The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-05 00:00:00

IHE STATESMAN.

SOUTH AMERICA.

CARACCAS.
I - VLN EZU ELI, JUN n 20.
LtGALEIEFECTS or THE KECENLY FtIOVED, tritosi
Tot; 'ter ..r IT• INSTALLATION. ON TIIE .c.211T11
JANU ‘t: Y, IS THE IsLE OF LEON.
An:erica ackilowlNlgeil the Central .1 unta, in 01.-
40r not ig:NAlrctht evils in was; .44..
volved ; because, lit:e it, the' htlieved that thig
%%as tae titily mrasuic that Colthi bilVe the Cd•l wry,
• raker some. prospect of liberatiog the King.
bully liaifisever any other but a itri,visiwial re-
res-sit itiun, our Any power but the lic.ielitive
Euuhlctl.r', the'fonctions Af ire
,44 44 Ilse
.o..iiiivacat.!ii4.l of the Cortes, too 4 the defence
v( S!ate.,: old? ccreditiiiiis, oil which the
traniarili of ;loth Hemispheres toleiateil and obey.
ed a f;utierlitilent which they had lint legally con.
▪ and• which could oily be inaiiitained (row"
tirecessiti, and the ilatizer au.l i cpea slJ.ility 01
famine, more tap the fundamental laws
or the Moliarr:iy, and to tar. general Wishes of the
great liaini7,h aid A.nericati 1.10.1 r, the duties of
shie,ll the Snout took upon themselves.
after irs appoiiittnent, Spain had reasnitt to
!ear that her hopes wouldbe frustrated, and A toe.
tica bad just cause to furesee that tl:eseirilic s Bich
it ntatl,!,of its liberty, and the rlangers to whi;:li it
ripo,etl its ititcrt:al itafety, would not °tier much
ciorlietestijiiiii fur its fiilelity. symptoms
of this presa.to were the Repre.scntativcs

Ml cl► the Junta sent to Venezuela, despotically,
to sanction the injestice with whicis .the fate of
America vial pronounced, and;the vat-itfus and slow
expedients tried to extinguish the enthusiasm of the
Spaniards, and keep up the illosi6n of the A meri...
•tatis. Every I.Y:crecyof the Junta was an
buntpritnise, and every pruirision of its agents was
a proof of the little that was tole, expected from
them by close who were horn in, or had enti+atctl
to America, as if the ionence of the sun had sect)..
power in favour of oppression. For.a whole year
the Spaniards of Yetionela were submitting to Si-
crilicesiu retails fox. the
,vhletiee of their'Guver.
nors, am,..mietiting the misery in which they had
plunged them by generosity, and mitigating the
sererity of their situation by information of one.
triumph after another of their brethren, which, as
as not' contradicted, served only to augment the
impunity' of the representatires of the Governmeot,
which the Americans ackifewledged from motives of
fidelity June . .
hu thc.midst of these distressing domestic otctir.
'rences, they see the fate, or Spain every day becom.
ing more hopeless ; they lament its being involved
ill one misfortune after another ; they are ignorant
what use is made of their treasures, arid sec men
arriving to exercise the Supreme Authority of their
country,. accased of perfidy, • contaminated by tre.
snabty, full of ignotante and- despotism, and con.
Torted into detraetoys of their own Constituents ;
they ask tkcra. respr'eting the late of Spain, ant;
;they say nothing inure than Suits• the people wheni
they have coma to represent. Notwithstanding sty
lunch ambiguity, so much perfidy and oppression,
nothing inure is thought tieces.ary, than a ruolution
to double our sacrifices for the vindication of the

