The Statesman.
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" Port Spain, Xftv..26.1817.

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"I wrote to you by the last Leeward Island packet,
a few days agri, since which oar port has been so
completeiihiockadod by a Si:snide brig and schooner,
and a parcel of armed launches, that our communica-
Casa With Goyana hoe been.iutercepted, and our
supply of mules ind cattle at the commencement of
crop rendered very pretariosa. The Spaniards, con.
-dined to the coast, have. literally nothing to eat them.
. sot to Deer us its the way of trade ; and of
belletee it is.very galling, both.to the, merchants and
•Osuters to see two Spanish privateers In our port,
end the launches anchoring and revising on our very
coasts, from Point Marto,. 'The brig of war on oar
-motion, is, I enderstand, gone op the Orinoko, so
that we have, at this criritial momiont. nn newel force
to protect a valuable trod., even on oar own coasts,'.
-and to prevent the infraction/If net territorial and
etariiime rights. which the presststClese of marauders
are at all rims• disposed ill 11141/1140.- I only speak
.of this rie ,onwerilockk oreerteeee, .for
.the sloop of
war hoe; no doubt, 'good tension,. for her absence,
,ead the appearance of t i flotilla was sudden; per
t.enst it pais, a moment longer than- Wile is advised of
,lts being inlite Gulf.
Since I wrote the foregoing, I have seen a great
inessy letters from Goma, dated up to the 16th inst.
• A schootrer leaded with males, having luckily heard
ref ear blockade, landed them at Goalie, and the
Imppercargn has arrived itra boat. The flechera also,
-in which Captain ItYao, of the ship Two Friend.,
• event up to Guyana, is also jest returned. I have
• not seen him, hot I am told General Bolivar has fol.
•iy confirmed all the contracts made in London by
order of the Veriezuelean Government, and of coarse
-ire will write to those concerned hy. this.packet.
I " The news which I have collected from twenty
upriver@ letters which I have read,'frons the most re-
spectable sources, sad which you may rely upon,
•.istonourice—
•"rhat General Bolivar having received a dispatch
from General Sarno, stating that General Morillo
had advanced to San Sebastian de los Reyes, with
the view of collecting his• forces at Calahoso, had
• autpemled his expedition to San Fernando de Apace,
and marched direct against Morino with an army of
-5.000 Indio, well disciplined and equipped, and pro.
'aided with every thing necessary, leaving Gen. Pees
t. to blockade San Fernando with his cavalry and cover
. that vatuable nountry. A detachment of infantry has
also- been sent to assist him. General MOtillu'll memos
• are an inferior, and he is so generally detested eves.
. by the Se:infarct.. that his destrucilo* appears 1,44-
• , Is*. A cotsfidentiul letter front the Intendant of
5: • Guyana Jo en emigrant friend here, states ibis aril.
de as 1 site it to you, and adds, that General Ma-
. vino having, fag recognised General Bolivar as se-
:.prente Chief, Civil Roe Mditary„. had.received orders
• to co-oppeate with Beneath's and Monagasin, in
angtelling_theSpaelards from-the Protince of Commie,
: Mat is the city of Comma (where they have about
, 400 men) end the other towns rtn,,tke crin,• whore
they may have sr •many more, ill" lialf.starved, as
f even the -Pot:lota would have bees, bet tsit the re-
hoarse' from the interior. . -.-•
" Besides Brion's squadron,• the river OrfunitO is
„protected by 35 gunboats and 25 large Michele,:
commanded by Dies who, doting, tie, siege, with
;ire launches destroyed the Spaui b flotillar:
of 16.
Ile is a Nlargaritenean, or moderW
.Skettin. and I
tiri*ie read an account of that esplat,iti .the English
" Margarita 111 now so fortified by art, and de.
s.„
ItietieU broads, !aloof., that they would laugh to
'scarp any emsetiKon the Spaniards can send oot.—
,401ameroli is bending several heavy launches. to carry
'etch a rwelve.pouhder forward, and a nine-poender
aft. This is his fort ; the ship Two Friends is
.Iying there; the Captain is now here going to join
her, and I hope to give a good account of the sup.
porters of Despotism and the Inquisition.
66 A late letter from a Catalan merchant, dated at
,fort Gus, ra, within this month. to his cowpadre here,
gays, 4 At tenidole fortune de mar a lei familia de
Gamma,
.st comic:Ha a Puerto I have been
foatunate enough to get my family out of Cannes,
sad send them to Porto Rice.'—llow do the Spat&
ards stand there, when a Catalan resorts to this pre.
caution? It now appears there is no doubt of the
)evolution planned there by the Spanish Liberates,
'which involved the banishment to Puerto Rico of the
Captsin.Geueral kloso, and the severer punishment
of others : at least it is so detailed by some prune
lately from Co recess.
" IVe hate 18 of the officers of the ship Two
Friends, and 30 that came oat in the brig cladwin,
now here. The 18 of the former, and eight of the
latter, are resolved to go on and join Bolivar ; 22
are either 'imitating, or resolved, it is said, to re-
torts. If they should do sot withsiot proceeding to
Oleo*, where the Supreme Government resides,
whetever they may allege, they are alone to blame.
Every pains has been taken by the Spanish party
here, to dissuade them from persevering in their plan.
I lib not surprised at the Spanish Royalists doing
so • but while 1 think nothing could tend more to
ei(lll.nd our commercial ineeence, than the introduc-
tion of respectable Englishmen among the natives of
South Ail:erica, I am not equally clear as to thepo•
bey of Englishmen's joining in such counsel. How.
ever, sock as have no opinion of their own, too
freqwently seller by following that of others • for the
Men who weeld not give you a dollar, is always
reedy to give you sdvice—Coe we carte rim. What
elect. Abe news received this day.from Guyana, and
the diviiive events preparing, may have on their de-
tertnin•tion,
.1 cannot pretend to say; bat it is to be
regret red. that those who secede did not makeup their.
mind. before they left home. ,
64 General
.806•111` hay established a Provisional
Council and a Tribal's' de Alta Jesdela in Guyana,

