Papers and letters from J...
Papers and letters from Jamaica to the 9th ult. were received on Saturday by the pack-et, but afford little sub- ject for remark on the state of the island. Perfect tran- quillity appears to have prevailed in every part of it. The trade with the Colombian MIain was rapidly extending, and convoys were constantly sailing for Santa Martha, Cartha- gena, and the other ports on that line of coast. Advices from Lima to the 26th of December had been received at Kingston, up to which period the contending atmies in Peru had not met. A convention, it is said, had been en- tered iatoby BOLiVAR with RIvA AGUERRO, by wlhich the latter consented to embark for Europe, and the whole of his troops were united to those of the Colombian President-an accession of strength that would enable him to open the campaign against the Royalist Spaniards with great advan- tages on his side. From Santa Fe de Bogota, the seat of the Colombian Government, initelligence has been received through Jamaica to the 9th oi February. It completely falsifies the late absurd rumours circulated through the French papers, as not an iota of evidence is supplied, either by the papers or the letters, that Spain possesses even a few solitary partisans in that coUntry, and much less that they formed aparty sufficiently strongto declare themselves openly for FERDINAND), or to compromise the existence of the esta- blished Government. A considerable nutnber of the mem- bers of. the Congress had arrived in Bogota preparatory to the commeiicement of the session, but the period of its opening had not been definitively fixed. AMr. IVILSON, SOD of Sir ROBERT 'rILsoN, arrived at Truxillo about the middle of December, wbUre BOLIVAR at that time had his head-quarters. Hewas received in the most dlistinguished manner, and had conferred upon him an employ about the person of the PReSIDEN-r. The Bogota Gazette of the 5th of February containis an official notice of the recal of Mr. RAVE.NGA, as envoy to this country, ac- companied by a high eulogium. on his talents and zeal, and the essential services render(d by him to the Republic. The cause of hiis recal is declared to be the personal liability he was understood to, have incurred in this country, and the arrest to which he was some time ago subjected, in consequence of that supposed liability, for debts contracted for Colornbia. Several new schools on the Lancasterian plan were establishing in the different provinces of Colom- bia; and these accounts from the Republic present, on the whole, the appearance of political tranquillity and progres- sive improvement.