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so, STRAND, London;
And sold la every Town in the Kingdom.
LIQUID in Bottles, ad. lad. lad. and 18d. each.
Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, ad. lad. and 18d. each.
• Shilling Put of Paste is meal to Four is. Bottles of Liquid.
Cr Ask for WARBEN's Mains.

" Letters have been due from Bogota for many days,
and we anxiously look for their arrival. We are in-
formal that Ere: has received some common:cation
from Santander, advising him to retrace his steps,
which he must know to be unconstitutional, and to give
up the command to General Ma:mo, until General
Bermudez shell arrive to take it. He offers there, to
m a General Net, with a view to talk over the affairs
of Venezuela, in order to come to some future salutary
arrangements, proposing for the interview Varinas,
Mend!, or any other place that Pees may name. The
Vice-President also reminds him, that the army of Peru
is now at liberty—that General Bolivar is expected in
Colombia very shortly—that the President has always
been opposed to the form of Government the Venezues.
Lots 'wish to establish—viz. Federation.

41, General Pack has replied, that he cannot and
will not ieplace things as they were, stating that his
honour compelled him to support and protect, in their
vitws, the people -who had created him their civil and
military chief. He further remarks, that the Peruvian
troops, If they forget themselves in Venezuela. would
meet with very different soldiers to the Spaniards in
Peru. These and other inconciliatory remarks were
made by Paez to Santander. •

" The letter of Santander was dispatched upon the
receipt of the first news of the affair; since then he
must have received communications less palatable. and
we feel anxious what will be the conduct of the Vice-
President on their arrival at Bogota.
"Two posts are due from the seat of Government,
but we know them to be detained by Pam in Valencia,
where letters are opened for his information, and pro-
bably some are intercepted. It is impossible to know
the sentiments of the people as to the issue: two persons
of equal credit will give opposite opinions. Some say
Paez will, if possible, retreat; others, that his character
is different, and and that he will certainly proceed in
the business. Some declare, that all the acts of the
Monicipalities have been wrested from them, and that
they contain not the sentiments of the members, but of
the Valencia faction, which consists of about four
unprincipled and disaffected dangerous men, who
have neither reputation nor property to lose: this is my
opinion. PACE is an honourable man in many respects,
and I fear he is now the tool of this party. Reports
have reached us of the arrival of Bolivar in Bogota ;
they are not authentic; I have conversed with three of
his relations on the subject, and they say it is untrue.
" Commerce continues very bad : no payments ; pro-
visions very dear, stc. Things cannot remain lung in
their present state. They have been endeavouring to
procure money from merchants, kc. Hitherto their
plans have been unsuccessful. It is probable we shall
have more news before ;he August packet arrives; till
then I will leave my letter."
It/TRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER, DATED AUGUST S.
" The packet arrived last night, and will leave La
Guayra to-morrow morning. Since the date of this
letter, letters and papers have been received from Bo-
gota, although we have heard of no official communi-
cations. The Constitutionnel speaks out, and declares
Pats a traitor, kc. analyses all the proceedings, and de-
clares that Government can only adopt a step that is to
crush the rising rebellion by force, if other more clement
measures fail. It is thought that this Paper breathes
the sentiments of the people at the helm. We hear that
movements hostile to the Pace party have been made
by several Chiefs, and, should all the reports which
have reached us prove true, he must be overwhelmed ;
but there is so much party feeling, mystery, and decep-
tion amongst this people, that I would defy say man
to discover the actual state of things, much less decide
upon the termination that will follow. The only thing
which could immediately prove decisive, would be the
appearance of Bolivar.
" General Pact has lost all popularity with the Ca-
raccasians, by issuing orders prejudicial to the interest
of the merchants and other; no doubt he has acted
under the advice of thodemons that surround him ; still
he is censured for not taking counsellors who have some
character. Failing in procuring money by a loan from
the merchants, agriculturists, &c. he has declared that
all duties at the Custom-houses of La Guayra and
Porto Cabello shall be paid in cash. You should
know that there is a species of paper in circulation,
issued by order of Government, and up to this period it
has been received at the Custom-houses in part of pay-
ment for duties; consequently this paper, which mer-
chants and others buy at a considerable discount, is per-
fectly useless; even these Government bills, which had
. been paid to individuals for contracts only a few days
previously, have been refused by the Custom-house.—
fhis act must soon be cancelled, for the result has been,
that people have refused to pay any duties, unless the
paper is taken in part of payment. Another or der has
been published, that no extracts from public papers shall
be printed in the journals of Caraccas. Paez has sent
this order to the Intendant, fearing that articles will be
published upbraiding himself and his cause. How des-
perate must be the condition of a patty to require such
illiberal proceedings for its support! I might fill another
sheet with reports and surmises, such as the displace-
ment of one officer from command, and the promotion
of another ; of the creation of some, and the breaking of
others : we are, however, sceptical on many points.
We did expect some news from England in reference to li
our affairs here; but I presume the letters reached you
about two days after the packet had sailed."

