72 Bogota'. 



cepting only a small number of individuals 

 of the congress, who do not see them, be- 

 cause it is their interest not to see them." 



The general then went on to disprove the 

 charges, and having done it most satisfac- 

 torily, he finished with the following words : 



'* At the sight solely of this manuscript,* 

 presented to the Real Audiencia at a period 

 when, as it is observed in the eighty-fifth 

 page, only the English nation, and that of 

 Denmark, had an idea of the administration 

 of that science which fixes the rights^f the 

 people and the power of sovereigns ; at the 

 sight of the principles of liberty, possession, 

 security, equality, tolerance, national sove- 

 reignty, and rights of America therein writ- 

 ten ; and at the sight of the reflections and 



* A document presented to the royal audience of the 

 kingdom of New Grenada, when the general was accused 

 of revolutionary opinions. 



