Los ideólogos: Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán

JuAN PABLO V1scARDo v GuzMÁN 789 work called lntroduction a l'etude de l'Art de la Guerre par Rocheaymon - Weimar 1802. 5 V. 8Q & Atlas. If you don't find these to last Books I might lend them to you. I most heaTtily join you in wishing for the delivery of urope, and for the re-establishment of its former Independency; but it avails ery li– ttl~ to the fate of mankind what your wishes or mine may be, - it is the wisdom at;td conduct of those that are at the Head and Government of a– tions, that must produce those salutary effects - I am sorry to say that i do not see any change in their Plans, views or actions - the same selfish designs, illiberality, and duplicity, it appears to me, pervades most of them; for which reason instead of any beneficia! results, I am afraid we shall have mischief and calamities extended beyond the European Hemisphere and over the New World. - The exertions in sorne of the Spanish Provinces appear to me the work of fanaticism and d1sappoinstment, ra her han pa– triotic views & designs of lndependency of Freedom. therefore my hopes in this point are less sanguine than yours. I have seen the greatest part of your Mss. upon Genl. Beresford s conduct & Justification at Buenos Aires &ca. I have seen also numerous documents relative to the same subject communicated to me by a Gentle– man of the Country that was chiefly concernel in all those high transactions; from which I conclude much as you do, giving sorne credit to B for his mo– deration while he commanded and much blame to the other for his sordid selfish and illiberal views which were the source of the incalculable mischief that folowed afterwards, and that will be transcendant yet I am afraid, aga– inst the real interest of England as well as South America. Whitlocke s instructions appear to me to be the result of the erroneous information transmitted to this Country by the Chief of the Expedition and other er– cantile adventurers, that consulted more their private interests (as they commonly do) than the benefit of their Country or any other People upon Earth! l sincerely believe that anw Officer or Chief sent to that Country with the same ridiculous and impolitical instructions will come ultimately to the same result, form which position 1 conclude that yoUT fried and Se– cretary of State W-m, is not less blameable in the whole transaction than the Chiefs of the Army. Adieu. (Borrador de iranda) Al Dr. William Thompson. .: T. XIV, f. 38. Archivo del General Mi.randa, AM, T. XXI La Habana, 1950, pp. 313-315.