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Recent Letter from Buenos Ayres. 



:Feb. 



Amazons, and auexqiiisite little group giving Mr. Comhe's doscriptions 

 from that of the Centaurs and Lapitbee, them as a specimen of the text. 



PLATE XXIII. 



" An amazon, with uplifted arm, is 

 about to iafliet a ftirious blow upon a 

 Greek who has been woimdcd, and has 

 fallen at her feet ; while another Ama- 

 zon with outstretched hands and at sup- 

 plicating look, appears to be interced- 

 ing for the life of the ^^anquished hero. 

 In the same marble is also represented 

 a group of two amazons, one of whom, 

 severely wounded and apparently 

 dying, is su])poited on her knee^ by 

 tlie other."" — Length, 4 feet 2 inches. 



PLATE III. 



age and countiy, and must raise our 

 character in art wherever it may go. 

 The trustees by continuing tb(!ir prac- 

 tice in this manner, will do the most 

 important service to the cuuntrA', in 

 thus cultivating and encouraging the 

 arts of peace. 



January, 9, 1821. JAMES E/LMB9. 



" A female, one of the guests at the 

 marriage of Pirothou*, has fallen into 

 the power of a contaur; she is exert- 

 ing all her strength to escape from bis 

 grap, and is at the , same time anxious 

 for the safety of her child, whom she 

 carries on one arm. Tlie alarm of the 

 child is visible by the eagerness with 

 which it clings to its mother's neck, 

 and endeavours to shelter its head be- 

 neath her hair." 



In a word, this fourth part of the 

 museum antiquities, is a credit to the 



For the Monthly Magaz/iif. 

 LETTER from an enulishman at 



BUENOS ayres, dated Sept. IJ, 1820. 

 N illustration (if unhappily for 

 mankind, any further illustration 

 be needed,) of the baneful efiecf s of bad 

 government, is to be found in the pre- 

 sent conditi(m of thisdistracted country. 



The policy, (a word wliicii, in its 

 common application to measures of go- 

 veiument, may be defined to signify, 

 he adaptalion of immoral means to the 

 a( tainment of pei nicious ends) of Spain, 

 during the whole period of its posses- 

 sion of South America, was to keep 

 its inhabitants in a state of ignorance ; 

 the end proposetl to be attained, the 

 perpetuation of their obedience to its 

 despotic sway ; their passive submis- 

 sion to the rapacity of the native Spa- 

 niards from time to time sent to rule 

 them awhile, and return enriched with 

 plunder ; to stimulate by its display at 

 home, the avarice of new competitors 

 for wealth. 



If success be, as implied by the lan- 

 guage of ^iilgar historians and politi- 

 cians, the test of goodness in policy, 

 this policy is emiueufl)'^ entitled to the 

 epithet, for it has been so successful, 

 that vmtil the sceptre fell from the 

 feeble hand of the monarch, and his 

 government was dissolved by inani- 

 tion rather than violence, the submis- 

 sion 



