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fWncott ■ In every slate emirt of the Union, ha notwith standing the Laws of Bankruptcy in England, a’creditor of, the bankrupt may levy nu attuch- jnent oil a debt duo the bankrupt in th* coun try, and apjiropriato iho proceeds to his own debt. In the case of Harrison anl S terry, (."> cr. 293, 302,) a case decided in this court in iS09, tuon full argument and great deliberation, and in w!rr*» all the English cases were quoted, it is expressly adjudges!^ "that ht tins caeo of a contract made with foreigners in a foreign Country, the' Bankrupt Laws of the foreign country are incapable of operating a legal transfer of property in the United Slates,” and judgment was given in favor of the attach- in.t creditors against the claim of tho foreign ass’onee. * » ■. In that case, also anothdf important doctrine is established in hostility with the British doc trine,' For the United Statos had interposed a claim against tho English assignees, in order to obtain sa'isfiction from tho proceeds of the Bankrupt's effects in this country, for a.debt contracted in Great Britain. And this court decreed accordingly, expressly drawing tho distinction between the lex loci aud lex fori, and restricting the power of tho country of tho contract to its concoction and exposition. The language of- tho court is—“the law of tho place where a contract is made, is, gonor- rdly speaking, the law of tho contract, i. e. it h the law hv which the contract is expounded. But the right of priority forms no part of the contract itself. It’ is extrinsic, and is rather a personal privilege, dependent on the!nv of the place w!on the property lies, and where the court sits wh ch decides the cause.” And, accord 11 :;lv, iha law of the United States was sustained, which gave tho debts due the bankrupt here, to satisfy a debt contracted in England, to tho prejudice of the law of Eng land, which gtvo tho same debt to tins assignees of the bankrupt. It cannot be necessary to go firther than this case, to establish, that so fir us relates to the foreign creditor, this country does not re- cognize the English doctrino, that the Hank- runt hw o f the country 'of the contract, is pa ramount in disposing of the rights of the b-ink- rttp:. Tho United States pass a law which as serts tile right to appropriate a debt duo the foreign bankrupt, 10 sutisfy a deb: due itself, an I incurred by thit bankrupt in his own couri- ti'V. The issignoes of the bankrupt, o« the contrary, claim the debt as legally vested in thorn, by the liw< of tho country of 'lie con tract, and ntiimon that the debt due tho Unit ed States’ ben-; co.urac ed in Great Britain, waa subject to tho laws of Great Britain, .ami, therefore, entitled only to share, in common which W. a citizen of Massachusetts, hud sued B. i u « statu court and obtained judgment. B. was discharged under the insolvent laws of that 3. ate, and being afterwards found in Massachu setts, was arrested in an acitou of debt upon die judgment. He pie ids the discharge, plain tiff replies, that he was a citizen of Massachu setts, ami therefore not precluded hy the dis charge. Tim origin of the debt does hut ap- poar from tho report, and the argument turned wholly on the .question, whether hy entering judgment in tho court of tho state, he had not subjected his rights to the state laws, pro tun- to. , , Tho court overruled tho plea, and recogniz ed the doctrine ill Biker & Wheaton,’by de claring, “that a discharge of that nature can only operate where the law is made hy an au thority, common to the creditor and debtor in •all respects, where both arc citizens or sub jects.” I have little doubt that the court was wrong in denying the euect of the discharge against judgments rendered in the state courts, where tho party goes voluntarily and unnecessarily in to the state courts; .but the decision shows in other respects how decidedly the British doc trine is repelled in the courts of that stute. Tho British- doctrino is also unequivocally repelled in a very learned opinion, delivered by Judge NoU, in the court of the last resort ill South Carolina, add in which the whole court, consisting of all the common law judges of the state concurred. This was in the case of the Assignees of Topham, vs. Chapman, in which die rights of the attaching creditor were maintained, against those of iho Assignees of he Bankrupt, (1. Constitutional Reports, p. 153.) And that tho same rule wa3 recognized at an early day in'tho courts of Pennsylvania, appears from the leading case of Philips Sc Hunter, (2 Hy. Bl. 402) in which a British creditor who h id recovered of a debtor of tho bankrupt, in Pennsylvania, was compelled by the British court to refund to tho Assignees, in England as for money had and received to their use. I think it then fully-established, tint in tho United States, a creditor of tlie foreign bank rupt m ly attach a debt due the foreign bank rupt, Rit.l apply it to the satisfaction of his pe culiar debt, to the prejudice of the rights of tho assignees or oilier creditors. I do not here speak of assignees or rights created under die bankrupt's own deed; tlioso stand on a different ground, and do not affect this question. I confine myself to assignments or transfers resting on the operation of the laws of the country, independent of his own dcod; to tho rights and liabilities of debtor and cre ditor, bankrupt and assignee, as created by law cause against granting a discharge to the bank rupt. '. , .