The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

SPANIS AM Elt IC.I.

C1VT111(:1:V1, DFC. 23.—8 y yesterday's post a
letter nRS received from Novell, stating that the
combined armies of Buen,,s Avres and Chili, under
the command of General Belgrade, had entirely de-
feated the royalist army of Limo, under General
Pest.ela, near Gzurn, in Upper Peru. After the
engagement Major-General Tacon, the second in
command, retreated to Lima, where the people of
the town and its environs, on receiving the Recounts
of the defeat of the army, revolted. General
"'aeon immediately set off for Quito, where his fa-
mily was, and had only time to remove them to
Guayaquil, for as soon as the events in Lima were
known, the people followed the example of this last
city, so that the whole province of Peru is now be-
come. independent.
Abascat, the Viceroy of Lima, and Torrihoi
Montes, the Captain-General of Quito, embarked
for Guayaquil, the only town in Peru In possession
of the Royalist party.

A LETTER 'MOM cARTIIAGENA, SAME DATE.

" The final decision of the Congress has at length
reached this. The office of President to each State
is annulled, and in its stead an Executive Council of
three to preside over all. Torices, the President of
Seisms, and a person from Anti, are named the Exe-
cutive Council. Torices goes off for Santa Fee in
Ito days. The different Provinces will have Goner,
sort, and it is supposed that Mr. Amador will be
named for Carthagena."
Cult CO A, OCT. 28.—The schooner Elizabeth,
from La Cu► ra, has brought intelligence of the re-
capture of Cuniana by the Royalists, under the ac-
live Roses, who entered that city on the 16th inst.
just after routing the Independents, with consider-
able loss. It is added, that the victors showed little
mercy to the iuluthitaats in revenge for having, during
the short time they were in possession of the town,
put to death all the Spaniards and Creoles attached
to th.ir party. It is greatly to bu lameuted that this
savage warfare still continues.
In 44. w-resew circumstances of Old Spain and
her Trans-Atlintic Colonies, is there the smallest
probability that the Mother Country will ever be
able to regain the sovereignty of these valuable
possessions? We think not. Should this country
assist in, the smallest degicv the efforts of Spain to
►ubjugate them? it would be the height of mad-
ness. Spain joined France in the war which termi-
nated in the independence of the North American
States. The present movements in South Ame-
rica are only another act in the same important
drama ; and it cannot certainly be the interest of
this country to retard the remaining steps leading
to the only catastrophe which the interference of
Mute and Spain was originally calculated to pro-
duce.

But, independently of the rurlenesr which might
be ascribed to any effort on our part to prevent the
proper denouement of the original plot, there are
other and powerful motives why we should not in-
terfere in favour of Old Spain. Under the guiti-
auce of the stupid Priests, who direct all her affairs,
she is at this moment, with the same kind of gra-
titude which teaches her to imprison, to banish, or
to hang those who fought for her emancipation, now
doing every thing in her power to cripple and de.
stroy, as for es site can, the commercial prosperity of
this country.