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EXIC 0. VERA CcWZ, JUNE. 25.—MiNk's landing, which, at the beginning, appeared to create no great de gree of alarm, Owing to the active arrangements of the Government, and the march of superabun- dant troops to destroy him on the very coast of Soto de la Marina, •has now caused the greatest dread and consternation. Brigadier-General Ar redondo, who ought to have attacked hint, re mained quiet in Monterey ; Colonel Aiminan, with► his regiment of Lstremadura and that of Aiiietic, who ought to have arrived in time to p: event Alines advancing into the interior, was tl4-tawned for the %rant of baggage, or for other reasOns, in Tampico and Altamira,-:-when Mina, on the nth of Tune,. penetrated thrs - lugh the val ley of Mdiz, without any other obstacle than that of -having tO encounter 120 Royalists, who were completely routed by his ‘islvance of 60 men. Ac- , cording to the most authentic information, we learn that when be landed he had not more than 400 men, but among them many officers. He lett behind him a . fortified point in Soto de la Ma rina, with 100 men ; he mounted the remainder of his people, and Advanced towards the •intetiov with 500 men, with those who joined him in, la Colonia de Nuevo Santander, and complete in every thing. By his daring attempt be has put all the disposable troops in motion, agitated the vernmeta, and spread terror and alarm through. out the whole of the kingdom. The unexpected appearance of the man, his name, and the object he has before him, have given a confultive shock to every thieig. His rapid and masked movements seem 'to indicate, that his intention is to pene trate to Baxio, where the insurrection has been kept alive and in full vigour by Curate Torres. In other parts this spirit has received some shocks, but Baxio is its cradle, and this besides is the fat test and most populous part of the kingdom—where it has always been bursting forth, where most energy has been shewn, and where the Indepen dents retain several well fortified points, and pos sess superabundant means„ to cause a dreadful re action, if Mina --Isrrives among them and there becomes popular. The Viceroy has sent forwatds all his disposable troops to prevent and beat him ; Ice has taken the most active measures, from which certainly something must result ; but if Mina again evades their vigilance and begins to figure, the most fatal consequences are to be ex pected. Our vessels of war, substantially, did nothing in Soto de la Marina, unless it was to deceilie the VicerOy with a most fantastical and false dispatch, which was inserted rta an Extraordinary Gazette of the 4th inst. When they made the land„there was only a corvette, that had been cast away on the bar of Soto de la Marina, dismasted, and with all her rigging taken away. This is the brig which, in the official report, is represented as mounting 12 guns. An American schooner which escaped, and a merchant vessel called the Cleopa tra, unloaded and without any crew, are ‘eh,i they met with ; hut in taking the latter they only found on hoard a few old coats, and no other arms than a 12-pounder, which had been put into her out of one of our captured gun-boats. All they. then captured were about 25 barrels of salt beet, and the whole" was set fire to in so precipitate a manner, that even the 12-pounder svai not saved, This was the only triumph we obtained after con siderahle expeoces, though I ought to have said, • we t o ok a badge, cot off one of the Independents old coat's, which has been paraded about till the thing has ln comet he laughing stock of every one. Nor 'vas there any other blowing up of powder, than xhat the frigate Sabina expended in firing at the above-mentioned transport. Should Mina not be destroyed soon, but should he succeed in combining operations with the peo ple of Baxio, he will create, I again repeat it, . an early and dreadful re-action, and cause the pre sent struggle to assume a steady and imposing aspect, as well because of the seductive principles he proclaims, as that the experience of the past may suggest to these people a more regular and political line of conduct hereafter, Gen. Cruz ar rested all the Judges of the High Court of Gua dalaxara and banished their Presid•ent, in conse-: yielice of a competition ►vith his authority. The p,►ticulars of this affair are not known, but, at all events, it was a tttost impolitic step at the pre- Sent moment. JUNe 28.