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SOLEM QUiS DICERE FALSUM AUDE4T

LONDON,
WEDNESDLIY EVENING, FEB. 23, 1825.

We have received Buenos Ayres Papers (the
ilrgus) to the 23d December, from which we
extract the following important articles, detailing
the progress of military operations in Peru, and
confirming our sanguine anticipations that the
cause of In-dependence in South America will

be completely triumphant. It appears that the
National Assembly of Buenos Ayres was in-
' stalled on the 12th December with great so-
lemnity, and that the favourable and tranquil
condition of that Republic will enable the British
Commissioner there to enter into those commer-
c►al treaties, by which the recognition of her in-
dependence by this country will be solemnly
established :

( From the Argus of Buenos-Ayres, Nov. 13.)
A. letter from Juan de Dios Vidal, dated Santiago. Oct. 7,
States that news had been received of a bloody battle in the
Plains of Janja, in which Bolivar lost 4,000 men, and Canterac
65200 ; and that Bolivar was marching upon Cuzco to surprise
La Serna. The vessel that brought the news came from Callao,
and received the accounts from the enemy themselves, who had
abandoned Lima and shut themselves up in Callao. The po-
Pulation of Lima had risen, and the Captain of the Cambridge
had landed 100 men to keep them in awe.
'Nov. 17.—Three mails that arrived on the 13th, by the way of
have brought various accounts of the triumphs of the
liberating army. They first communicate the complete route
of Canterac, in a bloody battle, as communicated in the extra-
Ordinary Number of Saturday. But the last agreeing on the
Principal point, viz.:the destruction of the enemy, contradicts
the statement of the terrible loss of both armies. It is certainly
remarkable, that the same notice of the action which kas
been communicated by different channels from Callao, is
exactly similar to that we had first received by way of Up-
Per Peru, and with the same details as are given in the
letters from Callao. The natural inference is, that the re-
treat of Canterac has been equivalent to a complete route, and
that the enemy is not only without force, but without spirit in
the remains of his army, and without power to restrain the pa-
'
,netism of the people.
12/e. I.—General Canterac continued his precipitate retreat
towards Cuzco, with great loss both in the number and spirit
rills troops. The Secretary of Bolivar, in a letter of 12th
August) addressed to the Prefect of the Department of Truxillo,
" Since the advantage gained over the enemy on the 6th
of this month, he has continued his flight without interruption.
137 the last accounts he had already reached Iscuchaca. The
~11°Isessinu of this fine valley is very important for the further
yllerations of the campaign. Its fertility, its fine temperature,
and the patriotism of the inhabitants will be highly useful to the
1131 Y. 1 hare the honour. to tell you this by his Excellency's
°ruler, for your information and satisfaction.

" JOSE DE HIRAS."
Letters of a later date say, that the advanced troops of Gen.
,13°113rar were at Guamanga, and even in Andaquailas (45
le
goes from Cuzco). Valdez bad not joined Canterac, his
attitY being in such a bad state in consequence of the civil war
with Olaneta. It is probable that even if their junction should
t'lke Place speedily, it will not improve the situation of
the Spaniards, especially when they are so straitened in
their resources, both on the North and the South. A
letter from Huancayo, of the 13th of August, says :—" The
enemy have left this country as if troops of their own had come
to occupy it, for we have found all kinds of provisions, and their

magazines entire. The number of prisoners and deserters is
considerable. This is for us a second victory.
DEC. 8.--The -journals and private letters received by the
last mail (from Peru) give the most flattering accounts of the
progress of the Cause of independence in that Republic.—
The enemy's force is diminished not only by the great disper-
sion of his army in the retreat which he has made since his de-
feat at Junin, but also by entire squadrons of his troops joining
our ranks. We have seen the official account of • the desertion
of the Spanish lancers,- commanded by the traitor •Navajas, who
it is said escaped by a miracle-the death which his own soldiers
had threatened him. •

According to an official notice in the 7'ruxillo Gazette, the
Government of Peru had received official communication, an-
nouncing that thero were at Panama 8,000 Colombians
under General Paez ; that in Guayaquil 2,000 men were
ready to embark, perfectly well armed and disciplined,
with the assurance that in December Peru may depend on the
aid of 10 or 12,000 brave men, accustomed to humble the
Spanish pride,

