Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-05-07

&%lrart ?fo letter iron, gen:!eean II Car
rsecas Spanish mGin 20 aisJrsend in PHI
ia3rihhia dated
"CARnAccAs, March -.
The President OF the Junta here is now
QUE OF ofiec, q regular Congress Ha7lng met
fer the first time the ID inst. and they are now
busy planning "a constitution and new LAWS.
The people are at present very quiet but per-
haps it is calm portending storm. Inc
d. the Congress met conspiracy was dis
covered and qugshed, at the head OF which Was
{ 10: headed and weai: young man, brother
il. law OF the Presidents! The object OF this
nssh plot Was to excite the slaves and muiat-
Tres 20 follow the example of their St Denim
80 bretheren. Yet they are printing here
$. f's.;,.~''s Rtgh.s IF Aiaal," and Eousesau's
Socaut Confrdct,"i apears to me with the OBJ
c, od gettins. their own throats cut.
"Tae Carrdqueisn army has been complete
~ foi,c in its attempt on the city OF Coro,
ahi sivenit up rs Il bad JOB, for time at least,
Waat right they had to attack them, IS more
ts..a Can conjecture. l am however OF SPin-
ion that the revolution IS by no. means at AN
e,.ti. As vet no blood has been shed, but
the people talk Of sacrificing some unfortunate
Spaniards who held correspondence with
the governor of Coro, and who wvre brought
in prisoners Il day or two ago
= 81 am Just returned from trip Of about
800 mics into the ihteror. | travelled Oh
horseback, and it was sometimes very dlsa-
sreeable sleeping frequently on tire bare
ground with only the sky for Il covering, and
this Liter one scaaty meal In tire day, OF Casa
va bread and brown sugar, washed down with
muddy water strongly fiayoured with the dirt
OF Aligators and the slime of Water Snakes
Of one OF which saw the skeleton, the mon
ster being killed in the act of swallowing
deer \, d gulp. During the whole three
weeks was absent, there was not drop OF
Rain fell, and vet the heat WAS by no means e.
ccssive. In fact, returned from my tour
with sun burnt face, but an increased appc.
titc. For the first three days travelling, the
rosd leads over high hills, with narrow yailles
between, which give Yicii crops of sugar and
happy Ii the Climate, that. 50 miles from
this, you see ccrn fields intcrspersed with the
sugar Cane and C.eao plant; and if they
were IN the hands OF anv other people, for In
stance, tbs English, French, Dutch, Or Yam
KEGS, in every garden would be united all the
European and Tropical fruits yet, except
musk and w,,ter-IncloRs, which grow without
arr cultivati0n, no other fruit is to be met
with up the. county.
After having travelled about $50 miles, we
arrived IT the Llanos, which are immense
p.aius that stretch as far as the river Oroonoko,
and in the rainy season afford pasture 10 great
birds of Cattle. Here nothing relieves the
eye except now and then large tracts of palm
trees growing SO regularly, and Of such equal
ss,sht, that they appear as if planted BY the
band OF man. The extent of my journey was
" ato~n called Calaboza, near to which runs
The river Guarico, the only stream nayigable
s"sa tor Canoes that met With.
me towns arc very poorly built. having
dozen or two OF rolerabie hosses, the re-
n!a,Hoer OF the habis,tions being heAt of mud
Slsa roofs ofpalm leaves. Mos, of the towns
hsfe grand church begun, which, for want
g hhds' Is never above half flushed. This
appears to be generally the case 10 every Span
!s!H somn have seen. The people are much
s'ernlxed with the Indians originally inhabi-
ing the province, ard are very law and
assoiuse Sc, Of beings N the best houses
{sa see the young girls swinging all day in a
hammock, smoking segars sit1 the Hshted end
" sae mouth! Charming creatures to choose
'~as from! And yet some Of them are pref