Star. — London, England, 1818-09-11 00:00:00

1 I 4 .1 • .1 • 4 4 1 . 4 SI I f I • i y I t ' )`i I ; • • 11 • , s • , • 4. t 1 \ \ • `, \ SOUTH AMERICAN IiATRIOTS. IfTIACT Of Lail'lll !ROM WINOS ATILI4 DAM MAT rim 19nr. I take the liberty of inclosing he a circumstantial relation of the victory of Maipo, in which the last royal expedition froml.ima was totally . annihilated, of which you have undoUbtedly long ago got the news in London. lam sorry to say, thatusiiit much the conduct of the French Officers is not liked. and that the Chief of General San Martin's Staff, the well-known General Brayer, was dividend from hie employment a shoit time before as last victory. I should have ascribed this to a prevailing envy against foreigners is general, were it not spoken in the highest terms of the British Officers who assisted inthe battle,. amongst which, a oung artillery *Seer, Mr. Miller,' and the General's • amp, Major O'Brien, are particularly mentioned. The conduct of this brave Irishman, who bad served six campaigns in Arne rim, reflects hamar upon his native country. Inds pendent of taking k colour from the enemy in.the heat of the battle, and of making prisoners several officers .of high rank; amongst them the Lieutenant- Colonel of dukbravel regiment of Bu r gos, he found, when pursuing tlis . ferny, a postmanteau l a z i Ft can o the ground. ttintrig 400 ounces of gold dollars.) Poor hirhe erlils, having lost every of his baggage iodic defeMotTalca, llyye !nought instandr this portmanteau to his beloved General (however might be coo:Wood his own property as spoils of war.) The General offered goo co the spot to take as much money as he wanted for limsel& but O'Brien con.' standy refused, saying,,,that ,as loog as he knew the' country to be in on, urgent necessit y * . money he, would not touch a farthing ef it. The last war in Germany offered, as far as I know, no-instances of the same kind. The Spaniards ate at present in possession of nol other place in the north of Chili than the fort of Tal cahuano, which is immediately to be besieged. But to the south of the province of Ariuco they still keep .Valdivia and the Islald of CU& The blockade of Vafparaiso is 'raised, and the Patriotic man of war, ,E 1 Lamar* (formerly the British East Indiaman the ,Windham), armed and equipped in that harbour, gave the &ace to the blockading Spanish frigate, la Esaieralde, and the brig of w..: Ptzuela, that ac her- *llll - ULCT 01 A LATTA* DAT= ANGOSTUAA, LAT• Tilt slid OV J.USIL General Bolivar arrived herely near three weeks ar, end is likely to remain here for some time. I hare had many interviews with him, and like him much. Re is frank. affable, well-bred, and tolerably well informed, bat by no means, in my opinion, pns- i sasses those transcenfent abilities which many give him credit far. lit is disinterested, devoted to the after of independence, and is represented by all to be punctiliously honourable; but either as a Statesman of a Geiser:l. I ant moth mistaken if his talents are not of a very mediocre Glass. Forttumtely for him self and for his country. his opponents are still infe rior; and I am firmly persuaded that 2,000 British would clear the country, and subdue Royalists and Patriots united. “ I do most conscientiously believe that the Patriot Government intends to net honourably towards us, sad that every thing will be eventually paid, but their means and resources have been grossly erar gerated and over-rated, whether wilfully or igno. rantlY I know not; foe, the fact is, that the executive have comparatively nothing at their immediate corn. wand, and however honest and honourable their in 'ten.ians may be, it is quite clear that where funds do not exist, they cannot be had. Many of the British officers in this country art highly dissatisfied, and no wonder: they were assured that each, on arriving, should receive 200 dollars for his passage-money, but in no one instance has that assurance been ful filled. Many of them, therefore, are without a far thing, even to par their washing, for ne pay has yet been issued. There are rations of beef, but nothing except beef, beef; beef; and every animal eats beef in this country, even the little birds. The deceit practised on our countrymen, whether wilful or other wise, cannot but injure the cause of American eman cipation in a most material degree, and Bolivar feels it exceedingly. He has repeatedly expressed him• self to me in the strongest terms on the subject, and it was quite evident he felt what he said. It would really appear that no attention has 'been paid to the situation of affairs here ; perhaps fees on military cneamissions were exacted as well as on commercial speculations; on the latter subject the Government has received a broad hint. Since the commencement of the rainy season, fevers, diarrheas, and other dis orders, have become frequent, and in several in stances fatal. One of the English surgeons was called in to seven fresh cases this morning, ” When Bolivar arrived here, his wardrobe was reduced to a most miserable state. Not a stitch but