Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Baltimore Patriot.
Important Operations in New Grenada and Venezuela.
Mr. Munroe—From letters and papers, this moment received, I have made the imperfect summary following, for the information of the public. Interested as we are in the success of the best of causes, I communicate it with cordial satisfaction, for your Gazette.
J. B.
"General Bolivar was on the 30th of October at Guasdualito, with about 5,500 men, and on his march for Caraccas. Arismendi had quitted Angostura to take command of the army of the east, (that is, of Cumaná and Barcelona) and expected to collect 6000 troops to co-operate with the other divisions. The evacuation of San Fernando by Morillo is confirmed; and the reason will soon appear; for Soublette has beaten La Torre most decisively, and occupied the town and valley of Cucuta. "In short, says one of our correspondents, the jig is fairly up with the Spaniards, and I expect this very voyage, or certainly the next, (from St. Thomas') to proceed to La Guayra. Poor Colonel Rooke died of his wounds, and you will see a grateful notice of him in the Correo.
General Bolivar had made proposals to Samano, the viceroy of New Grenada, for an exchange of prisoners, as follows: —
1st. The officers and soldiers taken at Porto Bello.
2d. Officers and soldiers at Carthagena Santa Martha.
3d. Citizens serving in their armies.
4th. Those in the presidios. &c.
This proposition, especially the first article of it, is highly politic, and creditable to his humanity and magnanimity.
From the Correa del Orinoco of the 30th October, it appears, "His Excellency the Vice President has just received official accounts from the commander in chief of the army of the west, Jose Antonio Paez, in which he communicates his intention of commencing his operations according to instruction previously received. Also, of his receiving intelligence that General Soublette had occupied the capital of Cucuta. As the General refers to the dispatch sent directly to the government, but which has not yet been received, we are ignorant of the details of the battle, that put our troops in possession of that valley, where the enemy was so advantageously posted, where he had united so large an army, and supposed himself so strongly secured; nay, where he expected to repair his immense losses.
Here we have a solution of his precipitate evacuation of San Fernando, which cost him so much time, expense, and trouble in fortifying, and which the enemy considered as the Gibraltar of the Plains. San Fernando was evacuated on the 15th, and Gen. Paez found in it all the guns, which were not even spiked, with a considerable quantity of ammunition and provisions."
Another letter states, that the President (Bolivar) could have raised an army to any amount in New Grenada, but had not muskets to equip the volunteers. It is, however, impossible for Morillo to withstand the combined force of four armies, moving to assail him in every point. This sad predicament accounts for the arrival of the Nymph corvette at Havana lately, in which he sent a commissioner to solicit succors in men and money,* both of which have been refused on a consultation of the captain-general (Cagigal) with the Cabildo, and Consulado.—Caira. Caira.
* It was from this circumstance that a rumor prevailed some time ago, of Morillo having reached Havana, when it was only his messenger. It is to be hoped that neither Morillo nor Samano may escape the stroke of justice. Their cruelties have been horrible.
[The latest date from Angostura, alluded to in the above extract is Nov. 24th.]