The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

BLOODY BATTLE.

New Yone, JULY 21.—A letter from St. Tho-
miler, of the 3d instant, to a gentleman in Phila-
delphia, says, " I hasten to apprise you that we
have this•day received informatiel from. Auturgnar
of an action fought on the 12th ultinio,atCantaura;
by a division of the Spanish army under the:coin-
nand of Gen. Arena, and a division of the Patriots,
led by Alari”o, in which the Royalists were totally
defeated, with a loss of 1,000• to 1,100 men, all
their camp equipage, documents, &e. The Patriots,
I red, et to add, suffered severely, having lost 400
men."

A failure asomecoissisquence took place on Satin-thy
at the Sock Exchange, sod toe pasties, who are mem-
bat of the house, were publicly ecciarvil as detaalicrs.
Their differences, it is supposed, will amour to 70001.
The settlements in Outoisag, which took placers° %Vett.
nesvlay and Thursday last, produced moue of the eflicts
that had beets anticipated • the speculators were all pre-
pare Ito meet their several engageogentr. atid the !Piet.;
consequently, ungierweitt no advance. Tile 3 per Cents.
have been equally free Imm variation throughout the
week, owing to the very 'ignited extent of speculative
operations. Each party. at least for the present account,
seems to be exhausted, and to hive ventured to the full
as deep as prudential consideration would penult!. Some
doubt, too, appears toexist in what direction the account
is likely to turn, which may equally deter the cautious
speculator from operations wattling to turn the scale,
now nearly helmeted, in tamer of the advene.party.
The market• for stock is precisely in that situation in
which a new and bold speculator, unincumbered with
previous bargains, might give it a bias tither way. It
as a certain, and It is a consotatory.fact,. that the alarm-
ing state of the disturled districts. has not created any
dimwit in the fund-holder, nor induced him to behest
that his property, on that account, was I,lgely to he les-
sened in •value. Fewer sales have rattly taken place,
nor has the market ever been more steady. Comols lon
The day of settlement, which is on Thnrglay nest,
clnied yes,erday at 711, and Omniuni at 41 premium.
The continuation for the October account is i per cent.
The departure of Sir Thomas Hardy to lissome
the command in the Rio dc la Plata will very soon
take pluce. The Vengeur, of 74 guns, :ails front
Portsmouth to Plymouth, and will there be
.;oinotl
by the Superb. Sir l'hos. Hardy is to hoist a broad
pet:dant as Commodore on, board the latter ship,
with a Captain under him. Captain T. White is
appointed to command the Superb,

Letters have been receive 1 from the Cape of
Good• Hope, dated the 17th of lay hot. They
contain accounts of an excursion of the Citifies upon
Graham's Town, which ended in Chair complete
defeat, with the loss of many killed and wounded.
The following are extracts :
cAPI-TOWN, 311 Y 5.

The Coffees have broken out, and n ssry permits war is
tarried on at present oil the borders. It is said that the
savages are to the a ttttt otit of 50,C00 ; and a detiscanonit of
6,060 allot ked (lr-Ition's Town, or, Saturday last, about
twelte o'clock in the day, but were repulad, nod 130 le;.•
dead in the field. They carried off AO %sounded. Orders
have bcvo ilsuctl la every dish tit of the colony fur the young