We have seen a statement of the naval force of Peru and of
the Spaniards at Callao, which we think worth publishing:—

PERUVIAN SQUADRON.
Vessels. Guns. . Men.
Prueba - - - 46 . 400
Macedonia - 100
Rapido - - - 12 - 100
Pinchincha - - - - - 16 - 100
Chimborazo - - . 16 - 129
Guayaquilena - - - 16 .
- 103

. .
Total 6 - 119 -
• SPANISH SQUADRON. . .
Asia - - - _ CI - 600
Arica - • - -- - 2'3 - 120
Aquillo - - - 20 - 120
• Pezuela - - - 111 • - ' 100
Constantb - - . 9 - 75

Total 5 • - 139 • - 1075
DEc. 11.—The Argus of this date contains some bulletins of
the Liberating Army in the following order •
No. 2,—Dated head-quarters at Reyes, Aug. 7, gives an ac-
count of the defeat of the Spanish cavalry under Generar Can-
terac, and the retreat of the infantry. The loss of the enemy is
stated to be-2 Commanders, 17 Officers, 345 men; 80 pri-
soners, and above 400 horses taken. The loss of the Liberating
Army is stated at 45 killed and 09 wounded.
No. 3,—Dated from the head-quarters at Huamanga, Sep.-
tember 18, says, " Since the 6th August, when the enemy lost
the greatest part of his cavalry, the Liberating Army has
marched without interruption, and is received with enthusiasm
by the people, whom its presence has consoled.
After some details of their progress it continues :—Fourteen
Provinces of those•occupied by the enemy are now free, and
will continue so. ,The 14th, 15th, andlOth, several corps of the
army, marched forward ; the last proceeds to-day in pursuit of
-the enemy. Our troops have been very well received in the
City. The soldiers have rested as well as the horses, and the
army continues its march in a more brilliant state than from
Truxillo and Cajamarca. News has been received that
Olaneta is in pursuit of Valdez, after a serious action, in which
the enemy lost 30 officers and many soldiers. The enemy must
have now passed the bridge of the Apurimac. This operation
will entirely decide his fate. _The total loss of the enemy in this
disastrous march is not less than 4,000 men, and his effective
force will hardly reach that number.
A Note, No. 1. dated Aug. 31, announces that Bolivar had
taken several spies, all of whom he dismissed without any fit-
nishment, having no objection to allow any officer of the Spanish
army to come and examine the state of his army. This note
was sent to the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Army with
some spies that had. been taken.
DEc. 16.—The National Assembly was installed at Buenos
Ayres on the 12th Decnnber, with great solemnity.
General Don Juan Gregorio de Las Heras presented on the
15th an Address to the Assembly, in which he gives a very
favourable view of the prospects of the country ; he speaks in
high terms of the noble conduct of Great Britain ; the solemn
recognition Of the independence of the new Reptiblic will, he
says, be the consequence of the principles which it has pro-
claimed.—( The Argus to Dec. 23.)

Letters have been received from Valpar►iso of
the Ist December, which bring favourable ac-
counts from BomvAa's army. They state that
BOLIVAR was at the head of ten thousand
regulars, and four thousand auxiliaries, driv-
ing the Royalists before him. CANTERAC'S force
consisted of 6,000 men.

The following extract of a letter from the
Agents to Lloyd's at Valparaiso, dated 14th
November, communicates the particulars of a
well-contested action between the Peruvian
frigate Przteba, of 46 guns and 400 men, and the
Spanish ship of war Asia, of 64 guns and 600
men, which terminated without any decisive re-
sult. When we look at the disparity of the
force of the opposing ships, we cannot speak in
too high terms of the gallant conduct of the Pe-
ruvians under the command of our countryman,
Admiral GUISE.
" Arrived the American brig Benezette, Cowel, from Pisco,
in 18 days : she sailed from Callao the 14th ult., during the
action between the Prueha Peruvian frigate and the Asia
Spanish 84. The engagement commenced at nine A.M., and
continued four hours, when the Asia returned to Callao, and
the Prueba to her former anchorage at San Lorenzo, where she
is rapairing her mizen-mast, which was much injured. The
Asia, after putting back, had taken out her main-mast, having
received a 24-shot through it.—To-morrow the O'Higgins
Chilian frigate, of 44 guns, Galrariano, and Chacabaco cc.r-
vette, sail to join the Peruvian squadron, under Admiral
Guise, at San Lorenzo."

