Star.
London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON.

/Wt 01 STOOD*IIIIII DAY AT TIMM' O'CLOCK
Ifeclnced-79H--Consols 79f 80—for Aec. sot
per Cent. 971--Navy Anns.lo6ll
Ildia Bonds 97 98 pr.—Exch. Bins 18 21 pr.
Very little business has been done this morning.
The great contest between the friends off' the New
Plan of Finance and the Stock Exchange tontines:
the latter appear determined to keep Consols under
80, while the former persevere in endeavouring to
raise them above that sum. It is probable this state
of things will continue until the 2d of next month,
the time affixed for the funding of Exchequer Bins.
At present there is but little funding; and if the Plan
is not fully accomplished previous to that day, the Mi-
• nister will be compelled to have recourse to some other
plin.--Consols for the account opened this morning
at 80, and at twelve o'clock were 80f }—for money,
79f, 80i. The Commissioners gave 80, and were
served generally by the Jobbers.

We now subjoin the ptincipal passages of the Ma-
nifesto which, as we mentioned yesterday, has been
addressed to the world by the Constituent Congress,
of the United Provinces of Rioale la Plata. It will
be read, we are persuaded, with feelings of no ordi-
nary interest. The eloquent exposition which it con-
tains of the treatment and cruelties the South Ame-
rican Colonies have suffered from the Spanish Go-
yernment, and the causes that have impelled them
to declare their independence, must carry home
sympathy and conviction to every breast. The
Colonists appeal to precedents—to that, among
others, of the United States of North America when
they determined to resist the power of taxation which
the Parliament of Great Britain attempted to exercise
over them.—And who indeed can say that there was
any thing in the conduct of Great Britain towards
her Colonies, which can be a more than the most dis-
tant coropasison to that system of flagrant and cruel
oppression which dr.: Spanish Colonists make the
justificatory ground of their present declaration of
freedom and independence ? Yet the United States
were lost to Great Britain, and their independence as
a separate and distinct State was recognized by all
the Powers of the civilized world, and by none more
readily or cordially than by Old Spain herself.
We learn, by intelligence received at the same
time from Buenos Ayres, that towards the end of
December, General SAN MARTIN was about to re-
commence operations. He had then a force of 5000
effective men and 700 cavalry, in and nrar Santiago.
General O'HtAasis, with another force of 4000
went was blockading Talcaguana. The Chili Mail
bad brought letters stating, that 3000 Royalists, from
Lima, had embarked in fourteen vessels, with. the
design of acting against Valparaiso, or relieving Tal-
caguana. Preparations were making at the former
place to receive them, and seven or eight English
vessels lying there had put themselves in readiness
to aid in the defence. The Chricos were all armed,
and the cavalry mouved.
The inroads which ARTIGAS, who has established
his head-quarters at Purification, a small town on the
Uraguay, had made into the Province of Entre-rios,
on the left bank of the Plata, between the rivers Pa-
rana and Uraguay, had led its inhabitants to solicit
the protection of the Buenos Ayrean Government,
and a force of 800 men had accordingly been em-
barked for that destination. One of Anrweb's Go-
vernors had revolted, and the power of ARTIGAS
was supposed to be in a tottering condition. Ile is,
however, allowed to be a man of very commanding
abilities, and to possess, in a particular manner, thei
art of rendering himself popular with the gouches
(country people.)
It was whispered in the higher circles at linen°,
Ayres, that °lime:Las had been repulsed in an at-
attack upon Talcaguana, in which he had lost 200
men, 'and left 22 Officers on the fiel2..

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is clue to their outraged rights and honour, and by a
becoming respect for other nations of the earth
Afier the Spaniards possessed themselves of these
countries, they preferred to establish their dominion
by a 'system of extermination, destruction, and de-
gradation: the foundation of their petver was laid in
plans of devastation, and their syst has been con-
tinued during the space of three hundred years. They
began by assassinating the Monarchs of Peru, and
acted in the same manner towards the other Chiefs
and Primates wherever they came. The inhabitants
of the country gallantly sought to check the savage
invaders ; but their inferiority in the arts of war and
arms, was fatal to them ; and they were compelled to
abandon their towns to the flames which were kia-
died without mercy or distinction of persons, or fall

