The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

!!4. 'i! ~~ \ r ' ;r ~~, t L, 4~ morning it wail at 18 deg. of Reaotnor, and tbro Ole whole day 26 dm. SOUTH AMERICA —.....w0.-- " Port Spain, Xftv..26.1817. w= • "I wrote to you by the last Leeward Island packet, a few days agri, since which oar port has been so completeiihiockadod by a Si:snide brig and schooner, and a parcel of armed launches, that our communica- Casa With Goyana hoe been . iutercepted, and our supply of mules ind cattle at the commencement of crop rendered very pretariosa. The Spaniards, con. -dined to the coast, have. literally nothing to eat them. . sot to Deer us its the way of trade ; and of belletee it is.very galling, both.to the, merchants and •Osuters to see two Spanish privateers In our port, end the launches anchoring and revising on our very coasts, from Point Marto,. 'The brig of war on oar -motion, is, I enderstand, gone op the Orinoko, so that we have, at this criritial momiont. nn newel force to protect a valuable trod., even on oar own coasts,' . -and to prevent the infraction/If net territorial and etariiime rights. which the presststClese of marauders are at all rims• disposed ill 11141/1140.- I only speak .of this rie ,onwerilockk oreerteeee, .for .the sloop of war hoe; no doubt, 'good tension,. for her absence, ,ead the appearance of t i flotilla was sudden; per t.enst it pais, a moment longer than - Wile is advised of , lts being inlite Gulf. Since I wrote the foregoing, I have seen a great inessy letters from Goma, dated up to the 16th inst. • A schootrer leaded with males, having luckily heard ref ear blockade, landed them at Goalie, and the Imppercargn has arrived itra boat. The flechera also, -in which Captain ItYao, of the ship Two Friend., • event up to Guyana, is also jest returned. I have • not seen him, hot I am told General Bolivar has fol. •iy confirmed all the contracts made in London by order of the Veriezuelean Government, and of coarse -ire will write to those concerned hy. this . packet. I " The news which I have collected from twenty upriver@ letters which I have read,'frons the most re spectable sources, sad which you may rely upon, •.istonourice— •"rhat General Bolivar having received a dispatch from General Sarno, stating that General Morillo had advanced to San Sebastian de los Reyes, with the view of collecting his• forces at Calahoso, had • autpemled his expedition to San Fernando de Apace, and marched direct against Morino with an army of -5.000 Indio, well disciplined and equipped, and pro. 'aided with every thing necessary, leaving Gen. Pees t. to blockade San Fernando with his cavalry and cover . that vatuable nountry. A detachment of infantry has also- been sent to assist him. General MOtillu'll memos • are an inferior, and he is so generally detested eves . . by the Se:infarct.. that his destrucilo* appears 1,44- • , Is*. A cotsfidentiul letter front the Intendant of 5: • Guyana Jo en emigrant friend here, states ibis aril. de as 1 site it to you, and adds, that General Ma . vino having, fag recognised General Bolivar as se :.prente Chief, Civil Roe Mditary„ . had.received orders • to co-oppeate with Beneath's and Monagasin, in angtelling_theSpaelards from-the Protince of Commie, : Mat is the city of Comma (where they have about , 400 men) end the other towns rtn,,tke crin,• whore they may have sr •many more, ill" lialf.starved, as f even the -Pot:lota would have bees, bet tsit the re hoarse' from the interior. . -.-• " Besides Brion's squadron,• the river OrfunitO is „protected by 35 gunboats and 25 large Michele,: commanded by Dies who, doting, tie, siege, with ;ire launches destroyed the Spaui b flotillar: of 16. Ile is a Nlargaritenean, or moderW .Skettin. and I tiri * ie read an account of that esplat,iti .the English " Margarita 111 now so fortified by art, and de. s . „ ItietieU broads, !aloof., that they would laugh to ' scarp any emsetiKon the Spaniards can send oot.— ,401ameroli is bending several heavy launches. to carry 'etch a rwelve.pouhder forward, and a nine-poender aft. This is his fort ; the ship Two Friends is . Iying there; the Captain is now here going to join her, and I hope to give a good account of the sup. porters of Despotism and the Inquisition. 66 A late letter from a Catalan merchant, dated at ,fort Gus, ra, within this month. to his cowpadre here, gays, 4 At tenidole fortune de mar a lei familia de Gamma, .st comic:Ha a Puerto I have been foatunate enough to get my family out of Cannes, sad send them to Porto Rice.'