The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

The following is an extract of a recent letter from
Buenos Ayres, and, from the great- interest which is
just now attached to everything that passes in that part
of the world, we have no doubt it will prove acceptable
to many of our readers. It is curiously illustrative of
the way in which public business is conducted by the
South Americans :
" All oyes are fixed on the invading troops under La-
velle and his grand ally, the French military chest.
" This Lavelle was General of the troops of Buenos
Ayres in the Banda Oriental during the war with Brazil
in 1827 and 1828. He returned to Buenos Ayres at
the close of the war with about three thousand men,
and had scarcely landed there when he proceeded to
make such independent movements as plainly indicated
an intention of waing up for himself, which alarmed
the Governor, Don Manuel Dorrego, so much, that
he made his escape into the interior and claimed the
prctection of Roses, who was then Comandante
de Campana, or commander of the mounted militia,
the wild gauchos, eomposed of buffalo hunters, rough-
riding shepherds, herdsmen, robbers, and lifters' of
every description, who almost live on horseback. These
he gathered in sufficient troops in three day's time to
meet Lavelle, and give him battle at Navarro, about ten
leagues from Buenos Ayres. Here Lavelle was victor
—Roses made a timely retreat ; Dorrego was taken
prisoner, sentenced to die, and immediately shot by
Lavalle's orders, on the 13th of December, 1828.
Roses, however, still contrived, by compromise, in-
trigue, and good generalship, to hold his position in
the interior as Comandante de Carnpana, and at length
became so strong that he in turn compelled Lavelle
to fly to Monte Video, where be has ever since resided,
taking part cccasionally in the quarrels of the Banda
Oriental, and serving as a rallying point for all the
emigrants and exiles from Buenos Ayres, whom
he endeavours to combine in support of the Uni-
tarian' cause, in bitter enmity to Roses. Since the
es-ablishment of the blockade ha has (by the aid of
French silver) got together a legion of about 3,000
to 4,000 men, and is now acting in conjunction with
the blockaders in the province of Entre Rios. He is e
brave man and a dashing cavalry officer ; but he has
no head for State affairs. The French appear to have
great dependence upon his assurances of success, but I
have none. However, as he now figures largely in
their demonstrations, and makes a great show of patri-
otic reaction upon paper for them, I will tell you the
facts, that you may not be misled by appearances, nor
think I indulge a prejudiced view of the matter.

" For the List two years, we have been told that all
the Buenos Ayreans wanted, to free themselves from
the tyranny of Rosas, was a harbour of refuge to fly
to, wherein they might fit up an expedition for his de-
struction. Well, they have (at Monte Video) all the
accommodation they could require, in addition to the
presence of an exiled General, a sworn enemy of Rosas,
at the head of a disposable army for the last twelve
months ; and, more important still, the aid of a hos-
tile armament and foreign friends to carry on the
insurrection or revolution, whichever they please to
call it. Yet they have not all that time been able
to take a single step to put Rosas hers de combat
clearly proving that he has still a stronger party of
friends than of enemies. In fact, as long as he keeps up
his party in the interior provinces, he may laugh at La-
velle and his transatlantic allies, unless, indeed, they
employ an assassin for their plenipotentiary, which it is
said Rosas calculates on, and endeavours to guard against
accordingly. The strongest hold of his power is Santa
Fe, which is connected with his policy by a very weighty
silver link. I resided there for about six months, and
saw a good deal of what was going on in connexion with
the proceedings of Rosas in Buenos Ayres. It was
easy to perceive how the balance of power was adjusted.
That province borders on the Gran Chaco—the fron-
tier of the Northern Indians, the most ferocious and
formidable savages in existence. They are all mounted,
and such excellent riders that they despise the use of
bridles or saddles, and cling Re' one flesh' to their steeds
by the aid of their naked, bandy legs. They are armed
with immense lone. lances, and come screaming and thun-
dering like a pamparra or hurricane from their own
haunts, hundreds of miles off, over those immense plains
to hunt the white people from their boundaries,' drive
away sheep and buffaloes, slaughter the men, and
carry off the women. They are the most difficult ene-
mies to subdue or to encounter—are independent of
clothes, tents, and even rations. On a foray they will
stick together, wild men and horses, like centaurs,
almost without food or sleep, and there is no over-
taking them. When pressed by hunger they will kill
a led-horse and eat it raw, and then they are ready for
action again. Lopez had constant occupation in keep-
ing them in check with the Gauchos of Santa Fe. He
was a capital Cossack officer (if I may use the term),
and kept them from penetrating to the southern pro-
vinces of La Plata. For this good service Buenos
Ayres pays Santa Fe 12,000 dollars per annum, a kind
of tribute or black-mail, very well earned by the north-
erns, and punctually forwarded by Rosas, who knows
that no grazing could safely be carried on upon the
Pampas within 1,000 miles of those lOdian devils unless
his allies were on the alert to follow and cut oti their re-
treat or retake the plundered herds. On the other hand
the camandente of Santa Fe well knows that if Rosas
were deposed and Lavelle or the French to get into
power, he and his militia might whistle for the 112,000
dollars, for nobody else amongst their revolutionary
statesmen has ever shown the firmness and good mina2-,e-
ment to keep a dollar in the treasury, or to pay it out
of Buenos Ayres to those to whom it was due. I just
mention this as an illustration of the business-like cha-
racter of Rosas, and his knowledge of the wants and
wishes of the people. He has the art of
,making him-
self necessary to the great interests of the country, and
binding his own up with theirs, so that I really think it
will be difficult to shake him from his position, unless
the French silver present such weighty reasons to every-
body that there shall be no resisting it. -However, it is
only lately that they began to be lavish 'Of this Argen-
tine materiel. They are now furnishing
_Lavelle with
2,000 doubloons per month. One thing is pretty cer-
tain—the French will never be able to recover that
portion of La Plata."—Morning Post.
MONTE VIDEO.

