Star.
London, England, 1818-05-18 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

OFFICIAL BULLETINS
Or BOLIVAR'S LATE VICTORIES OVER THE SPANIARDS.
BULLETIN OF THE LIBERATING ARMY
OF VENEZUELA., FEB. Is.

dt The Army of Guayana, cemmanded by the %Su-
preme Chief, commenced its march from the city of
Angostura, towards the Lower Apure, on 31st De-
cember, part being embarked in our small squadron
and part follow the left bank of the Orinoko as far
as the mouths of the Pao, where they were joined by
General Monaga's division. They then passed over
to the right bank of the same River ; and on the 17th
of January, in Caycara, were joined by the cavalry
division of General Cedeno, and again crossing back to
the left bank above the mouths of the Apure, formed a
junction with General Paez's division, on the 31st, at
San Juan de Payara, where his troops were in quar-
ters. The army, on the 6th February, crossed the
Apure, in front of the fortress of San Fernando, and
this day, 12th, at seven in the morning, the town
and forts of Calabozo were invested, where the
enemy's head-quarters were established, under the
immediate orders of General Morillo.

" The Regiment of Hussars of Ferdinand VII. of
La Union and Navarre, being placed on our left,
and that of Castile on our right, the enemy's cavalry
forthwith attempted to flank our left, but, by a rapid
and simultaneous movement of our cavalry, the
whole of his right was enveloped, at the moment that
the infantry battalion of Barcelona was endeavour-
ing to call away their attention and attempting to
cut them off.

" Not a single man of more than two thousand,
of which number the three Spanish regiments con-
sisted, would have been fortunate enough to escape,
if, quicker than the advance of our horse, they had
not fled into the town. Nevertheless, scarcely eighty
of the Hussars, and of the infantry no more than
half the Fusileers, made their escape—all the Gre-
nadiers and Chasseurs were left on the field.

" The regiment of Castile, which, as was already
said, composed the enemy's left, seeing the right so
completely routed, was scarcely able to execute any
other movement than that of a shameful flight,
without even firing a shot, nor would they hare been
able to escape, if, owing to the vicinity of the town,
they had not been protected by its fortifications,
which for many days will not be able to resist the vi-
gorous siege which we immediately established.
" General Morillo, surprised in the midst of im-
n-ease plains by an army just come off a march of
300 leagues; General Morillo, routed for the first'
time that in America he has drawn his sword, I
without at least bringing on a general action, but
now not even waiting for the fire of our Fuzileers ;
this same General Morillo now saw himselfcompelled
to fly, almost alone, from the field of battle, having
escaped from two of our lancers, only through the
interposition of two of his hussars, who fell by his
side—that General Morillo, in short, who has so
long outraged humanity by styling
.himself the Pa-
cificator of South America, was, as it wore in a mo-
ment, shut up in the centre of the Venezuelean
plains, owing to Isis own want of skill and the extra-
ordinary celerity of our movements. Such is the
interesting spectacle the action at Calabozo offers to
the military world.
" The remainder of the enemy's forces are already
cut off from the town, and ours have marched on
to meet them in every direction. Thus has the fate
of our Republic been decided, without having run
the danger of a single battle.
" Nothing is comparable to the intrepidity of our
cavalry ; they alone with two companies of the in-
fantry battalion of Barcelona have done all. Generals
Cedeno, Monagas and Paez, have done prodigies of
valour. These three Chiefs on this day have added
to the lustre of their former reputations.
" Our loss in killed and wounded does not exceed 20
men, among the first is Captain Brito, and among
the latter the two Lieutenant-Colonels, M'Lean and
Blancas.—llead-quarters in front of Calabozo, &c.
Cu/times SouBLL-r, Chief of General Staff."
BULLETIN OF THE LI131:11.1TING AIiIIY. FEB. 17.

