5. Qu'il séra établi des délais pour l'admission dans les Ports et sur le Territoire de Colombie, proportionnés au retard qu'aura éprouvé la reconnoissance proposée.

6. Qu'il sera pris des mesures par le Gouvernement de Colombie, pour prohiber toutes marchandises provenant des Pays dont les Gouvernemens refuseront ou différeront de la reconnoître.

Le Soussigné, en portant à la connoissance de Son Excellence, les sentimens et les principes de son Gouvernement, insiste sur la nécessité d'une prompte réponse. Son Excellence est trop éclairée pour ne pas pénétrer les motifs de cette demande de la part d'un Gouvernement qui siège à une aussi grande distance, et qui, occupé à la fois de son organisation intérieure, et de l'établissement de ses relations extérieures, ne peut admettre ni les longueurs ni les détours dont on croiroit, d'après d'anciens usages, pouvoir se servir dans cette circonstance nouvelle, et dont la nouveauté même est un motif de plus de désirer la prompte solution; solution que Colombie attend avec une égale confiance des lumières du Gouvernement Britannique et de ses propres forces.

Le Soussigné saisit avec empressement cette occasion, &c. S. E. le Marquis de Londonderry.

F. A. ZEA

ACT of Independence of the Provinces of Guatemala.-15th

THE anxious wishes to become Independent of the Spanish Govern ment, being publick and indubitable, which in writing as well as orally, have been manifested by the Inhabitants of this Capital, and several Communications having also been received by the last post, from the Constitutional Municipalities of Ciudad Real, Comitan, and Jurtlan, in which they inform us that they have proclaimed and sworn to the said Independence, and urge us to do the same in this City; and it being also well known that they have addressed similar Communicstions to other Authorities, it has been determined, in concurrence with the Provincial Deputation;

That, in order to treat of a matter of such great importance, the Members of the said Provincial Deputation, the Archbishop, the Mem bers of the High Court of Justice, the venerable Dean and Ecclesiastical Chapter, the College of Lawyers, the regular Prelates, Military Commanders, and Publick Functionaries of every description, should assemble in the Town-hall, and deliberate thereupon.

The Communications above alluded to having been read, and the subject fully discussed and meditated upon, and the loud and reiterated

cries of "Independence," having been heard from the People who had assembled in the square, streets, yard, and the galleries of the Townhall, the following Resolutions were agreed upon :

I. That as Independence of the Spanish Government is the general wish of the People of Guatemala, (without detriment to what may thereupon be determined by the Congress which is about to be formed,) the Political Chief shall be directed to proclaim the same, in order to avoid the consequences which might be apprehended, were the People themselves to proceed to a declaration of that Independence.

II. That Letters shall be immediately addressed to the Provinces by extraordinary Couriers, in order that without any delay they may be pleased to proceed to the election of Deputies or Representatives of their own, who shall assemble in this Capital, and form a Congress, which shall decide upon the question of general and absolute Independence; and, in case of agreeing to the same, determine the form of Government and the Fundamental Laws which shall be put in force.

III. That in order to facilitate the nomination of Deputies, the Electoral Juntas of the Provinces which ought to have elected the last Deputies to the Cortes, shall themselves name the present Deputies.

IV. That the number of Deputies shall be in the proportion of 1 for every 15,000 Persons, without excluding from the rights of Citizenship those who are descended from African Parents.

V. That the Electoral Juntas of Provinces, in conformity to the last Census, shall themselves determine, agreeably to this basis, the number of Deputies or Representatives which they are to elect.

VI. That, in consideration of the importance and urgency of the business, they will be pleased to close the Elections in such manner, that, on the 1st day of March, in the ensuing Year, 1822, the whole of the Deputies may be assembled in this Capital.

VII. That, in the mean time, no alterations shall take place in the Authorities already established, who shall continue to exercise their several functions, in conformity with the Constitution, Decrees, and Laws at present in force, until the aforesaid Congress shall determine what may be more just and advantageous.

VIII. That the Political Chief, Brigadier-General Gavino Gainza, shall continue in the Superior Political and Military Government; and, in order that he may possess the authority suited to existing circumstances, a Consultive Provisional Junta shall be formed, composed of Messrs. Miguel de Larreinaga, Member of the High Court of Justice of this place; Jose Del Valle, Auditor of War; the Marquess de Aicinena, Jose Valdes, Treasurer of the Cathedral here; Dr. Angel Maria Candina, and the Licentiate Antonio Robles, third Constitutional Alderman; the 1st being for the Province of Leon, the 2d for that of

Comayagua, the 3d for Quesaltemango, the 4th for Solala and Chemaltenango, the 5th for Sonsonate, and the 6th for Ciudad Real de Chiapa.

IX. That this Provisional Junta shall be consulted by the Political Chief on all economical and other matters, deserving of their attention, and relating to the Government.

X. That the Catholick Religion, which we have professed from former ages, and will profess to future ones, shall be preserved pure and unaltered, and that spirit of Religion shall be maintained which has always distinguished Guatemala; the regular and secular Ministers shall be maintained, and their persons and property respected.

