Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-02-15

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perations. After having esta alished Pro-
visionary Government in st. g, for the Safe
ty OF the kingdom of Grena "a. General Boz
livar lett said city at the sam time with the
Northern Army, to place himselfat the head
Of all the Republican Corps in the province
of his native Venezuela, and open vigorous
and decisive campaign against the blood
thirsty Morillo, and thus terminate war Of
ten years, which has cost them upwards of
ESQ, 600 souls left their country in desola-
ton, and its inhabitants overwhelmed with
hardships and msfortuues, without openly
having received the protecting hahd of any
foreign nation o. power whatever.
The taking of St. Fe by Bolivar, produ-
eed as fly electricity, a general political re-
volution throughout that vast country and
before the Liberating Army should have
reached the Capital of any one Of its Pro-
vinces, its undaunted citizens effected their
per6dious emancipation, and hurled the sy-
cophapts of base Monarch from The seats of
power, and restored again to independence
the virtuous sons Of Columbia awed by the
too successful operations of the expedition Of
Morillo against Car,hagena in 1915, which
occasioned the melancholy loss of all that
Kingdom.
" By last official accounts, fourteen provn-
ces were already in the full enjoyment Of
their rights and privileges, only Carthsgena
and St. Martha being in possession of the
Royalists, which must inevitably fall in
few months, as they are without provisions
and credit.
The presence of General Bolivar being
required at Augostura, previous to his decent
upon Caracas and the Sea Coast, he arrived
in that city on the 18th OF December. amidst
the admiring concourse OF people, who re-
ceived him with every demonstration of JOY
and eclat, that the mind Of man can imagine,
in II days he passed from Pompona in New
Grenada to Guayana, which has never been
performed until now in less than from Is to
80.
The project Of the fundamental law Of
Columbia, "a translation of which | have
made,) think Is msgnanimous, and lays a
solid basis Oh which to erect the splendid
and supurb supersuucture Of great, power
faI, and respectable republic.
General Bolivar set out from Augostura
for his head quarters Of Apure, on the eth
ult and before the Goth of February next,
you may expect to hear that he is in Carac.
cas-, with an army of more than $500 men,
and that Morillo, with the remnant of his
forces, will be driven into Notifications Of
Porto Cabello, where close and vigorous
siege will soon terminate bis military career
Of cold blooded assassinations in those de- |
lightfu regions.
" shall Immediately 60 down to La Quay
ra and Caracas, as they may be taken by
the Patriots
send you Price Current, which hope
may prove useful. The St. Thomas news
papers are uninterestng
" Yours sincerely"
"P. S. The expedition has not yet sailed
from Margaretta, waiting the arrival of Gen.
Devereaux but in case he should not reach
that Island in all this month. j, will depart
without him and il is nv opinion that they
hare orders toproceed direct for La Guayra,
10 cooperate with the army from the ineri.
DR., which will be in possession of Caracas
by the middle Of February. Mariana Mon
lilo is the commander in chief Of the Expe-
dition in Margaretta."
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