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SOUTH AMERICA.

ANGOSTURA, JULY 24.
The Congress has made considerabte progress in
•41i.cuoling and adopting the Constitution proposed
by General Bolivar, which is formed on the model
',roe. British, and embraces the principles of lis
berty of religion, freedom of the press, and the
pall:idiom of public rights—trial by jury. I have
rrequently attended the sittings of Congress, and
have at all times observed a spirit of liberality and
independence, which evidently increases daily.—
Amongst the members are several of eminent ta-
lents, and some of considerable experience. The
President is Dr. Juan Roscio, st man of some ceie-
b,ity in the literary world, and possessing a highly
nulPpelident and enlightened mind.
The Congress, as a body, is composed of sensi-
ble moderate men, with the hest possible
entertaining reasonable and practicable ideas
liberty, very different from those wild theoretical
,roioos of French revolutionists, which drenched
Enrope with human blood.
The system pursued by General Bolivar this
r.:nprigui has been productive of the most traitor-
ts•it and hest effects; by studiously avoiding a
action, lie has, with an inferior force, by his
Fabian mode of warfare, obliged Alorillu to abatis
elan the banks of the Aranca and Apure, and retire
.:;th the loss of all Isis cavalry, while his infantry
lire been harassed, worn down, and reduced, by
t! e incessant attacks of Pare, who, with the lancers
r.: f lie plains, appears and disappears, as if lie were
It' the same instant in front, Hank, and rear.
'Flue retreat of Morino, and the decisive advan.
oet.;es gained by General Santander, in Cosamtre,
lt.!ve laid the way to New Granada open, and thither
f:Pneral Bolivar is now on his march. Several pro-
a :ores use in open insurrection. and by common:cm-
tions trust various and the most authentic sources,
appearance of General Bolivar will be all that
:1 hr wanted to put him iii diate possession
of the whole cuuutry.

ANGOSTURA. AUGUST 10.

Elcom arrived here a few days ago, with
about 150 choice men. He remains here, and it is
taiweiril will be placed at the head of the Commis-
sanut about to be instituted; his men
srt off to-morrow in u man of war brig, to join that
!not 4,r his brigade which is with Col. Urslur, under
the command of Gen. Urdaiieta before Cornelia.
I •egret to inform you th it the mortality here is
vet), great; two or three British die almost every
day, and ninougst the !wear class of natives great
hers are carried off. It is really awful. You
are people apparently well one day, and the next
von attend their funeral. The fever which raged
last year in the mis-ions and in all the towns down
the river, has attacked Angostura this, and Death
throw, his Arts with unbridled fury. The number
of persons who have fallen victims to this dreadful
pn•titer.ce is so great that wood could not be hail
cii sufficient quantity to make coffins, and several
hodirs hare been committed to the grave without.
Since the first of this mouth, 20 British have died,
and a much greater proportion of Creoles : one day
17. and on o►hers 9 or 10.
TRINIDAD, SEPTEMBER 2.

We hove ititetligence here by • boat, which ar-
rived from Margaretia last week, that General
has invested Camelia and co aaaaa tenced ope-
40111111P, having stormed the hill that comusands the
Coteessus ; but owing to au oversight in not having
vrovided himself with the necessary implements for
iatriritching himself thereon, hr was driven back,
woli the low of 33 men ; lie had, however, since
!wielded himself with every thing required, and
we• preparing to renew the attack. Yesterday se-
descriers arrived here from thence, and report
VIA he had again taken the heights that comtuand
the forts, and that the garrison could not hold out
Ling: Ilia Creoles in the Spanish service were de-
iet tiog, whenever they could find an opportunity,
'lord the garrison are in a state of starvation. A part
'of General D'Evereux's legion had arrived as
.Trlfirgarrtia, sad was received with the utmost
e.nhusissm by the Governor and the inhabitunts
or the island. They were dispatched immediate-
ly to join the besieging army before Cumana.
Private letters had been received train General
'Bolivar in New Granada, in which be speak, in the
Itto-t confident manner of speedily settling the af-
t:•l# of that kingdom, and returning upon Csruccas
rah en overwhelming force. He talks of sending
down immediately 400,000 dollars for the use
of Congress. We have a report, by way of
t!gostura, that Lima has been taken by the
V titian slimy, on the 16th of June. On the
31 ult., the Nonsuch American schooner ar-
si.ed at Angostura, having oo hoard Commodore
Perry, charged by 'his Government with • tnis-
snot of the utmost importance to the Congress of
Veneztiels. Having terminated the business on
which lie was sent, he proceeded down the river : in
cr .s,ing the bay, the schooner shipped a sea of fresh
water, by which the Commodore got wet, and was
soon after seized with a violent fever, which carried
lim off on the 4111 day. He expired as the schooner
cone to an anchorage in this Gulf, and was interred
ti a following day with military honours. There is
co doubt that the Commodore's mission was of a
friendly nature, and that Venezuela is about to re-
lease (if not in a ditect) in an indirect manlier the
supplies she may requite in order to obtain her
emancipation.

IT. THOMAS, SEPTEMBER I.

