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London, England, 1826-07-19 00:00:00

Leghorn, arrived at Frederiekshafen, where her Majesty
the Queen has been ever since the 2d. Their Majesties
intend to pass some weeks at their country-seat with their

family.

DRESDEN, JULY 8.
The Commissioners appointed by his Majesty the King
of Saxony to regulate the succession to the Duchies of
Gothai and Allinburg, as well as the Envoys from Saxe-
-IVlennengen and Saxe-Cobourg, have been assembled for
this week past at Hildburghausen. _

HANOVER, JULY 8.

A Committee for the relief of the Greeks has now been
formed in this city, and has caused an address to be in-
serted in the Journal called the Hanoversehe Nashrechlen.

FRANKFORT, JULY 11.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Clarence, travelling under the name of Count and Countess
of Munster, with a numerous suite, arrived here to-day,
and put .up at the Weidenhof, here every thing was
ready prepared for their reception.

A Jamaica Mail has arrived this morning, brought
to Falmouth by his Majesty's Packet brig Plover,
by which letters have been received from Carthagena to
the 31st of May ; and Jamaica letters and papers to
14th June.

The following are extracts from the Jamaica Royal
Gazette, of the 10th of June, received at the North
and South American Coffee-house

REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA.
INTENDANT OF VENEZUELA.

Caraccas, Feb. 7.

SIR—I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency that no-
thing further of consequence has happened which can disturb the
order and tranquillity of the territory, or the personal security or
property of the inhabitants. The disturbances which happened
in Valencia on the 80th of April, and which have been reported
every where, have for their object the continuation of General
Paez in the command of-this Department, until the arrival of the
Liberator President, whose mediation and advice are earnestly de-
sired to adjust these domestic differences, and to promote such re-
form as may be useful in our internal administration, without af-
fecting in any manner our internal relations, or altering the na-
tional integrity of the Republic. I have just been officially assured
of this from his Excellency General Marino, who arrived last
night from head-quarters; and this assurance obliges me to con-
tinue my services to the Republic, in the trust confided to me by
its Government. I have the honour to be
CHRISTOBAL MENDOZA.

To his Excellency R. K. Porter, Esq.
Consul of his Britannic Majesty.

DECREE.

BOGOTA, MAT 4.

ARTICLE 2.—The subjects which will occupy exclusively the
attention of Congress during the extraordinary session are the dis.
cussion and approbation of the bill now pending for the consolida-
tion of public credit, and that for the patriotic contribution or sub..
sidy in aid of the said public credit.
• ARTICLE 3.—lf, when the Congress terminates its arduous
session, the bill on Public Credit should have passed, the bill on
Registers and 'Mortgages will then be taken into consideration,
and, as the Chambers, may have some leisure moments until
the two bills spoken of in the preceding Articles'are returned by the
executive, with its approbation or objections, the Congress may,
during that time, continue the discussion of the Penal Code.
4.;---The sanction of the executive being given to the
bills spoken of in the tld, and begiAning of the 3d Articles of this
Decree, Congress will close the extraordinary session for which it
is now convoked. ." SANTANDER.

Palace of Bogota, May 1.
We learn from an Officer of the Druid, just arrived from
Port-au-Prince, that President Boyer was not so popular as
was expected in England, owing to his anxiety to pay off the sum
due to the French Government, which the Medae frigate was
Waiting for to receive ; there appeared to exist three parties at
Port-au-Prince, the French and Americans at present monopolize
the trade of the Island.
From the Bogota Papers, May 18.
-

