The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

To i iii:; E.16111' LION. LORD VISCOUNT
LASTLEREAGEI, &c.

LONDON, APRIL 10.

1,117,y Loßrl,—llis Britannic Maje,ty's Ministers
were i;itorinvti since the month ot November, 1814,

wissioo which brought the undersigned to
L•> .d .n as Drputy from the General Government
ht-• cont, derated provinces of New Granada, in

Anwrica ; and although he was u►sfortu-

not permitted to present the dispatches he
io,\),:gi,t from tl►rtt Government for his 11.1ijesly
inoi his Royal Highness the Pi ince Regent, nor
th,ikt the other communications ‘vit II which he

tvis charged, he thie not on that account con-
cvive himsrli the less bliged, multi' the extraor-
dmary circumstances of the present moment, and
iii discharge of his duty, to address the present
note to your Excellency, for the parnose of being
presented to the consideration of his Royal High-
ne,s the Prince Regent.

It is a suhject of no.oriety, and has been pub-
lished throthout E'l rope that a negociatiou has
exsted between trle Cabinets of London and
Madrid, the result of which (the Spanish Govern-
ment not having been aide to obtain from Great
I3titain the assistance required for the subjugation
of America) has ultima.ely been to agree to a rue•
diatioi,, to be proposed by t'ie five allied European
Powers, in order to cause the cessation of the
c‘rntest between Spain and America.
The undersigurd has no doubt the Americans
%yin bLiily appreciate, and receive with pleasure,
-a inerliat ion of the principal Sovereigns of Europe,
particularly that of England, it in this measure
she has no other intercst than that of humanity,
cruelly outraged by the horrors with which the
Spani,rds have carried on a most destructive war
on that Continent.

But at the same time that he is convinced of
the sentiments which animate his countrymen,
and of -their most profound respect towards the
august Monarchs who so truly interest themselves
in the general repose of the world, and in restor-
ing to off] cted humanity the enjoyment of its
rights, he mus, observe, that Spain, in the pre-
sent state of thiugs, wishing to maintain the op-
pressive system which she had established in Ame-
rica, and, carrying an a war of death or exter-
mination against its inhabitants, has lost the fa-
vourable opportunity of an accommodation, which
might have prestrvcd her supremacy. Thtnefore
• it is necessary that the King, Ferdinand, should
renounce all hopes of sovereignty over those
countries, if it is truth that be sincerely
wishes to accept the mediation offered by
the Sovereigns who have restored hint to his
throne, in order to recover by it friendship and a
good, lindeil.tanding with the Govertnnents of
America ; because the cruel and unj,ist conduct
observed towards America by all the Governments
which :ticceeded each other iii Spain, front the
establishment of the first revolutionary ior:t
ko, it vink;to rue /American provinces in
the alternative of being independent or destroyed,
and no mediation will obtain the desired effect,
unless it has for its basis the absolute emancipa-
tion to which they aspire.
The undersigned does not conceive it necessary
to explain the just motives which America has
ever hied to complain of the constant oppression
with which Spain has governed them ; because
they are sufficiently notorious, and such as fully
to justify the resolution they have taken to die or
become independent.
• Neither will he at present engage himself to
show the series of extraordinary events, nor the
nnjust pretensions by wi,ich Spain herself pro-
voked the revolution which was almost simulta-
Denusly effected both in South and North Ame-
rica. Great Britain knows better t ban any other
European Power, that the Amelicans, abandoned
for many years to themselves, and to their olvti
resources, solely with the wish to preserve them-
selves, and to escape the domination of Buonvarte,
in the event of the subjugation of Spain, cook!
only bare resolved to take up arms, for the sake
of their own security and good government ; and
that this necessary determination, just and laud-
able in itself, and wide!) did nut little con-
trilinte to impede the entire sahmission of the
Peninsula to the Government of Joseph, was ill
received by those who governed in the Island of
Leon and Cadiz, who were desirous that Ame-
rica should remain passive, and follow the fate
of Spain, whatever it might be, accompanying
them in the yoke attacoed to the car of the
triumpher.

The undersigned will, however, record the great
sacrifices made by the Americans in aid of their
Ent opean brothers, in the war which they main-
tained against Napoleon—sacrifices ill requited,
as EnglAnd well knows. He will also record the
sincere oilers made by those provinces to maintain
themselves always united with Spain, and the
haughty disdain with which the latter disregarded

and denied to America the participation of those
natural rights conceded to uteri tinned in society.
—The acts a the Cartes of Cadiz have proved,in
the face of all Europe, how dittant was the me-
tropolis from treating them will] common de-
cency, without speaking of justice, at humanity;
and that the rights of-20.000,000 of men were of
less' weight in their unjust sc .le,,than the ambi-
tion to domlover over a vast extent of country,
and reduce it to a desert.

America, on twat occasion, did every thing re-
ply, c 1 by her love for her mother country ; while
tire la-ter, establishing an unjust inequality, clash-
ing with the principles they proclaimed, and
which they pretended exclusively to enjoy, was
the first to provoke the diErences which )14,ng-
land in vain endeavoured to conciliate by her re-
peated and generous offers of mcdiation, and
hich tvere fjteo refused through the pitiful
policy- of rile Governments which succeeded each
(Ante in Spain.

'Thus it was, iliat rite mere act of the Ainericas
ntiniala TO picsci ve union, awl to prutect them-
selves in toe Thi,'S! of most difficult elieurnstances
V. ,•tier from political events at pie dis-
tatice of 3000 Itague6 from Eutope, was after-