what was on his back, having lost all his baggage , 1 when so disgracefully surprised by Lopez. Every one lives here in a miserable way--eternal carne,' earne—no vegetables, though in so rich a country. The leading people are ashamed to ask one to dine, for they have no furniture for the table, and nothing to offer to eat or drink, but came and horribly bad spirits; and, therefore, altheugh i*imate and on ex ? cellent terms with them air, all hospitalities are bounded to a segar sad .a glass of water. There is no amusem e n t earthly, end, of course, no books, as few can read in this pug of the world; the heat or rain which now falls in lesonceivable torrents, con fines one almost entirely to the house. Aar English newspaper would posiuxely be a lusury beyond idea. Many is the time and oft it would be md from the price 7cl. theoase eof thePriater EXTRACT Of A isrrul 'pox Tajzimep, .7 1 / 1 4 16, " By the best inform*. 'As I have been able to pro. eve since my arrival hail, the Patriots are voting on In a very uncertain Way, and seen destitute of these funds and, resources wlich ark really requisite for carrying on the contest; they have been partially successful, but at presser want arms, men, ammuni tion, and money. Bolivar has been appointed to the cd'U administration of affairs, and has been succeeded by Paez, a man of tried courage and some abilities, bat of no education. They wish to hold what they bite, but the native Spaniards are not to be depend. e 4 on. The followers of the army are three times 'store numerous than those actually Sghting, a cir cumstance that may give you some idea of their pa triotism b and plunder seems their chief object. P. Aar is goin dolly's each i permitted I nstilCukor Sosi.— their independence posed to them, they are not deserving of the bless utgs attending a free Government. The Patriot army is at moat composed of blacks and people of colour, but it is reported that 2,500 whites are on their way from New Grenada: my opinion is that 2,000 Britis h troops would march from one end of the country to the ether. There never was a cause where so much depended on the natives, and an little exertion was made, by tbem ; there are many men of ambition among then:, but none of abilities sufficient to govern ; they wish to melee every department English, and that in the end may injure the cause. M , Gregor is much wanted, and might be of great service. The British officeri engaged in their last two battles lost nothing of their character as soldiers. I wish to join the Patriot cause, but I am told it is of no use going for tho Main unless I take men !! How is an officer coming from England to procure men? The idea is absurd. It appears, therefore, that if the indepen dence cif South America la not obtained by thdrnselves, .they must return to their original subjection." treaatcr OT A LATTER IROM TRINIDAD, DAVID TITR' 30T11 =LT. irmce your departure we have had several ar rivals from Angustura, and the most agreeable tidings we have from thence is the arrival of and his eipadron in the °think°, with about 400 -- troops, 8,0013 stand of arms, and 500 barrels of pow der. This has placed Bolivar in a situation to re commence hostilities, and by an arrival yesterday, we learn that he is proctfding to the Province of *Giiinana, to assist MarinO 'in the attack by land, whilst Brion proceeds round to attack it hy sea— s, in a few days, we may, expect to hear of the action of the town and fortifications of Cumana. sme a letter from Marino, dated the 15th instant, in which he.rneritions having gained, three signal vic tories over the Royalists, near Cumana ; that the supply of arms and ammunition had enabled him to 1 increase his army considerably ; and that his pro spects were never mofe brilliant than at the present moment. One division of his army is now on its march for Guiria, in this Gulf, which will reduce that place immediately, and thereby deprive the Royalists of a place of rendezvous for their cursed piratical gun-boats, which have lately committed every species of barbarity, plunder, and murder, on British subjects trading to the Main. Enclos ed I send you two Affidavits of two persons who Loci been captured by them, in which you will see the horrid manner in which two distinguished British Officers (Lieutenants Harris and Watson), were mur dered, by the Captain of one of these armed boats. The circumstances are enough to rouse the vA- =don, yet our Governor hai - taken no notice what-. *vet of the miner. A number of our vessels have been lately c sptured on our shore, at anchor, and carried away by these lawless rascals. Were Indek pendent crdizers to commit one tenth part of the. crimes that Ape Royalists do, the Governor would, have interdi ct& all communication with them ; but such is his prejudice in favour of the latter, that the other day lie actually sent the Harbour-master in an armed launch to convoy two boats with ammunition for the Garrison of Cumana ; and this he will tell you is strict neutrality, when at the same time he Will not allow a pound of powder, or any kind warlike stores, to be taken from hence, by any one cOnnected with the Pauiot commerce. These mat ters cannot be known at home. We learn yesterday, by an arrival from Angustura, that Paez has had two actions lately at Guyabal, with Morales, in which he cut the Royalists to pieces, and Morales is represented as completely surrounded by his troops, which, we trust, will not allow a man to escape.