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This interference could only be justi- 
fiable in case we were at war with Spain: 
it could only be efficacious, with respect 
to Mexico, in case we had the secret con- 
nivance of the proprietors of Louisiana, 
through which provinces the supplies of 
men and arms might most conveniently 
be forwarded. With the connivance of 
the present proprietors of Louisiana, all 
the necessary assistance can with facility 
be afforded without British interference 
atall. Sothat the whole undertaking, 
practicable and useful as it may appear, 
is but a freak of supererogatory eleu- 
therism. 
Peru can be assisted efficaciously only 
from Hindostan. It would be amusing 
to see the ministers of George the third 
ordering of the king’s printer, for the 
Quito market, a new edition of the Arau- 
cana, which celebrates the rebellion of 
Chili; and a Spanish translation of Pi- 
zarro, with those passages strengthened, 
which would found thrones on the choice 
of the people, and substitute voluntary 
to innate submission. We apprehend 
these ministers will hesitate a little be- 
fore they instruct marquis Wellesley to 
be tampering with the fidelity of the 
viceroy of Lima, and endeavouring to 
conciliate his concurrence in a plan of 
independence ; before they instruct him 
to represent that allegiance is the virtue 
of weakness, that to rescue the commerce 
of Peru from the oppressive monopoly of 
the Spanish gremios would be conferring 
a diffusive benefit on the motley nations 
entrusted to his charge ; and that to 
save Peru from its present indirect de- 
pendence on the swindling ministry of 
France is in fact to preserve it for those 
only Spaniards, who have the true tem- 
per and honour of Castilians. 
or the accomplishment of these ra- 
ther jacobinical purposes, which would 
however augment the commercial rela- 
tions of Great Britain, our author con. 
ceives an alliance with the republic of 
North America to be necessary. We 
fear this is only to be purchased by our 
poing over to whiggism : the friends of 
iberty govern in North America, and 
they entertain a prejudicial dislike of 
the party in power here. Their opposi- 
tion to our interests is a natural conse- 
quence of our toryism, and will be coeval 
with it. It is right, however, to hear 
cur author. 
«© There is nothing which would more 
strongly cement this alliance between these 
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS. 
two Atlantic powers, than their joining ss 
in a common cause, in co-operation, to 
emancipate the inhabitants of the Spanish 
provinces in South America from the pro- 
vincial external government by which they 
are oppressed, and to which that portion of 
mankind are subjugated ; and in laying open 
the abundantly rich commerce of those re- 
gions to the free intercourse of all the world, 
and in releasing it from the bondage of mo- 
nopoly by which it is now fettered down ; 
and in clearing a channel for those riches 
which now come to Europe in barren exclu- 
sive revenue, that such may flow to all man- 
kind in the fecundating streams of commerce. 
The joint operations of those two Atlantic 
powers, in actuating this commerce, will 
create a new Atlantic common interest, by 
raising into freedom and independence an 
Atlantic state; and that state must, from its 
own nature, and from the relations which it 
holds to these its deliverers and defenders, 
become an active party in, and give additional 
strength to, the great marine Atlantic alli- 
ance. 
‘© As this union of alliance will be quite a 
new thing in the world, and exist under en- 
tirely new circumstances, there ought to be 
formed a new act of navigation, common 
and reciprocal to all these parties, deriving 
its authority as Jaw from special treaty be- 
tween each of these parties, or by general 
convention of all. 
« These suggestions lead the memorialist 
to the consideration of the measure itself. 
«<The inhabitants of South America are 
divided into kingdoms and states, on the 
foundation of-old dominions. ‘The original 
natives, and those Spaniards who have be- 
come incorporated with them, have long 
formed a preponderating interest, and have 
now at length arisen to an ascendant interest 
in those communities ; they are at the crisis 
of an explosion to independency, which the 
government of Old Spain hath not the power 
to prevent or to resist. This revolution is 
now nascent. 
omnia tempus 
Nacta suum, properant nascl 
Tt will not be withheld. The consideration, 
whether it shall so arise or not, is no longer 
a question. The progress by which these 
states were advancing to this crisis of inde- 
pendency, the nature of the polity on which 
ihey were founded, and which gave course to 
this progress, were, in the year 1780, ex~- 
plained by the writer of this, in a memorial 
at that time published as addressed to the 5o- 
yereigns of Europe.—‘ South America is not 
yet, in its natural course, ripe for falling off ; 
nor is it likely, from the slow, official, cau- 
tious prudence of its: metropolis, to be forced 
before its time and season to a premature re- 
volt, as North America has been. As long 
as the Spanish government proceeds in ad- 
ministering the affairs of its American es+ 
