The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-16 00:00:00

COLUMBIA AND PERU.

(From the Times.)
We have received an extraordinary Cambia,/

Gazette, dated Bogota, August 7, containing
the copy of an armistice concluded at Guayequii
on the 27th of June last, between Brigatler-
General Leon:de Febres Cordera, on the part of
the Colombian army, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Francisco Valle Riestra, on the part of t►e Pe-

ruvian force now in that city. This suspension
of hostilities was to take place, and to continue
between the belligerents both by land and sea,
till the return of Colonel Guerba, who bad been
despatched by the Liberator on a mission to the
camp of the most illustrious Grand Marshal,
General-in-Chief of the North Peruvian Army,
date iveurrya ,off otrh
the fortress
purpose
of Go fdu
Guayaquil
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prepara-
tory de
to another armistice, during which the Su,
prone Governments of Colombia and Peru might
commence negotiations for terminating a war
which is allowed to have been calamitous to
-both parties, and which, it is professed, the Co-
lombian Republic had employed every means to
avoid. The terms of the convention for esta-
blishing this armistice are not of the slightest in-
terest, nor are the documents 'by which it is ac-
companied of more. It consists of ten articles,
embodying the usual stipulations for fixing the
posts of the belligerent troops, and drawing the
lines within which they must remain,—for pre-
venting the arrival of reinforcements,—for regu-
lating access to the markets of provisions, and
for prescribing the formalities to be observed on
the recommencement of hostilities. The only

v.._
thing important about this suspension of hostii.::-
ties is, that it was proposed expressly loy the
Liberator himself,—that it is stated 'his official

paper to be preparatory to the conclusion of a
more extended armistice ; and that this latter
armistice is likely to end in a definitive treaty Olt
peace, from the pacific disposition of Bolivar and
the recent change in the councils of Peru. On
the 17th of June, the Peruvian General in com-

mind at Guayaquil set out for Calldo. On the
6th of th'at month, General Lamar resigned the
Presidency and the command-in-chief of the
Peruvian army, and was deported to central
America. On the same day the Vice-President,
charged with the executive power, resigned his
office into the hands of the permanent legislative
junta at Lima. On his resignation, the execti-

tive was assumed by General Lafuente, under the
denomination of Supreme Chief. On the 7th of
June, the Grand Marshal, Gamarra, was con-
firmed by Government in the command of the
Peruvian army of the North. In communicat-
ing to this officer the intelligence of his appoint-
ment, the Peruvian Ministry desired, him to open
a communication, if possible, with the Chief of '
the Colombian forces, in order to treat about the
suspension of hostilities. These changes in the
Government, and this favourable disposition
the new Ministry, are said in the Gazthe to
have induced the Liberator to propose the ex-
mistica. General Gamarra, meanwhile sent a
propoual for an armistice of 90 days, to which
the Liberator contented, if Guayaquil were given
up to the ,Colinbian force. The suspension of
hostilities of the 27th June was to allow time for
receiving an answer to this last proposition. In
the mean time the Grand Marshal Gamarra (as ,
he is called) had anticipated, in so far as his
wishes could go, the views of the Liberator, and.
had written him, on the 21st of June, from his
head-quarters at Piura, a letter, in which, hav-
ing abused the ousted party, as the enemies of
their country and of American freedom,he
manifetts a strong dit,position to renew the
peace. The Peruvians, he says, in re-organiz-.
ing their army, were desirous that it should.
henceforward only engage the enemies of their.
national integrity and cherished liberty, without
entering into conflict with their neighbour
whose interests and duties are identified with
their own. The General, however, declined
compliance with the request to withdraw the,
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the
new Guayaquil,Congress
about
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to
ba cel
stalled. The Liberator, in his reply of the,
27th, the day on which the suspension of arma
took place at Guayaquil, presses the necessity of
delivering the Colombian territory from the.
pressure of the
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initiation of the Peruvian Government. .eU'
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be
it imagined that a satis-
factory arrangement will be much longer • b
de-
layed. It need cost neither party a pang to
terminate a struggle which was begun without