Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-05-04
FROM COLOMBIA.

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We have received our private adyjces fror e.,
Guira and Caracas to the 2d OF April, from which
we learn that BolivM's decree respecting the nav.
ment OF duties at the Custom house are .nforcsd
win The utmost rigour, and those merchant. who
were not enabled to comply with the feouisi,ion.
OF the mandates, have been incarcerated in rather
uncomfortable situations. The sensation nrod,.
ed oy The suspension Of the wales is excessive ord
the merchants have determined not TO spb,,;, d,
,he present state OF things, but TO suspend their
ourihess, close their stores, and go 10 prison bv
"h''h the government will, perhaps, see the i'm
piacticability OF enforcing the summary proceed.
inSs' and will, in all probability relax the system
IN extreme Cases. The above is the only para
graph respecting commercial matters which we
can CLEAN from the letters of our corre.pondeo,.
and they are nearly barren of political in.eIli.
sehce, merely detailing accounts OF the execution
oi cuIprts Tor various murders and robberiss and
me lnnexible determination of Bolivar in ENFORCING
me laws, notwithstanding the urgent solicitations
Oh tue iair OF Carraca., many of whom fall on
''en knees before the Liberator, supplic.tins the
pardon OF one Of the condemned.
[Ban Fed Gag.
Extract of letter from Laguira, dated April
"a. - MIR. r was imprisoned To dav Inv Or
ger OIL Bolivar have JUS been To see him: bis
situation Is really shocking; The room in which he
10 conhnedis not larger than one of the sm,IIes,
cells IN your new state prison. There WINS bsnd,
published to day, stating that every merchan, who
oiu not pay the amount due by him 10 the CUSTOM
mouse, within twenty-four hours, should be inn.
Prlsohed and kept there until paid. This will bring
iiiings to crisis. God only knows how il will
result!' "
H. az we have been informed. Bolivar has re-.
signed, and retired to the shades of private life bv
"ha' risht, under any pretext or for any cause,
Ioes he lmprison Mr.. r. or Mr.. any body else?
a n.t,< -: D
son resisnins more absolute power than he po.se.
Sea oe'ofe. W Y. Com .ddv
FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
Through the poliieness OF Captain YIN. r.
Bowers, who left San Bias on the LIST. of March
last, and came through the interior of Mexico IN
Vera Cruz. we have the following communication.
giving late information from the u s sloop of
war feacock. aud late and gratifying intelligence
from the Sandwich Islands. From Vera Cruz.
Captain Bowers came passenger in the brig Ella
arrived at New York on Saturday morning last.
from that port.
Capt. Bowers left at San Bias The United States,
sioop OF War Peacock, Cap. Thomas Az G.
Jones, 10 sail Tor Lima about the 9Th of March
lhe Peacock left Lima in May, 1926, on a crui,e
among the South Sea Islands. i'm the course of
which che visited Nsrquesss' Groupe, o, sheite.
and other Of the s ciety islands, the Sandwich
and some other lsand-, of minor importance in the
NORTH ard South Pacific Oceans
The Peacock left Woshoo IN the 9th o Jsnu-
airy last, where she had passed the thee previous
months aPtan Jones, End lie officers fthe
Fear"rk, speak In high terms Of the peaceful and
iHendly Experiment OF The cations OF the islands
visited by thsm and more particularly those of the
sandwich Islanders, whose advanced state of eli
ViizaiioD greatly exceeded their expectations
captain Jones also -tates that The missionary ef.
l9rts under The superinteDdence of The Rev H.
Bingham. al Woaboo, have succeeded lar bevond
'ne iondesi hope of the most ssnguine philan.
tbropist many Of the nations now being able tn
write, and most OF them can read the sc,iDtures.
which have been partially translated and printed.
10Y the American missionaries, in their own Ian.
8nage Thus do we see that in less than seven
years sioce the hrsi messengers of Christianity ar.
rIved at the Sandwich Islands, the Who'll. populs.
ION have not only embraced il bu' they bsyee.
vnced an earnest zeal IN their profession by DESTROY
ne their idols. and aboisbng all their former hes-
henish ceremonies!
Capt Jopes has effected some friendly arrange
nents with the Kings and Chiefs ol Otaheite and
d the Sandwich Islands, whereby many of the evils
complained oil by our couutr. men Engaged in the
whale fishery and commerce of the South Sea. ara
emoved, and guarded against for The future The
IhIcers and crew of the Peacock were oil IN good
,ealth and spirits, highly grstied with the service
hey had been engaged in, and expected 10 find
heir relief at Callso, aud TO return to the Uni,el
states early in the ensuing autumn.
Capt. Bowers LEFT AZ San Bias, ship Dorotbea
Davis, oil Philadelphia, for Lima in fe. DAYS.
'rig Lancaster, Jennings, Of New York, for Lima
The chip Americs, EldfJse, Of phfrsje,chls, ef.