562 Political 'Affairs 
place in tins pail of the body, and that 
the blood is decomposed, dissolved, and 
evacuated externally by transpiration. 
The best remedy known is the melambo 
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taken as the kina. 
SOUTH AMERICA. 
Letters, dated the 2/th October, have 
been received from Pernambuco. A 
great change has been produced in the 
situation of affairs there, by the arrival 
of orders from Lisbon, in pursuance of 
the decrees of the Cortes,—1. For the 
recall of the Governor. 2. For the form¬ 
ation of a Provisional Government by 
the votes of the College of Electors. 
3. For licensing the militia for a given 
period. 4. For the removal of the Eu¬ 
ropean troops to Lisbon. In conse¬ 
quence of these orders, the election of 
the members of the Junta took place on 
the 26th,when the choice, as might have 
been expected, fell principally upon 
the native Brazilians. The turn the 
elections had taken created so much 
disgust in the Portuguese, that nearly 
all the families of respectability were 
preparing to quit Pernambuco, either 
for Lisbon or for Bahia, a revolution and 
declaration of independence being in¬ 
evitable. 
Sant Iago, Aug. 15. —It is not pos¬ 
sible to describe the demonstrations of 
joy with which the people of Chili cele¬ 
brated the news received of the libera¬ 
tion of the capital of Peru, accomplish¬ 
ed by the valour and wisdom of Gen. 
San Martin. 
GAZETTE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDE¬ 
PENDENT lima, 18th July, 1821. 
7 *j 7 
First year of the Independence of Peru. 
By a communication from Bujama, 
under the date of the 13th inst. we have 
the following: 44 The enemy continue 
their precipitous flight, and leave in 
their march spectacles which would ex¬ 
cite horror in the most insensibleminds. 
From the time of our departure from 
Lurin we have scarcely gone a step 
without traces of their barbarity. More 
than thirty dead bodies, some from 
weakness, some from disease, and 
others shot on the way because unable 
to pursue their march, have presented 
themselves to our sight, as the food of 
birds of prey. Rodil, according to un¬ 
varying accounts, has been the person 
who sacrificed the greater part of those 
victims. During yesterday and to-day 
we have met with 39 sick, of whom five 
have died. I do not belieA’e that the 
half will survive. The whole of these 
have been found in the open fields, but 
some remain likewise in this town, 
in December. [Jan. I. 
where a small hospital has been form¬ 
ed.” 
Another letter from the same place, 
and the same date, is expressed as fol¬ 
lows : We have arrived at this place in 
pursuit of the enemy, who, proceeding 
in their cowardly flight, leave on the 
road indubitable evidence of their atro¬ 
city. I feel a horror at the crimes com¬ 
mitted by Rodil and Valdes, and even 
endanger my credit by mentioning 
them. They shoot all the soldiers who, 
either by fatigue or infirmity, cannot 
continue their march, saying to them— 
4 Die, wretches, rather than become our 
enemies.’ Their dead are consequently 
numerous; many fugitives present 
themselves to us daily, without includ¬ 
ing the infinite number who escape by 
bye ways. These cowards, out of terror 
of our troops, have proceeded by indirect 
roads to the Sierra, committing at every 
step injuries and outrages. At this date 
the loss is not less than 500 men ; and, 
further on, on account of the difficulty 
of the roads, the loss will be greater.” 
MEXICO. 
On Thursday, the 27th of September, 
the inhabitants of this capital had the 
infinite satisfaction of receiving the 
Liberating Army of the Three Guaran¬ 
tees, with its worthy commander, Don 
Agustin de Iturbide. The general was 
received at the principal gate of the 
Temple by the illustrious archbishop, 
dressed in pontificals, &c. A solemn 
Te Deum was performed by the whole 
orchestra, the sublime harmony of 
which expanded the hearts of the spec¬ 
tators in the great temple, which was 
illuminated and adorned. The Te 
Deum was followed by a salute of ar¬ 
tillery and peals of bells. The proces¬ 
sion then returned in the same order to 
the palace, where a magnificent dinner 
was served up, which had been prepared 
by the Ayuntamiento, -and of which 
more than 600 guests partook. 
On the following day the Provisional 
Junta of the government was installed 
with the greatest splendour and so¬ 
lemnity, when they took the oath, con¬ 
ceived in the following terms:— 
44 Will you, Senors, . . . swear, by 
God and the Holy Evangelists, to keep, and 
cause to be kept, the treaties concluded on 
the 24th of August, in the Villa de 
Cordoba, by the Excellent Senor, First 
Chief of the Tri-guarantee Army, as re¬ 
presentative of the Mexican empire, and 
the Excellent Senor Don Juan O’Donoju, 
as Captain General, and Superior Political 
Chief for his Catholic Majesty ? 
44 Will 
