Star. — London, England, 1820-01-27 00:00:00

SPANISH AMIRICA. *EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TRINIDAD, NOV.p. "The Royalists held out some hopes that General LA 'fORRE, whose head-quarters were at Cucuta, would be able to advance into New Granada and heat General BOLIVAR; but the following account, 'Copied from the Curacoa Papers of 2d October, shewt that he-ha, been beaten from thence, and compelled to retreat from it : , CUILICOA, OCTOBER 2. 1 6 Accounts from Maracaibo state, that the town of C,actita, about three days journey from the former iflate, has been occupied 'by the Independents under Boni VA It, who is said to be or. his return from Santa l Fe, having left a strong force behind him to garrison I that place. A great number of people had arrived Lit Maracaibo with their property, with which they I led on the :approach of the Independents at Cucuta.' " Here we have no accounts direct from BOLI VA rt later than 23th Aug. at which time he had marched a:: army for Popa an, another fin Sant:t Martha, and I a third was returning to the Apure, by the road of 1 Cucuta, to join PALL Bonivaa has sent down to Angostura 25C, 000 dollars for the purpose of pur chasing arms. We have this moment heard that San Fernando de Apure had been taken by Gen. PAEZ; thilwe have been expecting for some time. It opens the whole commerce of the interior to us, and its ad vantages, in a military point of view, are incalculable. I am in correspondence with most of the British Officers in the Patriot service, and the accounts they give rf the promising appea ance of affairs are truly cheering. Colonels BLOSSET and STOPFORD assure me they will be in Caraccas in less than three months. Davtatzta's troops are landing at Esmeralda, near Cumana, and if they attack that place it must fall." ..'SoY EMBER 12.—" The second September Mail is arrived, but I have not a letter. But I have to add, that a vessel is just arrived from Angostura, and the Master reports the capture of San Fernando. This was a natural consequence of Commodore DIAS'S victory. We have accounts from Curacoa, of the 2d October, that Cucuta has been occupied by General Souncurre, who commands a division of the Inde pendent Army. Fodo cac de Maduro. The Spanish emigrants from Cucuta had arrived at Maracaibo, which is near Curacoa. "The Br itish Legion is in high health and spirits atl Maturin. I have seen most satisfactory letters from Colonel BLOSSET who commands it, and also from Colonel STOPFORD, who is on military business atl Angostura; it will march soon. I expect DEvEitEux'sl troops are there too by this time. Colonel WOOD- ! BERRI/ writes, that ' lots of recruits and lots Of cattle' I have arrived there." " PORT OF SPAIN, NOVEMBER 5. " Who could have conceived that the Independent army, reduced to act on the defensive on the Apure and the Arauca, would have been able, without ex posing their cause to ruin in Venezuela, to attempt the conquest of New Granada? Probably there were as few on this side of the water, as on that, who did not consider it, with the force it was undertaken, as of greater risk than any calculation could warrant. But the great and inflexible mind of Gen. BOLIVAR saw all the advantages to be derived, and was not to • be moved firms his purpose by the dangers or diffi culties it presented; and to carry it into effect, he c'ho'se that season of the year when he knew that the incessant rains would detain the Spaniards in their winter quarters, from any attempts of probable suc cess on the Independent territory of Venezuela ; while, if he surmounted the dreadful obstacles, which such a season presented, until he crossed the Cordil lera, that he would find the weather fine in New Granada. To make this clear, it is necessary to explain, that in Venezuela you have six months fine weather, and six months rain in succession ; in New Granada you have two wet seasons and two dry, of three months each. The great object, independent of liberating one of the finest and richest countries in South America, was to deprive the enemy, by a grand coup de main, of their resources of men and money, on the spot, as it were, for subjugating Vene zuela; for Moattaaa's policy had always been to recruit in New Granada for Venezuela, and vice versa. So long as the natives were unarmed and unprotect ed,. forced loans and conscriptions were carried on under the Reign of Terror ; but the moment General BOLIVAR appeared, like a gu'ardian and avenging angel, the people gathered to his standard as fast as they could. Ce sent les p?emiers pas qui content. Three hard-fought battles, which have added a king dons to his former military fame and reputation, put him in possession of Santa Fe, and in communication with the whole of the coantry. The battles of Boyaca and