" General Morillo being shut up in the town of
Calabozo, after the complete route he experienced on
the 12th, the Liberating Army took up the most ad-
vantageous positions round, in order to blockade the
enemy, and cut off his supplies. Our head-quarters
were established in the town of Rastro. The enemy
on the 14th was compelled to abandon Calabozo,
and this he did at twelve in the night, with such pre.
cipitation, that he Icft in our power the whole of his
artillery, a large quantity of muskets and ammuni-
tion, his hospitals, stores, &c. He moved' towards
the town of Sombrero by the most mountainous road,
but his movement having been observed before morn-
ing by our advanced posts, the army was ordered to
march on in pursuit of him.
" On the 15th, at four in the afternoon, a squadron
of cavalry belonging to the languard came up with
the Spanish column in the plain of Auriosa, broke
through the small body of cavalry with which the
enemy covered his rear, and obliged to halt, conti-
nuing to call his attention, so as to give time for
the army to come up ; but night came on before a
single division of infantry arrived, and the enemy,
under cove, of it and the surrounding thickets, was,
enabled' to resume his march. Many dead and woun-
ded, besides more than two hundred prisoners of the
various Spanish regiments, were the result of the
rencontre of our van with the whole of the Spanish
column on this afternoon. The pursuit was conti-
nued during the whole of the evening, and in the fol-
lowing morning of the 16th we again came up with
the enemy at the ford of the river Guarico, near the
town of Sombrero, where the hussars of our van-
guard, who ever since the break of day had been
pressing on his rear, obliged him to stop. The ene-
my's position at that moment was naturally formi-
dable. Posted in ambuth on the right and left of a
narrow road, and with the river and almost an inae-

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cessible bank in his front, no place was left by which
we could make an attact ; but our infantry, that was
burning for action, boldly pushed on, notwithstand-
ing the disadvantage of the ground.
" The Guards of Honour to the Supreme Chief
were the first who entered into action, with sin-
gular dexterity and intrepidity, and they were fol-
lowed by the battalions of Apure and Barlovento,
causing great havoc to the enemy. The pass would
have been forced without the aid of the other batta-
lions which 'remained in reserve, if a movement on
the rear of the enemy had not been attempted by our
cavalry, whose co-operation the infantry were ordered
to await. In this interval the enemy abandoned his
positions, leaving in our possession 150 prisoners, and
the ground covered with killed and wounded. He
continued his retreat by the road of Barbacoa, where
he arrived the same night; and this day he has pro-
ceeded on towards Camatagua. Such is the terror
with which he is possessed, that he is afraid to take
rest, notwithstanding the fatigue of the Spaniards is
so great and insupportable, that they deliver them-
selves up as prisoners without resistance. The loss
of the enemy, from the time he commenced his re-
treat from Calabozo up to this day, exceeds 800 Spa-
niards in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
" The King's army has disappeared, and the rem-
nants that have escaped from the combat will soon
perish from hunger and weariness. Soon shall the
flag of liberty wave over the wreck of our tyrants in
the whole of Venezuela. Our total loss in this bril-
liant pursuit is only eighty killed and wounded.—
Among the first of whom are :—Lieutenant-Colonel
Parsint, Adjutant-General ; Captain Aribalo, and
Lieutenant Girardos, of the Guard of Honour ; Cap-
tain Urbinez, of Barlovento ; and Captains Hasnirez
and Gsmsalez, of. Apure. Among the second are:—
Brigadier-General Antuategui, Lieutenant-Colonel
Ponce, and Major Hill ; Captains Flores, Mares, Col-
menares, Naranjo, and Pulido; Lieutenants Andara,
Melian, Sarraga, Sanchez, and Bustillos—the three
latter alone dangerously. The whole of the plains
are free, and the enemy, without troops, cattle, ca-
valry, or credit,icannot defend the capital, to which
place the liberating army is advancing.
(Signed) " CHS. SOUBLET,
" Chief of the General Staff.
" Head Quarters, Sombrero," Ste.
REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.

