398 SPANISH AMEUICA. 



low provinces, viz. Tarija, Salta, Paraguay, 

 Tucuman, Cordova, Cuyo, Enteerios, Monte 

 Video or Banda, Oriental, and Buenos-Ayres, 

 the city of the last-mentioned name being 

 the capital. 



The Junta of Buenos-Ayres commenced 

 its functions on the 25th of May 1810; it 

 was opposed by the Ex-viceroy, Liniers, 

 who raised a force of two thousand men, 

 and laid waste the environs of the city of 

 Cordova, in order to impede the march of 

 the troops of the Junta. Soon afterwards, 

 however, many of his soldiers having de- 

 serted him, and being attacked by Colonel 

 Ocampo, commander of the forces from 

 Buenos-Ayres, Liniers was taken prisoner. 



The Junta of Buenos-Ayres then sent Don 

 A. A. Jonte to Santiago, for the purpose of 

 assisting in bringing about a revolution in 

 Chili; which being effected, he remained there 

 as charg6-d'afFaires from the governmejit of 

 Buenos-Ayres, and subsequently induced the 



