Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-09

5. from Conception, and $50 from yalu,
"a $50, the capital OF Chill The popa,.,
ton is about 1900, OF all colors: tho,
OF European complexion, unmixed abc,,
1000 persons. fine aborigines, a very a.,
i've laborious and we'll disposed people :
The city, which is also called La Serep,
lies about half mile from tue sea. m
LOFTY platform which affords a beautif;.i
prospect, and IS said to be handsors
place with streets laid out at right an,
sles, and the dwellings surrounded tv
gardens and groves of myrtle, we'll wa
tered by artificial aqueducts 1t is eeIe
brated for its excellent horses. There i
a rich copper mine near the city, the pro,
due: of which has been exported in Co,
siderable quantities to Eur ope and to the
United States.
We find by these advices, that an arni,
tice had taken place, which CONTINUED on
the 9Th OF July at Lima-so thatthe total
defeat and flight of Gen. St. Martin
WITHOUT date, was a miserable and futiI.
invention.
We have with this news; however. a r..
petition OF the report ot the British Com.
modore Hardy's regulation OF the law Of
nations. Let us for moment suppose
this to be true, and what would the char.
acter of such condnct be? Has nation
processing to be neutral the right to.e,
aside the laws of nations, as we'll as Of tia
two belligerents. Take it on the side O.
Spain--the laws of the Indies forbid any
ships of any nation from trading with an,
of the ports dependent on Spain in Amer
lea. Take it as to the laws establishes
by the Cortes, the same principles prevail
Then, so far as concerns Spain, The
exclusion Of ships OF all nations from its
possessions, renders it pre- .,s'erous that
a neutral nation should pretend to set a..
side its laws. No despotism could be
more insufferable than this. 1t would be
ridiculous to reproach the Holy ALI.
ance, and pretend to give color to acts
such as are attributed to the British Com.
modore.
On the part of the Chilese-they are at
war against Spain. They have inva.
ded Peru to emancipate them from the
Spanish power. No neutral nation can
in ectere with either, to the disadyantas.
OF the other, nor set up an authority t,
contravene the law of nations; no natlou
can be neutral that attempts TO interfen
with either AS the ships OF no nation
have right to enter any Spanish port o.,
the Pacific in peace, the existence OF wa
surely cannot give right, much less au,
thorise acts that would amount to breach
Of neutrality, or en- act of war against the
Chilese. An act that prolongs hostility
under such circumstances, is not only in.
human, but ali act OF war, which is no!
the less war, because the Chilese may moi
DE able to contend with superior naya
force. Under what authority of the law,
Of nations then, could Commodore HaroI
pretend to prescribe the number Of lea cue
To leeward and winward on cOas, d
which he has no right to enter a 'ing
port, according TO the laws of either bell
gerent. There is no law but the violenc,
and usurpation OF the naval power o
Great Britain; and in all probability
such acts viii lead to the exclusion q
their ships f; ON ihe whole Of tnst coast
The south Americans nave digesteG a
policy, that if once carried into iull effect
will render them mvulnerabie; and til,
conduct OF ships of war on that coast ap
pears calculated to bring it to complete
execution. They need only follow The
examples Of other nations, and exclude
the ships OF all nations that act uniust7
towards them, and the non-iDtercour.s
will be more fatal to the commercial al.
fairs of the insulting nQtioas, than an;
ordinary war could be.
MEIXICC.
We have been favored with The perusaI 0
letters d.ted al Tampico, IN Mexico, as Ian
as the nth of August. They state that lh'
whole OF that kingdom is in a state OF revO
luton All the provinces lying north Of
Mexico, have proclaimed their indepen
dence. General Don Augustine Yurvide j;
commander in chief the Republican army.
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