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yet enabled us to form relations of friendship ana good,
understanding with that Government, with which we
have likewise to arrange questions regarding territorial
limits. We age assured of the good disposition of-the
Emperor towards Colombia ; and, on our part, we have
avoided all cause of complaint and dissension. When
the moment shall arrive for negotiating with the; Bra-
zilian Government, the Executive will not tail to ob-
serve that frankness and good faith which form the
basis of its principles, by conforming to the last ter-
ritorial treaty made between Spain and Portugal, in
M drid, in 1777. .
With the United States we maintain the most friendly
and cordial relations. The treaty of peace, fr'endship,
navigation, and commerce, celebrated by the Executive
with those States. through the medium of duly aurbo-
ii ed Plenipotentiaries, will he forthwith laid before you.
The principles oe have therein adopted are so com-
mendable in their nature r...5.r tender all eulogium su-
.perfluous. Never has the (iovernm •nt of Colombia ap-
peared more attached twahat spirit of civilization and
• humanity which ought to distinguish the Governments
of tree people, than in this treaty. Colombia will have
the laudable pride of having been the first among the
States of ancient Spanish America, to appear before the
world united by public treaties wilt the most favoured
r ati .a of liberty. Yon will also examine the convention
en ered into with these States, for the purpose of putting
an end to the horrible traffic in negroes of Africa.
Our laws have already forbidden this execrable traffic,
and the Executive has formed its conduct on their basis.
Toe law of the 21st of July, of the year 11, h for-
bidden the introduction of slaves ; and the prof al
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cruising ordinances condemn as lawful prises alt " Is
trading in African' negroes, that may be coolie in
the waters within & jurisdiction of the Repitfitic. But
n % penaity being awarded for the violation of this law,
and it being a justice due to the human race to modify
our ci uising laws, the Executive thinks that these ob-
Ujects have been obtained by our convention with the
United S:ates.
To convey a correct idea of cur relations with Eu-
rope, I deem it incumbent on me to deal frankly, by
entering on a detail which will give you this informa-
tion, and at the same time demonstrate to the world the
political principles of the Government of Colombia. The
Commissioners of his Britannic Majesty, in this capital,
requested that the Executive would issue the =gnaw
necessary for the recognition of the Consuls sent by the
King to some of our ports. As no commissions accom-
panied this application, as is usual and customary, the
Executive was under the painful necessity of deferring
the exera:ur, until these commissions should be duly
'resented by the several parties, relying on their being
framed in t!:e terms usual among nations. As soon as
the person on whom the title of Consul-General had
been con'erred arrived in this capital, he presented his
commission, assuring the Executive at the same time
th it the commissions of the Consuls of La Guayra,
Maracaibo, Carthagena, and Panama, were conceived

in the same terms.
The commission makes mention of the Provinces of
Colombia. instead of the Republic of Colombia, by
which latter title it was determined by our fundamental
law that this country should be known since the year
1819 ; and the Consuls are therein accredited to the
Authorities that might happen to be e.tablished, instead
of being accredited to the Executive Power, or Presi-
dent of the Republic, as they ought to have been, agree-
ably to the principles of public right,teourConstitution,
alid to the conduct observed by the United States. The
Executive considered these errors as a necessary conse-
quence of that state of ambiguity and practical difficul-
ties in which theEnglishGovernment found itself placed
in treating of the recognition of the Independence of
Colomh a, as was stated to Parliament by the Ministers
of his Britannic Majesty's Government; for, in reality,
it would have been a manifest contradiction, to have
accredited Consuls to the Ports of Colombia in the
usual terms, and as the rights of nations demand, with-
out recognizing the independence and existence of the
Government from which it sought the admission of
these officers. The Executive did not hesitate in adopt-
ing the line dl conduct most conformable with the dig-
n ty of the Republic. and serviceable to the interests of
the British nation. Placed in the painful situation of

de eiving the Republic, by illegally recognising, as duly
accredited Consuls, persons who did not come recom-
mended to the Government of Colombia, and who did
not anear destined for the ports of the Republic, I did
mot hesitate to refuse the exequatur to their nominations,
and caused to be explained to the Commissioners of his
Britannic Ma]e,ty the powerful motives I had for adopt-
ing this Resolution,assuring them at the same time,that
in order to give fresh proofs of friendship and good will
towards theßritishGovernment and people,l would pet--
n. 4 the persons appointed to these Consulships to protect
the c.•mmerce and interests of English subjects in the ca-
pacity ofAttents for the protection of sailors and trade.
Tl;e Commissioners accepted these terms with pleasure,
without refuting the strong arguments on which my de-
nial of the exequatur was grounded. If the Congress
will c .11 to mind, that in my former Message I pledged
myself that, in the course of the negociation about to
be opened with the Commissi %nets of his Britannic Ma-.
je.ty, I would not lase sight of the dignity of the Go-
v rament, and the interests of the Colombian people; it
ss ill perceive by the present statement, that I have
s rctly redeemed my pledge. Public right does not
tecogni:e the admission cf Consuls as a bounden (Jul,
from one n• eon to another. The obligation so to admit
them,rises s.,lely from treaties or conventions celebrated
bet wren the parties, or from a state of peace and friend.
ship be weer nati,,ne, whore independence is reciprocally
ad it ttcd. This principle, which the English Government
iteef leas lately obsersed towards the Consul-General of
Burns Ayres in Loedon, . would have authorised the
Esezutive to withhold the exequatur, even had the
Coninuksi its I f the Consuls been addressed to the Re.
public and Government of Colombia. Since this re.
cu,rence, nothing has transpired in furtherance of the
recognition of our independence. The Government of
hi, Britannic Nlajery, makes this event to depend on
ci ciinistanc s peculiar to the interests of Great Britain,
and op the nature of the information it may receive
horn its respective Commissioners. But if the Govern-
ment of his Britannic Majesty be guided by the feeling
of the English nation, and that the information given
respecting the state of Colombia be dictated by justice
and impartiality, we may presume that this important
decisi n on the part of the King of the United King-
chnn of Great Britain And Ireland. k At hand.
(To be euncleded to.morrow.)

Igiono IsMumtlica....4unktity of Copper Ore sold at Pool,
March 51, 1715 tun..—Average produce, 61.—Qututity of One
Copper, 116 tons 5 ewt.--Ansount uF ak. £10,165. 6s. Average
standard, 0151. 18s.--Theru die 625 a 'yin* of Copper Arcs for
sale at Redritt this week.