In the "Alcance al Mercurio peruano," Lima, 1833, Rodríguez made a violent attack on General O'Higgins, accusing him of being responsible for the assassination of Manuel Rodríguez in 1818. The Acusacion is a defense of O'Higgin, consisting chiefly of documents relating to the revolutionary career of the general. The true author of the Acusacion was José Joaquín de Mora, Juan Ascencio having been a pseudonym. See the "Prólogo" to t. 12 of the Colección de historiadores i de documentos relativos a la independencia de Chile (Santiago de Chile, 1900), in which the Acusacion is reprinted (p. 107-418), and Pedro Pablo Figueroa's Diccionario biográfico de estranjeros en Chile (Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Moderna, 1900), p. 154.

Signatures: pi1 p2spip4s [1]p4s 2-23p4s 24p4s (-24b4s) (17b4s blank)

Moreno, G.R. Bib. peruana, 5.

National Library of Peru. Author catalog of the Peruvian Collection, I:213.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (B833.A811a) American Antiquarian Society: bib. record.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (B714.P426i v.11): Ternaux-Compans: binding stamp and bib. record.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (B833.A811a) in original paper wrapper. Lacks "Apendice" (p. 135-190)

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (B714.P426i v.11) is no. 16 of 19 items bound together in vol. 11 of a 13 v. set, the spine title of which is "Noticias del Peru," beginning with: Breves observaciones sobre un articulo del Iris de La Paz (Lima, 1831)