A Ire.ol.ei has just arrived here flout the Spanish
brioging isitelligeuee of the taking of Santa
Vt.., the capital of New Granada. by Bolivar and
the Patriot forces under has counuaud.

SEADAUARITIII, TATA, JUNE 30, 1010.
AIWON BOLIVAR, PRTEIDENT OW PIN .TATT., CATTLIII-
GEBERAL or TLIIEZVIELA AND OF NEW GRANADA, Re.
Ike. To Ills EXCILLEBET Till TICB-PIIESIDEST Of tUE
FrCIILIC.

timer nay lasi, dated at thisdalito, there has sat happesed
any thine important is this way. Use operations" hem
Leery directed solely to the progress of air march through
friendly countries, until the 27111Thicaut vibes we attacked
Ilse advanced guard which theesemy baimmted here, of 300
men. This event bag bees the spewing of the campaign in
fever Granada and if the lest 'unapt tan be eassldered a
presage of the shissate isms, we have remiss is look fur
favourable ; 300 picked sets of the emesfe troops Lave
leen dislodged from a peonies so shone by nature, that 100
men might have defended It against 1.000.
The adventers oe have derived from this victory we
conlised to thermopiles of the dells, the mew Wring
escaped by feeding tke river Pays, iameiliateiy is his
Er:helost, however, some killed, and his provision.
this victory bee awl bees the *sly cause of the tattie-
st' the• Nuys sr do& which has art is mar fa-

tigue. The principal obstacles ire have hod to streetwise
'arose from the roads. We have marched a whole =With
through the province of Cumbeare, vantinishing new inapedi.
meats every day, that appeared to ineresee as we advanced.
is suiracskiss we have had the good formate to get so far
without accident, notwithatandism our having Inerrant a
multitude of navigable rivers, which insulated a rem part
of the road its the plans. This was the chief difficulty on
our march, and when gut over, the rest we espected would
be haling; but we soon wet with new obstacles, which no.
thing but a perseverance and constancy above proof could
have vaniptished. The roughness of the anottotions we
passed over M incredilife only to Slone who hove not seen
them. Tu form an idea of the route, suffice it to say, iba;
in four days progress the carriages of the perk of artil
were tendered useless, and the draft cattle fur relays all
peridiell. The inclemency of the weather also added to the
difficulties of the road—it rained almost day and night.

In flue, although our march is not terminated, we may
flatter ourselves that the worst is paid, and that we much at
the term of our fatigues. We hope is get to Sugantexo iu
eight days, where our situation will be much improved.
Every report we receive frogs New Grenada raises our
hopes and expectations. They all unanimously adieu', that
In the interior of the country there are a multitude of
Guerillas which incessantly molest the enemy. who is so
winch in dread of us, that the inhabitants are most intpatind
for our arrival. If these reports eau be depended upon (and
we have no reason to doubt them), our eampaiew will soon
be finished gloriously. Nothing ran detain ua if the popula-
tion of the country is friendly The enemy's force is root
safficirnt to coattails the pe y.
General Nes has reported to me, dated the 15th instant,
that be has beaten the faction at Gases, horned she village,
and destroyed all their ground provisions. He was prepar-
ing to march against Petiraza. ise quest of a divisimi of the
enemy of 700 seen, that had ventured uu to that place, and
he'hopes (if he has the good Gahme to fall in with them) to
give a good occultist of them.
I have no advice' from your Excellency subservient to the
Ist of May, which is the date of your last uthdal.
(Signed) BOLIVAR.

EXCELLPNT reference to my anterior dispatch
I have now to slate, that on the lOth instant I moved my
headquarters from the Island of Achagtias, keeping on this
side of the Apure. My intention was to proceed to Nutrias,
to attack and beat that garrison; and to that intent the Eng-
lish infant, y, and aume country troops lately recruited, were
marched, (orating with the cavalry a respectable
On the lath we got to the ford of Mampural, and having
found it impossible to get or with the infantry,us account of
the inundation of the Saran's, I sent back the infantry to
Aehagnas, and proceeded with the cavalry may, with a view
of making an attempt un Gunning, and other points of the
west of Comers'. Fur the better 'nevem of thus operation,
I directed ("Aisne! Arismeudi to makes demonstration un the

