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Martinsburgh Gazette
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia
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News from Spanish Main via Cartagena vessel: St. Martha besieged; Caracas, Coro, Santa Fe, and Venezuela declare independence. Insurgent ship captures Spanish war vessels and merchant with 600 troops using deception. Spanish officers chained. Gen. Labatut replaced by Gen. Pesniers.
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News from the Spanish Main.
A vessel from Carthagena is in this river: she had a long passage. The following is the verbal intelligence she brings; a friend has promised to let us have the papers which contain it.
St. Martha still held out, but continued to be invested by sea and by land. Caracas. Coro, Santa Fe, and the whole province of Venezuela, had again declared themselves in favor of independence. A vessel belonging to the station of St. Martha, had captured a ship and a brig of war, and a merchant vessel from Spain, loaded with a supply of arms and ammunition for that place, and carrying besides 600 troops.
The cunning Carthagenian having at first captured the merchant vessel, seized the Spanish signals, and hoisted the Insurgent's flag under that of Spain, made signals for reinforcements from the two other vessels, who sent their boats to her aid. The Carthagenian captain immediately took hold of the men, and successively attacked the two vessels, and succeeded in taking them both.
The gentleman who gives this information adds that the Spanish officers taken on board those vessels, having spoken in an abusive manner of the Carthagenian government had been loaded with chains, and that he had seen them dressed in their uniform, and working in the harbor with the galley slaves.
General Labatut had been replaced in the command of the military forces by gen. Pesniers lately arrived from Europe.
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captured one ship, one brig of war, and one merchant vessel with arms, ammunition, and 600 troops; spanish officers chained and forced to work with galley slaves.
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St. Martha held out under siege by sea and land. Caracas, Coro, Santa Fe, and Venezuela province declared independence. Carthagenian vessel captured Spanish merchant using deception with signals and flags, then seized boats and captured the accompanying war ship and brig. General Labatut replaced by gen. Pesniers from Europe.