of " Cabbage.' who drowned
niself at Bristol. soon after the fight), to hue a prize battle, which
he had agreed to tight with defendant Bailey, and thereby to de-
fraud certain persons, who had laid wagers on the said tight.
Mr. TAU wroN stated the race for the prosecution.

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After evidence had been heard.
Mr. 1. (1. SMITH. for the defendants, contended that they were
not liable to conviction under the indictment, u the agreement to
* ltt was an unlawful agreement.
The Towx CLERK reserved the point.

The Jury found both the defendants Not Guilty.
At the same l4essions, a person named /Wks*. a elm* in a re-
spectable mercantile house at Brisol, was convicted of stealing a
pocket-book (rum Mr. 31illuish, of Tsistnisn.