Star.
London, England, 1829-07-18 00:00:00

" BOGOTA. Mar S.

" General O'LEARY brought us the details of the
battle of Tarqui and the treaty of Jiron. The Peruvians
lost 60 officers killed, and more than 2,000 men, out of
the 6,000 to 7,000 engaged. SUCRE'S whole army con-
sisted but of 3,500. The Peruvian army was well
clothed ; and clothing to the amount of 150,000 dollars
was taken in Tarqui : add to this the clothing, ammuni-
tion, and stores taken in Saraguroby Gen. URDAN ETTA,
and the loss of the Peruvians in Motini is enormous.—

VILLA, the late Minister from Peru, admitted at Jiron
that war had cost Peru two millions of dollars, and Gen.
Gusm AN and other Peruvian Generals anticipated the
most serious consequences from the failure of the enter-
prize, which it is well known was concerted with SAN-
TANDER and OBANDO. The Colombian troops, al-
though they were in great want from ORANDO'S parties
interrupting their supplies, and notwithstanding they saw
the Peruvian army in possession of every comfort, never
murmured, and not one man deserted. The Generals,
officers, and soldiers here and in other places were equally
animated by a sense of patriotism, and offered half
their pay to the expenses of the war— nay, even
some preferred to live solely on the common rations,
that their comrades in the South might not be left
destitute from want of means. BUSTAMENTE, Maw..
Dtz, and other traitors landed in Guyaquil, have,
it is said, persuaded the Peruvian Colonel commanding
there, to refuse the surrender of the city ; but FLORES
is marching on it, and there was no force to stop his pro-
gress. M. BoucHIE a, a Frenchman, commands the
Peruvian squadron, which is much disabled, and is a very
,humane man, therefore we presume will not destroy the
city from his ships. If it were done, the reprisals on the
Peruvian territory would probably be dreadful ; the Co-
lombians would not weigh the exact measure authorised by
the lex talionis: but this, rely on it, will not happen, and
the Colombian squadron under Cu ITTY, now going round
Cape Horn, will be in Guyaquil in July, to put an end to
the Peruvian domination by sea if necesaary.—l am happy
to add, tranquillity exists everywhere in the Republic,
except perhaps at that one spot, Guyaquil, and all party
heats are over. The French commission has arrived here.
Mons. DE BRESSON is very• much liked, and seems to
like every thing. The Duke de MONTEBELLO is with him,
and every one is charmed with his amiability—he was a
little unwell, but is getting better. I should tell you that
the mediator between Peru and Colombia was chosen by
lot—the lot fell to Peru, and the plenipotentiaries named
the United States, as England had not recognised her—
Colombia wanted England. The Ministers here have

assurances from General Bum vn n, that come what may
he will not go to Peru, nor meddle with the internal
affairs of that country.—He will be here almost im-
mediately.••

Tho Gazette of Colombia, in noticing the reception of
M. de BRESSON, the French Commissioner, thus ex-

teases itself:—

" We are happily permitted to congratulate the public
on the mission of M. de B ESSON —the frank, generous,
and distinguished qualities of this Envoy, promise the
most complete success to the negotiation, and we may
congratulate ourselves upon the intimate friendship which
will so soon connect two nations called to cultivate it, on
the principles of philanthropy, civilisation, and liberality.
Its consolidation was reserved for the reign of CHARLES
X. and the immense progress France has made
under his Government. France may be sure of the grati-
tude of Colombia.

" Colombia must also be greatly pleased to find the
opinion which the French Monarch entertains of the vir-
tues of our Liberator President.

" The Duke de MONTEBELLO has accompanied M.
de BRESSON to thie capital."

I The Times of Thursday intimated the necessity of re-
f cognising Don MIGUEL, if neither the Emperor Don
PEDRO, nor the Portuguese themselves, overthrew his
power within a limited period. We spoke indignantly
on that occasion. We hold—as we always have done—
that no recognition of the miscreant can ever take place :
but we trust that the Minister of the Queen of PORTUGAL
will take advantage of the hint, and obtain from our Go-
vernment andNhat of France an unequivocal public decla-
ration that they will not interfere to prevent eitht r pro-
ceeding, nor permit Spain to intervene, by guaranteeing to
her--in case she does—protection against all reprisals.
In that event we think the Infant— being left to his own
unpopularity—might be reduced without any concurrence
of foreign arms, and the righteous cause have some chance
of triumphing unassisted. We are not anxious—any more
than Loma vs—unnecessmily to impugn the motives
of the British Government, in their conduct towards the
Queen of PoRTUGAL and her adherents; but it is difficult
for any one to trace throughout these transactions, ab-
stractedly considered, anything but partiality towards the
Usurper.—We have heard, nevertheless, of a trait in
Lord ARZEDEEN'S public life, which sets in a very fa-
vourable light the diplomatic character of the noble Earl;
and proves that—sometimes at least—no man has been
more ready to devote himself for the maintenance of good
faith and the honour of his country. We differ from the
Noble Earl foto caelo, in the views he takes of the duties
which are imposed upon Greet Britain by the laws of
neutrality ; and if he has any desire to retrieve himself in
the public favour on this subject—we say let him secure
a clear stage for the Queen's champions, and withdraw
all appearance of partiality from her adversaries.

