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already in part acknowledged his merits by 

 giving him a public burial; and I have no 

 doubt, when the finances of the country will 

 permit, but that a suitable monument will 

 commemorate the existence of a man, who 

 suffered so much, in the service of a country 

 to which he was devoted. 



Amongst the other members, Dr. Soto is 

 the best speaker. He is the Canning of the 

 Colombian congress ; he is a deep-read, well- 

 informed man ; catches the whole of a sub- 

 ject he wishes to speak on at one glance, 

 arranging and classing the different parts 

 well in his own mind ; beginning in a quiet, 

 mild manner, gradually, as his subject in- 

 creases in interest, augmenting his own 

 warmth, and at last bursting forth into a 

 strain of fervid eloquence, which would even 

 do credit to a British House of Commons, 

 and by which he is almost always sure of 