> . But on what principle can a citizen of ano ther state bo forced into tho courts of a state for this investigation! The judgment to be passed is to prostrate his rights, and on the subject of those rights, the Constitution ex empts him from the jurisdiction of the state tribunals, wherever the contract may originate. In the only tribunals to which he owes allegi ance, the state insolvent or bankrupt laws can LATEST FROM ENGLAND Charleston, April 4. By tho ship Mary Catharine, captain Pace, we have received from our correspondent, the London Courier of Saturday evening, i7th February, and Liverpool papers of Monday, the i9th of the same month. Some extracts from them follow. ... There appears to bo a fatality attending the not bo carried into effect} they have a law of j Royfl j j> am( fy an( j Ministry of Great Britain, their own on tho subject, and a certificate ofl rjpj |fJ King continued at Brighton, on the i7tb ..... _____ ■■— to discharge under any other law, would not be , p e | jn |- tr y 1 a n ( J, although the answers given acknowledged as valid, even in the courts of j j n q U i r j e s made at the Pavilion, were said to bo rli othor creditors, in iho proceeds of the without doed bankrupt's effects;. tint the debt so ippropria;- What is iho actual bearing of this right to rapt’s ellocts; tint the dolit so ippropr ed by the law of tlio United States, to its ex- elusive benefit, was as to all the bankrupt's contracts, but cer'ainly as :o all English con tracts, vested in tho assignees on international principles, principles which givo effect to their bankrupt law, so vesting \fttt debt, pur amount to the laws ofiill other eolinilies. , •* In giving effect to tho law of tho United States;, this court overrules -that doctrine; nnd in'tho’ act of passing th it law, this government osseris 60th the power ovor tho subjoct, and the right to exerciso that power without a vio lation of national comity: or has at least taken its stand 'against that comity, and asserted a right to protect its own intorosts, which, in principle, is equally applicable to the interests of its own citizens. It has.had, in fict, regard to tho lex loci roi sites in tho person and funds of the dobtor of the bankrupt; and tho rights of self-preserva tion, of protection duo its own citizens, and tho actual allegiance of the debtor and the credi tor, not the metaphysical allegiance of tho con- tr tet on which tho foreign power is asserted. It would be in vain to assign the decision of tit is court, in Harrison & S terry, or tho pass ing of the law of tho United States, to tho general preference which tho government may assert in tho paym n> of its own dents; since that preforcnco can only exist to tho prejudice of its-own citizons, whereas .tho preference there claimed aud conceded, operated to tho prejudice of British creditors. The Caso-of'Bakor & Wheaton, adjudged in the courts of Massachusetts, in the time of Chet*-Justice Parsons, (5 Mass. p. 509) is a I cry strung case upon this subjoct. This also ms argue-i with groat care, and all the British C-t'Cs reviewed; the court took time to delibe rate, and the s-tnie doctrine was maintained in the same year and samo month, with Harrison Sc Sterry, and certainly without any communi- Cfti on between the two courts. ' The case was this: Ono Wheaton gave a promissory.note tpone Chandler, both being, at thattime, citizens and. inhabitants of .Rhode Island. W. was discharged under tho bank rupt laws of Rhode Island, both still continu ing citizens and inhabitants of tho same state, and the note remaining the property of C.— Subsequently to the discharge, 0. indorses the note to Baker, and \V. is arrested in Massa chusetts. He.pleads tho discharge in bar, and tjio court, in deciding, expresses itself thus:— “When, thereforb, tho defendant was discharg ed from that'contract lege loci; the promisee Was bound by that discharge, as he was a par ty to the laws of that State, and assenting to their operation. But if when the contract was Undo, ho promiseo bad not been a citizen of Rhode Island, ho would not have been bound by the lues of any other State; and bolding th s noto at the time of discharge, he might afterwards nnint.Vm an action U|>on it in the courts of this State." And again, (p. 3ii) “if tho note h id bocu transferred to the plaintiff, a citizen of this note, while it remaiued due and undischarged by the insolvent laws of Rhode Island, theta laws could not affect his ri.'ht in the courts of law in this state, be cause he is not hound by them.” This, it will bo observed, regards