The Statesman.
London, England, 1811-04-16 00:00:00

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EXTRACT OP ♦ LITTPR NON AY TI~OLIIU
TLLIIA If AT CA RA Cell, TO IU 74t1EN D•I
" Yee desire I should give some reel
don of the state of affairs on this Awe
you complain that but little is commr
perhaps known, by your Daily Papers ,
ly perceive by those I have seen bere, that
tainscarcefy any intelligence of coosiuquence,

specting the great crisis which the fate of Spain has
prepared for America ; and that the little which
has been published, is so vague or distorted, as to
be very distant from the truth. I can assure you,
that every thing is going on as well as the Friends
of Freedom and Humanity could desire. The pub.
lic spirit is excellent; and from, the glorious nth of
April last, the day which witneosodthe fill of

the odious tyranny, in which this fine country
had been bound tar three centuries to the present
moment, every thing has been conducted with that
temper and moderation .which will distinguish the

revolution of Caraccas from perhaps all others
to be found in•history. Not a single drop of blood
has been shed—no retaliation for long and galling
sufferings; and the only punishment I have wibiessa
ed has been, that ail man, compelled to walicadni,
the gallows, for expressions against the New ..Go.

vernment, which, in othercountries, would have sus.
peinled him from the top °Ht. Ewen the plotting,
of the enemies of the liberty of America, have not
driven the Government from their moderate line of po.
licy—for though several misled natives of Old Spain,
who weresettled here, entered some time since into
a most horrible conspiracy for overturning the new
Government, and again subjecting America to the
cruel yoke of ; yet not one of the Conspire.
tors has suffered capital puniahment, they being
only senteuced to confinement or banishment.—
And this lenity is :the :mere distinguished, con.
sidering the dreadful example of cruelty which
their friends, the natives of Old Spain, had
given at. Quito, where they massacred 500 persons,
of all ages and sexes, for being suspected of attach.-
mint to the liberty of their native land. His true,
this bloody catastrophe excited, as was to be ex.
pealed, a strung sensation among the Americans here,
who generaHy demanded from their Government the
expulsion of all the natives of Old Spain,. cs a,,
matter of absolute safety for their lives, and tie
freedom of their country. This desire, however,
the Supreme J tints appeased, through its eagerness for
moderation and tenderness. But there is a point
beyond which forbearance cannot extend ; and in.
deed which it may not be safe to allow it to pass :
and such is the rising, general state of thepublic
fittnd among the vast majority of thcAmeric.in people,
that if the sanguinary plots of the Spaniard* are not

discontinued, I cannot answer fur the consequences;

their eximasios at least will be certain. Thus they
hold thele own fate in their hands. And as you

:may be assured the great body of the people bbro,
as also is the kingdom of Greta(lei Buenos Ayres,
and other parts of South America, as well as in
Nalco, Ire most decidedly resolved to mance-
:Pete their long-caslaved country from the oppressive
yoke of Spain, * perish,.nst all the force which
.4.)uld be sent from any nation in Europe, in aid of
the conspirators,on this continent, can prevent it.
Nur let it be supposed the Americans labour under
the same political and moral disabilities fur estab-
lishing a free Government, as do the Spaniards: on
,the contrary, their idea; of popular liberty and ci-
vil rights are inch, as to 'mark a grand distinction
between the two nations. Besides, the press is now
at work in "soy parts,' sad is operating great and
decided effects. TholY siirfriend, do not hold too
cheap an opinioet Of oar knotiledge and resources

for establishing the freedowrof this continetit, such
as kcr rights auJ interests detuauj ; and no just man
" would be inclined to deny her. That Government
which should calculate otherwise, must iufallibly,
to the end, find tts-voistake.

66 A new ere also Ike conimeneeti in the arrival

of COOOrOI AttaiNsi.t. This distinguished Arnett.
can, likci§Fs von! so much of his life in exertions
fur the libitotiAsi of his `vestry, landed at Le,
Gotyra a few cliffs iiace-46 Wia received by the
Commandant with military handers, and •by all

Glasses of citizens with pia grcatett enthusiasm. • A
number of personitif.drStitietion want from Cdrac..
cas to La Guayrs to escort him to his native efty
which he entered, followed by a Wag line of Gee.
Cotten on horseback, and surrounded by in .im-
mense crowd of the tititeris, hailing -bit return
with the same enthusiast( as 'at Li Gitityrd. The
day was particularly she; and from the number
of Ladies at their windows, the different 08.
cersy Civil and :Military, dressed in their rc.
speetive ocrstinnes, trim formed the eaitleade,
together with the consideralions of the change of
policy that had taken pike, excited the most
agreeable sensations. The Gainedl wds.moutted on
an elegant white charger, richly caparisoned, and
carried d Cloquet in his hand. The Governor of Ca.
faccas, Dan -FERNANDO Togo, brother to the
Marquis, who Is With the Western Army, rode by
Isis side ; and about n o'cloCk the whole proces.
lion reached the Palace of the Government, when
the General dismounted, and was presented to the
Supreme Junta ; who received We with the same
distinguished sentiments of regard and affection, as
he bad met from his fellow.eitisene from the we.