Maipo, so similar in their circumstances and consequences, will, I trust, be celebrated to the latest posterity by a free and grateful people. " How much mote important is the taking of Santa Fe than that of Caraccas ! Had the Spaniards been driven first out of the latter, how easy would they have run down to Carthagena, and coacentrated their forces ; but to come from Carthagena to Ca raccas with troops by sea, " hic labor, hoc opus ea," as.you are well aware. But General Motavita has saved them the trouble of such calculations at pre sent, having enlisted almost all the Royalist army (his prisoners) in New Granada, consisting chiefly of Venezuelians ; and securing the Spaniards, with the exception of the very few who escaped, and to whom he will not give an hour's rest. " In Venezuela, things wear an . equally pleasant prospect ; 300,000 dollars in gold have been for warded from Santa Fe to Angostura, of which 100,000 had already arrived, to purchase muskets, &c. 1 have an official dispatch of Commodore Dias before me, dated at Aparito, Ist October, giving an account of his having captured the whole Spanish' flotilla of ten gun-boats, on the 30th September, armed with one hen and five brass guns, and four swivels, together with 600 cartridges for the can nun, 5000 musket-cartridges, one drum, four cases of nails, and all the correspondence of the enemy in that quarter. The Spanish Commandant and 80 men were killed, and those that got on shore, including 200 soldiers, were pursued by Colonel PENA, of Ge neral Pas:z's army ; and DIAS writes, he does not think one can escape. General PAEZ commands the western army on the Apure, and Dias, who is a Post Captain, the flotilla. " General A RI NO commands in chief the eastern army. In this all the British are to be employed. General BERM upez, second in command, is gone to " iilontm.odispatched General LA Tonns withithe Regiment of Navarre to take the command in gew Granada, by way of Merida. He arrived at Cucuta on the 4th of August ; but on the 10th, General BoLivAft was in possession of Barreyro, his army, and Santa Fe. " DIAS, who has risen entirely by his valour and merit as an excellent sailor, is a Nlargaritanean, and may, even in relation to his countrymen, be styled ' braze parmi ks braces: The glorious and memo rable action he fought at Pegallos, at the entrance of the Orinoco, where he defeated three times his num ber, of Spanish gun-boats, and thereby very much facilitated the taking of the place, established his naval reputation. By this last victory he has blasted, in a moment, all MoaiLco's schemes on the Apure and Guayana, which he has been planning for the last twelve months. The gun-boats in question were constructed with great expense and trouble, at a place called El Baul, on the river called La Portu guese, which falls into the Apure. Having taken the flotilla, it is expected he will next destroy the arsenal at the Baul. The prizes are of a large size, well finished, and well adapted for the double put pose of fighting or conveying troops. The 200 sol diers were destined to increase the garrison of San Fernando, which can only receive provisions by water ; and will, probably, soon fall now, as it did before, when their flotilla was destroyed by this very Dtas. How much does Venezuela owe to the valour and patriotism of those brave Islanders! One of them, writing to a friend two years ago, jocosely says—' The Spaniards have destroyed all the sheep in the island, and ARISNIENDI all the Spaniards; so if you require a supply of either, you must apply elsewhere.' Gostrz afterwards gave a good account of the Vandals, who, under MORILLO, spared neither sex nor age. They are both natives of that island, become so celebrated by the glorious and successful efforts of their countrymen, under their guidance and command. Aloatt.to's own dispatches are a monument to their fame! But he suppressed the account of the women and children butchered by his troops, and the poor little Guaycaree Indian, whose hands were cut off, bound up, and in this state sent into the city, as a pledge of the fate of the inhabit ants. if they resisted. How miserably was this but cher disappointed!" SPAIN. bring elle troops over from Mararitta to Maturie.z- 1,500 1 * while other .parties raise it, to #,OOO. . Both' They ate to land . at the port of Esmeralda, near Cu- these statements are incorrect; the truth lies between 'riaco,'which General MARINO has occupied'to protect them: and the most probable estimate may be fixed %he disembarkation. ftaz and MARINO will form .at between .5,000 and 6,000, without, however, has ing junction to open the campaign, by marching on at their head any officers with whose names the pub- Caraccas, and will probably be reinforced by 2000 lic is familiar. The posts of