The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-06 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.'

The important discovery of a Passage from
Sydney, New South Wales, to the new discovered
Country westward of the Blue Mountains, was
made known to the Colonists by the following
official communication :

CIVIL DEPARTMENT.
His Excellency the Governor having received and perused
the Journal of a Tour lately made by Charles Throsby, Esq.
by the way of the Cow Pastures to Bathurst in the new dis-
covered Country westward of the Blue Mountains, takes this
early opportunity publicly to announce the happy result of an
enterprise which promises to conduce in a very eminent degree
to the future interests and prosperity of the Colony.
The Communication with the Western Country having been
heretofore over a long and difficult range of mountains, alike
ungenial to man and cattle, from their parched and barren
state, it became an object of great importance to discover
another route whereby those almost insurmountable barriers
would be avoided, and a more practicable and consequently
less hazardous access efFected to the rich and extensive plains
of Bathurst; and with this purpose Mr. Throsby obtained
his Excellency's permission to explore those parts of the
country which seemed to him likely to possess the desired fa-
cilities of intercourse ; and undertook this expedition, notwith-
standing the privations, difficulties, and dangers, to which he
was exposed in traversing wastes and forests, hitherto unex-
plored. On the 25th of April last he commenced his arduous
tour, passing through the cow pastures, accompanied by Mr.
John Rowley and two servants, together with two natives, as
guides, and brought it to a happy termination on the 9th of May,
by his arrival at the hut of Lieut. Lawson, on the Campbell
River, within a short distance of Bathurst ; the whole time oc-
cupied in this expedition being 15 days.
The necessity which Mr. Throsby appears to have been un-
der of accelerating his progress through the country he was
exploring, did not allow him to dwell minutely in his Journal
on the various productions or properties of the soil he tra-
versed ; his Excellency therefore adverts with pleasure to his
general Report of the capabilities, qualities, and features of
the country intervening between the cow pastures and Bathurst,
which he represents to be, with few exceptions, rich, fertile,
and luxuriant, abounding with fine runs of water, and all the
happy varieties of soil, hill, and valley, to render it not only de-
lightful to the view, but highly suitable to all the purposes of
pasturage and agriculture.
The importance of these discoveries is enhanced by the con-
sideration that a continuous range of valuable country, extending
from the cow pastures to the remote plains of Bathurst, is now
fully ascertained, connecting those countries with the present
settlements on this side the Nepean.
His Excellency the Governor, highly appreciating Mr.
Throsby's services on this occasion, offers him this public
tribute of acknowledgment, for the zeal and perseverance by
which lie was actuated throughout that arduous undertaking ;
and desires his acceptance of one thousand acres of land in any
part of the country discovered by himself that he may chuse to
select.

The Governor also, in acknowledgment of Mr. John Row-
ley's services on this occasion, will assign him two hundred
acres of land in the same country • and to Joseph Wild and
John Wait, servants to Mr. Throsby, who accompanied him
in the Expedition, and whose fidelity and exertions are particu-
larly noticed and commended by Mr. Throsby, his Excel-
lency will assign one hundred acres of land each.
The services rendered by the two native guides, Cookoogong
and Dual, and to which much of the success of the undertaking
may be ascribed, being very meritorious, his Excellency will
order a remuneration to be made to them in clothes and bed.
ding ; and will further appoint Cookoogong Chief of the
Burrah-burrah Tribe, to which he belongs, and over which he
appears to have considerable influence, together with the usual
badge of distinction. And on Dual his Excellency will confer
the badge of merit, as a reward due to these natives for their
respective exertions and services.
By his Excellency's command,
J. T. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

REPUBLIC OF CO LOMBI A.-Accounts received
at Philadelphia from Curacoa to the 17th of
July state, that Puerto Cabello continued to
resist the reiterated attacks of the Patriot army,
and it was supposed, notwithstanding the priva-
tions suffered by the garrison, that it would hold
out as long as the Spanish fleet maintained the
superiority at sea. The fortress has always been
considered the Gibraltar of South America.
The Spanish frigate, with five or six schooners,
had arrived at Curagoa for provisions : but it
was reported they had no money to pay them.—
On the 16th of July the Spanish brig of war
Hercules, with two or three schooners, sailed for
Coro. The object of this movement was not
rightly known ; but as the Captain of the frigate
was on board the Hercules, it was supposed this
fleet had gone to bring Gen. MonILLo and his
troops from Coro. The boats of the Spanish vessels
lying off Puerto Cabello had captured an American
schooner, name unknown, with a cargo of pro-
visions, and the frames of three gun-boats, said
to have been bound for the Patriot squadron
at La Guayra. A letter from the Belize,
Honduras, states, that the leeward independent
naval force consists of two gun-brigs, and a top-
sail armed schooner, commanded by Captain
COURTOIS, late second to General AURA'. They
had taken the Spanish armed brig Ranzoncita, of
18 guns, with a cargo of indigo, cochineal, and
specie, worth 300,000 dollars, and the Spanish
schooner called the Joven Maria. They were
waiting for three more vessels of war to make an
attack on Omoa, where it was expected they
would succeed.