—llow do the Spat& ards stand there, when a Catalan resorts to this pre. caution? It now appears there is no doubt of the )evolution planned there by the Spanish Liberates, 'which involved the banishment to Puerto Rico of the Captsin.Geueral kloso, and the severer punishment of others : at least it is so detailed by some prune lately from Co recess. " IVe hate 18 of the officers of the ship Two Friends, and 30 that came oat in the brig cladwin, now here. The 18 of the former, and eight of the latter, are resolved to go on and join Bolivar ; 22 are either 'imitating, or resolved, it is said, to re torts. If they should do so t withsiot proceeding to Oleo*, where the Supreme Government resides, whetever they may allege, they are alone to blame. Every pains has been taken by the Spanish party here, to dissuade them from persevering in their plan. I lib not surprised at the Spanish Royalists doing so • but while 1 think nothing could tend more to ei( l ll.nd our commercial ineeence, than the introduc tion of respectable Englishmen among the natives of South Ail:erica, I am not equally clear as to thepo• bey of Englishmen's joining in such counsel. How. ever, sock as have no opinion of their own, too freqwently seller by following that of others • for the Men who weeld not give you a dollar, is always reedy to give you sdvice—Coe we carte rim. What elect. Abe news received this day.from Guyana, and the diviiive events preparing, may have on their de tertnin•tion, .1 cannot pretend to say; bat it is to be regret red. that those who secede did not makeup their. mind. before they left home. , 64 General . 806•111` hay established a Provisional Council and a Tribal's' de Alta Jesdela in Guyana, 77 - hold by his rountryto. solidate pantie meter ant. in popular a man as Pier after a lone end impartial consolidate good Miler and Stiff for mail yes... It was awl melancholy necessity ! one moment inneer in his would (Notifiess have shared an etiM. The Order, of Geo. clantation of G.H. Bermudez, left him no alternative but submission and order.. ". 66 * SnMllo people are alarmed hero for the Uolnit of ogrehoottea, for they suppose, that &South America he fry., the direct trade to the Main will auperaede the necessity of them. This, at worst,. can-only be to a cm tain eaten' ; but is the trade of Mkt &Hain as a nation, to be sacrificed to the transit trade of a Colony ?—Sech a pretension can only suit the Miiris dian of Cadiz, and would be scouted in England, both in Parliament and upon 'Change. • " taispect soon to cnatmunicaie great results in favour of South ..AMerican lihirth end of a free trade with that fine country, in consequence of the vieogoos, and, I trust, jedicinea movements of BO jive!, whose ',tertian , and perseverance hive jp a tly entitled him to his present high command. Tbd Caraccas Coterie says, t were a Angle heir of"tai whiskers to fill in any part of America itwould create • revnlution.'—f would *iiitliper . the EditoW the truth is not to be told at altstimes.'...-.Licert cab hosts doceri." 7 PRICE. or STOCKS TM' !look Stork 292 IS 9 per Cest. Red. Mil per Crot..Coitaals Coots& for Arc. NH '4 per Got. 994 DAY AT ONIE OT,I.O"CK. 5 per Cent. Nav• 105(4 India Bonds 105 106 p nenek Loft Ann. 90 15-16 91 I.:tramper Bills 19 48 p THE STATESMAN. But whatever ones peeled +merest" may have attesoq the Spanish Royalists In the territory where theo wM said to have obtained this decisive victory, their sl'. fairs appear its a very doubtful situation in exhoo plates. The New York Evening. Post supplies tho following . further account of the defeat of the Royalists in Cowan :- 1 Futon PORTO CATELLO.—By the brig Attie., Bowen:, which arrived this forenoon in tbiry 'day, foie Porto Csvelln, we are informed that previous to her sailing it was reported and believed that the Royelists had suffered a severe defeat at COMM* nip' Barcelona. Several Spanish transport dips, wish troops which bed been its the ection, arrived at POT'S Covello; two or three days before Captain BOWERS sailed, Iblit'every thing relating to the stair, which osight' (*able the Public to judge of the magaitede . of the disaster, was kept a secret." The Aurora asserts, that the taking peosesalsot Amelia. Island was authorised by two of the itooot t . tiOnary Provinces of Spain, after an investigatiew of the use which could be snide of Florida to permit.% the Patriot cause, and that Florida was to bate bees made an independent Republic. A A private letter from Washington, of the iitii %posits in confident terms of the cession of the Fk. rides to the United States. The Reporter contains the following still ow. important and recent intelligence from Amelia Wand: —lntelligence from Amelia, es late as Monday lit instant' reached Savannah nn the 3d, by the Pa. ttiot privateer Republican, Captain SMITU. whir% put into the River iu distress. MIRY. on immesh( that the Uniied States had determined to , break u.) his buccaneering establishment, and occupy O. Island, showed a conciderable degree of perturbation. Ile embargoed the privateers in the harbour, toll , / the plea of their presence being necessary for its 