The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-15 00:00:00

SUUTH AMERICA.

The latest intelligence from South torrica confirms
the pleasing account of the Nieces, of the Inderendent
forces. No doubt can now be saaintaincil !lie issue
of Ibis contest. Destitute of power, an.l still m.re des-
titate of public confidence; struggling for exigence even
in the very quarter where despotism has g;ontiteil for
ages, the Spastieb.Liovernmeat finds itself inealiAle of
forager opposing the march of freedom and independ-
ence; and will, we hope, now resign a cot,trsi which
from its tint cotuuteneeitient Las been hopele-s and
absurd.
The following. is an extract of a letter from a Jleu,ber
of the VeOrZUebill

.Ingostota,26ils .1-er. 1!%19.
Ile DEAR AND ESN FRIEND-1i trait tlllli im-
patience the arrival of the packet for October, in which
I trust will be confirmed intelligence of tI, • ocrnpation
of Lima, of the liberation of Peru, and of the march of
General San Martin npon 4,tuito. These mews are
highly probable, and may even be considered as certain ;
hut as upon them depinds the fate of all America, I
cannot feel tranquil until I receive their otlieial con-
Ovulation. Perhaps before that time ire shall be in-
formad, through New Uraoada, of the effort of tleneral
Santander to ;dace himself in connection with Lord
Cochrane, who will unquestionably desire this. whenever
be is informed that we are masters of the port of Choc°.
'That of San Beene-Ventura presents to him a nand
Nation of the inmost advantage for his operations, by
'limns of which we mar treat with the flovernment of
1.1011 much more directly, and operate in connexion ;
anti that still more ads antageousl. , if Peru be already
tree.
Then will be verified what I said to the President
when he entered New I iranatle :—" There are evolutions
in polities, as in war; and I am of opittioe, that we.
ought to cheap froos, hr turning our 31'1'116611 to the
South Sea. The Spanierris being expelled from those
musts, our triumph is intelligible. Vs anting formidable
squadrons to maintain themselves in that sea, and with-
tint a point of support, all one efforts may be turned 10
gllll shores of the Atlantic; those of the South will enjoy
• pmfound tranqnillity : all their population n ill hr pa-
erbtic I they will supply to us every assistance. and they
will act its unison with us in every operation. We might
bare momentary reverses; but the Andes would serve us
as a harrier, in ithieli we should defend ourselves against
the Tartars of Europe, better than the Chinese, by their
wail, against those of Asia."—l always insisted en these
views, and circumstances now favour their execntion.
The President. having had his skill, les valour. and.i
his peeemowouceswirirded IA- the liberation of the im-
mense and rich kingdom of New Granada, has returned
toward Venesnele to crush the last remains of the Roy-
alists, in a battle which, as a last struggle, will perhaps
he as terrible as triumphant. tieneval Atizoateqiii, des-
tined to command the Army of the South, and seeing
the gond state of affairs in the province.: of Popayan,
has been called tor/mitten(' that of the North. and has
1
already arrived with coneitlerahle reinforce:news.. The
esagnard of this army, commanded by tletierat Sow
Itilette, was in chase of La Torre, when it received orders
Ile march by the monnteiti of Sas Camillo, to unite 'twill
teitlt Omen! Pies, leaving behind a corps of observe-
don. La Torre fell hack emelt Merida, hut, not bring
followed. and having received WNW reinforcement. he
tnrne4 upon Cucuta, distant two days' swell trout Pam-
plona. This toeing the position of the two armies, it is
certain that the battle has been already fought'.' If La
Torre has not received great reinforcements, I consider
him as utterly lusts but there esti be no doubt that Mo-
rino hiniself.must have marched hastily on that point 4
so, at least, he ought to have done; for, It being oupos-
slide for bite to conceal himself. if the division of La
Thieve Is aremoyeri, lie wenill he esposeti to the greatest
asters, and, shutting hissed: up in Puerto Cabello,
would bare to abandon the whale of tbetountry. If he
itheseif is beaten at Cu-eta, of whit+ I have 11A doutlt,
the triumph of Venezuela is mm910..60140 redo... free-
doetis nn longer even retarded.
The Spaniards ate no doubt labedriog notively in the
re ‘equipment of the espeditine from Cadiz. 'llia time,
—ever, is past when it cod" ipir. esascd us any