[Extract of a Letter
_from _ the Agents to Lloyd's at Lima,

dated 28th October.]

" A letter from Captain Mallard of the Erin, dated Guacho,
19th instant, states, that standing in for Callao on the 12th, he
was warned-off by Admiral Guise, commanding the Peruvian
squadron, who indorsed his register, and threatened him with
capture in the event of re-appearing there whilst Callao con-
tinued under blockade, which compelled him to proceed to
Guacho."

Lisbon Papers to the 12th instant, arrived this
morning, but they do not contain any news
whatever.

An Express from Paris is in town, and it is re-
ported on 'Change that the Rentes are 104 f. 35c.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night,
with the Etoile dated Monday. The latter
Journal asserts, that the Divan had resumed its
former tone of insolence and arrogance towards
the Russian Minister, since the account of the
inundations at St. Petersburgh had reached Con-
stantinople, under an impression that such a dis-
aster had reduced the Russian Empire to total,
debility.

The Constitutionnel confirn-N the fact that the
Swedish Government had resolved to follow the
England in recognizing the indepen-
example-of
dence of the South American States. It will be

recollected that Prussia had, a short time ago,, ma-
nifested its intention to cultivate commercial re-
lations with those States, by the appointment of
M. ESCHENBEAG as Consul-General to Buenos
Ayres; and it now appears that. Sweden
had taken the start of Prussia, for M.
M. de HASWALF was sent from Stock-
holm four months ago to Colombia to nego-
date Treaties of Commerce with that and the
neighbouring Republics. Prince METTERNICH,
it is now said, will certainly leave Vienna for
Paris on the.24th of this month ; and if the ob-
ject of his journey, as conjectured by some, re-
late to the recognition of the South American
States, the conduct of Prussia and Sweden leads
us to augur favourably as to the decision that.
Austria and France will come to on the same
subject.

The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies,
ors the indemnity to the Emigrants, was conti-
nued on Saturday, but seems drawing ,to a close.
A very material amendment was proposed by M.
de LAUILENCIN, which gave rise to one of
those scenes of tumult and personality which
are so common in the deliberations of that
Assembly. The amendment suggested, that,
in order to provide a fund for causing the
inequalities in the compensations given to the
sufferers to disappear, a tax equal to one-fifth of
the increase in value of the estates sold, should
be imposed. On this M. de VI LLELE interposed :
" this proposition (he said) is directly contrary
to the following article of the Charter: All
rroperty is inviolable, without any exception of
those called national, the law making no difference
between them.' Fhis last part of article 9 is
formal. I hope that the Honourable Mem-
ber %vitt withdraw his amendment ; but, at
all events, if it should be put to the vote
and adopted, it would be a motive with the Go-1
vernment not to proceed farther with the law,
after the introduction of an amendment contrary
to one fundamental part." This observation gave
rise to great agitation. M. DE LA BOURDONNA Yr.
contended that the Chamber had a right to pro-
pose an alteration in the Charter as well as the
KING. " It is not the Charter then," he said,
" which prevents us from proposing amendments,
but the will of the Minister ; it is the menace
which he holds out to us, that the KING would
withdraw the project, if the amendment should
become the subject of deliberation." One fact is
disclosed by the amendment, namely, the great
increase in the value of landed property, from
the increase of arts and industry, and the pro-
gress of agriculture, manufactures, and inland
navigation.