—8 y letters from Toxpan, of the 25th, we legri), that whilst General Arredando remained gniet in his cantonments, Allua collected all the iii les and horses to be . found in la Colonia de Nut vo Santander, and that on the Ilth he pene- ILated through the Valley of Maiz, with all his people mounted, and with the arms he brought with him, without experiencing the least opposi tion.from the battalion of Ferdinand Seventh, which bad come down and was only eight leagues distant. This corps, consisting of 550 infantry and 300 horse, by the forced marches of Colonel Arminan, passed the outlet of the valley on th e _ _ 12 li, And this officer on the II t writes, that on the .14 , 11 he intended positively to come up with the invader and beat him ; adding, that by an other Chief commanding in the Valley of Maiz, he had been informed that the Commaadant of Tampico, Pedriola, with 150 cavalry, bad caught sight of Mitta in the said valley, and that having attacked him, he had been obliged to retreat in good. order with,the lois of 2U men, supposing be had,killed about the same number of the enemy. ISJe also . nutlersta»d, that the people of Ihxio, tcnrnt the landing of Mina, were preparing to facilitate a l lunction with ,bllo,,and.t.hat for this purpose one of their diVisions was marching for wards to meet .him. Father Mier was in company with him, by which the report inserted in the Go vernment Gazette of 'the 14th instant, turns out false, in which it was said he had bten taken. JULY I.—By the post, which has just arrived, w e have received.a copy of the Extraordinary Ga zette of the 20th ult. a copy of which I inclose, No. I. The official dispatch of Col. Arminan therein inserted, is really curious, ant the contents ,respecting the action of the IGth will appear per plexing, when it is considered that., his encamp ment of San Jose, front which he dates, is three or four leagues further back than thespot on which the battle was fought, - which was one-fOurth of a league from the point of Peotillo. Hence it mast be deduced that the action was more adverse than fa vont able, notwithstanding he had with him four teen. hundred men, cavalry and infantry. " The coward, whom the Governor. of San Lois Potosi, Torres, says has put . in m o tion, ikc..was an Officer of the regiment of Estretnedara who fled from the action, and entered the town, saying all was lost." JULY 6.—An express has just arrived through Airigua, which left the city of Mexico on the 29th June, at five in the morning,.aud has brought the Extraordinary. Gazettes ot 23d and 27th. - In the first, is an Official II- port of the defence made by our troops in Xalpa, and a Dispatch of the Commandant of Sao Luis Potosi, to that of Que retaro, dated 19th June,, in which he says, that on the - 19th Mina slept at Espiritu Z.ipato,Colonel Arminan, in La Corcobada, and that orders .11a,i been sent to Colonel - Ruiz, of the regiment of . Navarre, t. proceed on to join Colonel Orrantia, and that he slept on the 19th at Bled°, not hav ing been able to form his junction on the 180, an consequence of the injury his carriereS had ex perienced. The second Gazette is entitled, ‘• De struction of the banditti of the traitor Min a , ant the arrest of the. apostate Mier, in Soto de la Marina, Province .of Nuevo Santander." Timis are we deluded here. It also contains a Dis patcle of General Arredondo, of 15th - June, stat ing, that at day-break, and after - ariuelt hard fighting, they had been able •to -collect 2000 head of cattle of all kinds. Col. Castello, of the regiment of Ferdinand VII., requestedpeiniisqion to advance on the fort, an d h av i ng -received per mission, lie did so, with 100 infantry, 50 horse, and one al•pounder ; and General Arreihnlo, ad vancing frutis another point, joined in the attack with the . rest of the troops. At time in the af ternoon, Graving fired 2000 cannon balls, 20,000 musket ditto, and a large climmity of grape, they succeeded, having killed of the enemy 12 men, 4 women, and wounded several. Our loss was 4 killed and more than 60 wounaled, some of them dangerously, and among them Lieut.-Colonels Garza, !'',louse, and Madera, Lieutenants Vargas and Neira, anti Ensigns Porcura.and : Castro. In the fort there were 300 mew* : 44 classes;. and the_details of the Action and surrendry of the, fort, and what was taken, are promised for ano ther opportunity. . From Mexico we learn that the place capitulated. JULY B.—By the letters this day arrived from Mexico we learn, that Colonel Armiaan's division suffered greatly in the action of the 16th ult., in which, besides the cavalry that was dispersed, or rather deserted, be had 52 wounded and many killed. Also, that he lost nearly, the whole of his park of artillery ; provisions, and - stores, and that it was he and not Mina who, was defeated.