under the unsparing sword.
" The natives having been so far exterminated, the
Spaniards set a barrier to the population of America
from other countries ; though cultivation is the first
source of national wealth, and population the strength
of every nation, they doomed the land to sterility,
and prohibited by severe laws the admission of fo-
reigners ; they limited even that of the Spaniards
themselves as much as possible ; until of late they
have facilitated it only to men attainted, whom they
have seen fit to expel from the Peninsula, for their
crimes, corruption, and immorality.
". Neither the vast, yet beautiful, desarts which they
had formed by the extermination of the natives ; nor
the profits which Spain would have derived from the
cultivation of fields so fertile and boundless ; nor the
spectacle of the richest and mast abundant minerals
of the earth ; nor the allurements of innumerable pro-
ductions, some of which were unknown before, others
precious for their inestimable value, and all of
them calculated to enliven industry and commerce;
conducting society to the extreme of opulence,
exalting happiness to the highest degree of perfecti
nor, in fine, the preservation of the most delightful
regions of the globe overwhelmed with wretchedness,
could have powers to produce a change in the blind
and ill-omened principles of the Court of Madrid:
so that at the end of 300 years of undisturbed pos-
session, there remain many hundreds of leagues,
stretching from one town to another, without any
roads, or villages, or intervening signs of cultivation
or population. Entire generations have become ex-
tinct, sinking beneath the ruins of the mines, or fallen
sacrifices to the meta or drafting for the forced service
of the mines, without having had any effect towards
a reform of this system of extermination, notwith-
standing the lamentations of all Peru, and the very
energetic representations of some most humane and
zealous Ministers

" The acts of injustice, which excited the provinces
of Holland to take up arms and to separate themselves
from Spain, were not so reiterated, nor so flagrant;
nor were those which actuated Portugal to throw off
the same yoke—nor those which caused the Swiss,
under the direction of William Tell, to oppose the

Emperor of Germany ; nor those complained of by
the United States of North America, when they de-
termined to resist the power of taxation, which the
Parliament of Great Britain attempted to exercise
over them ; nor those of many other countries ; which,
without having been separated by their natural posi-
tion from the mother country, have themselves
shaken off an iron yoke, and taken means to accom-
plish their happiuess.
" We, however, separated from Spain by an
im-
!tense sea, living in a different climate, having dis-
tinct wants and habits, were treated like herds of cat-
tle; while we have exhibited a singular example of
patieat suffering, in the midst of so much degrada-
tion, remaining passively obedient, whilst so many
flattering occasions have been presented to its for
breaking the yoke and casting it to the other side of

the ocean
" Having been accustomed blindly to perform
whatever was required of us; we yielded obedience to
Kiag Ferdinand of Bourbon, notwithstanding he had
by means of a mob collected at'Aranjuez, seized the
throne from his father, Charles IV. We saw Ferdi-
nand subsequently proceed to France, where he was de-
tained with his parents and brothers, and surrendered
the crown which he had so recently usurped. Spain was
convulsed, and occupied in every quarter by French
troops; in the civil agitations and cony ulsions that took
place, when the most illustrious men of society, who,
governed the provinces with wisdom, or served in the
armies with honour, were assassinated by an excited
populace. During this state of oscillation, various
governments started up in Spain, each ascribing to it-
self supreme power, pretending to exercise sovereign
authority over America. A junta of_this description,
self-constituted, assembled at Seville, was the first that
had the presumption to command our obedience, and'
to these the Viceroys obliged us to render allegiance
and submission. In less than two months after this,
another junta, entitled the Supreme Junta of Gallicia,
set up similar pretensions ; and sent us a Vice-Roy
with the rude menace, that 30,000 men should follow,
if it were necessary. Then there assembled a central 1
Junta, in the formation of which we had no part, but
still we obeyed it with the same alarcity, executing,
their decrees with zeal and efficacy. We forwarded
succour of money, the fruits of voluntary donations,
and aid of every description, to prove that our fide-
lity would remain unshaken, under every trial to
which it had been subjected. ...
" We had been tempted by the agents of King Jo-
seph Napoleon, and flattered with the fairest promises
that our condition should be meliorated, if we would
adhere to his cause. We knew that the Spaniards of
the greatest distinction and importance had already
declared in his favour ; that the nation was without
armies and without a head to direct it with the vigour
which the exigency of the times require. We wire
informed that the troops of Rio de la Plata that had
been prisoners in England, since the first expedition

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, ISIS.
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