_
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and Chambers of Representa-
tives.—The honour and credit of the Republic have induced me
to convoke you extraordinarily, in virtue of one of the funda-
, mental articles of the Constitution, at the close of your ordinary
Session ; the Executive received, the diaagreeable
,intelligence,
that it could not dispose of the funds with which it had intended
to pay the interest due on the foreign debt, and provide for the gra-
dual extinction of the capital. The Executive Government ex-
pressed kvell grounded hopes that the successive improvement of the
Finances, and the reduction which would be made in the public
expenditure in the War Department, would have means sufficient
to meet the pecuniary engagements of the Republic, without its
being necessary to burthen the people with fresh contributions; but
U the improvement of the Revenue is not the work of a moment, nor
would it be prudent in our present state to diminish the army, the
Executive have appropriated a part of what was owing by Peru,for
the payment of the interest of the foreign debt, during the present
year. The Government of Peru, determined to negociate a loan
in Europe to facilitate the reimbursement of the debt it had con-
tracted with the Republic of Colombia, but, from circumstances
Which were not within its control, the negociation was not ef-
fected in consequence of this unexpected occurrence. The Exe-
cutive see„ itself surrounded with serious difficulties, which you
nlnne, front the nature of your functions, are able to remove, the
honour of the nation being deeply involved, and our public faith
being compromised.
I have judged it absolutely necessary to Convoke Congress to an
extraordinary Session. The conclusion of the law, the consolida-
tion of the public credit, and that which the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives has begun to discuss relative
.to the extraordinary con-
tribution in aid of public credit, are the subjects to which you
will confine your legislative labour. Without those laws, Co-
lombia would lose in the opinion of foreign countries, and the
credit of the nation would sink, and perhapa the enemies of our in-
dependence would think to find in such a state of things a most
favourable opportunity to push forward their hostile designs against
Amerlan freedom. On the contrary, by the sanction of these
two important laws, the Colombian people will receive protec-
tion and encouragement, and the nation's credit be raised to
its proper level ; friendly nations will he confirmed in the advan
tageous opinion they have formed of Colombia, and Neutral States
will receive fresh proof of our moral and political capability. I
believe you to be animated with these generous feelings for the
welfare and honour of the Colombian people, and I am led to be-
heve that your deliberations will not disappoint their expectations.
The Exerutive,—
ofrom an anxious wish that the
pportunity ofthe present extraordinary Session should not be lost, and court-
(lering that between the discussions and approbation of the above
two laws, proscribed by the Constitution, you may have some mo-
inenn, of leisure, which it may not be prudent to leave ui Ployed,--has thought proper to authorise e you to continue thelefildis-
cussion on the Penal Code. SANTANDER.
,lamatea, MaY 12.--The Xspeimfele. Is womenhbrig of war ta
-
rily espoused. here from Cl
gress of Panama by her; when tl Is4sosteT ithearhadofnottheye? as-u-
-sembled. Mr. Dawkins, the Brietish r
Minister, h Panama, and the American Minititt was on' boat arrived
eivJedohant
tween
*loisCarthagena United Staend C rag, which 'w as spoken by the. Isis be-
es.
Tbe Jamaica Wpm; of the 7th June lntae intio2aidlye of E. Watts,
1 the arrival in
the pucka from Carthagena in five days
of t`in
Esq., British Consul at Carthagena, and r
Cockburn,
Alexander
Bsq„' British Ambassador to Colombia, as
shows tho alarm and fear entertained for the
P"pragiuders. This
individuals; but the arrival of Mr. Coekburn, anK)yue---atsaftriehtLQ,df
to the state of his health, which had been very. precarious for
some time.

A Morning Paper, of Monday last, has made some
remarks upon that provision of Mr. PEEL'S new Act,
Which permits two Magistrates to admit persons to bail
in cases of felony, where a reasonable doubt of the
truth of the charge appears. It then proceeds to argue
%slut the propriety of allowing the forfeiture of the
hail bond to operate as an " extinguishment of the
offence," and to excuse the party charged from all
future liability to answer the accusation that has been
made against him. There cannot be a greater error
than this, and we are surprised that any one at this time
of day should entertain a notion so utterly subversive
of justice, and so entirely at variance with the law.
The fact is, the bail bond is forfeited by the
Circumstance that the party has not fulfilled its
litiptilatious, viz., that he should be, and appear