— Mr. Irwin, a Commissioner from the United States of America, is arrived at Angustura, to treat on matters connected with the acknowledgment of the independence of Venezuela, by his Government.— Thih his diffused our animated spirits throughout the Provitlces, and it is observed that the affairs of the Independents have assumed a very active appearance of late ; confidence is re-established, which is every thing in a country situated like that. From all the islands people are now flocking to Angustura. consisting of two gun boats, three armed . who forcibly took possemioa of the 6414 arms, and those of she master and people he .: threatening thenewith auk at every OM arrived in the port of Guhiu. won the Spill* of Paris, where he, dile Degiramat, and the rest W said schooner, were lislied.fad al.wed to land, under • threat, that 'they disesid ever be similar ere, they elostild be pat to death. Pierre beset., was detained In Gnirk, by to afford ((se he ellerd) eeldenee to condoms tmer, Sc. Angel& That Mae der ta p carc revious to being IMPillids fell in with ahem in the river o, all brakes ft alio% mid wide* he reseeinized i be the mane in which Um made Miele Waal, of the anal Navy, had gone Orem Tehlandlee Afegessesea. That on arriving in Guide, ho iiMillent of one of the canoes dressed in the deal, of liimmes Harris and Watson; and beard the said Cab ilemdept (whose name is Cipriani Oroco) declare, that he had has In with these two Officers in the river Macarco • and that del their hands behind their backs, be ordere d his men i t drift, which they refusing to do, be himself drew his knife and stabbed them, and they falling overboard into the water, he ran his lance through their bodies and left them. " The said Cipriani Oroco boasted much of this act of wanton cruelty, and at the same time told this Deponent, that he and the crew of the St. Antonio might consider themselves most for tunate that he had not Wien in with them alone, or most cer tainly he would have put them all to death in the like manner. iiile Idecimed that he would put to death every Englishman he met. The mid Cipriani Oroco also declared, in my presence we that of Antonio Creannetty, and others, that he commanded an armed canoe about eighteen months ago, as a Witte ; that be fell in with ea English schooner on the South coast of this isbna, .from Maher ; that be took her at anchor, and put every one on booed to death, and that it was his intention to serve every =he should meet with in the like manner; and this being read over to him, be signed the same. (Signed) " Aston° CoLoweam. eel Ipimi to before me, this 23d July, lets, Calmest) " Saimaa Pitman, Mobil di Earle." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 181 g. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O . CLOCIK Reduced shut—Cons. 75i4—for Acc. 754 8i per Cent. shut-4 per Cent. shut 5. per Cent. Navy 105 H—India Bonds 82 85 pre. Omnium 3 1 disc.—Exchequer Bills 18 19 prem. We insert to-day some interesting private commu nications which have been received from South Ame rica, chiefly from British Officers who lately went out thither as volunteers, relative to the state of the Patriot cause in Venezuela. The view which they give of it is, we apprehend; pretty nearly correct. All but subdued, ar4 much exhausted—honourably disposed, jant destitute of the means oMulfilling any engagements which they have contracted, or may contract, for carrying on the contest—obstinate in the cause of independence, yet lazy in the prose cution of it--brave soldiers, but from their ne cessitous condition dangerous allies—the Patriots of Venezuela present, in their present condition, little to tempt assistance, either in men or money, from fo reign parts ; but have still this to boast of,. that their condition, bad as it is, is not nearly so bad as that of their antagonists, the Royalists. The fact is, that the struggle between the parties has been so long, and so desperate—it has partaken so much of a system of waste and extermination—that they have nearly made the country a desart between them.