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Volumen 1
Viscardo y la rebelión de Túpac Amaru
ingabitants which are not real Spaniards. Casimir is a sensible and still very
active man of about fifty-five years of age and has a son of thirty who shews
great courage and abilities. —I am informed also that the Court of Madrid are
preparing to embark at Cadix eight thousand men to send to Peru by the is-
thmus of Panama, but it is so long a march from thence for an army that what
with the seapassage, the fatigue of marching and embarking again for Lima, it
is impossible thet one half of those troops should arrive sage hera. The trading
people are persuaded that the rebels are in actual possesion of Peru and that
idea has affected them to such a degree that there is a stop of the cinculation of
money, and money, and paper is quite discredited among them... Turin, 11th
July, 1781.— Sir: ... I have acquired litely a more accurated as well as authentic
information of the events in Peru by the way of Cadix. It confirms the allar-
ming situation the Court of Madrid is in and almost irrecovarable loss of their
power in that country considering the remonteness of the seat of rebelliom,
the various commotions excited by general discontent and the defenceless sta-
te Government there is in.— Tupac Marri, a cacique of the province of Tinta
near Cuzco, is the person who has subdued the fourteen provinces in that part
of the Peru which lyes between Cuzco (the ancient capital of the Peruvian
Empire) and La Paz, that is all the country about the lake os Titiaca. Prince
Casimir or the Runun-Inca’s scene of action is more nortwards, between Lima
and Quito, and his residence is in the Andes, near Caxamarca. Whether these
two enterprising men act in concert or not, I have not yet be able to learn and
am to think they do not. But the progress of Tupac Marri seems to be more
rapid and of greater consequence than those of Casimir. The former has des-
troyed all the Spaniards or their adherent who attempted to oppose him in his
march, and on his way from Tinta to La Paz he seized at Chucuito the sum
of eight hundred thousand pounds sterling in piasters, which he found there
deposited for the King of Spain. He might have made himself master of Cuzco
before he advanced further south, but he chose to take possesion of that part
of the country where he could better secure his rising power and distress the
Spaniards in the souree of their Tiches. Besides he is sure to meet with no
resistance at Cuzco whenever he thinks fit to ge there, all the inhabitants of
the great town being Indians. —What gives great strength and energy, on the
other side, to the Peruvians of Casimir or Runan-Inca is that there are now in
his districts seven or eight hundred monks of all denomination, most of them
Europeans, who, tired of their situation, have within these twenty years fled

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