XI. That a letter of advice shall be forwarded to the worthy Prelates of Religious Communities, in order that, by their co-ope ration in the maintenance of peace and tranquillity, (the first duty of a People, when they effect a transition from one Government to another,) they may take care, that the Persons under their charge do promote concord and fraternity amongst those united in the general sentiment of Independence, and in all other respects, and the cessation of all personal animosities.

XII. That the Municipality entrusted with the maintenance of order and tranquillity, shall take the most active measures for this purpose, as well in the Capital as in the different Towns.

XIII. That the Political Chief shall publish a Manifesto, making known the real sentiments of the People, the opinion of the Authorities and Corporations, the measures of this new Government, as well as the causes and circumstances which have decided them to take the Oath, in presence of the first Alderman, and at the request of the People, to the Independence of the Country, and of Fidelity to the American Government that may be established.

XIV. That the Provisional Junta shall take the same Oath, as well as the Municipality, the Archbishop, the Tribunals, the Political and Military Chiefs, the regular Prelates, their Religious Communities, and the Chiefs and Persons employed in the Revenues, the Authorities, and Corporations, and the Troops in the respective Garrisons.

XV. That the Political Chief, in concurrence with the Munici pality, shall make the necessary arrangements, and appoint the day upon which the People shall also proclaim and swear to the said Independence.

XVI. That the Municipality shall give orders for a Medal to be struck, which may transmit to future ages the recollection of the 15th September, 1821, when we proclaimed our happy Independence.

XVII, That the present Act, and the aforesaid Manifesto shall be printed, circulated, and sent to the Provincial Deputations, Constitu tional Municipalities, and other Authorities, Ecclesiastical, Regular,

Secular, and Military, in order that, agreeing in the same sentiments as those manifested by the People in this City, they may be pleased to act conformably to the stipulations therein contained.

XVIII. That on the day which the Political Chief may be pleased to appoint, a solemn Mass of Thanks shall be celebrated, in the presence of the Provisional Junta, and of all the Authorities, Corporations, and Chiefs, with salutes of artillery, and 3 days of illumination.

National Palace of Guatemala, this 15th day of September, 1821.

SPEECH of The King to the Cortes, on taking the Oath to the Political Constitution of Portugal.-1st October, 1822. GENTLEMEN, (Translation.)

I HAVE examined with attention the Political Constitution of the Monarchy, which, in the name of all the Inhabitants of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarve, was offered to me by its legitimate Representatives, united in the General Extraordinary and Constitutional Cortes of the Portuguese Nation; and I have considered, with scrupulous attention, the conditions of this new social Compact.

Placed by Providence at the head of a valiant and magnanimous Nation, and convinced that the general will is the fountain and the medium of all political power; it is my duty to identify my own with that general will, as I have always been sensible that my happiness is essentially connected with the prosperity of the Portuguese People.

Faithful to my principles, I flatter myself with having offered to the Nation, even under the most difficult circumstances, decisive proofs of the love I bear it, and of the uprightness which becomes my own dignity. The Portuguese acknowledge it, and this is the recompense the most worthy of my labours, as well as the sole object of my ambition.

The new social Compact being, therefore, the expression of the general will, the result of your wise meditations, conformable to this enlightened Age, and founded on a reciprocity of interests and sentiments, which make my cause inseparable from the cause of the Nation, I come this day in the midst of the National Representation, to accept the Constitution which you have just framed; and to confirm, by the most solemn Oath, the inviolable promise to fulfil it, and cause it to be fulfilled.

Yes! Representatives of the heroic Portuguese Nation! your magnificent work, the fruit of so many enlightened and patriotic labours, will be respected and maintained. I swear it by the probity and firmness which you know me to possess. This sacred promise, as

spontaneous as the resolution which brangia re Mosa to the cradle of the Monarchy, to co-agente a bas enterprise, cannot have a surer gmateer fan a te which I have maintained the bases to which I mye already which in all the acts which characterise my proces, & a supert & mer intentions are pure.

I congratulate myself on meriting the comitenter and ove si Nation, as well as on the arrival of mis happy day, nice coleintei the annals of Portugal. It will shew na posterity, he perhaps mprese "oked example, of a Nation, regenered without disturing de padek tranquillity, and that the first Cometicional. Kog of the Prpagowy, knowing how to make himself worthy of the confidence d' Dhe Popola knows also how happy it is to reign over their heats M Guelmont, is the glory to which I aspire, and such are the vatives which induced me to accept, and to sver 1,2 Mall (stitution of the Monarchy.

QVARNASANANDENCE relative to the withdrawal of the "Cheye d'Affaires from the Court of Lisbon

(Translation.

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mal diguity and honour, the protection of which is peculiarly sted to them, thought it their duty strictly to follow towards sua the hue of conduct which that Government had thought proper • race our to them. And, accordingly, when the Prussian Govern ment suspended the prosecution of the journey of our Chargé d'Affaires, that thot was met by a corresponding actual suspension of our Diplo matick Relations with its Chargé d'Affaires, who was made acquainted