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DUTCH NAIL.
•
BaroneLs, Fan. 6.—Accounts from the French fron-
tiers say, that orders costa ate to be sent from the Uo-
vernmeat to the liessorals, eoliseele, and- Lieutenant-
Colonels, cmemaudieg the several French 'wipe, to take
care that the soldiers are not encouraged tombs part in
the premiss political differences; awd, in particular, that
they are prettified from reading certain publications,
the teeilency of which is to induce the army to wisgir
in these differences. The chief Witten are milli. Teapot'.
sible on this poise. There are reports *Melt say, that
some swiss regiments, the regiment of Prince Hohenlest,
and even some French regiment., have received orders
•to march to the Spanish frontiers, but this is coati-
tiered as impossible.
V,,e ti, J•5l. 31.--. The President of the Deputation
of the Committee of the Sinking Fund has reported, that
to-day there will be burnt, on the glad., redeemed bonds
of the old debt, bearing interest to the amonnt of
6;166,693 florins, the interest of which was 125,006
levies. On the 4th and 7th of February, there will
burnt redeemed hoods to the amount of 49,000,060
which have been put out of circulation since March 16i
1616.
Acconnts from the Turkish frontiers, of the 10th of
this mouth, say, that the reports are cootirmed of the
breaking out of serious disturbances in yarion• parts of
Asiatic Turkey, especially in the neighboarbooil or
ilagdat. Two Pathos had' been forced to fly,- and the
leaders of the rebels have made themselves masters of
several towns. Troops are collecting with all baste ter
restore order. Well informed persons assert that Persia
has some share in these troubles, and that the eldest'
son of the Sebach had laid the plan to seise on Syria
and some of the adjacent pros ince., and with this view
continually excites troubles. The Porte is said to bare
obtained important information on this subject. It is
further reported, that the Wachabites hare again takeht
up arms, and have been joined by gre.st numbers of ad-
herents.

DEATH OF DR. DRE.V.V.IN.

On Saturday morning, the 15th of February, IPSO, died
is Belfast, Do.ctor William Drennan, aged 113 years. No
epoch of time can he more interesting to the historian
than the few preceding years. Empires pew and
vanished—conquerors rose and fell—and, in Ireland,
the betel of death was not idle amongst its most valuable
sons. Flood and Curran, and Jones and Drennan, hare
disappeared—aed now, with the exception of aged
°rattan, are nearly hid from our view the luminaries of
that period, when the patriotism of Irishmen bad reached
its comas.—When the fathers of the land are gots,, well
may we weep with oar widowed country'—for what eye
shall now watch—what ear listen—what heart throb—
what hand pen—and what tongue thunder out vengeance
against the foes and oppressors of Ireland, inner these
men are no more, and Irishmen are orphans! Born in'
the North, and tmeght under the influence of the most
independent religion in the world—through life, Hven.
nan spoke and wrote most liberally on all religions
topics—no bigot in himself, be contemned bigotry in
others;—the son of a Calvinist, he was the best. the
warmest advocate of Catholic Emancipation; end that
cause, enfeebled by the frailty of its owls sons. and
enervated by. the fallibility of notetailole advocates of
other persuasions, has lest in this man an advocate, me-
eqsalleil in uniformity of opinion, and unchanged by
the shifts of Creams sod Mitres, on the ahem-beard
Europe. He wrote and spoke for the Vassar. because
the Catholic was chained ; and he wont. hem Witten
aid spoken for the persecuted slave of as/ Warr Cline.
Sian code, under similar grievances.
• The most liberal of arts" was the onternetinan was
destined to fill. Is Newry, he very 'stressfully prac-
tised as a Physician ; aud there sonic of his happiest
strokes of poetical Itemise appeared. Afterwards, the
capital was chosen by 'him, as a field, wide in extent, and
more likely of success. In Dublin, Drearen shone
more in polities than in physic. In his time there, Irish
enthusiasin, and Irish pride, had swollen to a panting
pitch; and he yielded himself, his genius. and his pen.
to the cause thit then was warming every Wart, aud
charging every tongne.—Disappoioted by subsequent
eyelets, he again returned to the re-bracing air of the
North ; end, although he could point his finger to thOn-
sands, who knelt at the receiving of, and afterwards
ceaselessly violated, the" test oath," vet Ise, the Author,
sever departed from a particle of its principles, nor for-
got the binding nature of a Patriot's rolvottary oak
As a writer, the pathos which he threw into the softer
strain of his fugitive pieces; the clear perspicuity of his
political compositions; the keen edge that sharpened
kis satire, and tbe expressive ardour and harmony that
breathed through his poetry, are strong proofs how well
Drennan could toaster his I,en. His mind was endowed
with a large %toek of classical knowledge derived friou
profound erudition, and he was never at a loss for a,
wurd to convey his idea, or for a quotation to ronfirm ,
any point at • issue. He has written many beautiful
poeu s. ebiefly domestic or political, and ntimiterless
pieces its prose : of the latter, the " Letters of Orelitea."
ItialAddresses to the Irish Volunteers, and mane,amest
important Essays on Home Education, deliverer to fits
Belfast Institution, (of which he was the corner stone)
stand conspicuous. The retrospect of polities le the
Belfast Magaxime, will retain to the world the depdt of
his political reasoning. He also traoltatect the
ty*Sophoeles, and several of Cieere's' Letters.
His latter days termed with acts of benevolence, sap
bursts of patriotic enthusiasm. No 'occasion orretteretki
in which the interests of Ireland, or of her snhappy.l,
children, were endangered, that Drennan did not, like.,
Cineinnatus, leave his fields and his gardens, morn to,
the tower, and again resume the neat of the pflerjetic
monitor; and this, till within a few hourelif
Hewes ewers tblf young adyentertritii titi•
world ; and there are not a few in Beth'', wise teif tee.'
tify to the caution he would inculcate in basiairteLitail
the alacrity he would keep alive in principle. '
The Minerva-like wisdom of the widow he lan
himself arknowledgert—and who was, in every way:.
meet partner for anch a man. The children of Drennan,
under such a mother, will surely lose none of their fa-
titer's greatness.
Ferrari, thou advocate of weeping and widowed Ire.]
lead! thus friend of snags, In every clime and country r
May the youth of that land, thou se well named "
Emerald Isle." emulate, if not equal thy fervour of na.
OMNI devotion—and may every Irishman, who wished
to retain the name of patriot, come to thy Arks% iertoke
thy name, and iwitate thy example.—(Dakie, FM. la)

