Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-16

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MANUAL 7 ORRES.
To H. E. Carlo Soublette, General oil
Division and attendant of the Depart
ment OF Venezuela.
Baltimore, July IL.
FROM THE PACIFIC.
The editors are indebted to the pc.
| likeness of friend for the perusal OF a
letter received by the schooner Aman-
da, from which the following is extrac-
ted
Valparaiso, apr1 Is, 1922.
"I enclose you the terms on which
the Spanish frigates and corvette Alex.
apder surrendered to San Martins A
gent. A ship arrived yesterday from
Guayaquil-and from Lord Cochrane's
Agent, who has received letter from
him, l learn the following
Lord G.. sailed from St. Pelas in pur.
suit Of the frigates and corvette, and
found at Guayaquil one frigate only,
the Venganza, and corvette the other
frigate had sailed for Lima. The Pc
ruvian colors were flying on board
them he took possession of them for
and in the name of the government OF
Chill hauled down their flags, and
hoisted the flag of Chill. He has fitted
the frigate out and is in pursuit of the
one bound to Lima, and says he will
take Ter at every hazard, even it I'M
der the guns of Callao."
The account of the terms OF surren-
der, alluded to in the above extract.
first states that on the 10th of Febru-
last the Spanish frigates venganza and
Preuba and Corvette Alexander, arri-
we'd at the south west end of the Island
of Puma, for fhe purpose of blockading
the port of Guayaquil, and succeeded in
capturing three prizes under the Quay.
aquil flag On the llth of February
at night, a lieutenant from the Preuba
arrived at Guayaquil, with dispatches
from the Spanish squadron for that GO
vernment, which induced the latter to
send three commissioners on board the
squadron, the captains Of which came
to the city, and opened a negotiation re-
sulting finally in an agreement that the
frigates and corvette should be deliver.
ed up to the Supreme Government Of
Guayaquii in the state they should be
found in. The agreement consists Of
ten articles providing for the pay by
the Peruvian government of all wage.
which were due to the officers and
crews of the vessels by the Spanish go.
vernment-for the transportation Of
such as wish to return to Spain-and
for the performance of other stipula
tions of minor Importance
Frtract Of a letter to the Editors o tht
| Beacon, dated st. BdrtholonaeDS
June |, 1922.
"The Buenos Ayrean Brig Indepen.
dencia, Capt. Chaytor, has just arrived
here, from a cruize off the coast Of
! Spain. Three days previous to the ar,
rival of the U. S. Ship Hornet, two
briggs and two feluccas, prizes to capt.
Chlytor, had been discharged at the Is
land of Sombrero. and their cargoet
brought into this port by the small
craft belonging to the same. A fifth
prize was schr. that appeared before
the harbour under the American flag
the prize master of which wss capt
| Chaytor's son; she was sent to the Isle
of AYES and there discharged, afte,
which she returned and anchored in
this port. Of the four vessels ordered
to Sombrero, three were scuttled and
burnt, one of the briggs was given to a
fisherman. and the other would have
been sent to this place, but Captain
Maugridge, in the Venezuelan brig
President, fell in with one of the feluc-
cas-, the prize master of which not
knowing where he was, informed capt.
III. that he was to rendezvous at that is
land, where he expected to meet others
-whereupon he was taken in tow by
the brig, and on nearing Sombrero his
expectations were realized by obeer.
wing brig at anchor, which be recog.
nized az one ofthe Independencia's pri-