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134 render sufficiently intelligible the unanimity which characterized the first proceedings of the Creole Insurgents. Throughout the whole Continent of America, the same causes were everywhere in operation; and, with little or no difference in point of time, they every where produced the same effects: in Cărācăs, Būēnos Ayres, Bŏgŏtā, Cărthăgēnă, Chīlĕ, Upper Peru, and Mexico, by one simultaneous movement, the people deposed the European Authorities, and transferred the reins of Government to Juntas, composed almost exclusively of Native Americans.

These Juntas assumed the title of "Guardians and Preservers of the Rights of Ferdinand Vll. In some, Europeans were at first admitted: in others, the Viceroy himself, (where not personally obnoxious,) was invited to preside. In all, the most amicable sentiments towards Spain were expressed,