capital of Yodellers with the reg. nit of La Muerte, to dis-
pi rise or distract the force he hail beaten some slays before..
On the 17th I continued my march by the rued to this
village, which our guide reported so be the beat, and haw-
ing psugreased three days successively, without fooling at
any place a suspicion of provisious fur the troops, ST even
a spot of dry hind to pass the night, we ll/..11 4111
the Wilt at stied, et a league trims this village, *here
I received advice from my riddles, that a division of the
enemy, consisting of three hundred and fifty infantry, and
some enrahineeta, smiler the COTIIIIIRMI of Lieutenaut-
Colonel Doran, bad just taken posserviem of she town,
for the double intent of beating the guerillas we keep sip in
this neighbourhood, to horn the village, destroy the plan-
tations, and carry off the inhabitants prisoners In Rule ins.
I immediately prepared to give him a lesson, mod at slay light
on the 29th we broke up the eucanipment, and made soy die.
positions for the attack. The tine formed en 6a/faille. I
ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Curnetio Munoz to command Si..
right, at the head of say own Guard of Iln,s.snr j Colonel
A. Rangel the left, with the regiment td Valieutrs ; and
General Torres the centre, with the hussars dismounted.
The enemy formed in a square on the place, made a very
obstinate resistance, repulsiug our attacks even with the
bayonet, but foreseeing his destruction iunitabie, from
the great number of killed and wounded falling round
him, he retired its good cords r, though under a heavy
fire, le a casa-fuerte, or block-posse, where he was protected
from a cmitimmuce of the attack. I then prepared to as-
sault him by forming fuser cullimus sf light cavalry dis-
mlt tinted, who, dashing on simultaneunsly at all hazards,
got to the house, and attacked -with the greatest bravery,
some with their sabres, cutting down the doors and window.,
0111(4* wills stakes, endeavouring to pull 'lowa the walls;
but they were su much exposed to the fire front within. by
the Creneatio, sod titbit iocidents, that they were obliged
to retire. Again, however, th, y renewed the mash, but
perceiving it would be impossible to carry (lie place fur want
of proper il,l/111, 1 ordered them off, sheik the cry was
" Death tar Ticioryt" and made them sensible that bravery
without prudence would give the palm Si. the weeny, assur-
ing sh. m that if they would confide io me, the place shoold be
carried before mousing; that is the mean time they would re-
pose a little, and be prepared to reap the Gait, of tlwir valour.
The cavalry being then recuoceutred. I placed four gee.
rillas of ditonouuted hussars in the nearest houses iu front,
with milt is to fire at every thin that presented itself, and
chit fly at the windows of the etas-fuerte. This was punc-
tually obeyed, to the great asuoyance of the 'limy during
all the day, during which a path to the house was dis-
covered in the rear, covered with brush-wood, which had
escaped one observation during She assaults of the morn.
ing. At night.fall the e damns of maley were again formed
fur the attack, and making • feint its front, the real assault
was made by the path in the rear, when, notwithstanding
the formidable resistance of the eurmy, every thing was
carried, by a victory obtained of CR foal honour to the arms
of the Republic. It was impossible to rtstraiu the fury of
the troops, who bayoneted every thing opposed to them,
and uosse escaped except the Conionandiur Officer (badly
wounded), and about Shirty men, favoured by a dark rainy
night, aid else direction of that ungrateful American Cap.
lain 1'117Z4, who served dam as • guide; but I immediately
detached a rues illa in pursuit, and hope to have a guud ac-
count of them. Among the eueiny's elites re killed is Cap-
tain TIIITYII, a very distinguished Spanish tater. The issue
of this affair has brill most favoursble. We have liken all
illesiores,2oo rimed of aims, mid the whisk division has
been annihilated. Many wounded have beets since disco.
veered iu the thickets.

Our lon consists of five officers, four merjeanta, am, 20
rank and file, killed; and 11 uffierno, and 85 rank and file
wounded. Among the former we lament the heave Colonel
Urquiola, wbo fell gloriously fulfilling • his duty as a Pa-
triot ; Lienteuant•Colunel Navarro; Captain Pedro Juan
Gamarra,*and Lieut. Pedro Gomez, whnee memory will
long live in this army. Of the latter are Colonel Juan
Gomez, Lieut.-Colonel Manuel Arrais, Captain Ramon &-
tents, Lieut. ?roomy Eater. z, and Sub.Lirotessnts Ho-
naldo Salm, Rocarnatiou Castillo. Eusebie Ledesma, Julian
Pena* Leon E.tever. Preen Oliva, and Jean Aspr+.
should be wasting is my sissy did I omit reconansendiug
to your Encelieney the brilliant and distinguislwd valour
displayed by General Torres, the brave Colour! Rangel, Cul.
Munoz, and LieutoColotsel Lanreticio Silva, who sere the
first to assault and tear down the windows with their
sabres; and Culotte' Cannes% Lieut.-Colonel Josef Maria
•itgale, Lieut.-Coluuel Jacinto lambed. mid Lieutenant
Thos. Corkin'', fur their brevity slid perseverance through-
out the adieu; and indeed use whole corps, hods officers
and soldiers were emulous to distinguish themselves iu ob-
taining so complete a victory.
Re pleased S. receive and accept this official as a tribute
to the Republic, that its brave d. renders may be known.
'ME ANTONIO PAEZ.
Head.quarters, at She Village of La Cruz,
July 21, 1819.
- •
Fatality akeieding She abase if Stimst—The
year 88 has been for several cemurses halal to the
Royal House of STUART:—JAMES 111. on Jane
the 11th, 1488, lost. battle to his subjects, by whose
he was pursued and assovstostrd. M•ae, Queen
Of Scots, was beheaded the Bth Feb. 1588. JAN=
11. of England, abdicated *lw Throne of Great Bri-
tain on the Rib December. 1688; and in the year
1788, the last legitimate mule of the Home of
the Sxxxxs Featly expired.

*CUM, mei lOW ',lra