The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-26 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

(From the .Baltimore Gazette, July 28.)
" LATEST FROM CoLostntA.—The brig Montilla,
Beckman, arrived at New York on Monday from
Carthagena, bringing papers of that place to the Ist
July. The annexed extracts are taken from the
second edition of the Journal du Commerce. a it is
stated, that two days previous to the sailing of the
Montilla, despatches were received from Venezuela,
announcing a counter-revolution in that department,
the overthrow of General Paez's authority and in-
fluence, and his forced resignation : the department
had, moreover, declared for a reunion with new
Grenada.

" On Bolivar's arrival at Carthagena, it is stated
that all the principal merchants of that place called
on him in a body, requesting that he would not de-
sert them, or leave the country.
" The next day all the ladies of Carthagena waited
on him with the same request.
" The southern provinces of Guayaquil and Pa-
nama had given him information that if he left the
country, they should immediately separate from the
republic of Colombia, and form independent Go-
vernments.

CARTIIM;ENA, JUNE 27.—0 n the 23d instant
his Excellency the Liberator arrived in this capital
(train Turbaco), accompanied by the Senors Pre-
fect and Commandant-General of the Department,
and an immense and brilliant concourse of chiefs,
officers, and respectable inhabitants.
" His Excellency was saluted with viva: by the
people in the streets through which he passed, till
his arrival at the house of General Montilla, where
he took lodgings.
" Immediately he was waited on by his numerous
friends in this city, and until near evening there was
a great number of persons about the house of his
Excellency, who desired once more to see him.
These ingenuous and voluntary demonstrationsprove,
more than any thing else, how much the Liberator
is, beloved by all classes in this capital.
" The following day was appointed for all the
authorities and corporations to pay their respects to
his Excellency. But this interview did not take
place, on account of his being a good deal indis-
posed ; and it was necessary to postpone.it till the
26th.

" On the last mentioned day, the civil authori-
ties, corporations, public officere, and a great number
of respectable inhabitants, headed by the Prefect of
the Department, proceeded to the residence of his
Excellency, where were already assembled the Com-
mandant-General of the Department, with his staff,
and all the chiefs and. officers of the garrison. The
Prefect then addressed the Liberator in very affec-
tionate and appropriate terms, to which his Excel-
lency replied as follows
" I receive with the most profound gratitude the
generous sentiments with which you honour me, in
the name of the inhabitants of this capital, whose
principal authorities and public officers i see here
assembled. I have arrived, gentlemen, at this illus-
trious city, like a traveller who can only stop long
enough to make the necessary arrangements for con-
tinuing his journey. In leaving my country, to
which I have devoted my best services, I am not
ignorant that we have scarcely begun to fulfil our
duties towards it, and that now its tranquillity,
prosperity, and happiness ought to be the objects of
our efforts, in order that the heroic sacrifices conse-
crated to its independence may not be rendered use-
less.
It would therefore be very grateful to my
feelings to be able to accompuny you still, giving
the first example of obedience to the authorities
legitimately constituted, the only means of main-
taining order and making liberty and all social
blessings secure. But they accuse me, gentlemen,
of ambitious views, which, although they are far
from my heart, are by some believed to be well
founded. Under this pretence, a party has been
organized which keeps the Colombian people in a
constant state of agitation. My remaining in the
republic under such circumstances would afford
abundant pretexts for the continuance of disorders.
This is my opinion, gentlemen, and I cannot resist
my conscience.

"' All the revolutions, and all the excesses, have
been laid to my charge; and even had every thing
remained tranquil, suspicion would not have ceased
to alarm those who fear my influence, or my sup-
posed aspirations. Perhaps a long absence will ex-
tinguish jealousy. At least, time will place the
Government of Colombia on a acted foundation, so
that it may not think itself threatened by any indi-
vidual, nor subject to the hateful influence of faction.
Then, without doubt, my absence would terminate,
and I would return to the bosom of this country,
which I cannot leave without regret, after partici-
pating the benefits of independence and the glory of
being subject only to a Government constituted by
ourselves. However great may be the sacrifice on
my part, I make it for the country ; and if it give
to that country the repose which it needs, I shall
think myself infinitely compensated.'
CARTITAGENA, JULY I.—On Monday a schooner
anchored in the bay from Rio Chico, a province of
Careens, via Curacoa, and Rio Roche, having on
board Mr. Jose Miguel Machado, commissioned by
the chiefs and inhabitants of that circuit, to bring
to the Liberator the news, or rather the declaration
made by the people of Venezuela, in favour of the
integrity of the Republic, the Constituent Congress,
and the Government which was in power at the
time of the scandalous proceedings in Caraccas on
the 25th of November.

