The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

mercantile classes in every part of the United I St a tes seem to have produced a ver y sensible impression upon the public Mind. The en couragement given tp French privateers in the American ports 'is still continued, and forms a strong and striking instance of partiality to France. The following is an Extract of a Letter from Bar badoes, on the subject of the activity of French pri vateers in the West Indian Seas, and of the facilities pf outfit afforded them in American ports " Barlakicie.F., August 6, 181. " The Duke of Dantzic. French privateer has not been seen or heard of since my last. A•schooner, arrived here from Demerara, was chased six days ado iniat. U. by a brig, wnich, from the desci ip *kin, I take to be the Prince ( 2 1 Essting privateer, which was to touch off Surinam, and then to cruise ID the windward of St. Thomas's. " A fine pilot.boat three-masied schooner is on her way to this quarter. She left t he United States una rmed, but was supplied with men, arm , , and ammunition in the American waters. I shajl . have ‘o give an account soon, I fear, of her depreda tions." SOUTH AMERICA. The intelligence from South America contrnres checquered, according to the vicissitudes which be. fal the contending parties in that interesting 1:•gion. Whilst the hostilities are maintained with obstinacy en the river Plate, and the Junta_of Buenos Ayres, and the Viceroy, ELI°, are exhausting tlieir means in mutual activity and oppositi( , n, the progress of the 'revolution in the interior of the other Viceroyal ties is vigorously opposed and often successfully re tarded. The revolutionists muster generally strong, but their adversaries have always the advantage of military experience and discipline, The conse quence necessarily has been, that the regular troops have almost uniformly been victors in the. field ; though the other party, when worsted, have sel dom failed to re-assmble in greater numbers and accumulating force. Disasters do not appear to dismay them, and with the difficulties they have to encounter their energies seem to rise. With such qualities they must be foimidable, and will, if they persevere in the exercise of them, prove absolutely irresistible. Unless the free Constitution about to be established in the Mother Country should conciliate the innovators in Spanish America, the possibility of ever again restoring them to their late state of dependence must be remote indeed. The very checks they have met, arutthe efforts they continue to make in spite of all their losses, show the firmness of their determination, and the steadiness of their purpose. It is then to be feared that the •sea son of accommodation has, passed away, and that a eople prosecuting, independence through a series of is-sters, will not be easily induced to abandon their great object, when the scale of success turns in their favour ? We have been favoured, by a Gentleman recently arrived from South America, with the fol lowing parziculars from the contents of a Spanish Gazette in is possession " New Spain continues to exhibit a state of AI. REGIST • things not free from danger. I have read every • Gazette and privateletter from that k i ng do m down, to the 2d June last, and find a still greater number of rebels, than when they were wasted by hundreds of thousands in the field of battle. Commericinr with New Galicia, 150 leagues to the Westward off' Mexico, there is a body _divided into three sections, of upwards of 12,000 men. Towards the South, 85 leagues distance, there is another which has re., sisted several attacks in seven months time, ana keeps the port of Acapulco strictly blockaded. From South to West, there are several moveable corps, which may eiLlier join Vallogran and attack Mexico, or protect the main body t n Zetacuaro. From Capu lapa, ten leagues from Mexico, as far as 20Q leagues to th,e N. W. iv:chiding Cadericta, • San. Louis de la Paz, Sichu, Sante Maria del Rio, Valle de San Francisco, Guadalaxara, Venadu, Matepula, Real de Catorn, &c. no one can t: . a 7 vel without imminent danger. And lastly, a let ter from a respectable correspondent in Mexico, dated May (29th, states as follows 44 Akin) UOl the rebels have sustained, and are sui,taining defeats, neither does the public opinica vary,, nor do they submit." The following is an extract from a journal of the proceedings of the Junta at Buenos Ayres, during the first week. ofJuly:— LT .—An order was issued by the Government, that no European (which. means the old Spaniards) should be permitted to appear cut after sun-set, on pain of death. Patroles of guard; paraded the streets in all directions to put this order into execu tion. " TursnAv,t.—An order was issued, that European Spas niards, unmarried, of whatever age or denomination, should Buenos Ayres on the following day ; that they should not r. main on this side the river, but proceed to the interior of the country ; the order of the Ist inst. still remaining the same. .6 NV tn N ESPAY, S.—The order of the 2d, was expected to be put in execution this day. In consequence, numbers of the Eu ropean Sp.,niards, as denominated in the order, appeared befor,e the tort or citadel, where the President of the Junta resided, to know when they were to.leayse the capital. They were inform ed they should not be sent away that day, but hold themselves in reoliuess to leave the city at an hour's warning. " The orders of the Ist and 2d were issued, in consequence of information the Government had received, that it was the intention of Elio, the Governor of Monte Video, whilst the Buenos ,lyres' troops were before that place, to proceed up the river with 800 men, and endeavour to make a diversion here, where he expected the old Spaniards would assist him. Another stimulus for the G t overnment to issue the above orders, was tine conversations of the old Spaniards, which are genera 4 vgcy violent and open, too much so for their own safety." A Proclamation has been issued by the Lieut e nant- Governor of Gibraltar, prohibiting all .comniuni. cation by sea and land between Gibraltar aid Spain, inviting the inhabitants to come forward as Conservators of Health, directing quarantine, and discontinuing night fishing. The operation of this Proclamation in the interruption it has given to commerce, is. much and grievously deplored by, the merchants, but most cheerfully submitted td as absolutely necessary for the preservation of the health of the garrison and inhabitants. The attention of the Spanish Cortes is now oc cupied with framing a new Constitution, said to tie on the model of the English ; that the King shall no longer be absolute, but aided by his Parliament ; grant no money but with their ,consent.; and the difference between the grandee and .the peasant to be abrogated. , 2 „ f . #516 . TH E NATION ligence of consequence. Things wear rather a favourable appearance for an accommodation with this country there, as the distresses of the t 1 United , 4,4•••-•^7 • • -W.%,,.,~~'S