" FIIANCINCO ANTONIO Zr*, President (ad inlerun j of the Coun-
cil of Government, Head of the Finance Department, Inten-
dant-General of the Armies of the Republic, &c. &c. to the
Chiefs, Officers, and Soldiers of the Brigade of Artillery, and
the four British Regiments under the banner of Venezuela.
" Welcome, welcome, illustrious defenders of free-
dom ! come to the arms of your brethren, and to the
bosom of your new country I Our brave mariners
go out to receive you at a distance from our coasts,
and the hero who commands them, a foreigner like
yourselves, can testify to you whether we know how
to appreciate the valiant of all countries, who come
to join in the glorious cause of our independence.
" This cause is worthy of you—it is the cause of
liberality and industry, of the arts, and of commerce.
It is the cause of social relations, and consequently
of all nations and men. It is more particularly so of
your nation, which, more active, industrious, and
commercial than the rest, ought to feel an interest in
seeing Spaniards, the greedy usurpers of one half of
the globe, now be compelled to restore it back to the
human race.

" This act of justice ought rather to have belonged
to enlightened Cabinets th in daring individuals; but
whence is that strange fatality that still allows Eu-
rope to respect a Government that has had the stu-
pid insolence to insult her, by the re-establishment of
the Inquisition and its homicidal institutions, in the
very face of the London Society, the Institute of Pa-
ris, and a hundred Academics and Universitiec.—
Posterity with difficulty will believe that civilized
Europe has borne with such a Government in her ho •
som—a Government prodigal of blood and horrors ;
one that still murders and hangs, as in the days of
Pizarro—that cuts down, burns, devours, devastates,
and in the delirium of preserving its insensate domi-
nion, would end by depriving commercial nations of
the precious fruits of our continent, and ourselves of
the productions of their manufactures and skill.
" There is no other close to so many evils than that
of our independence. The independence of America
is now one of the wants of the entire world, and the
most delightful day for humanity will certainly be
that on which it is acknowleiged. This memorable
event will form the most brilliant period of history.
A new intellectual movement--a new impulse given
to industry and the arts—to agriculture and trade—
a thousand new productions America will then offer
to Europe, and in return a thousand new inventions
Europe ill oar to America. Such will be the con-
sequeaces of our indepeaslence, and such the friendly
bonds that 5..:11 unite the New to the Old World, in-
stead of the barbarous chain that now links it with
Spain alone. This chair. let us at once break over
the head of that same Government ; and then even
let Spain herself, also free as we are, participate in these
advantages, and be reconciled to the human race.
" Such is the sublime enterprize in which as indi-
viduals you have engaged with us, and to which we
are led on by a Chief full of glory and virtue, gene-
rous, magnanimous, at all times patriotic, at all times
the citizen, and at all times the best friend of the
defenders of our liberty. Fly to his arms, follow him
on his victorious march, heed not your own pros-
pects and those of your children, for this he has him-
self provided, and alone bearing in mind the beau-
tiful and grand idea of liberating the Columbian
world, rush with us on the Spaniards, and driving
them from our territory into the Antilles sea, let us
prove what can be done by an army of friends, Eng-
lishmen and Venezueleans. (Signed)
" FRANCISCO ANTONIO ZRA.
" THOS. RICHARDS, Sec. of Council
of Government.
" St. Thomas in New Granada, March 6, ISIS."
PRIVATE LETTER.
" PORT Spam, Aram 4.
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" The brig Hunter is arrived after being examined
by the Scamander, and is about to proceed up the
Orinoko. I send you two bulletins of General Boli-
var's army ; by the most recent of which you will
find on the 17th February he was at Sombrero, where
the Spaniards pretend he was routed, and that he
still continued pursuing a flying enemy. We have
no later official details, but report says, Bolivar en-
tered Caracas on the 25th February.
" Letters from Guayana of the 24th ultimo, state
the surrender of
.§an Fernando, and the return of 35

LONDON.
MONDAY, MAY 18, 1818.

Pavctas or Watts's BIIITHDAT (Kept).—lioliday at the Bank.

THE FUND&
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
India Bonds 99 101 pr.—Exch. Bills 19 22 pr.
Omnium 01 prom.—Cons. for Account 791

The Select Committee on Finance have made an-
other Report, being their Tenth, to the House of
Commons, embracing the branch of the CIVIL CON-
TI NGENCI ES.

