The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-27 00:00:00

SOUTH AMSIIIC.f. Letters from Trinidad have been lately received ; and t , convey the most pleasing intelligence respecting the South American cause Our Readers will peruse the following extracts with interest : Fetract of a Letter from Trinidad, Nov. 13 :—" You will bad by A. Ant ktter, that the Royalists hold out a sums hopes that general Torre, whose head-quarters were at Cucuta. would be able to advance into New Grenada and beat tbeneral 13elivhr ; but the knowing account, copied from the Curacoa Papers of •2d October, 1 that be has been beateu from thence, er compelled to retreat from it : " CIITIMeOA, OCT. 2.—Accounts from Maracaibo state, that the town of Cucuta, about three days journey from the former place, has been occupied by the Independ ri under Bolivar, who Is said to be on his return from Santa Pe, having left a strong force behind bits to Bar r son that place. A great number of people had arrived at Maracaibo with their property, with which they fled un the approach of the Independents at Cucuta." Hers we hate no accounts direct from Bolivar later 1 L thati 28th August, at which time he had marched an I clay for Popaysn, another for Santa Martha, and a third was returning to the Apure, b y the road of Cucuta, to joie Pars. Bolivar has sent down to Angostura MI MI dollars for the purpose of purchasing arms. We hive this montant beard that San Fernando de Apnre ha I been taken by lien. Pars; this we have bees ex pecting for some time. It opens the whole commerce of the interior to as, and its advantages, in a military point of view, are incalculable. lam in correspondence with most of the British officers in the Patriot service, and the accounts they give of the promising appear. ance of affairs is tents. cheering. Colonels Musson and Stopford assure me they will be in Caracas in less than three months. Derereux's troops are landing at RUM raids, near Cumana, and if they attack that place it must fall. Nov. It —The second September mail is arrived, but 1 have aot a letter. But '1 have to :old, that a vessel is hut strived from Angostura, and the Master reports el; capture of San Fernando. This was a natural con sequence of Commodore Dias's victory. We have ac counts front Curacot. of the 2d of Goofier, that Cucuta his been ocenpied by General Souhlette, who commands a aivision of the Independent Army. Fudu roc de Madero. The Spauish emigrants from Cucuta load ar r:ved at Maracaibo, which is near Curacoa. The British Legion is iu high health and spirits at Maturin. I have seen most satisfactory letters from l:ilonel Blomet, who commands it, and also from Culo re: Stopford, who is on military business at Angostura; i• will march soon. 1 except Dee rrrrr 's troops are j ..sere too by this. Colonel Woodherre writes, that , • '.its of recruits and lots of cattle' have arrived I there. Parr or Seam Nov. S.-a-Who could have conceived t' fit the Indepandeot army, reduced to act on the !Sallies on the Apure and the Arauca, would have C. en able, without exposing their cause to ruin iu ` . ..neauela. to attempt the conquest of New Linimula Frabably there were a few on this side of she water, as •hat, who did not consider it, with the force it was u Aertaken, as of greater risk than any calculation could -.-.1.-rant. Three hard-fought battles, which have added kingdom to his former military fame auJ reputation, .it him in possession of Saute P., and in commtinica t or, with the whole of the country. The battles of Boyars and Maipo. so similar in their circumstances sue •vansequencev, will, I trust. be celebrated to the latest costa:lly hy a free and gratef u l people. How much more important is the tellies; of Santa Fe .thwn that of Caracas: Had the Spaniards been driven firs: out of the latter, how easy would they have ram s-awn to Carthagena, aid concentrated their forces; but is come from Carthagena to Caracas with troops by sea. •• hit tabor, hoc opus est. - as you are will aware. But General Bolivar has saved them the trouble of such ral,ulations at present, Italia% enlisted almost all the hoya'istaortay (his prisoners) in New Granada, consist kit chiefly of s•enesuelans; and securing the Spaniards, nl.ll the exception of the very few who escaped, and to o:uta he will not give an hour's rut. In Venesuela things wear an equally pleasant pros- Sect ; 300,000 dollars in gold have been forwarded from arta Fe to Angostura, of which 100,000 had already arrived, to purchase muskets, Lc. I have au official dispatch of Commodore Dias before me, dated at Apa too, Ist October, giving an account of lois having cap. 