A mail from the Leeward I...
A mail .from the Leeward Islands arrived yesterdlay, bringing letters of the 13th Df June from St. Thomas's, and corresponding dates fron tSe other islands. Very recent accounts badl been received at St. Thomae's from Maracaibo, and from Valeicia, by which it was ascertained that that part of the Colombian Main was perfectly tranquil. At Laguayra there had been a conspiracy formed among the blacks, but General PAEZ, who commanded there, having received timely intimation of it, made himself acquainted by. means of his emissaries with their plan of proceeditng, and air--ted the principal persons engaged in it, several of whom:he caused to be put to death. His measures were so jutlicious and decisive, that the inhabitants knew nothing of the conspirady until they sawv its authors punished. On consulting the numbers of the Colombiano, a paper published at Caraccas, to the 26th of May, we find little worthy of note respecting the internal situation of the Republic. It is stated, that General SOUBLETTE had been appointed at Bogota as Envoy to Great Britain. Of the falsehoods respecting Colombia in particular, and South America in general, which are unbluslhingly circulated by the Madrid Gazette, the chief source is now ascertained tc bethe island of Porto Rico,frGm wvence theyspread through the West India islands and to Europe. The Colombia7no of the 26th of May gives a specimen of this species of ma- nufacture, which is too curious not to be copied, as exhibit- ing perhaps the greatest confusion of time and space, as well as of utter ignorance of geography, ever comnbined in the limits of a single paragraph. It is as follows:- " ST. TBOMTAS'S, May20. The news from Porto Rico is, that Cantarac is in Bogota; Bolivac in Carthagena; the Cengress in Guaraalita; Mlaracaibo threatened by 800 men who have revolted in Zulia; antl Caraccas by Cisneros. It states also, that Sucre, whlo was in Arequipa, had requested a supply of troops from Vene7uela." Every one of these facts is proved to be totally false and absurd; and if, as the editor of the Colombian4 says, such statements are purposely circulated by the enemies of the Republic, in order to deter Great Britain from acknowledg- ing its independence, it is a subject of congratulation that they are so destitute of common sense and probability as to impose on no one. The papers we have received from Barbadoes, Antigus, and other islands, communicate no event of importance.