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CARACC'AS cAterrEs%

RIURTI UT FIADIIAND T11141.1N1 VEIIIEZVfit!A.

EDICT.
41 THE SUPREME JUNTA OF TRUE PROVINCES. IN-
' STALLED IN TII ROTA,. NAME ot? FERDINAND

THE FILTH.
" Amongst 4.lte vivo and weighty affairs which
occupy its icteition, watchful of the general hap.
pities*, and foil of the most fervent desires to en-
emir ge it• d anti:tent agriculture and cootmercr,
have agre.al to hold the latter free with friends and
neutrals; and that from this time, the rules of neu-
tral commerce he observed agreeable to the
reguratimis of the 7th Oct. 3808, with the abate.
rn.• !! „r the duties and modifications of such rules
es wet- enjoined at that time, usetil the Chamber of
Commerce shall have indite the scale, which is in-
trust,d to them, of a fixed price on all produce I.+r
exportation, agreeable to its nature, quality, and
circumstances, the same as thaw establiabol for
ind.go; and agreeable to it, the price is declared to
be fixed, for the recovery of duties on exportation
of produce. as the method best adapted to avoid
the stagnation commerce labours under, and to fa-
cilitate it, operation. For these purposes, and fur
tit- *toiling of the ports to our bro. hers the Sus.
Diardß, and other powers being neutrals or friends,
the necessary orders have been communicated to
the Intendancy ; and for general information, let
thi. Edict be oroclaitutd, and copies affixed is the
customary places.
" Sala Capitals? de Caraceaa, Ist May' Ism
" JOSEPH DE LAS I:LAMMAS,
" MARTIN TOrEll
(A tele copy) " CASINO DE BESAKES, Secretary
r•HALCAS. JUNEI.
ORDER OF THE REGENT OF SPAIN, TO THE CRP-
TAIN-OSNEItAI. OF TH6 C•RACCAM.

" The Council of Begone! ,4 convinced, that, in
the name of Ferelinsod Vilth, Mortara' both of
New and. OM Spain, favouritism, intrigue. and
immorality have prevailed„ and for twenty years
the gate has been closed as In all useful employ-
ments against persons ol' knowledge, patriotism,
and merit ; while it has been open to a herd of Alt-
prayed $1114.1 incompetent persons, to -the notorimis
injury of the public cause. No duty is more im-
portant to a people than to confide authority into
proper hands, wlen-h will distribute rewards mid
punishments with equity, and which will discoun-
troaoce evil-duets, and encourage those who are
benefactors to Oct' country. His Majesty, anxi-
ous to provide a re uedy for those isilliirtng dis-
orders, mulling from such scandalous abuse, pre-
dominant hoth 1- the former reign and in the pre-
sent, has 'tete 111 l Med to apprise your Excellency.
without Inas of lime, and as fully as possible, of
all the roeasurri. winch are adopting. relating to ec-
clesiastmil, political, military, and financial atfairs;
explaining t°,e lime, mode, improvement, expects.
tions. conduct of each department, to be re-
accordiog to the laws of his losminions; and
to which your Excellency will discover many wise
precautions, on whi-h we may particularly refer to
those of hip. 3 lit. 14 ; lib 7 to 15, and lib. 34 of
ti:. -2. of Leitedative Institutions.
" Majesty dues not doubt, that, impressed
with these co...ideratico, your Excellency will dis-
charge the delicate and important duties intrusted
to yon, and will give your assistance in every other
respect for the genersl welfare, contributing as
much as possible to facil.taie thr upright and be-
pig -sot designs of Govartunent.—God preserve
you, &e.
" Real Isla de Leon, Feb. IS, MO.