FROM A DUTCH PATNA.
HAARLEM, Sin. 25.
The accounts from Groningen are still very melan-
choly. The number of deaths, which, from the 7th to the
14th of September, was 142 ; increased in the following
week, from the 14th to the 21st, to 175. The great
disproportion between the number of medical men and
that of the s!ck, is the cause that the greater part of the
latter remain without any medical assistance whatever.
Most trades stand still on account of the sickness of the
workmen—and hence many an industrious family is
reduced to the greatest d s tess. To alleviate this new
evil as much as possible, and to enable those much-to-1
be pitied persons to look forward with less apprehensionl
to the approaching winter, eighteen inhabitants of the
city have united to draw up a list of those farni!ies
which, receiving no relief from the churches, are in
want of assistance in consequence of the prevailing dis-
orders. 'these Gentlemen will receive contributions in
money, file), or clothing, and distribute them am-mg
the necessitous.

The new Infirmary answers the expectations that
were formed of it : the number of patients received
amounted, on the 20th of September, to 275, all per.
sons of the loweit class, none of whom hod died since
the 16th. The number of deaths up to that time was
only twelve, of whom five were pretty far advanced in
life. By judicious arrangements, room had been made
for SO more patients; but in order to make this useful
establishment still more advantageous, and to be able
to receive a much greater number of patients, a sepa-
rate house was wanted for the convalescent, who can-
', not be removed to their own habitatiJns without dan-
ger of a relapse.
The accounts from Friesland respecting the disorders
prevailing there are also very unfavourable. At Sneck,
a town of 6,000 inhabitants, ninety-six persotls died in
the month of August, and sixty-six from the Ist to the
18th of September.
In Woodsend, a village wkb 900 inhabitants, 4$ died in 30 days.
In Friesland, as well as in Groningen, they complain of want of
medical men to attend the sick, and also of persons able to attend
as nurses.

A private letter from Groningen gives frightful de-
tails of the state of the city ; not only the poor, but
even the middling class of people, Cannot procure medi-
cal advice or medicines ; many apothecaries are sick ;
among them is the city apothecary, and the Dispensary
is shut op. In short, every thing is in confusion. If
any one will have a doctor, he must watch for his rid-
ing through the street, seite the bridle of his horse, and
drag him by the clothes into the house.
Every moment of the day, whatever way you turn
your eyes, you see poor wretches carried to their graves.
All is still and dead. We have not th;rty stud.mts,
though the Haarkns Courant announced that the lec-
tures would begin.
Almost all the soldiers are ill ; there is a guard of
three men and corporal in the greit market ; not a
single sentinel is to be seen in any part of the city, very
few soldiers being well, though the mortality among
them is inconsiderable.

The number of deaths from the eth of June to the 7th of Sep.
tember, was SOS; arid from the 7th to the 41st of September, 317.
—Total, 1,125.

EXPEDITION TO GREECE.
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The following letter, which is full of int' resting mat-
ter, is written try a distinguished member of the expo-
dition; The date is old, but the partiettlars are all new.

"CacLuots, Atm 6.
" I suppose you have already been made acculainled
with our misfortunes through the medium of the public
prints, and 1 doubt slot but you have participated in the
anxiety this delay has occasioned us. Our machinery
being in stitch a state as to render it impossible to con-
tinue our voyage without reparation, we put in bete for
the purpose of arranging it. The extraordinary sensa-
tion naturally occasioned by the arrival of a steam-
vessel for the first time in a semi-barbarous country was
'much heightened by a despatch received a few days pre-
viously from Turin.

la The Piedmontese Minister at the Court of England,
with a penetration worthy of• a legitimate diplomatist,
had written.to his Government, informing it that Gen.
Pepe was equipping, in England, a fleet of steam.vessels
for the purpose of attacking Sicily. When the Pied-
montese Minister at the Court of London could permit
himself to become the subject of such a political hoax,
(for such I must consider it, unless I suppose him to
be hoaxing his own Government), it is not at all sur-
pr6ing that the Viceroy here should be in total de.
spair at the sight of a steam•vessel. All the guns of the
fortress that could be brought to bear on the vessel were
directed against her; a gun-boat was anchored close to
her; the guards of the town were doubled, and the
gates shut at eight o'clock. After seven days' quaran-
tine, we were admitted to praticiee, and a strict search
made amongst our crew for General Pepe; but being
unable to discover him did not altogether remove their
fears—two passengers were regarded with the the most
suspicious eye, and it was not without infinite difficulty
they were permitted to land. Each hour brought new
tidings fraught with matter of additional alarm. At one
moment a fleet of frigates was seen off the bay—at
others steam vessels ; now it was ascertained we had
landed General Pepe at Almeria—again we had been
seen off the coast previous to our arrival, transporting
our guns into another vessel. A Maltese Government
schooner arrived from Genoa, and it was ascertained she
was come to bear despatches frdm us to our consorts.
No trifle was omitted that ignorance could impress into
the service of suspicion. She bore a red ensign—we
b.we the same colour, and it appears the British Naval
Admiral bears a white flag. This coincidence was proof
positive in the eyes of such authorities, that we made
part of a squadron destined to revolutionize all Europe,
and if not directly fitted out by the British Government,
at least favoured by it.
gi These recorts furnished daily food for the excited
appetite of this ignorant Government, and not less ig-
norant population, till at length, when even they began
to be wearied with the monotony of the farce, arrives
the post from Piedmont, bringing intelligence that the
Perseverance steam-vessel, with Lord Cochrane on
board, had touched at Almeria. Advice to the