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BUENOS 4rRES.

Letters and Papers have been received from
Buenos Ayres to the 13th June, which contain some
important intelligence. We lately gave an account
of the establishment of a Junta composed of natives,
which was formed by the party attached to indepen-
dence. The Members of the Real Augencia having

obtained copies of the Proclamation of the Regenii
at Cadiz, and the Decree for the election of Ameri-
can Deputies to the Cortes, have called upon the
Junta to acknowledge the Government in the Isle of
Leon ; but the latter have not complied, under the
pretence that the printed Decrees may not be genuine,
and are not sufficient authority. According to pri-
vate letters, however, these objections are merely
started in order to gain time for prevailing on the
other provinces to join in a Declaration of Indepen-
dence. That this spirit strongly prevails hi Buenos
Ayres, is evident from the Ordinance of the Junta,
inviting political discussion, and establishing a weekly
Gazette, of which the following is a copy :

may worthily and legally represent the will of the'
people in Congress, on which the restoration and fide-
lity of the eatire monarchy depends, have decreed as
follows : -
Deputies from the Vice-Royalties of New Spain, Peru, Santa
Fe, and Buenos Ayres, and from the Captain-Generalships oi
Puerto Rico, Cuba, St. Domingo, Guatemala, the Internal Pro-
vinces, Vanezula, Chili, and the Phillipines.
There shall be one Deputy for each Capital of a District In the
different Provinces.
The election shall be made by the Ayuntamiento of each ca-
pital, who shall in the first place name three individuals, natives ,
of the province, and properly qualified, from whom oneshall be,
selected by lot to be the Deputy to the Cortes. The doubts which
may arise respecting those elections shall be determined by the
Viceroy, or Captain-General of the Province, in conjunction with
the Audiencia.
When the Deputy has received his powers and instructions he
shall proceed immediately for Europe by the shortest course to
the island of Majorca, where all the American Deputies shall wait
the Convocation of the Cortes.
The Electoral Ayuntamientos shall determine the allowance
the Deputies for defraying their -- - From