before the Justices of our Lord the King at such
a day and place, to do and receive all things that then
and there should be required of him ; and amongst
these things to answer the charge in question. How
then can it be supposed that the forfeiture of the bail
bond would clear the party of the charge ? It is, as
the Journal in question says it ought to be, an aggra-
vation of the original offence, and is visited with con-
dign punishment, by levying the penalty of the bond on
the goods and chatteLs of the offender ; and then issu-
ing a warrant for his caption to appear and answer the
the charge, and to undergo the punishment assigned
in case he is convicted. It seems, however, that this
Journal has confounded two things which are perfectly
distinct, viz., the bail bond given by the prisoner and
his bail, and the recognizance entered into by the
prosecutors and witnesses to appear and give evidence.
It must be confessed, that if the prosecutor and wit-
nesses chose to forfeit their recognizances, and fail to
appear and give evidence against the prisoner, he must
of necessity be acquitted, and this acquittal may be
pleaded in bar to any future prosecution for the same
offence. The effect of the law, but not the law, is
therefore to purge the prisoner of the crime, by the
payment to the King of a certain sum of money; sel-
dom, if ever, so much as the penalty for a breach of
the bail bond, and that paid not (legally speaking)
by the prisoner, but by the prosecutor and witnesses
themselves, who, if the charge against the prisoner is
untrue, have been rightly and properly amerced pro
falso clamore suo. How this defect, if it can be
called so, is •to be remedied, we are at a
loss to know, for we are not aware of any
means for the prevention of this crime than those
already known to the law. To compound a fe-
lony, called in our ancient law books theft tote, is
in tome cases a felony, and in some a misdemeanour,
so that those prosecutors and witnesses who neglect to
the terms of their recognizances, might be in-
dicted for compounding, the felony ; and the very cir-
cumstance of their non-appearance, in pursuance of
their recognizances, would be evidence of a corrupt
agreement with the prisoner, unless satisfactorily ex-
plained by rebutting testimony. In our eyes the law
in this instance is sufficiently strong; and cannot,
therefore, need amendment.
As to the proposition of allowing. the deposit of a
sum of money in lieu of bail, in criminal cases, we
must take leave at once to doubt the good sense and
propriety of such a measure. It is undoubtedly true,
that the main object of a bail bond is to insure the
appearance of the accused to take his trial. But we
submit, that in admitting persons charged with offences
to bail, the law goes on two grounds; relying first and
chiefly, on the respectability of the bail, who would
not, it might be very fairly presumed, consent to
become bail for a person accused of felony, unless
they supposed him innocent, and anxious to clear his
character from the reproach the accusation has cast upon
it; and secondly, on the ground that neither the accused
or his bail would willingly submit to lose the amount
of the penalty of the bail bond. In the first of these
grounds there is a very strong and a very powerful
moral restraint placed upon persons who are about to
offer themselves as, bail, and which is entirely lost if
the deposit of a, sum of money in lieu of bail were
allowed ; besides, a person with any sense of honour
would feel much more repugnance against running
away from his bail, although he might have indemni-
fied them, than in merely abandoning a sum of money
that he has deposited to answer for his appearance.—
But furthermore, it is to be remarked, that if persons,
however really innocent they may be, place them-
selves, by their conduct and their characters, in such
suspicious relation to any crime that has been com-
mitted, as to justify a committal by the Justice
of Peace, they have no right to complain that they
have been kept in confinement, upon a charge of which
they were subsequently acquitted. It is oily the pe-
nalty they pay for such obliquity of conduct, and.which
it is not too much to say they fully merit. In con-
clusion, we may add, that we think the law has been
stretched to its utmost limits in Mr. PEEL'S new act,
by the permission there given to bail in doubtful charges
of felony; said confess that, though friends to the liberty
of the subject, we should be sorry to see any new door
opened for the escape of influential criminals, so as to
give occasion for any further such charge that the law
of England commutes felonies for a pecuniary fine.

Letters from Manchester, to a late hour on Mon-
day night, bring no fresh accounts of tumultuous
meetings, or riotous conduct on the part of the unem-
ployed poor. The infamous attempts of some design-
ing persons to inflame the minds of the manufacturers,
appear entirely to have failed, and the good sense of
the people generally, will, we hope, prevail over the
endeavours of the unprincipled to instigate them to
acts of riot, or to excite feelings of enmity against the
Government, in the minds of those whose only real
complaint arises from the cravings of nature.

The House of Assembly, at Jamaica, was dissolved
on the 12th of June, and the new House was expected
to be called together about the 20th of July.
A considerable addition has been made to the naval
force of Colombia, by the arrival at Carthagena on the
of a beautiful and powerful frigate, named
from New York in 18 days.
La 24 thpMia
Plata,

May, which state that a Message had
Private letters have been received in town from Bogota,
bdaeetendsethn to C
et
19thongress, recommending that all the specie
they could collect at the Custom House and Mint, should
be shipped immediately for England, to pay the dividend.