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hold by his rountryto.
solidate pantie meter ant.
in popular a man as Pier
after a lone end impartial
consolidate good Miler and
Stiff for mail yes... It was
awl melancholy necessity !
one moment inneer in his
would (Notifiess have shared
an etiM. The Order, of Geo.
clantation of G.H. Bermudez, left him no alternative
but submission and order.. ".
66 *SnMllo people are alarmed hero for the Uolnit of
ogrehoottea, for they suppose, that &South America
he fry., the direct trade to the Main will auperaede
the necessity of them. This, at worst,. can-only be
to a cm tain eaten' ; but is the trade of Mkt &Hain
as a nation, to be sacrificed to the transit trade of a
Colony ?—Sech a pretension can only suit the Miiris
dian of Cadiz, and would be scouted in England,
both in Parliament and upon 'Change.
• " taispect soon to cnatmunicaie great results in
favour of South ..AMerican lihirth end of a free
trade with that fine country, in consequence of the
vieogoos, and, I trust, jedicinea movements of BO
jive!, whose ',tertian, and perseverance hive jpatly
entitled him to his present high command. Tbd
Caraccas Coterie says, t were a Angle
heir of"tai
whiskers to fill in any part of America itwould
create • revnlution.'—f would *iiitliper. the EditoW
the truth is not to be told at altstimes.'...-.Licert
cab hosts doceri."

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PRICE. or STOCKS TM'
!look Stork 292 IS
9 per Cest. Red. Mil
per Crot..Coitaals
Coots& for Arc. NH
'4 per Got. 994

DAY AT ONIE OT,I.O"CK.
5 per Cent. Nav• 105(4
India Bonds 105 106 p
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Loft Ann. 90 15-16 91
I.:tramper Bills 19 48 p

THE STATESMAN.

But whatever ones peeled +merest" may have attesoq
the Spanish Royalists In the territory where theo wM
said to have obtained this decisive victory, their sl'.
fairs appear its a very doubtful situation in exhoo
plates. The New York Evening. Post supplies tho
following . further account of the defeat of the
Royalists in Cowan :-
1 Futon PORTO CATELLO.—By the brig Attie.,
Bowen:, which arrived this forenoon in tbiry 'day,
foie Porto Csvelln, we are informed that previous
to her sailing it was reported and believed that the
Royelists had suffered a severe defeat at COMM* nip'
Barcelona. Several Spanish transport dips, wish
troops which bed been its the ection, arrived at POT'S
Covello; two or three days before Captain BOWERS
sailed, Iblit'every thing relating to the stair, which
osight' (*able the Public to judge of the magaitede
.of the disaster, was kept a secret."
The Aurora asserts, that the taking peosesalsot
Amelia. Island was authorised by two of the itooott.
tiOnary Provinces of Spain, after an investigatiew of
the use which could be snide of Florida to permit.%
the Patriot cause, and that Florida was to bate bees
made an independent Republic.

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A private letter from Washington, of the iitii
%posits in confident terms of the cession of the Fk.
rides to the United States.

