The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-04 00:00:00

NEW NOTE OF THE JUNTA.

In the-Paper which your Excellency yesterday
transmitted to t his Junta as a and necessary Pe,
tition from the Senors, the Fiscals, directed to your*
Tribunal, it is recommended, that it\ consideration of
two printed Papers .which accompanied it,we shool&
proceed to-carry it into execution, by takingan oath
of allegiance, and giving due obedience to the new
Supreme Council of Regency of, Spain and the.
Indies. The printed Papers were a Proclamation
of the Coaanciiof Regency; summoning§from Aire,
ilea neputies to attend the Cortes which are to as-
set-Ore at Cadit, but which have no signature,4nark
at authenticity, or proof ot. its-treinstnisSion ; and a
PrOclamation of the Governm* of Cadiz, wherein
he d-clares the provisions of the Council Inc there-
cognition or the Regency, but which was also•with-
Mit a si,inature, or other-proof of authenticity. The
Junta, desirous of acting. with a circumspection cur.
responding to the importance of the subject, im-
mediately transmitted a N6te to \your Excellency
that you Might infortn us.whether you had.recei%ed
the authority which should guide us in legally re-
cognizing the Council of Regency, or if there" was
'any precedent in the Archives of. the Real Audi-
encia, where We had taken an oath to and acknoW-
ledged:at any-time • a sovereign authority, solely in
virtue of a simple printed paper, without,any mark
authentic authority or proof of its transmissionsoo
whch tile Tribunal replied, that it had not redeived
any official order on the.subject, and that the trans,-
mission of the printed papers had.happened only in
consequence of the existing circumstances which
directed the Supreme'Government. •

The Junta is persuaded that the tribunal has jus-
tice in its fidelity ; butas the ads, of Guverninent
ought to be founded 'upon established principles,
and as it is not in religiuus discus+ions alone that
people are exposed to run into the dangerous ex-
tremes of, incredulity and fanaticisin, the Junta is
desir-us of what is right according to thz", wihh

of the Tribunal, and:they. therefore submit to
you 'the following considerations, wherein they
frankly state what they conceive ought to be

done.

, The -uncertainty which prevailed .t4espe&ing the
legitimate representaiion of the authority of our
Sovereign Ferdinand VII. created public discuSsinn
in ail.; city„ which was expressly permitted by .the
Got ernmentond the result has been the removal of
the Viceroy from all authority in the Junta; which
was provisionally appointed until' the meeting of
the Deputies of the Provinces to whom
,belong
the reguldtion of that representation which should
protect toe ri:4hts °lour august-Monarch. Besides,
when we desire to come to a Conclusion, it is ne-
cessary that we should maturely
,consider that
the fundamental principles of an ad which might
afterwards produce much embarrassment to the
deliberations of Congres.i, and when an aciident
occurs which diverts the provisions of the IsWs,
the disposition of Providence which
:directs them
are unseen. _

The Junta have sworn to Ferdinand VII. and the
preservation of auguSt rights. They have con-
curred in every thing excepting the recognition of
the represenotion of the legvituate SOVereignty in
Spain, and this recognition shall be the eiTeCt_ol the
solution of the two following queStiOns
Ist, The undoubted certainty of the representa-
tion of the SoVereigniy being established in Spain.
2d, A proof_ of its legitimacy. At present we
have to treat of. only the first question, and there
fore the Junta would ask, whether a printed paper,
without a signature) without official transmission,
without any legal'iortriOty, is sufficient to decide
ti,,e existence ,of a S,:vereign -I)o\er,, ‘voo4e. uncer-
tainty -has already occasioned serious recurrences,
which greatly agitated (he people,here % .

