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\ , This day was published, In One Vol. eto.pticell!.. lits. 6d. in boards, MEOMer?etugir.dthi!ann,"dnam in Chlef, and in an INDIA, cur conducted ?a. b y or- General Sir A. Waumitxr (Duke of Winzniarcni), from its commencement in 1803, to its termination in 1808, on the Banks of the Hyphasis. With Historical Sketches, Topographical Descriptions, and Statistical Observations. Illustrated by Min and Plans of Operations. By Major W. THORN, 25th Light Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library l , Pr Ctetall ; and may be bad of all Booksellers. 3 Ge • cot ! t of Dc an' ma = • ' f t or pr: • i i 1 5 " • . Ar cei ani as Ge 1 - to 1 of div the jur Sal ter. AF tin art 4 eat im: ' 4 4 La ant for am 1 : i' wh th( ini Cul of sis' i if, not , 1 of ha na sai ‘.l Co 1 1 MI wi ab thi wl go WA 30 Cr wi 1 , na th to es; in , !I sit lo 1 cil • m P 1 or in; th et to of th , ... ca 1. fa C 4 Val to I ITI . . th 1. B 1 1 ". Ol ; 1 , c: th r:. en w or at• CI , -- at i '. tip th log iI 4 51- ) in m t ° l l tt 1 i t ' el n tl . n , e i , . d I r c . r. ; II t. ' t 7 t 4 S . P ' n d 1, n e . 6 . 1, - i , 11. 11 l . • 7 IS 4 #• \ . ' 'a 1.41 ' ' % SOUTH AMERICA. OFFICIAL BULLETINS Or BOLIVAR ' S LATE VICTORIES OVER THE SPANIARDS. BULLETIN OF THE LIBERATING ARMY OF VENEZUELA., FEB. Is. dt The Army of Guayana, cemmanded by the %Su preme Chief, commenced its march from the city of Angostura, towards the Lower Apure, on 31st De cember, part being embarked in our small squadron and part follow the left bank of the Orinoko as far as the mouths of the Pao, where they were joined by General Monaga's division. They then passed over to the right bank of the same River ; and on the 17th of January, in Caycara, were joined by the cavalry division of General Cedeno, and again crossing back to the left bank above the mouths of the Apure, formed a junction with General Paez's division, on the 31st, at San Juan de Payara, where his troops were in quar ters. The army, on the 6th February, crossed the Apure, in front of the fortress of San Fernando, and this day, 12th, at seven in the morning, the town and forts of Calabozo were invested, where the enemy's head-quarters were established, under the immediate orders of General Morillo. " The Regiment of Hussars of Ferdinand VII. of La Union and Navarre, being placed on our left, and that of Castile on our right, the enemy's cavalry forthwith attempted to flank our left, but, by a rapid and simultaneous movement of our cavalry, the whole of his right was enveloped, at the moment that the infantry battalion of Barcelona was endeavour ing to call away their attention and attempting to cut them off. " Not a single man of more than two thousand, of which number the three Spanish regiments con sisted, would have been fortunate enough to escape, if, quicker than the advance of our horse, they had not fled into the town. Nevertheless, scarcely eighty of the Hussars, and of the infantry no more than half the Fusileers, made their escape—all the Gre nadiers and Chasseurs were left on the field. " The regiment of Castile, which, as was already said, composed the enemy's left, seeing the right so completely routed, was scarcely able to execute any other movement than that of a shameful flight, without even firing a shot, nor would they hare been able to escape, if, owing to the vicinity of the town, they had not been protected by its fortifications, which for many days will not be able to resist the vi gorous siege which we immediately established. " General Morillo, surprised in the midst of im n-ease plains by an army just come off a march of 300 leagues; General Morillo, routed for the first' time that in America he has drawn his sword, I without at least bringing on a general action, but now not even waiting for the fire of our Fuzileers ; this same General Morillo now saw himselfcompelled to fly, almost alone, from the field of battle, having escaped from two of our lancers, only through the interposition of two of his hussars, who fell by his side—that General Morillo, in short, who has so long outraged humanity by styling . himself the Pa cificator of South America, was, as it wore in a mo ment, shut up in the centre of the Venezuelean plains, owing to Isis own want of skill and the extra ordinary celerity of our movements. Such is the interesting spectacle the action at Calabozo offers to the military world. " The remainder of the enemy's forces are already cut off from the town, and ours have marched on to meet them in every direction. Thus has the fate of our Republic been decided, without having run the danger of a single battle. " Nothing is comparable to the intrepidity of our cavalry ; they alone with two companies of the in fantry battalion of Barcelona have done all. Generals Cedeno, Monagas and Paez, have done prodigies of valour. These three Chiefs on this day have added to the lustre of their former reputations. " Our loss in killed and wounded does not exceed 20 men, among the first is Captain Brito, and among the latter the two Lieutenant-Colonels, M'Lean and Blancas.