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SOUTHERN AMERICA.-No changes, or events of much importance, have transpired within the last month, in the southern part of our continent. The general Congress of the South American States is sitting at Tacubaya, but their proceedings are not known. War still exists between the Emperor of Brazil and Beunos Ayres; but no operations of importance have taken place. There has been another naval action of some little consequence, in which the republicans claim to have had the advantageThe Buenos Ayrians are looking for a fleet, which they have obtained from the Chilians, and which the Brazilian fleet hope to intercept.

Nothing among our southern neighbours has of late interested us half so much, as the reports and statements recently become current, that the Liberator Bolivar is likely to prove recreant to the cause of liberty. It is confidently stated in letters from Lima, not only that he has acted in the most tyrannical and offensive manner in Peru, but that it was there confidently believed, that he was taking measures to form Colombia, Peru, and Chili into an empire, to place himself at the head of it, and to form an alliance with the Emperor of Brazil. It is even intimated that the late movements in Colombia by General Paez, have been, and still are, with his connivance. We hold it, however, to be equally the dictate of justice and candour, when a man has, for a length of time, acted so nobly as Bolivar has confessedly done, not to place reliance on accounts that deeply implicate his character, till they are fully authenticated. The accounts in question are not so authenticated, and therefore we do not accredit them. The long, and to us unaccountable, absence of the Liberator from Colombia, is a circumstance which gives us some anxiety, but we still hope that in time, the whole will be explained; and that the well earned laurels of Bolivar will not be blighted, but remain unsullied and even increase in lustre.

UNITED STATES.-We regard it as a part of our special duty in editing a religious miscellany, to notice particularly every thing in our country which, in a moral view, is injurious to our national character. Thus injurious-highly so, in our estimation-has been the conduct of the crew of a vessel belonging to the American navy, on a late visit to the Sandwich Islands. What can be more reproachful and disgraceful, than that the crew of a Christian vessel (and we hope the vessels of the United States are yet to be reckoned Christian) should be so maddened by the disappointment of their brutal desires, as to insult those who had rendered savages more chaste and temperate than themselves. This insult to the Christian missionaries and Christian chiefs of the Sandwich Islands, assumes a more disgusting aspect, because it forms such a perfect contrast to what was witnessed in the late visit of the British frigate, the Blonde, commanded by Lord Byron. His deportment, and that of his whole crew, left a most favourable impression on the minds, both of missionaries and natives. We sincerely hope that this business will be thoroughly investigated by our government. The missionaries at the Sandwich Islands are all Americans; and that they should be insulted by a ship of war from their own country, is grievous in the extreme: and if it be of some national importance, as we suppose it is, that the natives should cherish friendly feelings in regard to American vessels, it behoves us to see that such feelings are cherished, and not exchanged for those of fear and hatred. We wish that the parties concerned in this alleged outrage, may have a fair and candid trial; and we shall be glad to find that report has exhibited their conduct worse than it was; but the statements given to the publick, could scarcely have existed without a foundation in truth.

Since we began to write, we have seen the President's Message to Congress, and have given it a hasty perusal. On such a perusal, it has struck us as, in general, a production of uncommon excellence. But we have neither time nor space for particular remark. Let us be permitted to suggest, that those who wish that the ensuing session of Congress may be more honourable and useful to our country than the last, have one thing in their power which, to that end, may be of much avail.-It is to pray earnestly that Almighty God may give such wisdom and grace to our legislators and rulers, as shall enable and dispose them to discharge all their functions with fidelity, and under a deep sense of their responsibility, both to their country fand to the Supreme and final Judge of all.

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