Star.
London, England, 1829-12-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
are due to L. )I. His valuable de-

Our best aeknowkdgments
tails shall appear bi-morrow.

Despatches, dated the 27th of July,'were this day re-
ceived at the Colonial Office, from lieutenant-General
Sir CHARLES COLV I LLE, Governor of the Mauritius.

We have received further advices from Carthagena,
to the date of the 14th, and letters from Guyaquil, to the
30th August. The Peruvian:Congress only wanted three
Members, momentarily expected, to commence its sit-
tings, and to deliberate on the terms of peace. The most
friendly relations already existed between the Govern-
ment of Peru and General Bottv An, and the conclusion
of the negotiations was daily expected at Bogota.
The LIBERATOR had been indisposed, but was quite
well again, and enjoying the proudest fruit of his glorious
labours—the esteem of the enemy, whom he had con-
quered by his arms, reconciled by his generosity.
General O'LEARY had already entered the province of
Antiocha, at Nari, where he took an Officer and eight of
CORDOV A'S advanced party. In five days afterwards he
would be at Medellin ; but perilous disturbance was al-
ready apparent. Co RDOV A had ordered the inhabitants of
the vallies generally to take arms in his favour, under
pain of death, but they had all refused, and at various
points had stopped his parties. The Carthagena detach-
ment would probably return without crossing the Magda-
lena, as General O'LEARY considered his own force far
greater than was needed. The indignation against
.CoRDOV A'S wicked attempt to disturb the public tran-
quillity was general, and his murder of the serjeant,
some years since in a most savage and atrocious
manner, rose in judgment against him whenever
his name was mentioned by the troops. General
Botts.' nit, however, did not altogether escape some
censure for his ill-advised clemency on that occasion
as well as on others.
The Congress will meet in January. The LIBERATOR
has at all times, and on many similar occasions, declared
that " Colombia could not exist, much less enjoy re-
pose, and prosper under a federative system. He always
insisted on the incapacity of the people in the state
they were left, after the war of independence, from want
of previous due education, and their unsettled habits, to
conduct the machinery of provincial Government, under
central supreme direction, as in North America ; and he
always proclaimed, as his opinion, that frequent elections
of the executive, would not maintain or permit the growth
of order, in a country where there would be so many
rival military competitors with equally great claims to the
• suffrages of the Constituent Body."
All the influential men, as well as the great mass of
the people of Colombia, are of his opinion. It is not,
therefore, likely that the new term of Government will
he at variance with those sentiments. But though Ge-
neral BOLIVAR may, by a grateful nation, acting also in
behalf of its own interest, be named and obliged to accept
the Presidentship for life, or for an extended term of
years at least, General BOLIN An, so acting, will not be
playing the tyrant, but the part of the benefactor and fa-
ther of his country.
Were General Bott v An, even now, permitted to pur-
sue his own inclinations, he would seek relief from all
public service. But we say, in the cause of freedom,
and from the love we bear him, that he cannot, and dare
net, for the sake of his renown and his conscience, aban-
don the country he has created to anarchy and spoliation—
the inevitable consequence of his retirement from the fear
of calumny, and thacensure of theoretical publicists.

he detailed account of the operations which imme-
diately preceded the surrender of BARRADAS, will not
reach England before the arrival of the next packet,
a. General SANTA ANNA wrote to say he had
not time to prepare the despateh. But our readers
wilt, in the meantime, understand the plan we have
given in another page, by bearing in mind that General
BARRA DAS had fixed his head quarters at Tam-
pico de Tamaulipas, after he. had been obliged to re-
turn frran Altamira, in consequence of General SANTA
No's gallant attack on Tampico during his absence,
_ when SANTA ANNA withdrew his ♦ery inferior force
in 'the presence of the Spanish troops; without their
venturing to molest him. As soon as SANTA ANNA
received his reinforcements, he ordered General GAR-
CIA, who was at Altranira, to take up the position

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