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llAmnunon, FED. H.—London, 36. 4i. ; 2 Us., 36. 11.
PETERSBURGII., JAN. 28.—London,
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 15.—London, 39. 9.; 2 months, 39. 7.

New York Papers to the 25th ult. were receiv-
ed last night. The impression seems to gain
ground that General JACKSON will be elected to
the Presidency of the United States. The fol.

lowing extract from the Nez,7 York Evening. Post
of the 20th, contains the only intelligence re-
specting South► American affairs worth atten-

on :

Nr.w YORK, JAN. 20.

It can no longer be doubted that the Liberator Bolivar's suc-
cesses in Peru, and the triumph of the patriot cause, have been
such as we hare all along represented. The Colombian Gene-
ral Cortez, who has arrived at Philadelphia from Alvarado, has
communicated the following intelligence to the Editors of the
Aurora and Franklin Gazette :

" Mr. Santamaria, the Colombian Minister resident in
Mexico, had received accounts from Callao of the 3d of Nov.,
brought to Acapulco.. by the brig Pallas, Capt. Henry Ber-
mond, from Guanchaco, a port in the province of Truxillo.—
Bolivar's head-quarters were at Andaguailas on the road to
Cuzco, on the 16th of October, having defeated Cantarac in
Guarnanga and Rio Pampoa. Of 6,000 men that composed
Cantarac's army, 1,800 had united and were retreating towards
Cuzco, to join the remains of La Serna's forces, who had been
defeated in the neighbourhood of Charcas by the army of
Buenos Ayres. The army had taken possession of the provinces
of Potosi, Cochabamba, Oruro, Puno, and Santa Cruz de la
Sierra. Bolivar himself writes to Mr. Santamaria, assuring
him of the speedy termination of the campaign, as a Chilian
army was marching from Arica to join that of Peru and Buenos
Ayres. The reinforcements from Carthagena, Santa Martha,
and Puerto Cabello had ;arrived at Guanchaco from Panama,
whence also had been shipped a million and a half of dollars for
the army in Peru. Lima was occupied by the Patriots, and
Callao was blockaded by sea and land, by the combined mili-
tary and naval forces, the latter being under the command of
. Commodore Blanco, of the Chilian service."

It is not consistent with the supposed courtly
etiquette of the French Government to suffer the
Elazig to pour forth incessant abuse on the Go-
vernment of this Country, ever since our virtual
recognition of the Independence of Spanish Ame-
rica. But, perhaps, by not interposing to re-
strain such attacks upon a Government in alli-
ance with France, the French Ministry mean
that the world should infer its respect for the

liberty of the Puacic PitEss. Such an inference,
however, cannot be warranted by their general
conduct, for if the PUBLIC PRESS were to use the
same liberty in commenting upon the measures of
the French Government, there would soon be an
end to its boasted freedom. Besides its illiberality
and injustice, there is so gross a violation of mere
taste in the perpetual invectives and unsparing
rancour of the Etoile, that the French Govern-
ment, for its own credit, ought at least to give a
hint to the Conducter of the Paper not to indulge
itself in such vulgar acrimony. But the practice
is also impolitic on the part of the Paper in
question; for as the example of England must be
followed by that of France, in admitting the in-
dependence of 'Mexico and Columbia, the Mode
will be obliged to justify that very measure which
it now so virulently condemns. The new transatlan-
tic Republics, like the progress of time, will pursue
their course, and cannot be retarded. They have
passed their childhood, nonage, and the hour of
filial submission, and they have acquired a matu-
rity of strength and knowledge which will event-
ually rank them with the most powerful and
flourishing nations on the face of the globe.

We have received the Colombian° Caraccas
journal, to the 29th December. General Paez, the Intendant
of Venezuela, had returned to that city from his visit to the in-
terior, and issued a proclamation to the inhabitants on the
subject of the late attack on the village of Petare. The affair
is fully ascertained to have originated in the design of a
party of lawless individuals to possess themselves of a
small depot of muskets in that place, and to have had no
connection with any political feeling of a nature hostile to
the existing Government. They were repulsed by a ser-
geant's guard, which happened to be in the village, and had
nearly all of them been taken prisoners by a party detached in
pursuit of them. Five of them were put to death. The pro-
clamation of General Paez, declaring martial law in the pro-
vinces on the Apure, Venezuela, and Orinoco, is also pub-
lished in these papers, and is evidently founded on the false
alarm that France was about to co-operate with Spain in an
attack on those countries. A few weeks must necessarily restore
affairs to their usual state. The most curious part of these
journals is the free tone of discussion on the proceedings of the
Government which seems to have been adopted, together with
the use of the English jointly with the Spanish language. In
the Colombian° of the 15th of December the right of the people
to attend public meetings for the purpose of electing represen-
tatives in Congress is strongly contended for as a necessary
part of a free constitution ; and also that of Congress to origi-
nate laws and all public measures, rather than the Executive.
how soon both these points may be attained, will depend on
the progress made in civilization by the great bulk of the po-
pulation ; and to judge from the evidences their public jour-
nals afford, the period cannot be far distant.—(Timer.)

Private Letters have been received by the
%de East Indianian, which left Calcutta on the
31st July, and Madras the 3d of October. They
state, that on the 13th of September two Burmese
stockades were carried, after a sharp contest, in
which several English Officers were wounded, but
not mortally.
It is reported that letters are in town from
Laguayra, dated the end of December, stating
that the Spanish ship Asia has been taken, and
that CANTERAC has been again defeated. lie
has only 1,200 men left.
We understand that their Royal Highnesses
the Dukes Of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE will

both visit this Metropolis in the course of the en.
suing month.
The Grand Duke NICHOLAS and his consor
left Berlin on the sth inst., to return to St. Peters
burgh.

On the 25th January Lord YARMOUTH had
the honour to be presented to the Emperor of
Russia at St. Petersburgh.
M. DE VASQUES, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires
at Stockholm, has been instructed to make a for-
mal complaint, in the name of his Government.
to the Swedish Court, for the conduct of the Swe-
dish and Norwegian Consul-General at Tangier,
in having hospitably received into his house some
emigrant Spaniards, who had taken refuge in the
dominions of the Emperor of Morocco.