Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

Philadelphia, July 10.
COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC.

We have received Caracas papers to the 10th of June, and private letters to the 17th, from which we make some extracts.

A letter from a friend at the city of Caracas says, yours of the 5th and 18th of April, had completed the intelligence of a good understanding and confidence between the two republics. The news was received here with the enthusiasm which you can suppose it likely to have been received. The day the information was received here, expresses were immediately sent to the several departments, and a national salute was fired in the plaza and a brilliant illumination for three successive nights.

On the 12th inst. we received the glorious news of the defeat of the royal forces under Gen. Cruz Murgeon, in Quito, by the republican army immediately under the command of president Bolivar—from every thing I can learn, it was one of the hardest contended battles ever fought in this country.

The celebrated general Murgeon who commanded the enemy, fell honorably at the head of his troops on a charge made upon one of our flanks. This battle has put our troops in quiet possession of the whole of the territory of the republic to Tumbez, the southern line of our governmental jurisdiction.

The only position occupied by the Spaniards now is Porto Cabello, unless any consequence should be attributed to the marauding parties cast on the coast of Coro, a part of which has already capitulated. La Torre continues still to hold out in Porto Cabello—the siege has been conducted on the land side with much vigor by gen. Paez. We had yesterday rumors from Valencia that the marauders under Morales, had been defeated by gen. Soublette, in the province of Coro, but nothing official has been received. Last night a vessel from Curacoa brought the like information with additions, among other things, that Morales had shot himself. Reports to flatter the wishes of those by whom or to whom slips are addressed, have become so common as to render all reports questionable; from the character of Morales, I should think him one of the last men in the world who would shoot himself.

Three days since, gen. Paez paid a visit to this city, on public business. While absent from the siege, it is said the enemy made a sortie led by La Torre, but that he was driven back. But this goes among the rumors. Gen. Paez after one day's occupation here, departed for Valencia, where he was to meet gen. Soublette, preparatory to some more effective operations against Porto Cabello. It is the opinion of discerning men here, that the fall of that place is not likely before the arrival of President Bolivar, who is on his return from the southern departments of the republic.