We had no other view, I say, than that of proclaiming our independence, and constituting a democratic Government that might insure our existence and our happiness. We thought at that time, that by associating, as we have done, with the most parts of the provinces of the interior, we should have succeeded; but we are now satisfied that it is not in our power yet to support the attitude of independents; but the provinces of the General Government have not been able to send us assistance, or, that sent, they have not arrived.

From the present situation of the province, all our resources are null. It is necessary we should procure our existence and felicity by other means. Let us save the State from the horrors we must expect from an enemy displeased and cruel. Let us offer the province to a nation wise and powerful, capable of saving and governing

Let us put ourselves under the protection and direction of the King of Great Britain.

"But, Senators, Representatives, if you know of any other means of saving our country, or if the one I point out to you offers any inconvenience, I hope you will declare it, well assured that there is no wish so anxious to my heart as to deserve the honourable confidence placed in us by the towns which, now oppressed, vexed, and reduced by force to the incapacity of expressing their wishes, trust their safety to us."

His Excellency then caused to be read the instructions given to the Deputies sent to the Government of Jamaica, to request assistance in money and arms, informing the zame, that at all events the province would be put in deposit in the hands of the Government of Great Britain, until the result of the negociation now pending in London, of which we have received no favourable accounts as yet. The House taking the whole into due consideration, and having reduced the discussion, agreed to his Excellency's motion..

Many of the members, considering important the correspondence of Spain intercepted in the ship Neptune, captured by cne of our cruziers, wherein are shewn the intrigues and machinations of the Cabinet of Madrid concerning these dominions, and the impotency of the Spanish nation, unable to protect, and powerful only in its wishes and readiness to oppress, and spill torrents of blood in the province. They also unanimously agreed, that under these circumstanes, the node proposed is the only one capable of saving the State, and that whereas by deliberation of the Legislature of the 22d of March last, his Excellency the Governor

authorised to act at his discretion, to save

the country by means that might appear most convenient to him, without being subjected to the existing laws.

His Excellency, therefore, proceeding. as he thought most proper, ordered a solemn proclamation, in the name of his Britannic Majesty, and dispatched a commission to communicate these resolutions to the Authorities of Jamaica, so that, considering us as one part of his dominions, his Majesty may grant his powerful protection to the city. But as this measure ought not to be adopted before the insufficiency of the State to maintain its attitude is proved, the House resolved that a consultation of the Junta, Military Staf, aud Lieutenant-Governor, should take place, to see whether any mode can be found to obtain supplies of provisions, or to procure the same by means of some sally against the enemy; and his Excellency ordered a meeting of the Voters (who are the subscribing Chiefs,) who have ing expressed their opinion, said, that the provisions were already so much reduced, that there remained no hope of receivingany, either from the province, the same being occupied and oppressed by the enemy, nor from the neighbouring ports, on account of the blockade thereof by the Spanish vessels, into whose power many of the vessels that were bringing assistance to us have fallen; and that from the situation of the city, threatened by a landing from the squadron, and the sickness remaining among the troops, it is impossible to make sorties; declaring at the same time the determination of the troops to support whatever steps shall be taken by the Governor, except that of capitulating with the Spaniards and falling again into their power; and their resolution rather to suffer with heroic resignation the privations to which the siege has reduced them.

This being heard, the House resolved, that the Government, using its authority, will act as it may think proper concerning the proclamation of the august Monarch of Great Britain in the manner before mentioned, communicating to our Legation in London the necessary instructions to insure, under the shelter and powerful protection of Great Britain, the prosperity to which their new subjects of Carthagena aspire, and the act being concluded, the same was signed by all present, which I, the Secretary, do certify.

[Here follow the Signatures.]

"Having read the foregoing resolutions of the House of Representatives of the Provinces ; intimately penetrated with the motives which caused the same; and following the intent of the instructions I have receivéd from the General Government of the

On the 14th, this resolution was followed by an Act of the Legislature, by which their vassalage to Ferdinand was again absolved, and the sovereignty of New Grenada conferred on the King of Great Britain-and the declaration of this sovereignty was announced by public proclamation. In consequence, the Governor of the Province named Commissioners to proceed to the civil, military, and naval authorities of Jamaica, to announce to them, that New Grenada, peopled by three millions of souls, had, by the aforesaid Act, conferred the sovereignty on the Crown of Great Britain, and were desirous forthwith to swear allegiance, stipulating for nothing, but submitting themselves entirely to the Sovereign of “a nation wise and powerful, capable of saving and governing them."

These Commissioners, furnished with the necessary powers and instructions, in a vessel dispatched for the purpose, forced the blockade on the morning of the 17th October, and put to sea. And letters from Jamaica say, that they arrived at Kingston, on or about the 24th of the same month.

