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. BUENOS AYRES AND CHILL .1111••••••• lberrrgn. ADDS GENERAL SAN MARTIN TO 0:11 VICEEt4 br Miss, /CITING AN =HANOI OR PRISONERS, AND WRITTEN ARTS* THE MEMO. IRASLE VICTORY GASHED THE STH 01 APRIL ON THE SLAMS OR NAITO. SlR—The fate of arms hasp laced in 1/17 hands, of the sth instan the plains•of hlaipo r the whole of the army to which your Excellency had confided the conquest of this beautiful country, and with the exception of General Ossorio, who probably will meet with the same fate, scarc ely a remnant .of your Excellency's memorable expedition h as escaped from the valour of my troops. In this situation of things, the right of reprisal, in the opinion of 'every man, bad authorised me to execute on these prisoners the same -horrible kind of treatment they had prepared for my soldiers in case they had conquered, and In conformity to the barbarous orders of tfie Spanish Commander in Chief, but humanity shudders to in crease the misery of our fellow-creatures, and I really feel for the situation of these unhappy persons, al ready sufficiently punished by the disappointment their impotent pride has experienced. “ 'The whole of the prisoners, among whom are the greatest part of the Chiefs, near 200 officers, and SOOO soldiers, have received that hospitality which is inseparable from my character, and in their unfortb nate situation I have endeavoured to relieve them by every means in my power. • “ But, as it is now in the power of .yottr Exeet. leacy to restore a part of them to their famlliesi by accepting the exchange which many mon& ago I proposed tit,Tiou, for the Officers belonging to ths United Provinces, and confined in Cams hope your Excellency will now consent to the tern's; at that time-offered, and send back-to me the Chiefs and Officers comprehended in the statement trans. :flitted to me by your Excellency, being assured, on, the solemn pledge of my honour, that I will imme diately send back to your capital an equal number, rank for rank, the conveyance and maintenance of all so exchanged, being for account respectively of each.—As the treatment that was experienced by Major Tortes did not accord with that of an Officer sent with a flag of truce on an errand of peace, and as on the other hand being desirous, in moments of difficulty like the present, to remove all cause for distrust, I have sent this communication by Lieute nant-Colonel Noriega, one of oar prisoners, whom I make no doubt your Excellency will return to me, if you should not think proper to accept this exchange, conformably to the laws and usages of war. rgned) JOSE DI SAN MARTIN. " Slab" , OM, April rt, tale." AMOTILER LETTER FROM oENERAL SAN MANTLE TO THE • VICEROY in 'TRU. --. . this After the destruction of the powerful.arrny bent by your Excellency to conquer Chili, effected by the troops under my command on the sth inst. and m a time when the resources of Peru are exhausted by vain efforts 'to oppose the triumphant arms of the Patriotic forces, it would seem proper that reason should succeed to enmity, and that the situation of the twa countries should for a time exclusively ab sort the attention of those who preside over them.— Owing to an incomprehensible fatality, since the 25th May, 1810, war has been the only term to the diffe rences existing between Spaniards and those Ameri cans who were claiming their rights. A deaf ear has been turned to our solicitations for peace, and , the swans of arriving at a rational arrangement and' understanding have been *neural amidst the spirit of hostility that has reigned. Your Excellen‘y is not ignorant that war is a desolating scourge, that the extremes to which it has been carried in America is complete destruction to the country, but that fortune has, at length, decided in favour of the pretensions of this southern part of the.new world. Your Excellency has also been able to discover within the lapse of seven years, that the . United Provinces of La Plata and Chili only desire to possess a liberal constitution and moderate liberty; and that the inhabitants of the Viceroyalty of Lima, whose blood has been Caused to flow against their brethren, may have a share in the same political ar eangement, and be thus raised frorn colonial debase ment to the dignitrof bordeiVg nations. " No one of these wishes m3st assuredly is ii op eiosititni to the friendship, protection and other rela tions they may seek to retain with the Spanish Mo ther-Country. No one of these pretensions is a crime; on the contrary, not one of them, in the present age, is opposed to what the enlightened of Europe declare to be our right. To wish to restraht, by the bayonet, the torrent of universal opinion in America, is the same as to attempt to fetter nature. Let your Ex cellency examine with impartiality the result of the efforts of the Spanish Government during a period of years, even when the few ephemeral triumphs of the King's arms are fully considered, and you will discover the impotence of tins hostility against the spirit of freedom. " However rapidly the attention is fixed on the moral situation of this capital, or of those provinces. still subject to the jurisdiction of your Excellency , an immense field for political convulsions will he. seen prepared, as well as the existence of a large . 