The Sun. — London, England, 1817-05-28 00:00:00

-44lierevcv voisl4l toil him, fiat witiistanain our lien vy artillery had out come up. On the morning of the 9th i re-established the bridge aver the Aconcagua, anti ordered Corn. Mt liar to march towards the heights of Chaca bite°, to observe the enemy. The army then fol lowed, anti encamped at the month of the defile, together with Col. Hera's division, which had re- ceived orders to concentrate at this point. From this moment the intentions of the enemy became more clear. - - The positlon he took on the heights, and the resolution with which he appeared disposed to defend them, made it evident he was determined to maintain his ground. Our advances placed themselves within musket shot of the enemy, and during the whole of the 10th and - 11111, made the necessary reconnoissances. A small sketch of the position of the Spaniards Was made out, and in conformity to.it, I made all my arrangements to .-- attack them in the morning 'of the following day (12th). Lenclose to your Excellency a topographical 'plan of the ground, - in which are sects the great , obstacles overcome by our army, and the advan - tag,es' of the enemy's pobition. I gave the command of the right to General Soler, who,. with the first division of chasseurs, the companies cif grynatlirrs and sharp-shooters of the 7th and Bth regiments, • commanded by Colonel Martinez, seven field pieces, my owls escort,, and the 4th squadrons of mounted grenadiers, Was to attack the enemy • in flank, and. turn his position, 'whilst Gene• rap O'Higgins, to vt horn I confided, the left, was to attack them in trOnt with the battalions No. 7, and 8, squadrons 1,2, and 3, and two field. pieces. The result' of our first movement was the abandonment by the ens-my of his position on the heights, for the rapidity of our march did not give him time to collect the forces lie had -Chacabuco, in order to dispute the ascent. After .ais. first success, it was necessary to make fresh arrangements. • The enemy's infantry, its its re. treat, had to cross a plain of more than four leagues in extent, and although it was sustained by a st rong column of cavalry, experience had. told o, that a good squadron of our own horse grena diers was Sufficient to defeat and cut them up. Our position then had become'the most advanta .geous. General O'Higgins was ahle to continue ilia attack in front, whilst General Soler was in a situation to outflank the Spaniards, if it ap• peared they wished to keep their ground before .they entered on the plains. J therefore instantly ordered Colonel Zapiola, with the squadrons 1,2, 'and 3, to march forwards in order to charge them, •or at least take op their attention till the batta lions 7 and 8, came forward, awl the enemy was then compelled to Pake op the position destrihLd iu the plan. General Soler continued his move ment on the right, with great success and good combination, ascending up a craggy and almost impracticable height, without being perceived by the enemy, till they saw hint commanding their own position, and threatening their flank. The opposition we here met with was rigorous end tenacious. A most horrible fire was Coln. tueneed 011 both sides, and they disputed the victory with us for more than nit hour with the greatest obstinacy. True it is, that.ou this point there were more than 1,500 of their chosen infantry,. the Hower of their army, and they were be-sides supported by a respectable body of cavalry. Ne vet th el ess , the decisive moment was near at bawl. The brave General O'Higgins collected the th and Bth battalions, formed two close co. inaths of attack, and at the head of the first 'charged the enemy's left with the bayonet. Col. Zapiola at the head of squadrons 1,2, and 3, broke' their right—all, in short, appeared like an instautanemis shock. Gen. Soler at the same time rushy(' op the heights on which their position rested, and