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_.~ THE. EVENING STAR. LONDON. • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Reduced Sitli.—Cnni. 830 —For Nov. 9941 4 per Cent. 94-2 per Cent. Navy 10914 India aonds 99 WO pr.—Eiebetpier Bolls 19 2$ pr. The accounts from South America, which we this day lay before our Readers, are singularly interest•, ing ; not only because they contradict all the ac counts previously circula►ed by the Spanish Royalists of the discomfiture of Mures Expedition against Mexico, and state, on the contrary, great success to have accompanied his arms ; but also because, being written, not by any of Mures adherents, but by a Spaniard, who laments his progress, the authenticity of the details cannot be questioned. This writer sonfirms, what we have so often had occasion to state, that the official accounts published by the Royalists can never be depended on : even when they are de feated they always claim a victory—kill the liisur gtnt General, destroy his fleet, and cut off all his supplies—hut in a few days be is found to be alive, and very rudely kicking and cuffing the soldiers of royalty. How MINA'S ente,rprize may terminate we cannot predict ; but we have strong h^pe that he will triumph over every difficulty, and, ere long, waire the bAnners of ..independence over the whole province of Mexico: 44 VERA CRUZ, JUNE 25. " Mina's landing, which, at the beginning, appear ed m create no great degree of alarm, owing to the active arrangements of the Government, and the march of superabundant troops to destroy him on the vary coast of Soto de la Marina, has now caused the greatest dread and consternation. Brigadier• General Arredondo, who ought to have attacked him, remain ed quiet in Monterry ; Colonel Arminan, with his ,: segimeut of Estresnadera and that of America, who ought to have arrived in time to prevent Mina's ad vancing into the interior, was detained for the want of baggage, or for other reasons, in Tampico and Altamita, when Mina on the sth of June, penetrated through the valley of Mai', without any other ob stacle than that of having to encounter 120 Roya lists, who were completely routed by his advance of 60 men. According to the most authentic iiifornea. lion, we learn that when he landed he had not more than 4 4 .10 men, but ammg them many otTic:ls. He left behind him a fortihi d point in Soto de la Ma rina, with 100 men ; he mounted the remainder of his people, and advanced towards the interior with 500 men, whit those who joined him in la Colonic de Nene° Santander, and complete in ev-ry thing. By this daring attempthe has put . all the disposable, troops in maims, agitated the Government, and •spread terror and alarm throughout the whole of the •Eingdom. The unexpected appearance of the man, l his name, and the object he has before him, have gives e convulsive shock to every thing. His rapid and masked movements seem to indicate, that his in•'' .61) Oration is to penetrate to Basin, where the insurtec lion has been kept alive and in full vigour by Curate Torres. In other parts this spirit his received some - ocks, but Baxio is its cradle, and this besides is the fattest and must populous part of the kingdom -Where it has always been bursting froth, where most epeegy has been shown, and where the Independents retain several well fortified points, and possess super abundant means to cause a dreadful re-action, if Mine arrives among them and there becomes popu '. The Viceroy has sent forwards all his disposable ito prevent and beat him ; he has taken the active measures, from which certainly some. -- ~ `' ~~ reigns mast result; but if Mina again evades their illgilance, and begins to figure, the most fatal con sumes are to be expected. • Our vessels of sm., substantially, did nothing in *ow de la Mskina, unless it was to deceive the Vice. toy With a most fantastical and false dispatch, w hich liras inserted in in Extraordinary Gazette of the 4th Aim When they made the land, there was cnly a corvette, that had been tars away on the bar of Soto de la Marina, dismasted, and with all her rigging Igen away. This is the brig which, in the official report, it represented as mounting 12 guns. An American silmsoner which escaped, and - a merchant called the Cleopatra, unloaded and without kory crew, are what they met with ; but in taking the latter they only found on board a few old coats, and -Bo other urns than a 12 pounder, which had been At into her from one of our captured gunboats.— n they then captured were about '2 barrels elf Cali beef, and the whole was set fire to in so precipitate a assoner, that even the 12-pounder was not saved.