Camilo Henríquez

“ Vos, en cuyas manos están los destinos de tantos hombres, no sentis enternecerse vuestro corazon? Os es indiferente aparecer circulados de gloria en nuestros anales, ocupar un lugar distinguido en las memorias de la epoca actual, y concluir la obra mas grande que ha visto el mundo? ”

“ The most famous Sebastián would have been the martyr, Saint Sebastian, who was to be executed by being riddled with arrows, and survived. The most relevant Don Sebastían may be Sebastián de Belalcázar, the early conquistador who conquered Quito and searched for El Dorado, before being executed for crimes during his later governorship. ”

“ Cloud: In a Series of Letters from a Resident in Paris to a Nobleman in London, Written During the Months of August, September and October, 1805, attributed either to H. Stewarton or Lewis Goldsmith, which was a series of often sordid attacks by the English author on the Bonapartes in the form of supposed letters to London. Specifically, Letter XXVII decries King Charles IV and the "upstart" Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy, accusing first Godoy's brother and then Godoy himself of being lovers to Queen Maria Luisa. ”

“ Notes 1 2 This is a reference to the argument, most famously made by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the Valladolid debate with Bartolomé de las Casas, that Spain's wars against the native inhabitants of the Americas could be rationalized under theological and jurisprudential theories of just war. ”

“ Henríquez is suggesting that the natives have fought for their freedom since the conquest, while the Hispanics are only just beginning to fight Spanish oppression.1 2 Clio is the Muse of history in Greek mythology.1 2 The Araucanians, or Mapuches, of southern Chile could be characterized as one of the last unconquered native civilizations in the lands claimed by the Spanish Empire at the time of this article's writing. ”

“ En los grandes negocios en que solamente se presenta un partido que tomar, la demasiada circunspeccion dexa de ser prudencia. Nos ha conducido la fortuna á la orilla de un rio, y es necesario pasarlo. ”

“ Ferdinand VII was not a Habsburg prince, which had not existed in Spain for over a century, nor is it likely that one of his subjects would have mistaken him for one.1 2 El Escorial, the royal palace and monastery1 2 i.e., the flight of the Cortes and anti-Bonapartists to Cádiz and elsewhere1 2 Manuel de Godoy was the powerful Spanish Prime Minister until 1808. ”

“ The Carrera junta, working with the American merchant Mateo Hoevel in Santiago to acquire a press, and soon the three American printers, Samuel Burr Johnston, Simon Garrison, and William H. Burbidge (who is credited in earlier issues, but according to W.W. Pasko's American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking, "Spanish America," pg. 516, he was killed at a riot caused by the 1812 Fourth of July ball hosted by the US consul more than a month prior to this issue's publication) left New York aboard the Galloway, bringing their expertise and a printing press to Chile. ”

“ Los que nacieron para empresas tan ilustres lebantan la cerviz gloriosa sobre una turba de seres enanos, de cabezillas, y cabezas huecas. Que hay que temer ? solo la incertidumbre hace nuestra debilidad. Si no hay una opinion sola, es por que hay variedad en las esperanzas. ”