The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-11 00:00:00

SPANISH COLONIES.

[FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEWJ
(Continued from our Paper of Yesterday )
Buenos Ayres seems to have suffered consider-
ably under the sway of the faction which has been
lately defeated. The Junta was divided into two
parties, the most violent of which took the lead
Svhen the revolution 'broke oat, and disgraced it-
self by murder and rapine :—the first in the: exe-
cution, of Liniers I—the second its the expedition
which was sent to conquer Potosi, and revolution-
ize. Lima, under:the direction of wlawyer, who,
in imitation of the National Assembly, waste re-
present the Junt,i, sa.`the head of the army..
Thus the conduct of the two principal goveth-
ments which the revolution has produced (for the
insurgents -of Mexieo have.not yet been able to
exercise any political power),:imist have Material-
ly checked the enthusiasm with which the Ame-
rican popusl-Hor) welcomed the prospect. of einan-
cip4tion:. tern under despotic government,
and accustomed from their infancy to take little
or no concern in political questions, the mass of
the Creole Proprietors 'must consider themselves
as placed between two evils, the Spanish and the
revolutionary governments. The unsettled state.
of their country, and the horrors of a civil war,
in which the Indians and people of .colour are
likely to be let loose upon them, must painfully
agitate the bosoms of a people who-havt hitherto
sacrificed every thing to their quiet and indolent
habits.
It is,upon the influence and support of this part
of the Spanish American people, that the hopes
of an accommodation with the mother country
must rest. Commissioners have been named by
our government for the purpose of pacification, a
step which we cannot but cordially applaud. We
only regret to see their detention at Cadiz, when,
in our opinion, the evil which they are destined
:,to remedy, is becoming every instant more dan-
gerous and incurable. That our commissioners
will be received with open arms by a great part
of the Creole population, who are at this moment,
trembling between the dread of American demo-
cracy, and of Spanish revenge, we confidently
hope and expect. But we would entreat those
. who have it in their power to facilitate their ar•
. rival, to consider, that the influence and numbers
of this party are naturally decreasing apace.—,
Feeble, indeed, both must already be at Mexico,
if we may judge from the Constant effects of
cruelty and revenge in civil wars. We know in-
deed from undoubted authority, that all the hor-
rors which disgraced the conquest of that empire,
,are, in our days, literally repeated. The progress
of the viceroyal troops i marked with devasta-
tion and blood, and the farces which were lately
sent thither by the Cortes threaten to confirm the
hatred of the Americans, by augmenting the num-
ber of victims already sacrificed to the revenge
and fury of the contending parties.

(To be continued.)

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