The Alexandria Herald

From the Baltimore Patriot.

SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS.

COMMUNICATED

By the last arrivals from Buenos Ayres, we have received from a very respectable gentleman, the following brief account, which is believed to be correct, of the power and force of the new republic of the south.

The Patriot army of Peru is augmenting and improving daily, and its respectable force and footing dispel all fears of the advance or progress of the enemy, who occupies Potosi with the greatest apprehensions, because the provinces of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Potosi, are all in possession of the patriots, who are very active, and make continual attacks and skirmishes even to the Arrabales of Chuquisaca

According to this, it may be reasonably expected that they will form a rear guard of a number of divisions capable and able to impede the retreat of general Pezuela, and compel him to pay bitterly for all his atrocities and transgressions in the presence of the innocent and oppressed inhabitants, by the most cruel tyranny

Gen. St. Martin, who commands a division of the patriotic army of 4,000 soldiers well disciplined, was stationed in Mendoza, at the foot of the Andes, waiting only for the favorable season to march across the Cordilleras, to attack all the force of the Royalists united in Santiago, the capital of Chili. There is very little doubt that in the course of the next year, Chili will be completely free of her oppressors.

In support of this belief and opinion, and to satisfy the friends of the glorious cause of freedom, that Spanish America never can or will return to the galling yoke under which it has suffered 300 years--it will be sufficient to read the following official despatch, taken from the Ministerial Gazette of Buenos Ayres, of the 17th Aug.

Despatch from the General in Chief of the army of Peru to the Director of the Nation

Tucuman, July 26, 1816.

Most excellent Sir--I send you a design of the flag which the amazon lady Juana Azurday took near La Plata, about 11 leagues to the eastward of Chuquisaca, in the action referred to by commandant Don Manuel Acansio Padilla, whose modesty prevented him from rendering this glory to that lady who is his wife; but it is evident to me from the statements of others worthy of full credit, that she with her own hands wrested from the standard bearer this ensign of tyranny, by the force of her valor and the superiority of her skill in warfare, so uncommon to her sex. The Spaniards who make a parade of their cruelty; who spill the American blood in our days so profusely as to convince us by their acts of the truth of the narrations of bishop Las Casas, which might otherwise appear fabulous, excite and aggravate the mind to such a degree by their atrocities, that we take pleasure in presenting to the world these phenomena, to convince the European nations and the obstinately wicked one, in particular, that the more she provokes our hatred The sooner will South America cease to be a prey to her vile cupidity. I recommend to your excellency, the above mentioned lady Azorday, who perseveres in her military toils in the most energetic manner, and is accompanied by several others of her sex whose names are not yet known to me, but have enquiries respecting them, and shall have the satisfaction of presenting them to your excellency's consideration. God preserve your excellency many years

MANUEL BELGRANO.

To his Excellency,
Don Juan Martin de Pueyrredon,
Supreme Director of the state.