Star.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

The Ann, arrived at Liverpool, sailed from Buenos
Ayres 29th May. General SAN MARTIN was in that
city, but would shortly depart for his command in
Chili, where his army was recruiting and repairing
its losses in the last successful campaign. The Por-
tuguese were in possession of Colonia del Sacra-
mento, and were opening the treuches, and raising
the fortifications of that place, which have been level-
led for many years. They had also advanced a party
from Arroye de la China, a post on the river Uru-
guay, and the most common pass from the northern
to the southern side of the River Plate, by way of
the province of Entre Rios. The force of the Portu-
guese in the territory of Montevideo is estimated at
from ten to twelve thousand men, and their opera-
tions do not by any means argue a probability, that
their possession of that country is intended to be
temporary.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED NEW GUAYANA, THE
16Th OF JUNE, 1818:

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The Supreme Chief has just teceived an official ac-
count that the division of three hundred cavalry, sent
by the Spanish General Morales to the port of Guaya-
bel, to observe our troops at St. Fernando de Apure,
were all either killed or taken prisoners, except the
Commandant and four others, who escaped. In con-
sequence of this defeat, Morales immediately eva-
cuated Calabozo, and marched with his infantry to
the hilly country of Sombrero, which it eighteen or I
twenty leagues distance from Calabozo. By this
means the Spaniards have lost the little ground they
had obtained in the plains (Llanos), and it will not be
long before the Independents again occupy the vallies
of Aragua, and make themselves masters of the city
of Caraccas, &c.
PORT SPAIN, MT 40, 1818.
" I inclose you the latest bulletin of the 13th May,
and a letter of the 16th Jane. As the grand Coca of
the Orinoco has never been blockaded, owing to •he
insufficiency of the Spanish marine, the intercourse
with the Islands in large vessels is open and secure,
and the Independents have lately derived very useful
succours through this channel.
" You perceive by the enclosed Bulletin, the total
misrepresentation of the issue of the battle f Cogede,
which turned out an important victory to the Inde-
pendents, by the destruction of the enemy's cavalry,
and the loss of a great many of their best Officers.
" The Spanish General Morales lately evacuated
Calabozo, and retreated to Sombrero, after having
lost in the action at Guayabal 300 men. Thus it is
now 'Well known how inferior the Spaniards are to
the Independents in cavalry, and how incapable of
maintaining any position in the (I,lanos) plains.
" General Bolivar, who, in spite of the Spaniards,
is safe wind and limb, is in possession of the chief
command civil and military, and of the confidence
of the country. The chief positions of the Indepen-
dents armies are San Fernando de Apure, Calabozo
and San Carlos ; those of the Royalists are Sombrero,
Valencia and Caracas.

" The Independents have doubled their cavalry
since the campaign commenced, but their infantry
has suffered severely. However, the Spaniards have
nothing to boast of in this respect. A private letter
from one of the Royalists, after gasconading a little
on their success in defending the hilly country of
Caracas, confesses that they had lost '2OO Officers,
and that Morillo would probably never be fit for
active service, in consequence of the nature of the
lance wound he received.
" General Bermudes is, with a thousand men, at
the port called Puerto de la Madera, about three
miles from the city of Cumana. General Marino is
at Cariaco, with rather a strong division.