Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-06-14
From the National Gazette.
POLITICS OF The TWO AME
pICAS

POLITICS OF The TWO AME-
RICAS.
The official Gazette OF Bogota, ofthe
9th February, contains an article which
is ascribed to the Columbian Secretary
OF Foreign Affairs on the intended Am
phictyonic Congress al Panama, which
we mentioned yesterday. The objects
OF this Congress are affirmed to be two
foid--some affecting belligerents exclu
sively, and others common to bellige-
rents and neutras. They are thus stat
ed:
Objects for the 6eihg6rents eSclusipsly.
l. To form, or renoyate in the most
solemn manner, the perpetual close
league between all the new American
states against Spain. 2. To issue ma
nifesto the justice OF their cause, and
their system Of policy towards the other
Powers of Christendom. 8. To enter
into a Convention OF Navigation ard
Commerce between them all as allies
and confederates. 4. To decide, with
respect TO the Islands of Cuba and Por.
TO Rico, whether all should combine in
liberating them from the Spanish yoke ;
and, in such case, what military and pc
cuniary contingent each should furnish.
5. To take measures for carrying the
war in concert to the seas and coasts OF
Spain. 6. To determine whether those
measures should be extended to the Ca.
nary and PHILIPPINE isles.
Objects commonto 6eiAgerents and neu-
trails.
|. To take into consideration the
means OF rendering eftectual the decla
ra,ions of the President of the United
States concerning any future designs of
colonization on this continent, and of re-
sisiing every attempt at interference in
our domestic concerns. 9. To settle, in
concert, disputed principles Of the law
of nations, and chiefly those which ope-
rate between beligeren,s and neutral.
8. To agree upon the footing upon which
ought to be placed the political and COM
mercial relations of those countries oil
our hemisphere which either were, like
Hay,i, or should be, separated from the
mother country, without having been re
cognized by any European or American
Power.
The writer Of the Bogola article
thinks that the United States, and the
other American Powers similarly cir
cumstanced, will not refuse to depute
representatives to the Panama Congress,
in order to deliberate and act as to the
latter series OF objects. We shall not
undertake to say what ought 10 be the
decision of our government on this point,
but we are sure there are weighty oh
siacles to compliance. and we are. more
over, free 10 confess, hat we do not con-
slider the new American States as quite
ripe Tor the arrangements IN question.
1t would be easier to CO operate with the
Congress, il no special belligerent ends
were in view.
BohVor.--The Washington City Ga
zettee states, ON the authority OF gen.
,leman direct from Lima, and who as
late as the Isl OF Feb. had an interview
at that capital with Bolivar, that the Ii
bera'or appeared TO be in feeble state
of health, sallow village, and OF very
thin person. The fatigue and privations
of his late campaigns had made serious
inroads on his constitution, which was,
formerly, robust. He was about to re-
turn TO Colombia for the restoration Of
his health and consequent repose, from
the tolls OF the field This intention had
been delayed 10 order 10 witness the fall
OF Callao, and to organize government
adapted to the yet unsettled state OF Peru.
He was received with great enthusiasm
in Lima, and was visited every day by
crowds Of the citizens, with whom he
was very popular, and unostentatious
in his behaviour; he was generally at
tended by an aid-de-camp, a son of Sir
Robert Wilson. At proper hours none
were denied admit,ancs to his presence,
and he conversed aGably with all who
approached him. The army which sur
rendered OF Ayacucho had embarked
and were last seen steering for the Ma
niIla. Our naval officers who visited
Lima, distant from the coast p miles,
were well received and permitted free
egrcss and ingrcss without passports
The y. S. uniform, when recognized by
the guards, was sufficient.
LATER FROM ENGLAND.
BY tho packe, ship Florida, arrived at
New. York, on Tuesday morning, from