—llead-quarters in front of Calabozo, &c. Cu/times SouBLL - r, Chief of General Staff." BULLETIN OF THE LI131:11.1TING AIiIIY. FEB. 17. " General Morillo being shut up in the town of Calabozo, after the complete route he experienced on the 12th, the Liberating Army took up the most ad vantageous positions round, in order to blockade the enemy, and cut off his supplies. Our head-quarters were established in the town of Rastro. The enemy on the 14th was compelled to abandon Calabozo, and this he did at twelve in the night, with such pre. cipitation, that he Icft in our power the whole of his artillery, a large quantity of muskets and ammuni tion, his hospitals, stores, &c. He moved' towards the town of Sombrero by the most mountainous road, but his movement having been observed before morn ing by our advanced posts, the army was ordered to march on in pursuit of him. " On the 15th, at four in the afternoon, a squadron of cavalry belonging to the languard came up with the Spanish column in the plain of Auriosa, broke through the small body of cavalry with which the enemy covered his rear, and obliged to halt, conti nuing to call his attention, so as to give time for the army to come up ; but night came on before a single division of infantry arrived, and the enemy, under cove, of it and the surrounding thickets, was, enabled' to resume his march. Many dead and woun ded, besides more than two hundred prisoners of the various Spanish regiments, were the result of the rencontre of our van with the whole of the Spanish column on this afternoon. The pursuit was conti nued during the whole of the evening, and in the fol lowing morning of the 16th we again came up with the enemy at the ford of the river Guarico, near the town of Sombrero, where the hussars of our van guard, who ever since the break of day had been pressing on his rear, obliged him to stop. The ene my's position at that moment was naturally formi dable. Posted in ambuth on the right and left of a narrow road, and with the river and almost an inae- . -, cessible bank in his front, no place was left by which we could make an attact ; but our infantry, that was burning for action, boldly pushed on, notwithstand ing the disadvantage of the ground. " The Guards of Honour to the Supreme Chief were the first who entered into action, with sin gular dexterity and intrepidity, and they were fol lowed by the battalions of Apure and Barlovento, causing great havoc to the enemy. The pass would have been forced without the aid of the other batta lions which 'remained in reserve, if a movement on the rear of the enemy had not been attempted by our cavalry, whose co-operation the infantry were ordered to await. In this interval the enemy abandoned his positions, leaving in our possession 150 prisoners, and the ground covered with killed and wounded. He continued his retreat by the road of Barbacoa, where he arrived the same night; and this day he has pro ceeded on towards Camatagua. Such is the terror with which he is possessed, that he is afraid to take rest, notwithstanding the fatigue of the Spaniards is so great and insupportable, that they deliver them selves up as prisoners without resistance. The loss of the enemy, from the time he commenced his re treat from Calabozo up to this day, exceeds 800 Spa niards in killed, wounded, and prisoners. " The King's army has disappeared, and the rem nants that have escaped from the combat will soon perish from hunger and weariness. Soon shall the flag of liberty wave over the wreck of our tyrants in the whole of Venezuela. Our total loss in this bril liant pursuit is only eighty killed and wounded.— Among the first of whom are :—Lieutenant-Colonel Parsint, Adjutant-General ; Captain Aribalo, and Lieutenant Girardos, of the Guard of Honour ; Cap tain Urbinez, of Barlovento ; and Captains Hasnirez and Gsmsalez, of. Apure. Among the second are:— Brigadier-General Antuategui, Lieutenant-Colonel Ponce, and Major Hill ; Captains Flores, Mares, Col menares, Naranjo, and Pulido; Lieutenants Andara, Melian, Sarraga, Sanchez, and Bustillos—the three latter alone dangerously. The whole of the plains are free, and the enemy, without troops, cattle, ca valry, or credit, i cannot defend the capital, to which place the liberating army is advancing. (Signed) " CHS. SOUBLET, " Chief of the General Staff. " Head Quarters, Sombrero," Ste. REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA. " FIIANCINCO ANTONIO Zr*, President (ad inlerun j of the Coun cil of Government, Head of the Finance Department, Inten dant-General of the Armies of the Republic, &c. &c. to the Chiefs, Officers, and Soldiers of the Brigade of Artillery, and the four British Regiments under the banner of Venezuela. " Welcome, welcome, illustrious defenders of free dom ! come to the arms of your brethren, and to the bosom of your new country I Our brave mariners go out to receive you at a distance from our coasts, and the hero who commands them, a