'Laval the whole Spanish flotilla of ten gun-hosts on the awls ~September, armed with one iron and five brass i gume3 d four swivels, together with GOO cartridges far t aro. 5,000 musket cartridges, one drum, four c nails, and all cite correspondence of the enemy at quarter. The Spanish Commandant anti SO men s y.. killed, and those that got on shore, including 1 200 ss.idi ••• were punned by Col. Pena, of General Paes's army ; a. ' Dias writes, he does not think one can escape. General P la the western army on the Apure, ard Dias, wan ost-emotain, the flotilla. General ?defines commands in chief the eastern army. le this all the lititish are to be employed. General Bermudez. second in command, is gone to bring the troops over from Margmitta to Astoria. 'they are to iand at the port of F.smeralda, near Curiae., which General Marino has occupied to protect the disembarka tion. Peer and Merino will form a junction to open the cat psign by marching on Caracz", and will probably be reinforced by 2,1M0 men from New Granada, under Gweral Souhlette, by way of Cucuta and Merida. This division is gone also to look after Latorrr, who would try to get to Carthegetia. A great many non•commissioned officers and deserv injprivates frdm the British Legion and Colonel Crs s have been - pfordeted Poe tit mei elfimetwisi the latter, recruited already to IMQ strong (front a detach ment of IMO) with natives, who are anxious to serve in it, although ell the officers rife foreign. Morino dispatched General Latorre with the regiment df Navarra to take the command in New Granada, by way of Merida. lie arrived at Cucuta on the 4th Au gust; hut on the Inth General Bolivar was in possession of iltrreyro, lois army, and Basta Fe. Dias, who has risen entirely by his valuer and merit as an excellent sailor, is a Margaritanean, sad may, even.j in relation to his countrymen, be styled " 6reee prom 1 lee breves." The glorious and niemotalole action he hoed at Pegapos, at the entrance of the Orinoco, where he defaated three times the her of Spanish gun-boats, and thereby very much facilitated the taking of the place, established his naval reputation. By this lost victory ha has blasted in a moment all Morillo's schemet en the Apure and Guayana, which he has been planning for the last twelve metal's. The gun , bests ire question were consaracted with great expellee ind iron b':e at a place called El Bief; on the river Called La Pertagnesa, whkh falls into the Apure. Having takes She flotilla, it is expected he will next destroy the ar senal at the ENO. The prises are of a,large six., well finished, sad well adapted for the double purpose of ii.glitiog or conveying troops. The tire hundred sol diers were destined to increase the garrison of Sao Fernaade, which tan only receive provisious hy eta ter ; se I will, probably, mote fall new, as it did be. • fore, when theft flotilla was destroyed by this vet y MS. How ti nth does Vette:nil* owe to the valour and per triotiem oft doom brave islanders!' Qat of them, whiney as a trend me years ago, jocosely says--" The Spa onirda I.are destroyed nilthe sheep its the island, and TIIE 3 A' Arisimendi all the 15paaiards ; so if you require a supply pf either, you must apply elsesellere." 00111e1 after %nxds gate a good account of the Vandals, who under- Morino, spared neither sex nor age. They are both native* of that island, become so celebrated 6y the glo rious and successful efforts of their countrymen under their guidance and codimand. allerlllo s otru dispatches are a wonninent to their fame! But he suppressed the account of the women and children butchered by his troops, and the poor little Chtayacaree Indian, whose hands were cut off, bound up, And in this state lent into the city, as a pledge of the fate of the inhabitants, if they resisted. Bat how miserably was this butcher disappointed. COMMOTION. IN SPAIN. PRIVATE LITTIIII. FROM MADRID, DAM JAN. I i. “ For some time past there has been observed among the officers and soldiers of the expeditionary army a re pugnance, almost 4 ese : ral, to go to America. Lately it was intended to raise from among these troops a corps destined to reinforce the army of Morilly. As soon as the soldiers destined fur that service knew their fate, and were required to embark, they began to mutiny, and