Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-07-24
DOMESTIC.

COMEncG1C.
WASHINGTON, July Is. On Thursday
last, The hon. c. "A. Rodney, commits
sioner, and Ii. Nj. breckenridge, esq. paid
their respects to the president ofthe L. s.
on their return from South America. We
have no doubt that the president received
great satisfaction on hearing the prosper
Gus state of affairs ON the southern couti
| nent. Gin G0r
July 20.-The hon. w. Ii. CRAWFORD,
secretary OF the treasury. left this city
yesterday morning, on visit to Georgia.
The clievalier de ONIS, after having
despatched his business, pro fo,ma, with
The executive, has again set out for the
eastward. I'D
MIR. De ONIs, the Spanish minister,
returned 10 his summer residence al Bris-
| tol. few days ago. Nat. Int.
BY way Of comment on the report via Nor
folk. of an attack npon TIE British sloop of war
the Brazen, by a Spanish vessel taking the
| Srazen to he an American vessel; the National
| lnlelligenccr has this remark:
| HIS information is of an apocryplial
character. If true, however, ii is fortu-
| nate, IN more views than one, that the
bloodlesG broatside the Spanish squad
ron was, by mistake, not fired into an A
merican vessel. Such mistake, in the
| present critical state of our relations,
might have been followed by very serious
consequences.
July 2l.-Mr. RODNEY, the Southern
| Commissioner, and Mr. BRACKENRIDGE,
the Secretary, have left this city for their
respective residences. III.
There is letter published in the Savannah
Republicans of the iith instant from Buenos
| Ayres. which has attracted our attention Under
| Is arriv al
| our commissioners at that place, but expresses
| great fears that their object of obtaining cor.
rect Information of the state Of that country
| will be defeated. - They are every day visited
| "(says the letter. by many persons, but they do
" not know who OF them are the true'patriots ;
because every one speaks OF liberty, OF indie
pendence, &c. in the same phraseoIoey, with
" the same ideas. Among them some are sent
| by government to deceive the commissioners
IN order That they may not understand the
true aud secret state OF political affairs"
| &c. lhls letter, containing mucl; more 10 the
| same effect, carries with il the evidence OF It's
| being from AN opponent 10 the present order
| OF afIalrs at Bnenos Ayres.-fiis views may ne.
verthelesS be just and his object patriotic We
shall question neither the one nor the other, in
| making this letter the occasion OF one OF two
| remarks.
| Amidst people, asserting their indepen-
dence of Europe, and aiming at an esta.
| bl5hed Republican form of government, but
whose habits ofthought and action had 10 an.
| derg0 a total revelation before that object
| could be certainly reached, violent parties
might have been expected ambitious men, or
wild theorists, being likely to form factions
/ around them, which woHld naturally prepon
| derae by turns in the administration of pub.
| lie authority. That such factions have exist
| ed in BuenOs Ayres, the freest part of South.
| America, from its first attempt at Indepen-
| dence, in 1910, to this day, cannot be doubted
| with the particular objects, denominations, on
duration OF these parties, we not sufficient
| ly acquainted TO attempt to describe them.
| But II was not al all Surprizing. when our CON.
| missiOners arrived there, that they should find
| themselves beset by those, whose Object was
| rather to tuTthc their own private projects of
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT or speculation, than any pur-
! pose beneficial TO their country, or useful to
/ us. That oar agents should listen to the re-
! ports OF such persons that they shOnd endea-
vOr, III the midst of much contradictions, 10
! arrive at truth, was 10 have been expected of
| them. But the good people OF BHeDOs AyTes.
| ofwiiateVer party, err egregiou>ly, II they sup
| pose that the commissioners Of flIe IT, States
entered into the political views or private
| grieis OF any particular party at BueDOs a yrcs.
! Snch was not the object OF their mission: such
| was not the manner, we venture 10 assert, IN
| which ii has been executed. What written
| report the commissioners may make TO the TX.
| ecutive, will not be communicated To the pub
| lie, we presume, nntil The meeting Of Con-
| gtess, if then for perhaps il may contain nat.
| ter incidentally acquired, which il might not ,
4 for various reasons, be proper to publish al
| present. But, from what we have learned Of
| their verbal reports of what passed under
their observation, an impression is left Oh our
minds, decidedly favorable to the actual Jude.
| pendence of Bueuos Ayres, aud TO TIE capa
| city of other provinces to acquire aud main
tain the independence for which they contend.
The little Inland of @argafita signalized by lie
| heroic resolution, in particular, is said TO be
| placed beyObd the danger Of re. conquest.
| The Independence OF Buenos Ayres on
| Spain, have said, cannot now he doubted,
nor its capacity, If united, to maintain it. Bat
the situation OF that government is vet ren-
dered precaroUs, by the difficulty with which
conflicting opinions are liarmouized IN the 20.
eulous parts OF IL (, and with which people iu
the interior, wildas the wind, aud unsubdu q
as the wandering Arabs Of Africa, are reduced
TO the rule of law, and to the sway OF regular
government pretty good idea OF t.'e exist.
lng differences ~ that country, might have
been gathered from the letter which we have
already quoted, had we not before heard of
them from the most respectable sources.
Those above mentioned. Says the letter al.
| ready referred to, speaking of persons whose
names are not given,) "have drawn the com.
" missioners a horrid picture OF Ccnetal Arti.
" gas character, to dssemble the criminal
" cause OF war whiep this government has
opened against the people Of the eastern
side, where ArtgaS commands, supporting tue