Copy of a letter from Monte Video, dated March
24 :

The weary blockade continues, and with , it, much
loss and suffering both to natives and foreigners,. We
do not look for any adjustment for some months. Go-
vernor Rosas has been re-elected for five yearand is
determined to hold out till the last. The new Admiral
Dupotet has just arrived from Buenos Ayres, where
an arrangement was attempted through the medium of
the English Minister, but has utterly failed ; and nothing
but fresh hostilities on both sides are contemplated.
Tile French, who are not all sufferers by the conti-
nuance of the blockade, seemed determined to sink the
consideration of every interest in pursuit of their pre-
tensions. In Buenos Ayres there cannot be less than
two million sterling of British property locked up; and
in Monte Video half as much lying idle, wailing a
market in the Argentine republic.
The blockade from the first has been utterly inotll-
cient, imd Governor Roses, beset with enemica, in.his
own provinces, has steadily set it at defiance. Barely
your Government can no longer remain quiescent spec-
tators. The French agents here laugh in their sleeves
at the way in which they ,ire enabled to humbug, for
it is nothing else, their Government at home with false
exaggerated accounts of grievances they say French.
men have to complain of from Buenos Ayres. Lord
Palmerston assured the deputation who waited upon
aim from Liverpool last Demnber, that Admiral Dupo-
' tet, who arrived here in January direct from France,
had full powers from his Government to bring the block-
ade to an end ; and in conformity with such powers he
went to Buenos Ayres ten days ago,when he met the fo-
reign Minister there on board her Majesty's ship Ac-
taeon, together with Mr. Mandeville, her Britannic
Majesty's Minister, when everything, required by France
was conceded, the Admiral immediately returned to
Monte Video for the purpose of withdrawing the block-
ade squadron and giving up to Buenos Ayres' the island

of Martin Garcia, when, on a conference with the French
agents resident in the city, they peremptorily refused to
co-operate with him, alleging they had recently received

instructions from their Government " not to treat with

Governor Rosas on any terms, and to submit to no

other method of settlement abort of one which would

turn the worthy Governor out of his situation ;" and

thus they have proved Lord Palmerston's assurance of
the Admiral's having "full powers" mere moonshine.

EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.--One of the
most extraordinary instances of fecundity in a human be;i:g, of
which the records of scarcely any other country can afford a
parallel, occured in this island on Thursday last ; a poor woman,
the wife of John Mauger, living at L'Etacq, in the parish of
St. Ouen, was delivered on the above day of five children, all
of the female sex. It appears that the labour was premature,
and is said to have been brought on by ill treatment the woman
had received from a man named Hamon a short time ago. We
understand that when Mrs. Manger was first taken ill, she sent
for a sage femme, who confined her of the two first of the chil-
dren, but seeing that there were more than two, the midwife
became alarmed and called in Dr. Cuquemelle of St. Peter's,
who delivered the poor woman of the three other children.
One of them gave signs of life for a few minutes, but the four
others were still-born. This singular circumstance, as might
be expected, caused quite a sensation as soon as it
became known, and crowds of ladies and gentlemen,
amongst whom were several of the faculty, in the course
of last Friday, visited _Manger's house for the purpose of see-
ing the children. On Saturday, being market day, they were
brought to town, and having been previously put into a suitable
ease and preserved in spirits, were exhibited to the public at
tte: Pritish Hotel, at one shilling each person, the proceeds
to be gieep to the poor woman,en whosean health has suffered
inches each
soyerely from her accouiih who has. six chil-
or unity of seeing the five
dre:
Weighed
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3eemed to have
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children, perfect, aisd we are told
n length, and in every I,_,
altogether from 13 to 14 lbs. --..eht readily
been bruised, but that which had been born alive e...,
be distinguished from the rest, Mauger himself is one of a fa-
mily of 21 children. We have been informed that Mrs.
Mauger had been pregnant rather better than six months when
the accident occurred to her. Is it possible that this is the ease
in which the Court refused the ajonction of the Attorney-Ge-
neral.—Jersey Press.
A Hebrew tombstone has been brough. to Ply-
mouth from Jerusalem, 2028 years old.— Wiltshirelndepehdont.