The Enquirer

CARRACAS, Sep. 24, 1810.

By the first August Packet, their Highnesses (the Junta) received, by the way of Curacao, the following despatches from the Spanish Deputies to the government of his Britannic Majesty:

To the Secretary of State and Foreign Relations of the Government of Venezuela.

Under date of yesterday we directed to you an official letter of the following tenor:

"We hasten to Communicate to you, for the information of the Supreme Government of Venezuela, what we have accomplished since our arrival, in discharge of the trust committed to us by their Highnesses the Governing Junta; and we hope in a few days to have it in our power to make our communications at great length and with more certainty. We happily arrived at Portsmouth, after a passage of only 31 days, and as soon as the proper passports were delivered us, we took the road for this capital, where our arrival, announced some days before in the public papers, did not fail to occasion some sensation. We immediately made it known to the Marquis Wellesley, Secretary of State of his Britannic Majesty for the Department of Foreign Relations.— He was then in the country, and the following day he answered us with much civility, pointing out the hour he would receive us at his house at Apsley, for the purpose of having a conference with us. This conference and others took place. The result was that we sent him an informal note (una nota verbal) the answer to which has been delayed some days; but we are every moment expecting it. We must therefore regret that we have it not actually in our power to give you a clear and precise idea of the manner in which the communications of our government have been received; and we will confine ourselves to stating to you in general, that we have been received and treated in a manner sufficiently frank and decorous by Lord Wellesley: That his Britannic Majesty, according to what his minister has expressly told us, has received with the greatest complacence and thankfulness the professions of our country respecting the preservation and extension of our relations with G. Britain: That the British government without taking a part in our dissentions with the regency or any other forms of government that may succeed each other in Spain; will be disposed to grant to us the most powerful protection against the attempts of the French, and that it has seen, with general approbation, the constant loyalty of the inhabitants of Venezuela to their worthy legitimate sovereign, a circumstance which has in a great degree contributed to the favorable reception we have until now met with from the government of his Britannic Majesty Daily and strong demonstrations of cordiality and of interest for our cause are made to us by many respectable persons.— The relations of Sir Alexander Cochrane, in this capital, have been the first in favoring us with their friendship, in serving us and in making to us offers of all kinds, which circumstance, added to the care, attention, & decency with which he treated us on board the Brigantine Wellington, in which we made our passage, increases the rights which that worthy chief has already acquired to the thanks of our government.

Mr. Wellesley, the son of the minister and a member of Parliament, has shewn us frequent marks of friendship, and has employed himself in facilitating our negotiations.

We daily receive invitations to dinner, & tomorrow we dine with his royal highness the duke of Gloucester, nephew to the king, who has been very complaisant to us, and has highly applauded the measures of our government and the spirit of the people of Carraccas. This is as much as we can say to you at present; but we shall write more fully by D. Jose De Tovar Ponte, who is now in London and is to sail very soon for Carracas. By the same conveyance we shall send to you the public papers the most to be relied on, and we hope that in presenting the whole to the notice of the Supreme government, you will be pleased at the same time to assure it of our anxious desire to discharge the trust reposed in us, and of the incessant efforts we are making to do so."

We transcribe the within for you, lest the original should have miscarried, and we have only time to add, that the Marquis Wellesley has asked a conference with us to-day, which must be important. We shall communicate to you the result without delay.

God preserve you many years.

SIMEON DE BOLIVAR.

LUIS LOPEZ MENDEZ.

London, 3rd August, 1810.

From the same to the same.

We have this moment received your dispatches of the 29th June, and we hasten to acknowledge the receipt of them and to communicate information of our operations, that we may be in time for the packet.

"We had yesterday evening the conference we announced to you with the Marquis Wellesley, who ratified in it all he had before told us; he stated that on Monday or Tuesday next he would again ask to see us for the purpose of shewing us the answers that were to be given by the government of his Britannic majesty to the communications of our government; that he flattered himself they would be found as favorable to our cause, as in them would be remarked the inclination of his majesty to prevent the evils which might result in America, if Spain should decide on taking hostile measures—and that to this end, his majesty would employ his mediation,—and at the same time, he stated, that we should be furnished with the means of returning home in safety.

"In the next conference will be settled the terms on which any commissioners or agents our government may think proper to send, may come and be received here in future.

"With it will probably terminate our negotiation, and we promise ourselves that it will be in a manner as becoming to us, as honorable to the views of the British Cabinet—Being so, we shall depart without delay and this perhaps may be the last letter you will receive from us

God preserve you many years,

London 4th August 1810.

(Signed)

SIMON DE BOLIVAR.

LUIS LOPEZ MENDEZ.

The Secretary of State

and Foreign Relations of the

Government of Venezuela.