French Papers.
The Times, 1824-07-09T00:00:00

(Byf AN EXTRAORDINARY CONVEYANCE.) The Mlinister of Marine has teceived the fbllowing official intel- ligence from Puerto-Rico, dated M2av 15 :-- " I transmit to your Excellency'the report of the advantages which the alms of he King our Sovereign have obtained in the kingdom of Santa-Fe, whose troops occupy the capital, as well as the provinte of Mlaracaibo. - " We were already informed of the successive defents which Bo- Perrs, a mnan of great sense and veij worthy of eredit, hasfarmved fromM aracaibo, which he onlv quitted last month. He has given me the most circumstantial details respecting the weakness of the forces and resources of the rebels. Misery overwhelms and dis- unites them; every where are heard wishes for the re-establishment of the Royal authority. A very inconsiderable force wou:ld suffice to rally all well.disposed people, who are pressed to despair by the vexalions and exactions of the individuals who compose the revolu- tionary government. " Colonel Perez, a Spanish refugee, was assassinated in open day in the streets of Puerto Cabello. A black captain publicly exclaimed " Five lc Roi !" and no one ventured to attack him. The revolutionary troops have not received one real for upwards of a year; they receive salt meat and biscuit in lieu of pay. The want of money is so great, that theInsurgents have been obliged to dis- arm the two brigantints. the Pi,relina and the Ourica. The English Captain ('Maitland) has resigned his command, not being able any longer to endure this extreme of misery." The above authentic aedvices liave irrived by way of Curaroa. The following are what have been received direct from the Costa- Finra, twith an official character:- - Santa-Fe is occupied by the Royalist General Canterac. Boli- var, who hIad assembled 14,000 under his orders, has been complete- ly beaten and routed by a less numerous corpsof the Royal army. It is principally to the Spanish cavalry tkat this triumph of the good cause is due. The results of this victory have been in the firbt place, that 4,000 insurgents have abandoned the standard of revolt to range themslves under the Royal banners, and the flight of Bolivar as far as Carthagena-a flight which was so precipitate, that his gyard of honour either perished or abandoned him. His Lieutenant bucre is watidering about witlh a feeble detachment; he vainly solicits re- I inforcements from his Government ; but far from remedying so many disasters, the revolutionary authorities will not hear a wsord abott them. The punishment of death is decreed against whoever circulates news from the artmy. " Anarchy reigns every where. Cisneros is roving about the country with a band, sometimes consisting of 300 men, sometimes of 10, pillaging andsacking. The inhabitantsof the district of Zulia have offered 3,000 piastcrs for his head. *' At Llano, the men of colour had conspired a general massacre of the whites. Paee has caused seven Colonels to be shot, who were Implicated in this conspiracy. Captain Don Juan Amengueal has brought the important news, that the Royalist General Urdaneta has retaken possession of the fortress of Alaracaibo. He has, besidea, seized at Laguna, seven ships belonging to the rebels. The few revolting troops whichi were in tlat quarter have fled as far as Coro." Independently of the facts here stated, the Gazettes of Arequipo s-nd Cuzco contain the following details respecting the events which have taken place in Upper Peru. It is remarkable that these several article of intelligence bear thetitle of OQfciai Correspondence. It was on the 28th of October that the Viceroy La-Serna (who closely pursued the Insurgents across the valley of Sicasica) suc- ceeded in coming up with them at Cochabamba. They were com- manded by Lanra; the action was warmly maintained, but the Royalist intfantry decided the victory, by charging with the bayonet. The enemy left on the field of battle all their artillery, taitsons, and baggage. Their loss in kiUled and wounded iB upwards of 600, with- Out reckoning 500 prisoners who remain in the power of the Royal armv. (Tite lfadrid Gazette of the 1st of July announces, that in its next number a second bulletin will bepablished.) ST. CLOUD, JULY 6. The King heard mass in his apartments. His Alajesty took an airing in his carriage at two o'c!ock. PARIS, JULY 7. The question of the independence of South America has already for several months past exclusively occupied the periodical writers of England. Each of them has expressed the opinions of the party to which he belongs; buit the great majority of them, it must be ad- mitted, have declared in favpur of the Insurgents of the new world. It was pretty much the same, it may have been observed, with re- gard to the war of Spain. The more glorious and profitable it was to France, under every point of view, the more it revived jealousies and provoked mistrustful rivalries. There are yet in Old Eng. land a number of envious minds who cannot endure to see the House of France reign at once over the most fertile and wealthy countries in the Old and New World. These malevolent feelings have in- cited them in favour of the rebellious colonies of the Spanish monar- chy. Taking tbeir wishes for the real state of things, they already benold the Liberator, Bolivar, driving the revolutionarv car from the mouths of the Oroonoko to the shores of the PacificOcean, but l the star of the great Bolivar has suddenly become eclipsed. The burning plains of Peru have become to him what the snows of Rus- sia were to his master and model, Buonaparte ; he has there lost his army, his glory, and his power. The' perpetual anarchy of Mexico, the sudden return of the English Commissioners. a return blood-stained by an assassination the complete nullity of Buenos Ayres, and finally the unexpected apparition of that Republic du centre, formed of the reninants of othler Republics, already falling into decay, at the end of a ten years' existence, all concur to open the eyes of the attentive observer. If !gnorance and bad faith still find support in some of the London journals (amongst others the Courier is distinguished more for bad faith than igndrance),there areothers which begin to pay free homage to truth. FREIVCH PAPERS. IlADRID, JULY 1.