The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-20 00:00:00

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•by which the constiottion proposer' for'Spatn by
the Cortes was accepted for Venezuela.
Caracas wbh izt conStlint.nce posses-it'd by the'
Royalists', islth the rest Of th'e pro‘inces; and
Mir,inda hitn'seif, betrayed to the Bpaniartis was
imprisoned and soon atterwiada conveyed to
Spain. The Royalist's conducted themse'l'ves in
VunezuelA with a degree of severity and impru-
dence which could not long he tolerated. Drin
sinton iiidivar, who had been one of the deputieS
front the colonies to England in )810,
,having
raised army of less than a ilionSand men in
New Granada, after several successful.hattie's with
the Royalists, eptered the town of Caracas, as a
deliverer, on the 4th of Atti.,,'ltst, 1813.—T0 a
reader, accnstoined CO "contemplate the inytiad3
which have been arrayed against each other in the
wars of Europe, tiothutg can appear more singu-
Lir and sit iking than ILO eontpast, between cite
in-
significance of the means, aad the magnitude of
the objt:cts in dispute in South America, as well
as the immen3e•extent of the regions which ate
the seat of the'se diminutive campaigns.

Mira). continued. to attack with success the
remaining forces of the Royalists, and having of-
fered the resignation of his authority into the
hands of a Representative Assembly, was by them
fOtmally appointed the sole dictator. In order to
recover their superiority, the Spaniards had re-.
CoMse-to the desperate and indefensible measure
of a.general liberation and arming of the slaves;
and by these means raised an army, or rather an
armed rabble, of above seventy thousand men, by
whom Bolivar was beaten in a general action at
the distance of fifty leagues from the capital. He
had comudtted the fault of dividing, his army, al-
ready inferior in numbers to that of his opponents.
The Spanish General Bores occupied Venezuela in
1814, and Bolivar flex! to Carthagena, which city
General Murillo, who had arrived from Spain with
ten thousand men (the only considerable expedi-
tion that Spain has been able fo send to America),
besieged in the summer of 1815—and took, after
an obs,inate resistance of. tour months, in the
course of which a great part of the defenders bad
,perished by lamina. '
Bolivar, with the assistance of 'Brion, a naval
officer, and a man of considerable wealth, and of
Qeberal iNl‘Gregor, who had served in the.Euglish
army On the Peninsida, directed another expedi-
tion the Royalists in Venezuela ; which,
though be Was himself defeated, has partially suc-
ceeded. The loyalists .appear to be still in pos-
session of the principal towns, but great part of
the country is occupied by the Independent ar-
mies or roving bands of Guerillas, 'They have
also, under McGregor, occupied the island of
Amelia, which coot aidS, an excellent harbour, and
affords them -an easy Conitunnication with their
friends 11l the United States. Tim island of Mar-
ita, and Part-or the prtivlbe,eS of (iumana and
Maracaybo, are in their'poWer, and Bolivar was
'at the date of the last accounts, still at the bead
of affairs.

The pi'orinc6 composing the Viceroyalty ni
New Granada, after violent civil contests, had
established a systein of general federation, and
appointed Nttrino General of their forces, united.
to oppose the Royalists, who had exasperated the
whole country, by having, upon the capture Of
Quito, pct to death one in every five of the inha-
&knots, by whom it had been defended. Norio°
wavtor sonic time victorious, but was at length
taken prisoner in. June; 1814 the cause
which had prospered by his conduct and talents
wpr materially depressed.

The Congress- of New Granada, not dispirited
by failure, employed Bolivar in December, 1814,
to compel the province of Cnndinamarca, with
the capital Santa .Fe•di Bogota, to submit to their
form of government. In this object he succeeded
the-Congress proceeded to hold their sit-
tings in that ckipitaL The troops of New Granada
were then employed by Bobviir in reducing Car-
t h0...-,ena,.of,Which,t he Governor, Castillo, resisted
his supreme authority: While :the armies were
fighting for this point of civil dissension, Morino
arrived, to whom both parties, were obliged to
surrender.

Pursuing his sticcesß, Morillo captured Santa
.F 6. in June, 1816, after a spirited resistance of
the Independents. From the intercepted dispatches
of this General-to the Spanish Government (for
they ate not oil f abyications) , it is evident that in
many of the provinces of New Granada 'the war is
still carried on against Spain, that the spirit of
independence is nu where destroyed, and that on-;,
less Spain is able to supply her armies with con-
stant reinforcements, they will soon be nnegnal to
resist the Guerillas by whom the country is over-
run.

(To be continued.)

A letter, from Godalt»ing, dated yesterday, says,
" A .report has just reached us this evening, that
further light has been thrown on the subject of
the late horrid murders of Chennell and his house-
keeper, at Codalming, by the disclosure of a wo-
man ‘l-ho cohabited with Chatcrott, Otte of the
prisonecsconunitted on suspicion of that atro
cious crime ; but we are not at present enabled
to state any further paiticulars, tor-want of posi-
tive information."

BoxEßs.—The coaches to town, on Thnrsday,
'Or cr e It-mdetl with milling itmotturs, from Norwich.
Both Painter and Sutton attract much of the gaze
of the town ; the Black's .beast} is tied up; a►nd
it presents the severe marks of J'ainter's prowess.
The two fighting men, amid Oliver, Ilnrnier, and
remain at Norwich, on a sparring
excm sion.

On Thnrsdaymorniing was un fort omit ely drown-
ed.at Reading, WILLIAM RLANDT, Esq. an Alder-
man of that Borough. Ile went, according to
his custom, to bathe, early in the moining, alone,
and it was suppoSed that he was seizNl with the
cramp, and unable to avail of hi, $h ill in
swimming. Ile had twice been, chief i‘l..!gistrate
of Reading.' whs 'in the sixty-seetind year of
his age.

Remarkable instances of Loge-rity.—ln the pa-
rish of lislidealowor, Dl'lmf:ies-shi,"e, there i:; in
the possession of Mr. ARCHIBALD 107ING, firmer,
Fedling, dice marts, whoSe united ages make
seventy-five years ; a shepherd's dog sixteen ;
and a hen, stilt laying eggs, fifteen yens old.;