BOLIVAR is once more, we may now assume, at the
head of affairs in Colombia. On the 18th September, a proclamation ap- peared in the Cart hagena papers, in which the Liberator declares, that, in obedience to the call of his countrymen, he has resolved once more to put himself at the head of the troops, in order to rescue the state from the abyss into which it had been plunged by the divil war. From the '28th of August, in consequence of the victory gained'at Bogota on that day, his friends have been in actual possession of the Government; which the President, Vice- President, and other officers, had resigned into their hands.... On the 3rd September a deputation was appointed to wait on Bom- VAR, to request him to accept the Presidency. The requisition was presented by 10,000 persons. BOLIVAR left Carthagena, on the 29th September,. for Bogota.
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