The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

" TREATY.

"The Provisional Government of the Equator on the
one part, and on the other his Excellency General Juan
Jose Flores, wishing to avoid the continuation of a war
which would cause great and grievous ills, have resolved
to enter into a treaty which will put an end to the pre-
sent disastrous contention. In consequence, they have
named their respective commissioners, viz., on the part
of the Provisional government, Messrs. Pablo Merino,
Pedro Carbo, and Juan Francisco Millan; and on the
part of his Excellency General Flores, Colonels Juan H.
Soulin, Carlos Vincendon, and Francisco Gavino, who,
after exchanging their respective credentials, have agreed
to the following articles:—
" Art. 1. Peace shall be restored to the Republic; con-
sequently all hostilities cease.'
Art. 2. The military garrisons shall be stationed as
follows:—The troops that are at present in the districts
of Guayas and Azuay shall be disposed of by the Pro-
visional Government; and of those encamped at Elvira,
400 to 500 men will march to the barracks of the city
Bolivar; the battalion of Babahoyo shall be disbanded,
the individuals composing it being allowed to retire to
their homes.

" Art. 3. All the general, field, and subaltern officers
of the troops, commanded by General Flores, that are
not considered necessary by the Provisional Government,
shall retire from the service with corresponding honour
and their pay according to law.
" Art. 4. No one shall be persecuted on account of his
past political opinions, nor for any services rendered to
either party.
" Art. 5. Any exactions on private property, made by
either party, shall be fully indemnified, when applied for
in the proper legal form.
"Art. 6. Any orders or acceptances due by either of
the parties, as also all contracts pending that are ac-
cording to the laws, shall be respected and carried into
effect.

" Art. 7. The Provisional Government,when completed
by the proper members, will issue a decree for the con-
vocation of a national convention.

" Art. 8. If any person, or military force, should re-
fuse to submit to the present treaty, they must be com-
pelled to do so by the contracting parties.
" Art. 9. The arrangements stipulated in the 2d and
3d articles must be carried into effect in the term of
eight days from the time of the ratification of the pre-
sent treaty, and the other stipulations must be fulfilled
as soon as possible.

" Art. lb. This treaty shall be ratified by General
Flores in 24 hours, and by the Provisional Government
in 48 hours.

" The respective Commissioners herewith sign two
copies of the present treaty at the estate of Virginia, on
the 17th of June, 1845.
" PABLO MERINO,
" PEDRO CARBO,
" JUAN FRANCO. MILLAN,
" JUAN HIPOLITO SOULIN,
" CARDOS VINCENDON,
" FRANCO. GAVINO."
" ADDITIONAL TREATY.

" His Excellency Juan Jose Flores desirous of giving
a public testimonial of his disinterested patriotism, ab-
senting himself from the country whilst his institutions
are being reformed, the following articles have been
agreed to between the Commissioners of General Flores
and those of the Provisional Government :
" Ist. He still will be commander-in-chief, and his
honours and pay shall be guaranteed to him.
" 2d. His private property shall be guaranteed to
him.

" 3d. General Flores's agent will receive what is due
to him by the State, in virtue of orders given by the
Minister of Finance, and according to the laws before
the 6th March present.
" 4th. They shall provide, under the guarantee of Ci-
tizen Manuel A. Suzanaga, the sum of 20,000 dolls, for
his subsistence in Europe for two years.
" sth. They shall treat his family with due consi-
deration, and they will pay his wife half the salary,
monthly, to which he is entitled by the Ist article of this
treaty.

" 6th. That at the end of two years of his spontaneous
absence from the country he can return to it without dif-
ficulty or embarrassment, it being well understood that
this treaty shall be considered in full vigour and equally
valid as the principal one of this same date of 17th
June, 1845.

" PABLO MARINO,
" PEDRO CARBO,
" JUAN FRANCISCO MILLAN,
" JUAN HIPOLITO SOULIN,
" CARLOS VINCENDON,
" FRANCISCO GAVINO."

