The Wilmingtonian., 1824-03-25

Immediately to his po, " ''p'H
From the N. York Com. e u. M.,.
FROM Gu, RA "a.
We have Curracos t Of II, ),
and l4th ult contaiDi % g, from r.. X
|raccas Of the 2lst Of ,ilas2I Tbs n.y." @
from Bolivar, who wa + a. diresti (
,nly to the 22d of Oc,obss- t sol,s. \
we have already received aud pubNAs 1
from that place, by nineteen davs. n, L
|complexion of this news, is not fsvo,,N' 4
to the cause of the patriots, and pos,
show, that the subsequent defeat Of San, S
Cruz. as mentioned in Commodore S,ss a
arts letter, and confirmed BY the Bu.,m
Ayres papers, was not an unlikely oven,
|" On that day. (the a2d of October) th.,
were well founded expectations that A,
|Lefection of Riva Augero would terminal,
|happily-Colonel Antonio Morales l,j
marched from Lima to Truxilo, 10 en-,
clude definltive arrangement for tn. 70,
toration of union in the liberated secoa 1
of Peru" "The Congress was still ins.
sion, and employed in discussing the con. \
stitution. and promoting, by energet, |!
laws. the commission conferred upon N, !
|Liberator. 1t had already decreed, th,
the free cities of High Peru should send
their Deputies to Congress, and that Fore
ed loan should be raised of S400,OOO s
the department of Lima, and other ir,
cities."-"The military operations had
taken decisive turn, on account Of Il, I
isolated state of the divisions Of G.neuI
Santa Cruz, and Sucrc.-The former found
lit advisable to abandon " DesaguadeV'
and retire to the province Of Arequips, il |
order not to expose the army at dssl !
Vantage. He effected a junction with Gen |
Sucre, after having suffered some los, b, /
fatigue and dispersion, and leaving 1900 I
men under the command Of Col. Lama,
High Peru. General Sucre would have 10
Ievacuate Arequipa, to undertake o,hercp
erations, in case of a junction with the CHI
ian army. consisting of twenty-five hun
ldred men; which il was stated by letter.
from Santiago, would embark at Valpni
$50. between the 18th and Goth of OctObsa
RI Whilst these two divisions were actin,
7 without union, in consequence of The wait
o Of head, to which troops Of different stats
J would yield implicit obedience. Ra
4 Aguera commanded another division
: TruYillo in support ofhis detection, whls
: a third was looking on in Lima, and rs
tecting the congress. Such is the t.nGd
n the intelligence received at Caracas. 0ls
|;Idate anterior to the information whlchtA
= been received from Lima and Valparslia
e &c. in this country.
SHOCKING RELATIoN.-A letter Iron
Para Brazil, Nov. "a. received in EnsIsnd
relates most horrible occurrence on
board the prison ship, which contained a
bout 256individuals. About bon thenlgA
n Iof the 10th, the sentinels on deck heard
N great noise below. and repeatedly ordsnt
4. quictness without effect. In short tn
a. they found the prisoners we're forcing a
matches, and they Immediately fired si
or two volies among them, after whichet
ofry thing was quiet. In the morning tg
We took off the hatches to remove the dead
u any, when they found only out ofths M
r. alive The place presented most iE
of fIpalling spectacle OF mangled bodies. Son
k had their eyes thrust out; the tongues
It. some hung out of their mouths othersh'
pr their ribs stove in; others their mouthsla
to from ear to ear. Some were hanging
their hammocks strung by the neck; otAI
ably their middle, with their heads dow
he and some had undergone mutiatOn %
IS, horrible to be described. The writer 10
at this account, at which human nature sha'
Mt dcrs, from and eyewitness. the hi
he Lieut.. of the brig, who was the hrst
ms board in the morning. 1t appears the a
rs mage commenced by party Of then VIII
rising to murder all the Europeans who veS
at their fellow prisoners (about, perhaps \ !
"a or IS in nunber.) but that being lu y
= dark, they despatched many who were Ha
a. which excited i'll blood" They dld na
te moreover, all agree upon escaping BY ou
"a which increased the animosity among
them, and a massacre of the most sa'1'
vn nature commenced; for they had no e0'
on weapons, nor any thing but their HANDS 3 .. "
,r- their hammock ropes. They were al \ '
ii ked, their clothes being torn from u. A,
rs backs. They had piled up the dead Go1' ~
to uuder the matches to form kind o' P'
ue form to enable them to reach the sra'ps
10. and most of these bodies were Europsir
w. About 90 we're killed by the discha,Istt,, 81,
err musketry. The four who were found W