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London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

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I trw ...Me the plain 'intuit' of this letter, which is
written with a wish of saving you more than probahle fit.
:lure disappointments.
" These probably are some friends still remaining to me
in and about -4., who would willingly receive the as-
II surances of my regard. I would not undertake to specify,
nit knowing what currollie, may have 'happened; but if
such there be still living, 1 should he glad they knew I still
preserve a lively affection fur them and their country. With
brat wishes for you and your family,
" I am, my dear
" Your obedient Servant,
" THOMAS ADDIS ENINIrI7."

TO THE
RIGHT HON. LOUD VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH,

4v. 4.c. ke.

Lonet—His Britannic Majesty'. Ministers were in-
t/enteral, since the month of November, Isl 4, of the mis-
sion which brought the Undersigned to London, as Deputy
from the General Government of the Confederated Provinces
of New Granada, in South America; and although he was
onfortunairly not permitted to present the dispatches be
brought from that Govereineet for his Majefly and his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, nor make the other com-
munications with 'MA be was charged, he does not on
that acconnt conceive Mined( the less obliged, tinder the
extraordinary circomalaners of the present moment, awl in
discharge of his duty, to address the present Note to your
Excellency, for the purpose of being presented to the consi-
deration of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
II is a subject of notoriety, and has been published
throughout Europe, that a negotiation has existed between
the Cabinet. of London and Madrid ; the result of which
(the Spewed% Government nut having been able lo übtain
from (,ond Britain the sasistance required fur the 'eking..
lion of America) has ultimately been to agree to a Media-
tion, to be proposed by the live Allied European Powers,
in order to cause the cessation of the contest between Spain
mid America.
The Undersigned has no d•mht the Americans will highly
appreciate, and receive with pleasure, a mediation of the
pnocnpoal gaereairaa at Europe, particularly from England,
if, is this measure, they hare MO other interest titan that of
humanity. cruelly outraged by the horrors with which the
Spaniards have carried on a must destructive wur on that

But at the mime lime that he is convinced of the senti-
ments which animate his countrymen, and of the most pro-
fuend respect towards the magma Monarchs who so truly
interest themselves its the general repose of the world, and
in restoring to afflicted humanity the enjoyment of its rights,
he must observe, that Spain, in the present state of things,
wishing to maintain the oppressive system which sbe had es-
tsblarbed in America, and carrying ou a war of death or ex-
termination against its inhabitants, has lost the favourable
opportunity of an accommodation which might have pre.
scsystl her supremacy. Therefore, it is necessary, that the
King lerilinand should renounce all hopes of sovereignty
over those countries, if it is troth that he sincerely wishes
to accept the mediation offered by the Sovereigns who base
textured him 111 his throne, is. order to recover by it friend-
ship and a good understanding with the Governments of
America; because the cruel and unjust conduct observed to.
wards America by all the Governments which succeeded
each other in Spain, from the establishment of the Ant re-
vuhtlwaary 1111111 slow, has placed the American
Provinces in the alternative of bring independent or de-
stroyeel, and sus mediation will obtain the desired effect,
mile., it has for its basis the absolute emancipation to which
they aspire.
The Undersigned does not conceive it necessary to explain
the just motives which America has ever bad, to complain
of the constant oppression with which Spain has governed
them ; because they an sutbeiesatly notorious, and such as
fully to justify the resolution they have taken—to die or
become independent.

Neither will he at present engage himself to strew the
series of extraordinary events, nor the unjust pretensions by
which Spain herself provoked thy revolution which was al-
most simiiltaneonaly effected both in South and North
America. Great Britain kiwis' better than any other Euro-
pean Power, that the Americans, abandoned fur many years so
thrashes wood So their own resources, aolely wills Ow wish to
preserve themselves, sod e • ea pe the dom ins s lots of Bonaparte
in the covet of the subjugation of Spain, could have obliged
them to take up anns, and look to their own security ■nd
good government ; and Ibis necessary determination, just
and laudable in itself, and which did not a little contribute

to impede she entire submimun of the Peninsula to de.
government of Joseph, wits ill received by shose who go.
verned in the J.land of Leon and Cadiz ; who were desirous
that Amctica *tumid remain paimive, and follow the fate of
Spain whatever it might be, accompanying' them iu the yoke
attached to the car of the Triumpher.