declared that they world on no consideration obey the command to embark. The ill-intentioned among the troops, taking advantage of Vac occasion, formed five battalions of the oral-cuntents, and inecched with them unexpectedly to head-quarters, io Arcus de la Film term, where, after killing the sentinel who defended the entrance of the house, they seized the person of the tieneral-in-Chief. Count Calderon, and all his staff. Thence this revolted body, under the command of Col. Qttiroga (who had been proclaimed their General-in- Chief). marched to the Isfa, where they likewise seised on Cisneros. who has been nominated Misister of Ma rine, and who at the time was conducting the ditties of that department at Cadiz. This being done. the mutineers made au attempt to enter C.olis; but, finding it impos sible to pass the fortification of St. Ferdinaudo, where they were met by the garrison of the place, and a bri gade of marines, who fur that service were lauded from the squadron, they retired, and proceeded to post them selves at Lehrija, where they evahlislied their head quarters, for the purpose of cutting off the communica tion between Cadiz and Madrid. At the same time they succeeded io exciting the people to rebellion by a pro mise of re-establishing tbeCortes.which they proclaimed in souse of the towns. while they made the most zealous efforts to bring over to their cause the rest of the expe ditionary army. Regarding the amount of force which bas thus revolted, accounts vary. The Government pre tends that it does not exceed g,500, while other parties raise it to 9,000. Ruth these statements are incorrect ; the truth lies between them ; and the most probable estimate may be fixed at between 3,000 and 6,000, with out, however, having at their head any officers with whose names the public is familiar. The posts of com missioned officers were supplied by serjeants, who joined in the revolt, the greatest part of the officers who previously coturnauded the mutineers, {intim abandoned them when they renounced their allegiance. The contagion appears to have extended to Seville, where there was a slight popular commotion, which was soon suppressed. Meanwhile, scarcely had the news of the revolt, and a report of the peeceedings of the revolters been received, than the authorities of that city formed themselves into a junta, and conferred -provisionally un General Freyre, who then resided in deville as Commander of the Royal Carabineers, the gonionntlieeitief of the army of Andalusia. The King. before knowing of this foram:re, executed in his name by that junta, had dispatched to that General the 'F iuli/issue of Captain-tieneral of Andalusia. T he first thing which he did Was lb assemble the corps wore nearest at hand, together with the whole body of the stavalry (uo regiment of which had niutiniedpoil to surround and circumscribe as niuzli as possibWrie rebels. As the latter are inferior in numbers, and as Cadiz as well as Seville has 'soaped from their grasp, there is every appearance that the General will be able to disperse them, or even compel them to submission. In the meantime the commituication between Cadiz sad this capital is re-established. " Ftom every thing that can be collected, this revolt appears to have proceeded almost entirely from the re pugnance which the soldiers (eel to embark for Ame rica. This repugnance was taken advantage of by some ill-disposed individuals (and of such there are many), who have for some time directed their views to the sub version of the existing Government. It is at any rate certain, that if such attacks are repeated, the edifice must at last be overthrown." PRICE OF STOCKS TRI Beak Stock 214 493 S per east. Red. ellffi 3 per Cent. Cons. Mai 3f per Cent. 771 4 per Cents. SOT 97 961 per Ct. Navy 10th 103 103 1 Loaf Ann. 1$ 1-16 Insp. 3 per Cent. tnn. DAY •AT O'CLOCK. India Btoel 20/1 DittoßMW I ls. l2s. I is.psn. Old Annuil is Ex. Rills. f d. 4a. 2s. Ss. pm. Ditto Con2l 91. 101. din. 011111iWil Con. for le. 08111 Lott. Tid.ets £23 2s. ebe atattliman. (Tat " BRITISH STATESMAN" II INCORPORATED WITH " Ter STA 7'ESMAN.") REVIV.IL OF TRADE IN AMERICA. Extract from a private letter, dated Philadelphia. Dee. 22, 1519.—" t have great pleasure in informing you, that affairs on this side tile Atlantic do not now wear so gloomy an aspect as when I last wrote. Trade hegira to revive, and confidence among the merchants Is considerably restored.