— This was the •only triumph we obtained after consi. sierable expenses; though I ought to have said, we Zook a badge, cut off one of the Independents old toots, which has been paraded about till the thing has become the laughing•stock of every one, Nrn • 'was there any other blowing up of powder, than irhat the frigate S..bina expended in firing at the above-mentioned transport. • 4 Should Mina tot be desttoyed soon, but should a s su cceed io combining operations with the people Betio, he will create, again repeat it, an early estsl dreadful re-setioo, end cause the present struggle .).assume a steady and imposing aspect, as well be wee of the seducttre principles he proclaims, as that 'dis experience of the past may suggest to these people a awe regular and political line of conduct hero. 'alter. Geneva Crui arrested all the Judges of the Sigh Court of Cloadidazata, iad banished their Pre. Aleut in conseqeence . of • a competition. with his it". The pi:dollars of this affair gin not - - • .Itacsirsi, but, at all emits, it was a moot impolitk step at the present moment. Juaa 26.—8 y letters from Tozpao, of the 25th, we learn, that whilst General Arredando remained quiet in his cantonments, Mina collected all the mules and horses to be found in la Colonia de Neuvo San. tander, and that on the Ilth he penetrated through the Valley of Main, with all his people mounted, and with the arms he brought with him, without taped. ening the least opposition from the bittalion of Fer dinand VII. which had come down, and was only eight leagues distant. This corps, consisting of 650 infantry and SOO horse, by the forced marches of Colonel Arminan, passed the outlet of the Valley on the 12th, and 'this officer on the 11th writes, that on the 14th he intended positivelz to come up with the invader and heat bim ; adding, that by another Chief commanding.in the Valley of Main, he had been in-' formed that the Commandant of Tampico, l'edriula, with 150 cavalry.liad caught sight of Mina in the said Valley, arid that having 'atticked him, he had, been obliged to retreat in good order with the loss of 20 men, supposing be had killed about the same number of enemy. We:also understand, that the people of Bazio, having learnt the landing of Mina, were preparing to facilitate a junction with him, and that for this purpose one of their divisions was march ing forwards to meet hirn., Father Mier was in cons patty with him, by which the report inserted in the Government Gazette of the 14th instant, turns out false, by which it was said he had been taken. 6. JULY I.—By the post whith has just arrived, we havt received a copy of the' Extraordinary Gazette of the 20th ult. a copy of which I inclose, No. I. The official dispatch of Colonel Arminan therein inserted, is ?tally curiods, and the content, respecting the action of the 16th will appear perplexing, when it is considered that his encampment of San Jose, from which he dates, is three or four leagues further back than the spot on which the battle was fought, which was one-fourth of a league from the paint of Peotillo. Hence it most be deduced that the action was more adverse than favourable, notwithstanding he had uith him 1400 men, cavalry and infantry.— ' Tl.e coward, whom the Governor of S.in Luis Po. tosi, Torres, says has put in motinn,&c. was an Offi cer of the Regiment of Estremadura who fled from the action, and entered the town, saying all was lost.' " JULY 6.—An express has just arrived through La Antigua, which left the city of Mexico on the '2911 June, at five in the morning, and has brought the Extraordinary Gazettes of `26d and 27th. In the first, ii an Official Report of the defence made by our troops in Xalpa, and a Dispatch of the Commandant of San Luis Potosi, to that of Q !ern tro, dated 19th June, in which he says, that on the 19th Mina slept at Espiritu Santo, Colonel Arminan in LaCorcobadar and ilt‘t orders had been sent to Colonel Roir, of the regiment of N avarre, to proceed on to join Colo nel Orrantia, and that he al-pt or. the 19.1, at Bledo, nut having been able to form his junction on the 19th in coniegoence of the injury his carriages had expe- • rienced; The second Gazette is entitled, ' Destrnc. tion of the banditti of the traitor Mina, and the wrest of the apostate Mier, in Soto de la Marina, Province of Nuevo Santander.' Tf.us are we deluded her e .