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ably written, and is a monument of the noble and enliglitened 

 views of this great but most unfortunate patriot.'' The 

 answer of the visitador Areche -was a brutal menace, better 

 suited to a follower of Zengis Khan than to a Christian 

 judge. He refused all negotiation, vowed the most horrible 

 vengeance, and concluded by saying that, if the Inca sur- 

 rendered at once, the cruelty of the mode of his execution 

 would be lessened. The Spanish General del Valle protested 

 against the brutality of this reply." 



Tupac Amaru now prepared to resist to the utmost, as it 

 became evident to him that complete independence or death 

 were the only two alternatives which were left by the bar- 

 barous policy of the bloodthirsty visitador ; but his edicts 

 were still marked by humanity and good sense. It does not 

 appear that he ever actually proclaimed himself a sovereign 

 independent of Spain ; yet the draft of an edict Mas found 

 amongst his papers, in which he styles himself "Don Jose I., 

 by the grace of God, Inca, King of Peru, Quito, Chile, Buenos 

 Ayres, and the continents of the South Sea, Lord of the Eiver 

 of the Amazons, with dominion over the Grand Paytiti." The 

 document is headed by a portrait of Tupac Amaru, crowned, 

 with Spanish trophies at his feet. It states that the King of 



8 The way in which this vahial^Ie 

 despatch of the Inca Tupac Amaru 

 became public is very curious. In 1 806 

 Dr. Tadeo Garate, of I^a Paz, Secretary 

 to Bishop Las Heras (afterwards Arch- 

 bisliop of Lima), was ordered by the 

 Viceroy Marquis of Aviles to ijublish a 

 history of tlie Rebellion of Tupac Ama- 

 ru in 1780-1 ; and, to guard against 

 the possibihty of authentic counter- 

 statements, this despatch was taken 

 from the archives of Cuzco, and sent 

 to La Paz in charge of an Indian stu- 

 dent named Pasoscanbd, who perused 

 it on the road, and was so struck with 

 the magnanimity and heroism of his 

 native prince, that he did not deliver 

 the papers. He afterwards emigmted 



to Buenos Ayres, and, in 1812, went 

 to England, and commissioned Mr. 

 Wood, of Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, 

 to print Tui)ac Amaru's despatch ; but, 

 for want of funds, this was not done, 

 and, Pasoscanki retuniuig to Buenos 

 Ayres, the publication was abandoned. 

 In 1828 the same printer was cm])l()ycd 

 to print the Spanish edition of Gen. 

 Miller's Memoirs, and at that time the 

 despatch was found amongst some old 

 papers in Mr. "Wood's office. It was 

 finally pubhshed in an appendix to 

 the Spanish edition of Gen. Miller's 

 Memoirs. 



9 Report of Gen. del Valle, Sept. 

 .30, 1781, MS. Letter of Areche. MS., 

 in the libraiT at Lima. 