a contract acknowledged to be of Rhode Island origin. There is anbther case reported in the deci sions of tho same state, (tO Col. p. 337) which e rne* this doctrino still fartlier, and I eppre- n-1 to n length which c tnno* be maintained. This was tho caso of Watson & Bourne, in the state in which the court of the United - 0 j- a sa tj s fact 0 ry character, yet, says a Brighton States that grants it is held. Where is tho j as t; c i e> “there is reason to fear that His Majes- reciprocity? where tho reason upon which tho j ty ; 8 f ar f rom W ell; an d that tho gout is not con state courts can thus exercise a power over suit- as | ias been stated, to one hand—on the ors of that court, when the court possesses no con irary, jt is believed it will be found to have such power over the suitors of the state courts! In fact tho Constitution takes away the ground upon which this eminent dominion o- ver particular contracts can be claimed, which is that of sovereignty. For the constitu tional suitors to the courts of tho United States are not only exempted from the neces sity of resorting to the stato tribunals, but actu ally cannot ho’ forced into them. If then, tho law of tho English courts had ever been judi cially adopted into this country in the state tri bunals, the constitution has produced such a radical modification of slate power over their affected other parts of the body." The Duke of Sussex has also been seriously indisposed, but according to the latest accounts he had so far recovered as to be able to leave his bed-room. Mr. Canning was slowly recovering from an illness brought on by exposure at the Duke of York's Funeral. And.from tho following extract of a lottor, dated at Liverpool, on the i9th of February, it appears that Lord Liverpool was in a very dangerous way:—“Lord Liverpool has been attacked with a . Paralysis, and is said »« awn contracts in the hands of individuals not j have lost the use of ono side, and his speech; subject to their’ jurisdiction, as to furnish i the town is today moro occupied with who is attach, so generally recognized by oar deci sionsl It imports a general abandonment of the British principles. For, according to their laws, tho assignee alone, has the power to rc- Vtusti >ko ilnbtpc. „JBuf tho.right to attach ne cessarily implies the right to release tho debt or, and that right is hero asserted.under tho laws of a stato which is not tlio state of the contract. So also, tho creditor of the bankrupt is by the laws of his country, entitled to no more than n ratable participation in the bankrupt’s effects. But the right to attach imports a right to exclusive satisfaction, if tho effects attached should prove adequato to make satisfaction. The right to attach also imports tho right to *110 the bankrupt; and who would impute to the bankrupt laws of another country, tho force to restrain the citizens of theso status in the ex erciso of tho tight to go into tho tribunals of their own country for tho recovery of-debts duo wherever tltoy may have originated? Yet, universally, after tho law takes tho bankrupt into its own hands, his creditors aro prohibit ed from suing. Thus much for the law of this caso in an international view. I will new consider it with reforonco to tho provisions of tho Constitu tion. i* . , ■ I have said above, that I had no doubt the erection of a distinct tribunal, for tho resort of citizens of other states, was intradaced cx industria, to pi event among othor ovils, tho as sertion of a power over tho rights of tho citi zons of other states, upon tho metaphysical i deas of the British courts, on the subjoct of jurisdiction ovor contracts. And thoro was good reason for it—for upon that principle it is, that a power is asserted over tho rights of creditors, which involves a mere mockery of justice. Thus, in caso of Burrows & Jomino, re ported in 2 Strange, nnd better reported in Mosely and some oilier books, tho creditor residing in wsii cworiy probably by* ft placard on the door-post in Leghorn, to ap pear there toianswor to his debtor, and his debt passed upon by the court, perhaps with out his having heard of tho institution of legal process to destroy it. Tho Scotch, if I remember correctly, at tach the summons on the flag-staff at tho shoro of Leith; and tho civil law process by procla mation, or viis and modis, is not much better, as iho means of subjecting tho rights of foreign creditors to their tribunals. All this roockory of justice, and the ji ies^ recriminations, aud perhaps, retaliations, which-might flow out of it, is avoided, if the power of t|to states over contracts, after they become the subject exclusively of judicial cog nizance, is limited to the controversies of their own citizens, and those who voluntarily sub ject themselves to the state courts. And it does appear to mo almost incontro vertible, that thoy cannot proceed ono step far ther without exercising a power incompatible with tlio acknowledged rights of other states, of tho United State*, and of the citizens of oth er states. Every