The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-03 00:00:00

GENERA!, PAEZ.

Extract of a letter from La Cuayra, dated 6th August.
1826 :-

" Things will soon come to a erisithere. The post from Bogota.
arrived yesterthie. bringing despatches for Parr. 'noting that if tin
did not mimed:way undo all that he hid done, the Executive would
hind it their painful duty to compel him. This 1 think will easily
be done. Take a glance on the map. The large province of Cu.
inw• a, exterudiog up the Orinoco to the plains of Apure, is Mello.
to Pain and his measures. On this side heir quite hemmed in.
Maracaibo and Vannes Mrming almost a junction with Camana)
are hostile. The only place on which Paes has dependence is the
Apure, er tire plains, to which place he owes his birth, and where
he is adored ; but even those people (I,laneros as they are called, or
rlain's men) though a desperate race, begin to he disgusted wish his
proceedings, and h.ve 'old Pees that they will not light against the
Constitution, or against Bolivar ; that they are resiy and willing to
follow him to light the common enemy, but will not join a faction.
Since Pau restimid the command, ho has broken his promises—
promiss most solemnly made in his proclamations. He has dis-
suited all the officers of the army, both natives and foreigners, by
promoting ntbalterns (his creatures) to colonelcies. This is a step
which can only be dove by the Congress ; the Executive or Bolivar
could not do it. The officers are so exasperated, that some have
publicly declared they will not act under him. Although Pats is the
responsible person in all this business, he is but the tool of others,
who, more crafty and more cunning, teed his vanity, and advise
him to measures, which perhaps he himself disapproves of; but
being already so much led on by those people, he cannot now re-
cede without breaking all faith. Paez, to do him justice, is a
noble, open-hearted, hard fighting soldier, unacquainted with in-
trigue of any kind. Those who are his &dal. are all people
whose lives ought to have been long ago forfeited to the State.
First. Gmeral AI +rims, a man of some education; a deep, design-
ing, bloody-minded man, who stick, at nothing to carry his ambi-
tious views into execution—he was twice sentenced to be shot fur
intriguing. and twice pardoned. Second, Dr. I'cno, who was last
year intrusted to carry a sum of money from Carthagena here, and
who cheated the Government of 25,000 dollars, for which offence he
ought to hare suffered. Third, Catarana, l'aez'a military secre-
tary, a very ambitious man, and who has a comalcte ascendancy
over Pars; and, fourth, Nunes Caceres. a lawyer from St. Do-
-1 mingo, a clever min, but violent in his measures; he is the best of
them. Such are the set eho govern us. It is privately said that
I Paez is sorry for what he has done, and particularly for allowing
himself to be duped by these men. They made him believe that
all the people would espouse his cause—that all would tight tor
him, and, that the foreigners would furnish money, all which hie
now finds not to be true. Bolivar is looked for soon--and mks
arrival all look as the harbinger of good and peaceful tidings."—
! Giorgow Courier.