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The Undersigned will, however, record the !great sacrifices
made by the Americans iu aid of their European brothers, in
she war which they maintained against Napo!coil, sacrifices
ill requited, as England well knows. He will also record the
sincere offers made by those Precincts to maintain theat-
wlve■ shear united with Spain, and the haughty disdain
with which sire latter disregarded and denied to America the
participation of those natural rights concerted to men united
in society. The Acts of the Cortes of Cadiz have proved, in
the fate of all Enitspe, how distant was tile Metropolis
from treating them with common decency, without speaking
of jinaire, of hionacily, and that the sights of twenty mil-
lion, of men were ol less weight in their unjust scale, than
the ambition to thitnioter over a vast extent of country, and
reduce it to a desert.

Arse►iea on that occasion ilia every thing required by her
love for her ancient metropolis, anal the latter establishiug
an unjust inequality clashing with the principles they pro.
claimed, and which they pretended exeln.ively to enjoy, was
the first to provoke the differences which England iu vain
endeavoured to funcili air by her repeated and generous
offers of enediati 111 l , and which were a• often refused through
the pitiful policy of the Governments which succeeded each
other in Spain.
Thus it was, that the mere act of the Americans erosion
to preserve onion, and to protees ilonioeivro in midst of
most difficult circumstances whu•b might offer, from poli-
tical at the distance of three thousand - from

events, leagues s.
Europe, was afterwards converted into a formal act of in-
dependance, pro 111111 l iced with all the necessary conviction,
that Ili-re was nothing further,. to tie hoped fur from Spain,
although she might ameliorate her own institietiona.
In this state of things, Ferdinand, re-established on the
Thorne of his anceolurs, all bit efforts have been directed
to the subjugation of the country, without deigning to as.
amine the cause of their complaint. The Americans of the
nineteenth century litre been 'mattd like the initial's of the
sixteenth. The Spanialt Generals have neither admitted
parleys, nor respected the rights of Milometer with the pre-
tuners, although they might nut be prisoners of war; the
execrable Morello hots ilesiroyrol whole provinces in New
Granada and Tenesseela, neither sparing old men, women,
nor children; and when he has stares ty left a single indivi-
dual known by leis talents and abilities, or by his virtues,
or by any useful plot colon, be has published an sonoerty, in
which the Spinith Government, insulting hotly humanity
and reason, leaves all °reusing. in order to ilitsconble its in.
fowl ttttt under the most frivolous proem-es.
Such is a Ink( history sit the last ettios in the Contrite-
ttted Provinces of New Granada. The) I,llllllii expect the
King of Spiin will impose alpme them a more fsvoterible
yoke than that which those stiffer in Europe, who shed
their blood in relieved loins lions captivity. Spam cannot
make them happy, because she is nut su herself; neither
eau she tilltr security or pentectime to etettate eta su vast
and no eremite, Itecatmetehe wania the necessary means for
this peee pose. F.tery Eteruptim war °twine's their (Om.
11111111C4.1411111, I less enionteere, and anthem sites the Ame-
fleas in an ahoy of evils which emu no Imeger be tolerated by
tacitly millet:els of men, who know how In exist by them.

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Therefore the Undersigned, io virtue of the toll powers
with which he W itiviotrd, awl as a Riartssentative of the
Confetti rated Prtiviticts of New Granada, counut do Wiwi..
wise than protest, in the most solemn inanner,..agninst the
opening of atty negotiation respyettmc the (Wore fate of Ike
Amyl leas, will t his heitig heard, and which has 'not for its
bask their independence; nod *hat desiron that this prolt st
he common to all the Powers of Europe, woo lie to intervene
in the mediation, althongli solely addressed to his Britannic
Msjest)'a Ministers, COllCeiVillf (he'll 10 be the principal
tneiliatora, front their haying offered in he su when the Gist
uk place and has the honour tube,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's slaw. respertfnl
And most obedient Se►vant,
JOSEF MARIA DEL REAL,
Deport• of the United Provinces of
Nvw Granada.

London, April 10,1818.

FOREIGN INDELLIGENCE.

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