bankrupt or insolvent system In the world, must partake of the character of a judi cial investigation. Parties whose rights are to be affected, are entitled to a hearing. Hence every system, iu common with tho particular system now beforo us, professes to summon the creditors before some tribunal, to show grountl for excepting the rights of such indivi duals from the power which the states unques tionably possess over their own contracts and the'r own citizens. Fellow out the contrary doctrino in its con- svquences, and see tho absurdities it will pro duce. The constitution has constituted courts pro fessedly independent of tho stato power in their judicial course; and yet, tho judgments of those courts tiro to ho vacated, and their prisoners set at large under the power of tho stnto courts, or of tho state laws, without tho possibility of protecting themselves from its ex ercise, I cannot acquiesce in an incompatibility so obvious. No one has ever imagined that a prisoner in confinement tinder process from tho courts of the United States, could avail himself of tho insolvent laws of the stato in which the court sits. And tho reason is, that those laws are municipal and peculiar, and appertaining ex clusively to the exerciso of state power in that sphere iu which it is sovereign, i. 0. between its own citizons; between suitors subjected to stato power exclusively, in their controversies between themselves. In tko courts o'f the United States, no high er purer is qsserted than that of discharging tho individual in confinement under its own proccsi. This affects not to interfere with the rights of creditors in tho state courts against the same individual. Perfect reciprocity would seem to indicate, that no greater power should he exorcised'under stato authority, over tho rights of the suitors who belong to tho United States’ jurisdiction. Even although the prin ciple asserted in 'he British courts, of supreme anil exclusive power over their own contracts, had obtained in the courts of the United States, still that power has .undergone u radical modi fication by the judicial powers granted to the United States. I, therefore, consider the discharges under a state law, as incompetent to discharge a debt due a citizen of another state; anti it follows, that tlio plea of ihc discharge here sot up, is insufficient to bar tho right of this plaintiff. It becomes necessary, therefore, to consider the other errors assigned in behalf of the de fendant. And first as to tho plea of tho act of limitations. Tlio statute pleaded hero is not tho act of Louisiana, but that of Now York, and the question is not raised by tho facts or aver ments, whether he could nvail himself of it if tho full time had run out beforo his departure from Now York, as was supposed in argumont. Tlio plea is obviously foumted in the idea that the statute of tho state of the contract was gen erally pleadable in any other state, a doctrine that will not boar argument. Tho remaining error assigned has regard to the sura for which the judgment is entered, it being for a greater nmonnt than tho numerical amount of tfeo'bills of exchango on which the suit was brought, and which aro found by tho verdict. Thoro has been a defect of explanation on this subjoct; but from tho best information af forded us, we consider the amount for which judgmone is entered, as made up of principal, .jWSIBSLjrulJwagflS ■ °nd. the Jatjer p$ boim? legally incident to tho finding of the bit exchange and their non-payment, and assessed by the court under a local practice consonant with that by which tho amount of writton con tracts is determined, by reference to tho Pone otbtaiy in many others of our courts. Wo, therefore, see no error in it. . Tho judgment below, will, therefore, be af- firmed, and the purport of this adjudication, as I understand jt, is— That as between citizens of tho samo state, a discharge of a bankrupt by the laws of that state-is valid, As it'affects posterior contracts. The propositions which I have endeavored to maintain, in tho two opinions which I havo delivered, aro these: 1st. That tho power given to tho United States, to pass bankrupt laws, is not exclusive. ‘2d. That the fair and ordinary exerciso of that power, by tho states, docs not necessarily involvo a violation of the obligation of con tracts, multofortloni of posterior contracts. But when, in tho exercise of that power, tho states pass beyond their own limits, and the rights of their own citizens, and act upon the rights of cifiZons of other states, there arises a conflict of sovereign power, and a collision with the judicial powers granted to the United States, which renders tho exerciso of such a power incompatible, with tho rights of other states, and with tho constitution of the United States. to succeed him, than any oilier business.’' London, February i7. Tho intelligence from Portugal, which we were enabled to communicate to our readers yesterday, only very briefly, is more than con firmed by tlio accounts from tho Lisbon and Oporto