Star.
London, England, 1829-08-21 00:00:00

CONTRADICTION of the JAMAICA SLAN.
DIMS AGAINST BOLITAR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sin—lt is with pain I observe in your Paper of last
night that an extract is made from the Royal Gazette
of Jamaica, reflecting on the justice of the authorities of
Carthagena, in affirming that they had ordered for exe-
cution an Englishman of the name of Miller " owing to
his being a foreigner, whilst they had set at liberty,
after a few days confinement his Spanish accomplices,
who were more guilty than himself." The facts of
the case are these—Miller, whose trade is that of
a working-jeweller, had for a long period been en-
gaged in counterfeiting gold bars, by introducing
copper into the interior of them : by these frauds
various individuals were robbed of property to the
amount of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Miller
being at length detected, was fairly tried, and legally
convicted, as the principal in the crime, and conse-
quently selected for punishment. The offence for which
Miller was condemned, is one of the gravest character in
a country, the chief export of which is gold ; and being
entirely novel, might require an immediate example, to
prevent its extension. Nothing can be more unjust and
mischievous than these accusations against the jurispru-
dence and equity of other countries, and it is more par-
ticularly so in a transaction where such extraordinaiy
lenity has been shown to the criminal by referring his
case to the clemency of the Liberator, without any other
excuse for such an indulgence than that of his being a
British subject. The same spirit of malevolence actu-
ates the writer of those letters, which ascribe to General
BOLIVAR the intention of assuming the Imperial dia-
dem, notwithstanding he has been hourly giving new
proofs of his generous moderation and sacrifice.
The last accounts from Bogota assure General Boia-
VAR'S arrival in that capital during the month of
August,where he is coming to resign his Dictatorial Power
at the opening of Congress in January, 1830, having
left SUCRE to retake Guyaquil, in which city LA MAR,
in violation of the Treaty generously conceded to him
after the defeat of Tarqui, has established himself,
having reinforced that garrison with 400 men, the
wreck of the 7,700 with which he invaded Colombia.
He has declared that he is resolved to burn the city rather
than see it restored to its lawful possessors. The annexa-
tion of this city to Peru has long been one of his fa-
vourite projects ; but he will be obliged to relinquish this
prey, so dishonourably acquired, as soon as the rainy
season permits the advance of the Colombian forces—
and the escape of General LA MAR may then be rendered
hopeless, should the Colombian frigate, under the orders
of Commodore CHITTY, arrive in the river Guyaquil
before the attack is made.

GVA L, the late Minister Plenipotentiary of Colothbia
to the Congress of Tacubaya, of which Peru fomtted a
part, was arrested by LA MA IL on his arrival at Guya-
quil, at which port he was forced to touch on his way
back to his own country. He was sent on board the fri-
gate Prueba, but soon after released on the energetic
remonstrances of General FLORES.

Generals GAMAILRA and LA MAR are in open war—
GAMARBA wants a Congress, and LA MAR and his
party a Dictatorship. Bolivia has returned with the
wish of all parties to the former order of things, and the
Bolivian Co& is again in force by the vote of the Ge-
neral Congress.
AN ANGLO-COLOMBIAN.

CITY. Twm.vs o'CLocc.

The Consol Market is rather beak this morning ; Console, which
left off yesterday at 881 / for the Account, opened at NI I, and
881 89, for next Account. This improvement in the Market is
attributed to the French 3 per cents. leaving at on Wednesday at
79f. 80c. Also we have accounts from Wallachia of the 24th
of July. stating that it was confidently reported there that Count
Pahlen, Ancient Governor of the Principalities, was to embark
with Count Orlow at Odessa to • meet the Grand Vizier, and to
open a new negociation.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing u yet : prices
nominal.

CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The Consol market continues very firm, and has improved since
the early part of the morning, when they were at 88g for the Ac-
count, and at present they are 88{ and 89 to g for next Account.
This continual improvement of the market is attributed to two

drcumstances, first, that it Is the general belief that the great
Hebrew operators sre in possession of news from the East ; 2d,
that ►t is a great Bear Account, and they will be able to deliver
the stock on settling day, which is near at hand.
In the Foreign market Northern Securities have improved :
Danish, 696 ; Russian, 1001 11.

A private letter from Paris, dated the day before yes-
terday, gives an account of the conduct, the temper, and
aim of the several Parisian Journals with reference to the
ministerial changes. The letter is not worth insertion at
length ; and it is only for its absurdity that we notice it :
" The violence," says this man, " with which the
Ministry has been assailed is considered in the Ministe-
rial circles as a guarantee of the stability of the Adminis-
tration !" Indeed ! And further says the oracle,—
" They laugh at the violence of the liberal Journals."
Let them laugh who win, say we. The French
press is more than a match for the Ministry; and
as an evidence of this, we would quote the same
writer in speaking of the stupid infatuated Quoti-
dienne. Of that Paper, entertaining the same sen-
timents as himself, he complacently states, " Its ad-
hesion the New Administration is not without impor-
tance to the Royalist cause." In noticing the other
Journals,—such as the Debats, the Constitutionnel, or
the Journal de Paris—papers universally read and re-
spected, on account of their being the best papers in the
world,—the same remark is surely applicable as regards
the cause they espouse. We are compelled to notice the
absurdities of this letter, as we believe it will be paraded
in some few of this evening's papers, from the edification
of our constitutional countrymen.

The Ganges man-of-war is arrived from Rio Janeiro ;
but she is of an old date ; she brings 18,0001. sterling for
the Brazil Mining Company.
Reports say, that our Government have determined
not to recede one inch to the Turks, in regard to the
affairs of Greece.

We also understand that the Gloucester is in no hurry
to sail, u she is not to leave the Nore until the Court
Martial on Captain D— is over.