Lynchburg Star

Philadelphia, March 30.

GENERAL MIRANDA.

By a gentleman just arrived in this city from Trinidad, and whose information is entitled to the fullest credit from his personal and particular acquaintance with the officers and other principal persons attached to the late expedition of Miranda, we have the following information: That general Miranda was at Trinidad when our informant left there and that he was in daily expectation of receiving a reinforcement of between 8 and 10,000 men from England, under the order of general Tucker and which were said to have sailed, but had been detained by adverse winds; that on the arrival of these troops, Miranda would immediately undertake a second expedition against the Spanish dominions of South America-and that it was the concurrent opinion of those qualified to form a correct one, that with this respectable force the general would be able to crown his enterprize with complete and speedy success. Miranda had been appointed to the rank of major-general by the English government. The failure of his late attempt to liberate his countrymen from Spanish oppression in that part of the world was attributed wholly to the smallness of the forces with which it was attempted, as they did not altogether amount to 800 men. Great numbers of the natives, and those friendly to his projects, had frequently joined the standard of Miranda, but could not be induced to continue their fidelity, as they could feel no certainty of protection from such a handful of men against the troops and threatened vengeance of the Spanish government.