The United States papers complain of an unusual
difficulty in procuring seamen, either for the naval ser-
vice or for merchant shipping.

A public meeting was to be held at New York, last
month, consisting of the most respectable citizens in
that place, and of British residents there, 4, to devise
some means, or adopt some measures, for the relief, if
Practicable," of the distressed manufacturers in England.

withdraw
dom, directing them to'
Circulars have been sent to the Surveyors of Taxes
throughout the kin
g om,
.all charges made on persons keeping
wheels of less diameter than 30 carriages with
inches, and drawn by.
ponies or mules not exceeding 12 hands in height, or
drawn by oxen or asses, exce let to hire. A
P
t where
conveyance of the kind " drawn by oxen,' ' would be,
we imail t
-, rather a novelty even to a tax gatuerer.
AFFAIR OP T•T
--oNoun.---On Friday morning last a me.et-
ing took
place on the Sands, near the Figgate
,Whins, be-
tween Lieut. M.:-.....' an
officer on half
pay, residing at
Portobello, and Mr,
......_
by of this city. 'The parties fired
signal. Lieut. M----'s pistol did not go off, and the
seconds having interfered, the matter terminated. This
affair arose in consequence of a dispute between the parties
on the preceding eveninff, regarding the frequent and im-
proper wanner in which Mr.
had galloped past Lieut.
M--.. and a party of ladies Tiwo were. walking on the
beach at Portobello.—.Edinhrgh Courant,•

THE FUNDS.

CITY, Twelve o' Clock.

Consols opened this morning at 77 it, and advanced to 7*
This being a holiday, little business up to the present hour has been
transacted. In the Foreign Funds considerable interest has been
exhibited in Colombian and Mexican Stock, in consequence of the
arrival of the Mail from Jamaica, by which advises have been re-
ceived from Bogota of a favourable nature, and have caused the Co-
lombian Securities to advance from 28i to 31 ; they have since
receded to 301, the present price; Mexican, from 451 f, also have
been done at 471, and are now 47.

Three per Cent. C,onsols, 771; Ditto for Acourit, 78i 1;
India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 15 17 plu. ; Exchequer Bills,
1011 pm.
Foam?? FUNDS. --Brazilian, 52 4; Buenoi Ayres, 48 50;
Chilian, 31 3 ; Colombian, 1822, 264 74; Ditto, 1824, 284 9 ;
Greek, 11 12 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 38 40 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent-,
451; Peruvian, 23 5 ; Russian, soi
MxNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 421 371 dis. ; United do. 84 '7l
dia. ; Brazilian, 14 24 pm. ; Colombian, 2 4, per share; Tlal-
puxahua, 10 dis. par. ; Pasco Peruvian, 10 9 die.
Slid/M.—British Iron Company, 28 6, dis ; Welch Iron and
Coal, 18 16, dis.

Two o'clock.

Consols have advanced to 77i +, being a shade higher ; and for
the Account the same price, there being scarcely any variation ;
4 per Cents. are 92 3 ; New 4 per Cent., 93i ; Exchequer
Bills, 11 12 pin. ; India Stock, 227 8; Ball( Stock, 198 9.

Mexican Securities have continued to rise, and have been done
as high as 47 48. Colombian 6 per Cents. have also advanced,
and transactions in them have been effected at 33f 34.
This sudden rise in the two above Securities is owing to
a report that private letters are in town from Carthagena,
stating that four hundred thousand dollars are shipped on board the
Lyon cutter, which was waiting for 200,000 more to sail for
England on account of the Colombian dividend. Another report
prevails that Monte Video has surrendered.
The chief attention of tne dealers seems directed to the Bonds
of the Mexican and Colombian Governments. In the other
Foreign loans, the premium, particularly in the Russian, is ex-
tremely steady and firm.

THREE O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. Consols, have been 77-1, buyers, are
now 771 I; 6 per Cent. Mexican, 46,1 7; Ditto,
Colombian, 311 2.