The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-01 00:00:00

:! OW of hostilities, by making a proposition to that effect to the Junta of Buenos Ayres, accom panied with an assurance that Captain HEywoor, of his Britannic Majesty's ship Nereus, had offered his services to mediate between them. Captain HEYVTOOD in a letter to the President of the Junta, which was afterwards published in the Gazette of Buenos Ayres, denied solemnly having made any such offer, and added, that it would be not only con trary to his intentions, but to his instructions, and to the known and declared policy of his Government, to take any part on either side in the internal concerns of the Mother Country or of the Colonies. The Junta then wrote to . Lord STRANGFORD, the British Minister to the Court of the Brazils, • acquainting him with the measures taken by Caro to interrupt the commerce of Buenos Ayres, and begging him to communicate the same to his Government. To this Lord STRANGFORD replied, that he would comply - with:tist request of the Junta by making the desired communication to bis Government, adding, at the same time, that his Government would receive with regret the communication, , 4 which would augment those painful feelings which must be inspired by the present unfortunate contest between Bu enos Ayres and its dependencies." His Lord ship then offers the mediation of his Govern ment between the Colonies and the Mother Country, and proposes, with a view to give the mediation effect, an armistice upon the La Plata, 44 till (he final adjustment, by the friendly Mediation of Great Britain, of the points in discussion between the Go vernment of Buenos Ayres and that of Spain." The answer of the Junta of Buenos Ayres to this proposition of Lord STRANGFORD is direct and deci sive. They complain, without using the language of reproach, .that his Excellency recognises the blockade of Buenos Ayres, which presented to them a mortifyirig contrast " to the extensive exertions of Admiral DE COURCY," many months before, " to free the British flag from the obstructions im posed by the Governor of Monte Video." They then say that they " can assign no cause for this re trograde movement, unless it form part of the plan of the British Government to adopt no measures that may tend to disunite America from Spain." The answer reason,. that 4g in the state of insignifi- Spain is reduced, her true interests soliciting England to approach those ~xi '- 4 ai" , I iI'AGAr-i ..e. , -*.wlo - _' -7- .'• ,•• ' --- . " 1 '- • . ' . .. ... . . ..' 4' " . • e. -.A . .. ii 0. 11: ... ., . . • . .A . • • • ) ' r ••• • ' . •. ' :i. e . 1. • ,Ar . ... :. . • ) • ... : ".... • A • ie. -V .- - . 'Suiting, Congitution, anb kW. :Po :,, . . .. ot* • y .. ' t 4, ' P RINTED AND PUBLISHED AT NO. 5, PICKETT - STREET, STRAND; NEAR TEMPLE EAR. ~ - L 1 . 4: 71 ° . 19i - . SUNDAY; - . , . .. ." POLITICAL DL,SQUISITION., No. 178. srg•PARATJON OF SOUTH AMERICA FROM .SPAIN. ! t' The scene of great, events seems now likely to be changed. Fixed for nearly four and tvieiity years on the European Colltirtent, it has lately and pro gressively veered towards the West, and begins to settle on the shores of the New World. There, the . attentive observer may watch the formation of em pires. Still connected together at their birth as . the: limbs of powerful monarchy : he may see the - impolicy - of the Mother Country first wakening the . sentiment of the servile state, and .consequently that of apposition to her imperious mandates land imprudent agents, soon followed by the • consciousness and the experience of - their in • dividial strength. • On the verge of complete *re ' beltiOn they maftr M to hesitate : a lit4e.. A law - loyal ddubts, or' presaging fears, may indice them to suspend the declaratian of the independence which they intend to acquire : they may even shield their proceedings under the mantle of .fidelity, and pro , fess that their sole intent is to obtain all the rights of free subjects, and to vindicate those of a captive Monarch. But neither their actions nor their words can deceive the experienced observer, as to their real ends, and even their repeated assurances of loyalty, only appear as a veil - used to conceal their ' exertions in furtherance of their secret plans. Such is the scene which South America now pre sents. Armed both against the usurped authority of NAPOLEON'S brother, and the unrelenting and bigotted policy of the parent State, the Spanish co lonies have overpowered opposition, which the Cortes and Junta of Spain had excited, and the weak re s. mains of European authority are now confined to the besieged walls of Monte Video, where they must ere now have ceased to exist. By the late mail from the River Plate, Buenos Ayres Papers have been received, containing seve ral documents more clearly decisive of the exact state of the relations at present subsisting between these Colonies on the Plate and Old Spain, than any accounts which had previously reached this country. The desperate situation in which Emo found himself, after having been in the field, cooped in the town induced him to attempt to procure r.. iv. czar. ••••minallw. a wiwerea.....4.. • )- , ?4,L, beaten constan t ly proceeds to rea of Monte Video, cane to which )ctire a c - v*T . . in soli( A • s. ) t scl 1 1k ... f ~ ^-'6 , • ' 4 '6, --., • 1 4 - , f.: ,- - - - , • • ...4 . L +-peon.'*-_• ;~__~► 71 of ' 1 ,- .. vio•