The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1816-11-06
SOUTH AMERICA.

wv IL ~ lh L.. .NfCH.
Translated for the New-York Evening Post,
from the Bueoos Ayres Official Gazette Of
the i7lh August last.
The Deetaratios Of Inaehendenee Of t6e Unit.
ed PROVINCES If Rio de Ia Plata.
The Representatives Of the Uoi,ed Proyin-
ees of Rio de Ia Plata, in Congress asss mbIed,
In the city Of Tucuman, on Tho niuth day of
the month July, in The year one thousand eight
hundred and sixteen the dispatch Of the us.
ual and ordinary business being over, they
took again into consid GRAFTON the motions and
speeches made in the proceeding days, upon
The great and important subject Of the Inde-
pSndence of the people represented by the
same Congress, and who most earnestly, dc.
cidedly and universally wish and claim sol
emn act of their emancipation ADD freedom
from the despo,ic power of the Kings Of
SpaiN. They, there eiore, weighed this mo-
mentous matter with the utmost attention
and care, devoting TO It's resolution all their
talents, with tina, purity OF intention requisite
IN sanctioDing their own fate, that of the peo-
pie they represent, and their postcriy. On
the question being put whether il was their
wish that these United Provinces should be
free and Independent from the Kngs OF Spain,
and its metropolis, il was voted in the sffir-
NATIVE by an unanimous acc,smatioD of ell
tho said Representatives who, likewise, each
OF them, individually, ratified and confirmed
their respective, spontaneous unanin ons and
decided vote for the independence Of the
country. In consequence whereof, the fol-
lowing resolution was determined on, TO wit :
We, the People OF the United Provinces of
South-Amcrica, in u General Congress us
sembIed, invoking tic Almighty, who pre-.
sides over the universe, and in tho name, and
by virtue OF the authority OF the people we
represent, protesting before heaven, and The
nations, snI men all over the world, ,bo JUS
tice that guides our intentions, DO SOL.
EMNLY DECLARE, in the face Of The Usi.
verse, that il is the Indubitable and unanimous
will OF these Provinces, TO break of the vio-
lent ties that united them to the Kings Of
Spain, to reins,a'e themselves in the rights OF
which they have been dispossessed, and to as.
su ne the rank and character OF a nation, free
ant indepcnden, from King Ferdinand VII.
his SUCCESSORS and metropolis. These same
Proeicces, therefore, being heucefor,h invest
cd, by act and right, with full aud sbselute
power 10 devise Tor themselves such forms Of
government as Justice and the state Of the
present circumstance may require Each
declare and ra,iiy the same, binding each one
TO the other, through US, to the fuih meot and
support Of this their will, under the pledge
and warranty of their own lives, fortunes and
fame. Let this resolution be communicated
to the department, it doth belong to make the
same public and ou' Of tho respect due to
other nations, let manifesto be issued, ce-
,aiiine the great end weighy reassns, that
have moved aDd constrained US 10 make this
solemn declaration. Done in the Hall OF
Sessions, signed b. our hands, sealed with
the seal OF the Congfe,s, and soun,srsigncd
by the Representatives. acting Secretaries.
(Sgned)
FRANCISCO NARINO De LhrRIDO,
President.
(Here follow The signatures Of t#cn,y.seycn
Represcnts,ives)
JOSE MARINO SERRANO, See'ry.
JUAN JOSE PASSO, Sec'yy.
We haze just received he following nesgs
from McIteo.
EoouILLA DE- PspRA, Sept. l6.
Gen. GsUdaloups Vicioris has bcs,en the
enemy at Otissave, and taken from them all
the cop Of tobacco, SO precious for fatiening
their treasury. The eommandant Teran had
gone by forced marches 10 the villages on the
eoas, to the south Of Vera Cruz, TO seize on
the port Of Guszscualccs, from whence the
royalists fed TO Ver, Cruz, aecordiog TO
a number Of intercepted letters.
n Spanish sqpa5roo lately seat several
launches, mounted by a hundred soldiers, 10
dive The patriots from BoquiI'a dc Pedra--
bu, the Dnns, repulsed with the loss Of sew.
men, retired with precipitation.
PgrLAyELr9IA, Oct. az.
The CRrrdcoa Gszeue Of the 23d OF
September, received by the sehr. Frisodship,
snnsunces the capture Of Barcelona. BY the
Pnric.s. The same paper positively cen
treiie,s the report OF the defeat and desth Of
Sir GreGsry M'Gregor.
CuAnLgsrou, Oct. ie.
Cae' PerarS,, Il 81, Spanish sshr. Aeas-