The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-12-13
From The " !. Commercial .MrcrtiSer
FROM CURRaCDA.

AFOW "V ~ l. 'OWHfffftUI .IVtCTItScfN
FROM CURRACUA.
by the arrival last evening of the brig
Hippomcncs, from Curacao, we have re-
crived the Courant of that place to the 9th
iust. inclusive. The s,oop Of war Hercules,
OF 500 tons, and - thirty-lwo ponndcrs and
5 twelve Founders, Com. Daniels, and the
private armed brig scncedor, captain Kan.
mon, both from New-lorh, had arrived ar
Lag tra III 10 days passage, with 800 men
on board, aud were Immediately taken up
by the Colombian government These vcs-
scls, after hosting the republican HaS, pro-
ceeded on the 28th Of Drtobcr, in quest Of
the Spanish iHsate ligera, and were drs-
cried ON the 9Th nsl. oil Curacao. Three
other Colombian vessels Of war were To sail
from Lagura, To crni2e against thu Span
iards in the gulf 81 Alaracalbo. Orders had
been received from Begota, not Ia send ~
ny more troops out of Venezuela, rs a sui-
ficlcnt force WAS preparing 10 MARIA from
Cundlnalnarca and Carthage Ma, To di..odge
Morales, who, notwithstanding the kate re-
port of his having returned Ia Porto CaNd-
10, was in POSSESSION ef nalacaioo on the
18th Of October The Colomblans were
making great preparations TO attack him
by sea and Ian Seven thonsaud men
we're ready to march for tucuta, where
Monlia, the republican General, had his
bead quarters
On the other hand Morales appears to
be very active, and is stated 10 have Il fleet
OF fourteen armed vessels on the Lagoon,
wiki which hc was medilating an attack on
some pan. of tue exterior coast. He had
Al. r.. I Il
(Sp.) brig Of VI" hercules 10 .loin him with
eet the least delay. A garrison of 500 men
would be left in Maracai5o. A private let
ter, OF the 12th Of October, PROCESSES 10
give some details Of MoralS' proceedings
Subsequent To the capture OF Naracahn,
from which ii would seem that he bad
made IA successful excursion on the eastern
coast, where he captured tH" Colombian
vessels, and was well received by the inha-
htants, who, it is added, expressed them
selves picaSed with again being under the
Spanish government. 81 Unfortunately,
however, for the truth of tins statement, the
writer had just before said, that ON the APP
proach Of Morales, "tise Patriots abandon
ed their houses, after throwing into the lake
200 qn;ntals Of powder, and 900 stand of
arms"
The Curacao papers contain three de-
crcrs, issued Il: Maracaibo by Morales, thaa
which nothing more sanguinary has ever
been issued even by the f!oiy .N,dnce."
He directs that all TO rig arrs found In the
ranks of the Patriots, whether civil or mi
litary, or engaged in p inting papers, or ac-
ting as editors of papers, or works encou-
r.t ttn rnhnlll,.l At Snain tlp
Roman Catholic religion, shall bt tricd by
a military court, and suffer desth, and their
properties forfeited. Foreigners not enGa-
gcd III the service of the Patriots, hut VINO
Introduced themselves into the country
while 1t was under their government, were
doomed to serve in the public works, aud
their properties confscated. Foreigners
who were accidentally in thc place, were
ordered to Guit all Spanish territory within
the ex ct pe,iod OF eight days, and never to
return again, under pnia Of icath. All
spies, conspirators, and auxiiiaries of the
Patriots, Of both sexes, 10 be tried and pun
i,ncd agre"ably to military law. We do
not know that Morales could have adopted
policy, better calculated than this, to tx.
cite universal disgust against the cause for
WINCH he iS Dpltl r. iiS'fau VI 'AN"'"o
pleasure with being again under such go
vtrnmcnt, such measures must have the Ell
feet ol Inducing even the Spanish them
selves to abandon the standard OF Their
CHIEF.
( II appears by verbal accounts given by
the captain oil the ilippomeucs, that the U.
5. ship Cyane, captain Spence, arrived at
Curacao on the. I'd inst. from Lagulra, aud
wa. to sail for Porto Cayello about the l7lh.
: The brig Fame, sailed five days before for
Ncw-Ycrh, with 30 sick on board, belong
ing tn the Cyane. Captain L. Sstalre, late
commander n chief of the expedition IN
tending to resolutionize the island OF Porto
Rico, came passenger in the Hippomenes'
He was tried and acquitted by the Court at
Curracoa, and permitted TO leave the rs !,
and. gen. D.. Coudray Holstein and
! Nrssrs. Irwin and Vogre, continued IN prl-