The particular object of their consideration was
the Account referred to them by the House sheaving
how the sums of 200,0001. and 300,000/. voted in the
last Session of Parliament to enable his Majesty to
provide for such expenses of a civil nature as do not
form a part of the ordinary charges of the Civil List,
have been applied.
After classifying the expenditure under distinct
heads, they remark, that there are certain items in
the Lord Chamberlain's department which they think
ought clearly in principle to fall upon the ordinary
charge of the Civil List. Among these are the ex-
penses for providing collars, badges and mantles for
the several orders of the Garter, Bath, and Thistle—,
Plate for his Majesty's Foreign Ministers and Go-
vernors—Silver Trumpets for the Life and Horse
Guards, &c. but the Committee state, that what they
particularly allude to are certain charges for furnish-
ing and keeping up the Royal Yachts, and decora-
tions for Waterrnen, which cannot, in the opinion of
the Committee, be considered as among the charges
from which Parliament intended to relieve the Civil
List when the new arrangement was made in 1816.
" All matters which relate to the incidental expenses
belonging to the State Equipage or accommodations

of the Crown, although not of constant and ordinary
recurrence, ought undoubtedly still to be defrayed
out of that fund, instead of being thrown upon the
Civil Contingencies."

The attention of the Committee has been also par.
ticularly directed to the very considerable expense
incurred by the Commission appointed for examining.
into the duties, salaries, and emoluments of Officers
of Justice, and they submit the propriety of frequent
statements of their progress from time to time being
called for. It is obvious they add, that every
Commission of this kind to which salaries are attach.
ed, contains in itself a natural tendency towards con-
tinuation; and in all cases where any of the Com-
missioners have other official duties to perform, it
can hardly be supposed that their time is so much at
their own disposal as to leave them at liberty to pur-
sue the objects of such inquiries with the expedition
and unremitting diligence which examinations of this
importance and so much detail require.
On the whole of the Contingent Payments the
Committee remark, that many of the heads of Ex-
pense, nearly to the amount of one half, appear to
be of a nature sufficiently definite to allow of their
being laid before the House in future under the fbrm
of Estimate; among which may be included the Al-
lowances usually voted to the different Officers of
both Houses of Parliament. 'They therefore recom-
mend that such charges should be brought forward
on Estimate—a form, as they conceive, best calcu-
lated for attracting the notice, and insuring the effec-
tual controul of Parliament, and therefore never to
be departed from without absolute necessity.

The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived yesterday.
The Chamber of Peers assembled on Tuesday, and
having heard the Report on the Budget made by the
Marquis GARDIER, which concluded by recom-
mending the adoption of the law, they ordered the
Report to be printed, and postponed the opening of
the discussion till Thursday last. It was not supposed
however that the discussion would last long, as the
expectation is announced in these Journals of the ter-
mination of the Session this day or to-morrow.
The two Chambers will be prorogued till the be-
ginning of November. In the mean time there will
be a fresh Election in seventeen Departments, for a
fifth of the total number of Deputies, who go out
by rotation.

The veteran Prince of Corms, whose illness was
some days ago announced, expired on Wednesday

morning. The following is the notice of his dra.
to-morrow we shall give some particulars of his 1:.
trious life :

Hs Serene Highness the Prince of Condi died
morning, at 40 minutes past seven o'clock- The Abt'e
his almoner, who, by his virtues, had rntritcd the coed,'
the Prince, never left his pUlow during his illness sod .
stead to him all the consolations and succours of his heily
nistry. Oa Sunday, wishing to take advantage of
calm which the Priam enjoyed, this worthy reckdastie
posed to him to communicate- The Peirce a egirod
that it was not decent to take the Slentenent is bed,
Priest removed his scr.'gle, and the Prince peepseedft
the Sacrament. In the exhortation which the make, re tort
Altar made to him, before gisinghirr the 1":64,..., el
' My Prince, it is your doty to forgive those wits kr,
you.'—' If Goo,' replied he, presshtg the hand et ti„e,sr,r
' pardon me as I forgive these who have effeele44l:.,,
Mt of being with him.'—According to the desire or his
Highness, alI Lis household was presert wire be receir.,:
Communion. On the night previous to his the pr..
enjoyed some moments of rest. When he 7:webe. ihnnix...l
feeble voice with that of his ahnontt, la reciting
the sick his last words were ' Credo in Limn: ar:d tan r:.
Internally the rest of the prayer, he bzeath.,l lei,
French 5 per cents. Wednesday, 68 L 10 c.