'se curity in the absence of himself and his black hero... who are to make a desperate attack on the imprec. noble walls of St. Augustine. where the G0d41•4 of Victory is to decorate their jetty brows aka unrolling wreaths of laurel, sod the Goddess of Plunder to fill their knapsacks with refulgent goad-- but hit real intention was believed to be to defend his piratical nest against our troops. The mail"" of such a resolution sea too ostensible to receive ILO countessanre of his followers; end in consequence 11 , e eMbargo was removed on the 29th or 20th ult. en the Ist inst. he was making preparviont for the embarkation of his troop', and the total estarasatio of the island. This was done, however, under plc.. tence of proceeding against St. Augustine. lie he was in a few days to be joined by two or Our• hundred troops from the nnrth, and six or seven hundred Floridaians,who would resider the avocets of the expedition certain. " A ruled weasels from (tiffetent American ports Winn arriving daily for the perpose of obtaining ena►mwis. sinns—three (roar Beldam.* on Saturday the 1.31% . ult.; in all they amounted to foecteen. Oa the lame day, it iv reported, s prise achironer, with a itaartreg and twenty rvervorm, was takes pememioa of, whits attempting to rea into Feroandise, by the United Slates' brig Saraitat." There is an aceonat by General GAttstts to th Governor of Georgia, dated at Fort Scott, were the continence of the Rivers Flint and Chataboochie, his engagement with the Indians on the Georgia frontier. The Indians were put to the flight. Geo. GatuEs says, " Among the articles foam; in this house of the Chief, was a British uniform coat (scarlet) with a pair of gold epaulettes, and a certificate signed by a British Captain of Marines, 4 ROSERT Wurrr, in the absence of Colonel Ntotors,' stating that tl* Chief had always been a true and faithful friendto the Brktish.' The reports of friendly Indian.; renter in esiiiniiiing the number of hostile Indians, inclaing the Ited*Stick-s - and Seminoles, at more than c2C. I JO —independent of the blacks at anti near Sorranne7. within 120 miles of this place, amounting to near 400 men, 'tad increasing by the addition of 'serf runaway from Georgia able to get to them. Tho friendly Indians inform toe, that the hostile pile! and blacks have been promised a British force to au sist them, from New Providence. This promise. though made by :4:Knots and Woonotstc, is, TIPVff . theless, relied on by these deluded wretches, who. I have no doubt, will sue for peace, as they God tbrit hopes of Briti%lt aid to be without foundation." The Paprrs we have received thitt morning ba'' brought further proceedings of Copycat , . The twi nes. is becoming important—warm discu4l.tioos expected on the South American subject. In stitri lion to the notices we hare inserted.elw.where. ' subjoin the following brief commery of the proceed.- jugs in the Seuate and House of Itepresestatire 4 the I^,tl. : IIPIIIIIIIII.2PWIIIII"Pllg"IMIPIIIPPgPPIIIIIIIIPIII / • ..i . i - •.- iok 7,.. - - -r -• ••*--- `w .g.P.. _ 41... ' _ For thtsook post *o hose - had *ewe frost, nod on/n a Notin continued . av ow.' so that th. readiroro i m p eiga bi et ,b,o,races.; ~ and qiontillos of .new •collectedi each as we Aare stood. end li not soon for yoaro. . 0 hold by his e 4 rITEKSIBUNCII. Dac. 20.--Tigenty-two millions 'Ablate punt W. been received towards th. new loan. which will sn popular i Jlr shot on the 20th of Dec. O.S. after • lona ir........A... ........n.b./... I . I 4. '... , s .le • . ?,!:' .. ... 1 e 1 • A 1 s . %. * \ • •r. • • , . ,• .., . . .• , i - ••• 1 4 ;41/J a- hat j .2, J - - -...1s- ... . TI I E S' rATEsmAN. , - can be homily convoked . ~ i . , _.• 'hilt s ColtttItSPONI?ENTS., is beyond even Its sof prilit=perit 11.11 11- rilialatipa Apr be `. 0 hilrePly to a easnasisakasloo received yesterday from Mr. coney . ru e w c ty . a r &sena ere his Itsstitetlons ramie,. WAlllt ,of . N owl Khoo. we . here 6 ^ Infer MIN ' • • versing has hit rto n nted at fire most Shut his teller; disted Dee. •17 was received. awl Weeded far ' treority. Tice isecution of P• Iset eve VI tot* t ° c o " blymi ". b" by "'me acrid.'" It ear "hk •a . w. . 611 - tilt and best itiliablied s pirt o Mexico. It I •" fore. adopted the Letter *Well afterwards aPPr"few in mu ' for the Carrier to A it we? bat thfis for a great delinquency, . I trial, has done more - to r ive.l py at' the ffe le all rea ber t se l'aPer so. aeli .eaec tiieret a'laff—v. orv it m persome be ilea n 'a reseli ailfral - hied ' far one 441°6 ' bendaisly . of i 6iScipline than aey mea. ties of the ease. atthoogb a very lanseataltle owe Weed. The Baltimore Patri of the 131 , • I was the reset of imperioes w ,„,id be a ffor d ra ther intrusive. Our Paper always her York Advertiser of the litli4ill., eimothiett the ;ar telligenre of MINA'I (lip from the Ilasannah Pa- Ilad Marion persevered bees, and will continue to be. ' ' ready vehicle for the cam- ; obstinacy and folly, he •ed the saneSie, nr been e p lo lai ri nt i s al o perse f 4be ra o t p ie r n esied . or Other wl :i t .le her s at e /spo t" : t Ped his sisfrtsrect ME_ P en , but no further Parlicilith ire Riven ait2.. ....w oo • vill. • [:ea. Bolivar, and the Pro. world to 1619Pere, that we speak &After. • and tint a word of comment is basasdesl4sy the .ttalis.. I. lat hien nn otioenotive ---------__--str_______. .