to defend which the enemy detached 200 men. Cont. Alvarado, however, arrived with his chasseurs, detached two companies tinder the command of Capt. Salvadores, who attacked the heights, defeated the Spaniards, and destrosed them with the bayonet. Lieut. Zoria, of the ChOSSCOTS, greatly distinguished lii itself.. • In the mean time the intrepid squadrons of hot se commanded by their Officers, charged in the most determined manlier. The whole of the enemy's iiifantty was routed and destroyed, the carnage was terrible, but the victory complete and de cisive. Our posterior efforts were only directed iu pur suit of osir enemies, who, harridly dispersed,were running away in all ywlers. Corn. Necoehea, who, with the 4th squadron and my escort, fell on their right, as deseribed by the inclosed plan, Made a dreadful carnage among them. Our ca valry that afternoon reached as far as the pass of the COlinst. The whole of the enemy's infantry pe rished. Six hundred prisoners, 32 Officers, among them several of rank, and an equal or larger num her of killed, their artillery, a complete park, considerable magazines, together with the colours of the Chiloe regiment, were the fruits of this El ori ous day. The eonserptences have, however, been more int.- portant. The Spanish President Mario, in the midst of the tenor and confusion produced by this de feat, on the same night of the 12th, abandoned the capital, and with the miserable remnant of his croons made The befit of hie way towards Valpa raiso.* lie left the whole of Isis artillery on the declivity of Prado ; 'be was afraid of not arriving in ante to get stripping ; be ran along the coast towards an Antonio, where he was taken, with the greater part of his followers, by a party of our mounted grenadiers,. commanded -by the daring Captain Aldado and the patriot Ramirez. To morrow lie is expected in this,capital. All these prosperous events are clue to the discipline and constancy evinced by the Chiefs, Officers and troorr, so deserving of the regard of their fellow eitizetts,.and the consideration of your Excellency. Without the aid,l have received front .Generala Soler anti O'Higgins, the expedition would not ,have met with such decisive results ; I am under the greatest obligations to theirs, as well us to the Offi‘ers composing my Staff, of whom Colonel Betio' accompanied me in the action, and com nrimicated my orders. lam also greatly satisfied with the conduct of Colonel Quintana, and my Aids-de-camp, Alvarez, Arcos, Escalatia, and O'Brien. The want of time prevents me front intliviclualiz jog to your Excellency the 011icets who moat tlis tioguitlre,l tf.ernstlye4, but I will ao sflnr x S their respeel ive C011641'411(1, nisi' me with the details I have requested, in order that their panics may not be torgotten. Aua4ly, Commattdant Cabot, on Coquimbo, Rodriguez on San Fernando, and Lieut.•Culnnel Freyre on Talca, have had equal success. I n a word, the echo of patriotism resounds from all parts at one and the same ti►ue, and the Army of the Andes will always have the glory of saying— I n twenty-tour ( lays we finished the campaign, we passed the most elevated chain of mountains in the globe, we made an cud of tyrants, and we have given frtedom to Chili. God preserve your Excellency, 4c. JOSE DE 5x..%. mmeriNt. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Pe/formed Lust Night. KING'S MEAtitt.-41 Don Giovanni. After which, Zulica, ou les Peruvians. Dnuar•LAsF...-.Uarbatossa: Achinet,, Mr. Kean; Zaphira, Mrs. Bartley. After which, Lovers' Quarrels, and Th e Rpm p. Cormr-aißnEx.—king Henry the Eighth : Cardinal Wol scy, Mr. Kcinble; Kathsrirse, Mrs. Weston. After which, The Libertine. MAILS. Attt<ivkt:-.1 Dublin, 2 NS'aterford. PRICE 01 TM% PAY r F ST()CKS vit.l.V): 44 . 4 40(3C. Bank -256 2351 I Bank L. Ann....,.18 9-laths 3 per Cent. 'Led.. 711 72 7U India 1i0nd5,....,845. Biis. pr. 3 per Cent. 