The Rhode Island Republican

Bolivar. The following graphic description of the president dictator, is from the pen of Senor Vidaurre, now a resident of the United States, but formerly an important officer in the civil department of the government of Peru, from which country he was banished by the congress owing to the intrigues of the factionists.

"The physiognomy of a man generally discovers his passions. Tiberius made a profound study of dissimulation. Augustus knew it before appointing him his successor.

Bolivar is of ordinary stature, very lean, complexion between red and olive, very black coarse hair, thin in front, broad arched eyebrows and very bushy, an eye of fire and sometimes sunken, a sharp nose, aquiline face, a body lean, hollow, and without air or grace, a sharp, discordant voice, a continual motion of the body and chiefly of the hands. It is not the portrait of Attila, neither is it exactly that of Theodoric. A strong memory, a sublime poetical genius, a vast understanding, great ideas, general knowledge, a taste for military exercises, dislike to the table, hatred to il? constitutional laws, passion for despotism, a misconceived thirst for glory, contempt of money, a very strong propensity to deceit, frustrated on many occasions by his ardor and imprudence, variable in friendship, austere in conversation, a satirical devourer of those persons who approach him most, and whom he appears most to distinguish, lascivious without love, jealous from pride, indifferent to all religion. I do not speak of his valor, because I have no proofs of it. In the only two great battles of Peru, which were those of Junin and Ayacucho, he had no part--In the first he abandoned the field: during the second he was at the distance of 150 leagues."