- .- ratan Editors on the 'object. .. WEDNESDAY. IMMART 14. 1/118. " LONDUN : • f-. We have received American Papers to the 17th :December. We have eagerly inspected their contents 'in liberal of. articlet either confirmatory or contra. 'liettry of the officiel jlteUigence put forth in the Mexican. Gaselier respecting the gallant and voter prising Mien, open whose eaptare and execution the .Spanish Government and its friend the Courier; en triumphantly felicitate themselves. We have not . beio entirely disappointed in oar hope of information' i . sin. this interesting subject. It will be recollected that the reported capture of Mist*, took place. ac cording to the Mexica►e Gazette, on the 27th of October: the accounts from Mexico. which we deri►e from the Papers before us, do not come down to that date, nor are they official, but they are far from being of a nature to prepare us for such a result to Mtr4A's expedition, nne can we, after perusing them, rest in the belief that the Spanish statement is true. We most remind our Readers that the Mexican intelligence ap. peered in the Havannah Papers of the Ist of De cember. The Boston Patriot, of the 16th of the same month, and the Philadelphia Gazelle state., on the authority of the New Orleans Papery, and recent arrivals from Vera Crux, that the news lately published by the F.pinish Authorities re. specting the internal roncems of Mexico, is greatly venerated, if not utterly unfounded. It was be. lieved, in the heat informed circles at Vera Croz, l that Ml2l A, so far from being destroyed, was mtkingl a rapid and irresistible progress into the Most wealthy' end populous part of the Viceroyalty. He bad do. tested and cut to pieces in three separate affairs, three different regiments of the goys! Army, who hell attacked him. Persons at Vera Cruz, who dared+ to converse on the subject, and whew* information was derived from authentic sources,Aeclared shit hil l motions and dispositions were admirably judidoes, and that his troops evinced en invincible courage, as well as the execte•t discipline. He had passed through the cities of Leon and San Lois de Potosi, and was within 100 miles of the capital. From the re pidity of his progress, and his taking uninterrupted possession of two such important posts as Leon and San Luis de Potosi, one of two inferences is in evitable ; either his army is so formidable as to look down upon all opposition, or the People of the coun try are eatremely well disposed to favour his views. Oa the subject of the intelligence which the Courier boasts so much of having exclaseirely given from a Spanish Colony, we can only remark, in addition, that we have sera nothing to confirm the atatenteuta in that very suspicious announcement. We cannot Mt recollect that this is the second Extraordinary Gazette of Mesico which has announced the capture of film t, and the first account wore as great an ap. ;manillce of truth as the last. Neither can we for. get, es a cotemporary remarks, that fifiGnEctoa has been at least ten times killed in the Spanish accounts, and twice sent pickled to Caraccas, though he now happens to he not only alive, but in escellesit health, in the United Staten. The Courier, in its exultation' on the termination of Mirci's " ill-concerted and guilty enterprise," throws in the following very valuable and correct information, for its Readers. It would puzzle any one to find out hi, authority for such statements.— " That part of the Province of New Santander, from Sotto la Marina southward, is but thinly poputded. pud.smong the few- inhabitants which were scattered over his line of march towards San Luis Potosi, it does not appear that he foind reinforcements. His career,. short as it was, would have been much more brief, could his adversaries have met him sooner.— The moment, indeed, he approached a more populous district (Cusnasuato, in which Silao is situated) he was surrounded and taken ; a clear proof that the Pepple of slesico rook no part in his daring enter prize ; for if they had, he would have increased in strength ■nd numbers as he advanced nearer to the capital. His surrender, and the dispersion of his rebel force, is a proper topic of congratulation.