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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1821.

FOR THE SUN.

SIR RALPH WOODFORD AND THE SPANISH

INDEPENDENTS. •
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[Concluded from our Paper.of Yesterday.]
In the city of Guayana, Nov. 2, 1820, being present as a wit-.
ness,*the citizen Jose Prendencio Lauz, brought forward by
the Procurator-General of the Republic, I received his oath in

due form, and interrogated him as to the fact containedin the
foregoing, when he deposed as follows : „: - -
To the first, That he,positively certifies that the misfortune
related in this particular, was the lot of the citizen Peteomla
Lara, widow of the Captain citizen Franco. Sanches Vet.Ca, who,

fearftil of falling a victim to the troops of'loves and Morales,
embarked for the Island of Trinidad, and on her arrival there
presented herself before the Governor, wL.o, renived her with
the greatest insult and degradation to her set, and ordered her

instantly to depart the Island : that slit complied, and returned

to the (oast of Guiria, from whence 410 emigrated, in
eomptury with one Velasce, who,- as 04:1 :she, sought his

safety.

To the second, That he testifies, from certain knowledge,

hat a.multitude.of. persons acted on the same resolution of gc-

ing to the Island of Trinidad, in consequence_ of the facility of
going there in any bark, however small, and 'that almost all
were drivel!, back, and•that a very few, who got perinission to
land at Port Spain, were under the condition to leave the Island
the first Opportunity, though they could scarcely escape the enemy
who infested its coasts ; that:anany of them were assassinated,
and others died of hunger in the mountains, wher they could
'not any longer subsist upon herbs, and thehorrid recourse to hu-
man flesh ; that those who were permitted to land were instainl
confined In the connrion'prison, without respect to age, circum-
stances, or political opinion ; as was the fate Of the Citizen Pres-
byter, Dr. F. Rivaz, Dr. N. Auzola, Officer Q; Bahunilla, citi-
zen.P. &riches de Torres, and a multitude of pacific persons ;
the principles of hostility which directed the conduct of Gover-
nor 'Woodford were manifested in his ref Using permission to
to land to the wife of the citizen Nlanl. Landa, who arrived.
there iniabour, and was delivered during the five,days she re-

mained on board ; so that no Chief could be found better formed
to second the sanguinary views of. Boves and Morales and his

infernal followers.

To the third, That he'refers to the contents of the foregoing.
To the fourth, That.those who were driven back by Wood-

ford, and those who could not embark, were assassinated on the
Coasts of Guiria, which for some time were covered with heaps
of dead bodies, to the horror of those strangers who traded to
those Coasts ; and when they informed the said GoVernor,of
these dreadful sights, he evinced the greatest insensibility, and

'even pleasure.
To the fifth,. That the fact ncited in that particular is posi
. tive and notorious. .