" The movement began in the high plains of the
province, the heroic city of Calabuso having set the
example. With an incredible velocity it was corn-
munteated to the whole province of Barcelona, Cu-
mans, and the left bank of the Orinoco. It is con-
ducted by various Generals, and all the chiefs in the
different places mentioned. The people made the
declaration under arms, and compelled the chiefs to
place themselves at their head. The vallies of Ara-
guu have seconded the declaration, and only Valen-
cia and Caracas remain subject to the power of the.
faction which disorganized Venezuela. Gen. Paez
was at that time very unwell in Valencia ; the Con-
gress had done actually nothing. The Acta of Ca-
laboso invites Gen. Paez to place himself at the head
of the re-action, disavows the authority of the new
Government of Venezuela and contemplates the re-
storation of order interrupted by it.
" From the letters of General Infante, and
Colonels Parejo and Bustilos, it is known that the
Actas of Venezuela, sanctioning the revolution of
C.sraccas, were extorted from the people by re-
peated threats from certain chiefs. That the pre-
sent re-action was, concerted some months since,
and that they only delayed their declaration to await
the approach of the Liberator to Venezuela. That
on seeing 'themselves abandoned to their own fate,
and that the Council of Ministers were thinking of
deserting the Congress and Colombia, b* sanction-
ing the dismemberment of the Republic, and by
violating the fundamental law of the nation, they
could no longer remain inactive, They were com 7
pelled to avow their sentiments, and to act,
lest their
silence should give grounds for suspicion that Ye-
nezuela acquiesced in the dismemberment of the
country, when in fact she resolved to support the
national integrity, the Constituent congress, and
the Liberator President.
" By this time the high chief of the police had
circulated information of the retirement of General
Bolivar front the supreme command, and his going
to Carthugena for the purpose of leaving Colombia.
This, together with the abusee vomited forth by
the press of Caucus against the Liberator, exas-
perated the Venezuelans to such an extent, that
they were abundantly ripe fur a re-action. General
Machado, one of the wealthiest.men of these willies,
has-orders to see the Liberator wherever he may be
found, and even to follow him to Europe, if by any
fatality he has left Colombia. The regiment of
Cancogna, which General Paez had ordered to
Valencia, and from thence to San Curios, had de-
serted, with their arms, end were one of the fait
corps in making the declaration. Finally, the re-
action is general, and the people have taken arms

en mane to support it. They demand the presence
of the Liberator, and nothing else will satisfy them.
" CARTITAGENA, JUNE 14.—The Constitution,
sanctioned by the Constituent Congress of 1830,
was published on the 12th instant, and with all the
pomp and solemnity due to so august an act.
" An earthquake took place at Carthagena on the
12th June, which created much alarm, but did no
serious damage. It was apprehended that in the
interior provinces the damage might have been con-
siderable."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
A Scotchman, named Munro, was brought from
Chelsea, charged with being very drunk and disor-
derly on the preceding evening.
" What do you say to the charge ?" inquired Mr.
MARRIOTT. " Why, I have a good deal to say,
your Worship," replied the Scotchman ; " my land-
lady abused me."
Mr. MARRIOTT asked him what his landlady had
to do with it ?—" I'll tell your Worship, only give
me time," said the defendant, " and make it appear
clear that it is not my fault. My landlady called me
a Scotch brute—so I went and got drunk directly."
Mr. MARRIOTT—And becau.e she called you a
Scotch brute, you got beastly drunk ?—" I (lid, in-
deed," replied the Scotchman ; "and I think it was
quite enough to make any one get drunk; only think,
your Worship—a Scotch brute I"
Mr. MARRIOTT—WeII, I have heard many excuses
for drunkenness in my life-time, but this is the most
original excuse I ever heard.
The defendant was fined 59.
MARYLEBONE.

A countryman from Loughton, in Essex, applied
for a search-warrant,

" What have you lost ?" said Mr. RAWLINSON.--
" My wife, Sir," replied the countryman.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Who has run away with her?
Countryman—Mr. Adams, Sir, a rich man.
Mr. ItAwuNsoN—lf you belong to Loughton,
why do you come here? Countryman—She is in
this parish, Sir. _ .

Mr. RAWLINSON-It'll a rascally thing of this Mr.
Adams; but I have no power to interfere. You must
go to an attorney.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Mr. Tobias Levy summoned Mr. Hetekias Davis
for unlawfully detaining the duplicate of a feather
bed, which he alleged was his property.
Mr. Davis is a renovator of decayed raiment,
and a connoisseur in all job commodities termed
" pargains." Mr. Davis was his quondam partner,
and the present difference arose in the participation
incidental to a dissolution of partnership. " Pleash
your Vorship," said Mr. Levy, " I can come afore
you vid an open countenance, and shwear dat he
have shtole ma properties. lax to take ma bed and
get two pounds to clear some goots, yen be pawns it
ur ish own name, and keeps de ticket."
" Shelp ma Gott," retorted Mr. Davis, " I puy
de bed vit ma monies. Look at him, your Vorship,
he can't countenance me veil I shay dat.'
The Magistrate, after hearing the case, said the
matter must be settled amongst themselves and the
pawnbroker.

