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TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1821.
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New York Papers arrived this forenoon to the 11th
of June. They contain the following important in-
telligence respecting the military operations on the
Spanish Main, extracted from Curacoa Courants down
to the 19th May :
The Government of Caraccas having. received in-
formation that a division of the Patriot forces, under
the command of General Bermudez, was rapidly
advancing towards the capital, hastily dispatched
Colonel Esturriz with a reinforcement to check his
progress. Esturriz met and attacked the Patriots
sear Rio Chico, but, after a short contest, the affair
terminated in the total discomfiture of the Royalists.
The troops that escaped returned towards Caraccas,
and hiving united themselves with the Valencia regi-
ment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot, again
gave battle to the Patriots near Guarenos, but were
again defeated, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot
killed. After the loss of these two actions, the Cap-
tain-General, Correa, collected such forces as he could
muster, and marched in the direction of Petare, in
hopes of being there reinforced ; but, being disap-
pointed, and his troops having dwindled away, he
returned to Caraccas on the 14th ult. and, having
summoned a Junta, it was resolved to abandon Ca-
raccas. In consequence of this decision of the Con-
stituted Authorities, many of the terrified inhabitants
rapidly left the city, some taking the road to La
Guyra, and others to San Pedro.
The same night, a gentleman who was on the road
from Caraccas to La Guyra distinctly heard the
firing of cannon and .the ringing of bells, from which
it was inferred that the Patriots had entered the city.
Captain Hampton, of the schooner Cecilia, which
left Porto Cavello on the evening of the 19th May,
states, that the city of Caraccas was taken possession
of by the Patriots on the evening after it was eva-
cuated. On the same night (May 14), a Council of
War was held at La Guyra, where the Royal Au-
thorities had retired, when the evacuation of that place
was also determined on ; accordingly, the guns were
spiked, and the ammunition remaining on shore was
thrown into the sea. All the powder that chanced
to be in the stores had been previously sent off to
Porto Cavell..
Information of the disaster that had befallen Es-
turria had been received at La Guyra, but the people
had been lulled into security until midnight of Sun-
day, when mules laden with baggage and effects,
and numbers of persons of both sexes, arrived from
Caraccas. From that time until Monday evening all
was hurry and confusion. Each endeavoured to se-
cure such property as could be got on board the ship-
ping. The wharf was literally crowded with goods
of every description, and extravagant prices given
for canoes to convey them on board. It was sup-
posed that property to a considerable amount would
be inevitably left behind.
La Guyra was finally abandoned on the morning
of Tuesday, the 15th ult. when the few mops that
had not yet embarked were sent off, and between the
hours of nine and ten, the Independent flag was seen
hoisted on the principal fort. The sea-breeze not
having set in, the shipping at the time of the change
were still at anchor._ Here again all was hurry and
bustle ; but by dint of exertion the whole fleet, with
the exception of two vessels, consisting of 45 sail,
managed, by getting out boats to tow them, and with
the aid of a light breeze that sprung up, to escape
from the bay in safety, and proceeded to Porto Ca-
vello, under convoy of the Spanish frigate Ligera,
that had been for some days cruizing in the offing.
Up to the time of the departure of the fleet from
La Guyra, no intelligence had been received-of any
action having been fought between the main divisions
of the contending armies. By arrivals at Curasoa
on the 18th of May, from Porto Bello, it was ascer-
tained that Generals La Torreand Morales had formed
a junction at Pao, a town lying between Calaboza
and San Carlos, and near the Republican head-
quarters, from which it may be inferred that a deci-
sive engagement has by this time taken place.
There had been many recent arrivals at Curasoa
from Coro, each vessel conveying a considerable
number of the inhabitants of that place, among
whom is the Governor, Don Correa, several civil and
military officers and privates, and a few Clergymen,
computed to amount in all to between four hundred
and five hundred persons. From particulars gins
of this event, it appears that the inhabitants of Coro_
became exceedingly alarmed at the threatened at-
tack upon the place by the Independent forces in
Maracaybo, a part of which had been put in march
for that purpose,, and had reached Paragnana ; and
no sooner had the near approach of the enemy be-
come known iu Coro, than every person in the town