—The return of Spring will, I trnst, put matters on a still better footing, and expand the channels of commerce. Nut h, however, depend' on the line of policy which this Government may adopt towards South America; we have every reason to expect that our Executive, tired out by the bad faith and thieanery of the beloved Ferdinand, will, ere long, declare in favour of the Patriots; awl although they may nut choose to identify themselves, in an orgn manner, in the quarrel between the Colonies 4nd the Mother Country, they will remove all restrictions as to the supplying the munitions of war, and whatever other necessaries the Insurgents (as they are termed by some) may stand in need of. This would indeed be bailed with joy, from one end of the Union to the other, as it would_ micts an inexhaustible field for lucrative com mercial speculation ; and could net fail to peorriag• highly beneficial to England, in every branch of her extensive minnfactures. " Notwithstanding the forhearance that has hitherto marked the conduct of our Executive, as it regards the contest between Spain and her Colonies, there not an American, from the highest officer in the Government down to the humblest labourer, that does not in his heart favour the cause of the Patriots, and execrate the Wog that seeks to subjugate them. Our last account. front the Patriotic armies, dispel all fears of the ultimate issue of the contest, and afford every rational grow to anticipate that it must terminate favourably ere the close of the approaching year. The Patriots are gaining an accession of strength on all sides, while their uppo nenta, on the contrary, are daily becoming more feeble ami insignificant. " Notwithstanding *hat I hate *aid art to the im proved iapect of a ff airs, I must caution you and prot friends nut to be too sanguine in your expectations, nor too lavish in your shipments for the Spring Mgket.— Commeree, though considerably revived, is stilt weak and feeble, and Jill require sometime to attain her for mer rigour. Motet all, avoid the error by witch so many became severe.sotfitners within thetas& two yews, do not assist in glutting the markets with coarse and inferior goods, ar inch, maler present circumstance', will not pay freight and ditties. The finer fabries of hod woollen and cotton roods, linens, stuffs, Bitailliff ham tod.4hetlleltl ware, are now in better request than I fir a cantiderassle time past ; hot inferior articles, of all kinds, site quite unsaleahle ; and sus+, I anderstiod. is the case at every other eraircantite depot threhcheet tie !Rause." LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1820. We have received several flks of American Papers this morning, to the following dates: — New York t, the '23d ; Boston to the 21st ; Phila delphia to the 22d ; Halifax to the 15th ; and St. John's, New Brunswick, to the 7th December. Earl DALHOUSIE has further prorogued the General Assembly of Nora Scotia, from the 20th of December to the 13th of January, by a Procla mation, issued on the 11th of last month. EPROM THE NEW-TORII COMMINCI tL ♦Dyles-ism OP TIM 21ST OP DSCINIZIL] " NA TVIIITOCIIIIP, Nov. 3.—Captain Beard, command ing the United States troops on the Sabine, arrived here this morning, and confirms the report, that a detach ment of 200 of the Spanish Royal Cavalry had encamped on tie opposite side of the river. The! had manifested no intention cf crossing the river, but inquired the mo tives of government in stationing a force beyond the Rio Honda." The Secretary of the Treasury has communicated to Congress the annual report from his department. It appears there will be a deficiency in the revenue for the present year of about five millions of dollars, to supply which, the Secretary ie . :Tests the propriety of loans, an additional duty upon various articles of import, a tax on auction sales, or an issue of Treasury notes. [PIIOSI TUC BOSTON PATILIO7 07 THI 20711.1 Advices from Havannah as late as the 24th Nov. con firms the account we gave on Saturday, of the defeat of M.Lirrgor at Rio de la flambe. 1114 Gregor is represented as having exhibited the utmost indifference as to the fate of his wounded followers, many of whom, it is added, might have been taken off. When urged to give orders for their removal to the shipping, that they might not be left at the mercy of their enemies, be replied, " No assistance can be rendered them: it is the fortune of war." A letter from New Orleans of the 10th ult. has been received in Norfolk. wbich states that the yellow fever had subsided ; that upwards of three thousand persons had been cat of by it during the past season, and that most of those wiso)sail recovered from this dis- ease had since been attacked by the fever and ague. 11r.