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4 i.•~• • • meememem VENEZUELA. ... INGLIVAR, SUPREME CHIEF OF THE REPUBLIC, CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE ARIIIIII OF VENEZUELA • AND NEW GRANADA, &C. &C. TO DON MATIUEL CEDENA, GENERAL OF DIVISION, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDANT -GENERAL OF THE PROVINCE OF GUAYANA. " Head-quarters, Cadenalis, 27th Nov. 1817. " On my arrival at this point, on the 25th instant, in the afternoon, I received dispatches from General Pats, informing me of a victory obtained by the central division of his army over another one belonging to the enemy. The battle was fought in the vicinity of Nutria, to which our people were approaching.— The results of this action have been the death of the Spanish • Lieutenant-Colonels Gorrin and Games, with more than 400 of their troops, and the rising up of a multitude of towns to within two leagues of the capital of Varinas, all of which have declared in our fayour. Our army aetir.g in that quarter has been consi derably increased by desertions from the enemy, and the num ben who flock to it as soon as they are safe from Spanish ven geance. The spoils taken from the enemy are also considerable. " Every thing on the Apure wears the best aspect. Neverthe less, an alarming sickness has fallen upon GeneralPaez, through his exertions, which has obliged me to send off General Urdaneta to succeed him, if he should not recover. " I have also this moment received dispatches from General Saraza, giving me an account of his own forces and those of the enemy, as well as of their respective operations. According to his details, Brigadier-General La Torre (Spanish), with 600 in fantry and 700 cavalry, on the 20th, marched from Calvario to &len, where our army was posted. General Saraza, in order to gain time to assemble his cavalry, and to induce the enemy to penetrate further into the interior, countermarched towards El Terron. Our forces of all arms, in that point, are three time, more numerous than those of the enemy, and anxious to present battle, but Gen. Saraza, in compliance with my fdtmer orders, prefers waiting for my arrival. I shall fly to join him, by which mama the victory will be more certain and efficient. (Signed) " SIMON BOLIVAR." " New Guayana, November 23. " This day neat 2000 men march with General Bolivar to join Saraza, who is waiting for him with more than 3000 men. Pant will also joie them if it should be necessary in order to de stroy the troops under Morino, who, it is said, though not in an authentic manner, has quitted Valencia to proceed on to Cala bout. This, however, we mtch doubt, for we should not suppose him so ma d as to expose the small remnant of Spanish troops he has with him, who wauld certainly be soon exterminated in the Savannahs and plaihs by our cavalry. " We have nothing to dread from the dissensions of General Marino. The troops he commanded in Cumanacoa have ac knowledged the authority of the Supreme Chief, and they are coming with General Bermudez at their head. The former arrived at the Gulf of Paris, with the troops he was able to collect, amounting to more than 300 men, and appeared with them in the vicinity of Maturim He there received an intima tion from General Roses to deliver them up, and present him self to the first authority. He refused, and wrote to General Bolivar, requesting to have the command of the troop. acting in the province of Cumana. In answer he received an assurance of securirg, and an offer of the same command he had held in the army, winch it is presumed he will accept. (Signed) " P. DE PENALVEIL" Don Fernando Pea:Jeer, Intendant of the Province of Guay ana, by whom the above is written, is a native of Commie, and Weibel& proprietor of Valencia, where he had a clear estate, yi hips 300,000 lbs. of coffee annually. He was Member of the ex for Valencia. Having acquired his fortune in trade, and hoists seen other countries with advantage and an inquisitive mind, he appears a very fit man for his present ap pointment, the more so as his manners are extremely gentle mauly. In the formation of a Government, care has been taken to select such men as are actuated by liberal principles, and ca pable N promoting equity and justice. The Intendant's estates have lung been under sequestration by the Spaniards. " Angostura, November 22. ". At two In the afternoon of this day, we had the satisfaction to see General BJHVA/ set sail, at the head of a division of the liberating army, brilliant in appearance and extremely effective, though not consisting of much more than 1800 men, but they are excellent in discipline and tried valour. This corps will disem bark at the point of Santa Cruz, whence it will proceed by land to join the remainder of the army already assembled in Chaqua ramas, from which position they will march against the enemy. According to all the information we have been able to obtain, our army will meet with no resistance till it reaches Valencia, which we understand the Spaniards hive fortified, as their last hold and refuge. However, my opinion, as well as that of every one else, is, that in two