The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

JUNE 22, 1846.

PRICE SD.

possesses in its position efficient elements of glorious
resistance, and in the fertility and abundance of its soil
sufficient resources to relieve it from all apprehension of
extreme calamities.
" Yes: humble and faithful prayer, agreeable to the
high designs and precepts of God, is certainly most ex-
cellent in the history of civil and religious institutions;
and there is nothing more becoming Christian people,
and in consonance with revealed truths, than gratitude
for the blessing received—thanksgiving to the supreme
author of all good.
" In these facts and reflections you will find that the
nraver and supplication which you love and piously
venerate, are practised throughout the republic, both in
sits capitals' and in the towns of its_vast rural districts, in
the military encampments as well as in the posts and
forts situated on the frontiers of the desert ; and that
the present occasion is a very appropriate one for the
humble gratitude of the country for the infinite bles-
sings with which the Almighty God favours it, to be
continued to be ardently expressed with faith and hope
in the success of its just defence, in the midst of which
it preserves its energy and its honour unsullied, re-
ligiously fulfilling the oath of national independence de-
clared on the 9th July, 1816, before God and the uni-
verse, in the meritorious city of San Miguel del Tucu-
man. Its illustrious founders are, like the great Madi-
son, among the mighty dead ; only one, but a very dis-
tinguished one, of those venerable patriots, is still living;
but the spirit of all animates and guides the Argentines.
This is a blessing, a work of the Providence of God,
wherein is discovered the perfect adorable image of the
merciful Father of the People.
" And here I think the canticle of our rogations is
applicable, ' Thou shalt go out with pleasure, and be
received with joy ; hills shall skip, and thou shalt be
heard with delight. Confess the Lord, fol- he is good ;'
also the precept of the Gospel which recommends
humble privacy in prayer, in supplication, and in
fasting.
" The history of my country offers to consideration
events which it is gratifying in me to recall, es they
bear relation to your reflections and to the pious prac-
tice's which I have stated are observed in the Republic.
" The repulse of the two strong British armaments
which attacked Buenos Ayres in 1806 and 1807 is to be
ascribed to a special favour of Divine Providence,
through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
mother of Good, invoked by General Liniers, and by
the people of Buenos Ayres, as is the custom at present
in our pray ers, supplications, and pious exerciser.
" In the triumph of General Belgrano over a powerful
Spanish army in Tucuman, a like blessing of.the Al-
mighty was repeated through the intercession of the
Blessed Virgin, under the appellation of our Lady of
Mercy, to whose devotion that illustrious general was
particularly attached.
" The trophies of all those victories have been humbly
laid down before the tabernacle of the Lord.
" I myself, at different periods of my public life, have
acknowledged and revered the visible protection of God
towards the republic, as well then as in the present cir-
cumstances.l
"It is from a deep sense of humble gratitude for those
blessings that I have placed at the foot of the altars of
the Most High in the churches of San Miguel del Monte'
Azul de San Serapio Martir, and in the holy cathedral
church of Buenos Ayres, the trophies obtained in the
expeditions of the years 1833 and 1834, to the deserts of
the south, against the Indians ; and in the festivals of
the church in honour of the Blessed Virgin, under the
appellation of our Lady of Mercy and of the glorious
St. Martin, patron of this city, the valuable and hono-
rific medal awarded to me by the Legislature, and which
I do not wear on my breast, is dedicated by me to adorn
'the divine image of our Lady of Mercy, which is venerated
in the church of this name in this city, and that of our
holy patron.
" To the same origin are to be ascribed the memorable
victories of the army of Orientals and Argentines, under
the command of the illustrious General Manuel Oribe,
President of the Oriental State, and of the distinguished
Generals Urquiza, Echague, Pacheco, and others, as well
as the glorious deeds of which you have been a witness
at a more recent period.
" Tkese and several other facts, the relation of which
would be too lengthy here, ought to convince us not only
that the reverent prayers and supplications, as esta-
blished and practised in the country, offered up to the
Lord our God, have been graciously heard by his infinite
goodness and providence, but also that we are bound to
tribute to him cordial and incessant thanksgiving for his
divine protection, and to testify our thorough confi-
dence in the propitious continuance of his unspeakable
blessings.
" Behold here, my dear friend, how my ideas and
sentiments coincide with yours, and hoe-your Christian
and generous desires are fulfilled beforehand, and the
divine and salutary precept on which yon found them
is venerated.
" I feel that my country and the friends of religion,
of justice, and of liberty, will highly appreciate the letter
you have written in such solemn moments. For my
part I will always regard it with a preferent and heart-
felt esteem ; and I will hand it down as a pious and
throughly American monument of a distinguished friend
who has the glory of having grown grey in the
honourable and faithful service of the glorious inde-
pendence and happy advancement of the United States.
" I have the highest pleasure in reiterating to you the
distinguished consideration and esteem with which I am
your affectionate servant and friend.
"JUAN M. DE ROSAS.
" Wm. Brent, jun., Esq., Charge d'Affairs of the U. S.