Star.
London, England, 1809-10-07 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION

OF D. BALTASAR HIDALGO DE CISNEROS Y LA TORRE,
KNIGHT OF TILE SPANISH ORDER OF CHARLES 11IL
THIRD, VICEROY OF TIIE PROVINCES OF RIO DE LA
PLATA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, ETC. TO TIIE LOYAL
INHABITANTS OF BUENOS AYRES.

Faithful and generous Neighbours, and Inhabitants of
Buenos Ayres,

The abundant and sincere expressions of joy that
you have manifested from the moment of my arrival
in the august capital of the Viceroyalty, afford me
the most decisive proof of your invincible loyalty, and
of the sentiments of honour by which you arc ani-
mated.

In these I discover the homage which you offer to
the Sovereign Majesty which I represent, and the
liveliest feelings of your tender regard for our Mo-
narch. It shews me, that if you possess this reve-
rence for me, who am only his shadow, it is on ac-
count of your profound respect for the substance from
which that shadow is projected, which veneration has
always been in perfect consistency with your charac-
ter and conduct.

Finally, it gives me an authentic proof of the
noble enthusiasm that reigns in your bosoms, of your
firm adherence to the great cause in which the parent
state is engaged, and of all the social virtues which
adorn you in your respective stations. Such is the
source, and such are the effects of these extraordinary
demonstrations of joy, which have exceeded all my
expectations.
I should be deficient in my duty, if under these
circumstances I did not acknowledge the grateful
sensibility, and warm satisfaction which these affect-
ing indications of your disposition have produced in
myself. Nothing can ever efface from my memory
the delight I experienced on the night of the 30th of
June. What a magnificent spectacle to every man
capable of appreciating the sentiments of the heart
to see a numerous people composing all classes of
society, impelled only by their fidelity, hastening to
tender their voluntary services in terms the most af-
fecting, and accompanied by every mark of loyalty,
in the presence of the representative of their beloved
Sovereign !
The tyrant who oppresses us, can never enjoy such
a scene of delight, with all his pomp and circum-
stance of splendour, his public entries and his tri-
umphs ; because, by force and violence he can extort
only coil and feeble applause, while yours is the na-
tural result of the impassioned attachment, and ar-
dent loyalty which you bestow on the memory of
your august Prince.
Do not doubt it, this act of yours, simple as it ap-
pears under all its character of energy, has nothing
to do with ostentation and vanity, but as being the
ingenuous manifestation of your loyal sentiments it is
the impenetrable wall to be opposed to the assaults of
the enemy. In vain will he endeavour to seduce you
by his artifices, or to debilitate your strength by
spreading the seeds of discord among you. The im-
potence of his authority, and the inefficiency of his
malicious expedients will shew to the world, that
Buenos Ayres is not the country where perfidy can
hold her residence.

I assure you, with all that frankness which belongs
to my character, that I have the most perfect confi-
dence in your loyalty, and that I am firmly persuaded
that I have nothing to apprehend from those vile
agents which the enemy of our liberty distributes
every where, for the malignant purpose of imposing
upon the unsuspecting integrity of mankind. It his
audacity should pretend to violate your happy soil
with his offensive vermin, you will yourselves be vigi-
lant to discover and to destroy it.

To this gratifying reflection, which you so justly
deserve, I may add another equally desirables lam
not less persuaded that the concord and unity of your
sentiments will be the stable support of my Govern.
ment, than that your subordination to legitimate au-
thority will give new vigour and new energy to the
expedients of security circumstances require ; and that
all ranks among this generous people, animated with
the same spirit, and full of the same enthusiasm, will
swear with me to defend, to the last moment of their
existence, the sacred rights of our beloved Monarch,
Ferdinand the Seventh. Live then tranquil and
happy, and rely always upon my most sincere and
cordial endeavours, by all the means in my power, to
augment your felicity. (Signed)

SALTASAH I.I4DAL(.iO pH CISSZROS,
Buenos Ayres, 2d August, JBO9.

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