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

COLOIIa N LOAN.

In the STAR of yesterday we gave the answer of the
Minister of Finances of Colombia to Mr. Joßas, the
Agent of the Contractors, on the subject of the Colom• •
bian Loan ; and we now give the proceedings of Con-
gress on the subject.
" The Senate and House of Representatives of the
Republic of Colombia assembled in Congtess.
" The Message from the Executive Power, with all
the accomranying documents, being seen, in which it
sub :tits to the de:tberation of the Legislative Body the
conduct observed by the deceased Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of Colombia, Francisco Antonio Zea, in regard
to his financial operations in Europe ; and taking into
consideration,
" 1. That even if the Ex-Minister Zea had been legi-
timately empowered for financial operations, and with
competent authority to solicit loans in the name of the
Republic of Colombia, he should only have negotiated
and contracted for them, but in no wise concluded them
definitively, and much less received and disposed of their
amounts, without having first obtained the prior con-
- ..nd it ,tho-

The following is published as an authentic copy of a
correspondence which took place at the beginning of
last month, between his Royal Highness the Duke of

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LIR competent authority to solicit loans in the name of the of not less than 032,848.
—........—_ .' CADIZ. SEPTSMBER 2, 18.23. them also, ave iscovere
Republic of Colombia, he should only have negotiated
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si The arrival of an Aid-de-Camp from the French unveil their desperate design
and contracted for them, but in no wise concluded them
The following is published as an authentic copy of a head-quarters with a letter addressed to the King, and f
correspondence which took place at the beginning of the publicity of an answer having been transmitted Craters m.ore
ty concerned should
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definitively, and much less received and disposed of their
While old Dr. Troy lived it
0 amounts, without having first obtained the prior con-
last month, between his Royal Highness the Duke of thereto, have in some measure obliged the Ministers to miracles, but he was scaicel
I sent and approbation of Congress, or its express autho-
rity, to receive and dispose of the same, without which A NGOULEAIE and King FERDINAND of Spain. The allay public anxiety, by communicating to those in their the jugglers commenced opt
cce,sary requisites the lenders could not guarantee the letter of the Duke was brought to Cadiz by a French confidence the contents thereof, as well as their own hone,t man; he would not
ti
y or any frauds. But let then
i • same to him without spontaneously subjecting them- Colonel of Infantry, in one of the boats belonging to sentiments on the communications made ; a sacrifice
miracles the better—Ahß sy!
selves to the contingency of an approval or disapproval, squadron, bearing a flag of truce.— most assuredly due to the leading men in this place, flesh and execrable bearin
• that might subsequently to given by the Legislative the blockading .g.
He landed on the 18th instant, at the gate of Se- who have made every sacrifice in behalf of their af; brutalizing inenthey pptc
Body, exclusively privileged by the fundamental law of .
ville, whence he was conducted to the house of Ge. flitted country.... tinctly for the barbarous tr.;
i • the Republic to contract debts on the credit of the na- .
Lion, and to dispose of its funds. neral VA LDEI, in a coach, by which conveyance "Notwithstanding the ardent wish of the Spanish qn. will not tv, frightened out
phantasmagoria, not cheated
I. "2. That the Ex-Minister 'Lea not only contracted he soon afterwards returned. From the moment he vernment to put an end to this disastrous war, the only
in Europe a Loan of two millions of pounds sterling in landed vain pretensions to benefit
till he was out of hearing, he is said to have proposal hitherto made to it pn the part of France, inT trar to natureand moralit)
the name of the Republic, but has also received, distri- willof
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been saluted from the wharfs with shouts of " riva Ia dependent of duo tone and terms in which the same is . e
bored, and expended the greater part of it on his own
immense concourse assembled on conveyed, is of such ana that it cannot be acct to tficiscirov. sz,atralegioteroiedi in thetn•uit.
authority, taking up prior accounts without due liquids- Consiiimcions" from an flits
Lion, and subsequent ones which he himself has con- the occasion. This letter was sielivpred t.O Kin FER. without dishoriour, the sacrifice of the dignity of tlys kiiii anctstawo:l'fi WC rrie4l