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SOLEM QUI% PICEIM FALAUNI AUDEAT f LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY '2B, 1817, We yesterday invoked the attention of every Government in Europe, to a subject of the utmost impot lance to them all, vii, the deep-laid and ex tencve plan of the Adherents of BtIoNAPARTE to effect his liberation, and again to embroil the world with the danger of Revolutionary horrors. We re sume the subject this day, because we have the most respectable authority for all we have said, and all that we may have occasion to say, on a question of so moineutous a nature. We cart positively assure the public, that LUCIEN BUO NAPAETE, in the sanguine persuasion that mat ters were nearly ripe in this Country, con fidently predicted the Assassination of the l'oav'es; ReGeNT, in October last, at Rome. He declared also, that if the Pattace should by a mirackescape the intended blow, it would only delay such . an event for a emu period, and that then the plan would be rendered mote mature for effectual and ducisive execution. We can also positively declare, that in November last the dreadful event Was mentioned at Madrid as having actually taken place. Lucian, on the occasion alluded to, added, that should the Assassination by any ac cidental intervention be postponed, it would certainly take place about the end of March or the beginning of April. We . ,should not be surprised to find, and indeed We r ii*t to fiud, that the. Opposition Politicians, treat this matter as a mere bugbear, intended to terrify the no vary, and to justify, by implication, the mea sures which Ministers have found it necessary to adopt for the security of Government, and the preservation of the Country ; but we again tesswe our Readers, that what we now communicate is founded or. on facts which, it we did not (Teem it proper for us to withhold them at this mome nt , we could support on the strongest grounds, War ranted by the most respectable authority. We give this day the Official Dispatch of Ge neral SAN MARTIN, containing the particulars of the Victory obtained by him in Chili, which we yes terday announced, and which, in whatever point of view it is considered, is of the greattst impor tance, as it must inevitably, particairly when operating in conjunction with the Brazil Revo: have a most powerful effect throughout South ilmerica, and in a still greater degree w - til.eit lige I,old ( i f the Spa Go vernment upon its transatlantic depenclencie9. By some further particulars which have ,trans- Tired respecting the Brazils, we learn, that the Revolution was to have broken out simultaneously throughout the whole kingdom on the 17th of ' March, according to previous concert and ar rangement, but the quarrel bet►reen t A.° Officers, as mentioned in the account we published On Mon day, precipitated it ten days sooner than intend ed. The Provisional Government established by the Revolutionists, with some view to circumstances connected with the above-tnentioned arrangement, laid an embargo on all vessels in the Ports, under their controul, to last till the 17th of March. The Rowena, which brought the accounts that have been published, sailed ost the 1.3:11 of March with -f1 regular license obtained from the Provisional Government, on giving security that she would not touch at any part of the Brazilian coast. These facts slim the organized system which was .acted upon by the Revolutionists ; and little doubt is entertained that-by the 17th of March the Revo lution would have extended to every part of the Brazils. FURTHER IMPORNIATION, nrcEivnn THIS MORNING, RESPECTING TIM. BRAZILS. • Extract of a Letter from the Agent to . Lloyd's at Portsmouth, dated May 27. " The accounts of an Insurrection baring broken out in the Brazils was brought by his Majesty's ship Tigris, from Barbadoes. We were informed that a Mr. BROWN bad arrived at that Island from