The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

COLOMBIA.

[From the New York Statesman, of March 15.1
e.have received (Bogota) Colombian Gazettes to the end of
December, from which .we-have subjoined, some extracts, ••
The Government have laid the foundation of a college in the
in the province of Alaraquita.
The executive power 'decreed that on the Ist ofJanuary, at
10 o'clock, the Senators and resident Representatives should as.
semble to regulate the manner in whfch Congress should meet.
STATE DEPARTMENTt'OFFICE FOR FOREIGN' AFFAIRX.
Excellency the Vice-President 'of the Republic, charged
with the executive power, has thought fit, by and with the
advice of the Council of Government, to appoint in commis-
aim, Luiz LapezMendez,"residinlin London, his dip
lomatic
agent with the Courts of France, t
.Netherlands, and Ilansea-
tic Towns, With Orders to -atiatime e chanter of Envoy Extra-
ortlinary and, Minister Plenipotentiary,. immediately on this
Republic'being formally acknowledged by those Governments;
and in like manner the-General-of Division,. John D'Evereux,
of,the Order of Liberators, has been appointed to the'Courts of
Russia, Sweden, and Denmark.- • . •

• BOGOTA; DEC. 22.OcFFICE. •
Iron. FOREIGN AFFAIRs.—Py the last Caraceas
mail, a note has been received from M. Zea, dated Cheltentiain„
in England, in which an indirect mention is made of the loan
of two millions sterling, reported generally to have been nap-
dated by him in Paris.
In that note former notes are referred to, which have never
reached this city.; and for want of which the Government is to.
'tally ignorant of the particulars of 'the said loan. These parti. :
culars are absolutely necessary, to be able, with a knowledge of
the adliantaps or disadvantages offered by the negociation itself,
to decide on for what has been already published, regarding the-
subject of M. Zea's powers. • . • ,
As the Executive is anxious to proceed in this very delicate
matter with the most scrupulous nicety, and to 'conciliate, as
far as possible, the interests of all; it lots been resolved to sub.
Mit it to the consideration of the next Cotweess,- the same as
has been done with the arrangement entered into in London, on
the Ist of August, 1820, With the British creditors.',
We confidently anticipate that the Legislative Body- ill de-
eido.this important business in a manner the most satisfactory ~
to all concerned, consolidating and securingthy a well digested
law the growing credit of Colombia in Europe and the United
States. Such a law would remove the uneasiness of some, and
prove to the world that our Government is ready to make savii. •
flees for the sake•of national honour.
M. Zea, in date of the,2oth of September fast, from Cheken.
ham, in England, advises the Government of having remitted
nine thousand three hundred and thirty-six Spanish doubloons
by a corvette, which arrived at La Guar* on the 3d November.:
The money and corvette are intended tar the service of the
Republic, and pursuant to what is stated, other remittances,
ships and warlike stores, are to follow for the same end.
Under the embarrassing circumstances in which the Execu.
tire has been placed by. the financial operations of M. Zee, it
has been resolved to take such vessels as may be lit for the ser-
vice, and such warlike stores as may be found wanted after be.
ing previously surveyed and valued, and the money ordered to
be deposited in the departmental treasury of Caraccas, until a
definitive agreement can be made to the satisfaction of those
concerned.

In this arrangement the Executive has had to reconcile pre.
sent circumstances with an anxious desire to obviate such difli.
culties as might arise in any future negociation_ of a similar
description.
We again express our confidence, that the wisdom of the
Legislative Body, on a. due consideration of the various docu.
ments to be presented, will decide this business in a manner
agreeable and advantageous on both sides.
Colonel C. S. Todd, authorized agent of the United States,
arrived at the capital of 'Colombia (Bogota) on December 2,5.
He made his journey from Caraccas by land, through Mends
and Cucuta. The civil and military authorities, and the towns
through which he passed, manifested every sign of conaidern.
tion and pleasure, as well because he is the first foreiga agent
who has arrived there, as because he is commissioned by a city
belonging to a state which was first to do us justice.