The attitude assumed by Lord BLANDFOHD in the
House of Commons, is one of the most conspicuous
which has for a long time been taken up by any public
man ; and he deserves—not less for his ability, than the
prompt decision with which he has stood forward to assert
great principles, at a time when they have been abandoned
by their pledged vindicators—the firm support of every
friend to political improvement.
It is the duty of all such to uphold the Noble Marquis
far above any of those original and once banded reformers,
who have either become tired of their own efforts, or never
exerted them with any sincere desire to prevail against
corruption. It is no argument against Lord BLANDPORD,
to say that he has been frightened at the prospect of Ca.
tholic borough purchasers inundating the House of Car•
mons : that incentive is not a vicious one—far front it.
and there are many men who claim popularity for their
advocacy of the reform questions, whose motives are net
half so pure.
But Lord BEAN Dro D never cpposed reform ;and if he
continued a tranquil, but not unsympathising, spectator
et a battle begun by others, who had all " the means
and appliances," to wage it—begun too, long before the
Noble Marquis was a Member of the House of Commons
—it cannot surely be imputed as any crime to him, that
be left the measure to its prescriptive champions. As
to the Noble Lord's opinions on the Catholic Relief
Bill, they are utterly extraneous to the consideration
of the point at issue. He disapproved of such a
sweeping removal of all barriers between Catholic and
Protestant, without the interposition of some safe-
guard for our old establishments ; he did not think
that the Royal recommendation to use every precau-
tion for upholding these, had been sufficiently regarded
—end he felt, that some dikes and fences ought to
have been respected in so great a change. Here, then,
was more than sufficient motive for his interference
in the question; and he stood forward at once—
openly and without hypocrisy —to assert those *boll-
!Wens which others had languished in asserting; to
vindicate that cause, which its peculiar vindicators had
abandoned ; but on which now, more than ever, in the
Noble Marquis's opinion, depended the healthy working
of our certainly remodelled Constitution. If the re-
formers themselves had not intermitted in their exertions,
the Noble Marquis would probably have continued as be
was : but when he perceived that their efforts were
suspended, and that the question itself was, in seve-
ral of its details, either compromised or deserted
by them, he only took his post in the trenches which
they had abandoned. Now let us examine a little how
the cue stands per contra. On the 2d of June Lord
BLA\ made a motion—of which ample notice had
been given—having for its object the most direct purifica-
tions in the representative system. All the R.eforsners
who were in the House—with two exceptions—met the
proposition either with apathy, or sneers. The two who did
speak, were Mr. Hoattouse and Mr. HUME. The latter
oily made an unimportant remark ; but the Honourable
Member for Westminster supported the Noble Mover, in
a speech which will be long remembered for its plausibi-
fides, exceptions, and evasions. A tone of uncordial and
forced co-operation—as if he could not oppose the aboli-
tions, nor yet uphold them without being contaminated
by the channel through which they came : a vindication
even, almost more than indirect, of the practice of rifting
by purchase instead of pure election ; mingled at the
same time with a reluctant and compulsory redemp-
tion of pledges at the Crown and Anchor, which the
Hon. Gentleman dared not altogether evade—such were
the features of the last speech of Mr. HOBHOUSE info-
your of Reform. He said, certainly, that he would take
whatever he could obtain ; but be said it in such a man-
ner, that it was clear he did not care to obtain it—at
least, in the company of the Noble Marquis. Now, we
should like to know why the party—if Mr. Hosuoust
belongs to any—or why that knot of individuals who con-
tinue to bull together, but except against the denomina-
tion—have agreed among themselves to exclude all, who
cannot give their " Shibboleth," from partaking in their
glories on this question ? We should like to know, also,
upon what principle they justify their dog-and-manger
monopoly, of a measure, which they have slackened in
demanding ? A powerful and eloquent writer en-
deavoured to explain through our columns but the other
day,that the exclusive designations of party had become ob-