196J ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



South America. — Mexico. — Chili. — Buenos Ayres. — Montevideo sur- 

 rendered. — Venezuela. — Caraccas taken by the Royalists. — Buenos 

 Ayres. — State of Mexico. — West Indies. — Hayti. — Proceedings of 

 King Henry. — Mission of Lavaysse. — Do7ninica. — Asia. — Wahabees 

 and Arabs, — Smyrna. — British India. — Expedition to Macassar. — 

 Pirates in Borneo reduced. — Inundation of the Nerbudda. — Cotifa- 



- gration of Rangoon, — Rebellion in China. 



■^^HILST the northern part of 

 ^^ the American continent has 

 been a theatre of hostihties, of 

 which it is to be hoped that we 

 have nearly seen the termination, 

 the southern portion has still been 

 involved in a sanguinary civil 

 war, waged with a spirit of inve- 

 terate animosity that seems to af- 

 ford no other prospect of return- 

 ing peace than through the abso- 

 lute subjugation of one of the par- 

 ties. As in former years, the in- 

 telligence of the events occurring 

 in that quarter has been so much 

 obscured or distorted by misrepre- 

 sentation, that it is difficult to 

 frame a clear or consistent narra- 

 tive from such documents. Some 

 transactions, however, have brought 

 with them sufficient evidence to 

 render them matter for historical 

 record. 



An extraordinary gazette of the 

 government of Mexico, dated Jan. 

 3rd, mentions that dispatches had 

 been received by the viceroy from 

 Brigadier Ciriaco J.lanos, of the 

 dates December 25th, and 28th, 

 communicating intelligence of the 

 complete rout of the forces of 

 Morelos and other insurgeikt chiefs 



in the province of Valladolid. It 

 is stated that the rebels lost in 

 three several actions 1,500 men in 

 killed and prisonersj 30 pieces of 

 cannon, their ammunition, camp, 

 and provisions. Two hundred of 

 the prisoners had been shot by way 

 of example, the greater part being 

 deserters, and some of them Euro- 

 peans. 



In Chili, the contending par- 

 ties entered into a convention 

 which happily effected a cessation 

 of hostilities in that province. The 

 plenipotentiaries on each part 

 agreed, on April 19th, on several 

 articles of a treaty, by the first of 

 which, Chili, as an integral part 

 of the Spanish monarchy, consents 

 to send deputies to the Cortes, for 

 the purpose of sanctioning the 

 constitution framed by that body, 

 and acknowledging the authority 

 of Ferdinand VII. and the Re- 

 gency, with the proviso, that tlie 

 internal government of Chili be 

 maintained in all its powers and 

 privileges, and free trade allowed 

 with allied and neutral nations, 

 especially with Great Britain, to 

 which Spain is acknowledged to 

 be so much indebted for her politi- 