'portion of elements, which it would be easy for use to put in motion, in order to throw down the present' system of Spanish sway. It would be easy for me to excite si?nultaneous conspiracies, and put all in commotion against the Spanish Chiefs. The repeated attempts since 1309, in La Paz, Cusco, Arequipa, and the western coast of Peru, as well as the coin motions suppressed in the very heart of your Vice royalty, are evident proofs of the situation of things, and evince that the blood of the friends of the new larder of things which has been spilled, has produced no other effect than to allay for a moment the feelings. of such Americans as were deprived of their arrps. g 4 If your Excellency is esespared to feel the diffi cult situation in which you are placed, and is equally aware of the extent to which the t -4cources of two States, intimately connected, can NT carried ; the strength of their armies, the solidity Mich such tri-' timphs as halm been attgined give tother foreign re lations, and, in a word, if your Excellency is semi- 1 ble of the inequality of the strutgle with which yas art threatened, no one but your Excellency will be answerable to humanity and the inhabitants of your Provinces tot the consequences of the war, which are Indispensible, if your Excellency does not adopt the alternative dictated by prudence, justiee, and ueces• city. Call then together the inhabitants, represent to them with good.faith, the verzunents of Chili and I them be heardsin the subject the people decide, under the lency, remetting!he faun formable to their interests to ao ms also which are held by force, be freedom, and their spontaneous deliberations supreme law to. which my ulterior operations, • be subjected, in conformity to what is orduped to me by my Government. " By this measure, or some other equiva lent one, • Excellency will prevent the disasters of a civil war and the destruction of property, and thus fix the preliminary basis of a peaceable arrangement, that may re-establish the friendly relations of this Conti nent. If not, the united armies will destroy those restrictions your Excellency may impose, and open, the gate to the prosperity of the inhabitants of Peru, who are daily more senible of the benefits whi c h await them, from the new order of things. " When your Excellency recollects the means I , possess to carry through the work proposed, I hope you will do justice to the candour of my intentions.' I wish only for the welfare ef my fellow-creatures; !seek to put an end to the war ; and my anxiety for this sacred object is as sincere as my determination is firm, that if my proposals are not-Omitted, I will no sacrifice for the liberty, security , and dig al 7,70 f our country. sa l l iktr e d rbui. ) April 11 4 J ,43 0;11 ... D11 SAN M.411111f. 46 00/04UNICATION VEOH DON -THOMAS GUIDO, DEPITTY ram THE UNITED TEOVINCES TO THE GOVERN- A. PUNT OT CHILI. " Santiago de Qa t May AO, ISIS. " MOST EXCELLENT SIN-.-OH the 11th instant ar rived in the port of Valparayso, the Spanish vessel San Ygnacio (a), the Diamant, laden with cocoa, &c. and captured on the 6th of February, on the coast of' Guayaguil, 15 leagues from the Isle of St. Clara, by l the Chilean brig privateer Chileno, commanded by Don Henrique James, who two months before had sent in the brig bloncedes, laden with cocoa, tobacco , hand piece goods. " This privateer, during her cruize on the coast of Lima, has had two brilliant engagements with the forces sent in pursuit of her, the first in the latter end of January, . off Callao, with an armed ship, which - she beat off ; and the ,second on the 11th February, -Ibith a corvette of 22 guns, which she also obliged "to . sheer off. lloth vessels were sent by the Viceroy, Don Joaquin Pezuela, for the . purpose of capturing her, because the Chileno had in January sunk two brigs at Guanchaco, which - were bound to Lima with wheat, rice, and other provisions. -In the middle of last month the Chileno proceeded towards Guayaquil, and promised hersell great success against the ship ping on that coast. " On the 14th instant anchored at Valparayso the Spanish merchant ship Nuestra Senora de las Dolores, I '(d) la Sevillana; from Acapulco, having on board 24,000 dollars in silver, and dispatches fican the' Viceroy of Mexico to that of Lima; she is a prize to i the Furioso privateer, who sank various vessels; among them the ship Governadora. The depositions of the [ 'prisoners confirm the mischief done by the privateer ship St. Rosa (Chacabuco). " F,rom the correspondence intercepted •in the prizes, we leant the predicament in which the Spa nish merchants find themselves between contributions en shore and hostilities at sea, and our enemies, ac cording to the tenor of their letters, rest their only hopes for an end to their losses on the conquest of this country by the arms of Osorio, whose triumph ithey predicted witho it fear. Under these cfrcum stioccs your Excellency and the People may! calcu. late to what point the consternation of the inhabitants of Lima.will rise, when they learn s the brilliant action .of Maypo, and how their despair will be increased by the news of the defeat of the Emeralda: frigate, the only protection they could depend on for the Security of their ports. " I congratulate . your Excellency on the favour able aspect of our affairs, and hope soon to-have to Announce more decisive operations of the naval forces 'of this State. May Goo preserve you many years. (Signed) " T HOMAS GUIDO. " To the ;cost Eseellert Supreme Director of the United Provinces of South America..- DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAILS. BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 5. The hew law on the Customs is published ; the following are the principal bases of this new system : It is necessary to abolish all the restrictions on the 'free trade between the diffe ent Provinces of the Kingdom. All foreign productions, both of nature and art s may be imported under a transit duty, through the whole extent of the Prussian dominions; , the exportationof all home productions, both of na tare and art, is allowed. Exceptions may be admitted: for particular reasons, and for a limited period. This freedom of trade shall be assumed as a basis in negotiations with other States. Facilities enjoyed by the subjects of the States in their trade with other .countrits, shall be reciprocated as far as the different relations allow, and commercial treaties shall be con cluded when necessary. On the other hand, the right is reserved to retaliate, by corresponding measures, the restrictions by which the intercourse of the sub jects with foreign countries materially suffers. The regular import duty on foreign goods is fixed for Half a dollar per cent. Prussian. Those goods which, Contrary to this rule, are admitted duty free, are taxed with a higher or lower duty, as specified in the Tariff. Exportation is duty-free. The exceptions 'are specified in the Tariff. Besides the import duty, many foreign goods, if they remain in the country, are.to pay a duty on consumption (an excise). Upon goods of foreign manufacture, this duty shall not ex ceed, upon an average, ten per cent. on the value ; but h it shall be less when it can be so without injury to the internal industry. Goods L:able to commission duty are specified in the Tariff. The unties are levied on the weight, number, or measure. According to these principles, there is annexed under (A) a Tariff for the Eastern Provinces, and under (B) a Tariff for the Western Provinces ; and also the general regula tions for the levying of duties. .Goods not entered for consumption in the country pay impot and ex port duty, but not consumption duty: such goods may be bonded. Diminution of the duties is allowed in certain cases, for s brought to the fairs of Nuremburg and Fran kfort d on the Oder, or retiring from thence. All inland duties, levied by the State, by Communes, or private persons, are abolished, and even from the day when this kw' Is in force. If the persons levy just duties (a titre have an indemnity founded en at an average of the &A* regulation are excepted the and Weser, and all suck keeping up of the roads, harbours, light-houses, &c. which designed 'promotion of traffic. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 11. Letters from Aix-la-Chapelle state, that some stran gers who had arrived in that city, had received orders from the police to depart within eight hours. SEPTIMBER 12,The funeral service to the memory of Lieutenant-General Baron Evers, was celebrated this morning with extraordinary pomp. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived here to-day, with all their suite, from Paris. SEPTEMBER 14.—The grand review of the English, Danish, Hanoverian, and - Saxon troops, took place on the 10th, in the plain of Denain. The finest weather favoured this fine spectacle. The superb aparance of all the troops excited general satisfaction. The beauty of the artillery, of the cavalry, and the precision of all the evolutions were perfect. Count Worenzow, Commander of the Russian Corps : the Prince of Hesse, of the Danish ; the Sazon General Gradintz ; the Hanoverian General Count Alton ; and many Officers of the Allied and French troops were present, and an immense number of spectators. His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent and the Duke of Wel. lington reviewed the troops, and returned to Valen ciennes about six o'clock, when their entry was very brilliant, having in their train a great many magni 7 ficent equipages. At ten o'clock there was a grand 'supper, followed by a ball. The next morning, about eleven o'clock, the Duke of Kent proceeded to Brus sels, and the Duke of Wellington to Cambray. The troops returned to • their cantonments, where they will remain till the Allied Sovereigns have decided whether the Army of Occupation shall be withdrawn. It is believed confidently that the decision will be favourable, and that within a short time the foreign . troops will have left the French territory. On the 11th was the review of the Russian troops under ' Count Woronzow, in the' environs of Maubeuge.