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Nueva Colección Documental de la Independencia del Perú
Vida y obra de Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán
to the Andes and married amongst the independent Peruvians; they are, of
course, very power full instigators with them for the entire destruction of the
Spanish Government, at the same time that they give vigour to their councils
and actions...
Turin, 25th July, 1781. — Sir: ... An express-boat justs arrived from
Buenos Ayres brougnt me the most alarming accounts for the Court of Spain
of the situation of the affairs in Peru and of the cruelties committed on both
sides in that country, but the enthusiasm occasioned by the expedition against
Gibraltar prevails so much at Court that in seems to have lessened the impres-
sion which that intelligence might have made at another time...
Turin 27th October, 1781. — Sir ... I am sorry to find that the Sardinian
Ambassador at Madrid agrees with the Gazette of that Court ingiving an ac-
count of the bad success which Tupac Marri (the cacique of Tinta mentioned
in my dispatch 5) has lately met with in his attempt to shake off the Spanish
yoke. The Viceroy of Peru having armed all the white «people in that country
who could be brought together, sent them against Tupac Marri to the number
of abote twelve thousand emn. On which that infortunated caciqu’s adherents
awed by such a force and not being sufficiently armed betrayed his cause and
delivered him up with four of their principal chiefs to the Spanish General,
who has put some to death and kept Tupac Marri till the Court of Madrid has
pronounced on his fate and also to learn from him the whole of his plan and
correspondence and the support he may have received from different quarters
to second his undertaking, the Spaniards having the suspicions that the Por-
tuguese have secretly assited him...
Turin, 31st October, 1781. — Sir: ... I am assured from a very good
quarter that thó misfortune happened to the Indians in Peru by the treachery
of those who delivered up Tupac Marri to the Spaniards must have east down
greatly the spirits of the rebels there, yet there is so vast a number of exas-
perated minds in that country that they will always be disposed to fly to any
chief that will kindle in them the least sparks of hope to be relieved from the
cruelties and vexations they have been so long abouring under...
[Estos despachos están dirigidos a Stanier Portem, del Servicio diplo-
mático de Londres],
Londres, Public Record Office, F.O. 67/1, nos. 3, 5, 7, 27, 28.

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