We this day lay before our Readers the Olt,
Bulletins of the victories obtained by BOLIVAR o%
the Ferdinandists previous to the 17th of Februart
They confirm the pre...iously received rtatemeno
BOLIVAR'S success at Calaborm, where Motutba In
concentrated his forces ; but they do nct come do,
so late as the Spanish Official Dispatches, is sr
dated February 26th, and which add that 6e I
triot Army, after their victory at Calaboro.
purssued the retreating Spaniards, and again cone
with them at Sombrero, another and more were eo,
gagernent took place, which ended eztirc:y rarer
of the Royalists.

The latter accounts, it is true, come f:nra t!
Royalist press ; and, from experience, we k 30%. th
the details published by the Spanish Government
often entirely false; but still, as the Patriot wear,
do not come down so 12:e, we cannot be confider
that the Patriots have not been detested, as stated
the Spanish dispatches. It is, we think, not impels.
sable that these dispatches may prove to he only
garbled statement, and we have some suTkien flu:
this will prove to be the fact, but, till fart::e: accnact
shall arrive, we must not encourage too cnnfidrit
hope that the Patriots hare no: sustained a defeat.

The Duke of KENT embarked yesterday . '
at Dover, on board his Majeay's yacht the Rt.r
SOrEREI6N, for Calais. The Lark, Capt. JouNom
sailed aethe same time with the carriages bckr.git
to his Royal Highness.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE Male his entrance,
full state, into Cassel, on the 6th cf Mar; ce
following day, the Princess AUGI:TA of Hun was
solemnly betrothed to his ROYAL Iitt:HICRU, and
the 7th the marriage was solemnized
Mails front Holland and Flanders arrived
morning. The Papers brought by them are
remarkable for some speculations sshich are stated
to be afloat respecting certain territorial exchange
the left bank of the Rhine. It is alleged, that all.
stipulations which have been made in respect toGe
many are not yet executed, and that seven' of ,
Princes believe themselves still authorized to demand
indemnities. It is well known, in particular, that,
consequence of the stipulations between the Great
Powers, the Court of Bavaria was obliged to cede
some of its provinces (the Tyrol, Salzburg, &c.) to
Austria, and that it has not received the whole of the
indemnity which was promised it for this cession Ba-
varia, it is said, new insists on a complete indemnity.

The Letter of the Grand Duke of BADIX to the
King of BAVARIA, seems to indicate that the latter
wishes to unite the Palatinate of the Rhine (on the
right bank) to its other States. The same thing was
in agitation eighteen months ago ; but though there
was much talk at the time of negotiations between
Counts RILCUDEPIO and BORSTALL, at that time Mi.
nisters of the Courts of Bavaria and Baden at Frank-
fort, and who are now both at the head of the De-
partments of Foreign Affairs of their respective Stu, s.
but nothing positive was known to result from them.
Some persons affirm that there is no idea of ii
fringing the rights of the reigning Grar.d Duke 0.
BADEN, and the point in question is merely tl.c
eventual succession to the Palatinate.

It is said that the new family Statute of the House
of Baden, which renders the Counts of inockszso
capable of succeeding, and creates them 31.trgraves
of Baden, has not been as yet recognized, either by
:Austria or Bavaria ; and that in case of the estine-
tion of the male line of the reigning family, of which
the only Members now alive are the GRAND Mgr,
and the 411ARGRAVE Louts, his uncle, Bavaria form,
pretensions to the Palatinate, and Austriato the Bri-
gau ; all in consequence of ancient treaties.
Whatever truth there may be in these statements.
it is much to be desired that the territorial &antis
which may still be necessary in Germany, might tar
place speedily, in order, at length. to tranquillize
both the Governments and the people, and to put an
end to the uncertainty which still prevails.

We have received to-day Papers from Jamaica to
the 14th, and from Charleston and Philadelphia to
the 15th of April. They contain advices from Puerto.
Cabello of the sth of Marcb, and from Caracas 0:
the 7th, which both distinctly agree in confirming t.'e
report of the Imppendents haling been oltirtat,!!
defeated by NoalLte.