Bahia in a brig, and reported that the Insurrection was general. lie had chartered se veral ships to proceed to Bahia for the purpose of conveying from thence British property, and he was coming to England in the ship Steadfast, bound to Bristol, to solicit Government to send out a frigate and bring home speck, and that ship sailed from Barbadoes Bth April. The Tigris came from St. Kitt's, but received this account from his Majesty's ship Seamander, which arrived at St. Kitt's 11th April , Irons Barbadoes. The Childers, S, W. also arrived et St. Mitt's from Bar badoes just before the Tigris sailed, and confirmed the intelligence. We do not know the day Mr. BROWN arrived at Barbadoes, but it was previous to the Bth Apt il." MORE CAPTURES BY BARBARY PIRATES. EXTRACT OF A LETTFR FROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S AT DEAL, DATE]) MAY 27. " Yesterday morning, at eleven • o'clock, the Oldenburg galliot Catharina, JAN - STAGG, Master, from Antwerp, laden %vitt) sugar 'and indigo, bound to Havre, was captured, about a tnilis . and a half from Dover, by the Tunisian schooner of 12 guns, commanded by Oz MANE; which vessel had also captured the Hamburg!' ship Catharina, ScnottL, Master, bound to Lisbon. The schooner and her two prizes have this morning been brought into the Downs by the Stork and another Revenue cutter, and remain under quarantine.-- The schooner alluded to is the same that sailed from Tunis with the Karabash and Capitania, and parted company off Cape Fiuisterre. The Com mander states that he has not taken any other prize during the cruise." The Paris Papers of Sunday last, rvl►ich were due this morning, G►►ve not come to hand. The following is an Extract of .a Letter from St. Christopher's, dated April G, received this morning : " The Brazen sloop of war, IS gnus, Captain STIRLING, hud taken possession of the American brig Henry, with. provisioms, oft the coast of St. Christopher's, within the limits prescribed by law, intending, as it was supposed, - to smuggle them on shore she had been condemned by the Court of Vice-Admiralty of that C►►lony; and, from the great want of flour, &c. was a most seasonable supply to the distressed Anhabitunts and. the Cultivators generally." 'Tile FuNns..---Monday and, yesterday were ho lidays at the Stock Exchange. The intelligence of the Revolution in the Brazils has excited a great sensation in the City; several eminent Mer chants have in consequence already began to spe culate. Extensive orders for goods suitable to that country have been given, and sanguine ex pectations are entertained that a fresh channel for Commerce will be opened. Consols on Satur day closed at 73k, for money, anti 751, for ac count. This . mornioe; they opened at 72f,„ money, and were done at i, account. — Little business is doing, and great caution is ob servable by the Monied Men in their speculations in Stock. The Marchioness of Ely arrived off Dartmouth the 23d instant. • Left Bengal the 3lst December, Madias the 28th January, and Co!limbo the 9th Febn'dry ; arrived at St. Helena the 30th March, and sailed iron, thence the 3d April. in company with the Warren Hastings anti parted company 4. N. Lt. 18. W. tong .b . The country ship Albion, bomeward WaS lost at TriDCOillakC on the 28th or 30th IS I) 'I t i +''l nuary. The AlelClfiller and Ann arrived of t h e lit . 1 1 0 tVight the 26th instant; sailed from 0 Bth December , . Cap e of Unod Hope the 20 bruary, a nd St. Helene 17th Mara. The truth of the ridiculous account ° AslirEnsT's reception at Cawton, a nd Itistel satiou with a Chinese called a ,Legate, Morning Chronicle has copied tram MI otit'st i Paper (and erroneo usl y co p ied into be apprecilted, when we state that LurtlAg° was not nt Canton, nnr w ithin two 101 miles of Canton on hi s way to the Cop itsP trash is' too stupid , even to a muse.. 1 1 1 trash attending the Embass/ Oren communicated to the Public through 51e 0 11 of this Paper. thalairi This morning a : Deputatio n of the at LLOYDS had a confer ence with' tbeTi 11° ; the Admiralty. We cannot, o f WWI .tlrt pected to know the n ature of their via fate that we have heard , presume - it ee, • the necessity of some sort of proteetioitog 1 11 forded to the trade or this. con ntry, g' s , the Tunisian cruize rs, or the Pittigiole of the Revolutionists. Levee, N R —up.