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Inglaterra y los planes revolucionarios de Viscardo
blow to the power and riches of Spain in those parts. But even though the
latter part of the expedition should ot immediately follow, the loss of the Peru
would be infallible if carried into execution in the manner that is proposed,
and so far don John de Guzmán seems in all his ideas on this subject to agree
with the Piemontese Ex-Jesuit metioned in Mr. Dutens dispatches of last year
from Turin.
Don John de Guzmán offers to go himself to England to lay his plan of
operation before His Majesty’s Ministers, while his brother should go before to
Lima to prepare the minds of the people for a powerful relief to their distresses
in case the plan should be adopted.
I have the more readily determined to transmit it to you, Sir, at this
crisis, as the present superiotity of His Majesty’s arms in the West Idies may
perhaps be thought a favourable opportunity for the carrying in into execu-
tion, by detaching a few ships from the fleet in those parts, which is not far
distant from the object in question.
A few days ago the Chevalier Monino (brother to. Count Floridablan-
ca) arrived here from Spain with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary to this
Court. He has not yet presented his credential letters to the Great Duke, who
is in the country.
I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, Sir, your most obe-
dient, most humble servant, Horace Mann.
(De manó de archivero:) Florence, June 15, 1782.— Sir H. Mann.— R.
28th (Nº 9).
Description of the person concerned.
Don John Pablo de Guzmán, born in the diocess of Arequipa in the
year 1748, son of the Maestro di Campo don Gaspar Viscardo de Guzmán,
who died in the 34th year of his age. His grandfather don Bernardo Viscardo
de Guzmán was Corregidore of the province of Condoroma and first ordinary
Acade of the city of Arequipa. The said John Pablo having entered into the
Society of Jesuits, as his elder brother had done, was banished with the Jesuits.
From that time he has made constant applications to the Court of Spain, pati-
cularly by the means of the Duke Grimaldi, the Spanish Ambassador at Rome,
as likewise in the month of May 1781 by that of the Great Dutchess of Tuscany,
to obtain the possesion of his hereditary patrimony in the Peru, together with
that wich was left to him by his uncle don Silvestre Viscardo de Guzmán in
the year 1776, prescribing to the two brothers the term of ten years to obtain

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