American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

COLOMBIA-PORTO CABELLO,
By the arrival in this port of the Colombian brig
of war Eagle, after a tedious and boisterous passage
from La Guayra, we learn (says the Gazette of last
evening) that early in October, the besieging army
under Gen. Paez, with Gen. Bermudrz second in
command, had made considerable progress in the
attack upon Porto Cabello: The town and all the
approaches had been taken. The Spanish garrison
had been forced to retire to the fortress in the Island,
upon which a battery of 24 guns and two thirteen
inch mortars played almost incessantly. On the 5th
of October, a division of two thousand men,
under the command of Colonel Lysren, marched
from Caracas to reinforce the besieging army, and
Captain Cotteral of the Eagle speaks of these troops
in terms of the highest admiration as to their appearance
and discipline. Two sloops of war already
blockaded the harbor of Porto Cabello, and a naval
expedition, to attack the place by sea was fitting
out at La Guayra and Cumana. The ship
which had arrived from Holland is to lead in the
expedition. She is a fine ship, one of those built
by Napoleon and carries sixty guns.
Baltimore American.