Star.
London, England, 1829-07-20 00:00:00

COLOMBIAN PAPERS.

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No. 111.
Coll' of a dispatch from General ESPIN Aft to the
inister at War, announcing the arrival of the President
Quito :
" HEAD-QUARTERS, Quito, March 11th, 1829.

" EXCELLENT SM.-.

" The President liberator entered this city on the
fining of the 17th, and was received with the greatest
aonstrations of joy. The foreign war being terminated
is manner the most glorious for Colombia, and civil

having ended by means as worthy as they are generous,
South begins to respire, and promises the immense ad_
tages of a solid peace, and of a Government which
11 guarantee the enjoyment of public freedom and
`peaty• _ _

General HERBS has proceeded to the province of Loja
mange the affairs of that department, as also those of
a and Mainas. General FLonas goes to Guyaquil, in
nr to reduce that place by force, should it not agree to
terms stipulated for its surrender, or make any re_

The territory of Colombia will be evacuated this day
be remains of the Peruvian army. It is confidently
rted, that of the eight thousand men who composed
nvading army, not more than five hundred men will
ass the Macara. Indeed, a dispatch of General LA
was intercepted, which stated his army to consist of
thousand men, besides his reserves.
The Liberator President will henceforth be exclusively
ied in repairing the evils of the South, which have
inevitable during the two last years of calamity, and
n the negociation of peace, which will be celebrated
month at Guyaquil. When the treaties are concluded,
xcellency intends proceeding to the Northern Pro-
s. " GOD preserve your Excellency,
(Signed) " JOSE 13. ESPINAR."
e Bogota Paper from which the above is extracted
a letter from the Peruvian Commandant at
uil to General ILLINGROT, who commands the
bian forces before that place, in which he proposes
pension of hostilities, and requests that forty-five
may be allowed to receive the instructions of his

!rnment.
PROTECTION OF COMMERCE.
TO THE COMMITTEE OF LLOYD'S.
NTLEMEN—It is well known to you that if any per-
wounded. killed, or murdered on board a British vessel dur.
course of her voyage, that on her return to a port of this
. an inquiry must be held, and the person or persons who
oonsinitted or been accessory to the same, brought to
the silence at the Court of Admiralty Sesdons—the laws
country making no distinction, whether the persons so
, killed, or murdered be of the ship's crew, or pusesgent
r the perpetrators or sufferers be natives or foreigners .
embarking under the British flag receiving equally the
of that nag, as they subject themselves to the laws that
It.

e._ the due rueution of these laws depend the whole corn•
interests of the country, and the personal security of every
ho sails from these shores, or puts his foot on board a British
Any neglect, therefore, in enforcing these must be coosi•
as fraught with the greatest mischief to the nadon ; and it
y add to the aggravation,if it be argued that the disinclination
them in force arises from a possibility that t►e investigation
plicate men high in power. But I say, let who may prove
let the perpetrators of the deed be brought to trial : let
nee, if possible, clear the accused, but let the trw have its

board the English brig Susan, off Terceira, one passenger was
ing and another wounded, by a shot fired from his Majesty's
er, under the command of Captain Walpole, and cams.
the laws of Great Britain—the rights of the flag—the
of the country and her best interests, make it unavoidable

aptain Walpole and the man who fired the ill-fated gun be
it to their trial. And though we should rejoice that the mam
dated the deadly engine—as well as Captain Walpole, who.
d it to be fired—may be able to offer a satisfactory defence
obedience yielded to eaperior orders (much as we doubt that.
3 prove the gam), yet the trial cannot be dispeossai with.
lernen of the Committee of Lloyd's, I call on you, there.
take this matter into year serious consideration, and with-
her delay to require of the Admiralty that his Majesty's
tger be recalled from the West Indies, in order that Capt.
and the persons who caused the maiming and death of
'-.14t be bressght to trial.
MERCATOR.
IDER BY Poisontwo.—The unprecedented mul-
A of atrocious crimes is one of the most dreadful charac-
of the times in which we live, and proves that the demo-
nof the lowest class in society has proceeded to a length
truly appalling. Stewert and his female associate, who rw
sentence of death on Tuesday for the murder of Robert
, on board the Toward Castle steam-boat, on the rivet
a the month of December last, appear to be monsters
uity worthy of being classed with the incarnate de-
if the West Port. Even before his trial, Stewart ad-
o some persons who bad access to him that he had doss
ad) learn persons besides Lamont, by administering
what he called, in his infamous slang, the Doctor—
`by poisoning them with laudanum ; and since hie.
, be has, we understand, confessed to three mote
11. making eleven in all. Now, if this be true, which we
bed to believe it Is, it exhibits a woeful picture of the
y of our criminal law, and of the tearful amount of chasms
t which it affords even to the most hardened and daring
I • for, by this statement, ten mortal murders were
tit not only with impunity, but without the fact of
dog been committed at all being known or even suspected
t whose duty it is to detect and punish crimes. We
the common sense of our readers, then, whether the
It at present stands, or rather as it is at present adminis.
yes any thing that almost deserves the name of pro-
o the lieges ; or whether it does not, in fact, bold oat
Mon to the commission of the worst and most sim-
mer by the numerous chances of escape upon which
may, and, we are satisfied,. actually do calculate.--
not relaxed in his vigilance, nay ceased to. take

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Most ordinary precautions-, he might have gone Ons
ws bow long, committing murder upon murder, in
he most crowded and populous parts of this city,
ver being detected. And the same thing may be said
art, who, but for the enormous folly of having pro-
administer the Doctor in a steam-boat, whence, in the
suspicions being excited, escape was impossible, might
ued his career of murder and robbery for years to come
unity. It may, indeed, be said, that such miscreants k-
ph so hardened, sierra'', and reckless, that they a
fall into the fangs of justice at last. But what Wit 01
is this, which necessarily implies that a man may pet'
committing even the greatest crime known to the law.
and habit deaden his sense of personal danger, sad
more adventurous or less cautious in perpetratini
answer to our observations to say, " Oh, it is quite mei
man may commit eleven murders like Stewart, or slip
Burke, but it is quite certain that be will be at last do.
hanged 2" Our very ground of complaint Is founded
fact of these monsters not being detected sooner • and dabs
happen until we have the sense, or it would be wort
say the humanity, to borrow from our neighbours their
of a Coroner's Inquest, which might easily be adapted 14
ted upon our own institutions. Stewirt is said to have
ted into the art of committing murder in this subtill
y means of laudanum, in the Great Babel of the South,
pleases oar vanity to consider the mother of all
when we happen to forget the monsters that have
or harboured in the bosom of oar own country.--:
Mercury.

THE KING.

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WING9OII, JULY 19.—Yesterday afternoon his MA-
JESTY left the Royal Lodge for an airing in the Great
Park ; the KING was accompanied by the Lord Steward,
in the pony phaeton, with outriders, and continued his
drive from six o'clock until nearly nine. The Princess
Augusta, with her Ladies in Waiting, attended Divine
Service at the Parish Church this morning. The
fashionable.; and visitors of Windsor have lost a treat this
day by the non-performance of the bands of the Foot
Guards and the Royal Horse Guards Blue, in the Ter-
race, owing to the continuance of rain. The early part
of the day was particularly tine, which brought a great
number of strangers into the town, whose pleasure was
checked by the unfavourable change in the afternoon.
The Terrace, which was expected to have been thronged'
with company, was completely deserted.