The Colombian and Spanish navies according to Niles’ Weekly register dated 14 December 1822

P. 231: “Colombia. Com. Daniels having arrived with a sloop of war, carrying twenty-two 32-pounders and three 12pdr, and well manned, had proceeded in search of the Spanish frigate Ligera whose force had hitherto given the royalists the command of the sea.”

Source
Niles’ Weekly register. Volume XXIII or volume XI of the new series. Baltimore.