Voyage to South America, Volume 2T. and J. Allman, 1820 |
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advantage arms army army of Peru audiencia Balcarce Belgrano Buenos Ayres cabildo capital cause character Charcas Chili circumstance citizens civicos civil Cochabamba colonies command commerce compelled congress considerable Cordillera Cordova course creoles Cusco Cuyo declared despotism districts dollars effect enemies English established Europe European Spaniards favour force Goyneche habits hundred important Incas independence Indians inhabitants Jesuits junta king La Paz La Plata liberty Liniers manifesto ment miles military militia mines Monte Video mountains nations native nature neighbouring officers pampas Paraguay Parana party patriots Pezuela plains Plata political population possession Potosi present prevailed produce provinces of Peru Pueyrredon regular render republic respect revolution river royalists Salta San Martin Santa Fee situation South America Spain Spaniards Spanish success thing thousand tion town trade troops Tucuman Tupac Amaru United Provinces Upper Peru vast viceroy viceroyalty vinces
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Página 244 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 271 - Bourbon preceded all the acts of the government, and headed its public documents. The Spanish flag waved on our vessels, and served to animate our soldiers. The provinces seeing themselves reduced to a kind of orphanage by the dispersion of the national government, by the want of another of a legitimate character, and capable of commanding respect, and by the conquest of nearly the whole of the...
Página 39 - But this can now scarcely be the case. The winter, however, may mature the project, and an effectual co-operation by the United States may take place. In this case I shall be happy, in my official station, to be an instrument of so good a work.
Página 227 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil...
Página 276 - ... his temples with a crown? If these men, to whom he owed so much, thus received death, were doomed to perpetual imprisonment or to base slavery, for no other crime than that of having framed a constitution, what might we not expect to be reserved for us? To hope for a benign treatment from him and from his bloody Ministers would have been to seek among tigers for the mildness of the dove. Then, indeed, would have been repeated towards us the ensanguined scenes of...
Página 271 - ... lost fifteen hundred men. Memory is horror-struck in recalling the abominable cruelties then perpetrated by Goyeneche in Cochabamba. Would to God it were possible to forget this ungrateful American, who, on the day of his entrance into the city, ordered the respectable...
Página 276 - Gamar£O in the same manner, cut off his head, and sent it as a present to General Pezuela, informing him that it was a miracle of the Virgen del Carmen. It has been by a torrent of evils and bitter afflictions such as these that we have been compelled to take the only course that remained to us. We reflected deeply on our situation and future fate, and. turning our eyes to every quarter, we were unable to see anything but the three elements of which it must necessarily be composed — oppro:>rium.
Página 52 - Art thou, too, fallen, Iberia ? Do we see The robber and the murderer weak as we ? Thou ! that has wasted earth and dared despise Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave ; thy glory laid Low in the pit thine avarice has made.
Página 276 - ... afflictions, such as these, that we have been compelled to take the only course that remained to us. We reflected deeply on our situation, and future fate, and turning our eyes to every quarter, we were unable to see any thing but the three elements, of which it must necessarily be composed, opprobrium, ruin, and abject submission.
Página 38 - The sentiments I entertain with regard to that object, have been long since in your knowledge, but I could personally have no participation in it, unless patronized by the government of this country. It was my wish that matters had been ripened for a co-operation in the course of this fall on the part of this country. But this can now scarcely be the case.