— It also contains a Dispatch of General Atredondo, of 1501 June, stating, that at day•Lre and after much hard fighting, they had been able to collect 2000 head of cattle of all kinds. Colonel Castello, of the regiment of Ferdinand VII. requested permis sion to advance, on the fort, and having received per mission, lie dist received so, with 100 infantry, 50 horse, and one four-pounder ; and General Arredondo, advanc ing liom another point, joined in the attack with the rest of the troops. At three in the afternoon, having fired '2OOO cannon balls, 2u,000 musket ditto, and a large quantity of grape, they succeeded, having kill ed qt the enemy I'2 men, four women, and wounded several. Our loss was four killed and more than 60 wounded, some of them dangerously, and among them Lieutenant-Colonels Game, Elousa, and Ma- • dera, Lieutenants Vargas and Neira, and Ensigns Porcura and Castro. In the fort their were SW men of all classes; and the details of the action and sur rendry of the tort, and what was taken, are promised for another opportunity. From M lieu we learn that the place capitulated. " Juts B.—By the letters this day arrived from Mexico, we learn, that Colonel Arminan's division suffered greatly in the action of the l'th ultimo, in which, besides the cavalry that was dispersed, or rather deserted, he had 52 wounded and :tartly killed. Also, that he lost neaseily the whole of his park of ar tillery, prvisions, and stor;s, and that it was he and not Mina; who was defeated.' 'lite lasts r had caused the greatest astonishment by the celerity and success of kis naarohes, and well.judged operations, having evaded, laughed at, or fought more than 5000 men destined to attatic .and follow him up. Af ter the battle at Peotillo, be proceeded or. withont any im pediment to the town Of Venado, baying rested in the estate of Espiritu Santo, 'and taker the road of La Sierra dr Pim.s, where, according to the official reports of the military Commander of San Luis Po tosi, dated the 20th. be formed a junction with the patriot cnref Moreno, setiLon to meet hitt by Curate, .Porrert, and that he was then very near the dank.* of Baxio. Colonel Arminaa was following him 'at the distance behind of 25 leagues, together with the battalion of Navarre, which was to join Colonel Or rantia, at a similar or greater distance. Brigadier- General Negreti, who was posted in Lagos with 1200 men, was the one to present the nearest opposi tion to him ; but as our divisions march with artillery and other impediments, it is-probable Mina will avoid meeting them, and it is to be feared, that under the shelter of the fortified ramparss of Comange and San Oregon°, in the mountainous country of Guanaxuato, and the present rainy season which prevents our troops from acting in Bali°, be will organise the people of the latter districts, and assume an imposing attitude. When the news was received in the city of Mexico of the attack of Xalpa and Queretaro by ._..J~ t - - the Insurgents, they imagined it was by Mina's people, and instantly the guards at the palace were doubled, as well as round the walls. Every other precaution was also observed on this occasion, which, according to the letters received, explain the alarm that existed in tke city. " Ic&Y 14.—A little before sun-set, some Muleteers arrived from the Sierra,. who report that the Insur gents have re-established their cantonments inChiqui huita, Moral and Rasgavanceras. JULY 15.—1 inclose to you Mit official report Goveronsent has published of the' March and Pro gress of the Adventurer Mina,' which has spread the great alarm among us. It is much to be feared that if the people of Bath) join him with a good heart. and subject themselves to his discipline and good order, actuated at the same time by the flattering principles he proclaims, all the Spaniards in this quarter may return to their native horses. By his well-directed marches, the action of the 16th June, and the renown he has already acquired, he hes in spired dread ; accompanied with admiration, in the minds of every one. Viceroy Apodaca labours hard, but without reaping any great fruits.• His anxiety personally to command and direct all, and to arro gate all the glory to himself, has indisposed him greatly with the provincial leaders ; and even the Commanders of divisions are not satisfied with his imperious manner of commanding, st ithout combin ing his measures and orders with the means of sub sistence, and the other wants of the troops. Even this half of what might be done, is not done, for ti.e want of system and harmony, which would prevent this competition and discordancy among the Chiefs, who are disgusted because they consider themselves neglected and ill-treated, and their authority besides overlooked. No wise and just system of policy has been adopted ; the administration of the public rave. nue still continues in the greatest disorder; vengeance alone is thought of. The greatest - want of resources is actually experienced, such as wrsuld'have astonish ed and frightened our ancestors; still no measures are adopted to guard against what has been so long and so frequently experienced. to that provision is only made for the passing day. Nothing is in reserve, so that if some means are not adopted to destroy Mina, I am unaware how this edifice can sustain it. self without falling to the ground. EXICO GAZE 17E3, INTRODUCED BY THR WAY OF CONTRAST. " No. I.