libertsv of the King, wnose iuterests we prefer to
:that of shy country of America.
Its this situation the cry of indignation reached our
'Oars frion gpain against:the-Centre Junta: in spite
,of the frightful apparatua of the politi4l Inquisition
Which the Governort seat by the Junta hid (filleted
over this country, the genius of truth, elevated above
the atmosphere of oppression, pointed out to us with-
out disguise, the true situation of Spain, and led us
to draw the most alarming consequence respecting
oir own. We saw nothing but oppression from
• Abroad, Want of Confidence at home, factions, dis.
persed and routed armies, and a government pub.
liely execrated, when we were asked to recognise
atiothernew one formed of such precious elements
in the I,le of Leon, the French occupying, in the
wean time, the whole of Andalusia, composed of a
power,' astong vellum not even a single
American had or could have any place, nor even the
rower of giving the tacit consent of America.
• Our habit of submission might have made us ca.
'liable of acknowledging the Regency formed of such
rare nitesials, and contrary to all the fundamental
laws of our Constitution, if we had seen in it even a
shadow of the hope which the Junta.had made us
:cunceive to behalf of the country and King. -To go
lack to the ori4itt of those that have appointed the
:Regency, we see nothing they have to transmit but
!be execration anti untrages, and the violence with
they themselves confess they have been dis.
possessed of the power which they held*: and on
lookiug at the act of the Installation of the Connell
.of Regency, we see. that if they made any entices.
lions so Atnerica, it was only to' continue to her
their prutniaes, to declare more solemnly her sla.
very, and to Offer her a liberty in theory which would
disappear lit the detail to which American repre-
Solution was subjected in practice+.
. The Province of the CataccaX wonlilbave grossly
belied the Spanish character, which it is milieus to
preserve, had' it longue exposed its fate to the ar.,
bitrary caprku of the representatives of a new oli-
,g,trcliy, which, besttle's prodding fron► so defer.
tire an origin, being formed witliOut its knowledge,
and out mating its consent to ratify it, _was inca-
pable of saving of procuring liberty to the
King, andof administering justice tO the
ants o( this Province, against the despotic see.
reign'', which its Governors have arrogated to
themselves. The laws had no other ptotectiou
than ourselves, and the necessity that there.eurne.
limes is of dist:eosin( With theni, was not, with
respect to us, the same that the people of Cadiz
were under, of tolerating any 'form of GOvern..
went. French bribery, 'Which had disgradefutly
succeeded in corrupting several Nubles of
had already, pasted the ocean, and there was no
doubt that It would have introduced iloto-our bo-
som, and before our eyes, titles, comicils, tribe-
•oats, regintems, and Getteralst that had beet% rif'
fected by it in Spain hatf.to fear that it vomit!
ibe still more easy to corrupt the small number to
which the Government had been reduced ; and we
trembled when *claw ourselvds governed by men who
"...bad sworn allegiance to Joseph L. who had long re..

• atatAile,to of the J unto the 19th of Januur), io the
of Lean.
t Tie Council of Regency to the Americans.

sided at his Court, and ei hose f:irtner conduct, with
ri sped to Its. only justified these unfavourable int.
pressiutis. raceas pre,ented to Ow face of the tit&
verse its situation on the 190 of April, aid asked
the peopl,-of the AmericAn Continent, who had out
renpuncid their awl honourable
clianicter of babjecis of Perditiand VII. if they,
voold degerve. the esteem of their' cotemporaries,
And the gratitude of posterity, by blindly sulk:.
.milling to those who arrogated to themselves the
Sovereignty, witkput the conic:it of Antetjea, de.,
dared to be all filtegral part of the empire; nod
when (toy exacted acknoWledgment of
Coe shadow frorn, their •habit of obeying, vitt by
the i:elu;,ivc pi oinises of .4,lvaitt4ge, rgreater thus
Were absolutely in their power?