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LONDON:
TUESDAY ETINING, IPIERUART la, 1820.

The moment our Paper was going to press. wo
received the important information that the Chief
Ministers (following, as we presume, the impulse
of the Loan CHANCELLOR) gave in their re-
signations!!! The above sudden event is under-
stood to have arisen from an um% illingness to
yield to tho wishes of his 31AJEsTY, on a subject
lot extreme delicacy.

Jamaica Papers arrived this morning to the 9th
of Janunry.
la The Royal Gazette is the following extract of a
kiter front Arena Blanco, dated Her. 22:—" An extraor-
dinary courier is just arrived, bringing intelligence of
Morino twine ,trrounded by the Patriots at San Carlos,
and that Bolivar was hr•ieging Carthagenia. Brion has
been reinstated in his command by the Congress of
Venezuela."

SJIIPPINo I sTattacs:vce.—By accounts received fro*
Ilavannib, it appears that its neighbourhood, as well M
the tiulph of Florida and Mexico, have been visited with
tremendous gales, and the worst weather experienced'
that had ever been remembered. Vessels are hourly
running into liavannah in distress.
&tract of a letter from St. Thomas, 16th Dee.—Als•
counts hare reached this place to day from Angostura,
statiaf, that General Soublette had arrived there from
the Independent army, anti that he bad brought to Mow.
Heal 3,010 infintry, who had been joined by General
Pau, with 4,1100 cavalry ; he left General Bolivar in
Santa Fe, wills 6,11 X) men, who was to follow hint in a
few days ; in the mean time all his troops in Margaritta
and Mattirin, were to proceed to Montical. General
Arisenemnli had left Angostura, for Maturia, to dispatab
the troops from thence and if there, if General D'Etes
reisx's legion had not arrived from Margaritta, Leis.
tended to proceed to that island to hasten these, when the
whole will 'me concentrated ; they will amount, it is add,
to MOM men.
A report u•sts in circulation on Tuesday, that Ilk
Gregor M‘liregor had lately heeu killed at Aux Cam*
by some of the persons who bad beet) deluded into bbt
laeryk.,

(FROM TUE coanro DEL NOV. 1.)