ORDINANCE OF THE JUNTA.
is From the moment that a solemn oath made this
Junta responsible for the important trust which the
people has thought fit to commit to them, the anxiety
of the individuals who compose it has been incessant
to fulfil the hopes of their fellow-citizens. Devoted
to the service of the public with an assiduity of which
there are but few examples, diligent in arranging all
the measures which may secure a happy result, the
Junta observes with satisfaction that the tranquillity
of all the inhabitants manifests the confidence which
they repose in the zeal and vigilance of the new Go-
vernment.
46 The Junta would equally confide in the grati-
tude with which its labours have been publicly re-
ceived; but the provisional nature of its appoint-
ment increases the necessity of securing by all proper
methods the confidence which is due to the purity of
its motives. The dexterity with which the ill-design-
ing misconstrue the most judicious precautions, the
falsehoods which are often dispersed by error, and
from which mischief always arises ; the little know-
ledge of those labours which are consecrated to the
public happiness, have beeit at all times the instru-
ment which, secretly loosening the close ties by
which the people are connected with their representa-
tives, produces at last that dissolution which in-
yolves the whole community in irreparable calamities.
44 An exact knowledge of the proceedings of the
Junta; a constant public communication of the mea-
sures which it has recourse to, in order to consolidate
the great work which has been begun ; a sincere and
frank manifestation of the obstacles which are opposed
to the end proposed in the Junta's appointment, and
of the means which it has adopted to overcome. them,
are duties incumbent on the Provisional Government,
and modes by which the confidence of the people will
not be cooled ; or otherwise they will have themselves
to blame, if they do not assist with their energy,
and advise those who have no other object but to sup-
port with dignity the rights of the King and of the
port with dignity the rights of the King and of the
Country, which are confided to them. The people
have a right to know the- conduct of their representa-
tives, and the honour of the latter is engaged that all
should know the destestation in which they hold all
those reserves and mysteries invented by power to
cover crimes,
44 Why should they study to conceal from the pro.
vines their measures for consolidating union under
the new system ? Why should they keep them in ig-
norance of the prosperous or adverse detail's which
disclose in succession the situation of the Peninsula ?
Why should they seek to invoke the administration of
the Junta in a chaos impenetrable to all those who are
not its members ? When a General Congress calls for
the place of Government which the provisional Junta
has in reserve, its Members will not hesitate to pro-
duce it ; in the mean time it is most worthy of the
Representative Body to trust to public opinion the
defence of its proceedings ; and that when all are in-
terested in the decision of their fate, no one should be
ignorant of the political principles which ought to re-
gulate their resolves.
gi With these views the Junta have resolved that a
new weekly Journal shall be published, which may
announce to the Public foreign and domestic intelli-
gence of any interest, without interfering with those''
matters that are so well conveyed in the Semanario ds
Cosserde. In this Journal wil, be published the offi-
cial communications of the Junta with other Chiefs
and Governments ; the state of the Royal Revenue
and economical means for its improvement ; while a
frank communication of the motives which influence
their principal measures will invite information from
those who are able by their intelligence to contribute
to the security of a fortunate result.
ts The utility of the discussions of enlightened men,
which support and direct the patriotism and fidelity
which have been so gloriously displayed, is greater
now than when the shock of opinions might involve
in obscurity those principles which great ta:ents could
alone restore to their pr mitive clearness ; and the
Junta, the more generally to excite the intelligent
men of these provinces to write upon such important
subjects, will stimulate them by other means, which
will d.splay the confidence they repose in their zeal
and illumination,
44 All writings relative to this useful purpose may
be directed to the senior member of the Junta, Dr.
Don Manuel Alberti, who will have the care f this
department, The people will receive this measure as
a sincere demonstration of the value which the Junta
places in their confidence ; " and that its conduct is
animated by no other spirit than the wish to secure
the happiness of these provinces. (Signed)
" MARIANO MORES°, Sec.

