Star.
London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

SOUTH A 31E1L1C.4.

A Santa Martha Gawk of the sth of August has
been received, which contains the following intelligence:

" MARACAIBO.

The Governor of this garrison has received advice, from the
Head-quarters of Rio de la ['ache, under date of the 3d instant,
which contain propositions for granting an honourable and advan-
tageous capitulation, made by the Colonel D. N. Lopes, second in
command of the Spanish army, and Lieut.-Colonel D. L. L. Quin-
tana, as Commissioners for General D. F. T. Morales, to General
Manuel Manrique, and the answer given to the same by the latter."
The proposed terms of capitulation follow. Many of
them were negatived on the part of the Colombian Ge-
neral; and it was the general opinion at Santa Martha,
founded upon ad vices from Rio de la Hache, that Gene-
ral MORALES would, within a day or two of the date of
the above proposals (August 3), surrender at discretion.
The last arrivals front South America bring an account
of a correspondence between the Republican General
MANRIQUE and the Spanish General MORALES, which
appea, el in the Colombian°. General MAertnaue's
letter is dated on board the brig Independencia, at
anchor at Maracaybo, June 23, and remonstrates with
General MORALES on the atrocities committed by his
troops, whom he charges with having " dealt destruc-
tion among the peacefu inhabitants and defenceless in-
.drliduals met with in the streets—among these, Cap-
tain JOSE GUEVARA ; and treated mot shamefully the
military characters whom fate has made prisoners—in
whose number is found Sub-Lieutenant FELIPE URDA-
NZTA, who, after the severest threats and insults on your
part, has been placed in the rank. as a private, whereby
the regulation of the war, agreeable to the treats, agreed
upon and sanctioned, has been publicly trampled upon."
General MANRIQUE states, that he understands General
MORALES has declared a war of extermination. Ge-
neral MORALES, in his answer, which is vet y haughty,•
to General M AN atQuE, says—" The declaration of those
persons who have informed you that I have declared a
war of extermination, and that I had committed the
atrocities which you have minutely laid to my charge,
is void of truth. You and your adherents are the pro-
moters of all the misfortunes and desolation of Vene-
zuela, and it is only to colour and draw off the atten-
tion of those who are marking your footsteps, that you
charge me with having been guilt of these atrocities.
It is the Colombian Chiefs alonellbo are capable of
disturbing the quiet and assassinating the defenceless
and peaceable inhabitants. Witness the two old men
whom their troops assassinated at the look-out of this city
on the 18th inst. Jose MARIA FAME, by trade a tailor,
was asassinated in the street of San Juan de Dios, at
his own door, and his house and those of many others
• plundered, only because it was suspected they had
money ; so, although you eulogize your troops ever so
much, their actions give the lie to your pinegyrics, and,
at the same time justify the conduct of those under my
command. Ensign URDA SETA, VillOin you mention, has
been treated with that regularity which corresponds
with his rank, and it is an easy matter to convince your-
self of it by changing him for one of equal rank of my
battalion of casadores, Don VICENTE MAP."

