The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-20 00:00:00

DESCENT OF PORTO RICO.

♦PPEAL OF THE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF, AND PRESIDENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOIIQUA, (PORTO RICO.)
" To foreigners of every nation, European Spaniards ex-
cepted :
" The revolution of this island is completed. Its inde-
pendence is proclaimed, and a free and wise Republican Go-
vernment offers you employment, protection, security, and

welfare.
" We therefore invite you to come and settle in this fine
country, under a general and salubrious climate. Here is what
we promise you :
" 1. The right of citizenship—that of voting, and being en-
titled to aspire to all the civil and military offices of the Re-
public, without respect either to birth or religion, but merely
to the moral character and talents of the candidate.
" 2. To the military the same right of citizenship ; with their
pay punctually discharged, and their accoutrements complete,
according to their wants. They may rely on prompt and cer-
tain promotion, according to their good behaviour.
" 3. The soldiers and sailors who may have the misfortune
to become lame in the service of the Republic, shall be placed
in the invalid hospital, and supported there at the expence of

the Government.
" 4. Skilful physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists, will find
employment in our armies and our hospitals.
" 5. Cultivators, planters, and persons skilled in agriculture,
are requested to present themselves to the commission of agri-
culture, which will assign to them, according to their means
and their merit, land, assist them in the purchase of materials,
and protect them in their undertakings.
" G. Artisans and manufacturers will find protection and
employment. Those who wish to propose useful establishments
will present their plans to the Council of State ; and if the
plans are approved, their enterprises will be facilitated and

protected.
" 7. Merchants and traders are invited to settle on theisland.
No article of commerce will be prohibited. Trade will be pro-
tected, and the duties paid will be slight.
8. Artists of every kind, men of learning, and persons capa-
ble of forwarding public instruction, will find employment and
protection.

" 9. Manufacturers of powder, tobacco, and leather, ar-
mourers, carpenters, bootmakers, shoemakers, and tailors ;
veterinary-surgeons ; labourers ; all persons who can exercise
any useful business or handicraft, will be employed and pro-
tected.

" 10. The following are excluded from this appeal :—lndivi-
duals prosecuted for infamous crimes and offences, stock jobbers,
professed gamesters, men of no character or profession, all che-
valiers d'indastrie and adventurers, swindlers and intriguers of
every kind. If they come, they will soon be discovered, ar-
rested, and banished for ever from the soil of our Republic.
" The persons described in the nine articles preceding the
last, who shall arrive first, will obtain greater advantages than
those who come to settle at a later period.
" We invite the friends of our cause, the journalists and
merchants who may read the present appeal, to assist us in cir-
culating our proclaniation, by printing it in the newspapers in
the language of their country.
" The principal object of this Proclamation is to endeavour
to ameliorate the condition of many unfortunate foreigners who
are passing a wretched life unmerited, and below that to which
their intellectual faculties entitle them. It will be endeavoured
to place every one according to his merit, his conduct, his ex-
perience, and his talents : to all arc offered equality of rights,
asylum, protection, and well-being.
" Head-quarters, Alayaque, Sept. 1822.
" LOUIS VILLALTME DUCONDRA,
44 President, and General-in-Chief.
" B. IRVINE,
44 Secretary of State pro tenipore."