The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-03-29

present date; owing to the occurrences
which took place yesterday; and which, Cir
cumstantially related. are as follows:
1t was yesterday morning reported that
the lieutenant colonel Don Geronimo de
Marrony Lombrera, was in ambuscade in
the church of the Grey Friars with the ac-
tual design of attacking the united forces as.
sembled in the city OF Ia Paz. The impress
stun made by this report, notwithst ahding
the improbability of any troops reaching this
city through the country filled by irhabi-
tan's.-was truly alarming; and to pacify
It, It was Judged proper that detachment
from the barracks should visit the convent.
To effect this at time when the garrison
was dispersed, it was necessary that the bells
should call them together-the event this
produced is incredible---the minds of the
people are SUDDENLY alarmed, and implaca-
Bile fury takes possession of every breast -
me squares, the streets, the fields, are erow.s,
ded with men, women and children; the
ground four miles around could not be dis
covered ON which they stood.-Men and wo
men, mobiles and plebeians. oldSc yDnng, all
variously armed-swords in the hands of
some, knives in those of others--ssome with
stones. others with sticks mechanics with
the tools of their trade axes, goads, poles.
&c. without distinction of sex or conditi-
on-each moment added hundreds to the
crowd.
How we're we to appease this tumult how
to assure them of the falsehood of the report ?
II was impossible M voice could have Ell
fec'---no passage was allowed to persons :;
and thousands upon thousands from 8 4, S,
10. and even ID leagues around were every
m"ment adding to the number, aud encrc as
ing the general alarm--Mea, women md
children Drandishpg their arms, al ready
t. SOIL the last drop of their blood in defence
IT The good cause of Buenos .9yres, the sup
p Z ct their present COVE ment,-tnougu
trul, horrible. Afforded sensations sti,l de :
ghttui-their attachment t. thei, country,
their d vo,lon to its interests, psrvade1 ms
with feelings indeScroable. At length St z
ing upon moment of dead silence, pro-
cured to be heard. and informed them of lie
falsity OF The rcpor, & Don Ju n Bautista O.
quendo, capt. of the Cabildo, aking this &C.
| casion, also addressed them from the council
gallery In a m st tervent Grafton, returning
them the thanks to which they were emit
lied tor Their attachment, IN so quickly re-
un ting for the defence of the common Cause.
Upon which they all peaceably retired to
their respective houses, leaving the city in
the utmost tranquility and the government
in he sweet consolation. from this, though
dangerous emotion, tina, the people of the
provmce of Cochabamba are most decided,
and hat the high reputation it enjoys is not
unfounded: for the same opinion, the same
wish, the same determined resclut ion of ex
pr;ug rather than submitting to the despo-
t,sui of their ancient rulers, who sacrifice
every thing IL ss!f interest, the sole idol of
their ambition.
At moderate computation the number of
souls assembled on this sudden OCCASION,
cannot be estimated at less han 10000 OF
which 10000 were effective able bodied
men. capable of contending with any force,
half of which were well mounted-Ab
S 900 more were prevented entering the CT
by tooops sent from Tapueari. eliza and
oacaba % undeceive them. Thus in the
space of "a hours, the province of Cocha-
banda has proved itself capable of raising
40C00 fighting men equal in patriotism and
valor to the 500 Spartans who disputed the
straits of Thermopole with the innumerable
armies of Xerxes; and who even opposed
10 the forces of the tyrans Napoleon, would
not hesitate between death and flight to re
store our beloved monarch to the throne of
his ancestors.
Gcd preserve your Excellency many
years.
FRANCISCO DEL KIVEROs
Cochabamba, 18Th Oct. 1910.
To Don Francisco Hntonio
Ortez de Comtto, comman-
der in chief ofkhe armies
Of BnenoS tyres.