Papers, and by Private Letters which wo' this day publish. It appears, tho rebels had actually pcnetriUed to within twelve or fif teen miles of Oporto. At the dale of tho latest advices'from that city; however, all apprehen sions of immediate danger bad subsided, though, as may be expected considerable anxiety pre vailed. General Stubbs had about three thou sand troops under his command, and was, be sides, in communication witli tite Counts do Villa Flor, and Angeja, whoso forces were in terposed between Oporto and the rebels, un der tho Marquis do Chaves. The inhabitants of Oporto seem to be doubtful as to the fidelity of tlio troops stationed there; and it is a proba ble inference indeed, that tho effort of Chaves to enter the city, would not havo been made, unless he had received information which led him to expect that the garrison would declare in his favor tlio first opportunity. The British army under the command of General Clinton, had marched from Lisbon for Coimbra, which was to ho their head-quar ters, and wJioro they woro to arrive by tho i6lh. It was cousidored that by the tO'.h inst. there would not be a British soldier in Lisbon, oxcppt thoso in tlio depot, and in the hospitals. A P reclamation from tbo war -Department,- issu ed in the nnmoof tlio Infanta Princess Regent, 011 the ititli, announces tlio departure of our brave fellows, and expresses the confident hope of the Princess that in every part of the interi or whore they may arrive, their “order and propriety" will “renew tho same ties of frater nity which, during the Peninsula wnr, united the Portuguese and English army into one."— This Proclamation speaks, also, in high terms of tho discipline and rogularity of tho British troops, wliilo they remained in tho capital. No mention is mado in these Papers of Mar shal Beresford, or of bis departure from Lis bon. It must bo confessed that this turn of affairs in Portugal, is rather unexpected, after tlio ac counts previously received, through tho Ma drid and Paris papers, of the dispersion of tho rebels, the flight of de Chaves, and his arrival in a wounded stato at Salamauca. If, indeed, it bo true, that he ever did seek refuge in that city, his re-appearance in Portugal, at tho hoad of a body of men which penetrated to within a few miles of Oporto, would lead to se rious reflections. But wo will hazard no hasty opinions upon so grave a question, in the ab sence of material facts on which to form a cor rect judgment. Lisbon, February 7. Tho situation of Oporto on Friday last was From the New York Enquirer, 24th ult. COLOMBIA. Laguira, Wh February, jg* Since tho arrival of Bolivar in this’depLl raeut, tho political face of things has p* * changed. Civil commotion has ceased j private feelings appear to have, been turn ered for tlio public good. However I cannot believe the profession;, some of the actors in the fecent internal t motions can, in every respect, be relied The materials are too discordant to be to e sily and so readily united—all the leading c have been and arc now in Caraccas—-not « of tho promoters of' recent disaffection* | havo been noticed by promotion or other, by the liberator. The financial department^ this country is in- a deplorable state, art not so much from a want of channels to r funds, but more from the demoralizing cliiu3 ter of those who superintended them, BoM and the cabinet arc engaged and have betaf" sometime on that subject. Thero aretooi ny parasites around the liberator,’ natives s foreigners; men whoso views' are houndei interest, and who are disposed, to take e\ advantage front the distressed stato of th to make money and who do riot care a pin (i the country or its government.-- The present time will, of all otbenfj't&m. taleuts of Colombia. Tho fiscal departmt s of government is at all times tlio- most diffic but in this, approximating near its first < moms, internal peace threatened external \ not subdued, credit abroad much shaken, 1 country if atall scarcely able to bear taxation, ^ customs corruptly managed requires such force Of genius, capacity and labor to resu*. tate it, that I fear united aro not to be fouolij Colombia.' Much is to bo hoped from hie; dozn in union with Bolivar. The reception of Bolivar here on tho! January last was splendid; ho was met at foot pf the mountain by citizens and forcig on horseback carrying tho colors of thp'tr c tries, und'conducted to tho Caracas gate, w the mun.cipulity received, and the govern:; presented, him -with the koys of tho iity. front of tite gate was erected^ at the cad of il (lruw-bndgo, a handsome canvas, painting, t- ircsoriting tho front of a house,with a doc eatl.ng from tlio draw-bridgo of Doric srcl lecture, upon which were surmounted stato representing Honour anil Justice at each 1 and Hercules in the centre, strangling the oil, on each side and over the entrance, si bio and very-appropriate mottoes, lie bed alighted and the citizens placed liim.in a dor] blc gig, gcnoral Pacz on his left, decorate a most fanciful manner wiih flowers, rt vines, etc. as