Star.
London, England, 1827-08-23 00:00:00

COLON] BI A.

BOGOTA, MAT 20. PIIIVATA /ATM&
I gla Ily avail myselt i 4 the opportunity which has
been offered to me to write to you, for although but
two or three days have elapsed since I before had that
pleasure, within this short period so many events have
taken place, so important in themselves and in their
consequences, that for the sake of Colombia, General
Bolivar, your sake. as an attached friend of his and
mine, and lastly for my own, as one whose fate is in-
timately interw. yen with the prosperity or downfal of
this Republic, I conceive it the bounden duty of nie and
every one who has the power, to use their humble
.efforts to avert the danger with which the existence
of this country is threatened. The crisis has at
length arrived which is to de ide upon the life o,
death of the body politic. 2 Tnis day the Con-
gress met, acci rding to their te:oltLion of Thursday
last, to take into consideration the resignations of the
Liberator, Santander, and Baralt. I was there early,
and about halt past nine the chair was taken by Bar It,
lan] the Se.si .n commenced. Soto then got up, and.
lan certainly a • I y able speech, he explained, as well as
the badness of the cause he defended would allow him,
his motives for making the propoittion he did to the
House, to the elFeet that it might be delayed for an
indefinite pet rod. Ile was supported in this by Uribe,
S nator for' Cundinamarca, end formerly Member
-to the Congress of Cucuta. Para ja, from Guaya-
quil, answered satisfactorily Sito's arguments ; in
which he was followed by Arboleda, who a!dressed
Congre.s two or three times, and vict rionsly refuted
the sophistry—•n all it nothing writ se—o hich had been
used against him. Torres, you aill see, has
been vilely abused to the Com/pc/or. risaltrained his
"or mer t pin oils as tc the it.csssij I f deciding on the