— The Duke 'bf Wellington was present, and in the evening there wax? splendid fete at Maubeuge. THE EVENING STAR . LONDON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1818. Ss. Ateerfaaw.—Holiday at the Bank. Exehaqaer, and South-Sea Howe. The Paris Papers of, Thursday and Friday have arrived since our last. The following are extracts : PARIS, SEPTEMBER 17. This day the King presided at a Council of Mini sters. Welire assured that the King has made the Duke of Richelieu. a present of a grind service of plate, several state carriages, and eight fine horses.— They are scat off to Aix-la-Chapelle. The inscription of the young men belonging to the classes for 1816 and 1817 commenced yesterday In tfie twelve Mayoralties of Paris. After having gone through the necessary forms in fulfilling this sacred duty, a great number of them assembled and paraded the streets with a white flag. They were preceded by drums ; and cries expressive of their devotion to their King and their country were every where heard. The Duchess of Berry continues in an amending state.—The Duke of Bourbon is now so far recovered that no farther Bulletins of his health will be issued. French 5 per cents. Thursday, 741. 90 c. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 3. . . Yesterday the Eniperor, with the Empress, and the Archduchess Maria Louisa, arrived from Baden.— The Emperor has given his last public audience ; his departure is decidedly fixed for the 20th instant.-- Too-morrow their Majesties and, the Archduchess - will return to Baden, and will remain there until the 9th instant. The Archduchess will proceed from thence to Palma. The Empress, after visiting the celebrated pilgrimage at Mariazell, will return to Schoenbrunni where she will arrive on the 19th inst. Nothing is yet positively known as to the estct time the Emperor will return. It is certain that his Majesty will be here at the commencement of No vember, accompanied •by the Emperor of Russia, who will pass a few days in our capital. LIEGE, SEPTEMBER io. The Prince and Princess of Orange, with the young Prince their son, arrived here yesterday; and this morning they .et out for Spa, where they will pass the remainder of the season. MADRID, The difficult affairs which have for two or three years embarrassed our Government, appear about to be talking a satisfactory turn. It is known that these affairs Are reducible to three important points—the arrangement of our differences with the Court of Brszil; the negociations with the United States of America, on the subject of the occupation of the Floridas; and the pacification of our Colonies. The first point is generally regarded as terminated by the mediation of Russia, Austria, and England, and par ticularly by the restitution of Olivenza and its terri tory to Portugal. With regard to the occupation of Pensacola, our Cabinet made at first very vehement remonstrances, and energetic notes were transmitted to most of the Cabinets of Europe; but there is reason to believe that we do not attach much importance to the pos session of that strip of sandy soil which composes the territory of Florida. We besides understand that the United States disavow the act of their General, and are willing to restore Pensacola. If the honour of the country be satisfied, an un derstanding will probably be soon come to on what regards local interests. But the great question to be ascertained is, wheeler the Powers will support, by a declaration or by armaments, the w i s h In aa, they all without exception participate, of n seeill - sl orour Colonies as are in a s t ate of i • the re-, m ptaced under the Government of the mother co t . Meanwhile, the affairs of the 13 , -pnb:io s assuming an aspect less and less fay t Independence. The only image of an i n d g pendentstate i s b 3 found in the Republic of Buenos ATees, which indeed wrested Chili from us ; but we are net easy about' the progress of General St. Martin ; feeble force cannot advance much farther. Ti: . also some hope that this General will cease to obei merchants of Buenos Ayres, who are partly foe' and nearly all intriguers. Perhaps the conqu:, Maipo, nobly repenting, may become the tasaa of reconciliation between his native Province a Mother Country. Venezuela is ours. It is: to:, there is nothing remaining except ruins; but Is and Arismcndi, the one driven to the desara noco, the other to the barren rocks of 'Marisa nothing more than Chiefs of Guetillas. majority of the colonies, viz. St. Demingo, Mexico, Guatimala, New Grenada, Quito, e a , cognize the sceptre of Ferdinand the Seeemh. probable that,the feeble remains of the ineins will disappear, as soon as all hope of f ore i gn a a cease to sedate those i waginatioas ':.Lich I. :I inflamed by.pimphlets and journa!, hostile t, Amidst "these circumstances, it has lean italer cessary to support the r.egotiations by a cen:a armament ;_and that of Cadiz. which has lea in preparation, is on the point of being var.', The Count d'Abisbal (General O'Donnell ted CoMminder-in-Chief of the troops, and he already ;lamed a numerous Staff for