Without delay, the arrival of the Depu ties was announced to the Governor, the Duke of Manchester, with a respectful request that his Grace would be pleased to appoint as early a moment as convenience would allow to receive the Commissioners.

To this application an answer was sent by his Grace's Secretary, stating, that he (the Secretary) would be glad to see Mr Hyslop at any time; that he was aware of the business on which he wished to see the Governor; that he was in possession of his Grace's sentiments on the subject; and that he believed it would not be necessary that the Gentlemen from Carthagena should give themselves the trouble of attending him.

Letters from Trinidad, dated December 12. 1815, state, that a dispatch had arrived there two days before from Margueritta, bringing accounts that the inhabitants had deposed their Governor, and resumed their independence, and that the Patriots had done the same at Cumana, Barcelona, and Guyana, and throughout the other provin ces of Venezuela.This new revolution was occasioned by the Sambos (or free people of colour), who formerly composed part of the Spanish army that defeated the independents of the Caraccas, but had now

joined them, were overwhelming the few Spanish troops that had been left in the different garrisons. Morillo was said to have been defeated in all his attempts upon Carthagena.

SPAIN.

SENTENCE OF THE LIBERALES.

Mudrid, December 23. 1815. The city is filled with terror at the blow the King has just given a blow that cannot be paralleled in the annals of despotism. In consequence of the orders issued by the King to terminate, within a fixed period, the trials of the Liberales, and to refer to him the sentences pronounced by the Special Court, the latter, notwithstanding it was composed of persons possessed of the King's entire confidence, which is proved by their composing the fifth tribunal that has hitherto taken cognizance of these causes, availing themselves of the opportunity of consulting the King, respecting the sen tence that was to be imposed on Don Manuel Garcia Herreros, late Minister of Grace and Justice, and Deputy in the late General and Extraordinary Cortes, manifested to his Majesty, in like manner, as had been done two several times by the preceding Judges, that nothing resulted against the persons accused in said cases; that in the trials there appeared nothing but unqualified charges and secret accusations without foundation; and therefore, that it would accord with the benignity of his Majesty to draw a veil over the past, and set the accused at liberty.

Little satisfied with this consultative report, the King issued the following order :Palace, Nov. 25. 1815. .

"Considering the state in which the trials stand, and the Special Court being now reduced under the same Presidency of the Captain-General, to the three Alcaldes, Sobrado, Vasquez, and Valdenebro; and in case any difference of opinion, or sickness, should result in the above, the said powers are to devolve on Solar and Garcia de la Torri, it is my will, that before the causes which have been tried are resolved upon, those shall be shown to me with the greatest brevity, which are not comprehended in the laws of tit. 1. lib. 1. of the New Recopilacion, and in tit. 7. and 12.; and also the persons whom the culprits allege to have held the same political opinions, and the documents and grounds on which they found themselves in both cases."

[The laws in question relate to the disloyal, traitors, meetings, and tumults.]

On receiving this inquiry, the Tribunal answered, that they had arrested no one comprehended in the said laws, nor any one

guilty of high treason. The King, in a rage with this answer, and finding that no Judge, however wicked, would accord with his views in copdemning innocent persons as criminals, took the charge upon himself, and caused the recorders of the said causes, with the greatest secrecy, and under pain of death, to bring to him all the trials, which they consequently did. He (the King) ordered all the coaches to be embargoed, and by himself, and alone, he pronounced the following sentences; commanding that, in the same night, the persons sentenced should proceed on to their destinations, in the coaches embargoed for that purpose, all which was done.

LIST OF PERSONS CONDEMNED. From the Prison of the Court. Calatrava, Deputy in the Extraordinary Cortes, condemned to eight years imprisonment in Melilla, (on the coast of Africa.) Ramajo, editor of the paper called The Conciso, ten years ditto, to same place.

Sanchez Barbello, Librarian to the Royal Palace of San Isidro, ten years ditto, to the same place.

Golfn, Colonel and Deputy Extraordinary to Cortes, ten years in the castle of Alieant. Santa Maria, land-owner, to be imprisoned in Cadiz.

Traver, Deputy to the Extraordinary Cortes, confined in Peniscola (in Valencia.) From the Prison San Juan de Dios, in Cadiz.

Arguelles, Deputy in the Extraordinary Cortes, ten years to be a private soldier in the regiment of Ceuta.

Alvarez Guerra, late Minister of the Interior, ten years to Ceuta, as a soldier.

Garcia Herreros, late Minister of Grace and Justice, and Deputy in the Cortes Extraordinary, eight years in irons at Gomera.

Martinez de la Rosa, Deputy in the Ordinary Cortes, eight years in irons, in the Penon, on the coast of Africa.

Teran, Deputy in the Extraordinary Cortes, six years ditto at Melilla.

Agar, Member of two Regencies, banished to Santiago de Galicia.

