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was arrested the same day, and having been 

 conveyed to Padilla, he v^as there shot on 

 the 19th. 



Buenos- Ay res and the provinces of La 

 Plata were tolerably tranquil, until 1820, 

 and probably might have remained so, had 

 it not been for that bane of the patriotic 

 cause, — dissensions amongst the patriots 

 themselves. The leading men in some of 

 the provinces became jealous of the au- 

 thority established at Buenos-Ayres, or 

 were not satisfied with the constitution, 

 and thus attempts were made to set up a 

 variety of independent governments. The 

 civil war which thus arose, so deeply to be 

 deplored by the friends of humanity, was 

 productive of many calamities. It is, of 

 course, in a sketch like this, impossible to 

 notice all the actions and skirmishes which 

 took place in these contests ; the advantages 

 gained on either side, had necessarily upon 



