Thus, I find myself in conflict between the desire to reciprocate your confidence, which honors me, and the difficulty of rewarding it, for lack of documents and books and because of my own limited knowledge of a land so vast, so varied, and so little known as the New World. Sensible though I am of the interest you desire to take in the fate of my country, and of your commiseration with her for the tortures she has suffered from the time of her discovery until the present at the hands of her destroyers, the Spaniards, I am no less sensible of the obligation which your solicitous inquiries about the principal objects of American policy place upon me. I hasten to reply to the letter of the 29th ultimo which you had the honor of sending me and which I received with the greatest satisfaction. Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island An admirer of the British parliamentary system, Bolívar argued for a balance of power in the different branches of government, although later he asserted strong executive rule while in power.
From the island of Jamaica, he issued a letter analyzing the current and future perspectives of the independence struggle. Simón Bolívar, a member of the Venezuelan planter class and a leading figure in the movement, was in exile. In 1815, the fight for the independence of the Spanish colonies in Latin America was on the defensive.
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