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declamation by a summary modeof c mviction.
He first hid himself. in his botanical garden,
amidst some of his. cabbe. ;0-leaves, and finally
fled the city ; and he now employs himself in
compo,ing furious flecla In ations against the
wickedness (la sceteratesse) of the non-conta-
gionists, and in toasting; as is said, with the Car-
thagena Commis.,ioners—" Success to contagion,"
This Commission' has imitated the example of
that sent by, the French Government, of whose
report theirs is nearly a fac simile. They are
composed of persons who might have seen a few
cases of yellow fever by visiting the Havannah
als sureo Is of ships, but are considered by
the respectable resident physicians of Barcelona
as extremely ignorant; of which indeed their re-
port leaves ample proof. We have had here quite
a conclave of physicians. Besides the resident
practitioners, who are numerous, we have had
five commissioners from the French Government;
one from the French Secretary at War ; one
(Mr. Lassis) the author bf a respectab!e work
against contagion, on his own account, or on ac-
count of the French Academy four. commis-
sioners from Carthagena, sent by the Spanish Go..
vernment ; one from Madrid (Mr. Leymerie,)
attached to the French or American legation
there; and two volunteers from London (Drs.
Maclean and O'Halloran.) The two latter gen-
tlemen were called in to visit one of the physi-
cians•of Barcelona, a very promising young man
of the name of Duran, who had been attended
by all his colleagues of the city, his recovery
despaired of, and, as is customary in such cases,
had received the sacrament and extreme unction.
He is now in an advanced state of convalescence.
These two gentlemen have been received by the
constituted authorities, and continue to be treated

with the most. •marked distinction. They have
been directed, by superior orders, to be supplied
with every information they may require. Dr.
Maclean came here from Madrid, by the
immediate orders of the King of Spain.—
He is understood to be preparing a history of
epidemy. His works upon epidemic diseases

have been laid ,before the superior Junta of
Health of the Metropolis, and the Cortes are
said to have suspended the consideration of the
laws of health, in consequence of the impression
which,they have made, until more ample infor-
mation shall have been obtained. It is expectell
that the report which he is preparing for the
'Cortes, concerning the fever at Barcelona, and
epidemic diseases in general, will be unusually
circumstantial. 'Dr. O'Halloran is also preparing
a report upon the subject. He has distinguish-
ed himself much by his dissections. At pre.
sent the majority in numbers amongst the me-
dical men of note of Barcelona, including
the chief Physicians of the place, and all
the weight of facts and arguments, are decid-
edly, in the scale of non-contagion. A warm
dispute having lately arisen between twb of the
opposite parties, they proceeded to stronger ar-
guments than words, and poor Dr. Leymerie, an
infirm elderly man, was thrown over a wall by
his younger and more athletic contagionist adver-
sary, and so much bruised as to confine him to

the house. About a week ago a priest died of
the prevailing malady, who, after having re-
sided for some time in the country, visited Bar-
celona ; and, as he was a good deal known, his
death ,has occasioned many of the fugitives to
suspend their intention of returning for some
weeks longer. The communication is, how-
ever, entirely free ; and both contagionists
and non-contagionists consider the city a per-
fectly safe residence, at any rate until the next
autumn. But not so the French Government, it
seems ; for it is said they have no intention of
raising their cordon of troops until the summer,
a report which confirms a great proportion of the
people of Spain in the suspicion that the French
cordons continue to be, as they believed them origi-
nally, a political stratagem, directed more against
the contagion of Spanish principles, than that
of the fever of Barcelona. If so, and they should
venture to make any attempt against the consti-
tution of Spain, I feel myself authorized, from
all that I have seen or heard in that country, to
predict that they wilt find themselves egregiously
mistaken 'in the result.

TIIE LIBERATOR Bomvan.—On the Ist of
October this extraordinary man, on being call-
ed upon to take the oath as President of Co-
lombia, addressed a letter to the President
of the Congress, earnestly desiring to be ex-
cused from serving in that capacity ; but he was
overruled by them. On taking the oath, he
delivered a speech, of which follows a curious
sample:—" I am the son of war, the man
whom battles have raised to the Magistracy.
Fortune has sustained me in this rank, and
victory has confirmed it. But these titles are
not those which are consecrated by justice, by
the welfare and wishes of the nation. The sword
which has governed Colombia is not the balance
of Astrea—it is the scourge of the Genius of
Evil, which sometimes Heaven permits to de-
scend to the earth for the punishment of tyrants
and the admonition of the people. This sword
will be of no Aise on the day of peace ; and
that shall be the last of my power, because
that I have sworn it within myself--because
I have promised it to Colombia—and because
there can be no republic when the people
are not secure in the exercise of their own
powers.—A man like me is a dangerous citizen
in a popular government—is a direct menace to
the national sovereignty. I wish to become a
citizen, in order to be free, and that all may be
so too. I prefer the title of Citizen to that of
Liberator, because this emanates from war—that
from the laws. Exchange, Sir, all my honours
for that of a good citizen."

Mr. GREGORY, who it was stated yesterday
broke his leg in several places, in a leap at a fox
hunt, has undergone amputation, and is likely to
do well, the contusion on his head not being of
that nature to cause any fear of his life. He
is in good spirits under his misfortune.

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