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breaking out of the Revolution, to have applied all the in_
fluenee of their personal situation to sustain the cause of
their Sovereign and their country; instead of which, they
fled from the scene of conflict, and abandoned both to
their fate. It was the opinion of those best versed in the
affairs of that convulsed period, that if the army which
might have teen raised by the Royalist party, if the
Frenth noblemen had remained in the country, it would
have been more than sufficient to have subdued the Re-
publican insurgents, and to have kept Louis XVI. on
his throne. If they had remained in the country, they
would have kept in check that insurrectionary spirit which
grew ferocious beyond control, when those who should
have fought against it to the last were the first to fly before
it. The Royalist forces raised at different times by some
high-spirited individuals, in Poitou, in Brittany, and in
Anjou, sufficiently showed what might have been done,
had the Nobles, whose selfish and Miscalculating policy led
them to emigrate, been governed by manlier feelings, and
leagued themselves, as they might and ought to have done,
to the fate and fortunes of the monarchy. No body of
men ever put forward a claim to indemnity with less
title to have it granted. Messrs. DE ViLtete anti D
Co ant /RES have contrived, by means of bribery, chicane,
and intrigue, to secure a majority of the Deputies; but
in what will this effective alliance Letween the Ministry
and the emigrants end? They have already introduced all
the evils of faction into the Government. M. DS VILLELL,
though without any great powers of mind, is not wanting
iu sagacity, and has a fair share of foresight ; lie is well
aware that the great body of proprietors will not listen to
any talk of res:itution ; he feels the weight of their power
to be very heavy in the scale against him, and that the
instant his movements indicate anything like a determined
hostility, he will be found too weak to defend himself either
by stratagem or force, and his fall from pow:r is certain.
Among those very emigrants who so importunately pre-
fer their claims of compensation, there arc a considerable
number now in France, who, having served in foreign
corps, raised in England, and employed by us during the
revolutionary war, are, at this moment, receiving half pay
from our Government, as Lieutenants and Captains;
as Colonels and Marechala de Camp, they are receiving
fall pay in France, or are holding the most lucrative civil
appointments. We know that many thousand persons,
long employed in the different departments of the State,
have been dismissed, and reduced to absolute want, while
the vacancies thus created have been given to the emigrant
party, whose pretensions seem to increase in arrogance
with every additional concession made to satisfy them.

The important intelligence reached town yesterday, that
the Spanish General CAN TA RAC has been completely de-
feated by Bouvaa, on the plains of Jauja, or Xauxa, as
it is indifferently written in the loose Spanish orthography.
The contest, it appears, was of the most sanguinary cha-
racter, the two Generals having given orders, previous to
the battle, to spare none. For four hours the bayonets on
each aide did their murderous work without intermission.
Finally the Royalists were driven from the field, after
sustaining a less of 6,200 men. Boxt VA R himself has had
4,000 of his faithful veterans killed. Never before were
the plains of America so drenched with human blood. The
victory is decisive of the fate of South America. Bortvoir
is marching with his utmost rapidity towards Cuzco, where
be hopes to surprise the Viceroy Loszaxo, who is there
1 reposing in fancied security. The last intelligence we had
heard of CANTAR•C was, that he had fortncd a junction
with the Viceroy at Andaguaylas. As Jauja is northward
of Huanta, the head-quarters from which Bo LIV•R'S des-
patches, announcing the skirmish at Junin, were dated,
it is probable that the Colombian warrior had induced the
Spanish Generals to separate by falling back hastily, and
having thus drawn CANTA sac alone after him into the
snare, he had turtlesl round on his pursuers, and destroyed
them.

This news, to interesting and valuable at this moment,
when the attention of Europe is particularly fixed on the
New World, was brought to Liverpool on Monday by the
Flora, from Buenos Ayres, which she left on the 14th of
November. When she was about to sail, a deputation of
the inhabitants came after her in a boat, and requested the
Captain to wait one hour, as the mail had just arrived from
Valparaiso with the joyful intelligence of the entire over-
throw of the Spaniards in Peru. The following extract
from a Mendoza paper of the 28th of October, gives the
substance of this information :
NEWS FROM PERU,
Communicated from the city of Santiago by Senor Don Juar de
Dios Vial del Rio. President of the Court of Appeals, in a letter
to Don Rafael Ruts de Arbulic, in the vicinity of the Andes :
•• SANTIAGO, OCTOBER 7.
" We have just received the news of the sanguinary battle which
has been fought between Bolivar and Carnotite, on the plains of
Jauja, and which, in America, has never yet been equalled : it
was contested for four hours with the bayonet. The loss of Bolivar
amounts to 4,000 men ; that of the enemy to 6,200. Bolivar had
marched rapidly towards Cuzco, in order to fall upon the Viceroy
Laserna, who was there in full security, not expecting hint. Let us
five. thanks to God, to whom we owe all these advantages !
The ship which brought this news came from Callao, and we
learn from her that the enemy's troops had abandoned Lima, and
shot themselves up in Callao; in consequence of which, the people
of Lima, in order to prevent the city from being quite sacked, had
solicited the commander of the English ship, Cambridge, to land
100 men to remain there, and protect them from their troublesome
neighbours.
• Every moment we expect intelligence front Truxillo, front
whence we shall have the details. Cantarac declared before the
battle that he would give no quarter (la erred a muerte), and
Bolivar did the same, not so much by the wish of his arm), as be-
cause it was necessary to follow the example of the enemy. This,
without doubt, was the cause of the great slaughter.
•• JUAN DE 1)105 DEL Rto."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED BUENOS AYRES, NOV. 14.
•• The mail from Chili brings intelligence of Bolivar having
defeated the Spanish General Cantarac—the former losing 4,000
men and the latter 6,200. The battle took place in Peru, on the
Plains of Jauja; and when the news reached Lima, the Spanish
troops that were in that city instantly retired to the fortress of Cal.
lao, leaving the rabble committing all manner of depredations,
until the Captain of the Cambridge, 74, landed part of his crew,
which had the desired effect of quelling the rioters, and protecting
the lives and properties of the respectable citixens."

A fortnight ago we expressed our opinion that " the
Government of the Netherlands would be the next, and at
no great distance of time, to recognise the independence of
the American Republics." We learned yesterday, upon
good authority, that the step we anticipated is even now
taken. The Government of the Netherlands, we under-
stand, has resolved immediately to follow the example of
this country with respect to the new States of South America;
and to compensate as it were for the delay, such as it is, the
Dutch Government intend to make a wider sweep with the
measure of their recognition. Mexico, Colombia, Buenos
Ayres, Chili, and Brazil, will be included in its range.
France must disengage herself from the trammels of the
Holy Alliance, and adopt the same policy, unless the pre-
sent French Government is absurd enough to exclaim, with
one of its ephemera) predecessors, " Ptrish commerce ra-
ther than a principle !" Even the Ultra-Royalists, in oppo-
sition to M. IVs Vi t, however, begin to talk very rem-
mob) j on this stih:,. ct, as our readers will ace by the sound
and ft'le article w: Imre extracted from the Journal drs
abuts; and it iy ther:r.,re not improbable that the ru-
mour well-Count led that a message will shortly be
sent down to the French Chambers relative to the question