foreigner like yourselves, can testify to you whether we know how to appreciate the valiant of all countries, who come to join in the glorious cause of our independence. " This cause is worthy of you—it is the cause of liberality and industry, of the arts, and of commerce. It is the cause of social relations, and consequently of all nations and men. It is more particularly so of your nation, which, more active, industrious, and commercial than the rest, ought to feel an interest in seeing Spaniards, the greedy usurpers of one half of the globe, now be compelled to restore it back to the human race. " This act of justice ought rather to have belonged to enlightened Cabinets th in daring individuals; but whence is that strange fatality that still allows Eu rope to respect a Government that has had the stu pid insolence to insult her, by the re-establishment of the Inquisition and its homicidal institutions, in the very face of the London Society, the Institute of Pa ris, and a hundred Academics and Universitiec.— Posterity with difficulty will believe that civilized Europe has borne with such a Government in her ho • som—a Government prodigal of blood and horrors ; one that still murders and hangs, as in the days of Pizarro—that cuts down, burns, devours, devastates, and in the delirium of preserving its insensate domi nion, would end by depriving commercial nations of the precious fruits of our continent, and ourselves of the productions of their manufactures and skill. " There is no other close to so many evils than that of our independence. The independence of America is now one of the wants of the entire world, and the most delightful day for humanity will cer t a i n ly b e that on which it is acknowleiged. This memorable event will form the most brilliant period of history. A new intellectual movement--a new impulse given to industry and the arts—to agriculture and trade— a thousand new productions America will then offer to Europe, and in return a thousand new inventions Europe ill oar to America. Such will be the con sequeaces of our indepeaslence, and such the friendly bonds that 5..:11 unite the New to the Old World, in stead of the barbarous chain that now links it with Spain alone. This chair. let us at once break over the head of that same Government ; and then even let Spain herself, also free as we are, participate in these advantages, and be reconciled to the human race. " Such is the sublime enterprize in which as indi viduals you have engaged with us, and to which we are led on by a Chief full of glory and virtue, gene rous, magnanimous, at all times patriotic, at all times the citizen, and at all times the best friend of the defenders of our liberty. Fly to his arms, follow him on his victorious march, heed not your own pros pects and those of your children, for this he has him self provided, and alone bearing in mind the beau tiful and grand idea of liberating the Columbian world, rush with us on the Spaniards, and driving them from our territory into the Antilles sea, let us prove what can be done by an army of friends, Eng lishmen and Venezueleans. (Signed) " FRANCISCO ANTONIO ZRA. " THOS. RICHARDS, Sec. of Council of Government. " St. Thomas in New Granada, March 6, ISIS." PRIVATE LETTER. " PORT Spam, Aram 4. - - " The brig Hunter is arrived after being examined by the Scamander, and is about to proceed up the Orinoko. I send you two bulletins of General Boli var's army ; by the most recent of which you will find on the 17th February he was at Sombrero, where the Spaniards pretend he was routed, and that he still continued pursuing a flying enemy. We have no later official details, but report says, Bolivar en tered Caracas on the 25th February. " Letters from Guayana of the 24th ultimo, state the surrender of .§an Fernando, and the return of 35 LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1818. Pavctas or Watts's BIIITHDAT (Kept).—lioliday at the Bank. THE FUND& PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O ' CLOCK : India Bonds 99 101 pr.—Exch. Bills 19 22 pr. Omnium 01 prom.—Cons. for Account 791 The Select Committee on Finance have made an other Report, being their Tenth, to the House of Commons, embracing the branch of the CIVIL CON TI NGENCI ES. The particular object of their consideration was the Account referred to them by the House sheaving how the sums of 200,0001. and 300,000/. voted in the last Session of Parliament to enable his Majesty to provide for such expenses of a civil nature as do not form a part of the ordinary charges of the Civil List, have been applied. After classifying the expenditure under distinct heads, they remark, that there are certain items in the Lord Chamberlain's department which they think ought clearly in principle to fall upon the ordinary charge of the Civil List. Among these are the ex penses for providing collars, badges and mantles for the several orders of the Garter, Bath, and Thistle—, Plate for his Majesty's Foreign Ministers and Go vernors—Silver Trumpets for the Life and Horse