Star.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

SA3IOS, MARCH 1.

A gold mine has been happily discovered in our
island, of which it is true little advantage can be take')
at present, amidst the bustle of military armament.
We, however, continue to enjoy undisturbed tranquillity
and SCCUI ity. Our fate defends on ourselves—that is,
on 10 or 1'2,000 well armed and well disciplined men;
who are ready to die fur the liberty of their country.
—Batteries are erected wherever there is any occasion
for them ; and wherever the enemy may land the main
force can be imniejiately collected ; the plan fur the
defence of the island, laid down by able officers, is good,
and in the execution of it, the necessity of conquering
or perishing will supply our want of experience. Weil
have had full tine to fortify the island by art, where it
is naturally too much exposed to attack. Samos is in
miniature like the Moietwai:ll its mountains and defiles,
and the fruitful vallies between. A mountain which com-
mands the sea is accessible only on one side, and this
place is mine easy to defend than the Thermopy he.—
On the summit of this mountain there is a convent de-
dicated to the Virgin, to which the women, children,
and aged will be brought, if the Turks should land.

This forenoon we received a Jamaica Mail, with Pa.
pers to the ith ultimo. They contain very importan
intelligence train l'e;u. The troops of AGUERO had
joined BoLivAn, and AGGERO him-elf has been ar-
rested. The following particulars are from the Jamaica
Illolial Gazette of the oth March :
" Bogota and Carthagena Gazettes have been received
here, and from them we learn, that they had at these
places advices from Peru up to the 26th December.
The defection of Riva Aguero, and the successes of Ge-
neral Santa Cruz in the South, had prevented the cam-
paign. The auxiliary division of Chili, given up by the
Director, consisting of 2,500 men, had arrived at Cal-
lao, and was to be followed by G3O cavalry. General
Santa Cruz, with a strong column, remained at Arica,
and kept the enemy in check.
" Colonel Ibarra, Aide-de•Camp to the Liberator,
who had just arrived at Bogota, from Ti %mill°, brought
accounts of the President having been obliged, in con-
fortuity with the resolution of the Congress, to employ
force to put down the faction of Riva Aguero ; but on
his Excellency approaching the troops destined by
Aguero for the invasion of Lima, one of the Officers of
the latter proclaimed their union with the legitimate
dovernment of Peru, and arrested Aguero and General
Herrera, who commanded their army, and delivered
them up. In consequence of this, the 4,000 men corn-

posing this force were united to the main Army, en.l :101
end put to the intestine discord that threatened the de-,
struction of the free portion of Peru. The two Chiefs
have been conducted to Guayaquil, and are to be sent
to Europe. These accounts agree with the public pa-
pers of Lima, which mention the march of the Liberator,
with the Colombian troops, towards Truxillo.
" By the sloop Non mi Ricordo, we have advices that
a schooner arrived at St. Sago de Cuba on the 28th
ultimo, the Master of which stated, that a large fleet,
having on board 10,000 men, had arrived at Martinique,
from France."

If the latest accounts from Constantinople are to be
relied on, the negotiations between the Porte and Rus-
sia have taken a very favourable turn, and a Russian
Ambassador is daily expected. The Russian aims had
been replaced over the gate of the Russian Consul's house,
to the great joy of the Turks. The English declaration of
war against Algiers, the nominal subject of the Porte,has
excited a great sensation in the Tut kish capital, and, cou-
pled with the operations of Lord BytioN, had not a little
embarrassed the pacific exertions of Lord &visa NGFORD•
—On the 14th of March, it is said, the Tut kish Ministry
transmitted to his Lordship, through their dragoman, a
dispatch containing a formal demand to desist from
hostilities on Algerine ships, and to order home Lord
By noN, and the other English who support the Greek
insult ection. On the 19th, Lord STRANGFORD is stated •
to have dispatched a Courier to his Government for new
instructions. The Divan, unacquainted with the nature
of our Constitution, and the latitude it allows to the sub-
ject, cannot conceive how English Lords or English
ships can fight against the Crescent, while the English
Government is an ally and a mediator.

Private letters from Paris, state that it has excited
much surprise in France, that the discussion of the finan-
cial plan of M. VILLE:LE should have been adjourned
from Thursday to Saturday, calculated as it is to effect
an important saving in the Revenue; but the fact is,
the French legislators are not financiers.
The Editor of the Etoile speaks with great confidence
of the disputes between the different parties in Colom-
bia, as being likely to lead to the re-establishment of
the Royal authority these. We should be more ready
to believe this if we saw the Government in Spain ad-
vancing toward anything like a settled organization;'
but w hile all is confusion and disorder at Madrid, there
is no reason to expect that Colombia will again submit
to the Colonial yoke; in short, it is quite impossible
Spain can a second time conquer South America: she
' has not a CORTES or a PizAßno now, although, if the ac-
counts are to be believed, some of her commanders
have been no bad imitators of the worst characteristics
of these great men.