Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-01-02

mlliions. This project OF a law was also
ordered TO he printed. The Assembly also
pare an address in answer TO his male 81. =
speech at The opening OF the Session.
BUENOS AYRES.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Il The crew of Span.
iSh transport with ECO men, bonnd from Cadiz
To Lima,inntinied ard carried the vessel To the
Patriots al BuenOS Avres and jud.iuy from
the accounts of her officers and crew, The lest
"' tbeeApedition, consisting OF ten vessels, are
not much better disposed TO The cause Of
fersuiand. We have given the trans lation OF
TINS circumstance nearly entire, from late
Buenos Ayrean paper. &c. Gaz.
Translated for the Washington City Gazette
BneR0s Ayres, September 2.--After Spain
having kept all Europe i'm suspense OF three
ysars anxiety, respecting her exaggerated
exposition, She has finally been enabled 10
send out snccor OF only 1000 men, under the
command Of lieut.. colonel, and the trans
ports conveyed by IA man of war aud IL we
are 10 infer any thing from the extraordinary
stecrsS oil the ship Trinidad, which is row in
our harbor with 200 soldiers, besides the crew
ana ofhcers, as to the temper OF the men who
compose this armament, little can he expected
from their services. The fact, according 10
the declarations taken, is as follows:
The serJeants X. Martinez. F. Moreno, and
before sailing from Catliz, formed the design
ot exciting mutiny, and il successful to nut
into our port. During the voyage when COM
municatins this project 10 their comrades viii,
cunning and secrecy, they toHnd the minds of
their fellow soldiers ripe for revolt. In lat.
degrees n. they parted from their convoy, and
having crossed the line without meeting with
any other vessel of tile expedition, they care
TO dissemination TO carry into effect their
premeditated plot on the 25th fully, in the
execution OF which they found an obstinate
resistance IN the captains ID. G. Miranda and
y. NJ. Fuen,i; also the LIST adintant and LIST
lieutenant; and, what was still worse, tbey
were opposed by I'd SERGEANT and two Isl
corporals, who, rather than be carried to the
patriots, determined TO put d match to the
magazine, and blow up the vessel; the mutt
neers, therefore, for their own security. were
obliged to destroy them, TO prevent their plan
heing frustrated, as well as for their own
security.
Immediately after thus making themselves
masters of the vessel, they ordered the caplain
to steer tor Buenes Ayres, where they arrived
safely, without any material occurrence in the
La Plata, at the creek of Barragan, on the
26ih of August.
Our supreme government has determined 10
receive, with open arms, these men, who, irii-
tated with the veXatlOus and Injustice of their
king, are unwilling TO be acGOmpiices i'm his
tyranny. or 10 be bOmnd by ties which they
consider broken by the manifest violation of
all the duties which ought 10 connect the
monarch with the subject.
We believe that very soon the Spanish nation
will rise en- masse, and let The degraded Ferdi.
nand know, that the PROJECT OF re snbjugaiing
these regions, is as unjust as rninous 10 the
debtated and ancient metropolis from
whose bad administi alton arise continual wars
we have before us letter from rOyaiist
at Lima, addressed 10 one OF his correspond-
ents ia the Peninsula, of j late date, in " hiuh
lie says
My fiiend-These Americans are in the
greatest distress and ruin, OF account of the
successive wars IN which we have been inyoly
ed tor SO many years, without having been able
10 tranqullize the insurgency Oftlie provinces,
in spite of all the troops sent from Cadiz; for
when they are partially put down in one place
they rise again in auOtkei, which has cost the
lives OF so many Spaniards, that we are quite
in despair SO that America will never again
be wiiatit has been, even il ii was ranquillized
and those who have calculated on getting
fortunes here will hereafter be disappointed
they must now stay in their native country
there is nothing now TO be had here"
So says rOyalist and il is very well known
that no Thing less than a real conviction of this
fact could have induced him to employ this
language so says royalist, who writes at a
distance from the theatre of war, at Lima
where fear cannot be supposed 10 have any
agency in producing these melancholy impress.
slons on the afflicted Spaniard. How eau we
then be astOnisbed that the peninsula Spau.
iards, (but to those Of the lowest class such
news cannot be known, nor the imposing atti-
tnde OF the patriot governments Of South Anne.
ca, and their repeated victories over the hest
European ops)-How can we longer won
der that they resist beiBg the accompIices of
furious and tormeHting mona CHI For what
greater proof can patiOns have of the impo.
teUce of Spain in the present struggle than
the desertion of a fri3ate from this eXpedition
TO encounter so much peril,
The crew Of the Trinidad relate a circum.
stance worthy of remark, previous to the sail
ing of tile expedition from Cad;z.
Tie Count de Absbal, i'm harrangning the
expedition before the enbarkation, observed.
that he did not doubt that they (the troopsj
would revenge the injuries sustained by the
best of kings when two grenadiers stepped
out and said in firm tone, that they were I'M.
willing TO go to South America. They we're
asked the reason: 'hey replied" Because we
have had 10 pay for six montlls;" for which
they were instantly ordered to be executed
This bloodshed proves the torment OF the
ferocious count aud hiSmaster, that the discoH.
tent OF the army had reached lis height and
that only fear can prevent manifestation OF
the universal disgust and oppression uuder
which the Spanish nation now groaus
Free America offers an asylum for the un.
happy Peninsulars, and the intrepid ireemen
Of the Trinidad have shown their cOuntrymen
the way TO escape the ignomny aud degrade.
ton OF the C9stilian-once so ilnstlious. but
now so degraded. Weare, through the med~m
OF a noble feeling, making efforts to succonr
these new brothers, that they shall not repent
their undertaking. Spaniards, with such a
character AS we hold, you do not know your
own interest il you do not accelerate our
cause
A meeting has been held at the Bank Coffee
House, by Number Of respectable citizens.
for the purpose Of raising n substitution 20
purchase piece of plate for Mr.. Wiltshire, of
Mogadore, in Morocco, as testimony of
respect for bis humane conduct to American
caplives, particularly to Riley and his crew.
This Is Very Jndicions step; and the com.
mendations bestowed on MIR. Wiltshire bv
captain Riley are fully deserved, although
much doubt is very justly entertained respect.
ing the correctbess OF some parts his nara
tive. We have repeatedlymrged the necessity
Of having respectable consul at Mogadore,