commissioned officers men from New Granada, under General SOuBLETTE, were supplied by serjeants who joined in the revolt, by way of Cucuta and Merida. This division is the greatest part of the officers who previously corn gone also to look after LA TORRE, who would try to msaded the mutineers having abandoned them when get to Carthagena. they renounced their allegiance. The contagion ap " For other particulars I refer you to the inclosed pears to have extended to Seville, where there was a Gazette. Read the Decree of the Government of slight popular commotion, which was soon suppress- Angostura, in regard to the foreign troops. What ed. Meanwhile, scarcely had the news.of the-revolt, can be mere honourable? And this at a moment and a report of the proceeding of - the revolters; been when the means are coming in. When men embark received, than the Authorities of that city formed in a great cause, unless they embark as mere mercy- themselves into a junta, and conferred provisionally narics, they should not be so ready to abandon the on General Freyre, who then resided in Seville as enterprize on the first blush of disappointment. The commander of the Royal Carabineers, :die command uniformity in the reports of Colonel Roezarsoe, of itt chief of the at my of Andalusia. the British Legion, who died on a visit to his bro- " The King, before knowing of this measure, exe ther here, and those of Lieutenant-Colonel WOOD- cuted in his name by that Junta, had dispatchekfto BERRY, both British Officers, who had seen a great that General the.appointment of Captain-General of deal of the worjd, and active service on the Penin- Andalusia. The first thing which he did wa' to sula, as well as that of many others, attest the kind assemble the corps which were nearest at hand, toge disposition of the natives towards them, and the de- ther with the whole body of the Cavalry (no regiment sire of identifying them with themselves in every ad- of which had mutinied), and to surround and circum vantage to be derived from their mutual efforts..— scribe as much as possible the Rebels. As the latter What more can be expected ? I always regret, when are inlet iiat in numbers, and as Cadiz as well as I -see an honourable man sacrifice to a moment's le- Seville has escaped from their grasp, there is every vity a great undertaking, at the very moment it appearance that the General will be able to disperse , holds out a prospect of rewarding' his labours; and, them, or even compel them to submission. In the much more so if he be an Englishman, because, meantime the communication •betweee Cadiz and after the events of the late war, perseverance appears this capital is re-established. to be a characteristic 'trait of great importance in our " From every thing that can, be collected; this national character. A few seceders will, however, revolt appears to have proceeded almost entirely no more influence the emigration to South America, trom the repugnance which' the soldiers feel to em than it has to the United States, while so many re- bark for America. This repugnance was taken ad spectable men remain and adhere. vantage of by some ill-disposed individuals (and of " A great many non-commissioned Officers and de- such there are many), who have for some time serving privates from the British Legion, and Cole- directed their views to the subversion of the existing nel URSLER'S, have been prsanoted to the rank of Government. It is at any rate certain, that if such Officers in the Litter, recruited already to 800 strong attacks are repeated, die edifice must at last be (from a detachment of LAO, with natives, who arc overthrown." anxious to serve in it, although all the Officers are foreign. "-•-• _ . • THE EVENING STAR. PRIVATE LETTER. " MAaans, .I.l4eaav 11. " For some time past there has been observed among the Officers and soldiers of the expeditionary army a repugnance, almost general, to go to Ame rica. Lately it was intended to raise from among these troops a corps destined to reinforce the army of Morillo. As soon as the soldiers destined for that service knew their fate, and wore required to embark, they began to mutiny, and declared that they would on no consideration obey the command to embark. The ill-intentioned among the troops, taking ad vantage of the occasion, formed five battalions of the mal-contentc, and marched with them. unex pectedly to head-quarters in Arms de la Frontera, where, after killing the sentinel who defended the entrance of the house, they seized the person of the General-in-Chief, Count Calderon, and all his Staff. Thence this revolted body, under the command of Colonel Quiroga (who had been proclaimed their General-in-Chief ), marched to the Isla, where they likewise seized on Cisneros, who has been nominated Minister of Marine, and