-- I'o ol :ICU, MAY 27.—1 t has been ass voted to-day that the Declaration rora.,. VA : d i of Norfolk should be presented tothe Iltse‘7 ill. 1"1 believe by our new Aleraber, •, li • 0 — ,1 *4 'V"' Housz, who attends the Houseou roAst,gtego maiden Vote with tliniaters oa I ke 4111 ' '•. of the Habeas Corpos Act. ----""."."--- ' is ioth ill The "moderation "of the last disc" . 't : Peale eluding of course chef Westniallter _„,l i.„njtlovr speech, though referring, We 11 " ' trt :,,,, has rather to the Orator than the onstivrr AO . of * - b signally eulogized. As the merits re p oi weever, and Sir FLIANCI3's eloool, 1.0 hi's.' bolt ; , , ways to be identified, we must .1 ,„,, t tli l taw_etetiv,etllibiceeei,ell'usorlmtriiae:lsndl be,berea,fo,tair:tenloet'al'ilsceu:scrfetociftliolyirti,il.:fir.:oo,ll.o:lol:::o4l.:' M 131to ucitih s r el3 :r r r oi f ) :t re i iCi o e n tyin t o h ft e hae f il a in e lu t eaF t:c ara t c t r i lielilia;n:glin:ll—^4lll''elb:::ll,llllisst:(ll4il: th oir°o" J remote period :--but surely' - -I ' ha es t - rid bl - . have informed us how we 00. m,-.. 11 to its perfect antiquity, y c ~, 01 ; t he 101 novations of the Act of Sei llePle t 1 : 0 4 of 01 wasßights, tai ob ob tai ned by lU a a g n n a a OnCitilaliltirtirlt4 11::eileti:0•10 pO, When satisfied of this rather css " e st , porbini , we shall like to know, sohy t h e . etria" : 1 as trig . A . not as reasonably be septears'i 0 err triennial as annual? In bet) the . ,,,, re c: 104 authority for the fi xed point ot °Y - ',p i 0 'Oftener . 0011V,' bs i oielgoorobt enisicgteepdobiebngytaouttitioe their cu trePecdsocrrolditaeuarteto'itirictisooliiitio°o:oo, every other month. Oftener still , i 6 ione n ,l be 1 ' I presently. A deal of business will lo os ts w h e n jetnitlibitiye o d, ur an ia i Pa rliamen t is iesrsilsisricosl/eetao;' fog.. opco as soon us elected ! f rc t"c ' in No ;—When the crab -like rac e ° 0 loti l,n is once commenced 't may not be i t 1 1 . it is every thing': Princi..Phile.iironrl:6l3.ol'll:ts:iss, tiquity cannot jnetify Yea"; r e atic ien monthly Parliaments are yet re° lilt principle can never ascertain tb.°:re',13:,,,e1,,,r. 0 Quo. r.ttura,citra te ntquit corgi tg foo dpe It might have allayed the ,Barnnel pop the I dg * short Parliaments, to recollect boil, t a the let' that sent our first CitAiILEX to • 11 In t" r one of his favourite annitals, e%e, on' era slc :: h,e,n the Iro.r.kisii,....P 1,414- ; t Urea sir ' shuttlecocked the Crown so i r- , it jot °. equalled le);nts i t ) iattntsi tnents, print° littnici quota, , (least s nd 'i l op oxe DAY, which asseMbled end 1 at e .;.'°/ King, and appointed another, A , to ol . spar e w ' to within the comprehenalve t ending hours. Really, with these On , boi lir vie 1 0 , :: r a It epstreocfet,lo7l:;:oosseiiboieofb djo. short Parliaments changing tile ( at some dithculty critic b t o prefer' .or long Parliaments knocking orgo.yro(;Yr7ghts, hitt the IllrOne, y o e n a e rs da s y it s ti 3 n i shall even wait for the In" loo ks Baronet's choice• e prtroorLiect e i d i 41jecotivtiii00,,.:,of dieficg , 1 gttintig'attb:: 101°0 . _ f, rot, . ward : the swivel eye back iv , he firc 01, Antiquity looks back ; PP e • ~,t o sioa'on, either way a t once. if a li n o li cv l i a l l'ekss, or ere lod, its own sake, no m atter tive gOO i in jur:ous it may be . 116 Vega air 4 .., t to ~ „lifferei. i , 0. _like Irl', . n ow positive harm are a tde i t be refers"- ' clots. if esperlience P [tl itb el