" nab !" said Mr. Levy, angrily, as he walked
out of the office, " It's the willainy of the thing
vet I looks at. It's the base advantage. Jest as
if he fetched me a kick behind ven my back vas
turned."

SUMMER ASSIZES.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—BRISTOL, Aua. 24.
QUACKERY.—STEVENS V. SOLIDGRMAN.

This was an action brought by a baker in Bristol,
against the defendant, who is known under the name
of Dr. Solidgeman, and who exercises the healing
art amongst the bumbler clussesof society in this city.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's case to
the Jury with great humour and ingenuity. He said
that the plaintiff's child, having been afflicted with
some boils or carbuncles, had been placed under the
care of Dr. Solidgeman, mid continued under
treatment for a long time, during which the doctor
received considerable sums of money, though the
child obtained no relief. The father of the child
had afterwards been afflicted with some protube-
rances, which would be very inconvenient to a per-
son of sedentary habits.
Mr. Baron VAUMIAN asked, with a smile, where
the tumour was seated

The Learned Serjeant went on to read a printed
paper issued by the doctor, in which he professed to
cure all manner of diseases, in the enumeration of
which appeared some names, the sound of which
produced great amusement to the Court and to the
audience. At the head of the list appeared the
" ruffle put."

The Learned JUDGE, looking significantly at Mr.
Serjeant Wilde, told him that he supposed the doctor
meant a gout which had a tendency to ruffle the
temper of the patient.
The learned Serjeant, understanding the allusion,
said that he had himself had, in another place, very
ample experience of the effect which gout sometimes
produced in ruffling the patient's temper. (The al-
lusion was to the scenes which occurred some time
ago in the Court of Common Pleas, in London, and
which excited great laughter at the bar.) The
Learned Serjeant went on to read through the paper,
in which the defendant undertook to cure the watery
gout, and five other species of that complaint, with
broken navels, dry bumpkins, windy cramps under
the breath rib, &e. The doctor described himself in
the bill as late principal surgeon and physician to the
army of the King of Prussia, and to the Prince of
Hesse-Darmstadt. The reading of the paper excited
great laughter in the Court. The paper contained
a list of names, which professed to be those of per-
sons who had been cured by the doctor, but amongst
which Mr. Serjeant Wilde said he could discover
only one which appeared. to be genuine, namely, the
name of one Mr.-Greenhorn, who seemed to have
been one of the doctor's patienti. As the declara-
tion did not contain the christian name of the doe-'
tor, Mr. Sojeunt Wilde said, in justification of this
apparent omission, that every possible effort had been
made to ascertain who or what the defendant was,
but that they had discovered nothing more upon the
subject than that he probably was a Polish Jew. A
person bad called upon him under the pretence of
being the compiler of a new Bristol Directory, and
asked him by what name and title he wished to be
described; but he said that It would be sufficient to
set him down as the great Doctor Solidgeman, Esq.
doctor, surgeon, and apothecary j .and, as he tie-
dared his intention to use the word doctor as a
christian name, he had been by that name sued upon
the record.

When Mr. Serjeant Wilde had concluded,
The learned JUD6I3, alluding to the manner in
which the preceding case bad terminated, asked Mr.
serjeant Wilde jocularly whether the plaintiff would
be content if the defendant were to enter into his
own recognizances.—(Laughter.)
The learned SEILIEANT, laughing, declined to do
so, as it was necessary that society should be effec-
tually guarded against the operations of the de-
fendant._

Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS addressed the Jury for the
defence, who, after bearing the charge of the
learned Judge, and consulting together for a consi-
derable time, returned a verdict for the defendant.

A Goon SHAVE.—W hi!still° proprietor of
one of the flabersharo gold mines was one day overseeing
his oegroes, he thought they lost too much time in scratch.
ing their heads; rind the weather being :warm end their
hair long, he humanely had them close shaved. On
shaking out the wool after this operation wits performed,
he was no less surprised than delighted at fioding several
ounces of pure go'd amongst it, which they bad secreted
there while at work...-New Yor4 Advertiser.
The following short and pithy dialogue actually
took place a few days since, betwee4 a worthy and enlight.
coed. elector of the borough of Southwerk and his friend
Mr. A. I.—" So, Mr. L. you have turned out Calvert ?"
Yes, Sir," snuffed Mr. L. Mr. A., " But why did
you vote igen hint?".,." Why, cos he woted for the Beer
Bill." Mr. A., " Ob,- lawke, you're ors-informed, he
woted exactly the rewerie.!'...-" Well, I don't know, but
lie done summit, and 40- we injected him."