resignation of Geeeral Bolivar. However, to cut a
most distressing subject short, notwHistanding the
exertions of Barak, Arboled*, T ores. Arroyo, Tancos
Dominguez. Mavens, Merino, Alvear, Marta,
Borrern, &c. the party of Soto, Aznero, o,orio, Utibe,
Unda, arc. gained the question of delay by four
votes-37 for it, and 33 against it. I cannot describe
to you the dismay this unexpec•ed event has caned
to the friend; of order. to the friends of General
Bolivar, to the real friend, of Colombia, who hoped,
through his instrumentality, to rescue the Republic
from the precipice of snatchy and dissolution to which
she is so rapidly advancing. I never could have ima-
gined that it was possible for men invested with 0 e
august functions of legislators, acquainted, as they must
be, ,notwithstanding titeir affected ignorance, which, in
my opinion, has been, assumed by far the majority
las a *et! to cover miktjniquitous designs), with the se-
*oration of Venetueleyihreateried, in the event of the
Liberator not being placed at the head of affairs, with
she events in the South, which letters received this day
from Pet* and Guayaquil too clearly demons° ye to be -
'but a rail of the grand political schemes of Vidantre.
to annex the South of Colombia to Peru, although
'it is confidently stated, by a certain party 1 ere.
'whose interest it is that these plans of Bustamente and
'Elizalde should not be seen through. that the only
views of the latter, and of the coming of the division to
our coats, is to uphold the Constitution. alte..l Says
how men bound by the most sacred ohlig lions, ean,.in
such a stale of their country, coldly delibet ate rifur,,
and with the most perfect talruness sanction, the
ruin (or if n it, hasten it) of Colombia, is more then
:Yuman imagination could have conceived, or mo tal
:patience bear. lo a time of compa•at ye peace end
'tranquillity; I could have listened with patience,
;sad, could hive eves submitted t' the resignation
of the Liberator being accepted with forbearance;
although in no time, and at no period, would 1,
'with na better reasons than those which have hitherto
'been alfeged in support of such a step, have acq nested
proof of my assertion, I have only to refer to
No. 72 (I think it is) of the Gottstitutiottal, written hut
:very few nsbnths after the haute of Ayacucho, whets
'we we,e very differently situated from what we are at
present, in which I dist fully maniteste I my opinion as
to the necessity that existed for Gen. Bolivar returoing
to this country and assuming the reins of (internment.
It I thought so then, what must be my sentiments at
present, when every argument which could be adduced
in its favour at that moment has received a thousand fold
more vigour from the circumstances we are in, and
from the anarchy with wh ch we are threatened ?
obviate the evils which must result unless the plans
I have alluded to be thwarted—for I am sstisfied that
the object they have had in delaying to discuss the
resignation, is no other than ultimat,-ly to accept it,
provided certain events they are in d lily expectation'of
happen; or if they do not find themselves strollt
enough for that, to render it illusory, even if they re-
fuse to accept it, by deferring it to so late a period in
the Session, that there will be no time for the Presi-
de a to come and take the na.h—Gen. Bolivar should
instantly come to this city. At present nn one has dived
openly to state i.is determination to vote in the a(fii n.a-
live, with the exception of Azuero; and even e this
morning qualified it somewhat, although he d d not er pli.
citly renounce his intention fornieily exptessed of doing
so. They ate waiting, as I really believe, until by the in-
trigues, force, or otherwise, of this division of the South.
they ohtairi s me public documents from the municipal
or other supposed or real agent. of the people, in their
favour, and in that of the Constitution: the same they
are not sti hoot hopes of stetting from the N rtes, or
some of the provinces. Should these expec atitios be
'edicts' to their full extent, in whatever war they may
procure what they will endeavour to palm off up,m the
credulous and unthinking multitude as tire teal and
genuine sentiments of o,e population of such vnd such
a distr cr,—and we have had of late too many instances
of the facility with which this can he effected,--the
greater number of those who have voted in favour of
the proposition of Soto this day will then throw off the
mask, crow on their own dunghill, and. ba.e and mean
as they are (for 1 should ohseive, that almost al these
who were for delaying, with the ex ept on• I have men-
tioned in a former part of my letter, are the vet) canaille
of the Congress) they will exhaust themselves in empty
declamation against the indivi ual when ab,ent, whose
feet they would stoop to when present. In my It tter to
you of the 16th, I impressed upon you the n cessity • f
the Liberator's presence here. The events of this day
have convinced me of its paramount urgency. 1 Cal
positively assure you that the moderate, the impar.
tial,--those who are willing to overlo k their politi-
cal theories in favour of the real advantage o their
fine, those who know that the science of
politics is confined to extracting the greatest possible
quan ity of benefit to one's native comoy out of the
unavoidable circumstances in which that country is
thrown,—all these desire most ardently the General
Bolivar, who unites to hi. own energy, talents and
practice in the administration, what now is_pethaps of
mole conseqwence than the whole,—the COW& ace sod
well wishes of an overwhelming maj rityof his fellow
citizens, and the respect.and regard of foreign Goveta.
ments and their subjects,—should, a ithout loss of time,
assume the executive power. rood devote his valuable
exertions to the salvation of his country, I know not
whether I have succeeded in convincing you of the
urgent a.•ceasity, the paramount importance of Gen.
Bolivar's potence in this city, 'tuber thin in any other
point of the Republic. If I have succeeded in so doing,
I am satisfied that I have done no inconsiderable •er vice
to my poor country; and although it will lse a task of
no small trouble and fatigue to you to wade through
what I have written, if you are persuaded by tire facts
I have stated, you can omit my political reflections, and
consider them as so much utopian nonsense, which I
have penned mote with a view of disburdening riry own
brain to a friend, than from an idea that they might r e
of any permantnt Utility. t ) you. N • one knows better
.han you do, or has 60 many opportunities to learn,
what is for the advaotage of this unf•atunate counir-
For her sake, for the sake of us all, endeavou
suede the Liberator to do, what we all think :.
and *hat, I am certain, every uric mill recommit.,
come here. Ever r

to cnuniry.
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he should.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1827.
31 MI( RXl'll A NOE, TWRLVE tECI.O( K.

The Consol market has been again in a disturbed state this
morning, and Consols, which left off yesterday at 871 for the Ac-
count, opened at STI, one thousand being done at that price; but
soon after the market became very heavy, caused by a report that
the 'Whigs were going out of once, and Consols receded to 87i
for the Account : since which they have rather improved, and may
..be quoted, to the present time, at 871 and fur October 871
buyer*. The report now In the City is, that the Ministry are
settled, and that Mr. ileums is to be Chancellor of the Exche-
qtter.—ln the Foreign market, little or nothing is doing.
Current prices: Old Spanish 9i to, Mexican 66i 67, Colom-
bian 501 51, Russian 901 I.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Up to the present time there is not a feature in the Consol
market worth observation. The eatreine fluctuation has been this
morning from 87i for the Account. down to 87k; and at present
may be quoted at 871 e. A good deal of busine.s has been done
In the early part of the morning; but at present they ate chiefly
occupied in making up their Accounts against nest Wednesday, It
being settling day in the British market.
_ _ _

• HALF•PAST TWO.