— The Utter had. caused the greatest asmeshment by the celerity and success of hiS marches, and well judged operations, having evaded, laughed at, or fought, more than 5000 men destinred to at tal and follow him up. Alter . the battle of Peotillo, he proceeded on without any : inipedi incur to the town of Venado, having rested in the estate_ of ,Espiritu Santo, and_taken the road of La Sierra de Plaos, - where, according to the official report of the Military .ComMander of San Luis Potosi, dated the 20th, he formed a junc tion with the patriot Chief Moreno, sent On to meet bins by• Citrate Torres, and that he was then very near the district .of Basic). Colonel Armi . nan was following him at the distance behind of 25 leagues, together with the battalion of Na varre, - which was to join Colonel - Orrantia, at - a similar or greater distance. Brigadier-General Negreti, who was posted in Lagos with 1200 men, was the one to present the nearest opposition to him ; but as our. divisions march with artillery and other impediments, it. is probable, Mina will avoid meeting them, anti it is to be feared, that under the shelter of the fortified ramparts of Co mange and San Gregorio, in the mountainous country of Goaintxuato, and, the present rainy season which prevents our troops front acting in Baxio, he will organize the people of the latter districts, anti assume an imposing attitude. When the news war received in the city of Mexico of the attackattack•of Xalira and Queretaro by the Insurgents, they imagined it was by,Mina's -- people, -and in, scantly the guards at the palace were doubled, as well as round the walls. Every other precaution was also observed on this occasion, which, ae cording to the letters received, explain the alartit that existed in the city. JULY 14.—A little before suit-set, some Mule teers arrived front the Sierra, who report that the Insurgents have re-established their cantonments in Chiquibuita, Moral and Raagavanceras. JULY 15.—.1 inclose to yOtt the official report Government has published of the ." March and progress of the Adventurer Mina," which has spread the greatest alarm•among us.. It is much to be feared, that if the people of Baxio 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 homes. By his well-directed marches, the action of the 16th of June, and the renown he has already acquired, he has inspired dread, ac-, companied 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 r all, and to arrogate all the glory to himself, •has indisposed him greatly with rite Provincial Leaders ; and even the .Comman ders of Divisions are not satisfied with his impe rious manner of commanding, without combining his measures and orders .wit.h the means of sub sistence, and the other wants of the troops. Even the half of what pigtit •be dude,. is not. done, for. the want of system and harmony, • which. would prevent this'competition and discordancy among the Chiefs, who are disgusted because they con sider themselves neglected and ‘ill-treated, and their authority besides over-looked. No wise and just system of policy has been adopted ; the ad ministration of-the public revenue still continues iu the greatest disorder ; vengeance alone is thought of. The gre a t es t wan t o f resources is actually experienced, such as would havt• asto. nished and frightened our ancestors, still no mea sures are adopted to guard against what has been so long and so frequently experienced, so that provision is only made for the passing day. No thing is in reserve, so that if some means are not adopted to destroy Mina, I am unaware how this edifice can sustain itself, without falling to the ground. MEXICO GAZETTES introducarby the way of Contrast. No. I.—Copy of the Extraordinary Gazette of the Government of Mexico, dated Friday, 20th of June, 1817.—Attack made on the traitor Mina and his party, one quarter league from Peotillo, and 14 leagues from San Luis Potosi. His Excellency the Viceroy has just. received the following official Reports, which he has .or tiered to he printed, for the satisfaction of the faithful vassals of his Majesty in this City. MOST EXCELLENT SlR,—The suspicions I ma nifested to your Excellency, in my dispatch, No. 186, three hours set', were not unfounded; and my surmises are net tcctly confirmed by the official report of Colonel Arminan, which I now inclose. According to _tire • advices I receive from the Colonel, he requires, in order to put ri.iwn the wicked invader, 200 horse, which I shall instantly torward to him. They will l.nve this at day-break to- morrow, it the cominaod of Lieutenant. Torres, au officer of known valour. The coward. who has put us, all I, - agitatio. , , and caused us to 'pass nt St unpleasant moments, re no ins under &wrest, till the superior determination of your Lxecl:erev has heel, received. The of icer who brought the annexed report infonos me, that the Rebel has had Many killed, and that . among thOse who fled