tracted, by operations enormously grievous to the State;
thr'~by increasing the capitals, gratuitously doubling
the iinerest; and giving acknowledgments, some without
the necessary proof, others purely gratuitous, and with
exorbitant additions to many ; appropriating for their
payment even revenues that did not belong to the Re-
public, as the fifth part of the precious metals which
may be coined in Colombia, of which scarcely three per
cent. accrues to the Republic ; and, in short, admitting
as proportions the obligations or debentures which the
same M. Zea had given to the creditors of the Repub-
lic, in virtue of the act concluded in London on the Ist
of August, In% without their respective accounts
having been legally authorized and liquidated, inde-
pendent of other obligations which he also put into cir-
culation in the same arbitrary manner, without having
duly iequested, waited for, or ever obtained the indis-
pensable alio-Libation of similar transactions.
" 3. That on the 12th day of July, 1821, the two pro-
vinces of New Granada and Venezuela being united in
true national body, under the denomination of the Re-
public of Colombia, by a solemn act of its legitimate re-
presentatives assembled to sanction this new political as-
sociation, and its fundamental institutions ; by the said
act the faculties of all its former functionaries and public
agents ceased, and in consequence the powers granted
ander date of the 24th December, 1819, in the city of
Angostura, in favour id the Ex-Nlinister Zea, also ceased;
not only disabling him from continuing, in virtue of
the same, the diplomatic operations to which his instruc-
tions were confined, but principally restraining him from
entei ing into financial negotiations, for which he thought'
fit subsequently to extend the said powers, although al-
ready apprised of the important alteration, as he quotes
the new laws in the bonds which he issued the 13th of
March, 1822.
" 4thly and lastly. At the same time that it is a duty
of Congress to guard against the dissipation and waste
of the property of the nation, whose rights are deposited
in its hands, it is no less so religiously to fulfil the just
obligations in which its responsibility, honour, and re-
putation are involved; and wishing to consult ancrbear
in mind all these considerations, and not invade the just
rights of individuals, decrees that—
.. Art. 1. The transactions entered into with the creditors, loans
concluded, and other financial operations effected in Europe by the
Ex-Minister Francisco Antonio Zea, are disapproved.
" 2. Notwithstanding, all the sums that the creditors may prove
to have been legitimately furnished for the Republic in money and
effects, and their respective interests, are recognised.
" 3. For the liquidation of the same, the Executive is amply au-
thorised to effect it in the manner in which it may think fft.
" 4. The Executive are also authorized to approve and ratify,
either individually or by the person or persons whom they shall direct
for that purpose, the result of the liquidation, that it may call in the
obligations, debentures, or bills put into circulation by the deceased
Francisco Antonio Zea, and substitute such as it may deem neces-
sary, to the amount of the sum which may be liquidated and ap-
proved, the same to be signed by the President of the Republic, or
whoever may be charged with the executive power, only the person
who shall be strictly authorised by the same, so that these new Bonds
or Debentures may be admitted as numerical accounts in any other
new Loan that may be decreed; and lastly, to name arbitrators,
judges, and amicable conciliators' in the event of any disagreement
arising with the creditors, either in the territory of Colombia, or in
any other country in Europe.
" 5. The same executive authority may agree on the period for
the redemption of the sum that shall have been liquidated upon the
mortgages with which credit shall be preserved, and upon the
method of paying the interest, till the consolidation of the National
Debt, upon which subject the Congress is employed.
" 6. Finally, the Executive is authorised to remove all difficulties
that may occur in the execution of the present law.
" Given in Bogota, the 30th June, 1823.
" The Vice-President of the Senate,
(Signed) " GER. TORRES."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1528.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 83*, for the Account, at which
price they remain steady up to this hour, with little doing.
Owing to there being no arrival of Expresses this forenoon from
Paris, which is attributed to the heavy gales of yesterday, we are
without information ; nor are there any reports on 'Change.

FOREIGN FUNDS. •

The chief business transacting this morning in the Foreign Mar-
ket is in Colombian and Spanish Roads. In all other Foreign Se-
curities them is scarcely a bargain done.
Colombian opened at 52k, 53, and 55k; Old Spanish Ponds
31k, k, 32k; French Scrip ti; Russian 83k.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Cons. 88 Vs 3/8 1/4
4 per Cents. New 1023/4 7/8
India Bonds 665. 70s. pr.—New Anns. 821/4
Etch. Bills (E 1,000) 40s. 41s.— Small 395. 41s. pt.
India for Acct. 266%—Consols for Acct. 833 i.

A continued and very considerable increase in the
Revenue of the Country is what every person must ex-
pect from that prosperity, the fruit of a wisely preserved
peace, which he witnesses everywhere around him ; it
has, in fact, ceased to be, as formerly, a matter of news,
that some million or half million more have been received,
during a Quarter, from an increased consumption of ar-
ticles that pay taxes and duties, than during the Quarter
preceding. It may, nevertheless, be agreeable to the Pub-
lic, as confirming their grounds for satisfaction with things
as they are, to know from time to time how the accounts
actually stand. Those for the present Quarter (being
the Nlichaelmas one) will not, we believe, be made up
till the 10th of the month ; but we are already enabled
to state, that so large is the general improvement of the
Revenue, that in the Customs alone there is an average
increase from the sth of July to the 27th of September,
of not less than 032,848.

DIWAND, and to it, on the following day, he returned
the accompanying answer, in his own hand-writing•

TRANSLATION,

SIR, M BROTHER AND COUSIN—Spain is delivered

from the revolutionary yoke. A. few fortified towns
now only serve as an asylum to implicated persons. The
King, my Uncle and Lord, had thought (and events
have in nowise changed his opinion), that your Majesty,
restored to liberty, and using cleinency, would think it
advisable to grant an amnesty necessary after so many
troubles, and to give to your people, by the convocation
of the ancient Cortes of the Kingdom, guarantees for
the reestablishment of order, justice, and good admi-
nistration. All that France could perform, as well as
her Allies, and the whole of Europe, in order to conso-
lidate this act of your wisdom, I do not hesitate myself

to become a guarantee, shall be done. I thought it my
duty to remind your Majesty, and through you, all
those who may still prevent the evils which threaten
them, of the feelings of the King, my Uncle and Lord.
e
It, in five days hence, I shall not have received any sa-
tisfactoi y answer, and if at that period your Majesty
shall still be deprived of your liberty, I shall recur to
force in order to to-tore it to you. Those who should
listen to their passions in preference to the interests of
their country, will alone be answerable for the blood
that may be spilled.—l am, with the most profound re-
spect, your •ery affectionate brother, cousin, and servant,
(Signed) LOUIS ANTOINg.
From my Head•gturters. sit Port St. Mary's,
this 17th of August, 1823.

