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SOUTH AMERICA.

Begistro Official of Buenos Ayres, June V, 1823.]
MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
TREATY BETWEEN the REPUBLIC of COLOMBIA
AND THE STATE OF BUENOS AYRES.
The Government of the State of Buenos Ayres
having in virtue of credentials, presented and legalized in, due
form, recognised the Honourable Joaquin Mosquera y Arbo.
leda, Member of the Senate, Envoy Extraordinary and Mini-
ster Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Colombia, and who
having communicated to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Don
Bernardino Rivadivia, the wishes of his Government, they have
consulted and agreed upon those Regulations which they con.
sider conducive to increase and strengthen the friendly Rela-
tions between the said States, and in pursuance of the func-
tions with which they are charged, and of the powers by which
they are severally authorized, they have agreed upon and
definitively concluded by a Treaty, of which the following arc
the Articles :
" 1. The Republic of Colombia and the State of Buenos
Ayres establish solemnly, and perpetuate for ever by this
Treaty the amity which naturally arises between them from
identity of principles and community of interests.
"2. A perfect reciprocity between the Governments and
Citizens of both States shall be the basis of the relations of amity
stipulated by the preceding Article.
" 3. The Republic of Colombia, and the State of Buenos
Ayres conclude, in perpetuity, a defensive alliance in support
of their independence of Spain, and all foreign dominion
whatever.

" 4. Every case within the scope of this Alliance shall be
regulated by Special Trottlee, conforming to the circumstances,
and the resources of each State.
" 3. This Treaty shall be ratified by the Government of
Colombia as soon as it can be7sanctioned by the Congress, ac-
cording to the Constitution of that State, Sec. 2, Art. 35, Law
38. and by the Government of the State of Buenos-Ayres, con-
formably to the sanction of the Legislative Body in the Session
to be opened in the month of May next.
" 6. For the due effect and validity of the present Treaty,
two of the same tenor are signed and sealed—on the one part
by the Colombian Minister with the seal of Legation, and on
the other part by the Minister of Buenos-Ayres with the seal of
the Office for Foreign Affairs.
" Buenos Ayres, Bth of March, 1823.
" JOAQUIN MOSQUERA,
(Seal of Colombia).

" BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA.
• (Seal of Buenos Ayres).
" RATIFICATION.
" Buenos Ayres, 10th of June, 1823.
" By virtue of the Law of Authorization to the Executive:
passed this day, this Treaty is ratified.
" BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA."

[From the Itegittro Official of July 12.1
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

•UTROJZITY TO TIM OOVERWMJNT TO NUMMI THE

LAW or THE 10TH or MAY, 1022.

The Honourable Junto, exercising the ordinary and extra.
ordinary sovereigety with which they are invested, have sane•
tinned and decreed the following:—

/MOLE ARTICLE.

" The Government is authorized to publish the,law sanc-
tioned in the secret sitting of the 10th of May, 1822.
" The same is communicated to your Excellency for its ful-
filment. May God preserve your Excellency many years.
" MANUEL DE A RIIOYO Y PINE DO, President.
" JOSE SEVER() MALAVIA, Secretary.
" 1141 of the Sittings, Buenos-Ayres, July 5, 1023.
" To Ms Excellency the Governor of the Province."

" BUENOS-AYR Es, JULY 7.
" 1 acknowledge to be received and publish in the Official
Register, the law referred to in the preceding resolution of the
hail of Representatives. "111VADAVJA."
PRINCIPLN RECOUNIZED 3IY THE ATATE or BUICNOS-
AYRES.

" The Honourable Junta having received through the IV

nistry for home and Foreign Affairs, the confidential letter of
his Most Faithful Majesty's first Minister of State, dated
Lisbon, November 3, addressed to the Minister for Finance
for this Government, which was forwarded to him by the Baron
de la Laguna, with another letter serving for its transmission,
dated the 15th ultimo, have conferred with clue deliberation in
the sittings of the Pith and lOth, on the particulars therein con-
tained, and in virtue thereof have decreed the following ar.
tides :

" 1. The principle is recognized, that the attempt to destroy
such Constitutions and Governments as do not emanate from
die spontaneous will of those who on the ground of privilege
consider themselves exclusively authorized to give justice or
to withhold It from nations, is subversive of every national
right. ,t

" 2. The Government is authorized to negotiate, in mainte.
nance of this principle, the defensive alliance suggested by the
I'rime Minister of his Most Faithful Majesty, in his confiden.
tial communication to the Minister of Finance, dated the 2d of
November last.

" 3. The preliminaries being adjusted (among which, the
evacuation of the Banda Oriental shall be particularly includ.
ed), the Government shall present in account thereof to the Na-
tional Representation, to obtain that full authority which the
conclusion and ratification of a definitive treaty requires.
" The above is by order of the Honourable Junta communi-
cated to your Excellency for your information, and its conse-
quent execution. (god preserve your Excellency many years.
" JUAN JOSE PASO, President.
" JOSE SEVEItO MALAVIA, Secretary.
" Buenos-Ayres,. May 100021
" To hi; Excellency the Governor of the Province."