Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-05-21


The government ofthe republic guarantee.
To yen your safety, Your liberty, aud Your pro.
perry place yourselves under the banners of
Neneznela, your triumphant conn,ry. The
campaign terminated by the occupation of the
cdpital-NoH snail enter anew into the enjoy.
ment of rcrose, OF industry, prosperity and all
the blessings which are The natural rights of
free and honest men. Your tyrants have hi.
iherto Invested YOU of those blessings thank
that benIgnant providence which has enabled
You 10 assure TO your elves. that form of 40.
vernmcnt which is most comsonaut to human
happiness.
Head. Quarters, Somhrcro, 18th Feb.
eighth year Of tie Kepublc.)
y. ID. 1913.
The public will find in these official pspers.
materials TO form OPTIONS upon. and on the
news which has been circulated in various
modes by Ihe agents of the royal Spanish gov
eminent.
The following official paper, merits particu.
lar regard, as well from its matter and the
persons addressed, as The eminent character of
the man who >ubSrrIhes it,
Those who have taken rational interest in
an event so siupenduOus in It's consequences
as the revolution of Sonth america, must have
noticed toe iuhuman massacre, by Moiilio, of
men of letters iii New Grenada, and among
them the celebrated NuiiS L0-GRo &c whom
Humboldt found ~ The CorhileIas, prepared
with all the stores OF analytic knowegc and
The retinements OF modern philosophy IN che
Tistry, geology, astronomy, ma themaIics, bo
'HUN, &c. vi lldt class OF eminent men who
distinguished New Grenada, well bY their
virtues rs their scientific proficiency Francis
dStoRy zen j. one. This gentleman was one of
| thiity or forty accomplished men, educated in
santa Re de BogOta, who havin. alarmed tie
cSSilGnS ami the priesthood with apprellcnsiOns
tor the security of ancient Nominations over
mind and morals, caused them to be arrested
Tor entertaining opinions dangerous to !seiii.
macy; so long as 1892. those Young men were
arrested, and the laws blowing choice be-
tween trial on the spot or before the Spanish
tribunals IN Sfain, they preferred the latter,
ana were accordingly transported to Europe
about that period; whatever may have been
the cause, INSTEAD of being treated with seyc-
rIty. they were cnuIted and situations provid
81 n EnTope to engage them in the service of
the roHal authority. \ body guard named
American, and instituted for this purpose
provides stations tor some; amsng those who
continued 10 pursue the high road of science
was The gentleman, whose name has induced
TINS particular notice. He became distin-
gulshed in spain, and travelled through En-
rope, every where meeting the respect of the
learned and he WrtuouS 1t MAY he imagined
!rom ms early career, that l,e was not involved
az tilr naChlayelIan adv cultures which nave cha
rtcteiiHed ~" revolutions, COnspitaceS, ahdi-
cations. and uSuTpatiouS, and the fiual dpcra
'iaton ut spain. He iouad his way TO london
duriu- those a@itatiOuS, and few wears ago
reiu'ned 30 his native country. more deeply
impressed ON his eNperience IN Spain and other
parts OF EurOHc, of the dutV which he owed
his naive cOuntrV-here we see the pliloso
pher. legislator and public ruler. directing
The couuSelN of his countr>meu and arraying
them IN The cause of vlr,uOns liberty and indie
peudenCe.
We cannot refrain on this occasion from
rc.terating that lamentatIOn which We have so
frequently made. on the iufatuation Which has
characterised the policy OF th's Tepubiic in re
lation 10 the new rera niics ct the Southland
the Stigma which our hostility TO the canso of
people strug.i ing against tyranny has indeliblv
fixed upon this nation Iursra.
REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.
FRANCISCO ANTONIO ZEA. PreSidsnt al interim
o. me toHncd Of Government, ChiJ of the
Iindrci@ Department IN tie Council of Stafe,
ihttndGnt General Of the AriRieS OF The RepnL-
lie &c
To the British officers, non-commisoned off.
ceiS, ana privates, of the brigade of artillery;
and OF the four regiments enlisted under our
standard.
" elcome at this favorable hour, iustrious
defenders of liberty: welcome 10 the arms of
y0nr brothers, and III the bosom of your adopt
Ell country. Orr brave mariners 20 forth TO
receive you far from oar shores, aud the hero
VINO commands them, foreigner like YOUR
selves, can testify that we know how TO appre-
crate the brave OF all countries, who come to
associate in the glorious cause of our ndepen.
dence.
This cause is worthy of you: it is the cause
OF wisdom and industry, of the arts and com.
metce-the sacred canse of social intercourse.
aud consequently that of every people, and of
all men. 1t is principally so OF your nation
who, being the most active. INDUSTRIOUS and
commercial, onght to feel the greatest inter.
est that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. usmrpers of
hat the giobe-shOuld restore it TO the human
This great act of Justice claims the attention
OF enlightened cabinets, rather than that of
armies; but, know not from what fatality
Europe respects government, which has had
the stupid insOlence TO insult her by re-estab.
fishing the inq8iStiOR and other inhuuiap iHsti-
tWfiors, 10 the face of the ROYAL Society of
London, OF the Institute of Paris and of hun
dTedS ~ academies and universities poste
rity will with difficulty believe, that civilized
Europe mas tolerated in her bosom such gov.
eminent; which, lavish of blood and horrors
slan@tteis As in the age of PizGrTo, lays waste,
burns, dcvUuis, and DESTROYS; and in the dc III.
rum OF the false hope of retaining a desOlate
dominion, would flush bV depriviHg CONNER.
clal nations OF the vdu. BILE produce of our vast
continent, and MS of the products of their man
ni"ctureS ana ingenuity, rather than we should
be tIee aud happy
Onr Independence alone can terminate so
many evils; the world demands the indcpen.
deuCe of all America /; and the brightest day
OF humanity will be that on which il is univei-
sally acknowledged
Thus memorable event will, withnut doubt
max the most distinguished PEI iud Of all his
tory A new intellectual movement-a new
impulse given to industry and 10 the arts, to
agriculture AID TO commerce, will be- its first
effects America will offer to lurrpe tlou
sands Of new productions and Europe in her
turn will offer numberlcss new inventions to
America such will be the consequences of
Our Independence, and such tho ties Of friend
ship which will unite the new with the ancient
world, Instead OF the barbarous chain which
/ has so long fastened her to Spain alone. Let
Us break IL al once on the bead of its govern
! ment, and then Spain herself, free like us may
| participate in the common advantages and be
! ihus recopciled to the human race
Such is the sublime undertaking i'm which
| you have embarked with us, and TO which we
| are conducted by chief, covered with glory
/ and full of virtue, generous, magnauimouS,
| ever a patriot, always "a citizen, and always
| tie best friend Of The defenders of liberty