J548 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



to be very much attached to the 

 American character, and to the 

 government and citizens of the 

 United States. 



Should any thing further occur, 

 it shall be made the subject of a 

 future paper. 



I have the honour to be, 

 With great respect, 



Your most obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) C. A. Rodney. 

 Mr. Graham to the Secretary of 

 State. 



City of Washington, 

 Sir; Nov. 5, 1818. 



Mr. Rodney having undertaken 

 to draw up, for our joint signa- 

 ture, a report respecting the 

 present situation of the country 

 we recently visited under the 

 orders of the President, and cir- 

 cumstances having prevented him 

 from presenting it to me for 

 perusal, until his late arrival in 

 this city, I was not aware until 

 then that I should have occasion 

 to present to you my individual 

 views on that subject. But on 

 an attentive perusal of the paper 

 he drew up, I found that although 

 there was not perhaps any impor- 

 tant fact on which we essentially 

 differed, yet that some were 

 stated of which I was not aware ; 

 and that we had taken views 

 which it might be difficult to 

 combine during the short time 

 then allowed to us, and of which 

 it might be proper that you 

 should be put in possession. 

 Under these circumstances, I 

 thought it better to submit to 

 the disadvantage of hastily throw- 

 ing my observations together, 

 and of presenting themseparately, 

 than to ask him to derange the 

 general tenour of his report by 

 introducing thera h\to it. 



The arrival of Mr. Bland, who 

 will necessarily make a separate 

 report, will I trust, reconcile the 

 President to the course I have 

 taken ; as, from a combined view 

 of what we individually state, he 

 may perhaps be better enabled 

 to draw his own inferences as to 

 the actual situation and future 

 prospects of the country we 

 visited, than from any joint 

 report in which we could all have 

 agreed, as, under oi-dinary cir- 

 cumstances, that must have been 

 the result of a compromise of 

 opinions, and would probably 

 have excluded some facts, or 

 some views, which one or the 

 other of us will, in the mode now 

 adopted, present to you. 



In my particular situation, 

 however, I thought it less neces- 

 sary to go into detail, as I knew 

 that the report of Mr. Rodney 

 would furnish information on 

 points which I omit. 

 With great respect, 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 

 John Graham. 

 The Hon. John Q. Adams, 

 Secretary of State. 



The country formerly known 

 as the vice-royalty of Buenos 

 Ay res, extending from the north- 

 western sources of the river La 

 Plata to the southern cape of 

 America, and from the confines 

 of Brazil, and the ocean to the 

 ridge of the Andes, may be con- 

 sidered that which is called " the 

 United Provinces of South Ame- 

 rica." 



Under the royal government, 

 it was divided into the intenden- 

 cies or provinces of Buenos 

 Ayres, Paraguay, Cordova, Salta, 

 Potosi, Plata, Cochabamba, La 



Paz, 



