The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

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" EI K " could scarcely expect us to insert his doggrel.
We will look over the papers forwarded by " A Constirnt
Reader."

We cannot fathom the meaning of " Free Trader."
There is not a single copy of the STANDARD of 26th May

remaining

QrT t' Ettnrpool &tan Darb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1843

We hare before us the Britannia, and Monte Video
Reporter, of the 11 th March,---a paper printed in
English at Monte Video, the capital of Uraguay,—
from which, and from subsequent information received
from the same quarter, via New York, by the Great
Western, we learn with regret, that, from the vacil-
lated and indecisive, if not absolutely faithless, policy
of Mr. Mandeville, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to
the Argentine Confederation, the interests, the pro-
perty, and perhaps the very lives, of the British sub-
jects resident in that city, had been (and may still be)
placed in imminent peril. It appears that our minis-
ter, blinded by the representations of the Buenos
Ayrean Government that the accounts of the invasions
and barbarous aggressions of General Rosas on the
Monte Videan territory were mere fabrications, and
crediting, too, Rosa's assertions that he directed the
war against the person only of General Rivera,—had,
after repeated and unequivocal assurances to the Bri-
tish residents that her Majesty's Government (which
had just concluded a, treaty of amity and commerce
with the republic) would put an end to the sanguinary
and destructive war carried on by that chief against
Monte Video, passively, and without calling upon
our naval forces there stationed, permitted the aggressor
to approach the very walls of the city, to expose under
them the mutilated corpses of those who had fallen
into his hands, and even to fire shot•and rockets into
the town, " not directed against the fortifications occu-
pied by Rivera's soldiers, but on the dwellings of the
pacific inhabitants, amongst whom a great majority
were foreigners, and a considerable number his own
fellow-countrymen." At the date of the paper alluded
to, Mr. Mandeville had arrived at Monte Video from
Buenos Ayres, in order to be present at the ratification
of the new treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation,
concluded in London between our Government and
the Monte Videan Republic; and the British subjects
resident in the capital had publicly met and drawn up
a representation to him on the " murderous warfare "
carried on against the country by Rosas, and another
to the Commander-in-Chief of our naval forces on the
South American station. These documents (which
we subjoin) were most numerously signed, though
some residents declined to do so, " lest they might
suffer in • their property, over which the enemy had
then control, or in the persons of their immediate
connections, residing at Buenos Ayres" :

" To HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN HENRY EIANDEVILLE, HER

MAJESTY'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER

PLENIPOTENTIARY, &C. &C. &C

" The undersigned British subjects, residing in the Capital
of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, come before your
Excellency to represent,—
" Ist. That when your Excellency visited this city in the
month of July of last year, and on the conclusion of a treaty
of amity, commerce, and navigation between her Britannic
Majesty and this Republic, a confident belief was raised in
the public mind that her Majesty's Government would
speedily adopt measures to put an end to the disastrous and
sanguinary war carried on by Buenos Ayres against the
Republic; which belief arose partly from the circumstance
of that treaty having been concluded, and especially, from
assurances given by your Excellency to several of the British
merchants here resident, that no invasion of this country by
the armies of Buenos Ayres would,take place.
" 2nd. That, subsequently, other British merchants,
largely interested, commercially, in the welfare of this coun-
try, and in the attainment of peace, which has been so ear-
nestly desired by its Government, have perused the
official correspondence carried on with your Excellency, and
have reposed their confidence on the strong assurances therein
advanced by your Excellency, that the mediation of her
Majesty's Government would lead to preserve the inviola-
bility of this Republic.
" 3rd. That the publication, in the official Gazette of
Buenos Ayres, of the correspondence which had passed
between your Excellency and that Government relative to
the mediation, having made us acquainted with the insulting
manner in which the laudable efforts of her Majesty's Go-
vernment were opposed, and also that your Excellency had
intimated to the Buenos Ayres Government that further
measures would be taken by that of her Majesty in order to
procure the pacific navigation of the waters of the River
Plate, whereby our confidence was confirmed in the security
of this country from the threatened hostilities.
" 4th. That, it having been further made known to us,
that your Excellency had been officially informed of the
resolve of her Majesty's Government to put an end to the
war, and that your Excellency was empowered to demand a
cessation of hostilities between the Argentine Republic and
that of the Uruguay, and also the withdras%al of the Argen-
tine troops into their territories should they have passed their
own frontier, upon the understanding that the Government
of the Republic of the Uruguay adhered to the same line of
conduct under the same circumstances ; whereupon your
Excellency addressed a note to the Buenos Ayrean Govern-
ment, dated the 16th of December, demanding an armistice
and the return of the Argentine troops within their territory
the confidence before raised was strengthened into certainty
that the period had then arrived when effective measures
would be instantly put in force, to carry out those expressed
determinations of her Majesty's Government.
" sth. That, notwithstanding all these hopes and expecta-
tions, which from time to time have been raised up, as already
stated, we have the painful and grievous evidence before us
that the interference and the positive demand of her Ma-
jesty's government that hostilities must cease, have been to.
tally disregarded by General Roses, and that this State has
subsequently been invaded by his armies, which in their
march through its territories have committed the most bar-
barous atrocities, and are now laying siege to this ital
" 6th. That this invasion has already caused cap a
vast.
de-
struction of British property, which loss to
British subjects
has been greatly increased in amount in consequence of the
natural and implicit dependence placed on the various assu-
rances given by Your Excellency, and that the continuation
of the actual state of things is daily producing the most ru-
inous effects, and must lead to severe distress and suffering
among our fellow countrymen and others.
" 7th. That, paramount to every consideration of loss and
endangered interests is the deep sense of shame and grief
with which we contemplate the disgrace attaching to our na-
tional honour, under such circumstances, after such a decla-
ration as that made by Your Excellency already referred to,
whilst an adequate British naval force is present, and the
acts of the Buenos Ayrean government are a flagrant insult
offered to the British nation.
rr We, therefore, most earnestly and most respectfully so-
licit, that Your Excellency will forthwith concert measures