To the sixth, That by the computation. of faith-worthy per
sons, and even of European Spaniards; mote than three thou.
saidpersons were sacrificed to the brutal-vengeance. of Boves
and Nrorales, and.their satellites.
To the seventh, That it is positive that the war carried on
by these ChiefS was not against • republicanism or political
opinion, but against the white people ; and a proof of it is, that
they saerificed, without distinction of age tre•sex, the inhabitants
of Venezuela of that colour; and for this reason they were all
white people who emigrated.
To the eighth, That Boves and Morales had formed the pro-
ject of exterminating the white people without distinction of sex
or age, and for this purpose they encouraged the passions of
the people of colour, of which their army was composed, pro-
mising to them the possession and enjoyment of the property of
such white people as they murdered, a testimony uniformly
given by those 'Persons 'who, awaking from their illuion, aban-
,doned the standard of tyrannyy and joined that of liberty and
independence. • •
To the ninth, That it is Positive, from- .o
f
the information of
the troops of Boves, that the fact stated in this particular is
true. • - . •
To the tenth, That the facts recited in this particular are
also certain and public ; that he does not recollect the names
of the individuals refused permission to land .in the aforesaid
Colony, but he well recollects the Presbyter Domingo Brumal
coining from St. 'Moines to Trinidad, in the idea of hying there
where he had old friends. Ile-Was allowed to land, but as
soon as the Governor knew that he was -an emigrant
from Cumana, although he came from St. Thomas,
he ordered Inn to be put in the public prison, where
he was conducted with scandal and outrage ;" and at' the
expiration of three days,. lie was shipped off for another
Colony. The Presbyter, Domingo Ballihilla, experienced al-
most a similar reception, having arrived with his wife and se-
veral children from the Island of Guadeloupe, and as soon as
the. Governor knew they were emigrants from Cumana lie or-
dered them instantly to return in the same ship to the Colony
they clunk from, loading this unfortunate family with bitter
• reproaches, and violating the laws of Comnierce in not allowing
the Captain to land, to his realise his venture, nor giving them
time to procUre pro Visions, which they urgently requestell.
To the. eleventh, That he refers to the second, • and further
declares that the hatred evinced by Woodford towards all the
emigrants from the Main, was intense ; and notwithstanding
he had orders from the British Ministry to observe a strict neu-
trality between the Spaniards and Americans ; and although
by the Colonial Constitution toleration is allowed in.matters of
religious belief, he prodeeded criminally against the emigrants
Miguel Sanchez and Miguel Pereira, of the city of Cumana,
for having been wanting in what he considered as" flue respect
to ,the Sacrament, in the la.ase of a sick person where they acci-
dentally were. They were conducted to prison,. proceeded
against summarily, and in eight days were condemned with-
out being heard, and without confessing that they were of the
Catholic church ; the following Sunday they, on bent knees,
heard high mass perforMed at nine o'clock in the morning, 'in
presence of the Catholic population ; afterwards sung the-Psalm
of Misericordia, in manifestation of repentance, and a Sermon
was pronounced by the Priest in the pulpit, which served to
shew to the people the placidness of Sanches and Pereira, and
•the violence of Governor .Woodford. All this was executed in
the presence of an immense-population of all nations and reli-
gions ; after which they were recommitted to prison, and the
following day they were embarked for Grenada, where Sanchez'
died, and Pereira met the -same fate on the Main.
To the-twelfth, That the contents of that particular are eel,:
twin ; and further, that the Marquis del Toro, and his brother
Don Fernando del Toro, in the year 1812 went to the Island of
Trinidad, with the resolution of • remainin there 011 tranquil-
lity should be restored in the Province of Venezuela.. tio was
obliged to leave the Colony or find security, for no other reason
than, in a letter from St: Thomas, directed to the -Marquis by
his brother-in-law, -it was mentioned that. General Bolivar had
.departed with an expedition for the coast of Venezuela.
To the thirteerth2 'That this deponent saw three or four
vessels, well, manned and provided, leave-Trinidad to go to the
assistance of - the: Spaniards ; . and also that lie has seen Porto
Franco given to four or five Spanish bombs, permitting then}to remain armed in port of Spain ; notwithstanding the re=
peated requests made by the merchants, that they should
be disarmed, in order to permit them to realise the Commercial
specitlations they hadpending. " . •
To- the. fourteenth, That he refers to
.what he has already de-
posed; and adds, that no proof can be more authentic of the
hatred entertained by. Woodford againSt all who favour or
embrace the cause of liberty, than his having industriously per.
scented all who entertain such -sentiments. - lie expelled: the
foreigner Mariani, a, rich inhabitant of the island, without-per-
nutting him to dispose of his property. He 'Conducted with
troops, and manacled with fetters, the Spaniard "NI a,gl.- Sanches,
because he served
,the • Repnblic,; that after many days impri-
sonment, he was put to the public works,. in paving the streets,
and expelled.ta St. Thomas, without giving him, or allowing
him to provide himself with provisions. That; on the con-
trary, all those who. had an opposite opinion„have had in Go: