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BUENOS 4rRES. Letters and Papers have been received from Buenos Ayres to the 13th June, which contain some important intelligence. We lately gave an account of the establishment of a Junta composed of natives, which was formed by the party attached to indepen dence. The Members of the Real Augencia having obtained copies of the Proclamation of the Regenii at Cadiz, and the Decree for the election of Ameri can Deputies to the Cortes, have called upon the Junta to acknowledge the Government in the Isle of Leon ; but the latter have not complied, under the pretence that the printed Decrees may not be genuine, and are not sufficient authority. According to pri vate letters, however, these objections are merely started in order to gain time for prevailing on the other provinces to join in a Declaration of Indepen dence. That this spirit strongly prevails hi Buenos Ayres, is evident from the Ordinance of the Junta, inviting political discussion, and establishing a weekly Gazette, of which the following is a copy : may worthily and legally represent the will of the' people in Congress, on which the restoration and fide lity of the eatire monarchy depends, have decreed as follows : - Deputies from the Vice-Royalties of New Spain, Peru, Santa Fe, and Buenos Ayres, and from the Captain-Generalships oi Puerto Rico, Cuba, St. Domingo, Guatemala, the Internal Pro- vinces, Vanezula, Chili, and the Phillipines. There shall be one Deputy for each Capital of a District In the different Provinces. The election shall be made by the Ayuntamiento of each ca pital, who shall in the first place name three individuals, natives , of the province, and properly qualified, from whom oneshall be, selected by lot to be the Deputy to the Cortes. The doubts which may arise respecting those elections shall be determined by the Viceroy, or Captain-General of the Province, in conjunction with the Audiencia. When the Deputy has received his powers and instructions he shall proceed immediately for Europe by the shortest course to the island of Majorca, where all the American Deputies shall wait the Convocation of the Cortes. The Electoral Ayuntamientos shall determine the allowance the Deputies for defraying their -- - From ORDINANCE OF THE JUNTA. is From the moment that a solemn oath made this Junta responsible for the important trust which the people has thought fit to commit to them, the anxiety of the individuals who compose it has been incessant to fulfil the hopes of their fellow-citizens. Devoted to the service of the public with an assiduity of which there are but few examples, diligent in arranging all the measures which may secure a happy result, the Junta observes with satisfaction that the tranquillity of all the inhabitants manifests the confidence which they repose in the zeal and vigilance of the new Go vernment. 46 The Junta would equally confide in the grati tude with which its labours have been publicly re ceived; but the provisional nature of its appoint ment increases the necessity of securing by all proper methods the confidence which is due to the purity of its motives. The dexterity with which the ill-design ing misconstrue the most judicious precautions, the falsehoods which are often dispersed by error, and from which mischief always arises ; the little know ledge of those labours which are consecrated to the public happiness, have beeit at all times the instru ment which, secretly loosening the close ties by which the people are connected with their representa tives, produces at last that dissolution which in yolves the whole community in irreparable calamities. 44 An exact knowledge of the proceedings of the Junta; a constant public communication of the mea sures which it has recourse to, in order to consolidate the great work which has been begun ; a sincere and frank manifestation of the obstacles which are opposed to the end proposed in the Junta's appointment, and of the means which it has adopted to overcome. them, are duties incumbent on the Provisional Government, and modes by which the confidence of the people will not be cooled ; or otherwise they will have themselves to blame, if they do not assist with their energy, and advise those who have no other object but to sup port with dignity the rights of the King and of the port with dignity the rights of the King and of the Country, which are confided to them. The people have a right to know the- conduct of their representa tives, and the honour of the latter is engaged that all should know the destestation in which they hold all those reserves and mysteries invented by power to cover crimes, 44 Why should they study to conceal from the pro. vines their measures for consolidating union under the new system ? Why should they keep them in ig norance of the prosperous or adverse detail's which disclose in succession the situation of the Peninsula ? Why should they seek to invoke the administration of the Junta in a chaos impenetrable to all those who are not its members ? When a General Congress calls for the place of Government which the provisional Junta has in reserve, its Members will not hesitate to pro duce it ; in the mean time it is most worthy of the Representative Body to trust to public opinion the defence of its proceedings ; and that when all are in terested in the decision of their fate, no one should be ignorant of the political principles which ought to re gulate their resolves. gi With these views the Junta have resolved that a new weekly Journal shall be published, which may announce to the Public foreign and domestic intelli gence of any interest, without interfering with those' ' matters that are so well conveyed in the Semanario ds Cosserde. In this Journal wil, be published the offi cial communications of the Junta with other Chiefs and Governments ; the state of the Royal Revenue and economical means for its improvement ; while a frank communication of the motives which influence their principal measures will invite information from those who are able by their intelligence to contribute to the security of a fortunate result. ts The utility of the discussions of enlightened men, which support and direct the patriotism and fidelity which have been so gloriously displayed, is greater now than when the shock of opinions might involve in obscurity those principles which great ta:ents could alone restore to their pr mitive clearness ; and the Junta, the more generally to excite the intelligent men of these provinces to write upon such important subjects, will stimulate them by other means, which will d.splay the confidence they repose in their zeal and illumination, 44 All writings relative to this useful purpose may be directed to the senior member of the Junta, Dr. Don Manuel Alberti, who will have the care f this department, The people will receive this measure as a sincere demonstration of the value which the Junta places in their confidence ; " and that its conduct is animated by no other spirit than the wish to secure the happiness of these provinces. (Signed) " MARIANO MORES°, Sec. May GOD preserve your Excellency many years.—Euenos Ayres, 6th June, 1810. (Signed) COENELIO DL SAATZDRA, DOMINGO MATLU, DR. JUAN Jon CASTELLI, JUAN LARR EA, MANUEL BELORANO, DR. JUAN JOSE PAIS°, Sec. MIGUIL DS AZCULNAOA, DV...MARIANO MORENO, SEC. Dn. MANUSf. ALVERTI, To the Real Audiencia. MOST EXCELLENT SENOR, If the Tribunal had been in possession of any official orders for the recognition of the Supreme Council of Regency, they I would have Immediately communicated them to your Excellency without any Concealment, preserving, as they ought, that goOd faith of their institution which their Ministers ever have and. ever will possess ; and if the papers which were transmitted to your Excellency from the Fiseals should be deemed of insufficient authority, as well as the Public Gazette of the Regency, which arrived towards the end of March, the notoriety of the ins alla tion of the Supreme Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies, and their recognition by the patio's, we thought that your Ex cellency's knowledge of the extraordinary circumstances of the times, and a desire to consolidate the union with those who have acknowledged our august Sovereign Ferdinand VII. would have induced you to take the oath of allegiance to the Supreme Go vernment, instead of doubting its existence, and that upon, less authentic information you would adopt measures which, though not strictly according to the laws, are ii.dispensably required by the necessity of the times. The Tribunal has discharged its proper duty and responsibility In proposing it thus to your Excellency, whose judgment in weighing all the circumstances of the case, its importance and delicacy, will resolve that which you will consider best and con venient fur she service of his Maksty. May GOD preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) MANUEL DE VELASCO. MANUILL DL VALLOTA. MANULL JOSE DE RETKS. ANTONIO CASPE r stonsuctoss• NEW NO I E OF THE JUNTA. In the Paper which your Excellency yesterday transmitted to this Junta as a just and necessary Pe tition from the Senors, the Fisc.tls, directed to your tribunal, it is recommended, that in consideration of two printed papers which accompanied it, we should proceed to carry it into execution, by taking an oath of allegiance, and giving due obedience to the new Supreme Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies. The printed papers were a Proclamation of the Coun cil of Regency, summoning from America ,lleputies to attend are Cortes which are to assemble atsCadiz, but which have no signature, mark of authenticity, or proof of its transmission ; and a Proclamation of the Governor of Cadiz, wherein he declares the pro visions of the Council for the recognition of the Re gency, but which was also without a signature, or other proof of authenticiy. The Junta, desirous of acting with a circumspection corresponding to the importance of tle subject, immediately transmitted a Note to your Excellency, that you might inform us whether you had received the authority which should guide us in legally recognizing the Council of Re gency, or if there was any precedent in the Archives of the Real Audiencia, where we had taken an oath to and acknowledged at any time a sovereign autho rity, solely in virtue of a simple printed paper, with out any mark of authentic authwity or proof of its transmission ; to which the Tribunal replied, that it had not received any official order on the subject, and that the transmission of the printed papers had hap pened only in consequence of existing circumstances which directed the Supreme Government. The Junta is persuaded that the Tribunal has jus tice in its fidelity • but as the acts of G overnment ought to be founded upon established principles, and as it is not in religious discussions alone that people are exposet to run into the dangerous extremes of in credulity and fanaticism, the Junta is desirous of what is right according to the wish of the Tribunal, and they therefore submit to you the following considera tions, wherein they frankly state what they conceive ought to be done., The uncertainty which prevailed respecting the le ! gitimate representation of the authority of our Sove reign Ferdinand VII. created public discussion in this city, which was expressly permitted by the Govern went, and the result has been the removal of the Vice . roy from all authority in the Juno, which was prvri - M Buenos Ayres, June 2, 1810." GAZETA EXTRAORDINARIA DE BUENOS AYRES. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1810. The Council of the Regenty of Spain and the Indies to the Spanish Americans. [Tate first article in the Gazette is an address under this title. It consists of a detail of the events in Spain, which compelled the Junta to retire to the Isle of Leon, the establishment of the Regency, and calls on the Americans to adhere to the Mother Country, and invites them to send deputies to the Cortes.] ROYAL DECREE. The King our Sovereign, Don Ferdinand VII. and in his Royal name and authority, the Council of Re gency of Spain and the Indies, consislering the great and urgent necessity which there is that the Extraor dinary Cones be assembled as soon as military events stay permit, should be attended by Deputies from the Spanish dominions in America and Asia, who sionally appointed until the meeting of the Deputies of the Provinces,lto whom belong the regulation of that representation which should protect the rig hts of our august Monarch. Besides, when we des ire to come to a conclusion, it is necessary that we should maturely consider that the fundamental principles of an act which might afterwards produce much embar. rassment to the deliberations of Congress, and when an accident occurs which diverts the provisions of the laws, the dispositions of PROVIDZNCK which directs them are unseen. The Junta have sworn to Ferdinand VII. and the preservation of his augustrights. They have concurred in every thing excepting the recognition of the repre sentation of the legitimate Sovereignty in Spain, and this recognition should be the effect of the solu tion of the two following questions : Ist, The undoubted certainty of the representation of the Soverei, being established in Spain. to be given to , ignry -2d, A proof of its legitimacy. At present we have their arrival at Majorca to the conclusion of ihe e" C e o n r ces. es, the sae ought to be six dollars a day, which is the allowance granted to treat of only the first question, and therefore the to the Deputies from the provinces of Spain. Junta would ask, whether a printed paper, without a In the same extraordinary Cortes shall afterwards be esta- signature, without official transmission, without any blished the constant and fixed form in which the Deputies from i the said dominions shall in future be elected, supplying or modi.. legal formality, is sufficient to decide the existence of fying what, from the urgency of the time and the difficulty of r i le a Sovereign Power, whose uncertainty has already c i rc umstances, could not be included in this Decree. You will occasione d serious occurrences, which greatly agitated publish it, and communicate it to those to whom its execution b e longs. XALVEIt DC CASTANO3, President. t the people here ) We know from the Spanish and English papers Isle of Leon, Feb. 14, 1810. To the Marquis Dz LAS HORMAZAS. • the artifices which are resorted to by the intruding Note.—With this Proclamation, printed in Cadiz, but with. King to derange and confound the firmness and fl out signature or evidence of its authenticity, or any authority delity of the people of America, Your Excellency whatever, the Real Audiencia (Royal Tribunal) transmitted will know that he has sent into all places printed pa tbe following Note, accompanied by a Proclamation of the Go- pets, and that many of them were sealed and signed vernor of Cadiz, also without force or authority. MOST EXCELLENT SENO*, from compulsive violence ; and when the Govern- The Fiscals of his Majesty have this day presented to the Tri- ment has already approved its vigilance and precau bonal the printed papers which accompany this notice, requesting Lions against deception, would it be prudent to ac that they should be transmitted to your Excellency, in order that su itable measures should be taken in this place to swear obedience knowledge the representation of a Sovereign without to the new superior Council of Regency of the Dominions of any other authority than that of printed papers with- Spain and the Indies, and that proper Deputies may be elected out even a signature ? You will recollect the princi. for the Cortes, which are to assemble, and be held as they have pie that was adopted on the installation of the Su decreed; and the Tribunal considering it just and necessary that such a disposition should take place, have instructed us in the preme Jnnta of Seville. The precarious situation of same hope, to transmit the printed papers to you, lest by accident the sovereignty was not then greater than it is now ; they should not have yet fallen into your hands, and they trust the formation of the Junta appeared to this tribunal that your zeal for the interest of our au g ust Sovereign, Ferdinand in every respect the most proper and correct proceed the Seventh, will produce the effect which it ought. 1 ing, and to the irrefragable proofs that accompanied May Goo preserve your Excellency many years. Buenos Ayres, June 6, 1810. it there was ad d ed th e mission of an officer of rank, (Signed) MANUEL DE TEL who had no other object than to facilitate the ac- MANUEL JOSE DL RETES• knowledgment of the institution; this tribunal, how- MINUTE OF THE JUNTA. ever, and the other authorities, neither recognized To resolve upon so important a point as has been sent us by nor swore allegiance to it, nor did the tribunal con your Excellency from the Senores, the Ew Junta a's, the are de sirous of being informed as soon as possible, whether you have . eider itself compelled by the extraordinary existing received any certain orders for our actin g l egally' in recognising . circumstances to consolidate these dominions with the Council of Regency. '1 hey also desire to be informed whe- ; the others that acknowledged the sovereignty of our ther there is any precedent in the archives of the Real Audiencia Ittlgusi monarch Ferdinand VII. of a sovereign authority being acknowledged and swan to merely 1 Regarding the question in a nearer point of view, in virtue of a simple printed paper, without other authority or proof of its authenticity. The Junta wi.hes to be correct, and I we see that his Excellency, D. Baltazer Hidalgo de that no delay may take place they wish an extraordinary meeting Cisneros, has received Gazettes, in which intelligence to be held, at which the Fis cals may give their assistance. I I has been communicated of the Council of Regency .... instituted in Cadiz. His Excellency could not doubt of the truth of this information, because he gave it to the public by means of the press ; however, he did not say a word of acknowledging or swearing to that Council, nor did you exercise your authority to make it be acknowledged. Why then is that de- manded of the Junta which was not thought necessary with respect to the Viceroy ? Can any risk be incur red in waiting for those solemn Acts which, accord-, hag to law, ought to decide the certainty and legitt- 1 Macy of the new Government ? Do you distrust the Jtinta, or the people of this place? Since the Tribunal, tranquilly relying on fixed prin ciples, has intimated to the Juilta that it has sworn fidelity to the King, and to the successor of Ferdi nand VII. ; that it has sworn to acknowledge every Sovereign representation legally established ; that in the discharge of those duties it has sent to Spain an official person with dispatches for the Sovereign Go vernment legally established ; and that the declara tions being repeated, that the people of America are equal to those of Spain, they will not consider them selves entitled to less rights nor less representation than the provincial Juntas of those kingdoms ; and that in nothing will they go beyond the limits of their provisionary