May GOD preserve your Excellency many years.—Euenos
Ayres, 6th June, 1810. (Signed)
COENELIO DL SAATZDRA, DOMINGO MATLU,
DR. JUAN Jon CASTELLI, JUAN LARR EA,
MANUEL BELORANO, DR. JUAN JOSE PAIS°, Sec.
MIGUIL DS AZCULNAOA, DV...MARIANO MORENO, SEC.
Dn. MANUSf. ALVERTI,
To the Real Audiencia.
MOST EXCELLENT SENOR,
If the Tribunal had been in possession of any official orders
for the recognition of the Supreme Council of Regency, they I
would have Immediately communicated them to your Excellency
without any Concealment, preserving, as they ought, that goOd
faith of their institution which their Ministers ever have and.
ever will possess ; and if the papers which were transmitted to
your Excellency from the Fiseals should be deemed of insufficient
authority, as well as the Public Gazette of the Regency, which
arrived towards the end of March, the notoriety of the ins alla-
tion of the Supreme Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies,
and their recognition by the patio's, we thought that your Ex-
cellency's knowledge of the extraordinary circumstances of the
times, and a desire to consolidate the union with those who have
acknowledged our august Sovereign Ferdinand VII. would have
induced you to take the oath of allegiance to the Supreme Go-
vernment, instead of doubting its existence, and that upon, less
authentic information you would adopt measures which, though
not strictly according to the laws, are ii.dispensably required by
the necessity of the times.
The Tribunal has discharged its proper duty and responsibility
In proposing it thus to your Excellency, whose judgment in
weighing all the circumstances of the case, its importance and
delicacy, will resolve that which you will consider best and con-
venient fur she service of his Maksty. May GOD preserve your
Excellency many years. (Signed)
MANUEL DE VELASCO. MANUILL DL VALLOTA.
MANULL JOSE DE RETKS. ANTONIO CASPE r stonsuctoss•
NEW NO I E OF THE JUNTA.
In the Paper which your Excellency yesterday
transmitted to this Junta as a just and necessary Pe-
tition from the Senors, the Fisc.tls, directed to your
tribunal, it is recommended, that in consideration of
two printed papers which accompanied it, we should
proceed to carry it into execution, by taking an oath
of allegiance, and giving due obedience to the new
Supreme Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies.
The printed papers were a Proclamation of the Coun-
cil of Regency, summoning from America ,lleputies
to attend are Cortes which are to assemble atsCadiz,
but which have no signature, mark of authenticity,
or proof of its transmission ; and a Proclamation of
the Governor of Cadiz, wherein he declares the pro-
visions of the Council for the recognition of the Re-
gency, but which was also without a signature, or
other proof of authenticiy. The Junta, desirous of
acting with a circumspection corresponding to the
importance of tle subject, immediately transmitted a
Note to your Excellency, that you might inform us
whether you had received the authority which should
guide us in legally recognizing the Council of Re-
gency, or if there was any precedent in the Archives
of the Real Audiencia, where we had taken an oath
to and acknowledged at any time a sovereign autho-
rity, solely in virtue of a simple printed paper, with-
out any mark of authentic authwity or proof of its
transmission ; to which the Tribunal replied, that it
had not received any official order on the subject, and
that the transmission of the printed papers had hap-
pened only in consequence of existing circumstances
which directed the Supreme Government.
The Junta is persuaded that the Tribunal has jus-
tice in its fidelity • but as the acts of Government
ought to be founded upon established principles, and
as it is not in religious discussions alone that people
are exposet to run into the dangerous extremes of in-
credulity and fanaticism, the Junta is desirous of what
is right according to the wish of the Tribunal, and
they therefore submit to you the following considera-
tions, wherein they frankly state what they conceive
ought to be done.,
The uncertainty which prevailed respecting the le-
! gitimate representation of the authority of our Sove-
reign Ferdinand VII. created public discussion in this
city, which was expressly permitted by the Govern
went, and the result has been the removal of the Vice-
. roy from all authority in the Juno, which was prvri-

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M Buenos Ayres, June 2, 1810."
GAZETA EXTRAORDINARIA DE BUENOS AYRES.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1810.
The Council of the Regenty of Spain and the Indies to the
Spanish Americans.
[Tate first article in the Gazette is an address under this title.
It consists of a detail of the events in Spain, which compelled
the Junta to retire to the Isle of Leon, the establishment of the
Regency, and calls on the Americans to adhere to the Mother
Country, and invites them to send deputies to the Cortes.]
ROYAL DECREE.
The King our Sovereign, Don Ferdinand VII. and
in his Royal name and authority, the Council of Re-
gency of Spain and the Indies, consislering the great
and urgent necessity which there is that the Extraor-
dinary Cones be assembled as soon as military events
stay permit, should be attended by Deputies from
the Spanish dominions in America and Asia, who

sionally appointed until the meeting of the Deputies
of the Provinces,lto whom belong the regulation of
that representation which should protect the rights of
our august Monarch. Besides, when we desire to
come to a conclusion, it is necessary that we should
maturely consider that the fundamental principles of
an act which might afterwards produce much embar.
rassment to the deliberations of Congress, and when
an accident occurs which diverts the provisions of the
laws, the dispositions of PROVIDZNCK which directs
them are unseen.
The Junta have sworn to Ferdinand VII. and the
preservation of his augustrights. They have concurred
in every thing excepting the recognition of the repre-
sentation of the legitimate Sovereignty in Spain,
and this recognition should be the effect of the solu-
tion of the two following questions :
Ist, The undoubted certainty of the representation
of the Soverei, being established in Spain.