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twnevolpnt intootWng of her IViajestl'a govarnminitoall°
throughout the pending negotiations, and thereby have t.ll/
satisfaction of fulfilling the first and highest duty of
a Br in
minister, that of upholding the good faith of ha Mitielstits
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government and the honour of our country'•
" Monte Video, 9th March. 1843."
(Here follow the signatures.)

" To COMAIODORP

S. 13. PURVIS, COMMANDER-
-

OF HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL FORCES
ON TIIIS STATION,

" Monte Video, 10th March, 1843%0
Sir,—We the undersigned British subjects,
this capital of the Oriental republic of the HruquaY, 141,114
lthis day presented a representation to John Henry M3n ,e:
ille, Esq., her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to o*,
Argentine Confederation, now present in this city, a coPY °I
which we have the honour to enclose, take the liberty to 30:
licit respectfully that you will be pleased to give your coast:
deration to the facts stated in the said representation, 0.'4
trusting that you will fully appreciate the justice of the
grounds on which our request to Mr. Mandeville is founded
residing i
we refrain from adducing further arguments to convince PI!
our
of the imminence of the danger to which our interests and
ti onal honour ate at t momen exposed.
" Fully convinced ofhis t the high sense of British feeling bY
which your conduct has been actuated in the steps you have
already taken, and deeply grateful for the manifestramtionB.
already made by you, of concern for the welfare of he
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that )
iest7's subjects and the support of our national honour,7:
now respectfully urge our most earnest entreaties ti
e
will be pleased to adopt such further prompt and
effeetl vr
measures as shall relieve our persons and interests from tbel
present state of imminent peril, and remove the istiga!s'
which, resulting from a much-to-be-lamented train of clot
cumstances, does at this moment rest upon the character.
olit
our nation, whilst the honour and dignity of our Soverog f
and our country are outraged by the acts of the caw). °

&c. &c. &c,

this republic."

(Here follow the signatures.)

spirited
The same paper contains an intelligent and .r-
-ktter to the Editor, signed " A British Subjec.lle.
strongly reprehending the conduct of Mr. Mandeed,
He states, as an admitted fact, that that individaa,
the
dressed-a peremptory and authoritative letter, °tote,
16th December, to the respective governments of jog
nos Ayres and the Monte Videan republic, requithr eir
them to cease from hostilities and to retire with 0:,,g,
own:territories ; that Rosas, in place of 0)07m
treated this order with contempt, advanced agail's
city, and continued his aggressions. The wt_arti.'t the
states, was not one between ;two rival chiers,.`ioiping
unjust invasion of a powerful neighbour, "inv
viod
the fate and fortunes of distinct repubiics, each h; Sp
treaties of amity and commerce with Great Britain, rBO
therein
most essentially involving her fi
inter" es a°
e asks
they are of importance in these regions. "-""s
whether Mr. Mandeville's letter is to be considere
mere diplomatic verbiage, or whether it IlleY,lidirect
petted that it will be borne out by positive an .flop
intervention from England. He demands infe11110"-ity,
on this point " not he says, " tog ratify idle etirlgoits,
hut to serve me as a guide in my commercial POI' 0.
—to qualify me to judge whether I shall instentolise,
tire, with my family, from this late land °lPrdaustif.
and abandon all the hard-earued fruits of the t 1).
of a quarter of a century, and all the prosPectivi ato
vantages that were opening to me, or, whether oop
yet, by means of British force, or of British diPle.a tbst
to expect to see the Oriental State rise over the 11%64
the remorseless enmity of her neighbour is thtill
upon her." I'o4
The subsequent accounts received via ~pec
state that the British Commodore was in
JhjS to
tation of receiving important despatches fonit
vernment in relation to the existing crisis, anti ;di
was thought probable that if the place held out 3,0 iv
longer the British government would take par t with
Monte Videans, and thus secure their indeVe.ilb 110
Meantime the conduct of Mr. Mandeville, wil:c,freeil
done irreparable injury to his countrymen, 'v.-0e cer"
talked of in language by no means measured' i";
tainly, from these accounts, stands in an aPPairi-d
defensible position, and will doubtless be caPe whir"
to justify or explain a course of proecedinAg: •der?'
have so grievously jeopardized the safetY
of a large and respectable body of our county)