Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-12-16
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L. sfetSS FOH CuftSueSelsds
KINcsTas, (Jam.l Oct q6. 3
Arrived, yesterday The schooner ii
ssopa, Brocknaaa, Carthageua, 5 days
ssrty-one passengers arrived III La Pr;
Ipa. By this vessel We. Are informed
THAT the siege Of G,artiageua is entirei,
raised, and vessels have free esress ant
lingress, without molestation.
October so.
|tsxtracts Of letters from Carthagena, ia
gentlemen in this city.
0 The tyrant and traitor, Castillo, is
mo longer IN command the valiant Ber-
!malez has replaced him. WhenI first
entered these Notifications, I observed
This actions very closely, ard soon dis
covered that, under pretence Of for.
|wardipg neutrality-suspicious., here & there.
he was delivering up our brave people to
be murdered; as happened to numbers,
and amongst the rest, San Arusia. ca
lion. etc. / accordingly took measures.
with Mariana Montilln, and got him
back to town, surprising he would be
immediately replaced /; but be was de-
lceived-he wished to become Dicta.
tor; when cur patience being worn out,
and orr danger daily increasing, unit
ed with Bcrmudez, and others, and
witnessed on the 9th instant day Of
sdoliyerance.
$ On the 9Th, at i O'clock at night.
receited information of the ccmmnni-
cation being cut Off, between the Pope
and tie city. by ,.,ler of Castillo. ]
instantly waited on that worthy officer,
! Du Co,dray, at one O'Clock that worn
ling, and we jointly issued a procia'na-
ton to tie troops. Inhabitants. and ma
lrine, declaring Castillo a traitor. and
immediately dispatched boat to Pass a
/ Cabai!o, where his brother was, re-
ieuesting HIN to come down immediate
lly, on particular business, to ST. Fer
ifando; he arrived the same morning at
iseyca o'clock, when he was instantly
made prisnner, with a number mere OF
line traitors .pastisaBs. The poclama
ltion was received with universal 10y by
| all des,artments. One OF Casti!|o's aid
Ide-cafnps was shot, and two wounded IN
opposing his arrest. The JOY was uni
iversal at taese events. The enelny's
! fleet has much diminished, and their ar
my is ina most miserable state. Every
| ttine new looks well. and our ports
ioace more oren to Commerce and sp&-
eu!ation frae ingfess aud egress.--
| Flour and ether provisions meet with a
| mast rapid and ready sale. The events
F,a,aat hawias taken Place. will now g.
vince to tie world. in It's true light. the
basis aid caase ct Che affair ti!at trans
SIRED hetwe.d Genera! Boiivay and Cas-
tito; and whilst We view the oAe with
Iatimlration, as self excited hero, for
Siie sole good aud henetit ofhis oppressed
land struggling country. and to avoid
fhe fame OF civil ar>and discacsi--,we
view the otier Nitl, that contempt ant
horror which all tix,tors indiscrinlinaie.
Iiy merit. 1t IS ny opinion, That the ar,
Etest OF this ambitious aDd intriguing ty,
|rant, The cause has snbdued a hest Of e.
Inc,nies ! as, had be succeeded In his
Itreacberous intention. 40 doubt could
Iexist as to tie fate Of Thousands. lie
FIRST evinced his disposition By his cen
lesuet to the brave Verezuelea9 army.
lander the coauaad Of general Bolivar.
veil knowing THEN, pat'iotism and at
Ter this, it Did not require much fore
isight and Discrimination. to foretel' tie
result ofwhat has already happened -
land It has excited the astoDishment Of
Plumbers, how be ceuid have been suf-
lfered to exist SO long, to the dctriment
.of our cause. But tae day Of retribution
HAS at length arrived, and that fate Row
iawaits him, which he has draWn down
OH himself, and which he so richly me
its, along with the vengeance Of his en-
| aged countrymen.
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