to be given to , ignry
-2d, A proof of its legitimacy. At present we have
their arrival at Majorca to the conclusion of ihee"Ceonrces.es, the sae
ought to be six dollars a day, which is the allowance granted to treat of only the first question, and therefore the
to the Deputies from the provinces of Spain. Junta would ask, whether a printed paper, without a
In the same extraordinary Cortes shall afterwards be esta- signature, without official transmission, without any
blished the constant and fixed form in which the Deputies from i
the said dominions shall in future be elected, supplying or modi.. legal formality, is sufficient to decide the existence of
fying what, from the urgency of the time and the difficulty of rile a Sovereign Power, whose uncertainty has already
circumstances, could not be included in this Decree. You will occasioned serious occurrences, which greatly agitated
publish it, and communicate it to those to whom its execution
belongs. XALVEIt DC CASTANO3, President. t the people here
) We know from the Spanish and English papers
Isle of Leon, Feb. 14, 1810.
To the Marquis Dz LAS HORMAZAS. • the artifices which are resorted to by the intruding
Note.—With this Proclamation, printed in Cadiz, but with. King to derange and confound the firmness and fl-
out signature or evidence of its authenticity, or any authority delity of the people of America, Your Excellency
whatever, the Real Audiencia (Royal Tribunal) transmitted will know that he has sent into all places printed pa-
tbe following Note, accompanied by a Proclamation of the Go- pets, and that many of them were sealed and signed
vernor of Cadiz, also without force or authority.
MOST EXCELLENT SENO*, from compulsive violence ; and when the Govern-
The Fiscals of his Majesty have this day presented to the Tri- ment has already approved its vigilance and precau-
bonal the printed papers which accompany this notice, requesting Lions against deception, would it be prudent to ac-
that they should be transmitted to your Excellency, in order that
suitable measures should be taken in this place to swear obedience knowledge the representation of a Sovereign without
to the new superior Council of Regency of the Dominions of any other authority than that of printed papers with-
Spain and the Indies, and that proper Deputies may be elected out even a signature ? You will recollect the princi.
for the Cortes, which are to assemble, and be held as they have pie that was adopted on the installation of the Su-
decreed; and the Tribunal considering it just and necessary that
such a disposition should take place, have instructed us in the preme Jnnta of Seville. The precarious situation of
same hope, to transmit the printed papers to you, lest by accident the sovereignty was not then greater than it is now ;
they should not have yet fallen into your hands, and they trust the formation of the Junta appeared to this tribunal
that your zeal for the interest of our august Sovereign, Ferdinand in every respect the most proper and correct proceed-
the Seventh, will produce the effect which it ought. 1 ing, and to the irrefragable proofs that accompanied
May Goo preserve your Excellency many years.
Buenos Ayres, June 6, 1810. it there was added the mission of an officer of rank,
(Signed) MANUEL DE TEL who had no other object than to facilitate the ac-
MANUEL JOSE DL RETES• knowledgment of the institution; this tribunal, how-
MINUTE OF THE JUNTA. ever, and the other authorities, neither recognized
To resolve upon so important a point as has been sent us by nor swore allegiance to it, nor did the tribunal con-
your Excellency from the Senores, the EwJunta a's, the are de-
sirous of being informed as soon as possible, whether you have . eider itself compelled by the extraordinary existing
received any certain orders for our acting legally' in recognising . circumstances to consolidate these dominions with
the Council of Regency. '1 hey also desire to be informed whe- ; the others that acknowledged the sovereignty of our
ther there is any precedent in the archives of the Real Audiencia Ittlgusi monarch Ferdinand VII.
of a sovereign authority being acknowledged and swan to merely 1 Regarding the question in a nearer point of view,
in virtue of a simple printed paper, without other authority or
proof of its authenticity. The Junta wi.hes to be correct, and Iwe see that his Excellency, D. Baltazer Hidalgo de
that no delay may take place they wish an extraordinary meeting Cisneros, has received Gazettes, in which intelligence
to be held, at which the Fiscals may give their assistance. II has been communicated of the Council of Regency
....