months from this date Caracas will be in our possession. (Signed) " MARTIN TOVAR.". TRINIDAD. “ PORT SPAIN, DECEMBER is. " I refer you to the enclosed letters from Guayana for the state of the war on the Main, only adding that General Marino was on the 25th at Maturin on hit way to Angostura. Resistance was out of the question! General Marino has turned over to Gene ral Bermudez the 300 men which he carried from Guiria, and the latter, having incorporated this de tachment, was on the 25th ult. at Cumanacoa, with I,9oopen, collecting the other scattered remains of Marino's army, and raising troops in the province of Cum= General Rotas, at Maturin, commands another body of men for the protection of that im =place, and in immediate communication with de& Monagas commands in the province of Barcelona, so that all these corps are in communi cation with each other, and with the garrison of Guayana. Bolivar's army now united with Sarazas (and in pniect communication with Paez) amounts to near six thousand men of all arms, which, if ne cessary, he eau reinforce with two thousand of Paez's cavalry. With this force he has marched to attack Morillo, if the latter has ventured to Calabozo. If Morillo should remain at Valencia, Bolivar will esta blish his head-quarters at Calabozo until he reduces San Fernando de Apure, for which 24 , heavy gun boats, under the command of Colonel,Dias, sailed twenty days ago to blockade it by water. San Fer nando has been long closely blockaded by land by General Paez. This is the same Dias who with five launches beat sixteen of the enemy on the Orinoco, and took and destroyed several. He is a Margarita nean, or modern Srrtan, by birth, and a man of the most cool and invincible courage in action. Should Morillo (which appears doubtful) have occupied Ca labozo, and Bolivar should find him there, we may very soon expect to hear of a bloody battle, which the Independents make sure of gaining, in that po sition, from their very superior cavalry. But the ad vance of Bolivar, at the head of so respectable a force, will increase his army, as well by desertion from the enemy, as the inhabitants of the country, who flock to the standard of InclepenclEnce whenever they have an opportunity. A strong instance of this was Lozano's deserting to Monagas. This Lozano was Commandant of a corps of c .valry in the Spa nish service, and he came over to General Monagas, and brought him the first copy of the Indulto Gene ral which the Independents had seen. A strange p r ---- 0 ;21f of the moral effect it had produced !—I send a copy of this curious document, with a single ob servation. It is dated at Madrid, the 24th of Ja nuary, and only publi:hei at Caraccas the 21st of September following ! Where was it sleeping all this time? En attendant, General Freites, Colonel Jugo, and several others, have been shot in cold blood by Morillo and his satellites, and Margarita threatened with extermination in July last, without hearing one word of this Real ludolto. But when Morino finds himself beaten at Margarita, and Guay ana lost, both in August, the Real Indulso appears in SePtember, as a dernier resort. Such a State trick could only produce the contrary effect of pro= the sincerity of the Spanish Government for a liberal reconciliation. Besides, what is offered by this In dult° to the South Americans? To return under the most oppressive monopoly, and the most degrading slavery, civil and religious ! Has the Holy Inquisi tion, do you suppose, such charms for men who have sacrificed their lives and fortunes for nearly eight years to the cause of freedom ? No ; read the spirit of the people in the answer of Gomez to Morillo, as the organ of the brave Margaritaneans, and their brethren on the Main. Morir o vencir, is their motto. " I also send you some Platicua Doci rinaks, printed and sent to be read in all the churches in Venezuela, after divine service, by order qf the Spanish Captain- General of Caraccas. They will give you a correct idea of the style of preaching in the , reign of James the Second, and perhaps in the reign even of his fa ther ; but they would not suit the meridian of Lon don at present. They elucidate the present principles of the Spanish Government, both in regard to South 'America, and the light in which it holds the heretical deliverers of the Peninsula, better than any thing I have seen of late. I therefore recommend them to the attentive perusal of those who wish for informa tion from the fountain head. _ _ _ " Several of the Officers, who arrived here lately, have proceeded to Angostura, and some, I understand, return to Europe. As this is an individual specula • tion, of course every man has a right to judge for himself. But Captain Ryan who went to Angostura, reported that General Bolivar said.he was ready to make good all Mr. M---='s engagements, upon the Officers' arrival' at head-quarters ; and as far as he was concerned, or the owners of the ship, he expres sed great satisfaction from the result of his visit to 'Guayana. Three have already fallen victims to our tahealthy climate, and I apprehend the longer they stay in Trinidad, the worse for them. But