— Industry of every kind has been neglected, and the people, abandoning their fields, have been content to trust for their support to what they can pick up, in the way of prize or pillage, by following the for tunes of the camp. The hangers on of the army, says one of the letters we have quoted, are three 'times more numerous than the actual combatants. Notwithstanding this desponding state of affairs, the cause of the Patriots is one which, we are per suaded, must ultimately triumph. The spirit of inde pendence has taken too deep a root in the country ever to be put down by any thing but an overwhelm. ing force, far beyond any thing which the mother country has it now in her power to bring into the geld. It may be feeble in resources at present, but a little breathing time gone by and it will arise in new vigour and complete the conquest, which it has al ready more than half achieved. Every day of in action at present is a day of strengthening to the Pa triots, but the very reverse to the Royalists, to whom a protraction of the contest is the end of all hope. From other recent accounts which have been re- 1 ceived from Angustura, we learn that Colonel Wm "cm, a British Officer, and native of Ireland, who some time ago joined the cause of the Patriots in South America, had become involved in an affair likely to terminate in disagreeable consequences.— This Officer, having frequent occasion in the course of the campaign to remark the military blunders committed by BOLIVAR, and indignant at their fatal consequences to the soldiers under his command, and to the cause in which he had embarked, was indis creet enough to express his sentiments on that head, to General PArz, the second in command, and even to propose to him that they should remove General Butt VAR from his situation at the head of the army. Essz gave an attentive ear to the suggestions of Colonel WiLsow, blamed the conduct of his colleague, and appeared to acquiesce in the project for dis placing him, until the design was fully revealed. He then gave information of the whole proceeding to BoxiVAR. Colonel WILSON was placed under ar rest, and when the advices came away was about to be tried by a Court Martial. By the Lord Sidmouth Packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Monday last, we have received advices from Gibraltar down to the 26th of August. The Garrison, we are happy to state, continued healthy at that date, but wai suffering great privations in consequence of all supplies from the coast of Bar bary being prohibited. Fre i h meat, and all sorts of Id fells sacrifice from foolishly exposing his dal Rorgio Opudron, ; although some people ray he was killed 111110e C andull. r is ucca • ns many here kiwis that some straggling k a osik e g i o., sad au, took his life, messed by his baggage. An ,may,lll tier wind gOitts to England to raise a regiment at SOO side et the Oust al Past limb &am a measure that probably will not 4 th• art! , the said I shad by the English Government. If the " I "" e t j a 7. dagi : of South America are not able to cope for Th. c erta i n , n en lependence against the miserable force op- die Csnamodant, to ae r Li___ ea&Bratar Ne. A " TRINIDAD. " Oa the 44th of July, 1018, appeared before me Francois Geannetty, Supercargo of the English sloop la Fortune, Captain Francisco Orsenl, bound to Angustura, in th e river Oronoko, and being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Atrarourr Gen, made oath, and declared as follows: " That being on his said journey in Angustura, he was cap tured on the 7th instant, in the river Macarco, by two gun boats, three armed canoes, and a felucca, under Spanish colours, who tied him and the said Captain Franciseo Orsenl, threaten ing to kill this deponent and the said Captain, until they arrived at Guiria, on the Spanish side of the Gulf of Paris, where this deponent was liberated, and allowed to return to this island; but the Captain was detained, as was alleged, to afford evidence to condemn the said sloop : that while at Guiria be saw the Cap tain of one of the armed canoes dressed in she clothes of sesta& Englishmen, whose they haid put to death in the river kfament and further, be heard the said Captain, whose name is Cipriani. Oroco, declare, that he had fallen in with a boat in the river Mecum in which were two English Officers and one Negro keys th at having stripped them naked and tied their hands br. hind them, he ordered his men to kill them, which they refusing so do, he drew his knife and stabbed them, and they fell over board into the water, and while struggling therein, be too k I. lance end run them through the body. " This deponent saw a dead Negro in the river, which be gonceim must have been the one above mentioned. He beard the said Cipriani Oroco boast much of its feats of cruelty to English subjects; and also he declared he would put every one to death he could catch, and told this deponent, that if the rest of the armed weasels had not been in company. be would have divas:bed bias and the rest of the cow of the said Sloop. He also declared, that he bad coounanded seine time ago an armed canoe as a pirate, and that he bad, during that time, fallen in with an English schooner from Malta, ea the south side of this island, and put every one on board to death, sad sunk the said schooner.