The Arkansas advocate., 1831-02-16

 had fortheir result her aggrandizernenta and pros perlty. sShe allows Us to undertake generous expeditions, and to reapdslant laurels; but there rests her benevolcnce towards Us. Since the battle oiiIastings until thatoi Waterloo, Der pol icy has been invariably the same. Let Us not be deceived by tine sympathy shown for our rev ointion by the English people, who admire and approve 1t, because they themselves want the re- form of many abuses, which they have struggled in vain to obtain for the last forty years. Whatever may be the party in power, said he ] Whig or Tory, il is guided by the same priBci 1 pies towards us. They will always maintain ll ih our present limits; they will always oppose our aggrandizcment. Remember the reyou ton in l1S6; that nation likewise appiauded it but 1t nevertheless waged against Us war of eX termination. in iS00, when it wanted an ar mistiee, it signed the peace of Amiens, and whef our commercial relations had recommended when cur expedition to St. Domingo had placed us in her power, she declared war against us.- England would never allow Franee to seize or Belgium. She would willingly give Up Ireland to have the harbor of Antwerp 6tted up. Fi nancai embarrassnents alone prevent her going to war. She prevails on us to releet the offers of q nation of brothers who want to joinus. She | will make war when she can do it at her ease and with perfect convenience, dyc.
 All this passage of General Rchemont's dis course was repeatedly interrupted by the volen murmurs of both centres.
 NJ. Sebastiano, Minister of Foreign Affairs refuted the assertion of General Riehemont.- l The armaments inthe North are retheconsequenc of error, and not indications of war. The ru lerof Russia was told that our government wa tnot free, tbat it was under the influence of fac ton, but5since truth was made known to him fhe gave Us. the most explicit assurance efpeace General Sebastano then declared that England was DO longer actuated by an old hatred toward France. She was the first to admire our mod eration and ourincreasing power. We have, repeat, the most positive hopes that peace shal be preserved.
 The Chamber then voted the law.
 lnthe Chamber of Deputies on the 9th Dec M. Gofmenn read a propostion for abolishing tie accumulation of places, which the Cham beragreed unanimously to take into eonsidera ton.
 The garrison in thecitadel of Antwerp is on l ly l500 men. French troops are Daily arrivin! Oil the frontiers.
 .Hlatpep, Dec. The i3reda Courant say l the following are the principal articles of tht Convention concluded at London.
 tst bat tie citadel t,if Antwerp should re main in our possession, and shall be occupied ist troops will come to occupy the city of Ant werp.
 2d. That Maestricht shall remain to us, ant l that Yenloo shall he restored The Prince O Saxe Weimar will fix his headquarters there.
 3d. That the fortresses of Belgium on the North and East frontiers shall be occupied by the troops of the Allied Powers.
 Ldtest from Colombia.--By tue brig Medina Capt. Holt, we have received complete file o Carthagena papers from the 28th, Oct. to Dec 7th, Bogota papers to Nov. 2Stb, and the Ga zette de pahoma to Oct. 10th.
 Among the passengers in the Medina, is Joa l quin Mosquera. late President of Colombia. l Of the 3,000,0O0 acres of wild lands placed at the disposition of the government in 1896, fol the colonization of foreign emigrants, the grea ter part remanr still unappropriated. By late decree they are ordered to be sold, and the a yails applied to the payment of the domestic debt
 4 decree of the government, dated Bogota l Oct. 18th, and signed by Gen. Rafael Urdaneta sGeneral-in-chief of the armies of Colombia in the exercise of Executive Power" after pre- mising that the Constitution agreed on by the late Constituent Congress of Bogota, is acknow ledged by the Department and Provinces whicf adhere to the government, as the proper stand ard by which it should be regulated, the Con gress is not in session, to decide uponsueh mea sures as do not naturally fall within the pro vince of the Executive; that in the absence O such authority, the national will is best ascer taiped by reference to existing laws, one O which, viz: thatof 2sth July, in the l4th year of Colombian Independence, specifics the pow CTS which the Executive may eNefeisein eircum stances less urgent and difficult thanthe present and lastly, that on account of the distances O places, 1t is necessary for the government to del eoate 1hnse nnrers tn lie suhnrdinates which :, .1