The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

MONTE VIDEO, SEPT. 29, IB4o.—The packet Fawn ar-
rived yesterday morning from Buenos Ayres, and really
the accounts that she brings are appalling. Rosas is carry.
ing everything before him, shooting and slashing right and
left. Lavelle is no one knows where ; but the way in
which he has compromised his party in the province is most
shameful. The best manner in which I can picture to you
the state he has left the province in is the following—it ap-
peared in the Gaceta Mercantil of the 23d of September,
the day previous to the sailing of the packet :
" Article I. By authorisation of his extraordinary
powers, he declares especially responsible the goods, move-
ables, sad chattels, rights, and suits of every class or de-
scription, either in the town or country, belonging to the
traitorous savage Unitarians, for the benefits, and to make
good the losses caused in the fortunes and propel tics of
the true " federals," by the hordes of the disnatu-
ralised traitor, Juan Lay..lle, for the extraordinary wants of
the public Treasury, to meet the barbarous invasion
of this execrable assassin, and for the premiums which the
Government have accorded in favour of the soldiers of
the line, militia, and other brave defenders of the liberty
and dignity of our Confederation, and of America.
" 2. Threatens that any person who evades the above
edict by now changing or transferring his goods will be
punished as he thinks proper (of course with death).
" 3. Threatens any notary public who certifies any pub-
lic document of this tenour with the same punishment.
" 4. Includes the brokers and stock-jobbers also in the
same.

" 5. Includes the justices of peace in the country dia_
tricts also, and holds them personally responsible for any
transfer of the above.

" 6. Orders the publishing of the decree.
FELIPE ARANA,
" AUGUSTIN GARRIGOS.

" September 16, 1840."
You can see by the above decree that my long prognos-
tications to you are now about to be realized in the destruc-
tion of the present aristocracy ; they will be completely
despoiled of their property. I can give you no better de-
scription of how he proceeds than what is contained in the
following copy of a letter which I received yesterday from
a friend of mine.

" BUENOS AIRES, SEPT. 21.—1 merely write to say
that I am in the land of the living, and only so; it is im-
possible to describe the horrible scenes which we are daily
witnessing. The police carts are constantly going from
the barracks and prisons with the slaughtered. Your old
friend, Don Lucas Gonzales, was shot on Tuesday last, a
few hours after his apprehension, in consequence of the
capatas of his estancia joining Lavelle. A son of General
Viamonte, the former Governor, a lad about 18 years of
age, has also been shot, and several others arrested. All
the country seats about town belonginc, to Unitarians have
been literally torn to pieces by the M'ayorce headed sol-
diery ; the doors,. furniture, crockery, and kitchen uten-
sils, are selling at any price they can get for them ; the
soldiers tell us plainly that all the property of the Unita-
rians is theirs. The awful sight of beating women and
painting and tarring the heads of respectable females is
horrible ; this was done by largo parties of officers sta-
tioned inside the doors of all the churches yesterday.
" The above is quite true. Roses has now completely
brutalized the people ; he has them like a flock of sheep,
and now that he has, I may say, got clear of Lavelle, will
cajole the new Admiral Makau into a dishonew-able peace
for France, as advised in my last.
" The new Admiral Mackau arrived on the 23d; he
caused a good deal of stir here; he keeps his mind to
himself, but from all appearances is going to fall into the
errors of his predecessors, as he has taken lodgings on
shore here, instead of going up at once; Roses will conse-
quently suspect that he is intriguing here with the others,
and will be prejudiced against him. A large Swedish
ship arrived a few days ago with coal for the steamers,
which are hourly expected—they are landing them here.
What lots of money this blockade is throwing into Monte
Video-3,000 or 4,000 men, even suppose they only spend
their pay.
" Roses has no doubt proved himself to be one of the
most extraordinary characters that ever existed his name
will live for centuries. How he manages to sustain him-
self is almost incredible. Surrounded by enemies by land
and water, without money or resources, half the population
of the country he governs against him, without a friend
to whom he could intrust the execution of an order, and
yet he is obeyed as if by magic. A man without a single
virtue, he will talk to you like a courtier, at the same time
he will be planning your destruction.
" This blockade has given Monte Video a great im-
petus ;it has advanced it 50 years. There are thousands
of these French artisans—blacksmiths, carpenters, &c. who
will remain.

" I have made inquiry about the French force in the
river, and I find it to amount to 53 vessels in commission ;
this of course includos frigates and schooners all told; the
force they might probably be able to spare on an emer-
gency would be 2,000 men. Four steamers are certainly
hourly expected, but even then the force is far from being
sufficient."