establishment, nor anticipate the autho rity and proper functions of the Congress that has been convoked ; assuring you and the whole world in justification of the sentiments that animate us, that , in no hands can the rights and territories of the King be placed with greater safety than in ours. May God preserve your Excellency many years. BUENOS AYRES, JULY 7. Cornelia de Suvedra, &c. to the Real Andienda. The above is followed by a Reply from the Real Audiencia, agreeing with the Provisional Junta, that a mere communication, without the legal formalities that constitute a Royal Dispatch, is not sufficient to decide the right of a Sovereign Power, nor even to make an inferior authority he recognized, but urging that there can be no doubt of the certainty of the establishment which the communication contains ; and that the interests of the nation require the ac knowledgment of a supreme authority. and as the ad vantage that must result to the tranquillity of the Spanish dominions is evident from the fixing of a Sovereign Government desired by the nation as most conformable to the law and analogous to their Con stitution, they conceive that the omission of those for malities cannot be attended with any prejudice to the the state, but that on the contrary the greatest ad vantage may be expected from this new proof of the fidelity, interest, and zeal with which the Junta, the Tribunal, and the whole people regard this intimate connection with and subordination to the National Government. DECISION.—Buenos Ayres, June S. Whereas the rights of the authority exercised by the Sovereign Representation of Don Fernando VII. our august Monarch, are completely secured by the oath which this Junta took at the time of its installation, to obey such Sovereign Representation as might exist, legitimately constituted ; and whereas the notorious fidelity of the inhabitants of these provinces removes all the dan gers which, under other circumstances, might give cause to over step the laws which prescribe the form of transactions so impor tant, unless there should be shewn some necessity for engaging in proceedings which might draw us from the established course— the Junta reserves the qyue►tion of acknowledgment until the period of receiving the othcial documents which maylegitimate it, and in the mean time will observe the same conduct which was pursued by the termer Government, in concurrence with the Real Audiencia, with respect to the Supreme Junta of Seville, uniting our sentiments as then with those of the other parts of the State, and redoubling our efforts to assist them in contributing every kind of succour which may solemnly demonstrate the fra ternity of the provinces of America and those of Spain which re main free from the enemy, and our constant adherence to the cause of the King, in spice of all the open projects and secret in trilues of the enemy. (Signed) CORNELIe Dt SAAVRDRA. Dr. JUAN JOU CAITILLI. MANUIL BELGRANO. MIGVI4 u AZCUINA9A. *tr. PIUVATI CORILESPONDINCE. 44 Bums Amt. JUNX 12.—1 n political matters l ev thin here is goin on rationa. n. gui ery n ew Member of the new Junta of lly piethis i s gone to Monte Video, to aid in forming a Pr ov i s i onal Government there. Scarcely a doubt can be enter. tamed but they will follow the example of Buenos Ayres. They have not yet, either here, or in Monte Video, sworn obedience to the Council of Regency, or acknowledged them as the legal Government in Spain; nor is there any probability that they will acknowledge that, or any other, as the Supreme Ga. vernment in Spain, whom they are bound to obey, whilst things remain in their present state there.-- Some of the old Spaniards in possession of the 4 1 lase: and fishes,' trembling for their places and authority, and the present order of things here, represented to the Junta, (as will be seen by the inclosed paper) the propriety of swearing obedience to the new Re. gency. This paper you find is very interesting. Th e new Government here are too strong to be shaken by a few discontented placernen. The Gazette inclosed is the first public Journal that has been published un der Spanish authority in Buenos Ayres, and you may rely upon receiving the succeeding numbers by every conveyance to Old England." 4 4 Jtaia 15.—The Revolution proceeds tranquilly. We have raised 1000 men to resist any attempts that may be made by the disaffected in addition to the 500 completed pursuant to the Act of Investiture of the new Government. The latter have been sent into the interior - and are to proceed to Kusco to chastise Go. raneche, who betrayed oar cause at La Paz, and at whose instigation about five or six persons were hung or beheaded at the latter, and 30 more wet , . baki4ial I to the i-land of Juan Fernandez and the Falkland Islands. The distance of Kusco from hence is about 2500 miles. When the pe, pie of La Paz understand the changes which have taken place we trust they will forget the wounds they have received during the in fluence of the Spaniards, and will join us in the cause of freedom and independence. 