S. JAGO DR LA VEGA, AS. I.—Extract of a letter ftwen
.9t. Thomas, Dec. 1d :—" 1 have the satisfaction to inform
yos, that Omuta has been taken by the division of
'Soublette, on the 23d of October, when General de la
Torre was completely defeated, leaving every thing be-
hind him. The day fixed upon for the concentration of
all the armies, was the 6th of this month; they world
march in one grand army, amounting to upwards sit
lt,ooo men, upon Caraccas and the other rositions of
Morillo adjacent to the coast, as all his combined fortes
do not exceed 6,614 men, and roost of them will desert
the banners of Ferdinand as soon as the Patriots will
give them battle. The numbers of the several amiss
are as follows

The force alien. Bolivar
The artuv of lien. Paez (cavalry) . . .
Ditto of lien. Marino, which Lass 'marched from
blaturi

Itasllo
hesidos the division of fienerals Jaraza and Cellos*,''
and the English forces at 51argaritta, of 12,0(10 eseelloot
' soldiers; the head-qaartcrs of Murillo were at Vanerebt."
(roof, TIM ROYAL JA3I.IIrA CA7ILTTE Or TIM gin JAN.),
We kerb hy the Wasp, that accounts had melted.
Carthagenia oNieneral Bolivar having arteived at Pim-
ping% from Sawa Ye. It k said, he tooltiesrai yearly
to the value of live millions of dollars, of both
oath privan. property, sparing nothing that came firth:
*ay.- Previons to the Wasp leaving Rio Chagres..m.
eonlits hail been received that WI freebooters, supposed
to bePong to Anry's desperadoes, had landed, and tsh
=ion of Chapo, a stnail town, fourteen leagues from'
ta. General Hore had dispatched &NI notion',
•antl 500 militia, to encounter them.

.Accounts by the Martina state, that during her aim
.it.Cisracoa, tistkineernor of the Carreras, Cie nerd! Path,
*id+lolled there in an open boat from La Unica, sc.
conspanird lay an Aide-de-camp and fourteen of his kik
lowees,-with' about Itll,lloo dollars in specie; it is asp
his object was to proceed to Peru.
'1" Tilt intelligence from the South Sea assetigeed _the
rasing of the blockade of the co.ast by ' ' •
"notichaki retired from time to time to Yi

that his sirsAlron !hid been august;
'''''t descriptions.

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-; By accounts lately published iu the iptierimee
Pailtfli,:stating that General Morino bad arrivedk et
1144faoknah, proves not to be correct, is IN"
.
inforetfitioMfrotri Angostura, of the 28th Novelists",
celfttililc. eara the ipi•
Ccatnrs ExpeasucsT, —lf a blacksmith stitistis .bls •lilliWiWh.stance :
anvil with a ha tttttt er, action and rr•aetion are attios • -7"(lflie Nymph Corvette was dispatched by Watt te
anvil striking the hammer as forcibly u the hatandav tllif Wiolleeqii, with a Commissioner on board, t. sob*
swirl
strikes the anvil. If the anvil he Loge enough. tho
esisieoraiititrea and money, both of which bare hall
may place it on his breast, and suffer soother parses tra;
1-1-A---reisied is consultation of theCaptain-tienerat,
stoke it with ill his force. without/instal:tine aajitejarfC • • -
becaule the
vie ;twit., in• the anvil will resist flip 4me• withAse.dialstla aud Consulado Cain. The whisk of the
of the Wow ; but if the anvil hr. too small, tbs. blow At abets tgrtitori under Gen. La Torre has been destroyed
be fatal.—(Lferipoo/ Alerert.y.)
_.. _ .
.- i " loyWintS;iiblittr, sod the port of Santa Pa, est the
lltuants FORDIIIN/4:441.--Sinca the Radice! leillalle• "'la ..•
s bees ahasdoned by the Royal &visas ler
rise water-drinkers, solsrietY had burn rathavollo4o-_,. Add there, and Urn. Sonblette has meg&
fishable virtues 10 At igpotAtlonight a serrate, whim gm- sigiltwlt. _ _ __e _
„NI, drunk on cbrhosas doors" sey‘reiroviasegid tho ea tupt Coasts. W bate not yet rocolosl
.1 . ..am. battle that pot our troops Is 111":
thliiiirs 111.itter. " ISTemi tour tutloitr." Nisei
" and liner save the king, this ii 4 i .1t 4 riißty, where the toasty were so -
.4811111 rug 1t to skew Isis prineiees " • ' oost•sel •...t ..-:•--1 -1_ -

the trier'
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anxiety.