"' To the Captsie General uI the Carsecas."
AMMER 0? Stiresms JtI,4TA PIIMITCTING 1116

Host Eacet.t.auv Sta—The letter received
from your Excellency of the 15th of February last,
ectraints us with the steps taken by the body call-
ing itself a Council of Regency, to remedy as much
as possihle, the affecting disorders caused by the
scandalous abuses of authority, which for twenty
years to the present time hive prevailed, cloviiis
the give on persons of knowledge, patriotism, and
mint, and at the same time opening it to others,
who were depraved and immoral, to the manifest
ptejndice of the interests of His Majesty and of the
Public.
" The Supreme Junta which at present governs
these provinces, sees with 'Armoire the intentions
of that Roily to suppress the public abuses; but
with van the inadequate means taken for the pur-
pose ; such as the Lretrer of the Central Junto of
Aratijuet, of the 26th of October, which was wholly
niigwtory on the removal of the Junta to
when practices more rhswareful were resorted to,
than those which degraded the Minister under
Charles IV.

" country has been oppressed, more if pos-
sible by internal deniotisiii, than by foreign extor-
tion ; it has been continually outraged by nicked
Governors, whose ignorance and rapacity have been
greater in proportion to tl.eir distance from thy
centre of authority. To that authority we have in
vans looked fur redress, and we have endured all
the distresses cooreqamit on such a situation."
[This importmit instrument then proceeds to elate
the 'erica of calamities, rod the excess of injustice,
to which those remote dominions have been ex-
posed, and the inadequate ',Areas suggested for
them ; and particularly remarks on the insufficient
representation proposed for Americans in the Cortes;
sod that if the hest laws were euacted by antho-
Mimi perfectly legitimate, yet that they could have
no security for their faithful execution. It then
proceeds, pursuing the same sentiment.]
•• what use would the most perfect system of
lexislatinii be to es, if the Captain-Gener.il
allowed to say with impunity, that his will is
pirrammint to all law ; end if we apply for protec-
tion from WY tyranny, the power to which we nio
peal! is too &strut to hear our complaints, or eon-
riders all its sovereiguty transferred to its unworthy
itepreseritatives.
" Those who have been concerned ni any single
branch of public affairs in these Indies, are already
roorinced of the truth of what we have asserted,
and if it were conveuient could prove it by the most
iniispotelde testiinotlY-• We shall satisfy ourselves
with adducing a single example. The Sit reme
Cottocile. tired of hearing complaints agnitist the
Real hadiencia of the capital, persons Ii• re-
course to an expedient suggested in such
by the livitan lowslatare. bait which had been des-
used nu nemesia of its little infliieoce, pod the neg.
ligriire of the Spanish Goverionei.t.
"A Judge. Us the clii.•racttr of a Visitor or

Odieer of Appeal, arrived in this capital, clothed
With that auttninty which is usually conferred on
Muoi.ters engaged on such important commissions. !
On this occasion hundreds of persons hastened to
him to obtain the retires* of their grievances, and
the disgrace of the Magistrates who had perverted
the designs of justice by the most scandalous prao-
tees. Lilt what happened ? Old the iajored per-
sun receive indeitinity ? Was one Magistrate re-
moved The crowd of complainants were
sent away by the dodge of Appeal, with this satis-
factory answer to their accusations :—That the de-
cisions of the Real Audiencia were irrevocable ;
and the persons guilty of themeoflences, and charg-
ed with them by the people, were assigned more
productive employments than they before enjoyed 4.
This was not all. The public finances incurred a
considerableexpense for the high ditty of this Visitor
stud his des.teinlisiits ; lie himself augmented the
mischiefs; and tho.e evils which he was appointed
to remove, continue witnOut remedy."
(The Address concludes with sPo(ogizillg for the
plait) language adopted on a subject of ton much
importance to be treated with tergiversation : and
with expressing, that the first duty of the coitntry is
to maintain its allegiance and fidelity to its rightful
Sovereign.)
COXICCILO, May al, 16 10.
ititi preserve vOll, tic.
°JOSE Dr 11..%`; 11:LAWMAS, Presi4lll.
0 MAIITIN TOYtilt VON tE,Viee-Prestileut."
"To bis Execlleucy Marquis de las florieszas."

%Ye have ahv received a per signed by the
Junta of Cararese, conlaioiugthe moat loirnittowii
vita's of public institution/4 and the most sublime
principle* of Mahood Wordy : alter stating which,
it concludes with the following