instituted in Cadiz. His Excellency could not doubt
of the truth of this information, because he gave it
to the public by means of the press ; however, he
did not say a word of acknowledging or swearing to
that Council, nor did you exercise your authority to
make it be acknowledged. Why then is that de-
manded of the Junta which was not thought necessary
with respect to the Viceroy ? Can any risk be incur-
red in waiting for those solemn Acts which, accord-,
hag to law, ought to decide the certainty and legitt-1
Macy of the new Government ? Do you distrust the
Jtinta, or the people of this place?
Since the Tribunal, tranquilly relying on fixed prin-
ciples, has intimated to the Juilta that it has sworn
fidelity to the King, and to the successor of Ferdi-
nand VII. ; that it has sworn to acknowledge every
Sovereign representation legally established ; that in
the discharge of those duties it has sent to Spain an
official person with dispatches for the Sovereign Go-
vernment legally established ; and that the declara-
tions being repeated, that the people of America are
equal to those of Spain, they will not consider them-
selves entitled to less rights nor less representation
than the provincial Juntas of those kingdoms ; and
that in nothing will they go beyond the limits of their
provisionary establishment, nor anticipate the autho-
rity and proper functions of the Congress that has
been convoked ; assuring you and the whole world in
justification of the sentiments that animate us, that,
in no hands can the rights and territories of the King
be placed with greater safety than in ours.
May God preserve your Excellency many years.
BUENOS AYRES, JULY 7.
Cornelia de Suvedra, &c. to the Real Andienda.
The above is followed by a Reply from the Real
Audiencia, agreeing with the Provisional Junta, that
a mere communication, without the legal formalities
that constitute a Royal Dispatch, is not sufficient to
decide the right of a Sovereign Power, nor even to
make an inferior authority he recognized, but urging
that there can be no doubt of the certainty of the
establishment which the communication contains ;
and that the interests of the nation require the ac-
knowledgment of a supreme authority. and as the ad-
vantage that must result to the tranquillity of the
Spanish dominions is evident from the fixing of a
Sovereign Government desired by the nation as most
conformable to the law and analogous to their Con-
stitution, they conceive that the omission of those for-
malities cannot be attended with any prejudice to the
the state, but that on the contrary the greatest ad-
vantage may be expected from this new proof of the
fidelity, interest, and zeal with which the Junta, the
Tribunal, and the whole people regard this intimate
connection with and subordination to the National
Government.

DECISION.—Buenos Ayres, June S.

Whereas the rights of the authority exercised by the Sovereign
Representation of Don Fernando VII. our august Monarch, are
completely secured by the oath which this Junta took at the time
of its installation, to obey such Sovereign Representation as
might exist, legitimately constituted ; and whereas the notorious
fidelity of the inhabitants of these provinces removes all the dan-
gers which, under other circumstances, might give cause to over-
step the laws which prescribe the form of transactions so impor-
tant, unless there should be shewn some necessity for engaging in
proceedings which might draw us from the established course—
the Junta reserves the qyue►tion of acknowledgment until the
period of receiving the othcial documents which maylegitimate
it, and in the mean time will observe the same conduct which
was pursued by the termer Government, in concurrence with the
Real Audiencia, with respect to the Supreme Junta of Seville,
uniting our sentiments as then with those of the other parts of
the State, and redoubling our efforts to assist them in contributing
every kind of succour which may solemnly demonstrate the fra-
ternity of the provinces of America and those of Spain which re-
main free from the enemy, and our constant adherence to the
cause of the King, in spice of all the open projects and secret in-
trilues of the enemy. (Signed)
CORNELIe Dt SAAVRDRA.
Dr. JUAN JOU CAITILLI.
MANUIL BELGRANO.
MIGVI4 u AZCUINA9A. *tr.