The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

GONG RESS or COLOSI/3

" The Senate and [louse of Representttives of the Republic
of Colombia assembled in Congress.

. - " The Message from dui Executive Po‘eera with all the ac-
companying documents, being seen, in which it submits to the
deliberation of the Legislative Body the conduct Observed by the
deceAsed Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia, Francisio An-
tor.io Zea, in regard to his financial operations in Europe ; and.
taking into consideration,
" 1. That even if the ex-Minister 'Zea had been legitimately
empowered for financial operations, and with competent
authority to solicit loans in the name 'of the Republic of
ColOmbia, he should only have negotiated and contracted
for them; but in no wise cone/tided them definitively, and
much less received and disposed of their amounts, without
having first obtained the prior consent and apprebaticn
of Congress, or its ,express authority, • to receive and dispose
of the same, without which necessary requisites the lenders
could not - guarantee • the same to him without spontane-
°wily subjecting. themselves to the contingency of 'an ap--
proyal or disapproval, that might subsequentlY be given by the
Legislative Body, exclusively privileged-by the fundamental
law of the Republic to conteact debts op the credit of the nation,
and todispose.of its funds.
' "2. That the eieMinister Zee not only Contracted in Eur6pe
A loan of tire millionnotpoUntle Sterling in the name of the
Republic, but has also received: distributed, and expended
the greater part of it, on hi own authority, taking up prior
accounts without due liquidation, and subsequent ones which
he himself has contracted, by operations eriormoaargrievous
to the state ; thereby increastue the capitals, gratuitously
dotibling the., interest, and giving acknowledgments, some
without the necessary proof, others purely ecrateitous, and
with exerbleant additions to many ; appropriating for their'
payment even revenues that dicinot belong to the.Republie, as
the fifth part of the precious metals which may be coined in
Colombia, of which scarcely fiper cent. acrue to the Republic •;'
and, in shor=t, admitting: as proportion The-Obligations or de-
bentures which the acme 'fir. Zea had Olen -to the creditors of
• the Renublic, in virtue of the Act concluded in London on, the
• Ist of• 'AA:gust, 1820, without their respective accounts having
been legally authorized andslieuidated, • independent or other i
obligations which he also .put into circulation in the same are I
bitnery manner, without having 4cily requested, waited far, or
ever-.obtained the indispensable sepprobetion of similar trap.
, . e,. That op the 12tbaj.,,iy of. tritirtfl°2l, the two provinces
• 17 r Nett. 9raiglit end .reneeuele b g nryited in one national
bixly, Imo erthe !detaotn ism tion of the Republic or ceremee„ by
a solerna act of its let itimate representatives esternbled to
-sanction this new pallucal association, and its fundamental
institutions e brthe said act the faculties of all its former func-
tiontries and public agents caned, and .in consequencethe
powers granted under date of the 24th of December, 1819, in
the city of Angostura, in favour of the ex-Minister Zes,.also
ceased ; not orilvalistibling hits from continuing,' in virtue of
the same, the dtploinetie operations to which his instructions
were confined, but principally restraining him from entering
into financial 'negotiations, fin 'which 'ae• thought fit subf‘e-
litently•to extend the said powers, although already apprised
of the impottant alteration, as he quotes the new laws in the
bonds which lie issues the 13th of iilareli, 1822.
" 4thly and last. At the sametime that it is a duty of Coe-
• reeeseo guard against the diseivation ahtl,wittite of the property
of the nation whoets rights are deposited twits bands, it is no
less eo religiqwly to tultil the. just obligations' in which its ~
tespensi2)ility, honour; and teputation ore involved ; and ~'
wildlife; eo consult Mei bear in mind all ;beet considerations,
and not invade. the just eights of individuels, decrees that,-
' " Art. 1; The transactions entered into with the creditors,
loans concluded, and : ether financial operations elfected in
RirePe by the I..'!e-Minister .Francisco Antonio Zen, are
disapproved. , - •
" Art. 2. N"withattmtling, all •the sums that the crediteies7
May prove to have been legitimately famished for the:Republic
,in ,rneney and efrects, and their respective interests, lac
reC ogniced.
" Art. 3. For the liqiiidation of the saute,, the Executive is
amply authorized to :..et it in the mintier in which it curly
think fit. ,
• " Art. 4. The Eaecothe are 'alsopauettleporoi:trletirpeot:so,
00anip.s7obwithiv:e7apnItildet.
ratify, either inditiduelly or by the
shall direct for that purpose, the result of the liquidation,
that it . may
,call in the obliges:lone,
'itito ciredlation
,by the deceased Francisco ientonlo Zea, mei
• subetitufe such as it may deem iiecessery, to the amount of
'the sane - which may ,be liquileed tied npeitswed, the tune
' to he signed by the President' of the Repuhlic, or whoever
-may be charged With the exieutive power,. onl y the person
.who shall be strictly authorised by the".Stallr, BO that these new:
.' .. bonds pr ,debentures may be AVOUtea BA nutneticel accounts in
, any other new loan thee may he decreed ; nod, lastly, to name
arbittatori, judges, and amiceble •Concilletote, in the event of
any disagreement arisinkwith the creditors, either in the tetri-
loty of Colombia, or in any other country in Europe.
" Art. 3. The eavrie executive authority May agree, on the
;period ftir the redemption of the. cum thnt 'shell have been li-
quideted upon the moist canto; which credit shall be pre-'
served, and upon the, inetboct of paying the interest, till the
consolidation of thelsieteeineieVelet, upon `which subject the
• C'ongres's is emploYea , __ r'''''
".Art. 6..Finallye thieWectulye is authorized to remove
an difficulties that touy
,iIF,C4X. its the execution of the pre tent
' boy. .
' . "lliVtra hi iticof i tbf.3oift..Lune, 1823. . .
4e-eestie rieeerseeitient of the
''' e (signed) 9Elt. TbRRES."

A Commercial. Letter) dute4, Rostock, Sth of
Sept. says—" The harvcia this ,lee t throuoost
Mecklettburg,tarns put 44 exCeileut one. Wheat
in particular provtss to be 4 fine Crop, There is,
however, stilt an aust"uiltallie (Witless in mats
lets of commercial enterprise. NV4. cannot say;
as far as this quarter 41 the world is wterest,,,i;
that* any hvneficial zoosieVentes litiyF resulted
f lOW the abolition of -13"tPa' tes Ant
cia I Decrees, us they were l' itnell.
,h;ei, was wont to tae' a very thriving travch vi
industry, 'LI now nearly proctrate_
.imiof
of fact, ;le decree of Pretillwre, to which the
operative classes are now subject, renders their
situation :itty thing hot what isuancotstable.,,
A letter from Frankfort soy's, that ;xi some
of
the circles of Carinthia a very distressing optha4l.
mia.prevails; and that ut. Butte the inhabitants
hale been visited with a very Aangerous
dernic—a sort of typhus fever,'which has provtd
fatal to many on the fourth day after the attack,