Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain's moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell's Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."

Marisa Knox is a professor in the English department at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

VOLUME I ROMANTICISM AND REVOLUTIONS Introduction to volume I of Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives of Spanish America PART 1 Poetry and drama 1 The Voyage of Columbus. A Poem, excerpts S. ROGERS 2 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: A Poem, excerpt L. BARBAULD 3 The Missionary: A Poem, excerpt W. L. BOWLES 4 The South American, A Metrical Tale, in Four Cantos, with Historical Notes and Other Poems, excerpt J. S. WALKER 5 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' J. KEATS 6 The Age of Bronze; or, Carmen seculare et annus haud mirabilis, excerpt G. GORDON, LORD BYRON 7 'Peruvian Tales', Poems on Various Subjects. With Introductory Remarks on the Present State of Science and Literature in France, excerpt 63 H. M. WILLIAMS 8 Cortez: Or, The Conquest of Mexico: an Historical Drama, in Three Acts, excerpt J. R. PLANCHÉ 9 A Tale of Paraguay, excerpts R. SOUTHEY PART 2 Military interventions and adventures 10 'Secret Paper on South America' H. POPHAM 11 Gleanings and Remarks: Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper Country- excerpt A. GILLESPIE 12 A Narrative of the Operations of a Small British Force: Under the Command of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Employed in the Reduction of Monte Video, on the River Plate, A.D. 1807, excerpt [ J. G. P. TUCKER] 13 An Authentic Narrative of the Proceedings of the Expedition Under the Command of Brigadier-Gen. Craufurd, excerpt ANON. 14 Memoirs of Gregor M'Gregor, excerpt M. RAFTER 15 A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apuré, excerpt G. HIPPISLEY 16 Narrative of the Expedition to South America, excerpt C. BROWN 17 Journal of an Expedition 1400 Miles up the Orinoco and 300 up the Arauca, excerpt J. H. ROBINSON 18 Campaigns and Cruises, in Venezuela and New Gr[a]nada, excerpt R. VOWELL 19 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil: From Spanish and Portuguese Domination, excerpts T. COCHRANE 20 Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in the Republics of Venezuela and Colombia, excerpt ANON. 21 Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru: From 1822 to 1839, excerpts T. SUTCLIFFE 22 Memoirs of General Miller, excerpt J. MILLER PART 3 Diplomacy and politics 23 'Memorandum for the Cabinet, relative to South America' R. STEWART, VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH 24 'The Emancipation of Spanish America', excerpts J. MILL 25 Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America, excerpts W. B. STEVENSON 26 Letters on Paraguay, excerpt W. P. ROBERTSON AND J. P. ROBERTSON 27 Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, excerpt B. HALL 28 'Extract of a Memorandum of a Conference between the Prince de Polignac and Mr. Canning, held Oct. 9th, 1823', excerpts G. CANNING 29 Colombia: Its Present State, excerpt F. HALL 30 Substance of the Speech of Sir James Mackintosh in the House of Commons, June 15, 1824, excerpts J. MACKINTOSH 31 Travels Through the Interior Provinces of Columbia, excerpt J. P. HAMILTON 32 Narrative of an Official Visit to Guatemala from Mexico, excerpt A. THOMPSON 33 'Dr. Francia', excerpts T. CARLYLE