By the Dove packet, lette...
By the Dove packet, .letters and papersfromr Jamaica to the.2oth.of April were received. yesterday. A vessel had arrived at Kingston from Alvarado (M4exico), having sail- ed'from thence on the 27tlh of March, at ihichl' time no event had occurred to interrupt the tranquillity of that part of Mexico. No advices appear -to have beeli rieceived from the capital. Some reports were circulated yesterday, that CANTARAC, the Spanish General, was likely. to gain the-ascendancy in-Pera: but they a.reentitled.to little no- tice as they are found to depend solelyon oral information, and-mention-nothing of the situation of the -two armies.. The list advices from Lima,.at- all. to be depended gn; are dated: the.!99th of-December, and it was thenstated hat.t~he carpaign, owing to the situation of the countryj1eould not commence before the beginning of ''>March; iniwhich intertal, on accountfof thewell-kuowu attach enotfCAxTAUAcl;the Constituti6ual-ause,it maybe expected; assoon.as. lie .hould. 'hear of its overthrow ip Slat-,. that an.arranentbe- tween him .and BOLIVAR would take place. - is Dr^at.s- TY'S cutter Grecian, arrived at Kibgston fronaCanpeachy, had brought intelligenice of the advance of a force of 2,000 men uponthat plaee-from-Merida, the chief tovn of Ya tan, in consequence of a. declaration. of war issued - the Autborities of Carpeachyagainst ipain. On the92Sd of NIarch, this force waswithi -12 miles of Camp.achy, aofd the Mercbants, in. consequence of their: advances were making preparatioas-to- leave it-. The Bogota Gazette of the 8th of March arinnunces the'ariital of CoThl HAMIL- -'rO, and Lie1ntenant-Colonel-CA3r.pnttL the Britt6>r(>m'o 'inissiondrs, in the capital ef.Colonibia. Ati.-pthlxbicinner .given them on their journey by the Governor of Maraqui. sta at Honda, the Commissioners arp st.ated 'to have -pro-; -posed, as a toast, "Theindtependence o.fColombia." It is- *21' Vwonderful, tht by a peopie anxious. to obtain 'its -recogntfi6i' by England, ofery' circumstance of this na-' tuie, liowever' trifling -i' itself, 'sliouil.be scrpuously re- corded. Congress had notimet' but there wanted ol2y the arrival-of' tvo more-mernbecr, of the Senate;-t& coinplete the number prescribed by the Constitwticq, in orderto com- mence fl-sitings. .- Mr. TIENDERSOX, the Consul f .Co. lombi, hada riot arrived-at -fogota. On- the 17th of *Pki tfi'eshock of`anfeaithquake was felt at Kingston (Jainaica), which-in duratiou exceded.- aiuy which 'had been rerneen- tiered fori S4-years, but.iwhich did' no iaterial damatge in the v.icinity of Kiqgston..-No atmounts of its effect-had been receiveil from the iitrior.