M I H 
At this place was publiflied, on the 19th of July laft, 
the Aft of Independence, by which the United Pro¬ 
vinces of La Plata renounce their allegiance to Spain, 
and ereft themfelves into a fovereign and independent 
ftate. Under the article Mexico, p. 310, we have noticed 
the probability that the whole of Spanifli America, North 
and South, would foon (hake off the yoke of the mother- 
country. We (hall therefore fubjoin a literal tranllation 
of this important document. 
Act of Independence. 
In the worthy city of San Miguel del Tucuman, this 
19th day of July, 1816, the ordinary fitting being ended, 
the Congrefs of the United Provinces continued its for¬ 
mer deliberations refpefting the great and auguft objedft 
of the independence of the towns and diftrifts conftituting 
the lame. The anxious with of the whole country for 
its folemn emancipation from the defpotic power of the 
kings of Spain, was evidently univerfal, conftant, and 
decided; the reprefentatives, neverthelefs, confecrated 
the whole fcope of their talents to this arduous affair, as 
well as the reftitude of their intentions and the interell 
required by the fandtion of their own fate, that of the 
reprefented towns, and of pofterity. At the clofe of the 
difcuffions they were afked, whether they.wiflied that the 
Provinces of the Union (hould form a nation, free and in¬ 
dependent of the kings of Spain and the mother-coun¬ 
try ? Filled with the impulfe of juftice, they firft exclaimed 
in the affirmative, and then each one feverally reiterated 
his unanimous, l'pontaneous, and decided, vote for the 
independence of the country, by ligning the following 
Declaration. 
We, the Reprefentatives of the United Provinces in 
South America, alfembled in General Congrefs, invoking 
the Supreme Being who preiides over the univerfe, in the 
name and by virtue of the authority of the diftridts we 
reprefent, protefting alfo to heaven, and to the nations 
and men of the whole globe, the juftice by which our 
wifhes are regulated, do folemnly declare in the face of 
the world, that it is the unanimous and indubitable will 
of thefe provinces to break the galling bonds which uni¬ 
ted them to the kings of Spain, recover the rights of 
which they had been difpoflefled, and take upon them¬ 
felves the high charadter of a nation, free and independ¬ 
ent of king Ferdinand VII. of his fucceft'ors, and of the 
mother-country; and confequently to remain, in fadt 
and right, vefted with full power to adopt the form of 
government required by juftice, and demanded by the 
urgency of circumftances. All and each one of the faid 
, provinces do therefore hereby proclaim, declare, and ra¬ 
tify, the fame, binding themfelves through us to the ful¬ 
filment and l’upport of this their will, under the afl’urance 
and guarantee of their lives, property, and reputation. 
Let the fame be communicated for publication; and, from 
a motive of refpedt due to all nations, let the weighty 
and impulfive motives which have led to this folemn 
Declaration be explained in a feparate manifeft. Done 
in Seffions Hall, (igned with our names, and fealed with 
the leal of the Congrefs, &c. 
Signed by thirty Deputies, or Reprefentatives, 
for Buenos Ayres, San Juan, Catamarca, 
Cordova, Charcas, Chicas, Santiago del 
Eftero, See. &c. 
It is added, in the difpatches, which arrived only on 
the 4th of this prefent month, December, that, immedi¬ 
ately upon the declaration of independence, Mr. Staples, 
at Buenos Ayres, had begun, in confequence of inftruc- 
tions from England, to exercife the fundtions of “ Conful 
General of Great Britain to the United Provinces of La 
Plata.” 
MIGULINSKA'IA, a fort of Ruffia, in the country 
of the Colacs, on the Don: leventy-two miles weft-fouth- 
vreft of Archadinlkaia. 
MIHA'LY, a town of Hungary: ten miles north of 
Zatmar. 
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MiIHAU', a fmall ifland in the Englifh Channel, near 
the coaft of France: fifteen miles weft from the iftand of 
Bas. Lat.48.47. N. Ion. 3.30. W. 
MIHEL', a river of Auftria, which runs into the Da¬ 
nube fixteen miles above Lintz. 
MIHEL', a quarter or diftridl of the archduchy of 
Auftria, between the Danube and Bohemia. 
MIHIEL' (St.) a town of France, in the department 
of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridl 
of Commercy, fituated on the Meufe, in a valley fur- 
rounded with mountains. It has fix gates and three 
fauxbourgs. The place contains 5022, and the canton 
14,010, inhabitants, in twenty-eight communes. Lat. 
48. 54. N. Ion. 5. 37. E. 
MIHI'RA, one of the Hindoo names of the Sun. 
MI'HLACK, a town of Auftria: eighteen miles louth- 
weft of Freyftadt. 
MI'HLEM. See Miehlen, p. 349. 
MI'HLES, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: four 
miles eaft of Lauringen. 
MIJA'MIN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MIJARISI'MA, one of the fmall Japanefe iilands. 
Lat. 34. 10. N. Ion. 139. 45. E. 
MI'JAS, a town of Spain, in the province of Grenada: 
ten miles north-eaft of Marbella. 
MI'JAS, a river of Ruffia, which rifes at fort Tchebar- 
kullkaia, and runs into the Ifet near Ulia Mijafka, in the 
government of Tobolik. 
MIJAS'KA, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the government of 
Upha, on the Mijas : fixteen miles north-eaft of Tche- 
liabinfic. 
MIJAS'KA (Uft), a fortrefs of Ruffia, at the union of 
the Mijas and Ifet: fixty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Tiumen. 
MIJAVA'RA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon: 
twelve miles fouth of Awafi.—A town of Japan, in the 
ifland ofXimo : twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Ikna. 
MI'JO, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La Plata : fe- 
venty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lipes. 
MI'IT A'BUL GE'RA, a town of Egypt, on the eaft 
branch of the river Nile ; fixteen miles louth of Manfora. 
MI'IT BED'R, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : three miles louth of Manfora. 
MI'IT DEM'SIS, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : thirty-five miles north of Cairo, and forty- 
eight fouth of Damietta. 
MI'IT GE'RA, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : twelve miies fouth of Manfora. 
MI'IT IIA'RUN, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : two miles north-weft of Miit Demfis. 
MI'IT el KO'LI, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : ten miles north-north-eaft of Manfora. 
MI'IT LAS'SI, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile, oppoule Miit Demfis. 
MI'IT NA'SER, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch 
of the Nile : three miles fouth of Semennud. 
MI'IT KA'MAR, or Miet Ghamer, a town of Egypt, 
on the eaft branch of the Nile: twenty-four miles north 
of Cairo, and fifty-eight fouth of Damietta. 
MIKAL'IDI, or Maarlich, a town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, in the province of Natolia, fituated on a river, the 
ancient Rhyndus, which runs into the Sea of Marmora: 
with a fort, about two miles from the town ; whence they 
fend (ilk, wool, grain, and fruit, to Smyrna, Conftantino- 
ple, &c. thirty-five miles weft of Burfa. Lat. 40.10. N. 
Ion. 28. 22. E. 
MIKA'NIA, f. in botany, a genus feparated by Wil- 
denow from the Cacalia and Eupatorium of Linnaeus. 
See thofe articles.' 
MIK'ELSBURG, a town and fortrefs of Tranfylvania, 
with a depot of arms for the principality: fix miles fouth- 
eaft of Hermanftadt. 
MI'KEN, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the government of 
Caucafus, on the Malka: forty-two miles eaft of Ekate- 
rinograd, 
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