• , gpANISD GuAyAA.
Tip Members, compwing the Supreme Junta
w Mei: governs this Province in tlie-nam.e of our tie-
loved King, Ferdinand VII. keine, assembled in. the
Gonsiiltoriai Hall of Guayana, oil the 13th day of
June, .IEIO, for the purpuae of deliberating on,
the different. affairs mincer:4in the welfare of this
prOvinceand of its inhabitants, and for the better
service of MI Majesty,. being informed by the Ga.
zettes of the Regency el
,Spain and the Indies,
of
,the 2d of April, and by other public papers
that have bee* received in Oils capital, as like-
wise by the "RoYal.Selseduleof the '24th of Feb.
lest, received by the Reverend Bishop of this No-
', cese, of the happy Installation of 'the Council
of Regency, which., with general applause, had
been acknowledged in the island of Lcoo, and by
all the free'provincei of Spain; is the lecitimate re..
nreseetative of our King, Doo - Ferdinand the
' Seventh, this Junta, in• the,name of the province it
represents, being desirous of giving a proof of its
fidelity and attachment to its legitimate Sovereign,
has agreed that, without loss •of time, the, said
Council of Regency he solemnly acknowledged as
the sole and ltgitimate-tlepository -Of the Sovereignty
of his Majesty, Doti Fertlitiatid VII. by all the
authorities.of this capital and by its inhabitants,
and that this •deterteination be promulgated
proclamation, and olfiCial advice thereof circu-
lated to the Rev. Bishop, Governor, Intendant-Ge.
neral cf Finance, Commandant of the Royal Ar-
tillery, and to all others •whoni it may, concern.
Resolved, that a solemn 7'e Detivi and, Mass be
sung in thanksgiving for so plausible a debbera-
lion ; to which this Supreme Junta will attend,
formed in a body, as lihewise the different Chiefs
and Magistrates of this capital ; and, ;finally, the
d4y shall be celebrated by the, firing of guns, .and
'by a general.illemination throughout all the city,
from seven o'clock until ten on Sunday the •Ittli
instant.
Gislyana, 14th June, 1810. •
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. (Sigocd) .111.1kftiti, VEROARA,
ROW°, it.ANAGo,. .•
0000 Y, FRA.Y SAN CETONTO.
• MARTINEN, gUAY- VALLE.
; I.•A•RUsA. • . ,
NlANtref..itoitifkot Secretory.
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GAZETA VAIRMAIIIINAR IA DE TWENOS AYRES.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1810.
PROCEEDINGS RELAIIIyE TIIE ACIiNoWLEDGULAT
REGENCY.
[Continued from vur Pupa, of Momfait.l

