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London, England, 1817-05-29 00:00:00

CORREsPONDIMCE

Between the Supreme Director of Buenos /lyres, Don
JUAN MARTIN DE PUBYRRItZDON, and the Portu-
gnese General Limon, dated Buenos Ayres,
March , 1817.

GEN. Lacon's PKOCLAMATIO24, Dated Peb.ls.
Article I. Eve' y party belonging to the cnerfiy,
who may rob or ill-treat any peaceable and de-
fenceless inhabitarit in his house, shall be indi-
vidually treated, not as prisoners of war, but as
highwaymen and disturbers of the public peace.
Art. 2. When the parties, after having com-
mitted any crime against the peaceable and de-
fenceless inhabitants of any 01 the towns under
the protection of the Portuguese arms, cannot be
apprehended, the most severe reprisals shall be
made on the families and properties or the Chiefs
commanding said parties, for which purpose strong
detachment') shall go Out of the Portuguese army
to burn their estates and escort their families oil
board the squadron.
Art: 3. A sufficient number of confidential per-
sons shall be employed to watch over the se-
curity andlranquillity of the inhabitants, and to.
live in to the nearest respective commanders a
circumstantial report, and the latter to head-
quarters, of the excesses committed by the ene-
mies' parties against said peaceable inhabitants,
and of the persons of whom the same are com-
posed, that the necessary measures may con-
formably be adopted.
Art. 4. The present Edict shall be communi-
cated and published in all the towns under the
Portuguese arms.

SUPREME DIRECTOR'S Atawca. OCCASIONED BY THE

ABOVE EDICT.

TA GENBRAL LBColt.

Stu,---1 have just received your Excellency's
Edict, dated 151 h Feb. Its extraordinary con-
tents have put an end to my hopes of being able
to keep up any kind at harmony with your Ex-
cellency and the troops under your command.
Your Excellency pretends to have a right, to the
territory you occupy, founded on the protection
you give to it, and on this basis you reckon on
the-eantent.of the subjugated points. The brave
orientali (inhabitants of the Eastern bank) have

resolved to prove that your Excellency's forces
are not capable of affording them any such pro-
tection, and in conformity thereto have under.
taken hostilities against those very towns your
Excellency confesses to maintain in an undefended
state, at the seine time that you pretend to subjed
them to your yoke. To fill up this vilCunin of
power, your Excellency appeals to the strange
eesonrce of an ill-understood reprisal, and to'the
• still stranger one of declaring the defenders of
their liberties to be no other than highwaymen.
With regard to the first, these magnificent pro.
units of protection very ill accord with the acts
of violence your Excellency commits on the in-
nocent families of your enemies. Such acts of
violence are devoid of object, and will only con-
tribute to render the war more bloody and shock
- ing to huManity. The families your Excellency
conveys on board your squadron will increase your
expences, dangers, and the difficulties of provid-
ing subsistence, at the same time that it leaves
the faithful Orientals free from cares, since ex-
posing their lives for the freedom of their coon-
. try, they are withheld by no fear of sacrificing
their families. The estates destroyed and burnt by
your .Excellency will do a real injury to the- coun-
try to which your Excellency deigns to grant your
protection, but nobody will thereby he so greatly
affected as your own army, whose provisions can-
not be obtained from burnt and destroyed fields.
With regard to the second, under what right can
your Excellency declare as highwaymen the inba-
Wants of a country who make use of the means
generally allowed among nations to defend them-
' selves from unjust aggressors ? The French, when
they occupied Spain, committed all kinds of acts
of violence against the defenceless towns they
• met with, and what is, more, Spaniards did the
same with their own countrymen, in order to
deprive their enemies of resources ; hut were the
French for this declared highwaymen ?
The Edict of your Excellency proves, that you
are prepared to treat the, Americans in the same
manner as the Spaniards have done, and that it is
attempted to exclude these countries from that
asylum which, in the midst of the misfortunes of war,
is granted by the tights of nations to belligerents.
Even if the Orientals were not, as in fact they
are, ottr brethren, the sole reason of their being

neighbour' would authorize this Government to
interest itself whit all its power in their behalf,
for the infraction of a right it belongs to all ci-
vilized States distinctly to vindicate, But 1 have
already informed your Excellency, that the inha-
bitants of the Oriental territory, by withdrawing
themselves frmu their dependence on determined
Governments, have not pretended to dissolve their
bonds of moral unity with the rest of their coun-
trymen, with whom they protest afresh they wish
to strengthen their relation►, and that :the demar-
cation of limits agreed on in the Teeaty of 1812
was' celebrated with all tl►e provinces, and for the
same reason I have constantly remonstrated
against its notorious violation. The Orientals
sustain their own cause, and at the tonne time
that of the western towns, and hence have they
and will be aided by this capital till your Excel-
lency evacuates n territory of which you t►ave
taken possession by violence. As long as your
Ev7ellency carries on the war with dignity, and
eoot'or►uahly to the rights of nations, correspond-
ing conduct will be obterved on our part but if
your 'Excellency carries into effect the threats
cootabred in your above•mentioned Edict, I pro.
test to yt►t►r Excellency 1 will on my part exercise
a mate than rigorous reprisal, by executing on

three of the blibjecti of his Most raithiui Majesty
the same treatment of your Excellency on each one
of the Orientals. Vor ibis purpose I hare made tar:
rangements for all Portuguese subjects to be sent
into the interior, to the guard of Luxan, though
it has been out emely painful to put them to this
inconveniente, but atter your Excellency's Edict
the measure was necessary for the safety of the
State, &c. &c.

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