Star.
London, England, 1830-09-30 00:00:00

BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL SUCRE.

The Commander-in-Chief, Antoiio Sucre, was assassinated on the
4th of June, 1830. Colombia must lament his death as a national loss.
General Sucre was born at Cumana, the capital of the department of
Mathurin, in the year 1795. His education was of the best description
this country afforded in those times. The revolution of 1810 found him'
just emerging from puberty. In the flower of youth, impelled by a
noble instinct of patriotism, he took up arms without any expectation of
making his fortune, or any other object but that of glory. From that
moment there was a prmentiment of his high destinies. Hs devoted
himself to that study which was to render him worthy of his elevation,
and rose by degrees from a Sub-Lieutenant to the tank of a Colonel.
Capacity and merit transferred him to the Staff, and in this important
branch of the service he pined and deserved his promotion to the rank
of General of Brigade, at a time when high posts were not bestowed with
a lavish band in the army.
In 1820, the Liberator had an interview with the Commander of the
Spanish army, Don Pablo Murillo: an armistice and the regulation of
the war were the affects of this memorable event. General Sucre,
hiving distinguished himself by his talents and knowledge, dexterity
and discretion, was chosen to conclude the Treaty, which will
ever be a monument of his diplomatic skill. Hitherto his military
career had been neither obscure nor brilliant, as he had not commanded
any corps d'armee, for usually the splendour of military achievements is
only reflected by the sword of the fisseral.

In 1821, the epoch of his glory began.' The department of Guayaquil
had shaken off the yoke of Spain, and wanted a chief to direct its move-
ments, and to protect it against the enemy, who still occupied the equa-
torial latitude, as well as Must, and part of Cauca, when General Sacre
was selected for this important enterprise. He saved Guayaquil, when
the treason of a commander put that department into the hands of the
Spaniards. He reanimated the public mind, inspired confidence, or.
pulsed the squadrons of Yaguschi, and prepared the victory of Pin.
ehineha, where he consummated the creation of the Republic. The
South being liberated, Colombia presented to the universe her name
integrity. Hopes of liberty arose in Peru, se well u the creation of the
new Republics. lie was rewarded by a commission as :banal of Di.
vision. Pasto was liberated at Pinchineha ; but, being 111 advised, it
armed against its recent liberators. Sucre curs compelled to secure the
fruit of his victory. He was commissioned, therefore, to subdue Pasto
once more, which he did with that celerity that marked all his expe.
(Miens. Genius, merit, and glory, called the Liberator to Peru. Pre.
ceding him, Sucre was received with enthusiasm, and received a most
critical commission from the Government of the State. It became ne-
cessary to organise the army, and to give the command to a General
worthy to direct the arduous enterprise of purging all Peru of the Spa-
numb army. The election fell on Sucre, the youngest General in Peru.
America never saw a better.disciplined and more moral army, so worthy
of its excellent General. His strategic movements, his retreats, his
castrametation, his selection of the localitywhere he was to triumpli,cvery
thing was grand, and inspired the enemy himself with respect, and
contributed to the most splendid and most signal victory ever obtained
in the New World.

Bolivar was the creation of Ayacucho, and the Bolivians, in their exal-
tation of mind, invested with the Government the man who had called
them into existence. General Sucre presided over the destinies of that
new Republic with equanimity and justice. He there developed his ta-
lent in matters of administration, and his enlarged views became appa.
rent. He returned to his own country when war between that Republic
and Peru became inevitable. He was named Civil and Military Com.
mender of the department of the South, and his success justified the se-
lection. He chose Tarqui for the last theatre of his prowess. There
he gave battle, triumphed, and concluded the memorable treaty of Ji-
ron, after which be ceased to command.

When the Constituent Congress was convoked to fix the destinies of
Colombia, his native country, Cumana cast its eyes upon him, and
chose him President, and subsequently appointed him to the arduous
Commission of Venesuella. This was not attended with the expected
success. Still it served to show his rapacity for business. On his re-
turn to the capital be resolved to march suddenly to the Departments of
the Equator, where he thought his presence necessary. He was ap-
prised of the dangers he would expose himself to; but, confiding in
his name and in his merits, he neglected to take the proper precut.
Lions. This proved his ruin. On the 4th of June a volley of mus.
ketry was fired at him in the mountains of Berruecas, near Pasto, which
deprived him of life. The Prefect and Commandant-General of
Cauca, are actively in search of the assassins. Thus fell the Con-
queror of Ayacucho, in 33th year of his age l This ended
a life which, though short, was full of glory ! Had he ex.
haled his noble spirit on the theatre of victory, he would with his
last breath have returned thanks to Heaven for a glade's death
being reserved to him. But, being cowardly assassinated in an
obscure mountain, he bequeaths to his country the duty of
adopting measures to prevent such scandals, and the repetitions of such
deplorable scenes. Don Jose Antonio Arroyo, the Prefect of Cauca,
writes to the Home Secretary, that the savant of General Sucre had
come for assistance, when Sarrea, the Commander of Paste, aceetnpa-
nied him to the mountain, and found General Sucre dead. That it
appears his essossists have loot been robbers, thoshole !wring Men ape.
dally aimed at General Sure by several untssinn 011401.°3 a•_!_fft"
,pass in the mountain,of &micas, who sulked Ids bier r; at.
Nucleate who preceded him, to pass, without robbing Ahem the slight-
.est article, nor his dead, body, which laid there extended hr libt slot
wounds they have given „him in front, through the shots ors, and
the back of the bead.