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London, England, 1830-01-09 00:00:00

or Columbia le lost ; and in either case we all go to the digs. I can.
not Nye beneath the load of ignominious suspicion which weighs
me down. Na can Columbia be faithfully served by a desperado,
whose mental stimulus is gone, and whose hopes of tan/minty an
far ever levelled with the dust ! For God's sate, •O'Liery I for
the sake of Colombia, for my sake, forward with this saggestiou
insinuate it well into the minds of the legislature, and of Vary
body ; and farther, I authorise you to print a cbreular. fell of
force and elogeence, proving the utility which alien arise from the
adoption of this measure.
De Stamm bas arrived, and brings me very satisfactory se.
counts from General La name and that batch of friends. Too
may see, th General Urdaneta's possession, more copies of my
commonkadoes from La Femme and Gomm, as I have no time
to say any more. Indeed. as lam eta very weak from the sick-
ness I have had, and on morn. of which I am now recruiting
myself, I salute your wife with the greatest kindness, and am your
Mend, (Sidped) " BOLI VA R.**
" LA GUAYRA, Nov. ld.

"We are on the very eve of a tapes. The annexed letter
of Bolivar's is the ostensible cause. In translating it I have mks.
vowed to do away with the Spanish verbosity as mush as posit%
and give you its meaning in the plainest Itiglisk. You Isfte the
original also, and can examine at your leisure bow my translation
accords with it. But to return to what I set out with: we are
on the very eve of a rumpus. The usistandithus : this pert of
the Republic, I mean the province of Venezuela, has long been
' dimatided with the Government of Bogota, sod most justly so. If
pas Wee. a seep of South America, you will obenve that the
preeinee srf Venezuela is somewhere about I fourth part tithe wimple
arils. How Important soever it may be from its site, coesider-
log b montane, its population, its products, its soil, its Awe,
k shay be reckoned equal to two-thirds or three-fourths of Co.
Ilmibia. Now, while the duties of Import, export, 'kabala, pa-
late, Ste. are quite sufficient to support the Adminisuaden of
this province, if not in opulence at least in comparative comfort,
must it not be most galling, think you, to the Veneseeleans, to
see the enormous sums which they pay up la taxes, either on their
food, clothing, or industry, instead of being applied to benefit their
province, drained of to pay the absesefal opening Betimes hews.
&spiv et Bogota, at the still greater expense of a war with Peru,
from which Venezuela can gain nothing,—in which she feels,
comparatively, little interest, and the almost entire expense if
which sbe has to pay? Been were this province rolling le weal*
the principle of making its industry pay for the folly and extrava-
gance of another, would be unjust ; and how much more so when
the stagnation of business is unparalleled, and the detail of 'cavi-
-1 dud distress (distress in some instances shocking to hum
nature) almost surpasses belief. Their sufferings have at length
aroused the inhabitants to ascertain their cause and origin,
and they seem to be almost unanimous, that if being shackled and
overburdened by that administration be not the sole cause, it is at
least a principal and very obvious one. A separation of Venezuela
from the rest of the republic has therefore been agitated for some
time, and the annexed letter of Bolivar's has, I believe, put the
torch to the mine; for they talk of this separation being carried Into
immediate effect. Regarding the letter itself, I felt a good deal
masted to make sense of it. In fact. I should at once set it down as a
forgery, were it not that it was printed and dispersed by his most
staunch friends. Their explanation of it is simply this :—' The Libe-
rator conceives himself not sufficiently rewarded for what he has douse
for the Republic. He wide: the issperiol trams set en his head.'
This proposal is received with universal disgust. The Venezue-
lans reply, We fought for our freedom, sot to exchange one
crowned despot for another. Bolivar has sought to overthrow the
republic : we disown him and all that acknowledge allegiance to
hint. We erect our territory into a separate republic. I think
Bolivu's letter cannot admit of any other interpretation than that
which his friends give it. Supposing, as he says, that soother Presi-
dent be appointed, and he sink into simple generalissimo, every child
knows, that in a military Government such as this, civil power is a
were name ; the executive must always be a puppet In the bands at,
the chief military commander. Can any man of common sense sap.
pose, that if this very simple change in the Administration were
to take place, and Bolivar to be allowed to run about the countty
with an army at his heels, as he proposes, that such immense good
would flow from it ?—that Columbia would be preserved from
discord within and without 7 that his name would moves its
lustre? that his happiness and peace of mind would return to him
again? Trust me, it is all humbug. Bolivar is at present General
Supremo as well as Liberator President ; be Is the head of the army
as well as the bead of the Cabinet ; and he has se little of the Dio-
cletian temper about him, that be will not lay aside one title unless
it be to gain another greater. His letter, you will observe, abounds
with the ego e t roe maw spirit of a man spoiled by adulation. His
being so spoiled is the only reason I can admit fora man d bit ta.
lents now lensing after' the pretty bauble,' when he ought to know
that, as the liberator of his country, his name has acquired a %etre
which no sceptre can augment, and which nothing save his owe
folly and criminal ambition can destroy. How shoet-lived, alas!
is the good name,—is the career, indeed,—of those in his sites-
don Not many months have paned sines the people of this
country were actually racking their brains to Invest new tkiss for
Bolivar. The people here are generally the most timid in the
world as regards speaking against the powers that be. This
is the natural effect of being born under the Spanish rod of iron,
and brought up snider that of a military despot. You may judge
how far matters have 'heady gone, when the Liberator's name in
public is loaded with the mat opprobrious epithets. The Romano
would not put Manlius to death in sight of the Capitol which he
had saved ; yet, when out of sight of the Capitol, they burled Mist
down the Tarpasian Rock. Bolivar's countrymen cannot put' to
death publicly the saviour of the country, unless they would braft
the united execrations of the world; but private means, I disk
not will be found, eft long, to cut hies of
" The foreirwrs is general art favourable to the proposed dais.:
They are conscious that, notwithstanding BoUvar's talents, be la
utterly ignorant, not exactly of the art of governing, but of govern.'
log on such liberal prieciples as should benefit all parties cots-

cerned,—vis. by patronising the country's commercial connexion

abroad. His power, for some time past, has been se unlimhed, that
he has bad only to give forth hie decree to have it obeyed: Them
decrees, eo far from encouraging es, have been nothing interne ei4et•
seating restriction upon another, and one increase of duties Upon
another, although we have a glutted market and an impoverished
country to contend against. It is true the great bulk of diesO
offensive decrees are attributed S. Secretary Resew, and I believe
with justice; still it ts no sign of a wise President to allow love OF
mister to rain the country, merely to gratify his spleen against the
Ingham for having given bias a taste of the Logs
The sole thing to be wished is, that this proposed measure may
carried into effect without shedding of blood. Wpl Iloihar, after
having hinged it so long, tamely suffer himself to be thrown on the
back-ground ? I think not. However, in the event of a civa
war, be will be pet down. 2%r dump set certainty in had fw
the holders of paper rit willoset is tenth a min. Never,
thetas the interest of the few must not be put in the balm, with
the good of the many. Admiral Fleming le have just now tbe is
hand end glees with Pen. We have a frigate (the Hardens) and a
sloop-of-war (the Grembspper) In the port, besides the 3ms de
daily expected from Trinidad, with Sir Charles Grant, the Go-

vernor.
" So Mg as the British lag waves in the harbour, to harm can
come over oar perms, but those WWI residents who Om out-
standing debts in the country will be heavy losers.
" Although the Admiral takes no active baud is these choppiop
and changlap, yet, from his ketimegruith Pees, I inspect dot the
Ism rigida is V roomasilis sill he ping is Linn Any wen She pre.
Min of Brkiat MM. This will be abaohndy neeemsey, as,
is the nest if o eke nor, a risk from She Dins world he wry sg►
ograhle. Pm will, no doubt, be at the bad of the oe*
He lea good fellow at the bottom."