we have been so completely blockaded in our awl ports by Spanish gun-boats, for want of a vessel of war to protect the Gulph, that several vessels with mules and cattle from Angostura and Maturin have been taken, and no vessel has been able to sail with safety for those ports ; and of course many officers, who wish to join, are detained for want of convey ance. The arrival of a brig of war, within the last eight days, has, I understand, scared those launches off the coast, so it is to be hoped our limits will be more respected in future. Two vessels were ab solutely chased on shore by them, and protected by the Commandant and the Militia, which is luckily in activity at a moment's warning every where. Brion protects the mouths of the Orinoco, which is all foreign vessels can expect of him. " But it is probable that Bermudez, having dis embarrassed himself at Marino, will soon disembarrass us of the Spaniards in the Gulph, and even at Cu mana. He is a strict disciplinarian, and a very active enterprisieg officer, who has seen a great deal of hard fighting. He commanded at Carthagena during the siege, which was a very trying scene, and was actively employed in the reduction of Guayana. He is a native of the city of Cumana, and was second in command to Marino when be took it ; and in a word, has bees wherever there was danger since the contest' began. Every General Officer, at present in com mand, may be depended upon for his past exploits. "General Bolivar has prohibited, under pain of death, putting any enemy to death in cold blood ; so I hope the war will assume a more civilized form. But as long as he contends with Morillo, I suspect the latter will not shew much mercy to those he' stiles rebels. As soon as this is known, it is not im probable there will be great desertion in the Spa nish troops, who are heartily sick of the hardships they endure." " PORT . OF SPAIN, DEC. 16. " Since my former by this ship we have learn. nothing very decisive from the Main, but every thing is leading to such results. General Bolivar had disembarked his troops at Santa Cruz, on the opposite side of the Orinoco, - and marched to join Saraza. Bolivar's force, as you will have seen, was two thousand men. Saraza's corps consists of two thousand cavalry and 1500 infantry—total of the grand army 5500, without counting what they may pick up as they advance. " Sarata writes,that he would have attacked Cala bozo where there were only, he states, 1800 Spaniards, but that in obedience to Bolivar's orders, he waited his junction. Paez continued to block up a thousand Spaniards, the garrison of St. Fernando, in that po sition ; they attempted a sortie, but were driven back with great loss. Paez was ill at the date of his dis patches, and General Urdaneta would direct the operations until he was recovered. These accounts are brought by a vessel loaded with cattle, which arrived on the 14th. " I have seen letters from Generals Arismendi and Gomez, by a launch that arrived from Margarita the same day. They announce to their Friends of Cumana the hopes that General Bermudez will soon put them in possession of their estates in that pro vince. His head-quarters were at Cumanacoa, but his detachments were almost at the gates of Cumana, and had carried off a foraging party of the enemy. Another detachment had driven them out of Cariaco. Monagas was equally near to Barcelona ; so that while the Patriots have ahundance of provisions, they straiten the enemy every where, and oblige them to depend on external supplies. And when they at tempt to collect the corps, they are cut off by par ties of Guerillas. Such is the precarious possession of whatever they occupy in Cumana, Barcelona, and a great part of Caracas ! And in one short month it is probable they will hardly retain any thing. " By the bye, rt appears Captain Ryan left an order with his mate to proceed to St. Domingo with the ship Two Friends, in case he did not return from Guayana to Margarita in twenty days,'which the mate carried into execution; so that after making sa tisfactory arrangements with General Bolivar, on his return he found-the ship gone, and was obliged to follow her to bring her to Guayana. The voyage of jhe Two Friends has been a Comedy of Errors— but the officers luckily remained at Margarita, ccept such as came here. Bermudez, I expect, will - soon open a port at hand for them. Had the that brought them out gone- direct to Guayana§ *My would be now all in Bolivar's army." FRENCH PAPERS. PARTS, FEBRUARY S. The day before yesterday the Xing admitted to dinner all the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family and of the Blood. Yesterday the King heard Mass in the chapel of the Castle, and afterwards transacted business with the Duke of Richelieu. At eleven o'clock this day there was an extraordi nary review of the troops of the garrison of Paris in the Place Vendome ; after which they degraded Mau rice Alexander, a fusileer of the legion of the Eure, who was condemned on the 27th ult. to five years public labour for desertion, accompanied by aggra vating circumstances. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEBRUARY 4. Several Petitions were presented to the Chamber, among which was one from a person who, when only 18 years of age, had married a woman 65 years old, in order to get clear of the conscription. The Petition prayed that all marriages contracted with that inten tion should be dissolved ; and he stated in it, that the civil ceremony had neither been followed by any re ligious ceremony, or by cohabitation. The reading of this Petition 'excited a laugh, and the Chamber passed to the Order of the Day on the Recruiting Bill. Fi.ANDERS MAIL. HAGUE, JANUARY NI The wish of all the friends of their country is go ing to be fulfilled: the Special Extraordinary Tribu- 1 nal is going to be abolished. Next Tuesday his Ex cellency the Minister of Justice will go to the Second Chamber of the States-General, and in the name ofl the King present a Project of a Law, proposing the suppression of the Special Tribunal, created by a de cree of his Majesty on the 20th April, 1815. Several other Laws will be pvoposed to the Cham bers during the course of this Session, which will opt finish till the middle of March. F&SRUARY 3.--It appears from the statement which the Director of the Convoys and Licenses laid before the Second Chamber on the 29th January. that the changes to be made in the Law relative to Convoys and - Licenses, concern, in a great measure. first, the funds, which are committed in the extent of what is called the not-free territory by manufac turers themselves, who do not blush to abuse their situation, by introducing articles of fOreign manufac ture, which they afterwards forward into the heart of the kingdom as the produce of their own estab lishments, and to the great injury of the manufacto ries in the interior; secondly, a greater latitude to be granted to merchants inhabiting the not-free terri tory, in cases which experience has shewn cannot be placed in the class of contraventions, though they, are such by the letter of the law ; if not according to its spirit. Tin, which pays U. 10s. sterling per 10016. on im portation, has caused great complaints on account of the great quantities manufactured in some of our provinces. This duty will be increased, as well as that on articles of till ready manufactured. The ar ticle of thread will also undergo advantageous changes ; the export duty will be diminished, and the import duty on coloured thread augmented. The duty on thread lace is trifling, because it was thought our superiority was so great as to preclude compeu don. Experience has shewn that the industry of our neighbours, aided by machinery, gives cause for doubt ; the import duty will therefore be augmented, as also that on corks, for the same reason. Some advantageous changes will be made in the duties on iron. THE EVENING STAR. • LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, Ha THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : lieduied 8134 Sl—Cons. 80I—Cons. for Feb. 80a 4 per Cent. 99i—Navy Annuities 1051 India Bonds 95 97 pr.—Exchequer Bills 18 29 pr. RELIEF TO NEWFOUNDLAND. We have already mentioned the promptitude with which the Americans took up the case of the distressed sufferers by the late fires at Newfoundland. We have now a letter before us from Boston, of the sth ult. which, after stating the preliminary steps taken for a subscription, as before detailed in the STAR, pre sents a statement which we cannot refrain from lay ing before our Readers in the words of the writer : " The brig Messenger, (says the letter) an Ame rican, ready for sea, was chartered within an hour. Some of the Committee went in different directions and. purchased the cargo. The truckmen. of the town transported it to the vessel, the stevedores loaded it I gratuitously, and we had the vessel completed in ten , hours, and packed her off for St. John's. I never saw any thing equal thcexcitement that prevailed amongst all ranks to give their money and their services-- even the sailors of the port bent the sails, set up the rigging, &c. without fee or reward. " The Committee shipped a double crew, put on board warm cloathing and abundance of fuel to en able the vessel to hold on, should any of the crew be injured by the frost and give out. We also put on board a complete Pilot for the Coast of New found land, which was thought of great importance, that the vessel might be able to run in and anchor in any of the out-harbours if taken with a head wind. " The Committee have consigned the cargo to the Governor, and in his absence to the Chief Magistrate, for the benefit of those who may need it, as the vo•1 luntary Gift of the Merchants of Boston to their fellow-creatures in distress. We pay the charter of the vessel, and the gift is free of every expense, as we have ordered the Captain to pay even the pilotage of the vessel and Custom-house charges at St. Johns. This affair costs the givers 2000/. sterling: 0 There is a sloop of 80 tons sent to St. John's, by the Merchants of New York, in the same way." ALGIERS. Since Saturday we have received, dium of the French Papers, some fa specting the late transactions at Algi have been received at Paris by Si: and communicated by hint to