This nmnielit a great panic has taken place in the COIIIOI market.
and Consols have fallen near 1 per cent. caused by as Express
from Pari.—the news is not yet known—Consols are 11611 f.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 961 97; $$ Ditto Bonds
3 per Ct. Cons. 371 1 1 1 South Sea Stock
3/ per Cent. 941 Old Annuities •
31 per Cent. Red. 941 1 £lOOO F.: dreg. IMMB 7 9 7 SS
4 per Ct. New 100 k £5OO Ditto
4 per Cent. Scrip £lOO and £2OO DlttO
4 per Cent 1426,102/ 103 CoMmercial
Long Ann. 19 15-16 20 Consols for Acct. 871 1 1 1 1
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO iECl.tteti.
Austtlan Bonds, sp. Ct. 931 Met. l'on 1., S per Ct.
I Do. Ac t Do.lkir. 00.5,6 pCt. 661 71 7 I
Teaslllan Bds.s p Ct. Do. Acct 661 1 671 i
Do. Acc 661 Portuguese lids. Sp C. ?SI
Ct.:nwhian Moil., 6 p CL Frogs. 13.1.. c p C. 1011
Ditto Bch, 1824. 30j 11u0.11.1.,189.2. S pr. 961 e
Do. Account 301 Roan. lists S p Ct. 9; 10/
I)ani..h lids. 3 p rt. 63 French Bente'. Sr C. 1041 50c
Do Acct. 631 63 Exchange., 25f ,poc
BRITISII AND FOREIGN SIIAIIKS, TWO O'CLOCK.
1114• .4 ff. 11.0.4.
Anelo Chilian 100 8 2; 3
Brazilian 35 20 58 4

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Hibernian i 0 8 iii 9
Potosi La Taz & Peru,. Mao. 15 5 £2 ll tfra
Ditto Consolidated 10 £2 lis E 2 161
Droitvvich Patent Salt 25 25 20
Intreral Ste.on Naviearinn 100 13 35
Frovkieial Bank of Ireland 100 25 22) 23

• VRIENCII Ftltzna, AUClrrr 20.—Five per Cents. 104 r. 40C..—Threr
per Cents 7M. :13c.— Bank Stock, Qolor.— Neapolitan Bente',
50c, • Exchange n London, one month, 25f. 15c.— Three
moritha, 26f. sc.—Aco. 21, 5 per Cents. 104 f. 20c. 5 per Cents;
73f. 35c.

A. dispatch was this day received at the Foreign.
Office from Mr, llusataaos, who is arrived at Paris, on
Lis return to England, much improved in health I y his
visit to the Continent.

Private letters, received this morning from Barcelima,
present a hightful picture of the stare of Catalonia.—
That fine province, once the seat cf industry, wealth,
and independence, is now nearly reduced to barbarism,
by the misconduct of its temporal rulers, and the fac-
tious deportment of its spiritual guiees. The latter,
however, are the immediate authors of the triaibles to
which the letters refer, and which threaten to complete
the evils to which Catalonia has been so long sub-
ject. Thee troubles, as our tend rs a:e av a•e, haee
been excited under the pretence r f fortifying the
throne and protecting the altar, which, according
to she rallying cry of Ilse insurgents, are in immi-
nent danger, from the lukewarmness of the reigning
Monatcli, the treachery of his present Ministers,
and the moral incompetence of the Police—the latter
being accused of conniving at the designs of the
egtoes, or Constitutionalists. These charges, absurd
as they are, have been sufficient to raise nearly the whole
province; and the danger is become so urgent, that all
the disposable troops in the other parts of the kingdom
have received orders to repair thither. It is computed
that a force of 10,000 men is now moving, by various
routes, towards that agitated theatre, and that this
force is scarcely adequate to the emergency. It is
strongly suspected that a part of the troops, amongst
whom the greatest discontent generally prevails, will
go over to the rebels, and, like oil thrown upon a fire,
impart additional strength and fury to this sers i!e war.
The insurgents were already in possession 'of Limper-
clan, the district cf Figueras, Gerona, Vrch, Sulsina,
Mannesa, with several other places, which it would
he tedious to enumerate. An ancient Guerilla Chief,
who had lived retired at Mataro, has been tempted by
the existing disorders to quit Iris retirement, and take to
Iris old trade of fighting and pillaging. Iletook with him
seven officers, who had formerly served under him; and
his movements haveexcited a very strong sensation. One
•IL/C tic \Jam)* load a vc..l a I.lsct.k at. coparr a, where it
•was surprised by a battalion of the 3d Regiment of the
line, since which a peasant, who served as a guide to
the battalion, having fallen into the hands of the leader
of the 'band, has been shot. This summary mode of
proceeding speaks volumes, as it shews that the rebels
look upon themselves as the only true Royalists, and
those who act is the KING'S name, and by his orders,
as tra:tors. In fact, the real object of the insurrection ix
to Zepose ?VIC:PINANG, who is not lloyalk enough for ,
alas perverse faction, and substitute Don. CARLOS as a
'Prince better suited to its views. In the mean time, it will
be seen by our extracts from the Paris Papers, which ar-
rived last night, that a base insinuation is thrown out in
the Quotidiettne, the notorious organ of the Apostolicals,
that English intrigue is at the bottom of these troubles.
We should meet with silent contempt so infamous a
charge, were it not for the vile censorship, which makes
the French Government a party to the calumny. If any
foreign influence has been employed, it is not English ;
for, waiving the question of our national morality, we