4 , Monte Video his not yet assented to the new order of things, but we presume harmony will soon be restored throughout the whole of the territories on the shares of La Plata." Other letters of the 16th speak of the reduction of the duties, for the advantage of foreign trade, and of the remarkable alteration in the manners and customs of the inhabitants in consequence of the prodigious 'influx of turopean commodities. FOREIGN INT ELLIGINCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUI Y to. The determination of the Grand Seignior, to take the field in person against the Russians, has been so. lemnly announced at all the mosques ; and four horse tails, the usual indication of such an intention, are actually stuck upon the gates of the Seragii-, His Highness will, ;t is said, proceed on the 20th inst. to the Imperial Castle in the plain of Daud. Pacha, which has been prepared for his receptioa, L and thence set out to join the army, as soon as the 'whole of the troops have assembled in the camps' Adrianople. His guard consists of 12,000 Bostangis. The scarcity of specie operates as a great impede. went to the execution of the measures in train :or the general defence. The plan Adopted for removing this difficulty is the voluntary sacrifice of all the an. necessary plate, a sacrifice of which the Mufti and the Grand Seignior have been the first to set an example, and the levying of a contribution of three millions of piasters from the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews ; and lastly, the issuing of a silver coinage of a very inferior alloy. The Divan has this day paid to the troopstbe whole pf their arrears for the last quarter. The English Ambassador, Mr. Adair, has this day had his audience of leave of the Divan, and will soon go on board -the 4akette frigate, which is appointed to convey him to England. Ni) alteration of any umportince 114 s occurred is the situation of the armies. The Gran .1 Vizier, not. withstanding all the attacks upon him, still maintains his ground in his strong position before Scilumla. LEYDEN, AUGUST 24. On the 3d instant kstied from 'le Chancery of the Dinah) , of Schick wis Decree of his Danish jesty, extending to every port and creek of Holstein, the previous order for the exclusion of Americas yes. sels from Husum and Toning. An Imperial Decree, dated the I Sth instant, at St. Cloud, directs that All the French troops at present in Holland shall return to France, with the exception of five regiments of French infantry, and four regiments of French cavalry, the only French force to remain is that country subsequent to the Ist of September. All that ri lates to the Administrative Department is to be transacted by the Dutch Commissaries, &c. and all the French em oyes that can be spared are to re turn to France ; the artillery service to be performed . by the Dutch regiment of horse artillery, the ter mint of foot artillery, and the train battalion From .the above date, the troops of every detail" !ion are ordered to be quartered in barracks, ma upon no account to be billeted upon the inhabitants. —The pay, subsistence, and clothing of the tivcr remaining in Holland, are to be charged to the bud: get thereof ; but the Dutch guards and two rely' ments of cuirassiers, which are on their march for France, are to be maintained at the charge of the French Treasury. The Dutch Eleves and Vellies are directed to be transferred to the marine service of Holland. Another Decree, of the same date, permits the portation under bond, of wheat, rye, and oats. es• to the Dutch provinces, from the ports of the lower Rhine, Mont Tonnere, the Rhine and Moselle, and the Rolf' A third Decree, of the same da'e, conta i ns a a• riety of regulations with regard to the incorper.tiza Of the Dutch corps with the French army. Thi troops remaining in Holland are to have an increase of pay proportioned to the price of provisions in that part of the empire. PRIVAI E LETTER.'_,AMSTERDAM, AUGUST SO. " By an order, under the signattue of the Duke Reggio, published in Rotterdam, every soldier thee shall be daily provided by the pr.*, with bottle of beer, the 16th part of a pinta Hollands, or brand!, 24 as. of bread, 2 os. of pulse, and $ as. of flesh. " We are tcld that the eni:stment of soldiers for the Conscriptii it is proceeding with great seiocigle and that the ranks are composed chiefly of rilustrers. It is conducted as well in per on as by The oath of al:egiance has been taken by the troffli in the sarrlsons o' the towns, and by tbepripc i F 4gt of the tohalritants of Holland." signature-.