Frankfort Papers to the 16th instant arrived
last night. They do not contain any news, but
are filled with extracts from the Oriental Spec-
tator, injurious to the Greek Government. As
the Greeks have been triumphant over their ex-
ternal foes and their internal enemies, the Ori-
ental Spectator animadverts on their conduct for
sending the Archbishop of Naxos to Napoli di
Romania, and detaining him there a prisoner,
with a monthly allowance of '250 piastres, because
he had been detected secretly treating with the
CAPITAN PAoIIA for the submission of Naxos.
Another charge against the Greeks is the removal
of the inhabitants of Casso. The Turkish Advo-
cate would have prefered that they should have
remained and shared the fate of Scio and Ipsara.

The importance of our Commerce may he con-
sidered as essential to the vital interests of the
Empire; and, considering that our relations with
the new Governments of South America are
likely to lead to an incalculable augmentation of
our trade, it is highly important that every ac-
commodation and facility should he forwarded to
the increased number of merchant shipping that
may be expected to arrive in this country. The
subject of the proposed St. Catherine's Dock was
warmly agitated in the House of Commons last
night. The numbers for the second reading
were 118, against 30. Mr. MANNING was against
it, alleging that we had already sufficient accom-
modation in the existing Docks. But did the
Honourable Gentleman teflect on the vast aug-
mentation likely to occur on the ground which
we have above mentioned? Mr. WA LLAcE, on
the other hand, resolutely supported the Bill, ob-
serving that no exclusive privileges would be
given, and maintainiog the advantages of open
competition.

DEATH OFg SIR THOS. FREEMAN HEATIICOTE

BA RT.
Yesterday morning died at Hursley-lodge Sir
T. F. HEAT HCOTE, Bart. He was about 45 years of age. He
had suffered under an internal complaint for some years, but so
little did he think that he was so near his end, that he did not
send for medical advice till Saturday afternoon, when lir.
Wickham, his house surgeon, found him so dangerously ill,
that knowing that Sir Astley Cooper was coming from London
to see Miss Rich, he prevailed on him to go and see Sir Thos.
Heathcote also. Sir Astley thought him in imminent danger,
and so it proved, as he did not survive twenty-fours hours after.
Sir Thomas was a widower, having married a hiss Freeman,
a Gloucesterhire heiress, who died without issue some years
since. Sir Thomas sat in Parliament both for Bletchingley
and Hampshire, hut retired from representing the latter at the
last election. He brought up a young man, the son of his
steward, who is now one of the Fellows of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, Oxford ; he, together with his brother, the Rev. S. Heath-
cote, and his brother-in-law,, Air. Lovell, are supposed to be
appointed the executors. 'I he entailed property devolves on
William, the only child of the late Rev. William Heathcote,
who married a daughter of the late Mr. Bigg Wither, of Many-
dowl7, near Basingstoke, Rants; he is now, therefore, by the
death of his uncle, Sir William Heathcote, Bart., of Hursley-
park. llorden, or Burden, is the name of the manor ; it was
once the property of Richard Cromwell, eldest son of the Pro-
tector, who obtained it by marriage.

MRS. ELEANOR FRANKLIN.--We feel sincere
regret in announcing the death of this Lady, the wife of Capt.
JOHN FRANKLIN, R.N., one of those gallant Officers who have
distinguished themselves in the Northern Expeditions so honour-
able to the enterprizing spirit of this country. Mrs. Fnawxrarr
has not less distinguished herself in the province of literature, by
works of high poetical and scientific merit. She was one of the
daughters of the late eminent and respectable Air. Po nomi, the
Architect. Iler Poem, entitled The Veils, has been justly admir-
ed for genius, learning, and the beautiful union of Poetry, with
Chemical and Geologic knowledge, by which it is characterized,
as well as by other works of a similar description, and many effu-
sions of wit and humour. .But ease, politeness, and good humour
adorned her personal character, and a total exemption from
She was in the prime
have met with a partner
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virtues, scientific attainments, and gentlemanly qualities, of
Captain FRANKLIN. The separation which took place on the
14th inst., when the Captain left town on the Northern Expe-
dition, was of so affecting a nature as to threaten the melancholy
event which has unfortunately occurred. 11Irs. L
A."IIANKLIN
died last night at her house in Devoirshire-street, Portland-
place, deeply lamented by her numerous friends.