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.iiiirasA PATRIOT. DATED
, • • " MACKINAW. JUDE 20.
" A NOW was received some time since at Chi-
Onto, f,us Major Morstoti, contman&ng Fort
Arnigtrong. It appears that the expiess -communi-
cation hail hex,' rut tiff and that the Major availed
himself of a Sack Indian to communici to
Itlnior Baker. at Chicago. He states that two of
his men had been killed hr the Indians; that they
had attempted to cut air hist provisions. hoc,. &e.
Inn faded; that they had made something tike a
regular attack upon the fort, but were repulsed.
ides ettmettund i‘a• too small to think of leaving the
fort in presence of the enemy. He had implied to
Colonel Leavenworth fur aid, but the C'olonel's
command was too small to afoul any.
" Tlw fort that great apprehensions are enter.
taitsed for theysfety of all the lima west of Grreu
1a .4241 Chicago. There are ths few men at these
plaice that tt most be n great temptation teetlirden.
Indiana. who, 5,0 doubt, riew with • concern the.
rapid stride. a e are making in their country.
" There are route three or four hundred Indiana
I at thin poet. on their way to Drummond's bland.
for the purione of receiving presents from their
great fuller, George IV. lam told they receive
mutually f 4O to 59,000 dollars worth of goods
from the Britian of at that place."

SOUTH AMERICA.

The following article is from the Correo di Oro.
'loco. of the 17th Julie, and is understood to be the
official declaration of the sentiments of the Patriot
Goverisment at Angostura on the pollticul changes
in Spatial, and of the offer to Which they were expect—
e.l to give rise from Morillo, the Spanish General,
of a negotiation fora eoisattlit of hostilities.
" There is s I timour is town of the arrival at Barhaelne•
of some Spanish officers on their route to Cafafeaf, With -
promiaitions for au amnesty to the President of Columbia.
until the Corks shall assemble and determine the question of
war ur peace with South America. This rumour, which may
Ire so agreeahle to those who arc adverse to the further ex-
penditure of human blood, wants confirmation.
" In all the documents which we have seta issued by the
Provisional Joule of Spain, we have disiovered nothing
shout South America, except the re-establistimeat of the
old department for the administration of affairs of the dowel-
Neon, beyond the sta. It may be that by this channel those
proposals of amnesty rumoured are to be tendered to the
people of South America who have thrown off the yoke of
Spain. If the Provisional Junta at Madrid should be ado-
steel by the same scorning feelings as the chiefs who have
liberated the Peninsula, nothing could fie more proper
than to pat a stop to that effusion of blood which had bun
the delight of Ferdinand and his satellites in Venezuela.
" Morino, who was the prime instrument of massacre
and desolation, has been continued in that station in which
he had wrought so much massacre and cruelty, although he
was well apprised of' the generous sentiments and mode-
ration of those Chiefs, made known every where by the pub-
lication of their magnanimous views. Morillo, who cannot
exist but amidst the slaughter of mankind, and the ruins
Is has made, has compelled the people of the Republic
Columbia to continue hostilities by sea and land. We
bit been before acquainted, that the instructions given.
by Morino to the little naval squadron which departed
from Comaua, in April, 1811, were to kill, burn, and
destroy Ivory thing which fell is their way, without re-
tursation or distinction; and thole orders were signed hy •
this atrocious monster when be was fully apprized of the
full and s ffectiee progress of the iaserrection in favour of
the Constitution in Spain ; of the oath taken by Ferdinand
to maintain and obey that Constitution; of the establish-
'went of the Provisional Junta; of the liberation of those
patriots slid sates of Spain who had been consigned to dun.
rams and fortresses, and the Inquisition, on account of
their political opinions; of the abolition of the tribunal of
the lemnition ; and the re-establishment of the freedom of
the mess.
" It were to be wished that hostilities bad ceased at the
moment that the proclsmation of Quires' and Acevedo was
received at Camerae. But Morillo pursuing his sanguinary
system, the het-easily was imposed on us of defending our.
selves, and pursuing to justice a remorseless and perfidious
enemy.
" It is not possible to ascertain at present what may be
the nature of the propooda fur an amnesty received by way of
Bartndoes at La Guira, if any such have been there received ;
neitlwr can it he possibly determined whether such proposels
will be rejected; nor whether they will be accepted, in ease
of their being such as may be receivabk. Mat
11011, would MA be necessary to prevetit any accidents th it
might be dependant on the character and conduct of agents
removed at a great diet:owe from their principals? Suppos-
-ing that the Pitivisional Joists was more worthy of trust than
Ferdinand; and that Morillo himself was not less entitled
to confidence in hie honour, or humanity, or faith, than the
Junta; still great evils might arise out of circumstances not
always to be foreseen, but against which it would be the
extreme of fully lint to be prepared. These consideration*
must be imperative on all those. to whom overtures mit7,.be
made, when it is considered that the superior authority of
the adverse party who make the overture is at 2,000 leagues
distaace;•thie is an inconveuieoce inseparable from the lawn
and constitutions which are to operate at so great a distance.
" Amend and improve the Constitution of ISM as much
as its general character will admit, these countries, so far
removed from the seat of its operation, can never alike
pad-
tielpate in those ameliorations; one of these never can, like
Spain, derive advantage from a faithful observance even of
its fundamental principles. This Constitution was commu-
nicated to South America in the year of its publication, and
to Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela; but it was made a mere
machine for oppression in the hands of CAM's, Monte•
wide, and Aluiscal. Not a single evil exercised by these 'lt-
traps of despotism was eemethed under its establishment
the people of Peru, Mexico, anal Venezuela, remained
mach oppreaar.l as they had been at any prior period,
the pretended shade of this potent Constitution; thus -
pelting those who were not to be deceived, or determined not
to be any touger oppressed, to seek a remedy iu a more vigor-
oue effort for emancipation.
" The first Regency of Spain invited the South Americans
to send Deputies to the Corlea, and is the rouvocatiou
under which these countries hail as,
sobiecterl

pointed out the evils
long laboured, sad which bad uatil that time
them. By the Regency South America was theoretically
released from the chains of colonial subjection, and it was
tunfesettl that the distance of these coutetri• a (cum the seLt
of Governmint rendered sheen always liable to such wrroies.
Thome were the avowed seutiaruts of the Regency of &at
period.
a Niemeyer excellent a couiititatioc nay be, it cannot
overcome the tells inseparable from distaoce; and if the
MOIL of these evils exist., the evils themselves oust sow grow
oat of it, The Regency had the. said, which tbey.esight
may with truth, that the South Amerlease were treated with
iledillreressee where they were not injured by avarice, or bow,
ed it.,. by igaeraoce to power; but they continued to ho
oppressed as before dorieg that Revery, without any sort

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