Star.
London, England, 1829-12-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAULS ARID= Tuts Day.7:7%ll—Ds Waterford I—Sweden
—Flanders I—Lisbon 1.
The Zephyr, from St. Petersburgh and Dover, put into klilford
Stsd Inst. leaky, bound to Dublin.
DIAL. Dec. 13.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived from London, the
Black Nymph, Goddard, for Sierra Leone, and Robert, Edwards,
for New York.
Possums's, Dec. 43.—Wind N.lL—Arrived the John Echlin,
Thomson, from Jamaica. Sailed the West Indian, Cook, for
Antigya.—The Faith. Cornish, from London to Poole, was got of
yesterday, and proceeded.
PU11047711. Dec. es.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Scott, Smith-
son. from Quebec.
Eaumme, Dec. 44.--Wind N. N.N.E.—Arrived the Doke of
Marlborough packet, from Lisbon—sailed ISth inst.
Iletrumu, Dec. 12.—Arrived the M'Donald, M'Leod, fres
Nova Scotia.
Livisrem, Doc. 12.—Arrived the Lone, from Quebec ;
and Lunenburgh, —. from Halifax.
Wunewaveu, Dec. SS.--Arrived the Favourite. Trusty. from
Rigs.
Curer, Dec. 21.—Arrived the Cherub. Miner, and Earl of
Dalhousie. Boyd. from Montreal ; Salus. Tale. from Miramlchi ;
and Orauvia, Smith, from Tenerife.
Locu Ryan, Dec. el.—Arrived the Alpha. London, from De-
Meral.
1131111TOL, Dec. 4'.—Arrived the Caledonia,Younpr, from Prince
Edward's Island.
Coat;, Dec. 21. Arrived the Isabella, Halifax, and Dart. —,
from Newfoundland.

The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of
England attended yesterday morning at the Treasury. and
had a long conference with the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER.
Viscount Mn.v ILLS arrived at his residence in the
Admiralty, yesterday afternoon, from Brighton.
The Right Hon. P. CoVRTEN AT, the Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, has left Nice on his return to this

country.
Mr. HERRIES has arrived in town from his seat near
Seven Oaks, Kent.
Lord WYNIFORD has left.town for Uxbridge, where it
is expected his Lordship will remain till the latter end of
January.
Mr. JPFEERSON, in one of his letters to General
WASHINGTON, says .Z.o4‘ The way to make friends
quarrel is to put them in disputation under the public
eye. An experience of nearly 20 years has taught me
that few friendships stand this test, and that public as-
semblies, where every one is free to act and speak, are the
most powerful looseners of the bands of private friendship."
The Rev. Archdeacon KING has deducted 15 percent.
from his tithe of the parish of Stone, near Dartford.
The Rev. Dr. DRAKE has given up the whole of his
last year's rents in the East Riding, in consequence of '
the severe loss his tenants have sustained by the inunda-
tion of Frodingham Carry.
PitOTEST•NT COLONIZ•TION.•••••Wm. Henry Trant,
Esq. M. P. has signified his intention of contributing 2„
guiueaa to the fund in aid of the Protestant Colonizatie
system in the county Limerick.
M usic.—We find that a novelty in music is just about
to be publisher) ; and when we tell what it is, we have
little doubt that every lover of the Fine Arts as well as
every one possessed of the smallest spark of patriotism,
shall become possessed of it. It is a Grand Sonata
on the Battle of Terceira for the Piano-forte, com-
posed by an exiled Gentleman of rank, and dedicated to
his Excellency Count VILLA FLOR. As we shall have
occasion to return to this splendid piece of composition,
we need say no more of it now, than that it consists of
ten different pieces of music, accompanied with an exact
explanation of the action extracted from the official ac-
count of the Commander in Chief.
ADILLPRI TREATRIL.d...UTILITARIAN PASTIME.—
The firm of " Mathews, Yates, and Elephant" had on
Thursday night the honour of a visit from one of the
most remarkable men that the last thousand years has
produced—Mr. Jeremy Bentham. Great, indeed,
must have been the attraction that drew from his pri-
vacy such a man, to the crowded benches and merry
faces of the little Adeiphi. It must at the same time
be admitted that monarchs of that happy imprints' and
especially the junior occupant of its triple throne, afford
a more uniform exemplification of the philosopher's prin-
ciples than most of their brethren-do. For where can,
" the greatest happiness of the greatest number" be more
successfully prosecuted than in a house which is crammed
every night to the ceiling, and from which the most sa-
turnine of the throng retires with sides and jaws and
palms tingling with the mirth he has enjoyed and the
applause it has compelled ? Perhaps it was a conviction
of this truth that called the head of the Utilitarians from
his retreat ; but we ranter lean to the opinion
that he was led thither by the chnd-like simplicity
of his heart, and that innocent gaiety of temper which
has been cherished and strengthened through a long and
honourable life by &series of labours unremittingly directed
to the promotion of social happiness. Among the finest
exhibitions of human nature, we know none more worthy
of contemplation than that of a man who retains in the
extreme verge of life not only all the powers of under-
standing, but all the liveliness of sensibility and play of
fancy that characterised his prime of manhood. This is
the ' renewing of youth like unto the eagle,' which is
spoken of by the Psalmist—the re-production not of
physical vigour, as is fabled of the bird, but the renovation
of kindly affections. The figure of Bentham is almost
grand. There is an amplitude, and power, and simplicity
in his massive features, that remind us of the antique busts
of the Father of the Gods. Those who have not seen the
philosopher may form a tolerably correct idea of his bead
from the common portraits of Franklin, a man of kindred
though inferior mind. The arrangement of the hair is
similar, the contour not unlike ; bat in Franklin the
forehead has less dignity, and the lower part of the
visage is fuller and more pendant. In Bentham the
spiritual portion predominates—Franklin, comparatively
speaking, is ' of the earth earthy; the expression of
the Englishman's countenance is creative—of the Alllo-•
can's reflective : Franklin might have played the Seth
to Bentham's Adam—the one made after the image of
God, the other begotten in the likeness of men:—
Spectator.

