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1824, Jany. 29. Col Hall to Wm. Empson esq. dated Maracaybo novr. 2d. 1823
What change times annual notion may
have made in you, my dear Empson, I have long
had no means of knowing, though I doubt not sun—dry
of your epistles are travelling through the vast
continent in search of me. And what know you
of me? In the regular course of posts and packets,
you should have heard from me in Rio Hacha just
before on about the recapture of this place. We,that
is, the Liberating Army, arrived here when all was
over. The occupation of the lake by our fleet, and
a successful naval action, settled the business:
Morales was reduced to starvation and capitulated
to be sent with his troops to Cuba. In the absolute
deanth there is here of European intelligence, one
knows not what turn affairs will next take; but
in the regular course of events, Puerto Cabello
ought to be taken and the independence of this
country firmly and finally established. It can not
however be denied that Columbia finds himself at
present in the condition of a person, who, with
a feeble constitution, has made a violent effort,
overstrained, out of joint, nerveless and powerless.
Boliviar is in Peru, where he is said to have suf—fered
two defeats. Peru ought to be adequate to her
own deliverance, if not Columbia will hardly
prop her.
As for this Maracaybo, it is a point of great
commercial and military importance, a good
town too, with great capabilities, but as hot as here,
except the thermometer range higher there
than from 83. to 99, which it hardly need do,
at least for the torment of European sinners.
Worse than all this, for it is a calamity not
spoken of in Tartanus, it is miserably poor, so
poor that the army scarcely can exist; indeed it
does not exist, for out of about 3,000 above 1500
have dropped into the greave from war of whole—some
nourishment, medicine and attendance.
Every
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