the A tution. The particulars differ from ceived, but are not less barbarous. ' reported before to have been the twi Consul, are now stated to have bee Jew, in the employ of the English the other, the eldest daughter of ti French hotel, who has been compel tyrant. The statement alluded to is " The Captain of the Sardinian p Marie, which arrived at the Lazarct; on the 6th of December last, having 2d of the same month, reports, as w the passengers on board, that the liodja, having established his posve: considerable body of Moors, no long to his fury or his tyrannical conduct ropean Powers; without distinction, raged; that all the Consuls had be terrified by a numerous horde of nr the Dey's Guard and Court are corm had forced themselves into the housr the security of which had ceased to 44 The Captain reports also, that caused to be destroyed the Ancient ' decessors ; that he had established sidled le Chateau de l'Empereur ; hesitated to seize the treasure whit and which had been hitherto reiigi and that he had thus obtained im support for a long time his hcrrible increase their number. The Dey had caused to be sei women of a Jewish family, chose far ed in the English Consulate, and tr. also the eldest daughter of the Situ ter of the French Hotel. This tali mentioned was compelled to es?o. she is now Sovereign, bit expectil daughter of the Dey of Tyterus, w, the same manner by the late Dry, .who was found after his death in ciated by hunger. " The greater part of the Col make, in unison, complaints and x. having been informed before they re, that orders had been issued by Ali-Ti groes to fire upon any of the Consuls venture to make any complaint or remoi being convinced on their arrival at the truth of this statement by the rnenarir.l the negroes, by whom they were inun rounded, they found themselves compel after having had recourse to common pl and insignificant observations, in order time of this useless audience. " The policy adopted by the present a Turk, is to arm the natives of the cot his own fellow countrymen, thus making in the history of these countries. Such authorizes every other to assemble an al cenaries of the same description in ordi with him the sovereignty. This experiment was a short time a Turk of distinction ; he marched avail with some troops which he had collecte. tine, but the issue of the first battle vourable to him, and he was made pl hospitality which Ali Nodja had former , from this Turk induced him to spare hie him 1,000 sequins and exiled him. Thi was the chief of the insurgents, has arrive Notwithstanding the foregoing staternei discredit is thrown upon the whole by the Consul-General of Sardinia in 1401 ceived accounts from Genoa of so late 26th of January, which make no mew of the facts stated. Of course the first Vice-Consul's daughter having been sei: be stated, not having happened, if the culars be at all correct ; but still it is the transaction should not have been el in the above-mentioned letter to the Co) if it has at all occurred. The ball given at Paris last '_Honda the English- Ambassador, Sir C. STU. commonly brilliant. Their Royal It Duke and Duchess of BURRY were pres , ei..., latter danced the greater part of the ever. young and beautiful Mademoiselle R particularly noticed in the character cf t: • I.'}. Diana, with a bow, quiver, a diamond a sable skin thrown over her shoulders. T.:: tables presented a coup at once m....:1%:••• a...d enchanting. It is endless to add, assembly was composed of all the most persons in Paris, both natives and foreipc: -• company did not separate till five o'clock L . :. morning. The passage of the Dutch frigate Batavia may he reckoned among the •!-.. , rt, , 5• ded in naval history. Captai,l Dinstrs, I‘l., mands this vessel, sailed from the Texel ‘,:i r. May, 1817, and arrived on the I,lth Janeiro, where he remained t;11 tlle 7th of .l. then sailed, and arrived on the 30th lowing at the bay called Peper-Baii, in Jay., the whole passage lasted one hundred and • ' and nights. There were neither any deat!:s fckr.ess among the crew or the troops on b.v:•!. through farther giers, SYDNE Y c •., Anti .pirate 7.. n those 1)6, 1. The tw , ;1„: svo !.m :he M.,;.• 'fled to r. s as P. ; 1.. ,older zo of!' -•; .l•.• well e new !I . er by ;L e g•er set ; bit had been 3een menn, ei nr" , , mPoseti, tr:d ses of tae t ors ) be inviol.g.:e. at Palace himself in that he !la.!, eh was kept .! Kirntsly .mrr.er.Q n e seized t - 7 - 7 :alter ^•-,,' - o days r.• Forttin..te .?,•••• in-; :he f sit was v , • an.! tte tsuls asse7:: :• -'; msuis s hJ shx:i remotstrance, aA t the P..lat-e of marir.g gestures d immeel3k4 sir )mpelled non place remzii )rder to fill 11.1.5 t sent Dey, eLa i le country aking a new e: Such an elan* an army of met. • order to dime ime since tried IT against Ali Hot lected at Coast* attle proved ta .de prisoner. PI formerly receild re his life, hers This Turk, arrived at Ma!:c.' :ate:pent, still se. le by the fact ua s London. hall. ) late a date ..$ mention whzere first report of • -s n seized, ct if the above pr.:- it is , en even re Consul-GL;2:-: mday STuApT, tvZ al Highnetve. ele re preser.!, .Ind