—Copy of the Enfraordirsary Candi, oldie Government of Mexico, dated Friday, June 20, 1817. Attack made on the traitor Mina and his party, one quitter league from Peotillo, and 14 leagues from San Lois Potosi. His Excellency the Viceroy has just received the fol:owing official Reports, which he has ordered to be printed, for the satisfaction of the faithful vassals of his Majesty in this City: 44 Maar EXULLENT Slit —The suspicions I mani fested to your Excellency, in my dispatch, No. 18(3, -three hours ag 1, were pot unfounded ; and my sur mises are periectly confirmed by the official report of Colonel At minan, which I now inclose. According to the 3.lvic,:. 1 receive from the Coloogl, he requires, in order to put down the wicked invader, 200 horse, which I blioll instantly forward to him. They will leave this at day-break to-morrow, under the com mand of Lieutenant Torres, an officer of known va lour. Ti c coward who has put us all in agitation, and caused us to pass moat unpleasant moments, re mains under arrest, till she superior determination of your Excellency has been received. The officer who bronglit the annex-c 1 report informs me, that the Re bel has had many killed, and that among those who fled away, there are many wounded. The details of all I will communicate to your Excellency the very moment I receive them, hoping that they will amount to a happy result, and so do away with the disagreeable news previously received. 6" Goo preserve your Excellency many years, &c. (Signed) .i SAN LUIS POTOSI. " June 26,1517. 46 MANI= TORRES. "'to his Excellency Viceroy Apodaca." IttPO2T 01 COL. AASIINAN, INCLOSED IN THE ABOVE. " San lot; hum se, 15 17. .. • " After marching very near 18 leagues I came np with the perverse Mina, who received me with his columns formed ; but I attacked him in an 'mum, notwithstandrog I had met with a division determin ed to die, bat not without havoc. Nothing of this, however, was sufficient to prevent a camplete rout, after three bouts and a half action, notwithstanding the cavalry of Rio Verde, to the number of 600 horse men, in the greatest disorder threw themselves on my infantry, and completely beat it to pieces, the greatest part of it flying away without its being pos bilile to contain it, by either the efforts of the Chiefs or Officers. As soon as the infantry and cavalry of the Provinces, sierra Garda and Tulaucingo, were rallied, they followed up the wicked rebels, who have taken the road to Vencedo. The small part of the cavity that has remained with me of the three latter bodies, is left in the most tattered state, •and this *priers me of the possibility of entirely destroying the enemy. I therefore hope your Excellency will send me . a reinforcement of 200 cavalry, that I may be enabled to realise my project. As soon as the infantry has recovered from the effects of fatiguing marches. I shall follow the enemy up till I have completed his destruction...-Goo preserve your Ex-' • cellency, &c. (Signed) "as NITO ARDIINAN. " I . () linzadker-tletieral Torres." 6' P.S. to the Gazette.—His Excellency the Vice roy awaits, with the greatest impatience, the details of this action, in order to reward those who have therein distinguished themselvej, as well as to punish those, in conturmity to the Military Regulations, who I have been wanting in the compliance of their duty." PHILADELPHIA, OCIVBEIit 17. ' FROM Tut COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.. Captain Lowth, of the schooner biergiana, In 45 days from Pernambuco, informs, that the day pryi_ ous to his sailing a Portuguese brig of war had kr. rived Irani Paraiba and Fernando de Neronha;having on board about 54 prisoners, among the number the Governor of the latter place, all of whom had espoused the cause of the Patriots, and were brought to Peniausbeco to be made examples of. A new - • Governer had arrived at Pbraambuct., wit', a ber of troop', and all things remained quiet ; a no m ber of executions bad, and were daily taking Markets very low at Pernambueo—Flour 11 to is dollars per barrel on shore. Colonial produce y e , scarce and high. COM ME RCIA L. EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROM CoARLASTOW, DATED pt. TOBER 14, RECEIVED IN TOWN THIS MORNIND. " our crops of Cotton, nntwithstsndittg the i s , creased quantity which is growing, are not likely t , yield as much as they did .the last year. In co! ! .. quence of a disease, called the rot, which has mac e its appearance in different parts of the State, ciao, of our Planters, we are sorry to learn, will net make more than half a crop. The rot in Cohan, Ilo il o very common in the Mississippi territory, bas act tin lately been