the erpe The Count d'Abisbal is a Spaniard boia, but hi they was an Irishman. He entered very early the army in the guards. In the MO Wan France, he distinguished himself by his valor talents, and the services he rendered the Kira is now fortreight, of a robust constitution, the severe wound which he received iu the thigh vents him from getting on horseback without ante. The Count d'Abisbal possesses a firm shaken character, and a courage above every dais It is believed that a carte blanche will be given: order that he may act according to circumstances,— Besides the corps cantoned in Andalusia and madura which ate destined for the expedition, sev other regiments are also to join it; orders n effect have already been given. Every thing cater that the grand expedition will sail for its nation immediately after the Congress of A Chapelle shall come to a decision cn the Non sented to the Allied Courts, relative to the de of their mediation with our insurgent Colonies. 3f ADRTD, SEPTEMBER, s. Much has been said a ithin these few days arrest of the celebrated Lorenzo Ca!va fern. Merchant and afterwards Military Interdant Member of the Cortes, who enjoyed a retired pvs:ort at Talavera. He has been transferred to the chate.il of Villavicieica ; we are ignorant of the motives far this proceeding. M. Calvo is the patient hero (.1 very smasi composition which was published Cadiz under the title of Apologia de los Palos logy for the Bastinado). count Montigo, who has been superseded Government of the Kingdom of Grenada, some ago received an order to reside at Burgos, an(' now repaired thither, in consequence of a perena order to that effect. It was this Nobleman during the events at Aranjuez in 1808, rendered services to the cause of the present King; he % in consequence, for a long time in the greatest your—but within these two or three months apr to have fallen under the royal displeasure. The Duthess de la Rocea has been liberated . the Conveift in which she has been imprisoned these four months, for wishing to espouse the Marquis del Valle de la Polonna. The OCC2i the Queen's pregnancy has been chosen for this grace. It is said that the Duchess will remain The following details, extracted from letter Vera Cruz, of the 18th of June, will give an the existing situation ofthe Vice - Roya lt y of M " The Bozic) is every day more and m ore with insurgents ; they shew themselve s in name; bands, and cannot be pursued, because the - couriers and convoys employs the greater pat troops. General Linares writes from Irapuai Colonel Bustamente was attacked en the 2St last, by Father- *Torres, who commanded hundred men. The rebel!, according to the were put entirely to the route, and lost in wounded 200 men. " Letters from Valadolid, of the 17th Ma', that General Aguirre bad dispersed the Jure Insursent Government met at Juncato, but Members had assembled of new at Purnatli: neral Armijos has lately possessed himself of of Zacatula, on the coast of the South Sea. Xalapa we learn that the division of Amor the rebel Chief Vergara in his fort, and that ter, after a smart contest which lasted seven took to flight, abandoning . part of his arrr Three Couriers from Mexico had been der several days at Xalapa, in consequence of which escorted them being obliged to go to of the garrison of Jaccomuleo, besieged by ; Insurgents, who, on the arrival of this mirk immediately withdrew. A division of the General Zarzola has surprised and taken Garay (second Chief of the Band of i nn was was immediately conducted to Xalapa and t Letters from Tampico, received by the Carmen, confirm this news. The Adjutant ' Viceroy, D. Joachim Zayas, has Arrlvcd Cruz from Mexico, with dispatches for Sp: are said to be very important. Ile was; d s es: the English frigate the Sybille , bound ,or should convey him to the Havannah, but Captaist of the frigate declined. e candid desires of ,fie Go- Communes or private ierso the United Provision; let, onereux) they are to have ►ject of thcir rights; and iiit clear aantudweceipt, taken : the auspices of your Bicel• last years. From this reg sn of Government it is con- Ga n g on she• Rhine, Elbe, sto adopt ; let those provin- duties as are levied for the ,y force, be heard with real causeways, bridges, harbour aneous deliberations shall be a r e d es i gne d f or the rm° t ; • l ik aid suck n re. Tit hic e, t t ••• U I ,sit I ha !.. rat• ic - • 1 tin 1 „ • • • I: Led S;at T 4 4. er7 l 3i! 1 '!tea Idot, 1e ix • 'as, fa. Iriro • or, Lis ot ;. He ()ugh a Ft. assist. MI MI. danger, to 'aim at Aces,- 1 Etre- seceri to that g ;ad. desi- Six h• ite pre- !cinzld S. to cf tLe at a::1 persioa chateau ices fa ci !r0 a r it shed at ri (Ap- I in hit me time ' und has • mptory ed a who, ed such ca he was, atest appeals th A rd from med for e young :anion of ais act of single. ers from lama 1 iferico: infested , ittrotroat escort of ar t of the ato, that c. sth AO f o urtree General kilted • •tr, state! • • nta of the • it that de Jiro. Ge' rl a:a eF e rf l o :e lrj r f a 7 rat the 7en • the s ; ant t t f! h c t( t : :3111 s, 7 T e l i , 1 1 0 u i ; 1 1 sue r It t Jrli : e Ye r : Y ee 11.r21,