Star. — 1829-12-08 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENTS. are due to L. )I. His valuable de Our best aeknowkdgments tails shall appear bi-morrow.  Despatches, dated the 27th of July,'were this day received at the Colonial Office, from lieutenant-General Sir CHARLES COLV I LLE, Governor of the Mauritius.  We have received further advices from Carthagena, to the date of the 14th, and letters from Guyaquil, to the 30th August. The Peruvian:Congress only wanted three Members, momentarily expected, to commence its sittings, and to deliberate on the terms of peace. The most friendly relations already existed between the Government of Peru and General Bottv An, and the conclusion of the negotiations was daily expected at Bogota. The LIBERATOR had been indisposed, but was quite well again, and enjoying the proudest fruit of his glorious labours—the esteem of the enemy, whom he had conquered by his arms, reconciled by his generosity. General O'LEARY had already entered the province of Antiocha, at Nari, where he took an Officer and eight of CORDOV A'S advanced party. In five days afterwards he would be at Medellin ; but perilous disturbance was already apparent. Co RDOV A had ordered the inhabitants of the vallies generally to take arms in his favour, under pain of death, but they had all refused, and at various points had stopped his parties. The Carthagena detachment would probably return without crossing the Magdalena, as General O'LEARY considered his own force far greater than was needed. The indignation against .CoRDOV A'S wicked attempt to disturb the public tranquillity was general, and his murder of the serjeant, some years since in a most savage and atrocious manner, rose in judgment against him whenever his name was mentioned by the troops. General Botts.' nit, however, did not altogether escape some censure for his ill-advised clemency on that occasion as well as on others. The Congress will meet in January. The LIBERATOR has at all times, and on many similar occasions, declared that " Colombia could not exist, much less enjoy repose, and prosper under a federative system. He always insisted on the incapacity of the people in the state they were left, after the war of independence, from want of previous due education, and their unsettled habits, to conduct the machinery of provincial Government, under central supreme direction, as in North America ; and he always proclaimed, as his opinion, that frequent elections of the executive, would not maintain or permit the growth of order, in a country where there would be so many rival military competitors with equally great claims to the • suffrages of the Constituent Body." All the influential men, as well as the great mass of the people of Colombia, are of his opinion. It is not, therefore, likely that the new term of Government will he at variance with those sentiments. But though General BOLIVAR may, by a grateful nation, acting also in behalf of its own interest, be named and obliged to accept the Presidentship for life, or for an extended term of years at least, General BOLIN An, so acting, will not be playing the tyrant, but the part of the benefactor and father of his country. Were General Bott v An, even now, permitted to pursue his own inclinations, he would seek relief from all public service. But we say, in the cause of freedom, and from the love we bear him, that he cannot, and dare net, for the sake of his renown and his conscience, abandon the country he has created to anarchy and spoliation— the inevitable consequence of his retirement from the fear of calumny, and thacensure of theoretical publicists.  he detailed account of the operations which immediately preceded the surrender of BARRADAS, will not reach England before the arrival of the next packet, a. General SANTA ANNA wrote to say he had not time to prepare the despateh. But our readers wilt, in the meantime, understand the plan we have given in another page, by bearing in mind that General BARRA DAS had fixed his head quarters at Tampico de Tamaulipas, after he. had been obliged to return frran Altamira, in consequence of General SANTA No's gallant attack on Tampico during his absence, _ when SANTA ANNA withdrew his ♦ery inferior force in 'the presence of the Spanish troops; without their venturing to molest him. As soon as SANTA ANNA received his reinforcements, he ordered General GARCIA, who was at Altranira, to take up the position  • ~.ir .