attended with serious injury; Noce t is nevertheless remarkable, that the Cotten' 'to:0- R on the richest lands upon the Mississippi, ar..l Lit poorest in Georgia, is most affected by t'..e d.sesa, the course of wh:ch has baflled the skill t.f the Wesftri: Agriculturists. Cousiderable sales of 'reel iippc,. ted Cotton Goods have been made this week. our Woollen Goods have not ye.t cotnettebca to any tx-' tent. The imports have not, to this time, keen in large as in past years, and the goods are generally ni a better quality. Our Floi.r and Corn Ma-;: ;t: have experienced a great deprestion in price. number of Bales of Cotton exported from the Unite,: States this yvAr, ending September is 1, 142,34 This 'afternoon an Offi..cr, in a post-e! at low, arrival .it Lord BATLIURSVII Office, in Down. 44g -street, with dispa ides, in coven weeks, hum it. llelena. BONAPARTE. when t h e Officer came away was quite well, and the Island healthy. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning,) but their contents are altogether uninteresting. The' Extraordinary Courier dispatched from London with the intelligence of the Princess CirAncorra's death, arrived at Paris on Friday night, and the event is annoisnled in all the Journal:, with a becoming degree of sympathy for our national calamity. • A FLANDERS MAIL Arrived just as this Paper was rutting to press. The' Brussels parrs and letters announce the arrival of Mr. KERN 'express from London, with dispatches tol the Duke of KENT, announcing the calamity s hid we all lament. Language cannot describe the effect which this news, altogether so unexpected, produced on his Royal Highness : his grief was es. creme. The Prince and Princess of Ottawa are' also deeply affected by the event. —Mr. Km, as soon as he had delivered his dispatches, proceedei for the Hague, to communicate to the Coital this deplorable event. Letters from the frontiers of Spa!n, alluded to in the Brussels Papers, announce the arrival ai Cadiz, on the 20th of October, of a merchant vessel from, the Havannah, which brought news that cenetal MINA has been killed in a blocdy battle with the Spanish troops, and all his troops dispersed.—No date given : nor do we credit the statement. TUG ARMY. The Company of the 8&h Regiment, which it was understood was to replace the 78th Regiment at Aberdeen, have since ma•ched for Fort Gecrge. It is said that a further reduction will take place in the General Officers on the Staff in the West Indies. There are now four Major• Generals employed there, one at each of the following Islands, viz. at Gre nada, where half of a Regiment is stationed; at An tigua, where five Companies are; At Tobago, where only tr<•o Companies are; and at DemarAta, bet a Commander of the Forces at Barbadoes. The Go vernor of St. Lucia, who is a Major-General, isnot retained or. the Staff. The Staff of the Adjutant and Quarter-Muter- General in the West Indies, have been very much re• duced ; as also the Commissariat. Only two Regiments of Infantry are now quar- 1 tered in all Scotland, viz. the 88th, head-quarters ati Edinburgh, and the 40th, at Glasgow. The whole of the Highland Corps not on service are in Ireland. viz. the 42d, 78th, 92d, and 93cls FOREIGN MILITARY COSTUME. The Elector of Hasse CASSEL has issued an Ed;-t, ordaining that from and after the 22d of Noven::)er, all the troops of bis Electorate shall wear SUCIP- 1 fifteen inches long The &leant; are to carry the measure of the queue, as a string to their canes—for the good of the service. The Elector should ha7e fortified this order by prohibiting at the same time all of his subjects not military from wearing queues at all, or at least any thing exceeding the dignity cf a pig or bob-tail. In doing so he would have rsrly been imitating the congenial wisdom of another Great Power—the Government of Parma—w!iich, l by an Ordinance of the 7th of last month, bps r-, remptorily prohibited, under the severest penall:' 7 = , , every person, dragger a Petal nriiiiaire, from tve;r;. - savriachica, cockades, or any other distinction vrq to the military state alone! . The Duke of Davoirstfoix arrived at his house in Piccadilly, yesterday, from Paris. It is reported that, in case the MASTER of the ROLL: resigns, he .will be succeeded by the Lofta CHIEF BARON Of the EXCHEQUER. It is now fin a lly un d erstood, that Sir Vic.trl Glass, Chief Ju st i ce o f t h e C ommon Pleas, wsli sign his high si tu s t i on ,* on account of his bad heAitil. He has not been itt Cotirt this Term, and, re sorry to learn, is extremely ill. Various rerst, , .. talked of as his successor, among the rest Nfr.Just , ce DALLAS, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. LEACH, AL . . th course nothing as yet reipeitmg the appoiutmen: An e known. •• • _ . \