Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

UNITED STATES.
Recognition of the Independence of the Republics of South America.

In the former numbers of this paper we published the documents relative to this important event, and we now add that in the paper of Philadelphia of the 2d May, called the General Advertiser, it is announced that on the 29th April, the Senate of the United States concurred with the President and with the House of Representatives in recognizing the existence of the independent government of South America. On the same day the Senate gave their sanction to the act which had passed the House of Representatives, appropriating monies for the salaries of the Ministers who are to be sent to our government. All this information was officially received on the 11th inst. from the Charge d'Affaires of Colombia, whose official letter we subjoin. The Intendant ad interim of this department caused the news to be immediately published by proclamation, in which the civil authorities, with the military band of music, joined, and orders were issued that the city should be illuminated during three nights, and the houses hung with fringe on the succeeding day, the 12th. On that day a solemn Te Deum was chaunted in the metropolitan church, accompanied by salutes of artillery, which had already been fired off at the time of the proclamation. This event of the recognition, one of the most memorable in the annals of the republic has been celebrated with the most emphatic expression of joy and thankfulness towards the illustrious nation who, the first in the new world, has resolved to take a step that will forever reflect honor on her intelligence and humanity.