COLUMBIA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
LETTER I.

BOGOTA, Sara. '2O, 1829.
Si a,—From the many false reports which have been
lately circulated in Europe relative to Columbia, and the
leader to whom we are so mainly indebted for our political
existence, it has occurred to me that a concise review of
our arduous struggle, and the difficulties with which
we have had to contend, my not only romove the
prejudices these rumours are so calculated to create, but
enable the friends of impartiality and jnstice, to ap-
preciate the importance of this country, in the scale of
civilized nations. Having heard that a considerable portion
of your columns are devoted to the elucidation of South
American affairs, I shall fad obliged by your giving insertion
to the facts and arguments to which I would fain call the
attention of the British public.
From all that fable, tradition, or history, has handed
down, it may be truly said, that no period was ever so
fertile in memorable events than that in which we live. Let
us turn our eves where we will—to the east, and, west,
north or send.), the %thole universe seems to be in a state
of agitation which portend a totally new order of things.
We have witnessed in our day, a revolution at once the
most atrocious and beneficent, that ever markel the
annals of any people. We have seen thrones totter,
dynasties changed, and constitutions follow in their train
with an extraordinary rapidity: we have been witnesses
of the portentous convulsions which, in their feadul
course, produced the wonderful man, who " found
an island for his cradle, asylum, and sepulchre !" The
progress of science, and the useful arts, have opened
a new and vast field for promoting the happiness of man-
kind in their social condition ; and have we not witness-
ed a total eclipse in its political acceptation, of all the
powers in the South of Europe, while a new star has
risen with hourly increasing splendour in the north !
We have seen the banner of independence unfurled among
the descendants of MILTIADES LEONIDAS, and EPA-
AIINONDAS, who have renewed and even rivalled
the heroic acts of their great ancestors in the defence
of that classic land. Finally, we have witnessed the
lamp of liberty lighted up in the west, shedding its light
over the shadows of oppression, and serving to guide
a whole world in bursting the chains which corruption,
tyranny, and superstition, had combined to impose.
Never was the earth illuminated by a more brilliant
scene : never did philosophy contemplate a spectacle more
sublime. The rise of so many extensive and opulent States
in the vast continent of Cour:P.:Bus, may well be said to
have created a new moral and political horizon: while it
has exalted the hopes of those who are anxious for the pro-
of knowledge and civilisation. The new States, so dif-
ferent from those which were formed after the destruction
of the Roman Empire, and which subsequently led to an
age of darkness, are destined to promote the great cause of
human nature, by opening an unlimited field to com-
merce, in every age and clime, the prolific parent
of social improvement.
Closing my first letter with these preliminary remarks,
I shall in my next; give you a rapid sketch of the system
of oppression and misrule, which could not fail, sooner or
later, to produce the important lesults now in operation.
I have the honour to be, &c.
GARCIA DEL RIO.