Guards, &c. but the Committee state, that what they particularly allude to are certain charges for furnish ing and keeping up the Royal Yachts, and decora tions for Waterrnen, which cannot, in the opinion of the Committee, be considered as among the charges from which Parliament intended to relieve the Civil List when the new arrangement was made in 1816. " All matters which relate to the incidental expenses belonging to the State Equipage or accommodations of the Crown, although not of constant and ordinary recurrence, ought undoubtedly still to be defrayed out of that fund, instead of being thrown upon the Civil Contingencies." The attention of the Committee has been also par. ticularly directed to the very considerable expense incurred by the Commission appointed for examining . into the duties, salaries, and emoluments of Officers of Justice, and they submit the propriety of frequent statements of their progress from time to time being called for. It is obvious they add, that every Commission of this kind to which salaries are attach. ed, contains in itself a natural tendency towards con tinuation; and in all cases where any of the Com missioners have other official duties to perform, it can hardly be supposed that their time is so much at their own disposal as to leave them at liberty to pur sue the objects of such inquiries with the expedition and unremitting diligence which examinations of this importance and so much detail require. On the whole of the Contingent Payments the Committee remark, that many of the heads of Ex pense, nearly to the amount of one half, appear to be of a nature sufficiently definite to allow of their being laid before the House in future under the fbrm of Estimate; among which may be included the Al lowances usually voted to the different Officers of both Houses of Parliament. 'They therefore recom mend that such charges should be brought forward on Estimate—a form, as they conceive, best calcu lated for attracting the notice, and insuring the effec tual controul of Parliament, and therefore never to be departed from without absolute necessity. The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived yesterday . The Chamber of Peers assembled on Tuesday, and having heard the Report on the Budget made by the Marquis GARDIER, which concluded by recom mending the adoption of the law, they ordered the Report to be printed, and postponed the opening of the discussion till Thursday last. It was not supposed however that the discussion would last long, as the expectation is announced in these Journals of the ter mination of the Session this day or to-morrow. The two Chambers will be prorogued till the be ginning of November. In the mean time there will be a fresh Election in seventeen Departments, for a fifth of the total number of Deputies, who go out by rotation. The veteran Prince of Corms, whose illness was some days ago announced, expired on Wednesday morning. The following is the notice of his dra. to-morrow we shall give some particulars of his 1:. trious life : Hs Serene Highness the Prince of Condi died morning, at 40 minutes past seven o'clock- The Abt'e his almoner, who, by his virtues, had rntritcd the coed,' the Prince, never left his pUlow during his illness so d . stead to him all the consolations and succours of his heily nistry. Oa Sunday, wishing to take advantag e of calm which the Priam enjoyed, this worthy reckdastie posed to him to communicate- The Peirce a e gi rod that it was not decent to take the Slentenent is bed, Priest removed his scr.'gle, and the Prince peep seed ft the Sacrament. In t h e ex h ortat i on which the make, re tor t Altar made to him, bef ore gisinghirr the 1":64,..., el ' My Prince, it is your d ot y to forgive those wits kr, you.'—' If Goo,' replied he, presshtg the hand et ti„ e , sr,r ' pardon me as I forgive these who have effee l e 44l:. , , Mt of being with him.'—According to the desire or his Highness, alI Lis household was presert wire b e r ece i r . ,: Communion. On the night previous to hi s the pr .. enjoyed some moments of r est . Wh en he 7:web e . i hnnix. .. l feeble voice with that of his ahn ontt , l a reciting the sick his last words were ' Credo in Limn: ar:d tan r:. Internally the rest of the prayer, he bzeath.,l lei, French 5 per cents. Wednesday, 68 L 10 c. We this day lay before our Readers the Olt , Bulletins of the victories obtained by BOLIVAR o% the Ferdinandists previous to the 17th of Februart They confirm the pre...iously received rtatemeno BOLIVAR'S success at Calaborm, where Motutba In concentrated his forces ; but they do nct come do, so late as the Spanish Official Dispatches, is sr dated February 26th, and which add that 6e I triot Army, after their victory at Calaboro. purs s ued the retreating Spaniards, and again cone with them at Sombrero, another and more were eo, gagernent took place, which ended eztirc:y rarer of the Royalists. The latter accounts, it is true, come f:nra t! Royalist press ; and, from experience, we k 30 %. th the details published by the Spanish Govern ment often entirely false; but still, as the Patriot wear , do not come down so 12:e, we cannot be confider that the Patriots have not been detested, as stated the Spanish dispatches. It is, we think, not impels. sable that these dispatches may prove to he only garbled statement, and we have some suTkien flu: this will prove to be the fact, but, till fart::e: accnact shall arrive, we must not encourage too cnnfidrit hope that the Patriots hare no: sustained a defeat. The Duke of KENT embarked yesterday . ' at Dover, on board his M a jeay' s y ac h t the Rt.r SOrEREI6N, for Calais. The Lark, Capt. JouNom sailed aethe same time with the carriages bckr.git to his Royal Highness. