PERU. 



obtained the suffrages of those places which are 

 under the protection of the liberating army, I have 

 deemed it more fitting and decorous to follow an 

 open and frank line of conduct, which ought to 

 tranquillize those citizens who are jealous of their 

 liberties. 



" When the time comes in which I shall have 

 the satisfaction of resigning the command, and of 

 giving an account of my actions to the representa- 

 tives of the people, I am certain they will not dis- 

 cover, during the period of my administration, any 

 of those traits of venality, despotism, and corrup- 

 tion, which have characterized the agents of the 

 Spanish Government in South America. To ad- 

 minister strict justice to all, by rewarding virtue 

 and patriotism ; and to punish vice and sedition 

 wherever they may be found, is the rule which 

 shall direct all my actions whilst I remain at the 

 head of this nation. 



" It being conformable, therefore, to the inte- 

 rests of the country, that a vigorous government 

 should be appointed to guard it from the evils 

 which war, licence, and anarchy, might produce, 



" I declare as follows : 