away there are many wound ed. The details of all 1 will commonicate to your Excellency the very moment I receive them, hop ing that they will amount to a happy result, and - s6 do away with the - disagreeable news previously received. God preserve your Excellency many. years, &c. • SAN LUIS poTom. June 16, 1817. (Signed) MANUEL TORRES. To his Excellency Viceroy Apodaca. REPORT OF COL. ARMINIAN, inclosed in the above. Afterinarching- very near 13 leagues I came up with the perverse Mina,-who received me with his columns formed ; but I attacked him in an in stant, notwithstanding I had met with a division determined to die, but not without havoc. No thing of this, however, was sufficient to prevent a complete rout, after three hours and a half tion, notwithstanding the cavalry of Rio Verde, to the number of 600 horsemen, in the greatest dis order threw themselves on toy itilimtry, and com• pletely heat it to pieces, the greatest part of it flying away Without its being possible to contain it, by ei ther the efforts of the Chiefs or Officers. As soon as- the infantry and cavalry of the Provinces, Sierra Gorda and Tulaueingo, were rallied, they followed up the wicked rebels, who have taken the road to Vencedo. The small part of the ca valry that has remained with me of the three lat ter bodies, is left in a most .shattered state, and this deprives me of the possibility of entirely .4e stroying the enemy. 1 therefore hope your Ex cellency will send me a reinforcement of 200 ca valry, that I may be enabled to realize my project. As soon as the infantry has recovered from the effects of fatiguing marches I shall follow the enemy up till 1 have completed his dcs - truction. God preserve your Excellency, &c. (Signed) BENITO ARMINAN. - San Jose 'June 16, 1817. To Brig.-den. Torr. P. S. to the Gazette.—His Excellency the Vice roy awaits, with the greatest impatience, the de tails of this action, in order to reward those who have therein distinguished themselves, as well us to punish .those, in conformity to the Military Regulations, who have been wanting in the com pliance of their duty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CITANCERY,Nov. It. The LORD CDACELLOR did not come into Court this morning till eleven o'clock, in consequence of his being engaged in hearing the case of PROCTOR U. PROCTOR, in his private room. To day his Lordship heard the case more fully, but reserved his judgment for a future occasion. On coming into Court his Lordship decided the Bankrupt case heard yesterday, the facts of which are of not the slightest public importance. He strongly animadverted on the nefarions,practice of persons now becoming creditors on bills given to them for no consideration whatever; and he waS afraid that-there was an indispensable necessity for the Legislature to, interfere, in, a summary way ;for alie protection of honest but unfortunate trades men. Such frauds as that - he alluded to were grown to so alarming an extent, that if Parlia ment did not do something, there would be.a total end to public credit and fair dealing. The case of KENNEDY v. Lee was re-beard, but no decision given. At two o'clock his Lordship rose and proceeded to the Court of Exchequer, for the purpose of nominating the Sheriffs for the ensuing year. His Lordship was attended by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his full state robes, the Earl of Liverpool, who wore the in signia of the Knights of the Garter, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Ellenborough, the Lord Chief Baron, the Judges, and Mr. Leach, as Chief Justice of Chester. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. It. SEDUCING ARTIFICERS. Mr. BALGUY, jun. moved for leave to file a Cri minal Information against a person of the name of Clarke, tor seducing abroad an artificer, who was a lace frame-maker, contrary to the regula tions of the statute of Geo. 111. which imposes it penalty of 5001. for any person seducing an Ar tificer to leave. the kingdom. He stated tl:c facts, st 9: ' from an afrlavit, which dis c l o sed t h a t the Pe r i. hourhe moved ba.4 ititinc”! an A`ii i ficer to go to Basville, near Calais, and was there employed.to make a lace machine French factory, similar to those used at Nott l , ll .. ham. lie read the clause.. of the A c t o f merit, by which it was enacted, that persons fending against the provisiims of that A c t 0 0 .' 