have no Lot*. est, immediate or prospective, in the dis-
orders of Spain ; whilst they afford a pretext to the
.French Government for augmenting its troops in that
unfortunate country. Fiance, as she is now governed,
may be justly suspected of encouraging any movement
in favour of pure despotism, and which wool. furnish
her with a plea at the same time for strengthening and
extending her political ;el itions with the Peninsula. I
is well known that the Portuguese Constitution is an
e)e-so e to her rulers; aid that there is scarcely a sac.
kr that they would make, or a risk that they would
not; incur, to get rid of it. However, the F.ench Ca-
binet has no time to lose, as the author n f the Constitution
is already on his way to Europe, for the expo ess purpose
of consolidating his work, and defending it against its
enemies, foreign as well as domestic. The letters re-
vived this morning from Lisbon, which are of the 4th,
speak of his speedy arrival, not as a matter rf contin-
gency, hut of certainty; and woe to the Apostoli-
cals, both in P.artugal and Spain, when he once
sets foot •on his native soil ! • These letters further
mention that the preliminaries of peace between Buenos
Ayres and Brazil were signed on the 7th of June, and
that three frigates were preparing at Rio de Janeiro to
convey the Emperor to Pot togal. His arrival, therefore,
maybe daily expected; and we wish the Apostolicals joy
of the circumstance. In the mean time it will be seen, oti
reference to our City article, that there is a great panic
in the Consol market, occasioned by the arrival of an
Express from Paris, which, in all probability, is con-
nected with the subject we are row visiting upon.

Accounts from Li.bon state that SALDANAII, who
inhabited a chateau in the environs of Cintra, received
!orders to retire to the hamlet Peiras, at the mouth of
the Tagus.

The Cabinet Conned. which WAS 10-1,1 yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign Office, in Downintatieet, was attended by the
1.010 CHANCEL! ON, the Marquis of I.ANSDOWN, the Earl of CAS.
LIMA, Viscount GODIERICII, Viscount I'ALMICItsTON, Mr. WyNx,
31r. TIVIIMILY, and Lord fitiit.s:Y. The Ministers met soon attsr
one o'clock, and sat in deliberation for nearly three hours.
The Duke of PORTLA nit), Alter attending the King'.
Court on Tuesday afternoon, kit town fur his zest at Welheck
Nottinghamshire.
The Duke of MANCHESTER (the late Governor of
Jamaica), transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Di.patches were sent off yesterday evening horn the
Coloni.l Office to Sir Faancmcc Aoam, the Lord High Commis.
duller of the lonian Islands.

The Duke • f %Vaud,: GTO N left town on Tuesday
evemog, on a shooting excursion into Yorkshire.
Tne Queen of Wuturr.mnttsic left th tesidence of the
Duke and Duchew of CLARE/Mk, at Bushy Park, where her Ma•
attar has been slaying some days, and returned to Frogaioro
Lodge, the seat of the Pt incest Autturea, yesterday.
The Mess of the HonourAble Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms to his , gave a grand dinner at the Freemasons'
Tavern on Tuesday, in honour of the Lirtb.day of his /loyal
Highness the Duke of (AAA . .

