Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-02

Bull, for naval arsenal station, ard rails ing point,
in the event of hos,ilites. That barren island is not
worth silver 10 the Dutch. Would they then
fortify it by an expenditure OF A, 3, or 6,O00,0 900
of dollars? No. Why not cede it then at once
Holland would do so if Britain made the demand:
from which she only abstans that France might not
thence derive pretext and precedent for occupying
Cuba or Porto Rico, under ces,ion from Ferdinand
VII. Such are advices and comments"
LAGUAYRA, LIST August, 1925.
Should you have any penchant for politics,
general or particular, may perhaps serve book
worm by remarkng, that though the casts Of color,
well negroes, literally import dark complex
ion to affairs, along the md,tio,e margin, and
more remotely, Gas in Barmas, Seq yet by con-
siiiutional filtration, which would otherwise be a
gross defect, they elbowed out of political
power and Influence. In voting here, the voters in
all the parishes districts, elect electors only, who
IN more select way, meet and choose the repre-
sen;a,ives, &c. There is as yet so little excitement
on any such matter, that election comes and
passes, without eight tsnths Of the Inhabitants
knowing any thing about il, Thus mere regula-
ton has the effect of prohibition. 1t may maintain
an oHsdrchy, and all its rottenness, for many
years; but both are preferable to to0rse ecifs, or
degrees of evil. Savases unfit to exercise poll
teal power; and is right abrdse their rights
far as can prudenlly be done. Somebody has APPLY
said that the bears ought TO be unclaimed before
they are tanned
Thegovernment has behav ed in a spiri. OF equity
towards foreigners in its laws-whe;hcr from policy
liberaliy, exigency; but plausible principles on
paper become wholly void, by the hate, vcnality,
| and prejudice, OF those who are to execute them
therefore lake 10 distinguish, at the hazard
or tautology, between the people and the govern
ment-ard then too the people of q section
Great fortunes are liz many instances made,
and 10 he made, in various parts OF the plains by
| wi est si bnfn f,r,
| in Partnership with some native who understands
| the breeding and management of cattle. They
multiply rapidly in rich pastures and sell dear,
that pTodigious }oyti1ies amassing in that way.
Such speculation requires 70 little of the g ducats'
to begin with
''The pursuit second in profit to this il appears
10 me, Is the cultivation of indigo, which Yields
two crops in the year. 1t also requires a good
capital, then repays most handsomely. During this
season, however, all the inhabitants OF the level
country near lakes rivers, have suffered most
| severely from levers of various sor,s-none of
them contagious, but all produced by unusual hui
| mildly, cooperative 10Th heat, and thousands
have fallen victims. Some plantations will lose
their cotton entirely Tor of hands to collect IT,
'Tske it all in all, Colombia has grand varie-
Ety OF resources, wanting only industrious hands,
| and more hospitablc hearts,
Bo'ivdr---It has been already Stated in the Co
lomban papers, that ttco attemptiyalad been made
to assasna,e the Liberator Bolivar \ letter from
bogota, published in the London Journals, saws
that this friend OF mankind had escaped the dagger
oil the assassin which had been raised against him.
no less than seven or eight times In the recent
secret murder At Lima of a Mr.. Monteasudo. il
was asceriained, on examining tile body that he
had been stabbed with sharp instrument This
e. 10 an examination OF all the cutters in the city,
when one OF them stated that he had sharpened ,w
mi rIG at tha af
name he was unaequanted, but that he should
know hmi he saw him again. &c proclamation
(continueS the writer) was Immediately issued or
dering general enlistment for the army but ex
cepting all slaves and black men. 1t was iran
laid Tor them necessary for the service of the cv
10 which effect they were ordered TO call for bill
OF exception at the office of the AJjutan- General
Ihey presented themselves accordingly and the
cutler, who was concealed, easily knew the owner
OF the two pon;artls, who having been suddenly
grasped, as the murderer of NJ. Monteae,,lo. and
asked where the two poinaris were, answered by
coniessins his guilt, and producing one Of the Il,
he added, th't he could not have been discovered
but by the decree OF Providence, he would declare
that he had been seduccd TO that crime hv Tho
Governor OF the Castle OF Callao see the model of
that infamous Ferdinand u and that the other pos
nard was to be found within the sleeve of the left
arm OF General Bolivars head servant, who was to
murder him the night of that very day. The pom
lard was found as il was said'' Ere. Past
From the Rosion Daiiy 1a.4rfiye,1
The -dDdirS Of Greece.--Th he invasion of Greece
by the Egyptian force under Ibrahim Pacha. the
son OF the Viceroy OF Egypt. is much more formida
bic than we believe has generally been supposed
The two first divisions OF this army landed at
Modon; from The island of CANDIDA where a erea,
part OF the Egyptian troops had passed the winter
IN Marcia The Oriental Spectator, in the beginning
oil April, speaking of the state OF affairs in the
Morea, says Sc the present army of the son of the
FIceroy OF Egypt, amounts TO IA 900 men, of
whom 1900 infantry, and 1000 cavalry. He
has besides a thousand carriage horses The third
division, which he expects from Crete consists of
1000 conlbatantS, OF whom 1000 are AJbanians
Afterwards there IS the last expedition which lie
parted from Alexandria, & which is now a, Rhodes
OF o000 men, and we shall give hereafter the details
OF new expedition OF 1900 men, which is pre-
pairing III Egypt" This stat ement with the excep
tion oil the last item, is probably not much exas-
Serated In the same paper the fortress of Navarn
when had been Tor some tim besiesed WIS repre.
seated as having been the point of surrenderinp
when In the first days of April, six Greek briggs of
war, commanded by the brave son of Peiro Bev
entered the port of that place, supplied it with pro
visions, and added 800 men TO the $50 who de-
tended it," This same fortress and 5000 Greek
troops, who, according 10 the Oriental Spectator.
were then assembled there, and the achievements
they afterwards received, continued TO affo,d fnu
employment icr this army, until the 18th of Nav:
when we learn from from the Spectator. thai The
fortress surrendered, on condition that The garrison
then increased to 00men, should march out with
10 men armed, with all their baggage and be trans
ported IN European vessels Calanata one of their