450 SPANISH AMERICA. 



province of Tucuman ; and Carrera, were put 

 to death. A Congress was assembled at 

 Cordova, and a constitution framed, better 

 adapted than the former to the wants and 

 wishes of the inhabitants. 



In this section of Spanish America, little 

 has since occurred worthy of particular no- 

 tice. 



I now return to New Grenada and Vene- 

 zuela, forming at present the republic of 

 Colombia, and to the untired and unabated 

 exertions of Bolivar ; who, whatever errors 

 he may have committed in the earlier part 

 of his career, has proved himself a consist- 

 ent patriot, and a most able and skilful 

 general. Bolivar, who is descended from a 

 family of distinction at Caraccas, was born 

 there about the year 1785. Having been 

 allowed to visit Europe, a permission which 

 was formerly granted to very few natives of 

 Spanish America, he finished his studies at 

 Madrid, and then proceeded to Paris. After 



