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SOUTH AMERICA.

P R ()C LA M ATIONL

SIM°, 1101. IVAR, PRESIDENT OP THE STATE,
CAPTAIN-OKNERAL, &C. dLea. TO THE IRATE
SOLDIF.ItS OF THE IRISH LEGION.
" *ft your owe ormalry, in order to
follow the generous sinstimmsts which hove always distim
(candied you among the illustrious of Swope, 1 have the
glory now to number you among the adepterd childma of
Vele:nets, and to esteem you as the defenders of tbe liberty
of Columbia.
•• hist your sacrifices exceed all praise, and scarcely
has Vrneruela sufficient means to reward you according to
yma merits; but whatever Weekend& possesses, mid CM
shall with pleasure be consecrated to the use of
el., I,iiveishrd foreigners, who come to offer their liver ■ad
ns a tribute to our au font Republic. The promises
which the virtuous aid brave tliestersl D'Evereost has made
yin. as the croood-work of your inserporatios with the
Liberating Army, shall be religiously fulfilled on the part of
she Government and peopk of Venezuela. De assured that
we will first prefer the p►ivatioa of all our properly, than
thve%t you of any of your moat sacred righter.
•• Irishmen!—Your most just and sublime reeempence is
prep.ering fur you in the page of history and is the benedic-
tions of the New World.
(Signed) " SIMON BOUVAR.
" Palace of Covetous's', Aogortura, Dec. 14, 1819."

JOHN b. ANISSIENDI. MENDER OF THE OlLDtilt OP
I I.IIERAToRi. CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF TUE ♦R-
MIES. AND TICE•PRESIDENT or 'rue STATE. &C.

~ Govetooreol-Hosoe, •t Motorin, November 23, ISHI.
A PROCLAMATION TO THE BRITISH LEGION.

Generous Strangers!—A !Roble sentiment of justice bas
canned you to leave your native land. Scarcely did you
know that Yew-aorta was struggling fur her liberty and in-
dependence, when you left year horses to enrol yourselves
under hi r banners. Born freemen, you detested alke ty-
r luny and t rams.
.• The Republic of Venezuela sateen's you as her sons, awl
hts mad,' tua equal partakers of the rights, privileges, and
of the ercumpcsice due to the Liberators.
Our Armies, cowhide.' by the President of the State,
have liberated New Granada. Your brave compatriots, who
accompanied him in this glorious enterprise, Wive behaved
like heroes, and have already received the reward of their
labours. _ .

"His Excellency the President is onee more in the teal.
trey of Veneznele, at the head of an army equally nomerous
tind well provided; and I have come in person to send you
the field of honour for the purpose of acquiring you new
glories. I NMI' conic to march and juin you with • pnwerfsil
Army of Stir Elllll, which, under the orders of the brave Ge-
neral.in-Chief M4llllO, will drive the enemies of liberty from
thile last entrenchments.
" Subordination, respect for the laws of Venezuela, the
mw•t strict Micipline,and the moat cordial and perfect union
bet wee', you and the Venaitstelan soldiers, will form au invin-
rit;e army. which will expel for ever the oppreisurs from a
country which they have *sifted with so many crimes.
" Brave Brother* in Arms !—I take any leave of you, Nati.-
f.:Pc) that you will conduct yourselves in battle equal to your
brave compatriots in New Granada; and the Legislative
Body at .d the Government will always deem you and your
one ration as one of the Bret liberators of Venezuela.
" J. B. ABISNIENDI."

VENEZUELA.
FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF
COLUMBIA.

The Sovereign Congress of Venezuela, to whose
oUthority the towns and people of New Gratiada,
recertify liberated by the arms of the Republic,
hese vOuniarily agreed to subject thearrives ;
rorisineataa, lst.—That the Provinces of Venezuela
and ti.,e Crested', when united into one Republic, possess
sot tow capabilities and means of attaining the highest de-
gree of pairer and pimspertly;
2.1 cons:doted iu separate Republics, however
tt,on•' the bonds hy which they might be united, instead of
hoists Mlle to improve so ninny advantages, it would be dif.
ti it for them to become cousolidated and cause their so-
vere.Tuty to he respected •
:I.l.—That three truths, so strongly impressed on the
rri-ds •if all men of snpetior talent and enlightened pa-
triiii•••••l. have induced the Governments of the two Republics
b. seine to ass 1111401/ which the vicissitudes of the tv.ir have
I.•tfieriii pies... Med; . _

V a e t<rr ORE, impelled by these eunsitlerstions of necessity
I . ;; rtiCal itdelrst, EMI iu CollrOEMlly to a Report of
Ni • (.141 ..... *Jibe Deputies of Nor Granada nod Ve-
-I*, in the name and under the atispitell.of the SUPREME
Drero. ltm, decreed sod decrees ibe fullowitig fundamental
I mot* iticIPUSLIG of COLUMBIA :

ArtTlCLit I. Tire Keptiblits of Vereetiela and New Gra-
fi,nis this d:sr, are united in one single State, under
he oinrioses title of R erutatc ot Cot.tia sta.
2 The territory of said State shall be all that compre-
hend:4 in the auciont Capiain•Geaeralelsip of Venezuela •
as.l thr Votronyatty of the new Kingrdisai of Graamta, em-
bcirine an extent of 115,000 'spare leagues, the exact
kilns of which shall he beseafierdeternsined.
3. Ibe debts which 51w two Republica may have con.
hurled i.epentlely, are ackaowlethred it sadidain, by this
law, as a Natioial Debt of Colombia, to she payment of
winch Eli she effects and property of the State shall be held
bunitol, a... 1 the enrol productive breaches of the public re-
OnEllUe Ir e.relimed.
4. The I:Arabes,' rover 44 the ittpoblic dolt be erotrioed
by o l'resi.l.ssl, mid, Su his defect, b a Vier-Prooldeut, both
woed, ad tolorlto, by the preoetet
b. Tim Rseusuo of COutilato^.dmill be diOidol into