who, at the time, was con ducting the duties of that department at Cadiz. This being done, the mutineers made an attempt to enter Cadiz; but, finding it impossible to pass the fortification of St. Ferdinindo, where they were met by the garrison of the place, and a brigade of Marines, who for that service were landed from the squadron, they retired, and proceeded to post them selves at Lebrija, where they established their head quarters, for the purpose of cutting off the commu nication between Cadiz and Madrid. At the same time they succeeded in exciting the people to rebel lion by a promise of reestablishing the Cortes, which they proclaimed in some of the towns,- while they made the most zealous efforts to bring over to their cause the zest of the expeditionary :only. Re garding the amount of revolted force, accounts vary. The Government pretends that it does not exceed LONDON. • THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1820. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 221 1 h 222 S per Cent. Reduced 68 3 / 4 7 / 8 3 / 4 3 per Cent. Consols 68% Vs 3i per Cent. 77 3 / 8 pe r Cent. 87 86 Y 8 .5 per Cent. Navy 103 102 - A Bank Long Annuities 18 1-16 India Stock, 207 1 / 2 India Bonds I Is. 12s. I Is. pr. South-Sea Stock 75 1 /2 Exchequer Bills (2d.) 4s. 2s. 3s. pr. Commercial 9s. 10s. discount Consols for Acct.6Bq % 1,4. Considerable business has been done this morning. Every exertion is made by the Bull party to keep up the Market ; one Broker purchased £400,000 at 68%. Notwithstanding this temporary lift, within a few minutes after the bargain was closed, Consols fell to 68%. We are still without any farther advices, via France, respecting the state of affairs in Spain, no less than three days Paris Papers being overdue ; but private I letters have been received, by the way of Lisbon, from Madrid, which come down to as late a date as the 12th instant, and which describe that Capital to be in a state of the greatest agitation, in consequence of the revolutionary movements of the troops in the South. In another part, we have given an extract from one of these letters, containing a very particular, and, to all appearance, an authentic detail of the revol ters, the number of whom, however, it limits to 5,000 or 6,000. It is stated, in another of these letters, that Sir HENRY WELLESLEY, the British Ambassador at Madrid, wishing to forward to England dispatches regarding the disaffection of the Spanish Army, had applied at the Post.oflice, in order to transmit them through the regular channels, but he was informed . -by the Post-master, that his request could not possi bly be complied with. Sir HENRY WELLESLEY next made application in- person to the King of SPAIN himself, from whom he received a similar answer. his evident, from the extreme caution thus ob served by the Spanish Government, that it entertains very serious fears of the extent of the impending danger. We have received, by tie Leeward hland Mail, intelligence from the Venezuelian Republic down to the 26th of October. Two Decrees have been pub lished.by ARISMENDI, the Vice-President of the Re public, dated the 9th and 11th of October; the first appropriating to the use of the Government, the mo nopoly of tobacco, of salt, and of rum ; and the latter placing all persons enlisted in foreign countries for the service of Venezuela, on the same footing and privileges as the native soldiers. The difficulties en countered by the Patriot Government, from the want of money, was still very great; but the greatest ala 'crity prevailed in all the Departments, and the hopes of ultimate success had not diminished. The state of the military operations will be found fully de tailed in extracts which we have• given in . another part of our Paper. We hare received, this morning, Philadelphia Papers to the 23d of December. • An article from St. Thomas's, dated The 27th November, repeats the report, that " Admiral CAMPBELL, of the Hat badoes station, died on board the SA LIBBURY, of 64, on her arrival at Barbadoes, from St. Thomas's, after the :ate gale."