Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

PERU—BOLIVAR.

It now appears, upon authority that seems to place the statement beyond question, that Bolivar has been for a considerable time past in possession of Lima. On Monday last we stated, on the authority of private advices received at the Federal Gazette office, that the Royalist General Canterac had broken up from his strong position at Jauja and retreated before the army under Bolivar—This important fact, which was communicated exclusively by this paper, finds an official confirmation in the following, which we copy from the National Gazette.

Colonel Lima, first aid-de-camp to General Paez, who came passenger in the Colombian brig of war Pichincha, Captain J. S. Maitland, has politely favored us with the following intelligence from Peru:

On his arrival at Porto Bello on the 30th August last, he found official accounts had been received at Panama from Upper Peru, stating that Gen. Bolivar, in consequence of the misunderstanding that existed between the Royalist Generals Canterac and Olaneta, put himself in march from Truxillo, to attack Canterac, who was then at Pasco. Canterac retreated to the strong entrenchments of Jauja, in Upper Peru, and fortified himself there; but General Bolivar, after having blockaded Callao, and left in Lima the Battalion of Zulia, two squadrons of cavalry, and the guerillas of the country, pursued Canterac, and forced him from his entrenchments. Canterac again retreated precipitately into the interior, leaving some prisoners, who declare that he has no more than 6000 men, while Bolivar's army consists of 14,000, of which 10,000 were Colombians, with which Bolivar was pursuing him. The prisoners were sent to Guayaquil, and from thence to Panama in the corvette Santander, which arrived at Panama on the 9th August; and they were at the time of Col. Lima's departure, confined in the Castle of Chagres. Among them were four Spanish Colonels, and a number of subaltern officers of various ranks.

But, in addition to the foregoing, it will be recollected that our news of Monday communicated still later intelligence, stating that accounts received from the seat of the Colombian Government, at Santa Martha, on the 1st September, announced a battle in Peru, in which the army under the President Liberator, General Bolivar, was completely victorious. We are the more particular in placing the news from Peru in as clear a light as our sources of intelligence will permit, as our commercial relations with the shores of the Pacific become every day more and more important, and those who may have paid any attention to our marine intelligence for some time past, must have observed that Baltimore carries on a pretty considerable trade with Peru; and therefore the anxiety to put our mercantile fellow citizens in possession of every matter bearing upon the state of that portion of the South, as well as to give to the public generally the military and political news from a country which, from its position and resources, seems destined to make no small figure in the world.