Strictures on a voyage to South America, as indited by the "secretary to the [late] mission" to La Plata : including observations on the capability of the Spanish Americans for civil liberty--on the principal events (civil and military,) of the revolution in Buenos Ayres, Chili, the Oriental Banda, etc. : and on the importance of friendly relations, political and commercial, with the independent states of South America : in a series of letters, addressed to a gentlemen of distinction at Washington / by a friend of truth and sound policy.