Excerpt from Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, and Maturin: With the Author's Travels Across the Plains of the Llaneros, to Angustura, and Subsequent Descent of the Orinoco, in the Years 1819 and 1820

Devereox first landed in Ireland, for the purpose of raising an irish Legion to aid the South Americans in throwing Off the Spanish yoke, and proclaiming their independence. Numerous individuals, whether from a love of honor, or as a mere matter of. Speculative interest, enrolled themselves around the standard of. Liberty; and not a few, nay the greater number Of those fea ther-bod soldiers, who Sought to arrive at the summit of hanot and forums, without any of the difiiculties which necessarily accompany such a warfare, finding the path difficult and ardu ousfrelturnod, amid hardship and beggary, to their native soil; without being able, duly to appreciate those exertions, or com pass those towards which were in store for the persevefing. Many reports have, of course, been circulated by those heroes, by which their desertion from the cause of liberty might be rendered plausible and praiseworthy - reports which have not only tended to bring disgrace upon the promulgators of their disgrace, but to bring into discredit that noble cause in which, on the first goingofl', they were so eager; but the difficulties and dangers of which they had not sufficient courage to Withstand. I am not, nor do'l wish tube, the advocate Of any man or set of men, by whom they may have conceived themselves to be hoodwinked or cozened; nor do I, in the slightest possible de gree, .vvish to amigo the motives by which any person was ia daced to desert the South American banner, or deprecate the.

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