—Thin having been read over to him, he confirmed the same, and signed it in my presence. " ffirANS. " Sworn before me, this Seth July, Ditto. (Signed) " Joss Snare, Justice of Peace." (COPY.) " TRINIDAD• " On the Sad day of July, 1818, appeared before me, Anto. No Caloakblini, late Supercargo of the English schemer St. An tonio, Pierre Pounce, master, bound from this port to Angus tura, in the river Oronoko, and being sworn upon the Holy Evan gelists of AMUR= Goa, made oath and declared as follows " That on Tuesday, the 7th instant, ;wing about three leagues from /3arancas, in the Otomilm, on his voyage to Allguatsta. he was boarded in the said British schemer St. Antonio, by a Spa- (COPY.) provisions were becoming ettrernely si I.slear. The Spaniards are so alarmed al ger of the contagion finding its way am that it is daily expected all communicatio the Rock and the Spanish territory will —According to the last accounts from brought to Gibraltar by the Quarantine scl deaths from the Plague, in that town atom 29th July to the 11th August, amounte: two. In a small village named Marclia north west of Tangiers, and consisting or a five houses, with a population of two Iltin forty-nine persons have already fallen vic:ii whom were three entire families, ore cc seven persons, and two of six each. The extended itself to four other villages in bourhood of Tangiers. It is said that a f their population has been swept now distinctly ascertained to be the tint the Levant. At a period when all enlightened nat:( only expressing their abhorrence of the slaves, but taking active measures for its dos, it is disgusting to peruse some c•Fer which occasionally appear in some of th from the Southern States of America, %Os, beings are spoken of much in the same many head of cattle. We select as asp following, from an article dated at Ne J u l y 14 The slave market appears brisk, constant demand, and high price standing the ,arrival lately of more than the States, and 159 in the brig Josepha f We are, however, much indebted to the e and cuccessiul exertions of Mr. CRAPLY. for the copiousness of the present suppl:-.1 the aide of three or four hundred that seized by General JACKSON'S Ofllcers at probably suffice for the next crop. .I , .rs appear to be peculiarly adapted to eiis m day those who bear the mark of J udge as it is understood that they afford the be nity for speculation. We have a right to 4 large importations in future, from the su has hitherto attended the sale!" A Mail arrived last night from Flandei they this morning from Holland. The Pap by them are to the bth instant, and {lra the following extracts : HAGUE, SEPTEMBER c. An Official Notice has been issued Sy t of Marine, stating, that in conseque-ce e: piracy, originating in the hostilities bar and its Colonies, he has been enjoined to tp the Commanders of all his Majesty's sh mission, to protect the flag of the Netherla all acts of piracy committed under pret hostilities ; by vessels not belonging to the his Catholic Majesty, and not armed or I his dominions, but pretending to have marque from his Catholic Majesty, or fr exercising the Government in tboseprovin of them. The Commanders are ordered t vessels committing such acts into the p Kingdom or the Colonies, to be proceec according to the rigour of the law. FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER a. The autumnal fair here turns out very number of strangers is exceedingly greg quantity of goods very considerable. A of business is done, and the Saxons and that their goods are now in greater dema British, both on account of their superior the greater degree of taste in the patterss BATAVIA, APRIL 4. Major Meyer who was honourably s Saparona, died on the 16th of January a of the consequence of his wounds. I laments the death of this brave and skilfi Their Excellencies the Commission have resolved on some provisional mess regular raking of the Land-tax, and ha' ders for the measuring and valuation of I soon as possible, for the purpose of regula future the sale of the Land-tax on a pent The Commissioners General havereso Military School shall be established in .1 purpose of educating young men as of army in the Colonial Marine, and for tl the navy (Waterstaat), The school is i fished at Samarang, and for the present are to be admitted into it, viz. 39 ea( army; eight for the navy; 25 your.g Inc their own expense; 10 gratis; which I: tainly be taken from among the sons of indigent officers, civil and military. TII to be instructed in the Dutch, French, E native languages, history, geometry, met graphy, astronomy, navigation, general the application to navigation, artillery, military architecture, &c. The schola armed as infantry, and be under a directs have the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His Majesty's ship of the line Evert frigate Maria Reigersbergen, have arriv b aya, from the Nfolucca islands. _ _ APRIL B.—After the arrival of Cenci from Amboyna, and his installation as I the Molucca Islands, Admiral Buysker, sioner-General, sailed for Java, on board mina frigate. His Excellency has now bi days in this city, and we have on this ceived the assurance, that, since the suc, of the expedition against the island of signs of insurrection in the Moluccas disappeared. The Evertsen and Maria gen, have arrived at Somabaya, front where the navy has performed such im vices, and will soon be followed by the derick and the 'Low.