• NEW NOTE OF THE-JUNTA. •
In the. Paper which yoer 14:xcellencryesterdaY
transmitted to this Junta as a just and necessary Pe.
titiou from the Senors, the Fiscals, directed to your
tribunal, it is recommended, that in Consideration
of two printed papers which *accompanied it, we
should proceed to carry.it into exception, by tithing
an oath ofallegianie, and giving due obedience to
the new Supreme Council. of Reginiey of Spain and
the Indies. The printed papers were a Proclania.
Bun of the Council of Itegency, summoning front
America Deputies to attend the Cortes whicn are to
assemble at Cadiz, but which have no signature,
mark of authenticity, or proof of its traasmisilon ;
and .a Proclamation of the Gu'iternor of Cadiz,
Wherein he declares the provisions .of the Council
• fur the recognition of the Regency, lint which was
also without a signature, ur other proof of authen.
ticity. The Junta, desirous of acting with as cir-
cumspection corresponding'to the importance or the
subject, Immediately transmitted a Note to yotir
'Excell'ency, that you might inform us whether you
had received the authority which should guide us
in legally recoguizing the Council of Regency, 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 authority,'
solely in virtue of a simple printed paper, without
any mark of autuentic authority, ur proof of its
transmission ; to which the rributial replied, that
it had not received any official order en the subject,
and that the transmission of the printed papers had
happened only in _consequence of existing circum..
stances which directed the supreme Government.
The Junta is persuaded that the Tribunal has
justice ii, its fidelity; but as the .acts of Goveru.•
went ought to be founded u111)11 established priuci.
pies, and as it is not in religious discussions alone
that people are exposed to run into the dangerous
ekt rehies of iiierelulity and fanaticism, the joiita
is desirous of what is right according iu the wish of
the Tribunal, and they therefore submit to you the
following considerations, n herein they frankly State
*lett they conceive ought to be done.
The uncertainty which prevailed respecting the
legitimate representatiod of the authority of our So.
vereign Ferdinand VII. created public discussion in
this city, which was expressly permitted by the Go.
vernment, and the result.has beers die removal of
the Viceroy from all authority in the Junta, which
WAS provisionally appointed until the meeting of the
Deputies of the Province's, to whom belong the re.
gulation of that representation which should pro.
teat the. rights of our augtist Monarch. Besides,
when we desire to come to a conclusion, it is neces.
"art that we should maturely consider that the fun.
dametital priociptes of au act which might after.
wards produce much embarrassment to the delibe.
rations of Congress,. and when an accident occurs
which-diverts the provisions- uf the laws, the dis.
teisitions of Providence which directs them are un.
Seen, •
I'h/slants have sworn to Ferdinand VII. end
the preseuation of his august rights. They have
.concurrea in, every thing coediting the recognition
of the representatioa of the legitimate Stavcreiguty
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in Spain, and this recognition should be the effect
of the solution of the two following questions:—
, Ist, Thu iindoubted certainty of the representa.
On of 4te Stitereignty being established in Spain:
2d, A proof of its legititoacy.
..At present w 4
have to treat of only the Sit question, and there..
fore.,the Junta tintird asks whether a printed paper,
without a signature, . Without official transmission,
w,jilkopt any legal fpiniali,ty, is sulicient to decide.
the existence of a goverci4ti Power, Whose itticer.
Witty has alreily occasioned se'ritms occurrences,
which greatly agitated the people here?
Vte know from the Spankh. and Etiglisl paperS
te artifices which ere resorts) to by thu iittruding
King to derange and confound the lirinuess and fi-
delity of th'e people of America: Your E‘c::.lieney
will know that lie has sent intoall places printed
papers, and that monk of them were sealed and,
signed from Compulsive •Sitilehee ; and when the
Government has already approved its vigilance and
precautions against deception, would it
,he prudent
to dcknoraledge the lepresentation of ti Sovereign
without any other authority than that of printed
papers without even a signature You will recut. 1,
lect the principle that was Wonted oti the .
Gott of tho Supreme Junta of Seville.. The preca.
dues situation of the sovereiinty was not then
I greater than it is now ; tha formation of the Jiinta
appeared to this tribunal in every respect the most
t proper and correct proceeding, and, to the irre.fra.
gable protefs that accompanied it there was added
the tnission, of 'an officer of rank, who had no other
object that, to facilitate the acknowledgrneht of Cie
institution ; this tribunal, however, and the Other
authorities, neither recogniZed not• swore allegiance
to it, nor did the tribunal consider itself compelled
by the extraordinary existing circumstances to con.
sulidate these domininitsswith the others that . ac-
knowledged the soTereignty 6f our august Monarch
Ferdinand VII.
Regarding the question in a nearer point of view,
we see that hid Excellency, D. Baltazer Hidalgo de
Cisneros, has received Gazettes, in a Weft intelli-
gence has been communicated of the Council of
Regency instituted in Cadiz. His Excellency could
not doubt of the truth of this itift.irmation, 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 tti Make it be acknowledged. Why
then is that demanded of the Junta Which was not
thought necessary w.th retpect to the Viceroy ?
Can any risk be incurredin waiting for those solemn
Acts which, according to law, ought to decide the
certainty and legitimacy o 1 the new Government I
Do you distrust the Junta, or the people of this
place? •
Since the Tribunal, tranquilly relying on, fixed
principle:s, has intimated to the Junta that it has
I's ,grit fidelity to the King, and to the successor of,
rerdniand VII.. that it has sttorn'tti acknowledge-
every:sovereign representation legally established;
,het in the discharge of those duties k' has tent to
Spain an official person with dispatches for tfie*So.
%foreign Government legally tstablished; and that
the declarations being repealed, that the people of
America are equal to those of Spain, they will uait
consider themselves entitled to less rights, nor to less
representation than the provineial 'Juntas
• kingdoms outl that in nothing w ill they goobeyoltd
the limits of thetelirosisioeitry establishment, nor
anticipate the riuthority'and itropee functions of the
Congrvis• that tas been convoked ; assuting you
and the whole world, in juStili.catiuti 'of• the actikt
net itts that animaie u., that in no hoods can the
rights anrt territories of the Xing be placed with
greater safety than in ours:
May God preserve your Excellehey Many years..
Buenos-Ayres, July 7, 1810.
Ginterici de Saavedra, Ste. to the Real Andientia.
The above is followed by a Reply from the Real
Amlieneue, agreeing with the Provisional ;how,
that a mere eemmunication, without the legal form.,
:tittles that constitute a Royal Dispatch, is not stilt-.
ficient to decide the right of a Sovereigti Powerotor
even to make an inferior authority, be rrco'gnized,
butt urging that there can be no doubt of the cm.
tainty of the establishment which the etrituuttica-
tion contains ; and that the interests of the nation
require thu acknowledgment of a so lucerne authority,
and as the
„advatioge that' Must result to the trap-
' gaillity of the Spanish dominions is evident, from the
fixing of a Sovereign Government desired by the
nation, as most conformable to thelaw and analogous
to their constitution, they conceive that the omis-
sions of those formalities cannot he attended with
any prejudice to the tit ate, but titer, on the contrary,
tote greatest adiantage iteity be expected front this
new prirof (Alley interest, and Zeal with
which the Junta, the Tribunal, illetul the whole peo.
ple regard this intimate connection with and subur.
dilution to the National GovernMent.

