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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Feb. 



precautiom taken to prevent a 

 recurrence of the disorder. A 

 fresh crew was procured, and Mr. 

 Welch has safely arrived with her 

 in the river. 



In the night of the 10th and 

 1 1 til of February, when his grace 

 the Duke of Wellington was re- 

 turning to his hotel in Paris in his 

 carriage, a pistol-shot was fired, 

 which neither touched him nor the 

 carriage. Search was in vain made 

 for the ball ; it could not be 

 found. It is said, that the assassin 

 came from behind the sentry-box 

 to the left, and the sentinels who 

 were under the outer gate imme- 

 diately ran in pursuit of him. 

 The darkness prevented them 

 from apprehending him. Accord- 

 ing to information obtained by 

 the police, it is believed that the 

 author of this frightful act will 

 be discovered. — Moniteur. 



Official Bulletins of Gene- 

 ral Bolivar's late Victo- 

 ries OVER THE Spaniards. 



12. Bulletin of the Liberating 

 Armij of Venezuela. — The army 

 of Guayana, commanded by the 

 Supreme Chief, commenced its 

 march from the city of Angus- 

 tura, towards the Lower Apure, 

 on the 31 St December, part being 

 embarked in our small squadron, 

 .•indpart following the left bank of 

 the Oronoko, as far as the mouths 

 of the Pao, where they were 

 joined by General Monagas's 

 division. They then passed over 

 to the right bank of the same 

 river, and on the 17th of January, 

 in Caycara, were joined by the 

 cavalry division of General Ce- 

 deno, and again crossing back to 

 the left bank, above the mouths 

 of the Apure, formed a junction 



with Gen. Paez's division, on the 

 31st, at San Juan de Payara, 

 where his troops were in quar- 

 ters. The army, on the 6th 

 February, crossed the Apm-e in 

 front of the fortress of San Fer- 

 nando, and this day (12th), at 

 seven in the morning, the town 

 and forts of Calabozo were in- 

 vested, where the enemy's head 

 quarters were established, under 

 the immediate orders of General 

 Morillo. 



The regiment of hussars of 

 Ferdinand VII, of La Union and 

 Navarre, being placed on our 

 left, and that of Castile on our 

 right, the enemy's cavalry forth- 

 with attempted to flank our left ; 

 but, by a rapid and simultaneous 

 movement of our cavalry, the 

 whole of his right was enveloped, 

 at the moment that the infantry 

 battalion of Barcelona was endea- 

 vouring to call away their atten- 

 tion, and attempting to cut them 

 off. Not a single man of more 

 than 2,000, of which number the 

 three Spanish regiments consisted, 

 would have been fortunate enough 

 to escape, if, quicker than the 

 advance of our horse, they had 

 not fled into the town. Never- 

 theless, scarcely 80 of the hussars, 

 and of the infantry no more than 

 half the fusiliers, made their 

 escape ; all the grenadiers and 

 chassem's were left on the field. 

 The regiment of Castile, which, 

 as was already said, composed the 

 enemy's left, seeing the right so 

 completely routed, was scarcely 

 able to execute any other move- 

 ment than that of a shameful 

 flight, without even firing a shot ; 

 nor would they have been able to 

 escape, if, owing to the vicinity 

 of the town, they had not been 



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