Gleanings and Remarks: Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper CountryB. Dewhirst, 1818 - 1 pages |
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Page 48 - The night had not closed before we were accosted by several of our countrymen, over whose individual histories there hung much obscurity. Some we were told had been supercargoes, or consignees, who had abused their trust, and had thus become everlasting exiles from their country and their friends, while others were composed of both sexes, who by a violation of our laws, had been banished from their protection, and whose crimes, in a 50 part of them, had been still more deepened in their die, as perpetrators...
Page 40 - Popham, those trying occasions evinced a great equanimity of temper, and an unruffled genius, which uniformly marked and directed both his words, and actions. This tribute, and its merits, are greatly enhanced when we penetrate into those conflicts of anxiety that must have ruled within him, struggling at the moment against adverse incidents, and with a mind weighed down by a conscious load of responsibility. Having been personally on board the Encounter...
Page 134 - Balingall, by the power of imitating, decoyed two pups from their recess, which were afterwards domesticated with great difficulty. They were long very shy, but proved in the end very faithful housedogs. Their hair is harder and thicker than the tame sort. They subsist upon their fellows of the plain, and tend much to diminish the general stock of cattle. I often noticed their preference to the calves, which they attack in bodies of about twenty...
Page 337 - ... duty, all such of the public bills as have been issued by the Supreme Government, on which is expressed on the face of them that they are to be current instead of cash. 3. Credit for the duties is to be given to the importers, on taking possession of the goods, 20 days for the half amount, and 40 days for the remainder. 4. For the security of the state, the Custom-house officers are to have a guarantee, satisfactory to them, which is to be required without distinction of persons. 5. This article...
Page 53 - ... and to permit a free trade to the port. " But an early knowledge of our numbers, so totally inadequate even to the purpose of self-defence, far less to dictate laws to them, excited the magistracy to political intrigue for the subversion of our power, in the very first stage of its existence, by their official sway over the popular impulse, and by deeply concerted plans, widely ramified through various members of the church, as well as of the secular orders. The better-informed too were early...
Page 49 - Shore, who had become denizens by their religion — a most essential preliminary, in this continent, to personal safety and prosperity. As we could not, under our circumstances, discriminate their shades of guilt, I can only speak of them as a body of unfortunates, and in doing so, I rejoice that truth authorizes me to vindicate human nature, in so far that there are few hearts which are completely depraved, by the facts that this occasional intercourse unfolded.
Page 91 - ... upon their encampment so successfully as to compel Liniers to take up a new one out of sight and at some distance. *** During this critical moment any demonstration upon the river must have shaken the confidence of the enemy and diverted him awhile from his object. Not knowing the means within Sir H. Popham's reach to have retrieved our late naval disasters, I can only regret that his mental resources were no way equal to meet our difficulty, and that his professional exertions in this hour of...
Page 54 - Plata seemed to promise, now prepared an armament for their effectual reduction. In February 1807, Monte Video was taken by storm by supreme direction of public affairs by the self-abdication of the viceroy, its duties, as well as those of the other departments, were allowed their uncontrolled exercise, by the terms of the capitulation,. with the exception that General Beresford, according to the late system, shonld sit in the character of its president, and as the representative of his sovereign.
Page 27 - Company were always upon salt rations, and where a calf, tho' private property, could not be slaughtered without the Governor's permission, he spared some days fresh provisions to the expedition, which sailed on the 2nd of May for their ultimate destination. The result of Mr. Patten's unauthorized zeal entailed upon him the forfeiture of his government, but while that strict infliction of the letter of the law was passed upon him, it is the bounden duly of surviving justice to vindicate his memory...
Page 26 - The misfortune induced the shaping our course for St. Helena, where it could alone be repaired. . . . " It required the united persuasion and address of both our commandants, with Governor Patten, to repair our deficiency from the loss of the Ocean, who had to combat in his decision betwixt a high sense of his public duty to the East India Company, and a loyal wish to advance the prosperity of his country. The exertions of that gentleman for the good of the service were great, and generous. Acquainted...