—The following are other extracts : ST. THOMATS,NOVEMBER !7. • The latest news here from Bolivar and his arm: are, that he was successful. He has got *possessi on of all the country near Carthagena, and of Cartha. gena itself it is expected he Will be master ere long The Government have forwarded dispatches to Ha vatinah, stating, that if they are not immediately re inforced, the place must fall. Whether this is cor rect or not, it is hard to say, for there are few re ports received here which can be relied upon, re- specting the movements of the l'atriots. The account published at Norfolk, stating the demolition of all the wooden houses here, is incorrect : not one was blown down during the gale. The houses in the country only suffered. The Isle of France has been opened, for a specific length of time, by order in Council ; but a subsequent order declares, that American vessels will be admit ted only in case British vessels are received in the United States when coming from the Isle of France. Such British vessels not being admitted in the United States, it follows that the Isle of France is, in fact, shut ,against the American Rag. One thousand six hundred and light Slaves, from the coast of Africa, arrived at Havannah from the 10th to the 20th November. On the 20th August, two Spaniards, formerly re sidents at Santiago de Cuba, were hanged fin- piracy. and their heads cut off and hung up in iron i cages at the mouth of the harbour. These wretches, in com pany with eight others, had taken an English schooner, and murdered the greater part of her crew. (FRO N 1 THE LOUSIANA HERALD.) The Texas Expedition is entirely broken up, and it is reported that General Walker and Cap . t. Cral ford have been made prisoners by the Rontlists ; if so, we may easily conjecture their Fate. Reptrt states that for want of an efficient force of United States troops being stationed at Natchitoches, a detachment of Spanish troops is ordered to take possession of that post, in order to prevent the further intrusion of our citizens on their territory. From this it would appear they intend to retaliate for our taking possession of the East Floridas on a similar occasion. The Duke of SUSSEX has been very harshly cen sured, by a Ministerial Journal, for attending the Fox Meeting. at Norwich, on Monday, when his Royal Highness might have known the alarming state of his Brother's health ; and to give a colour to this in decent censure, the Journal in question has, most unfairly and cruelly, suppressed those explanatory statements which must inevitably acquit his Royal Highness, in the judgment of every person of the least feeling or reflection. ' In the speech which the Duke of ALBEMARLE delivered on the occasion in question, all the circumstances of the Duke of St's- SEX'S feelings, with respect to his Brother's health, were fully stated and explained. On his Royal High ness's an ival at Norwich; he thought he must have foregone the duty of attending the Meeting, on account of the alarming nature of the intelligence he received 1 He thought thus, and felt thus, though he had tra- 1 veiled so far for the exclusive purpose of attendiugl that Meeting ; and though, as he stated in his speech,! , his Royal Brother, could he have addressed him,i would have said, " However ill I may be, do you go and meet them." But the last intelligence before' the Meeting took' place was, that the Duke of KErr was better, and thence the Duke of SUSSEX found spirit and resolution to attend. All this - is so' fully explained in Lord ALBEMARLE'S speech at the Meeting, that we shall here repeat the passage : " Were anything wanting," said, Lord ALEXMARLE, " to increase the admiration felt for the. Duke of " SUSSEX by the inhabitants of Norfolk, it would be supplied by his conduct at the present moment, by " the kind and correct manner in which he was now 44 behaving. On his arrival yesterday at Alderman 44 Fos rut's, he received an unfavourable account of the " health of his illustrious relative, the Duke of KENT. 44 His Royal Highness, influenced by the affection 44 which he bore his brother, had been afraid that he 44 should be obliged to forego the gratification of at " tending this Meeting, and paying a tribute of re -44 spect to the virtues of the illustrious mon whose 44 memory they were now celebrating. Fortunately, " his Royal Highness had that day received a favour " able account of his brother's health, and they no' w 'ti hid the pride and pleasure of seeing his Royal " Highness among them." Thus spoke Lord .ALne. MARIA on Monday, the day of the Meeting. And could it be believed, if the facts were not now before the world, that a Ministerial Journal, professing to give a fair report of the Meeting, had keen base enough to omit those sentences, for no other reason, than because they contained a complete a priori re futation of its own cruel calumny against one of the Royal Family ? Yesterday, the Dukes of Yoaic and CLAREXCZ visited the PRINCE RECENT, at Carlton House. The Duke of MONTROSE, and a party of distin guidled personages, dined yesterday with the Mar quis of 11Eurvono, at his residence in Manchester square. The Marquis of ORMOND is shortly expected- to leave town for the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness of HERTFORD .are arrived in town, from Brightoq, • The Earl and Counte,s of H A R ROWDY, and Family, are expected in town in a ie•.v days,'from their seat, Sandon-hall, Staffordshire. 1 . 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