-Liallatin, our late Minister to France, is shortly expected to return In the United States. Every day may vve expect to bear oews from .Spain, which eannot fail, we trust, to turn out beneficial tb mankind. Thete are those aho think it not impossible, that, if the mutiny and in surrection have bases so extensive as they have been imagined, we may be honoured with a visit ftom his Most Catholic Majesty. Of this we have no idea ; for although our own Court might na turally enough reel some sympathy for the bereft condition of a once great Monarch, yet his unpopu larity would contribute to make him an unwelcome guest to the rulers of any State in Europe. To America he cannot flue With any colour of reason able protection, unless he should throw himself into the arms of the Prince of the BRAZILS. But this is an unprofitable, and, to many, an un interesting speculation or question ; it not being worth consideration what may become of a fugitive or banished Prinee, who hes made the happiness of his people so little his study. It has been the serious wonder of menkind how a few men have possessed themselves of so many attributes of sovereignty, and of power,: and this circumstance has occasioned millions to bend the knee to them, as of divine origin. Let reflecting persons, however, only think for a moment, what an artful man, fully clothed with authority, above all 'other men may do, when served by a few devoted self-interested Ministers. Let them only tonsider what has passed in Great Britain, during this w reign, (tom ptir:NSOting in one House of Parliament, and creatatru-making in the other, and they will - cease to feel surprise that power so easily magnifies in the hands of an artful or ambitious ruler. It has made np the chief business of the lives of Kings and their subjects, to arrogate undue power on the one hand, and to regain it on the other. In vari ous ways have Sovereigns defrauded the people of, their just rights; atone time by a boldness which has intimidated them, at another by a well pleyed oft hypocrisy. XIMENILIP, one of the Kings of a valuable part of Spaio,beoame the idol of the Cos- Wiens, by an apparent purity of manners, by his charity and munificence. The people, not suspect ing him, left him to make what attempts upon their liberty he pleased, and to keep in pay, out of the revenue of his benefices, asereenory troops, and thereby augment the regal authority, by which the people became entirety objected to his will.— The single cireemstasee of eer fisithisti guardian: f doe people's rights, and our reputed keepers of Filet public purse, ailOwiag the vast 1142013 of money, totter the moo of *vita ti Adosivaity, to be put at l i r w . a c i tspoiol. of the Wog, agora upon them a eri 17 be whieh so proishosent eta be ads paste. This money arises from captures of b hi p , and treasures taken on the high seas, from stat es, before war is declared against them : a piratic a l proceeding sufficient, one would imagine, to c a ll down the vengeance of just Heaven. R o t re. course has been had to this step—so unlawful is the code of nations, and in the express opi:ions of such publicists aSGROTIcs, PUFFENDORNP. The proceeds formerly were applied to the repair ships and furnishing materials and supplies for e l . hausted arsenals. Now of late these ill-gotten tea_ sures have been placed in the Bank, and drawn oet at occasion requires, by Royal drafts, or eign-au lnua ,. to reward obsequious persons who have done t!', o Court or Ministry favours which merit such retoo l . pense. Oh, the crying shame of such proceedi a , Can we wonder that wretches are found to do a l l sorts of work, when it is known that three or millions of money lie at the beck of the Sovereip Or can we wonder that we are so often involved ; a war (and war without declaration of it too') wh en these are the profits and the sweets of it I j{ - b p can have forgotten—who can ever forget, h ow many Spanish officers and Spanish sailors we ft I sent to the bottom of the sea, and how many d their ships, full of treasure, sent into English pony without their having a suspi&on of hostility trot Great Britain t Here was profitable work for Commissioners ! Ah, Englishmen, how have yes I been bamboozled ! The very follies of our