.1( the Corn Nlitrket yesterday, particularly towards
the end of b.,siness, much activity was di.played. he samples
of new wheat were very fine ; indeed the accounts from the maj•ir
part of the counties of England state that the crop. were of a -is•
periur description, and generally spe.kin.; very la•ge. In Kent.
Sussex, and Essex, this is particularly the case. The harvest has
been got in nearly in. every part of the three counties just
named. The crop of barley is every v here exceedingly abut,.
dam; a fall in mai, is therefore :retest. o.ts will not he so
deficient at had been expected, and the quantity Imported having
been so large that prices must give way. Slicer the increase of the.
duty to 4.. per quarter an meal, and 2s per quartet MI Oats coming
from distant countries has been imposed, the imports have lieu
very small., Yesterday afternoon rather more we. ein,e than iN the
I morning, and new wheats were taken readily at a slight advance.
Oats were likewise in request, but nothing of any importance was
done in them. Oilier grain remained 1114(41 the same.
The following is au estr ct 01 a letter :e eked in
Edinburgh, dyed New York, June 7 :—" A great number of emi-
grants have arrived here this season from Great lkitain: indeed,
every ship that arrives bruise lots of them. The Camillus fruni
Greenock bad nearly 200. and another, strip that arrived yesterday
from Purt Glasgow bad WO on board. There have been de.
cidedly more arrivals of emigrants already at New York this season
than for several years past. Such of them as ate mechanics will do
well ; but farmers and weavers (of which there is a great propel dun
among those already airived) will find it pretty tough work to get
on. There is a class of people %hum you have in abundance in
Scotland, who would du we ll here, that is, servant girls to do house-
work, StC. the majority of Muse employed at such work being blacks,
and Irish women lately come out, who in general :.re but indiffe-
rent house servants. The average wages they receive a from four
to six dollars per month, :lid some es m,.re than this is given
The reason this class of domestics ate ••• scarce in this place is, that
the poorest mechanic makes his daughter a mautua.maker or a
milliner."

This. is the anniversary of Gyomott Vitus:as, Duke
of Duckirigbatu,being aglag,isiatrd by Felton, at Portsmouth, 1628.
Letters tr.,m Spain say, that it results from the in-
quiry instituted into the fact of General Quesada's pa-
lace, at Seville, having been :mint, that it was set on
fire with a view to get rid of the Genetal. As several
persons of eminence weir concerned in this business, a
revolutionary movement has been attempted in Anda-
lusia, and it has been ptoposed to declare that province
independent of the kingdom of Spain.—Courier Francais.
Fine At DR EAlliTi. 1/101
about one o'clock, the lower part of the house of M,.
Thorne, silversmith and jeweller, situated in Hanover-
street, Oxford-street, was discovered to be on file by
the watchman; he gave an alarm, and Mrs. Thome
appeared at the second floor window, calling for
as-istance, and, before any means could be adopted
to save her, she jumped into the street and fell upon the
pavement. She was immediately carried into an' ad-
joining house, in a stile of insensibility ; and medical
aid being procured, it was found that bath her legs had
been fractured, and her back injured. Mrs. Thorne was
alive this forenoon, but is no: expected to survive the
dry. The flames were subdued in less than ten minute.
after; and the family, consisting of an elde ly Lady,
Mis. Thorne's mother, and two servants, e.eape.t
uu-
hutt. Mr. Thorne was Iron' home. _

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NI ILANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Saturday the Dumbarton
steam-boat took a trip to Ailsa Craig, and a great number went
away in high spirits to amuse themselves with a sight of thin rock.
But alas! t: e mirth of many would be exchanged (or grief before
they returned. A young man of the name of Joseph Kennedy, a
tradesman in Stranraer, and who bore an excellent character, formed
one of the party, and on descending the ruck, had deviated front
the usual footpath, and nut being aware of his danger, had ap-
proached too near its margin, by which he was precipitated fifty
feet. Instantaneous death was the consequence. His lifeless body
was conveyed to Stranraer, and the sad intelligence excited the
deepest sentiment of sorrow.
EZTENSIVE FORGERY.—A forgery has been com-
mitted upon the Hibernian Bank to a large amount.
Thursday the son of an eminent merchant from Kil-
kenny presented a draft signed with his father's name,
for 1,4501. which was paid, and it was not until four
o'clock on Friday it was discovered to be a forgery.
The young man has absconded.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.