The Reports of the Present State of the United Provinces of South America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... ing truths, but you ought to be more so in giving cause for them. They are stamped with the characters of sincerity and justice. Your Excellency has occasionally provoked my moderation: my wounded honour will demand satisfaction. I speak for once and for all; your Excellency is responsible before the altars of the country, for an inaction incompatible with its interests, and the day will come, when its justice will call you to a severe account. In the mean time, I challenge your Excellency to appear with me in front of the enemy, and to combat with a courage which will display all the virtues that render glorious the American name. I have the honour to salute your Excellency with cordiality and respectful consideration. Fernando Jose Artigas. Purification, November 13, 1817 APPENDIX J. TRANSLATION. Extract from the Gazette of Buenos Ayres of the 5th of February, 1818. INVASION OF THE PORTUGUESE. In the Gazette of the 1st of December last, we published the official letter of his Excellency the Director, to the Portuguese General in the Banda Oriental, requiring him to cease his march into a territory whose union with the United Provinces of the South had not been renounced, but accidentally suspended. The Portuguese General, in his reply, denied the principles on which this protest was founded, insisting on the pretext which had induced his court to a rupture so un justifiable; but as at the same time he referred for his justification to the orders of his prince, from which he was not at liberty to depart, there were reasons to suspect that from the slowness of his operations, and other circumstances, he might possibly have received instructions to suspend his marches, and evacuate the country unjustly invaded. This doubt has disappeared with the event, an...