Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-09-13
FROM cHnI.
Extract Of a letter received at Providence
dated Santiago Chill, June I, 1925.

munlCate Is tnat, the congress OF TINS
country which has been in session for
the last six months, was dissolved on
i, the nth ult by the Executive a, the pc
tition Of about 2 thirds Of the men,
bers. They had made several attempts
to come 10 a resolution among them
selves to dissolve, but these proved in-
effectual, owing to the clamor of the
mob collected on the floor Of the house
and in the adjacent streets, and even of
the members of the sovereign body.
1t may be said that they have done no.
thing OF a public nature, in the six
months during which they have been
sitting. The bill Of rights was left un-
finished, after the passage of some Is
or 90 Of its many articles, so that the
Fundamental law of Chill presents a
curious and heterogeneous specimen Of
political and legal patchwork. Fortu-
nately the liberty de taeto enjoyed by
her citizens is as great THAT is politi-
cal liberty as could be wished, and not
likely to be infringed by the present d.
rector, whose total want of ambition
and mild sway has rendered him de-
seryedly popular; this circumstance
renders less frightful the absence Of
that liberty de jure which the bill Of
rights was calculated to define and Sc
cure. The direct contribution was al
so left in the ink horn after having un-
dergone more discussion than our neU
tariff bill: in the neal time there is
not a dollar in the national ~money-5or,
and the financial department is in the
utmost disorder, so much so that it
has been found impossible to procure a
person of adequate talents and sufi-
cient responsibility who would accept
Of the heretofore desirable and respec.
table place of minister Of the Treasury.
1t has been offered within these few
DAYS TO several Of my friends, who
have utterly refused 1t notwithstand-
ing the urgent solicitations Of the Di-
rector himself and backed by many
friends, that they would accept, and
this although the salary annexed TO it
is quite respectable. 1t will be difficult
to obtain credence for this fact amongst
the ofice-loving people IF the United
States, but so it is. The truth is the
station is only calculated to compro-
mise the reputation ana mortify the
. delicacy of the incumbent, whilst the
entire absence Of all resources and
of the power of creating them rem
ders it impossible for him to apply
q remedy, or put in operation any
plans Of improvement. Notwithstand-
ing all these clogs upon her progress,
Chill is making, if not rapid, at least
visible and gratifying advances to-
wards permanent political and reli-
gious liberty and right government
The political constitution of the state,
which since the revolution Of the 10Th
July last, has been rather a dead letter,
and whose operations since that period
have been somewhat of the nature Of
the prolonged vibrations Of a pendu-
Ium after the impulse derived from the
machinery has ceased, is abont to un-
dergo a great and important change,
one which il rightly conducted and Ju-
d~iciously consolidated will be produc-
tive Of much good to the country
Chill is about TO adopt the federative
system. Each Of the three provinces
ofCoquimbo, Santiago and Conception
to have its provincial Legislature for
the exclusive management o. the pro-
vincial and municipal affairs, with a
national Congress TO meet at the capi-
tai for the discussion Of national mat
tiers. Coquimbo and Conception have
already organized their assembly, and
that Of Santiago is lo convene about
the 10th Of this month. The object Of
their present meeting is TO appoint TWO
commissioners from each province,
with full powers conformity to fix the
law Of election for the National Con-
grcss, sc. which Congress will deter
mine the nature and conditions OF the
confederation. The adoption Of this
system will put an end to the section
al jealousies which have heretofore ex-
listed amongst the provinces, and by
giving to each the privilege of mana
cling its W affairs, insure greater re-
gard to local interests, and consequent
" more satisfaction to the governed;
and, at the same time, put a stop to
the present preponderaling influence
Of the capital.
Our latest dates from Peru, are to
the 26th April. The government is
still absolute, in the hands of Bolivar,
and many suppose that this is necessa-
ry to the tranquility and peace Of the
country. The system is that of a con-
solidated republic, and il has a constr
tuition framed by a constituent Con-
sress which provides for a national le-
g~islature and guarantees the represen-
tative principle. But it also has the o.
dious and anti-republican feature OF a
national and exclusive religion, and
therefore carries the seeds Of its own
destruction. Bolivar was authorized
BY the last Congress to suspend any oil
~, n.ov;s;op Shnuld he deem them in