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mercantile marine ; nor can tl..e Gretka themselves look
with satisfacti3n upon the zeal manifested to abuse our
Government, because it adopted the most prompt measures
to obtain the revocation of a sanguinary prcelarnation,
issued by the Greeks, probably hi a moment of extreme
irritation, and rescinded in a few weeks, with an honour-
able acknowledgment of its absolute indefensibility.

Last night we received a file of N. wr York journals to
the 15th of October. They bring no intelligence from
Colombia or Pero, of which we were nut previously pos-
se med. The most confident expectations were entertained
that BOLIVAIL would he finally successrul in destroying
the last fragment of Spanish authority in America. The
last de,spatches from the Colombian General had induced
the Government at Bogota to countermand the embarkation
of 3,000 additional troops, previously considered necessary
to reinforce hint. Accounts from Curacoa, state, that
official intelligence had been received, confirming the de-
li feetion of Omts era, and his subsequent junction with the
Independents. The New York papers caution their readers
not to believe the news from South America too easily, as
the New York horning Post observes, " we have speculators
here who make it their buriness to disguise and misrepre-
sent it." This hint may not he wholly thrown away upon
us, after our esperinee a the Guayaquil letter. We extract
the following:—
(From the New York Eonsiog Post)
Fitow CURACOA.—The ship lrouglaa has arrived here, in 13
days, from Cameos, bringing Wee of the Corraot to the 2fith of
ISeptember inclusive. They contain
thermicextacts from Cancan papers
of the Ileh, by which it appears that ial account of the de.
fection of the Royalist General Maw ETA. in Peru, his defeat of
CAR RATALA, and the junction of pert of his army with that of
the patriots, bed been received at Bogota. Lieutenant-Colonel
CAMPBELL+ of die Brtish Commission, who le* the Colombian
capital for London, was aernitipanied as far as Carthageria by one
of the Vier Presidine's Aids de Camp.
COLOXIIIA.—The Colombian bin; of war Pinchinco, ar.
rived at Philadelpaia from Porto Covello, accompanied by the
barque Utica. and 13 transport., under she command of Commo-
dore Daniels. Colonel Linia,llind Al! to General Pees, is also on
bard, and is said to be etia-ged with despatches to our Govern-
ment. This fleet, it will be recollected, lately sailed from Lai:oink.
with MO tmoo, to reinforce the Colombian army in Pall, a ur-
vim which It has performed.
The ship Orris, and brig Albert. brolorgig to this pert, have
been captured by a Colombian privateer, ou their passage from
Cadet to Havana.
(From the Nodose,: Cnvile.l
PHILADELPHIA. OCT. 12.—Cubmel Lints, tint aid.de.camp to
General Pars, who cone pa.srogcr in the Coletnibian brig of war
Pinehinco, Captain J. S. Maiilnittl, has politely favouted us with
the following intellignice from l'eru.
On his arrival at Puna Bello on the 30th *ogees last, he found
ottcial amorists had b,en received at Pararna from Upper Peru,
stating that General Bolivar, in consequence of the misunderstand.
irg that existed between the Royalist Generals Carratela and °la-
sers, put himself in march (rim Trujillo, to attack f :ante:sc. who
was then at Pat;;ii. Cantetse retreated tn rhe strong entrench-
ments of Joon', in Upper Peer, and fortified himself there
but General Bolivar, after having blockaded Canso, and lift
in Lima the Battalion of Zulia, two squadrons rue Cavalry,
and the guerillas of the country, pursued Canterse, and forced
him from his entrenchments. Camerae again retreated pre-
cipitately into the interior, leaving some prisoners, who de-
clare that he has nn MOM than 6.990 men, while Bolivar*, army
consists of 14,909, of which 10,090 are Colombians, with which
force Bolivar was pursuing hint. The prisoners were sent to Onay.
squib, and from thence to Panama, in the corvette Santwaltr, which
strived at Panama on the 9:h August; and they were at the time
of Colonel lames deportnre, confined in the castle of Chagres.
Among them were four Spanish Colonels, and a number of subal-
tern oflicers of various ranks.
By the schooner Camilla, arrived at Baltimore. in 30 dam from
Alvarado, we learn that the schooner Fly, Capt. Verulyne, from
Alvarado fur New York, was upset and foundered of San Martins,
when two days out ; all hands lost except the master and two sea-
men. The two seamen died after reaching Alvarado, of fatigue.