DECltittrit. •
•
BuEkos Aines, joss: 8.----Whereal the ,tights
of the authority exercised by.t he Sovereign. Retire..
seutation of Dun Fernando .VII. our august Mo.
herch, are completely secured by the oath which
this Junta took at the time of its installation, to
obey such SoVereign Re. presentation as tnight exist,legitimately 'constituted ; and whereas the notorious
fidelity of the inhabitants of these provinces re.
muv,s all the dangers., which, under other seircum.,
stances, might give cans° tit overstep the law i which
prescribe the form of transactiart so important,
unless there should be shown Some necessity for en.
gaging in proceediogs which might draw us from the
eStahlislied course—the Junta reserves the question
of acknowledgment .until the period of receiving
the official documents 'which may legitimate it, and
in the mean time will observe the same conduct
which was pursued by the former Government, hi
Cotten rrenee with the Real Audiencia, with respect
to the Supreme Junta of Seville, uttiting our semi.
molts as then with those of theother parts of the
State, and redoubling our efforts to assist them in
c intributing every kind of succour u hick may so.
limuly.demunstrate the fraternity of the provinces
of America.and those of Spain, w hicir remain free
front the enerny, and oar constant adherence to the
cause of the, log, iu spi(e of all the 'open projects
and -secret intrigues of the 'enemy) • •
• CORNIsi.IOIW S'Ar!YEDRA.
flit. •RJA.N.JOS.F, CASTELLI.
Al ANUri. (SLIGRAN.O.
NIICUEL U AZCULNAGA, Stc.

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CONFIkATED S_im__IIIPPING IN Russo.
NOTE FROM THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER TO Dittos
RAMPENHAUSEN, PRIVY COUNCILLOR, (tc.
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Having oberved, from the Note you presented me with, tile
Rep
loaf reseations made by the Cominisitmers (of the Neutral
Aerj, who were appointed to examine the cate",e
the ships that have, during this season, reported their arrival
from Teiterilfr,
Ist, That these cargoes, from all appearances rind 'confronti. •
circumstances, are evidently doubtful and suspicims. ng
I'd, That the false papers and documents of said versels, n
in fur examination to the Commissioners, m missioners, have beeprovett,
them, and. discovered, w ft,hout the. least doubt, 1° base bee.
forged, this act alone admits of s6l6eicat reason for etrofiscatiee
the said cargoes without any further proof. 1, t herofore, *zee;
with your opinimi, that exansinior the Masters taalsOanct: cf
these ships, as heretofore, has beeu usual by the_Csamui,tor,.r.
ordfuary eases, a ill °ceasing a detention* td 4,1;1,,,;
any utility arising to them from such an examiiatioo „,
• cash°, a prolongation of the business.. And as a quick deci•ri.s
will he beneficial to the-commercial interest, during the pre,ril
Navigation, tun! to the general credit, 1 enipoweryou,to,„uoi
the medium. of the Commissioners of the hetittal Naci;;;;lie,
Act, immediately to confiscate the cargoes of said ships.
The Caphaas. Owaers, and part Owners of raid confiscated
cargoes,lcaviag perroistsion. w hi ri Ibl usual time, to opitritt as
cording to 'lied...nit UT law „prescribed, you' shall receofpat.
tieulat instructions in what way the side .of the confiscated car.
goes are tO .be made. ..•A iAlivirts, you arc to take proper e„.,
of the same. AIM althritigh Nem t aliisiw-mentiouedeireion.
stances of forged documents being discovered, and false declared
of their ervating from Teneritie, the ships aught equally to be
confiscated; hut finding that mast of tie ve...,•elb Ott .lIIC prs.
pertyaif :the subjects of Neutral iPooers, the resnilltion Mitii
respect tp them shall he formed. I order you isrbe.
(timely tb:take oil the arrest of such Veaels as pre abbnisbat.
Neutrals, peralitt Mg them to, load with Mir produce, and 4t,
ing, taking the usual preraution, that it is agreeable to
Prescribed rules Af permitting the export of Cur Koducc.
(Signed) A I.EXA ft. •
• (Countersigued) 13aeon K Nll A L'S EN,
5t Privy Counctlihr, kic.:°.
Pelersbergh, 'lath Jult; O. S. 1810 d