The Reporter contains the following still ow.
important and recent intelligence from Amelia Wand:
—lntelligence from Amelia, es late as Monday
lit instant' reached Savannah nn the 3d, by the Pa.
ttiot privateer Republican, Captain SMITU. whir%
put into the River iu distress. MIRY. on immesh(
that the Uniied States had determined to, break u.)
his buccaneering establishment, and occupy O.
Island, showed a conciderable degree of perturbation.
Ile embargoed the privateers in the harbour, toll,/
the plea of their presence being necessary for its 'se-
curity in the absence of himself and his black hero...
who are to make a desperate attack on the imprec.
noble walls of St. Augustine. where the G0d41•4
of Victory is to decorate their jetty brows aka
unrolling wreaths of laurel, sod the Goddess of
Plunder to fill their knapsacks with refulgent goad--
but hit real intention was believed to be to defend
his piratical nest against our troops. The mail""
of such a resolution sea too ostensible to receive ILO
countessanre of his followers; end in consequence 11,e
eMbargo was removed on the 29th or 20th ult. en
the Ist inst. he was making preparviont for the
embarkation of his troop', and the total estarasatio
of the island. This was done, however, under plc..
tence of proceeding against St. Augustine. lie
he was in a few days to be joined by two or Our•
hundred troops from the nnrth, and six or seven
hundred Floridaians,who would resider the avocets of
the expedition certain.

" A ruled weasels from (tiffetent American ports Winn
arriving daily for the perpose of obtaining ena►mwis.
sinns—three (roar Beldam.* on Saturday the 1.31%.
ult.; in all they amounted to foecteen. Oa the lame
day, it iv reported, s prise achironer, with a itaartreg
and twenty rvervorm, was takes pememioa of, whits
attempting to rea into Feroandise, by the United
Slates' brig Saraitat."

There is an aceonat by General GAttstts to th
Governor of Georgia, dated at Fort Scott, were the
continence of the Rivers Flint and Chataboochie,
his engagement with the Indians on the Georgia
frontier. The Indians were put to the flight. Geo.
GatuEs says, " Among the articles foam; in this
house of the Chief, was a British uniform coat (scarlet)
with a pair of gold epaulettes, and a certificate signed
by a British Captain of Marines, 4 ROSERT Wurrr,
in the absence of Colonel Ntotors,' stating that tl*
Chief had always been a true and faithful friendto
the Brktish.' The reports of friendly Indian.; renter
in esiiiniiiing the number of hostile Indians, inclaing
the Ited*Stick-s- and Seminoles, at more than c2C.IJO
—independent of the blacks at anti near Sorranne7.
within 120 miles of this place, amounting to near
400 men, 'tad increasing by the addition of 'serf
runaway from Georgia able to get to them. Tho
friendly Indians inform toe, that the hostile pile!
and blacks have been promised a British force to au
sist them, from New Providence. This promise.
though made by :4:Knots and Woonotstc, is, TIPVff.
theless, relied on by these deluded wretches, who. I
have no doubt, will sue for peace, as they God tbrit
hopes of Briti%lt aid to be without foundation."

The Paprrs we have received thitt morning ba''
brought further proceedings of Copycat,. The twi-
nes. is becoming important—warm discu4l.tioos
expected on the South American subject. In stitri-
lion to the notices we hare inserted.elw.where. '
subjoin the following brief commery of the proceed.-
jugs in the Seuate and House of Itepresestatire4
the I^,tl. :

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&sena ere his Itsstitetlons ramie,. WAlllt ,of . N owl Khoo. we. here 6^ Infer MIN ' • •
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Shut his teller; disted Dee. •17 was received. awl Weeded far '
treority. Tice isecution of P•
Iset eve VI tot* t° co" blymi ". b" by "'me acrid.'" It ear "hk •a. w.. 611 -
tilt and best itiliabliedspirt o Mexico. It I
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fore. adopted the Letter *Well afterwards aPPr"few in mu' for the Carrier to A it we? bat thfis
for a great delinquency, .
I trial, has done more- to rive.lpy at' theffeleallreabert sel'aPerso. aeli.eaectiiereta'laff—v.orvit mpersomebe ilean'areseliailfral- hied' far one 441°6' bendaisly . of
i 6iScipline than aey mea. ties of the ease. atthoogb a very lanseataltle owe Weed. The Baltimore Patri of the 131 , • I
was the reset of imperioes w,„,id be afford rather intrusive. Our Paper always her York Advertiser of the litli4ill., eimothiett the ;ar
telligenre of MINA'I (lip from the Ilasannah Pa-
Ilad Marion persevered
bees, and will continue to be. ''ready vehicle for the cam-
; obstinacy and folly, he
•ed the saneSie, nr been eplolairintisalopersef 4beraotpiernesied. or Otherwl:it.lehers ate/spot": tPedhis sisfrtsrect ME_
Pen, but no further Parlicilith ire Riven ait2......w oo•vill. •
[:ea. Bolivar, and the Pro. world to 1619Pere, that we speak &After. • and tint a word of comment is basasdesl4sy the .ttalis..
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