Phenix Gazette

Bolivar—Those who know Bolivar personally, it is believed, all agree in the opinion that he is ambitious. The only material point on which they appear to differ, is, what direction his ambition takes at the present time. No doubt it long ran in accordance with the vital interests of his country: for as long as there were any Spaniards on the soil of Colombia or Peru to threaten their independence, his own interests were necessarily identified with those of his countrymen. That his ambition is of a more selfish nature than it has heretofore been considered, is, however, too strongly evident, from numerous facts. To make no mention at this time of the various movements he has made within the last few years, that show his systematic opposition to the principles of the constitution to which he swore, and which he was of course bound, as an honest man, to support, the very attitude which he now holds in the view of the world is enough to deprive his friends of all confidence in his motives and intentions.

At a period when the best understanding is necessary between the new Southern Republics of America, and the utmost cordiality of feelings should be cultivated, Bolivar is pursuing a course which tends directly to weaken the hands of the other States in the unwavering course they are still pursuing against the enemies of their independence. Spain, the common enemy of all those extensive regions of the earth, has been recently repelled from the soil of Mexico, in a most gallant and patriotic manner; and every movement in that country bears a warning against the invaders not to repeat their unprincipled and hopeless attempts. At the same time, Bolivar, the Liberator, as he is now called rather in derision, instead of showing, by a single word of encouragement to his brethren of the republic, that he felt a kindred emotion in the hour of their danger, has no, at this moment, we believe, a minister in that or any other of the Republican countries in the two American Continents, and seems to seclude himself from all the world except a few foreign agents, sent to surround him from Europe. France is strongly suspected of instigating, if not in some degree supporting, the late invasion under Barradas; yet France has a designing agent at Bogota, whose influence with Bolivar is too plain to be denied, and whose pretended good intentions toward him are true only on the condition that he permits the sacrifice of his country to the jealousy of a foreign cabinet.—New York Daily Adv.