_ .
We know-froin-the Spanish and Ehg;isli papers the
artifices which are resorted t,, by the 1:1110ing King
to derange and confound thefironiesS and fidelity Of
the people of America: Your.Excellencywiil know
that he sent into places' printed 'papers, and
that many-of them Were s(-aled a,“4 si'3!iho trohn com-
pulsive violence ; and when the (.3,,vernment has
already approved its vigilance and preeatitiOns againgt
th!certinn, would it be_prudent to acknowledge the
represetuation of a Soveretg.t without any other au--
thorny -than that df,prilited even. a
signature-it
You ill,recollea the princ'pft! th::t w.ts adopted,
, ,
on theinstallation of the Sop\retne tiumi
precarious situation of theSove:.igut:, Viai grit then,
greater than it is now j the forinliion tr the Junta
appeared to rills tribunal in even - iespeci the most
',toper and correct proceeding, to he irrefl'agable
proofs that accompanied it there was, added he nits-
shihof an officer of 'rank, who Lad no other object
than to facilitate the acknowledgment of the insti-
tution-; this, tribunal, however, •and the other au-
thotities, neither recognized uor .swbre.: allegiance .to
it, nor did the tribunal coasider ;Nell compe:led by
the extraordinary exiting circums.anceS to cons:)-
lidatetthesa Ocktninioils with t tiers that acknow-
ledged the sovereignty of our
.46311:4 monarch, Fer-
dinand, VII.

Regarding the question in ane.irer point of view,

we Sde that his Excellency, D. Balthazer Hidalgo
de Cisneros, has recci.ve:l Gaut:, s, M which ince'.
ligence this been communicated of the Council of
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not ,doubt of the truth of this informitibn, be-
cause he gave it to the publ:c by means of the press;
however; ,he did not say -a word of acktiowleting-.
or swearing to that Council, nor ditlyou exercite
your authority ito make it be ar•knowledged. Why
then is that demanded of the Junta which was not-
thought necessity with respect to the Vicer4?
Can any risk De incurred in. waiting for those so-
lemn 4cts which, according to law, ought to deft
cid* the certainty and legitim'a7 of the new Go-
vernment 7 Do ,; ou distrust the Junta, or•the peo•
ple'Of this p:
Since the Tribunal,,‘ tranquilly relying. on fixed
principles, has 'intimated to th,.. Junta that it has
sworn fidelity 'to the King, and to the successor of
Ferdinand-V.11.; that it \vac sworn to ack:)owledge
every sovereign representation legally established ;
that in the discharge of 'those dutie,i it has sent to
Spain an otEcial person with' dispatches for the ':o-
-vereign Government leg7ally es-tahli,hed; and that the
deciara,ioris being repeated, that the people of
Pii4lerica are equal to those of Spain, they will not
considerthemselves entitled to less rights nor td-less
representation' than the provincial Juntas of tli,,se
kingdonis; and that in nothi7'g will they gobe'foud
the limits of their provisionary establis!lnent, nor an-
leipate the authority and proper' funtions of life
Coogreas that has been convoked ;.'ass':ring yo7i, and
the whole/wottd itt justification of the sentiments
that animate us, that in no.hands can the rights' and
territories of the King be.placed with g-rea)er safety
than in ours..---,May God preserve your 'Excellency
many years.

corlNl.uo. DE SAAVEDIIA; &C. TO THE REAL AU.

'DIENCLA.

-Buenos Ayres, lu!y 7.
The above is followed b? a reply from tile Beal
Audkncia, agreeing with the Provisional Juota,-.ltat
a mere communication, Without the legallormalities
that constitute a Royal, Dispatch, is not skuffic?-tit •to
'decide the right of a Sovereign Power, nor en to
make an inferior authority be recognized, but urging
that there can he no doubt of rite certainty of the
establishment whichthe• communication contains ;
and that the interests of tile- nation require th'e ac-
knowledgment of a,supreme authority, and as the
advantage that must result to the tranquilly of the
Spanish dominions, is.evident frOin the fixing of a
Sovereign Government desited by the nation as most
cooformable tp the law,and analagous to their con-
stitution, they conceive that the omissions of those
formalities cannot be attended with any Prejudice to
the state, but that on the contrary
.the greatestad-
vantage may be. expeaed,trom this new proof of the
fidelity, interest, and zeal, with which the Junta,
the Tribunal, and the whole people regard this
mate connealion with and subordination to the Na-
tional Girvernment. • - - .