Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-03-26
coJMJuoDoRE DANIELS.

The Editor of the Morning Chronicle, has been
favored with the following extract ola letter, re-
ccived by a gentleman iu Baltimore, dated
LAGUAYRA, Feb. 10, 1924.
have no news to give you, except some &C
count of the trial of Com. Daniels, for the loss
OF sloops of war, not long since. Some of the
most distinguished personages of this country
(viz. Generals Bermudez, Paez, and Soublette)
were his advocates. The trial lasted several
days, when the commodore was honorably &C
quilted. Gen. Paez stood up before the court,
and In an elegant speech, depicted the glorious
excrtions of the defendant, in gaining and con-
irming the liberty of Colombia, and as the gal
liant commodore &C had done the state some SER
vice." he was proposed as Admiral in chief of the
naval forces, amidst the reiterated plaudits of
the audience. After this triumphant acquittal
splendid entertainments were given him by the
most distinguished families in Caracas. The
last fcte was ball given by Daniels himself, in
return for the numerous honors conferred on him.
do not remember to have witnessed more
| magnificent display of wealth and luxury: the
profusion of superb decorations, the variety and
elegance of the costumes, the air alive with the
breath of flutes and trumpets, the &C bevy of fair
women richly gay" and the number ofillustrious
personages assembled, presented spectacle OF
which no idea could be formed, except from the
enchanting pictures of oriental romance
The rooms were decorated with festoons, patrI-
oiic enblems, and luxuriated in every fancifu
variety ofcaryed work. They were most splen-
didly illuminated an atmosphere of golden
light set the minutes objects in clearcst vision be-
fore the eye of the spectator, and large mirrors
reflected the magical scene in indefinite multi
plication.
The Commodore has generously given up to
government all hisNvages, and the services of his
own vessels In this country: thus emulating those
heroes, whose noble actions enriclrhistory to US,
by opening such varied and delicious vistas to
our gaze beneath the range of its loftier events.
The New-York Mercantile Advertiser has
been favored with Caracas papers of the 18th and
l 1th ult.
The latest Bogota dates, are Dec 2Ist The
government has granted to .Hessrs. Herring,
Graham and Powels, merchants, of Londoe
100000 fanegas Of uncultivated and in the prov
inces of Merida, Caracas and Choco, with a
view of encouraging beneficial introduction oil
Europeans into the country.
The papers contain no observation-disclosures from
Peru than the 1th Of October, on which day the
treaty with Colombia was ratified by the Con
gress at Lima.
The several resolutions proposing amendments to
the Constitution, which gave rise to the discussion
upon the propricty Of Congressional Caucuses, have
finally been disposed of by the Senate. The de-
bate which took place yesterday was equally ami
mated AMI interesting with that which occurred on
the preceding days, though it was not confined to
the question ofcaucuses but embraced the merits of
the amendments themseves-To an aliusion made
ny Mr. Barbour of Va. in reference to the venerable
John Taylor of Caroline, that it under his tut
ton he had first learned the practice of caucusing,
and that such instruction and example he could not
but follow nndeviatiugly, Mr. Taylor replied with
great humor and payfuness, that his pupil had been
in this matter, very apt scholar, and had far out
Ell u1as H deu ever
attended caucus in the whole course of his public
life, and asserted that the only meeting which he
at that partook all of its character, was
the one a; Richmond in the year1793, which framed
the famous Virginia resolutions.--He advertcd to
the distinction which gentlemen had drawn between
their public and Individual capacities; denied its
istsucc aud proceeded, in series Of able and orci-