The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.
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By a private vessel from the West Indies, we yea.
terday r.ceived further statements of the affairs%
Venezeila and New Granada, bet they are oot more
recent, and by no means so copious, as doom which
reached us by the packet. From them webave been
able to select the following t—
eIf7ICIAL DISPA?CM Or ADMIRAL BRION TO TUX
SUPREME CIIIEP OP lIIINMELA IIEbPiCTING TUE
cArsuat Of GUIRIA.

" Oe hoard the Virtaria,Goiria,Aoe.2s:
44 On the 17th instant I left the river Oronoaro with
part of the peuadren umber mv command, bound to
the Island of Tobago, where I attained the object I
was sent for, sad on the 21st I anchored in 00
poet of eillearld, on the, coast Of the Island of
'frinidad. From thence I immediately sent the
schooner Favourite towards point Ilicacoe, in search
of Oer gen•hosts. On the 22d, at daybreak, I set
sell, aceomparsied by the brig Columbia and schooner;
Spartan, and at Oa in the looming got sight of the
*choosier Fatroerite,.in company with the gun.hosts,
and theta steered toWardsdhe port of Guido, ordering
Uniesendent Dies to run slung the coast, in order
to obtain information of oer Guerillas. little wind
mist contrary tides did net alio* me to surprise the
lieseew that night, and I was compelled to anchor at
thedistenee of four leagues from the town. At day-
. bieek ell the larger weasels got under weigh, and pro.
• cerded towards the port of Goiris, where his Bd.
• tannic Majesty's ship Scimander lay at anchor. I
immediately dispatched a letter to her Commander,
informing him that it was my intention to undertake'
hostilities against Geld*, supposing he was there on
some mission to theSpanisb Goverantent, assuring him
that I would defei my operations till he bid terminated
it. The said Commander informedmes that 1 wild
committee them whenever I pleased. As the gon.
boats were a considerable way behind, and, at the
same time, fearful that the enemy would retire, I de.
termieed to commence an attack on the town. The
brig Colombia, and schooner Favourite, baying shot
a.head, they anchored within grape.shot•of the town
end commenced a brisk fire, whilst I was approach-
. ing with my corvette. The enemy seeing that the
calm and currents would not allow me to arrive in
time, sallied forth with'their gon.boats arid (lechery',
to the nomberoof seven, and sitavked the Wile..
lambi. and schooner Favourite, who kept up a
heavy ire. I *as Cocaina up, but being compelled by
the colas torreulder in three fathoms water, in order
to present the progress of lbw-enemy; who had al."
Wed,' boarded thi brig Columbia. The emus rtowed
Igor towards the shore, notwithstanding the heavy
fire they esperienced from the corvette sad schooner
revoorite. Oar loas eta this day was five killed and
two wounded.
' 41.11-4 t See in the afternoon I mired from before
n, and eweiteeed in the siert of Qoehrants,'
Wllitee the greatest mart of the goo-beats joined us.
111110 whole of the sigh; 'vim passed ha manning the
lath. with pee* from she larger vessels. I made
• wrringements for cameral Bennudes to !cleat three
In the Morning, wills bin disposable troops, near the
. poet of Qesbrants, sod march. in rear of the town to
%reit ilsems.spevelleo at our G&W recces; bat as the
aim mid sommeta did Ikti again allow me to get up
in gem, I dietm
_tc)esi Commendest eight
rkq him 'to anchor neer the town,
wbisb he ilia at two P.M., and the breeze having'
freshemed. I pushed forward with the larger vessels,
sod 'initiated spelt in (roost of the town. having'
made a signal Is Giowerat- Bermedes on shore, we
' instantly attacked the town by sea and land. The
enemy fired epos eit from their gun-boats, ditcher's,
end the brig Cellemildes which they had manned, and
• were ',stained WI fort mounting five guns. No.
.
thing, however, tits able to prevent the advance of
our soldiers on the teeing or that of oar smell vessels
on the brig end enemy's gon.boets. The latter were
all boarded, and the crams forced to throw themselves
ioto the water end escape. One of their gun-bouts,
commanded by the traitor Salmis, blew up, and the
' crew was dreadfully burnt. In the mean time, the
larger vessels kept •p a heavy and well.directed fire
on the tort, when soon we perceived the enemy fly-
ing to the woods in every direction.
" Our brave sailors, underthe command of their
leader Diaz, landed, armed with muskets, and join.
log General Bermudez, drove the enemy, oat of the
. town. I ordered a detachment of 40 men to land
from the corvette. and soon gained possession of the
• whale place, &c. &c. Ste.
(Sigma)

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•, LUIS BRION."

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WWII IND GERMAN PAPERS.

Fame vi Ileum Rums, Nov. 15.—The ne-
• pciatious of Baden with the Allied Powers still
condom& The right of the Marrero, of Hochberg
to lb* sectussiog is, indeed, recognised by the great
POlNfilt bet the territorial arrangements are not de-
cided. New difficulties hare arisen, which, as it
appears proceed from Bavaria, which is said to be
spin et:desvouriog to enforce all its pretensions.
VISPINA, Nov. 20.—We learn by accoonts flow
Turkey, that the Divan of the Sultan has given
orders to disarm all the Servians. It is not at pre.,
!Slit koomi whether this order proceeds from the
' wane motives which caused the preceding one for the
deposition and 'sunders of the Hospodar of Wel-
latish, bat *hick came too late.
In souse places on the Turkish frontiers, parti-
cularly at Orsowa, signs of the plague have appeared,
on which account stricter precautions against it are
liken on the Austrian line.
For some dip past these have been extraordinary
Recitations in our Course of Exchange, the chief
cease of which is doubtless the great scarcity of
nstraey. The stagnation In the trade with all kinds
of eserehendiae if, thereby increased, and we should
certainly have bad the discount rise to 15 or 20 per
cent. had we not been supported by the National
Bask, which advances money upon reasonable in-
terest. It is indisputable that if this national esta-
blishment did not exist, oar place in the present (it
is to he hoped momentary) stagnation of every
branch of business would have been exposed to great
embarrassments, which would have been attended
with the ruin of several of the middling class of mer-
• chants.
Beettrr Nov. 21.—The number of 2000 re-
traits, which Berlin has to furnish every year) was