" PROCLAMATION.
" Fellow Citizens,—This day I cease to be President
of the Republic, and I take my leave of you for Europe,
whence I hope to return and find you free and happy,
after you have constituted yourselves anew, far from my
personal influence—in perfect liberty. If I had the glory
of founding your independence, I also have the honour
to make a great sacrifice in banishing myself from you
the very moment it was published and sustained that I
was an obstacle in the way of your happiness, and when,
thanks to Divine Providence, no one has vanquished me.
I only hope that this sacrifice will be as grateful to you
as the conviction that I have never usurped or abused
public authority is flattering to me ; neither have I
stained with blood the political scaffold during the con-

* " General Flores has always maintained the opinion
that as there were no other available resources to pay the
British bondholders, the nation for whose independence
the debt was originally incurred should contribute to pay
a debt so sacred, especially as they pay no other tax
whatsoever."

stitutional periods in which the popular magistracy has
been confided to me.
" If my words have still any
merit in your eyes, I
entreat and pray you to preserve, 'at any risk, the inte-
grity and union of the Republic ; that on our country's
altar you deposit that hatred which begets revolutions,
and that all disagreements terminate amongst you with
a fraternal and friendly embrace.
JUAN JOSE FLORES.
" Elvira Estate, June 22, 1845."

" PROCLAMATION.
" Soldiers,—This day we have achieved a triumph
which honours us, that of the restoration of peace
amongst the Equatorians. Happy peace that only costs
the small sacrifice which I make in absenting myself
from the country and from you for two years, and still
more happy if the country is secured and consolidated
without my help.
" Soldiers,—lt is now eighteen years since I have been
at your head, and I am highly pleased in the recollec-
tion that no one hakever vanquished us. This recol-
lection will add flame to my enthusiasm for your great
services, and will stimulate me to write of your feats of
arms.

" Soldiers,---After the peace we have celebrated, it
would be useless, it would be a crime, to continue a
bloody and devastating war, without glory or future
good to the country. Hang up your arms, then, without
a stain, and wait tranquilly for the veto of the Conven-
tion which is to be called together, and until then sub-
missively obey the orders of the existing authorities.
"JUAN JOSE FLORES.
66 Elvira Estate, June 22, 1845."

" Hardly had General Flores left the country, when
Roca and his gang commenced a series of persecu-
tions against the supporters of the Government which
yet endure. Several of the principal proprietors were
banished ; the troops 4ithful to the Government
were disbanded,, the-Aas, and offi,:ers driven from
the country one by one, on frivolous and vexatious pre-
texts; General Otamendi, a veteran officer, highly distin-
guished, perfidiously assassinated under circumstances
of revolting cruelty, in the presence of his wife and
children; private property seized and pillaged ; the civil
servants of the Government deprived of their offices, and
these filled by the myrmidons of Roca taken from the
lower classes ; in a word, every species of tyranny and
persecution was practised against all who were not will-
ing to disgrace themselves by becoming his obsequious
instruments. In this manner was fulfilled the treaty of
Elvira. In utter disregard of the customs of civilised
beings, and of the disastrous consequences of such bar-
barism, not only did Roca break every article of that
treaty by his atrocious persecution of the loyal sup-
porters of the Government, but he also, by the public
act of a meeting assembled, ad hoc, in Decembdr follow-
ing (last December), annulled that treaty formally, and
had himself named President of the State. The insane
assemblage which declared that treaty null and void
could do no more to destroy their own pretensions to
legality. By this act General Flores is released from
all and every obligation he had contracted by that treaty.
He re-assumes his position as the constitutional Presi-
dent of Ecuador, and with it all the obligations annexed
to that office. He is bound by every moral and poli-
tical principle to suppress the barbarous faction that
oppresses and disgraces the country which he himself
called into political existence. This alone is the object
he has in view ; the neighbouring states have nothing to
apprehend from President Flores, the whole tenour of
whose prive and public life affords ample guarantees for
the future."—

THE FAMINE ON THE COASTS

OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.

The Admiralty have ordered the Aolus, an old 42-
gun frigate, of 1,077 tons, and the Blonde, another old
42-gun frigate, of 1,100 tons, the former at Sheerness,
and the latter at Portsmouth, to be fitted immediately
as depot ships for provisions for the distressed popula-
tion on the west coast of Scotland.

The Madagascar frigate, fitted, as we have already
stated, as a depot for provisions for the coast of Ireland,
has been towed to moorings at Foynes, in the Shannon,
by the Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Fisher, which
vessel will return to Cork, with her masts and gear, to
be sent to Devonport, for another depot frigate, nearly
ready to be navigated to the coast of Ireland.