GENERAL HISTORY. 



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CHAPTER XX. 



Spanish America— Buenos Ayres and Montevideo— Venezriela^Suf 

 render of Caraccas, and counter Revolution— Mexico— Conspiracy 

 at Vera Cruz— Peru— West India Islands— Jamaica— Dominica-^ 

 Barbadoes—St. Domingo— East Indies— Surrender of Kallinjar— 

 Java— Conspiracy at Travancore— Mauritius— Persia. 



the Viceroy, and the latter pledges 

 himself for the withdrawment of 

 the Portuguese troops from the 

 Spanish territory. Correspondence 

 and commerce are to be restored 

 between Buenos Ayres and Monte- 

 video, and foreign ships may enter 

 the ports of both territories. The 

 Viceroy declares that no change 

 shalltake place in the system esta- 

 blished by this treaty, till the 

 Cortes make known their pleasure, 

 which shall be communicated to 

 the government of Buenos Ayres. 



From the terms of this conven- 

 tion, so favourable to the interests 

 of the mother country, it may be 

 conjectured that the Junta of 

 Buenos Ayres found themselves 

 under difficulties in maintaining 

 sufficient authority to enable them 

 to support the cause of independ- 

 ence ; and some subsequent events 

 proved, that even in the capital, 

 dissentions prevailed among those 

 engaged in the same cause. On 

 December 7, the patrician body of 

 troops, discontented at the appoint- 

 ment of a new colonel without 

 consulting them, turned out the 

 whole of their officers from the 

 barracks. The other regiments 

 were immediately called to arms, 

 and cannon were planted in the 

 streets. An action ensued, in 



which. 



THE provinces of Spanish 

 America were still the theatre 

 of a sanguinary civil war between 

 the two parties of independents 

 and loyalists, and the mother 

 country remained in great measure 

 deprived of the aids which she had 

 been accustomed to receive from 

 these rich possessions. 



The negociations mentioned in 

 the history of the last year as having 

 been commenced in the month of 

 October between the Viceroy Elio 

 and the Junta of Buenos Ayres, 

 were concluded by a treaty of 

 pacification dated the 21st. The 

 articles begin with the resolution 

 of both parties to acknowledge no 

 other sovereign than Ferdinand 

 VII. The Junta then, though 

 considering itself at present with- 

 out the necessary powers for recog- 

 nizing the authority of the Cortes, 

 yet makes a declaration of the in- 

 divisible unity of the Spanish 

 nation, of which the provinces of 

 the River Plate form an integral 

 part. It also consents to remit to 

 Spain all the pecuniary succours it 

 is able to contribute, for the sup- 

 port of the war in which she is 

 engaged against the usurper of 

 Europe. Another article defines 

 the districts which are severally to 

 remain subject to the Junta and 



