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like one raving, or like a famished 

 tiger or hyaena : at an earlier 

 period of his life, he had been 

 confined in the mad-house in the 

 city. If he had continued to 

 live, there is every appearance 

 that all the foreign Consuls, and 

 the few other Europeans resident 

 here, would have been put to 

 death. 



Extraordinary Gazette of Bue- 

 nos-Ayres, March 5. — The peo- 

 ple of Chili have raised them- 

 selves to the rank of independent 

 nations, by their magnanimous 

 resolution of announcing, in the 

 face of the whole world, their 

 decided will to belong only to 

 themselves, and to maintain this 

 declaration with all their power. 

 They cannot go back without 

 covering themselves with disgrace, 

 and without becoming the laugh- 

 ing-stock of the nations who 

 have a resolution that does the 

 Chilians so much honour. The 

 provinces of the Rio de la Plata, 

 through the medium of their 

 deputy, Don Thomas Guido, 

 have been the first to recognize 

 the new rank of this kingdom, as 

 appears by the documents sub- 

 joined, and his Excellency the 

 Supreme Governor has ordered 

 that, for three successive nights, 

 there shall be an illumination in 

 the capital, beginning to-morrow, 

 when there shall be a salute from 

 the fortress at sun-rise, at mid- 

 day, and in the evening, with 

 8uch other demonstrations of joy 

 as are usual on days of public 

 festival, and which his Excel- 

 lency leaves to the option of the 

 patriotic citizens. Communicat- 

 ing this disposition to all the 

 towns of the union, that they may 



act as becomes them on so glori- 

 ous an occasion. 



Official Letter of the Deputy of 

 the Provitices. 



Most Excellent Sir ; — On the 

 12th of the month, at half-past 10 

 in the morning, the independence 

 of Chili on the Spanish monarchy 

 was proclaimed and solemnized 

 with oaths by the Supreme Chief, 

 the Magistrates, and all the pub- 

 lic bodies, ecclesiastical, civil, 

 and military, and by an immense 

 multitude collected in the great 

 square of the capital, after the 

 declaration of their sentiments, 

 by the reading of the proclama- 

 tion of their independence, the 

 motives which justified it, and 

 the unanimous will of the whole 

 people, for their political emanci- 

 pation. 



The flag of the United Provin- 

 ces, in the hands of the Governor 

 of Santiago, and the national 

 flag of Chili, which is in my 

 hands, shall authenticate this act, 

 which is unquestionably the most 

 magnificent and imposing of all 

 those which the history of the 

 New World presents since its 

 ominous conquest. My heart is 

 transported with joy to communi- 

 cate to your Excellency this 

 grand event, on which the zeal of 

 your administration has had so 

 much influence; and I feel honour 

 in informing your Excellency, 

 that on the day of the public 

 congratulations to the Govern- 

 ment of this nation, I recognized, 

 in virtue of the power with 

 which I was intrusted, in the 

 name of your Excellency, the 

 sovereignty of Chili and its ab- 

 solute independence in terms of 

 the address given in number 2, as 



a proof 



