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Admis.ion is.--Catalogue Is.
WILLIAM lIARNAR.D, Keeper.

THE QUARTERI.Y REVIEW
Nn. LXVI.
• WAS PUBLISHr.D THIS DAY.

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COLOMBIA.

MESSAGE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF COLOM
elf 110 ED WITH THE GOVERNMENT, TO
THE CONGRESS OF 1826.
" Citizen: of the Senate and Chamber of Representative:,
"On terminating your legislative functions for the first con.
etitutional period of the Republic, you had a vast field opened
for the employment of your knowledge and patriotism with
Utility to the Colombian People. The state of Internal tran-
quillity which the nation happily enjoys, and the progress of its
foreign relations, offer you an advantogeous:occasion for me-
liorating the administration, and perfecting the laws, from whose
wisdom and fitness must arise the prosperity of Colombia. Re-
mote from the din of arms„ atel enlightened by a sound public,
opinion, and by your own experieocei yoirmay, in the present
Session, contribute to consolidate theAdificeHof liberty, which
has been raised on costly andimmente fiacilflees: • The funda-
mental law imposes on me the agreeable d'utyof Resisting you
with the information which the practice of the administration
furpishes ; and I proceed to fulfil an obligation which is in per.
feet accord with the wishes of my heart.
The Spanish Government, blind to the frequent means of
being undeceived, which occurred in its contest with America,
and deaf to the advice of impartial and experienced Govern!
tnents, gives no signal of abandoning it, hostile projects against
this Republic. The GOveinment Of 'Colombia, by a conduct
worthy of the cause which it defends, has redoubled its 'efforts
to draw Spain to an honourable reconciliation, in proportion as
the successes of our arms, and the march of the Republic, ir-
revocably ratified our independence. You will see in the docu-
ments which I shall cause to be hid before you, the good offices
performed in our favour by some of the Powers of Europe and
America towards the Cabinet of Madrid—the steps which the
Executive has takep in the same spirit—and the firmness and
dignity with which it has sustained the cause and principles of
the ColoMbian people. It is less troublesome to withhold all
intercourse with so obstinate a Government than to argue with
it ; nevertheless, the Executive will not be discouraged by the
difficulties which oppose themselves to the negotiation of pellet .
I will maintain with constancy these beneficent views, and I can
assure you, that if we do not obtain a reconciliation sincere and
worthy of Colombia, we possess sufficient means to carry on
the war with the honour and success with which the Republic
has sustained it for lb successive years.
" Our relations with the American Governments, and parti.
cularly with those of the United States, Mexico, and Peru,
have been consolidated in a manner capable of insuring a per-
petual and sincere friendship with them. In Panama there
are assembling the Plenipotentiaries of the New States of Ame-
rica, to ratify, in the most solemn manner, our common resolu-
tion to maintain and defend national independence and liberty
against the attacks' of their enemies. This Assembly, the fruit
of the most lively desires of preserving what has been gained by
the sacrifices of the American people, and also the fruit of the
most ardent wishes of the Government of Colombia and its Li.
berator, for peace and amity between all the belligerent confe.
derates, is, in the opinion of the Executive, the completion 2f
the guarantees of our independence. I have taken care to have
it made known in Europe what arethe true objects of' the As.
sembly of the Isthenus, in order to dissipate any unpleasant
Impressions of it that might be entertained by some Cabinets,
less from the insidious conduct of our enemies than the magni-
tude of the enterprize that we have succeeded in realising.
" The Peruvian Republic has recovered its political exist-
ence, by the sword, and under the direction of the Liberator
President. You know what has been the result of the efforts
of General Bolivar, efficaciously protected by the fidelity of the
people of Peru, to the common cause, and by the constancy
And intrepidity of the defenders of liberty. In Ayacucho was
'conquered the Spanish army, which domineered over all that
vaiiecountry, and from that glorious slay, until the death of
the enemy's chief, who occupied Potosi, the united arms of
'Colombia and Peru, under the immediate command of a skilful
and fortunate Colombian General, obtained an innumerable se-
ries of successes. In consequence of such glorious struggles,
the provinces of Upper Peru, the cradle of American liberty,
have assumed that political existence of which they
were in want, raising themselves to an independent
state. In the transports of their enthusiasm and grati-
tude, the citizens of this new nation have taken the name
of the Bolivar Republic, consecrating in this manner, till the
consummation of ages, the illustrious name of the Liberator
of Colombia. I have not words to express to you the
sentiments of joy and --- gratitude which this Govern-
ment has' felt from the homage paid to the Liberator, to
the Colombian army, and to its General, by the Congress of
Peru, the Assembly of Chuquisaca, and, the Peruvian cities,
citizens, and whole population. The Congress will receive a
Deputation of the Representatives of Peru, whose principal
object it to present to you a testimony of their gratitude, for the