Priam of the Blood have been created as it were by thew knowing that their Royal Papa had these *gen plumbs to give them, if they could find or put is Majesty in good humour. We should like a know how much the King's private fortune has been augmented by a pasting of any part of the sums of these droits to its amount. This is by eo means an impertinent, but a proper national inquiry: and that man is no friend to the liberties of his country who can object to it. The origin of tha kind of property is immoral in the highest degree nor does it appear unnatural to suppose that a sense of basing yielded to its 'temptation ay Rave contributed greatly to overturn the wits at a good-hearted King. A very ill-natured article appeared in The C. tier of last night, impugning the conduct of bis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussr.x for attendisf the Norwich Meeting, to celebrate the anniverun of Mr. rox's birth. The Duke made a most appro priate and affectionate allusion to the indisgesitis of his Royal Brother and the reasons which senrd his mind to attend that Meeting, exalt bim opinion of efery friend to his country. Bet the mac malignant part of all this is, that the atinvnjowsn omits that part of the patriot PR/NCR'e speett eiedi fully explains his reasons for assisting at the above celebration, viz. a second account of the favourable state of the disorder of the late much-lamestal Duke of KENT. Nov, as to the Mike of Sem seeming to take a part in the burden of a song which threatened the downfal of tyrants, we should not esteem his principles as we do, if we thought he could regard with complacency the ac t s of a tyrant, though perpetrated by his very brother. Then, the fiery mention of the nano of Mons. EGAttre (the late Duke of Orleans), is the same sentence with that of the Duke of SCasll, is such an insult as we should suppose would never be fbrgiven by any former reader of that insolent and abusive journal. Mons. Egalite, as he sillily denominated himself, was a very weak Prince, and had a personal resentment against the Sovereign, his relation! Is there any similitude in these cases! Oh, shame on such conduct : and this it the free dom of the Press on that side the question !!! The most important port of the inforraber from Spain communicated by private letters is the following:— " Sir Henry Wellesley, the British Ambassador to Madrid, wishing to forward to Euxiand dispatches re garding the disaffection of the Spanish army, r r il en t e t plied at the Post-office in order to transmit thins t the regular channels, tint he was informed by - Me Post master that his request could not possibly be compfier with. Sir Henry Wellesley nest Riede opplicatioa, is person, to the King of Sksain himself, from whom Ite ceiveil a similar answer.' If this intelligence. be correct, of which we bans but little doubt, we may easily conjecture 14011 " the political state of that kingdom, and of bow sir certain a nature our further news hem its capild may_ be for some time to come. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.—The Mentors „ i the House of Commons originally received wages from their constituents, the rate of which was, is the reign of Edward ill., established at 4s. a day for a knight of the shire, and 2s. for a citizen or a burgess, which was paid for the number of, t ho the Parliament sat, including an allowaeoo fur their going from and returning to their respective boars, ie stooling to the distance, and was continued to hereof's!' at so late a period as the Parliament after the Reser& ties. The b.ditor of Gloat:ilk's Reports has gives is hilt/tram the copy of a curious agreement in lags ??' tween John Strange, the Member for Helmick, aid h is electors, wherein the Member covenants, " Whether thr Parliament hold long time or short, or whether it fee tune to be prorogsed, that he will take for his wag! wily a code and half a barrel of herring, to he on' mold by Christasas."—Two shillings a (ay, the Ow sacs to a begrime, was so considerable a stun irtflasielli Coes, that there are say instances where bettM 'petitioned to be ottetimii form sending Membental l . liament, representing ► that they were mimed in MOW iig bridges or ether public works, and therefore MOW teesir such an estraordieary expense.-filar aacelMN Hale thought what vast stuns would is our day hi lo petaled by the Members in *UM/new that hawser, al vecifrrriAg of which in their's cost so*mmett. 1' Ibi II s Ili la 1.1 IF