ANSWER.

SIR, MY BROTHER AND COUSIN—I have received the

letter of your Royal Highness, dated the 17th instant,
and it is in truth very remarkable, that, till now, the
intentions of my Brother and Uncle, the King of France,
have not been manifested to me, when it is now six
months since his troops invaded my kingdom, and are
causing, in support thereof, so many.calamities to my sub-
jects. The yoke from which yourßoyal Highness pretends
to have delivered Spain, never existed ; nor am I de-
prived of any other liberty than that of which the ope-
rations of the French Army have stripped me.
The best manner of restoring this to me, and of leav-

ing the Spanish People in possession of theirs, would be
to respect our rights, as we respect those of others, and
that a foreign Power should cease to interfere by means
of an armed force in our internal affairs.

The paternal sentiments of my heart are, with regard
to myself, the most secure rule, and the most powerful
stimulus to estimate and seek a remedy for the wants of,
my subjects. If greater guarantees for the preservation
of order and justice should be wished by them, with
them I will agree on the same, and in the meantime let
me be allowed to state to your Royal Highness, that,
what with this view you point out to me is as incompa-
tible with the dignity of my Crown, as it is with the
actual state and political situation of things, with the
rights, customs, and prosperity of the nation which I
govern. To raise up again, after three centuries of obli-
i vion, an institution, as varied, changeable, and as mon-
strous as the ancient Cortes of the kingdom were, in
which the Nation was never assembled, and never pos-

sessed a true Representation, would, on the other hand,

bt the same or worse than to renew the States• General
in France; it would, besides, be insufficient to secure
tranquillity and public order; without affording ad-
vantage to any one of the classes of the State, it would
produce the difficulties and inconveniences which in for-
mer times were experienced, and which have always
been known when this subject has been treated of.
It is not the wing who is the proper channel for the
_ _ .

suggestions your Royal Highness has thought it your
duty to make, neither is it possible norjust that he should

be called upon to prevent evils which he neither causes
nor merits; this appeal ought rather to lap made to the
voluntary author ofthem.

I wish, together with my nation, that an honourable
and solid peace should put an end to the disasters of
the present war, which we have not provoked, and is as
prejudicial to France as to Spain. I have on this sub-
ject communications pending with the Government of
his Britannic Majesty, whose mediation has also been
solicited by his Most Christian Majesty, from which I
cannot depart, nor do I think your Royal Highness
ought. If, notwithstanding these declarations of mine,
force should be used under the pretext your Royal
Highness insinuates, those who do it will be answerable
for the blood spilt, and your Royal Highness will be
peculiarly so before GOD and man, for the evils you may
bring upon my Royal person and family, and upon this
meritorious city. Goo preserve your Royal Highness,
my brother and cousin, many years, &c.
Cadiz, August 25. (Signed) I? the KING.

A letter from Cadiz, which is said to gi contain the sen-
timents of the Spanish government, and tbe leaders of
the popular cause," thus alludes to the above corre-
spondence:

Throne, and the fate of the r
that if the threat is carried ini
being rejected, the person of
roily may be in danger; destru
silence, and all the love and I
may not perhaps be able to sh
of men in despair. If the En
object to rid themselves of
mily of Spain, they coAld SC4
suitable measure than the 5
—The Spanish Government
must and do protest against
committed by the French.
the King of SPAIN, all the Mi
4 decided interest, as well as
emergency in which the Span
ment placed."-

The following accounts h:
Madrid :

MADRID, SEPI

The Government has recei
health of their Majesties con'
15th, 16th, and 17th current.
The government has also b
tue of the capitulation conc
Count Molitor and Don Franc
the latter bound himself to
within his territctry should be
the Regency of the Kingdom
of the Castle of Las Penas d
ingly recognized the supra)
mu' during • the captivity
therefore deliver up the salt
General George Bessieres.

any irritation or ill-humour
thing was cpnducted with
litary frankness, the 4ir resoui
Rey! Piva d dercita auxila
garrison the fort came from
four leagues of this place.
Castle seven pieces of aytiller
them useless), SOO quintals o
quantity of other ammunitic
198 of rice, 900 of oil, 500 c
and a considerable quantity
a deposit of tobacco and :null
Yesterday the go)* Guar,
rain, marched from this capi

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Jamaica Papers arrived th
August, but bring very little
have been received from Card
the Colombian forces were in
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM

" Since yesterday the mer
met, in consequence of het
armed vessels (pirates) were a
ing they would attack the
force, it has been agreed that
the ne;t oppottunity;"