Capaz. Deputy of the Extraordinary Cortes, confined to the castle of Santi Petri, near Cadiz.

Quintana, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and author of the Semauario Patriotico, six years coulined to Pamplona.

Villacampa, late Captain-General of New Castile, confined to the Castle of Monjuich (Barcelona).

From the Prison of La Corona (the Prison in
which Ecclesiastics are confined.)
Gallego, Priest, Deputy in Extraordinary
February 1816.

Cortes, four years to the Carthusian Convent of Xerez.

Cepero, Priest, Deputy in Ordinary Cortes, six years to the Carthusian Convent of Se. ville.

Garcia Page, Priest, and Deputy in Ordinary Cortes, six years to the Convent of Salceda.

Larrazabal, Priest, Deputy in the Extraordinary Cortes, ditto to a Convent in Guatremala.

Oliveros, Priest, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, four years to the Convent of San Antonio de la Cabrera.

Vallanueva, Priest, Deputy in Extraor dinary Cortes, six years to the Convent of Salceda.

Zoraquin, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, eight years to hard labour in Alucemas.

Munoz Torrero, Priest, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, years six to a Convent in Galicia.

Ramos Arispi, Priest, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, six years to the Carthusian Convent at Valencia.

Prison of Invalids.

Cisaar, Member of late Regency, ten years to Peniscola.

Valdes, Vice-Admiral and Governor of Cadiz, during the siege, ten years to the castle of Alicant.

Persons arrested in their Houses. Yermalacarregui, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, banished to Valladolid.

Duenas, Deputy in Extraordinary Cortes, banished to a town of Valencia.

Cauga Arguelles, Deputy in the Ordinary Cortes, eight years to Peniscola.

Romanillos, Counsellor of State, banished to the Canary Islands.

Gouzalez Carrajal, late Minister of Finance, and who for some months back was free by virtue of a sentence of one of the preceding tribunals, ten years to the castle of Pamplona.

Don Pablo Sanchez was also condemned to be hung.

Те

To what extent these are carried, and whether they have assumed the bold character of open and general revolution, we must wait for further intelligence to determine.

GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

EXTRAORDINARY TREATY. The following remarkable convention concluded at Paris between the Sovereigns of Austria, Russia and Prussia, was formally published at St Petersburgh, on Christmas day, under the signature of the Emperor Alexander. It does not appear any of the other Christian powers have acceded to it.

"In the name of the most Holy and indivisible Trinity,

"Their Majesties the Emperor of Aus. tria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, having (in consequence of the great events which have marked the course of the last three years in Europe, and especially of the blessings which it has pleased Divine Providence to shower down upon those states which place their confidence and their hope on it alone) acquired the intimate conviction of the necessity of founding the conduct to be observed by the Powers, in their reciprocal relations upon the sublime truths which the holy religion of our Saviour teaches: They solemnly declare, that the present act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world, their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective states, and in their political relations with every other government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that holy religion, namely, the precepts of justice, Christian charity, and peace, which, far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of Princes, and guide all their steps, as being the only means of consolidating human institutions, and remedying their imperfections. In consequence, their Majesties have agreed on the following articles :

"I. Conformably to the words of the Holy Scriptures, which command all men to consider each other as brethren, the three contracting Monarchs will remain united by the bonds of a true and indissoluble fraternity, and considering each other as fellowcountrymen, they will, on all occasions, and in all places, lend each other aid and assistance, and regarding themselves towards their subjects and armies as fathers of families, they will lead them in the same spirit of fraternity with which they are animated, to protect religion, peace, and justice.

II. In consequence, the sole principle in force, whether between the said GovernAments, or between their subjects, shall be,

that of doing each other reciprocal service, and of testifying, by unalterable good will, the mutual affection with which they ought to be animated, to consider themselves all as members of one and the same Christian nation; the three allied Princes looking on themselves all as merely `delegated by Providence to govern three branches of the one family, namely, Austria, Prussia, and Russia; thus confessing that the Christian nation, of which they and their people form a part, has in reality no other Sovereign than Him to whom alone power really belongs, because in Him alone are found all the treasures of love, science, and infinite wisdom; that is to say, GOD, our divine SAVIOUR, the word of the MOST HIGH, the word of Life. Their Majesties consequently recommend to their people, with the most tender solicitude, as the sole means of enjoying that peace which arises from a good conscience, and which alone is durable, to strengthen themselves every day more and more in the principles and exercise of the duties which the divine Saviour has taught to mankind.

III. All the Powers who shall choose solemnly to avow the sacred principles which have dictated the present act, and shall acknowledge how important it is for the happiness of nations, too long agitated, that those truths should henceforth exercise over the destinies of mankind all the influence which belongs to them, will be receiv ed with equal ardour and affection, into this holy alliance.

