The National Register. — 1814-09-04 (London, England)

SPPT. 4,  reconciliation, by her own means ; and oppression and narrow-mirded policy, have completed that baneful structure. of which political hatred, the clashing of interests, and the deadly spirit of monopoly, first laid the foundation. As before clearly roved, for Spain to affiance her sway in the manner she now seeks, it must be on ihc ruin or degra dation of a forsaken, but onoffending people.  Yet still her  object is not secure. She may, for a while, rivet and prolong the chains of despotism ; from her fortified places, the illusion may yet be maintained, and hairassing expeditions may be fitted out to carry discord and havoc amongst the per. severing natives. Spain may yet use further exertions, and send out more troops, till the whole country is wrapped in a wider, and still more bloody waste of anarchy and slaughter ; but in all, or either of these cases, does not the philanthropic mind stand appalled; does not human nature shudder at such devastations, murders, and enormities; and does not the united voice of humanity and of policy, call aloud for the cessation of such multiplied evils? The Spanish Americans, also, who have beheld all their efforts of redress treated with disdain ; who see the sacred rights they have inherited from their forefathers trampled to the ground; and their 'with &um covered with ruins, and deluged with the blood of its natives, who behold that very constitution the agents of Spain have been planting with the bayonet's point, now revokes and held up to public scorn ; who have before them, nothing but the prospect of a worse degradation, than that they before experienced; and who, in short, sec that they have only to trust to an inconsistent and faithless people, will consider that the Rubicon is passed, and conceiving that they are authorised by every law, human and divine, to persist in their enterprize, will render their insulted country a tomb to all Europeans; arming the coloured natives, and, as in Caracas, declaring a general death war, and rushing into dreadful retaliation, they will render their unfortunate country, a blot in the works of the creation. Nay, do we not already see, that the weapons of each arc sharpening for mutual slaughter, and that s general war-yell, resounds through the unfilled vallies and demolished towns of New Spain, Caracas, La Plata, Santa Fe, Chili, Quito, &c. and that it is soon likely to spread to Peru, Guayaquil, and Guatemala, the only points, where the Geslers and Verres of Spain, have been able to insure control. " Gradually, as the spirit of animosity has flamed wider, and as local wrongs and unheard-of outrages, have i pel le dto resistance and firm-set purposes, the Spanish Arne: icans have talien their stand ; and sooner than return► to their old degraded state ; sooner than again sutler their chains to be put on by those very hands which have torn to pieces their rights and charter;; which have so long rent the bosom of their country with anarchy and a mercenary civil war, and are, besides, crimsoned with the blood of so many of their fellow citizens and relations, they are resolved to perish in the sruggle, and, at least, transmit to their posterity, the records of those just endeavours, which ouOt to have insured theta the respect of even their enemies. Roused, as they are, to a sense of