We Tama trespass on the attention of our readera with •
few introductory observations, after which we shall proceed
directly, and at once, to remark on the lecieliv article in the
Times, as connected with the part which it had previously
taken in the lamentable affair of Mr. FA I! NT LEROY. It
will be remembered, that soon after his apprehension, while
the public feeling was in its first fervor of excitement, and
while the spirit of inquiry was most active, as to whatever
related to him, an article appeared in the Times, which
exhibited him to the world as a dissipated villa's, whose
vices were a disgrace to it. This was not done in
one of those cursory paragraphs, which in the hurry of
going to preys will sometimes find its way into a newt-
paper in spite of all precaution: it was accompanied with
a long detail of facts and circumstances, drawn up with the
deepest and most deliberate malignity, which could not
have been inserted without a long previous conference and
consultation with the proprietor of the Journal, who,
as be could not but be fully aware of the elfict it was
intended to produce, could only bare admitted its in-
sertion upon one of two principles ;—he must either have
consented upon the pledge that, if contradicted upon suffi-
dent authority, the writer should avow himself, and exo-
nerate the Times journal from the imputation of being
actuated by malignant or mercenary motives ; or, it must
have been inserted without any such plerke, upon receiving
such a pecuniary consideration as should indemnify the
proprietors against any odium which might be excited
against them, fur refusing, in the event of such contradic-
tion, either to retract the staterneq, or to up the author'
Upon the one or the other of these understandito;a the
I parties must have proceeded. That they did not proceed
upon the fi st is now manifest to the public, from the
course the has been taken. When the unhappy indivi-
dual who was the object of these base and infamous laird-
cations—standiug, as he did, upon the threshold of an-
other world—had most solemnly dee:areal them to be false,
and when they were disproved on the sacred assertion of
persons of the first respectability, who were called as evi-
dence to his character, what was the course that the
Times was called upon to adopt? Was it not this? To
have said to the writer of this article, which had spread
these cruel aspersions atroati,—" This statement, as to the
dissoluteness and profligacy of Mr. Fati tereft ROY.' private
life, which you have mt.& us the means of putting forth to
the public as true, is declared to be throughout • base and
scandalous jirtrattion ; you are bound, therefore, in jus-
tice, 1. moor, and humanity, instantly to retract them,
and to avow yourself as their author. We shall insist
upon ymer doing this in justice to our character, and to the
character of our Journal, upon neither of which will we
suff:r the opprobrium and disgrace of such a proceeding to
rest." This would hare been the straight-forward and
manly course which would suggest itself as the only one
to all honourable minds. But the Times has adopted no
such COUI EC ; on the contrary. they have aeteei in a spirit
exadly the reverse of it. What is the inference from
deb!? Why, that it is not open to them to act thus;
that they stand exposed, were they to call upon the
writer, either to avow himself or to authorise them to
do so, to some such reply as ti.is :—" You know the
terns upon which you received the article for insertion,
you knew at the time, and must have known, that the r.--
:pot;:ibility W 53 to rest with you, to me it v:culd be
otter and irretrievable ruin were my nano. to t sespe as the
. To this it was probatly answered,—" Ilut the
are becoming indignant, and an outcry ie raised

writer.

againq us, that we will neither disclaim the nssvrtions we
have giver. as falcv, nor give up their author." To this it
would be replictl,--" What we tr.o::t 410, is this, I will
send you smoe letters whiell yon 44.:4t insert, so written ss
to make it twlieve4l that there is much more behind, if we
ate prcrekta to hrin eat ; that "ny iotl ft:tenet, en 1e-