The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-07 00:00:00

SPA,NT'4I eoLomr.s.

FROM O.IJARTi.,.P.LY REVIE*.
(Continucd front our Paper of Thursday.)

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The Spaniards themselves must have for the
consequences
,of these events. Caracas was the
first province where the news arrived, and the
first also .to effect a revolution. A month after,
the information reached Buenos Ayres, and a si-
milar event took place. The fermentation now
began to spread through the southern continent :
the alarm a. the old Spaniards was generala but
instead of inspiring them with a spirit, of modera-
tion, it seemed to embitter their animosities
against the • natives. The governor of the pro-
vince
of Socorro, in'the kingdom of Sta. F,e, or,
tiered the 'military to fire on the unarmed, people,.
wbe bad assembled to petition him. Ail immense
multitude flOcked from the neighbouring country,
to,revenge this act of cruelty : the governor took
refuge in a
,convent, where he was surrounded and
taken. Another insult from an European had a •
similar effect in the capital of Sta. Fe. Quito be-,
came a scene of carnage. Carthagena fornied a
Junta WhiCh deprived the ,Governor of hiS com-
mand. Lirna was threatened with an insurrec-
tion and every thing announced that a general :
explosion was at hand.
That these commotiona were the effect of some.
Etawral causes and not of partial intrigues, is
evident from the simirltaneonS movements. in-peo-,
winces which haVe scaecely any communication., ,
such as the Caracas and Buenos Ayres. These
two provinces. knew nothing of each other's row-.
lotion till some months after it was effected. Had -
both been the consequence of. the same plan, the,
leaders would not have failed to cheer the public'
expectation with the hopes. at. least of having,
partners in their enterprize. . . _
, .
But although, wherever the .insurrection broke
out, the mass of the Creole popnlation had eagerly
declared in its favour, they were far from intendieg
aatotal separation from the mother-country. The
motives alleged at the
.same moment in the most
distant provinces, bear an extraordinary similari-
ty, and shew, they were. the genuine expression
of the public Opinion. The Supreme Govern-
ment of the Peninsula- (they said,) has been de-
.
clared infamous and treacherous : the members of
it are even accused by the people of Spain, of hat-
ing betrayed time Country into time hands. of the
enemy. Can we then trust to time suspicious off-
spring of such a corrupted stock ? Shall We wait
till theyyhuse to make their peace with,Bnona-.
parte, by betraying us into his.hands ? It was ow-
ing to our decided'deterwination that the orders
sent from Bayonne by the French ruler were not
put intO execution by our European governors.
They were then ready to submit to his 'treachery,
They will scarcely be less so now, when they have
lost all hopesof succeeding in the Peninsula.- But
setting all this aside, how can the 'ephemeral go-
vernments of Spain pretend to rule us, when they
are manifestly incompefent to direct the people
among whom they dwell ?elf they represent Fer-
dinand the Seventh, let them exercise their poWei
over those who have elected them---We will do the
same in our own country—we will create a go-
vernment iu the name of our beloved sovereign,
and that we will obey. Our brethren of the Pen-
insula shall have our aid; our friendship;and our
good wishes.'
. Such is the tenor of all the early proclamations
of the insurgents of. Spanish America. We do
not
,pretend to say that they contained the genuine
sentiments of the leaders ; but they evidently were
a correct statement of the prevailing sentiments
of the, people. '
The difference 'of 'opinion which divided the
Creoles with respect to the mother-country,
.and
which we have noticed from Ilurriboldt, was cer-
tainly the cause of this forbearance in the Chiefs
of the Revolution. They hated. the Spanish Go-
vernment, and were for the most part \ardent and
enthusiastic adthirers of the metaphysical princi-
ples of liberty, which they had imbibed from the
French, publications ; but they were obliged to
yield to the more general opinion of their country-
men, who wore heartily attached to Ferdinand the
Seventh, and had a. great regard for Spine- which
the inho_aniduct of her revolutionary Governments
had only weakened, after two years of perpetual
disappointment. Instead of fostering` this excel-
lent disposition, the Spanish Government
listened only to the dictates of wounded pride,
and adopted , every measure that was calcu:-
lated to alienate the well disposed, and strengthen
,
the party. of tneir inveterate enemifies.
The first step of the Regency, upon hearing of
the occurrence of Caraeas,• was to declare their
proceedheas rebellio-ns, and to blockade their
ports. The declaration ' itself was conceived in
the most violent•and outrageous" terms ; the Gn-.
vernorS of the surrounding districts were ordered
to. stop all communication with theinsurgent pro-
vince;, and to igtercept 'their supplies. The effect
of that unfeeling and insulting decree was to A
'crell:,:e the contempt of a -Covernment which,
while it .was obliged to„cotert the proteetion of a
handful- of incrcnants in the -Peninsula, was
thunderitegN'engemnce against two millions of peo-
ple, xVito lied the Atlantic between theta and their
pretended inastei'3. In tact, the Regency .was the;
I mere tool of the Cadiz merchants, and the orders
—the diet,i.es of their 'alarmed avarice. A Sin-
gular fact, which we have it in our power to
state, made this ~,riticiently evident in the eyes of
the Spanish Americans. ,
So strong was the persuasion of the enlighten-
ed part of the Spanish people, that the news. of
the dispersion of the Central Junta would excite
cominotions in America, that the regency in spite
of its short sighted policy,. found it necessary to
do something inn-favour of the colonies, which
might .reconcile them to their Government, and
preserve their union with Spain. The measure of
granting them a free trade was proposed by the
Mini.,,ter of the Indies, and ardently seconded by
mils under-secretary, a man distinguished in the
.revolution in Spain for hiS zeal and patriotism.—
This was a few days after the installation of the
-Regency, when the new Government, though ti-
-mid and irresolute; 'had not .entirely submitted to
the yoke of the mercantile Junta of Cadiz. The
. measure was put in practice, after the pitiful, in-

DIED.

On the 3d inst. much respected and regretted., Mr. T. Tar-
r:iv-coy, late Master Sai'maker, in Plymouth Doc
On -Wednesday ••last,' MiL Cross, wile of Mr. Crosi, of
Wyelt-street: • •
On Thursday last, at the house of Mr. Hadley, Craven'
street., Strand, aged 16, Gecrge Richardson, sou of the late
Captain William R:chardson, of the Royal Navy.
On the 62d ist. at Sunning-bill, Frederick, third son ')C
Stephen Round, Esq. of Windsor, Berks. •
On Wednesday se'nuight, after an altlicting illness, 3/r-
Thornas'Cutter, of Chester, Printer and Proprietor c&tll6,
Chester Herald, aged 40.
A short time since, at Chester, within a few.days of each
• other, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, theformer aged 88, and theist'
ter 87. They, had been married -and lived together upwitrED
of 60 years; in the course of which time, '.except in a solital
instance of one night, they had never slept but under thi
same roof.

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