1 , forfeit SPO/. and he prosecutecf either by went at the Assizes, or by way of infoirfnationr the Court of King's Bench. • The Court said, they'did not r eco ll ect .any r,fir sedition by way of information ; aud asked b''!' the usual . mode of . indictment had not been r g ' sorted to in this case. Mr. BALGUY replied, th a t i t was necessrY,i: commence the prosecutio n w id t i n a twelvemot after the fact was. committed. The fact in case was committed last December, and the °fig: der did not return t o t hi s country u n t il last Pl' not titne enough to indict hint at the last 4..ssi o E-• and before the next Assizes, which would be! March, the twelve months would be elapse They must either pr ocee d b y i n f o r mat i on, or ~ time would elapse.—Rule Nisi granted. THE KING V. THE MARGATE PIER COMPANY% 4 . Nr. GURNEY moved fora rule to shew why a mandamus should not issue against -tw: Company or Proprietors of Margate Pier, Col f i l r, mantling them !o pay a certain poor's.rate. had mentioued this case last Term, but it o'r thottght.a4visable to pass it over, until. the Ger pAny had regulated the Pier Toll. A tall havl been made in A ugust l ast , t h e rate was dernan d from the Company, which they refused to par; and they had no property on -whieli.the Pat° Officers could levy tile amount. Ir. was, 00 1 ; fore, IIcceESAIT to 'calf for this madoinus; to compel them to pay the w,t,ssment. Lord ELLENBoitoUGH—" 1 thete-MOthing Op whiel you call distraiu, so ti,at you are oOligrli make this unusal applicat ‘ io n . Mr. GURNEY— " 'Fbere is not, my cannot distrait) the wlter, nor remort Lord ELLENBOROUGH—" There but:ding on the Pier." ,~~i y y ,~; ilk Mr. Gurs.NEY—" There is nothing that we• ca° distrain.” Lord ELLENBORQUGII—" We must have 1311 affidavit, stating that fact." My. GURNEY —`` I have an affidavit,. setrA fnrth that, there is .nothing on %liltich we can train."—Rule granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 1 - 101tItID DEPIZAVirY. • MANSION- Ec.) - USE.—Yesterday Margaret Cradj, the Nv res ch char ge d w i t h i nve i g li ng a child., a ~ ./.o °. : nine years, from its parents, and afterwards coining an access ar y to i ts v i o l at i on b y a monsir by whom she was hired for the purpose, Ord brought up for re-examination. The circumstances- of this most atrocious ell -were briefly these :—On the day of Cambet We Pair, the prisoner met the child in the street, 8": with Foulkes of treating and bringing her bac"' in the evening, induced the unsuspecting lira . creature to accompany her to the fair. Here sq kept her until late in the evening of the veron day, and then left the place to come home,'havia previously forc e d th e c hild to takes* quantity of e- rits. Un the road th e y were j o i ned b y a fellow,wn oi with the assist ance o f t h e prisoner, fin - red the irtfal,.:' into a field adjoining the road, abut half a ma l°l' beyond the-Elephant and Castle, and there viii".' laced her person. A patrole was passing near ibi spot just as the hellish deed had been completed, and hearing the cries of the poor victim, wea 4 to the spot and apprehended the prisoner, but ire companion made his escape. This patrole havipg gone as far as Blackfriars-bridge, gav e th e p fi',. soner in charge to a man named Griffiths, - frog . . whom, however, she contrived to escape. 1711 6 child, on reaching her mother's house in St. Alai' tin's-le-Graml, was put to bed very ill, and never afterwards left her room. She died about thre° weeks since. A letter was now produced from Dr. Lamb, the London General Dispensary, front which 'is appeared the child died from a violent iittiominal tion, and that although there could be no doubt of her person having been violated, still there we're, not sufficient marks of violence externally to jos' tify a positive assertion that such violation hod caused her death. Mrs. Allen, the mother of the unfortuate and , said the prisoner had confessed having received 21 ; stun of money from the villain alluded to, and siii° that she had given part of it• to the patrole t° allow her to escape. Honey, the officer, stated, that he bad been to Union Hall; where having stated the circumstances Of the case, the Magistrate .imrnediately ordcre 4 that every exertion should be used to discover the pitrole who first took the prisoner into custody. In consequence of this order, all constables awl others had been summoned to the Hall, and exa'", mined upon the subject,- but without ract, tbe, man could not be found. The LORD MAYOR regretted extremely ttiat through the conduct of this man the case agaisiC the prisoner should be rendered 'so incomplete gig not to be cognizable at law, She . must be, dis charged for want of sufficient evidence, but of her share in this infamous transactionstEcre cotl *not exist the smallest doubt:: He '(the Lord . Mayor), however, hoped, that the compunctiotio visitings of her own conscience would be a severer, punishment. than any which the law could The prisoner was, of course, discharged. Blwrris. 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