to render the gig entirely jtr ble but its shape. He was dressed in a \ bluo undress military coat, with epauldi. the next day, a dinner was given him, bu fortunately but little order was observed. , livar occupied the. bead, with PAei oh bit I and Curabono on his right, (all from 1 I think) Sylvn on Paoz’s left and tHee_ foreign governments pretty ftiuch as thoy.c^al find seats—tho consul of the 1 Uri[te4 States t tho left of Carabono. General Bormudeii not attend. No set of regular toasts drunk. Captain C—, of a British brig of t drank success to an attempt upon Porto I and Cuba by the Colombian arms. I 0 not swallow all of it. Bolivar paid a hi some compliment to the British nation-' to tlio United Statos. He is a very, temp man, confining himself principally to i and drinks but little wine or spirits. Iiisc tenancc is indicative of laborious mental appl cation; his frame is very delicate, and hisvo' quite effeminate, and his health does not app good. On tho next dayi-oveuing—a ball was give him, attendod by tlio ladies 6f tho placo and sons fow from Caracas; tho company was nun ous aud presented u singblar appearance n stranger. Waltzes and contra daticcs.aro that are in fashion here. The liberator < this occasion, as on .all others, was plan dressed, and does-not danco. General 1 was dressed in a round whito cloth or 1 pie were up all night expecting tho rebels, whose chance of entoring was, howevor, reduc ed to tho lowost, by tho spirited disposition of General Stubbs, and the zeal of tho inhabitants. The Oporto Imparcial gives tho names of five citizens who advanced money iu this crisis for tho uso ofthe.troops, whoso allowances woro in arroar, on some temporary disarrangement of the military chest. The volunteer corps did the most effectual sorvico of thoso posts. Tho cry of tho Oporto people is still loud for tho aid of somo English troops. But their farthest destination yot mentioned is Coimbra.’ Twelve o'clock.—Tho AVar-Offico (since my last despatches Were put on board,) hasreceivcd tho following good nows by oxpress from Opor to:— .The Marquis do Angeja was at Bogota on the 3d February, and on the following day at tacked tho Marquis Chaves, who fled by tho Ponte do Prado; tho Marquis do Angeja, tho Count de Villa Flor, and Goneral’ Correa de Mello had united and acted together with effect. Tho rebels fled to Galicia, and General John de Lncerda had distinguished himself In the two Beiras. General Stubbs deserves tho high est praise. General Mollo commanded all tho Infantry, and Count Villa Flor the cavalry. Tho accounts from Brighton, this morning, respecting Mr. Canning, continue of the samo satisfactory character. An uninterrupted, but E tdual, progress towards recovery is now con- entiy expected by his medical attendants. London, February i7. A Parliamentary account of tho income and expenditure has just been presented, by which it appears that the income is about £55,000,- 000, nnd tho expenditure about £54,000,000; tho surplus, or sinking Fund, therefore, is about £i,000,000. mer jacket, embroidered all over; bo < very often, and with somo grace. JMost oftbtl attending officers, with tho cxcopiion of lkt-1 mu3cz, joined in tho festivities of the cvcnicjl He is, no doubt, tho first military man of tbe| tho most anxious that can be imagined: the poo- dopartmont, andi>erhaps not excelled byitl r in Colombia, }he avowed enemy of Paet, *h| (Para) it is said, during the'recent comn»l tions, attempted scvoral times to have hia| (Bermudez) assassinated. It is Bolivar alert! that brings them together. His death voaxl bo tho watch-word for pillage and ussassinnic‘| throughout Venezuela. You cannot bo awart! from alLthe statements that could be you of tho importance of tho liberator’s 1 wilhbufyou were hero arid could see'that os of materials out of which this government has been formed. ;■ I wish them with all my heart success; as J| that like the . United States* they mayem* to the world a clear demonstration, that man* capable of self-government. A report has been in circula'tion forsos'l days of an expedition against Porto Rim- . I cannot vouch for tho truth of it. Somethin< I unquestionably in agitation; between eigfu t hundred troops marched from Cst*®! last evening for this place—ihey wore 1 a fow days sinco from on board of tho 1 Cundinemaroa, from Porto Cabello. _ Genorai Peaz has gone to the Apure.i^’j to raise troops. It is reported that 200D 1 1 ruvian troops marchod into Valencia lr J tbo interior, a few days sinco. Jf such an ■ E dition is contemplated, the liberator lw s _ it motives for it; tho peace and q u ', ctB !rj; Venezuela! and tho gclting clear ofthf fected loading men of this department, . Genorai Paea is spoken of as tho com® 35 I er. ' * - • N. B. Tho public credits effected by E avernment, and availablo at tho custom 11 ^ avo all been- stoppod; and every W* ( owes any thing to the customs, mua ‘ 1 cash, or go to tho common jail. I" 35 os it has already, produced somo infrin^' 3 '', 1 on a depreciated stato -of rthings wills'.I