Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-07-12


and brought out of Gulf Duce. half a mil
lion of dollars and 1900 seroons indigo.
EXTRACT OF Letter FROM ITALY,
Dated 10Th .qpri.
The concourse OF strangers at Rome IS
said to he beyond precedent. Many con-
lectures as to The real object of the empe-
TOR Of Austria's visit, though probably it is
| to obtain the pope's sanction to the divorce
, OF MARIA LOUISA from NAPOLEON; and
the marriage of the former with the king of
Prussia contemplated" [Bak. Patriot.
Philadelphia, July 8.
By the LyiiaS Mary, we have received
late Bermuda papers, from one of which
we copy the following articles Ref.
From The Bermuda Gazette, jane 10.
TIE Caracas Gazette of the 2lst of
April. contains two official accounts of aC-
tions fought between a detachment of the
royalists, commanded by Pereira, and the
indie pendents under Bolivar, Paez, Sub
lette, and Ansoategui The first OF which
;; took place on the eth of March, at Trapi-
che de Ia Camera, 10 which the iEdepen-
, dents are stated to have lost 400 men Kill
led and wounded, and So prisoners /; the
loss of the rpyslists amounted to Is killed
A I'D 4 .
penden,s is not exactly known. 1t is sta
TED to have consisted of the windward and
Barcelona battaiions of infantry. rifle
corps, partly English, some guides and
upw ards Of 1000 horses.-The whole of
the Spanish force consisted of 266 iDtan-
try, and 90 cavalry.
The second is dated Aranca, April 8,
and details an action. or rather success
sion of skirmishes, which took place on the
right bank OF the river Arauca, bct"ee
the 3Uth OF March and the I'd OF April
The loss on the part OF the royalists was
II killed aud 10 wounded that of the il
dependents must have been considerable,
from the number of dead found on the
roads the dispatch says thai Il is not easy
to calculate the loss of the enemy.
Letters received al Curacao and Jamai-
ca, from the Island OF ST. Thomas, dated
the lilh. list, and 22d o. April, contain
tue two following paragraphs
The SPANISH army IS posed at ST.
Jay me- tuls town Is situated IN the pro-
vince VI Caracas. We have seen an eX-
iraerdinary Caracas Gazette OF the 5lsl
utImo, which gives an official account CT
some successes o5taned by MorIio, on the
lliu. We are led 10 enquire why this do
cumeat has been withheld from the public
twenty days, when San Jayne is distant
from the capital but SIX or eight days, and
Achaguds only eight or ten.
"Beiuche is before this port. One OF
the transports which lately conveyed the
remaindero OF the English troops to Marga-
rita. has arrived here. The Spaniards in-
form US, that Bolivar was repuiset by Pc
rei,a in an attack against 81. Fernando,
made by the British troops. Fourteen
hundred men, being the remaindeF OF Col.
English's expedition, have arrived al MAJ
gari;ta with tue six hundred already
there, and two thousand Cr.oles, there is
an army of four thousand men at that
! place.
On the re-capture of Porto Bello by the
! Spanish forces, and Of the flight OF More
gor, our readers have already been fully
informed. The following narrative, bow
ever, as connected with the affair OF Sir
Gregor's expedition, is not uninteresting.
1t is taken from the Jamaica Royal Ga
zette, of the 22d ultimO:
Five women, whose husbands were ell
iher killed OF taken prisoners at the re-
capture of Porto Bello, and three children
who were brought here in the Conhance,
were sent on Thursday to the public hos
pital OF this city one of them was wound
ed in the neck by musket bali /; another
is The wife OF printer, OF the name OF Cox
whom Sin Oregon brought with him from
. England, with a few printing materials,
and VINO was wounded in his apartment,
made prisoner, and marched TO Panama {:
His wife and the other women were march
ed out of the town along with the soldiery,
but after proceeding few miles, they be-
came fahgued, and sat down on the road
s;Io rac,e;,r IN procapI f,.rther uDoD