The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-01 00:00:00

THE COLOMBEAN LOAN.

[irtnlTHEtt ACCOUNT.]
m " The Senate athe Muse of Representatives of the Re-
public of Colombia, assembled in Congress.
" consideration that the deceased Ex-Minister Plenipo-
tentiary, Francisco Antonio Zen, attributed to himself faculties
that were not confided to him in his powers and instructions,
and thereby misapplying certain documents,
signed by the Pre:
sidcnt of the Republic, aiiil countersigned by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs at that
_period, M. Joseph Rafael Revenge,
under date of the 24th of December, 1819, for the sole purpose
of facilitating the diplomatic negotiations with which he was
charged in Europe ;
"n consideration that his Powers, instructions and docu-
ments annexed having ceased to subsist (quedados inortib-
sistiottes) from the time of giving, promulgating, publishing,
and circulating the fundamental law of the constitution of the
Republic, and the other la ws of the Constituent Congress, which
concluded its session in the town of Rosario de Cucuta, on the
14th of October 1821, and notwithstanding which the said ex-
Minister Francisco Antonio Zea proceeded to negotiate and sign a
contract for the loan of 2,000,0001. sterling, in Paris, on the
13th of March, 1822, exercising 'SuPpesed faculties with which
he never was invested; and that, in virtue of the said contract,
there have been,put into circulation the corresponding bills, de-
bentures, and transferable obligations, which have circulat-
ed and are now circulating out .of Co lombia ;—and
considering that in this loan of 2,000,0001. sterling, the de-
bentures and bills issued by the said Francisco Antonio Zen,
to the creditors of the Republic, according to an Act celebrat-
ed in London, on the Ist of August, 1820, have been ad-
mitted as a part thereof, without such operation having been
approved, and without these respective accounts having been
formally adjusted, and farther other obligations which M. Zen
himselt put into cirtralation, of which, until now, none but
uncertain information, communicated indirectly by the agent
of the Contractors, has been furnished; and considering that,
if on the one hand the republic ought to give t. the world an
undoubtable proof of her honour, justice, and good faith, secu-
ing the interests of those who contributed to ussist her by fur-
nishing her with the means of which she stood in need, to
enable her to triumph in the bloody contest in which she was
involved, it is no less her duty, on the other, to slim herself
severe and inflexible in the first days of her political existence,
in order to guard against the repetition of events as scandalous
as they arc prejudicial, nianifesting that she knows how to con-
ciliate her interests with her power, have decreed, and do decree
as follows:
" Art. 1. The Congress disapproves the loan contracted in
Paris on the 14th fllarch, 11122, by the deceased ex-31Inister
Francisco Antonio Zea, and declares null and void all that he
has done relative toAlie affair, both in the substance of the con,
tract, and in all its olauses.
" Art. 2. Nothwithstanding, the debt incurred (contra/dila )
by this act, is recognized, and that which was contracted prior
to the Ist of August, 1020, as far as the sum which shall he
proved to have been furnished for the Republic, in money, &c.
" Art.::. For the liquidation of the same the Executive is
amply authorized to effect it in the manner in which it may
think fit.

" An. 4. The Executive is also authorized to approve and
ratify, either individually, or by the person or persons whom it
Atoll delegate for the purpose, the result of the liquidation ; that
it may call in the obligations, bills, or debentures, put into cir-
culation by the deceased Francisco Antonio Zea, and substitute
such as it may deem necessary to the amount of the sum which
may be liquidated and approved. The same most be signed by
the Secretary of State and of Finance, or by the person who
Mall be duly authorized, so that these new bonds or debentures
may be admitted as numerical amounts In any new loan that
may be decreed ; and lastly, to name arbitrators, judges,,and
amicable conciliators, in the event of any fresh ,disagreement
arising with the creditors, either in the territory of Colombia,
or in any country in Europe.
" Art. 5. The same Executive Authority may agree upon
the. period for,tite: redemption ( amortizetelon ) of the sum that
shall have been liquidated upon the mortgages with which
credit should be preserved, and upon the method of paying the
interest until the consolidation of the national debt, on which
subject the Congress is now employed.
•• Finally, the executive is authorised to remove all diflicul,
ties that may occur in the execution. of the present law.
" House of llttpresentatives in Bogota, June 9, $923.
(Signed) i" DOMINGO CASCI;IDO, President."

THOUAS SALW A Y 51 Fa, YLER,
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On Wednesdiy, August It, in his 421 year, at his house in
the Abbey Chu lt-yard, Mr. T. S. 11E1(14:11, Bookseller, and
Proprietor of cis Paper, also a Member of the Body Corporate
of 13ath: Ile bis left a widow and live infant children, who
are inconsolitbrff for his loss.

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being so peculiarly adapted to our
feelings at the present moment, we are induced again to pre.
sent them to our readers, confident that they will excite the
sympathy of eery compassionate heart :
Be merciful to her, oh tiod ! who bends
Anti mourns the best of husbands, fathers, Priends ;
Oh I when she walcut at midnight, but to shed
Fresh tears of uuguish on her lonely bed—
Thinking on hint who is not ! then restrain
Paerthber4otefrintjelorcuigeshr' slaineareitlietren6tabd he
t'satritllit u stain.
Thy chastining hand ; and to thy soy reign will
liows silent, but not /lope/ems, whilst her eye
She raises to a bright fliturity ;
Assured, in better worlds thou wilt restore
That happiness she here can know no more.
[From the Bail, and Cheltenham Cazatel
August d, at his house in the Abbey church.yard, after a
lingering illness, aged 41, Mr. Titomas &away Aleyler, Printer
and Bookseller, Proprietor of the Both herald, and a Alember
of the Corporation of this City. As Editor of a public Jour.
nal, Mr. AI eyler enjoyed the approbation of his readers : while,
as a tradesman, he was as universally respected as he was gene.
rally known, both by the inhabitants anti the occasional visitors
of native city. In social life, the sincerity of his friendship,
the kindness of his heart, the suavity and cheerfulness of his
disposition, rendered his society eminently engaging ; and in the
widely extended circle of his acquaintance his death has created
a void not to Ito easily filled upon. But it was in the soft en.
dearmenta of domestic scenes that his character was exhibited
in its most amiable view. Him truly filial and exemplary lima.
deities towards his late respected father, under his severe and
protracted infirmities, and his tender discharge of all the duties
of a brother, husband, and parent, so endeared him to his
family, that the awful separation has been felt by them with
the most poignant anguish. An amiable widow is left with.
five infant children.
P A Correspondent request's the insertion of the following
' " tributary lines to the memory of the bite respected Editor of
of choice, Vet u' fading flowing,
the Bath Herald:"
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he was generally known, imiji by the.mhabitents and the ()era-
sional visitors of his native city'. r rientlehiP might entleavtxtr
to pay a-feeble tribute of respect to a memory tin jwitly
the.
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s lining qualities which
marked his stiCial and private life overpowers the etlbrt ; and to
appreciate his tnerUs tol a son. a husband, a father, and a Iwo,
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titer, we must refer to the slier eloquence of 'that grief, which
now overwhebnii:all who stood relaW to him-