Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-31

disbelieyed the received accounts of his mis-.
deeds in Peru as well as in Colombia Our
late advices have corroborated, in the strongest
manner, what was at first admitted with consi.
derable qualifications, and unless there be a
league among all those who write 10 their
friends. and the commanders of vessels arriving
| from the scene Of his operations, TO misrepre.
sent, he is now, Notwithstanding his pompous
Isdeclinature. of the Dictatorship, exercising
! its powers ID the most arbitrary and summary
manner possible. When at the capitulation of
| Ayachuco, he said-"aofhing do Idesiyc more ar.
denky than To- put tesmirafion to the f,co great
Is! evils that can a6sct the earth, WAR and the
DlcTAroRsHIP," popular enthusiasm was un
sparing in its praise. Subsequent occurrences,
however, have demonstrated that this was the
language of policy, not sincerity. The Phila
delphia Gazette publishes the translation ofs FIN
Essay on the Conduct of Gen. Rolivay," reprint
ed from the Duende of Buenos Ayres, which
takes clear and full view of his conduct. In
one place the writer says, shut when thevicis-
STUDIES OF war made his cooperation necessary
in Upper Peru, he committed actions so Excess
sively arbitrary, and OF such complete immo-
rality, that public opinion began TO refuse him
the tribute il had till then rendered to his repu
tation; his violent seizure of the political and
military command Of Guayaquil, his dismem-
berment of friendly territory, and his illegal
incorporation Of ii with the republic Of Colon.
bia; the scandalous occupation Of Truxillo,
the decided protection he gave to fraction OF
thirteen deputies, which set at defiance the pa
iional representation, his barefaced and illegal
interference in the internal concerns of an in
dependent state; the inves,iture OF this party
with supreme and absolute command, which
he effected, being foreign chief and ally; the
shameful and military deposition of The Presi
dent, Riya Aguero, the cruel and ignominious
usage which he offered 10 this magislrate, with.
out consideration Of his character, and the con-
slant favor with which he distinguished Col
Fuentes, who betrayed and took him, were acts
of atrocious injustice, which caused il to be
known, that the disinterested and modest man,
whom fame had proclaimed, and tine hero who
had rendered so. great services to the country,
Suffering himself TO be CORFU pied by fortune,
sheltered in his bosom ambitious sentiments,
| and discovered designs Of converting himself
into master.
the paramount desire Of crushing Spanish do
mination, in which all hearts were united
Since then the public eye has viewed his con-
duct more coolly. Through the means OF the
Dictatorship, says the writer of the essay, he
proposed himself president for life, with power
to appsin; his successor. This accumulation
and prolongalion without limit of foreign ma
gistracies, The submitting Of the constitution Of
Bolivia to the Congress Of Peru, the violent
dissolution of that Congress, and his attempts
asains, the independence of the new nation S
which his greatest admirers could not approx e
are so many incontes,ibie proofs that he had a
fixed intention Of appropriating to himself the
eover he had acquired by arms, and Of enslav-
iLsS America after having served her gloriously.
The article concludes with noticing his en-
deavor to obtain pledge from the other ma
tions of South America TO deliver up refugees
upon all occasions,
"The mutual surrender Of refugees being ad-
mitted, there would not be in all America an "a
sylum for the unfortunate man who should
chance to incur the indignation Of Gen. Bolivar,
and Of his allied and ieudatory Government:
and TO prosecute refugee without the terrific
ry Of state for political causes, to refuse him
hospitality, is not only to violate every pripci-
pie, i'll committing most arbitrary fact; it is
also to declare yourself weak, and imp acable; it
il is remuneration Of every national feeling; il
is perpe,raling Of one villany as recon-
pense for another villany, and converting OF
friendly governments into agents of foreign
politics"