— While there 'listed even such ea ambiance of insurrection, mercantile "peculation', and the opera lions of commerce were impeded." Admirable speculator ! The Spanish Government if certainly the patron of commerce, and (boy who look up with admiration to it are weleoine to its bless. Ilop. !et the geographical knowledge of the Courier AMERICAN PAPERS. v In the House of Representatives, on tilt 9th, Mr. JOHNSON brought forward a series of Regoiutinsis re. Wive to the Military Establishment, the principal of which is the follriwing . :•* " That the Military Peace Establiahment of the United States'ohall consist hereaftei of 8000 men; in. eluding the Corps of Invalids. Provided that the Corps of Engineer., the General Staff, and Ordnance Department shall be retained es at present established. Provided also, that no part of the eras? shell be dis. banded in consequence of said redaction, but the same shell be effected by permitting vacancies, as they oc. cur to remain.—'Chat it is expedient to provide by law for an additional national armoury, to he located on the western waters.—That it is expedient to or ganize by • law a Corps of Invalids, to be composed of 1000 men." The remaining Resolutions were :•••• 46 That it is expedient to provide by law for the widows and orphans of the soldiers of the regular army who were killed in battle, or died in service, during the late war with Great Britain. 66 That it is expedient to provide by, lair for. the disbanded and deranged Officers of the Army of the United State+, who served in the late war with Great Britain, donations in land, viz.—To each Major. General, 1280 acres ; to each Brigadier-General, 1120 acres; to each Colonel or beatenant-Colonel, 960 acres; to each Major, 800 acre. ; to each Cap. lain, 640 acres ; to each Subaltern, 480 acres, " That it is expedient to establish by law three ad ditional Military Academies; one in the vicinity of FostrDesrborn, In the State of South Carolina ; one in the vicinity of Newport, In the State n . Rentecky one In the vicinity of Harper's Fero, io the State of Virginia ; one third of the cadets to lie cons of offi cers and soldiers of the late army who died in tile 'ser vice of the United States daring the late war. " That it is expedient to make provision by law for the repeal of an much of the Act of July 6,1812, es authorises additional pay and emolument to Brevet rank in the Army of the United States. " That it is expedient to provide for an additional ratios to each Commissioned Officer in the Army of the United States." In the same sitting, Mr. Lownnes, from the Com mittee of We s and itilierno, reported a Bill to abolish the Interpol Duties. • (Tb@ repeal to take place from and after the 31st day of the present month.) The Bill vas twice read and committed. Mr. Szeezas, from a Select Committee, reported a Bill Supplementary to the Act concerning the Mint. (The object of the Bill is to continue the .Mint at Philadelphia.) The Bill - was twice read. The following Resolution relative to foreign Sea men was proposed and adopted without,opposition:— " Resolved, That the Committee of Commercepnci Manufactures be instructed In enquire into the ea pediency of providing by law for the epprehenclAne and securing foreign seamen deserting from foreign vessels while in the ports of the United States, con trary to their engagements to serve on board tech vessels." The lion. J. C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, was on the 9th ult. qualified, and entered on the duties of his office, as Secretary of War. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT..—BNIONTON, JAN. 12. —This morning about 50 Noblemen and Gentlemen assembled at Standend, near this town, to enjoy the diversions of the chase, with the subscription pack* of harriers. After running in at the dears of two harm , they took the direction of Dichling. At this spot Capt. Curtis observed Master Wetherell, a fine youth about 14 years of age, nephew of Mr. Ser. jeant Runnington, mounted upon a spirited horse, with his feet in the straps of the stur►ips. The Cap tain warned the boy of the danger of riding in that manner. and requested him not to join in the sport *of the field. Unfortunately, at that moment the bounds passed in full run, when the animal started off, and in less than 10 'ninon the youth was seen to loose his seat, and hang suspended by the straps: His head was knocked 'Oust the new laid flints in a most dreadful manner. The horse, finding itself io n cambered. plunged, and quickened its speed done Standend-hill, whilst the Gentlemen in the cline were endeavouring to stop the career of the animal. The hounds even joined in the pursuit, and when the horse was stepped. actually stood at .bay. We sin. cerely regret to add, that the youth was literally dashed to pieces, end *as lifeless. Thia melancholy ' event has occalieued the most painful affliction in this, town.