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE Male his entrance, full state, into Cassel, on the 6th cf Mar; ce following day, the Princess AUGI:TA of Hun was solemnly betrothed to his ROYAL Iitt:HICRU, and the 7th the marriage was solemnized Mails front Holland and Flanders arrived morning. The Papers brought by them are remarkable for some speculations sshich are stated to be afloat respecting certain territorial exchange the left bank of the Rhine. It is alleged, that all. stipulations which have been made in respect toGe many are not yet executed, and that seven' of , Princes believe themselves still authorized to demand indemnities. It is well known, in particular, that, consequence of the stipulations between the Great Powers, the Court of Bavaria was obliged to cede some of its provinces (the Tyrol, Salzburg, &c.) to Austria, and that it has not received the whole of the indemnity which was promised it for this cession Ba varia, it is said, new insists on a complete indemnity. The Letter of the Grand Duke of BADIX to the King of BAVARIA, seems to indicate that the latter wishes to unite the Palatinate of the Rhine (on the right bank) to its other States. The same thing was in agitation eighteen months ago ; but though there was much talk at the time of negotiations between Counts RILCUDEPIO and BORSTALL, at that time Mi. nisters of the Courts of Bavaria and Baden at Frank fort, and who are now both at the head of the De partments of Foreign Affairs of their respective Stu, s. but nothing positive was known to result from them. Some persons affirm that there is no idea of ii fringing the rights of the reigning Grar.d Duke 0 . BADEN, and the point in question is merely tl.c eventual succession to the Palatinate. It is said that the new family Statute of the House of Baden, which renders the Counts of inockszso capable of succeeding, and creates them 31.trgraves of Baden, has not been as yet recognized, either by :Austria or Bavaria ; and that in case of the estine tion of the male line of the reigning family, of which the only Members now alive are the GRAND Mgr, and the 411ARGRAVE Louts, his uncle, Bavaria form , pretensions to the Palatinate, and Austriato the Bri gau ; all in consequence of ancient treaties. Whatever truth there may be in these statements. it is much to be desired that the territorial &antis which may still be necessary in Germany, might tar place speedily, in order, at length. to tranquillize both the Governments and the people, and to put an end to the uncertainty which still prevails. We have received to-day Papers from Jamaica to the 14th, and from Charleston and Philadelphia to the 15th of April. They contain advices from Puerto . Cabello of the sth of Marcb, and from Caracas 0: the 7th, which both distinctly agree in confirming t.'e report of the Imppendents haling been oltirtat,!! defeated by NoalLte. pn-boats which had blockaded it by watt. These, it is further stated, were to clear the gulph of Paris. while General Bermudez attacked the Spanish cor don from Cariaco to Guiria. His cavalry had al ready crossed the Orinoko. The Englishmen who have joined lately, are partly gone forward to Ge neral Bolivar's army, and partly attached to that of Bermudez. The wishes of all who have arrived at Head-quarters have been gratified. By the same letters, it appears a great deal of produce had ar rived from San Fernando at Angustura. " General Marino lately landed at Esmeralda, the port of Cariaco, with fifteen Englishmen and a mere handful of Margaritanians, and took the town ; but was soon after attacked by more than double his force, and driven out in his turn. Marino lost five men and an English surgeon (the only prisoner) was taken very a-propos, for the Spanish Commander, Ximenes, was wounded, together with the Second in Command, Armas, and the surgeon was left dressing them. Marino and his little band, after fighting like tigers and doing great havock, retreated to Cumana coa to join Monies, who, with a detachment of 800 men, was again proceeding to the attack.—Four of Admiral Brion's brigs had sailed from the Orinoko but I have not learned their destination. Several merchant vessels and launches are announced from Guayana ; what they bring I shall forward by next opportunity." THE EVENING STAR. 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