Done in triplicate, and signed, at Paris the year of Grace, 1815, 14-26 September. .. FRANCIS,

"FREDERICK WILLIAM, "ALEXANDER."

The Emperor Alexander issued a decree on the 1st January, ordering all the Jesuits to quit Petersburgh and Moscow. Private letters state-" The college of Jesuits, which the Government had allowed them to devote to the education of Catholic children, have been publicly dissolved, and the members of them ordered to quit St Petersburgh, and likewise Moscow, within 24 hours. It has been fully established against them, that, during the Emperor's stay with his army, their utmost endeavours had been excited to convert the Russians of the Greek Church to their own persuasion."

The King of Prussia, by a decree dated Berlin, the 6th inst. has prohibited secret societies. The preamble states, that origi nally, when the country was in danger, his Majesty had approved of the moral Union, designated the Union of Virtue, considering it as the means of inspiring a spirit of patriotism and courage, but that secret so

cieties

cieties can now be only prejudicial to the state; his Majesty, therefore, prohibits all such societies, and the printing and publishing of any writings upon them. The publication of the Rhenish Mercury, a newspaper in which public measures had been discussed with great freedom, has also been stopped, and the Editor thrown into prison.

The German Journals have for some time spoken of serious misunderstandings having taken place between the Courts of Austria and Bavaria, and it is now even said, that their armies are assuming a menacing attitude and that an Austrian General has even set out from Vienna to take the command of an Austrian army on the frontiers ef Bavaria. It is scarcely possible to believe, however, that Bavaria would venture single-handed on any contest with Austria. The issue of such a struggle must be obvious; and unless she had some prospect of assistance either from Prussia or Russia, it can hardly be thought, whatever differences she may have with Austria, that war will be preferred to amicable negociation.

Among the curious and unaccountable occurrences of the present day, we state the following, contained in a Vienna paper of the 3d, and in the Journal des Debats of the 15th ultimo:

"Among the Chevaliers of the Toison d'Or, have been named, his Majesty the King of Bavaria, and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England; as simple Chevaliers of the Order of Maria Theresa, their Majesties the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia; and as Great Crosses of the Order of St Etienne of Hungary, his Imperial Highness the Archduke of Parma (Napoleon II.) his Majesty the King of Denmark, and Prince Eugene (Beauharnois)!!!

FRANCE.

TIOLENT MEASURES OF THE ROYALISTS,

AND STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

The intelligence from France is of great importance, inasmuch as it discloses more and more the views of the pure Royalists, (as they are termed), who have now evidently acquired the complete ascendancy in the councils of France, and who seem to be filled with such exultation at their sudden elevation to power and influence, that they think it no longer necessary to preserve even the outward shew of moderation or prudence. They have declared open war against all revolutionary interests, and so keenly have they embarked in their own hazardous policy, that they do not contemplate the possibility of failure. Their pus

sions appear to be tempered to all extremi. ties. Their enemies are at their feet, and they are preparing themselves for the full and luxurious banquet of revenge, which, as they imagine, is spread out before them. It was generally supposed that the law of amnesty, by throwing a veil over the past, was to set every man at rest as to his future fate, and was to be a security to him that he should not be troubled for the part he had taken in the late revolution. If this was not to be its purpose, of what use was it? We find, however, in opposition to this law, a denunciation against Marshal Massena, from the inhabitants of the Bouche de Rhone, accusing him of treason, and calling for his blood; and we find the Chamber of Deputies entertaining this denunciation. It was in vain that several Members called out for the act of amnesty. They seem to have been overborne by the majo rity of the assembly. Certain members found out circumstances in the case of Massena which brought him within the list of exceptions, and the petition against him was finally sent to the Minister at War.

As a farther proof of the increasing influence of the Royalist party, it appears that others of the revolutionary Marshals, not included in the act of proscription, are banished by the fiat of the Crown. Davoust, it is said, is to be banished. Augereau has been deprived of all his appointments, and even Talleyrand is spoken of as preparing for his retreat.

The Paris papers of the 4th current contain some instructions from the Procureur General as to the execution of the amnesty act, by which all persons are to be set at li berty, against whom no sentence of prosecution has been directed, and who are not included in the exceptions, or detained on other grounds. By prosecutions (it is added) are only meant judicial acts, and therefore, when a mandate of arrest has not been issued, the amnesty is applicable." Those, however, who are recommended to be detained by the administrative authority, as a measure of general safety, are not to be released; so that the executive may still imprison and detain all those persons whom they may suspect to be disaffected or any way dangerous to the new system.

Some propositions are at present under the consideration of the Chamber of Deputies regarding the clergy, the object of which seems to be the restitution of the property of which the church was deprived by the revolution; and in various other respects to favour the ambitious views of the clergy. It is well known, that during the superstitious ages of Europe, it was the practice of an interested and bigotted priest

hood,