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Ey the extraordinary dispatches which your Excellenow will re-
ceive along with this, I hare been informed that the traitor Do
Agustin de Iturbide is on our voiL l'o2l' Excellency may so-ure
the Goverhmect, teat I shall have the glory of big ts.c Scat, is

reees.ary, to By to the extermination of the monster.--lied and
Liberty !
(Signed) JOSE JOAQUIN DE AYESTARAN.
San Luis Potosi, July 22.

INICIrMENT, No. 14.
(This is a despatch written by the same chief, declaring that the
news or Iturbide's execution was received at San Luis Potosi with
tears ofjov
The Sol of the 21ith of July rewind's,: the following remarks:—
" We have received various communications, relative to the
death of Iturtide ; but we think that we ought to insert none of
them in our paper. Humanity and policy equally counsel us not
to disturb the ashes of the deed. fits misfortunes ought to make
us forget his previous conduct, since be has expiated by his death
whatever offences he had conunitted against his country. Such, at
least. shall be our conduct on the preterit occasion. 'Whilst Itur.
bide lived and was dangerous we COlllll3ll' I y endeavoured to expose
the martauvres of his partisans, to put the nation on its guard
against them, and events have confirmed our predictions. Ile is
now dead. and this circumstance changes the state of things. Let
us commiserate his misrortune, and let us endeavour to sink into
oblivion the mournful divisions into which we were about to be
plunged. Let this be the epoch of reconciliation; sad. forgetting
the number of parties which dreg usli our ruin, let there be no
party but the nation--no de ire among :as but that of consolidating
its beneficent institutions."

The Sovereign Congress and the ( iovernment seem to be actu-
ated by the same feeloirt of moderation end mercy. %Vhile ad-
dresses were arriving from the provinces, congratulating them on
the adventurer's fate, we find a consider-title party in the Congress
disposed to provide literally for his Widow and children. On a
proposition being made in the Sitting of the 27th of July, to
authorize the litwernment to send ties widow and her children out
of the country, to any place they thotight proper, mans of the Meni.
bees (loitered their opinions. The Minister for Foreign Atsirs
.aid that the Executive was far Mini wishing toiagrayste tlt mi-
sery of an unhappy family; but it considered- that till their institu.
tions were consolidated, it might be dangerous for this family to
inhabit the Reptibllc of Mexico. or any place from which they
might easily return to it. Senor Ilistamente was of the sarne mi-
nion. Ile thought that the factious should not be allowed with a
rallying point as the eldest son of the pretender, Vito, he heard,
was of perverse inclinations, and disposed to tidlow up his father's
tyrannical ideas. Several Members admitted the propriety of ba-
nishing the family, but denied the right of Congress to tie their re.
sideoce in another country. After a good deal of discussion, the
first article, for empowering the thivernnimt to dispose of the
ex-Emperor's family, was agreed to. On the following da •
(July 29), the debate was resumed on the mode of dispos:rg of
Iturbide's widow and children, when the following proposition
was made and discussed, namely, " The limemment shall
punctually pay to Donna Arm Hecarte cies thousand dollars
annually: and her children, on her death, shall enjoy a correspond-
ing allowance, under the rules of military pensions.'
Several Members supported this proposition, on the ground tltnt
the crimes of Iturhide furnished no reason why his family should
be deprived of the decent provision made by an anterior Congress.
Public decency dictated that some provision should be made for
persons who were, fur reasons of State, condemned to reside out of
their native land.

One lilember proposed, as an amendment, that the above sum of
8.000 dollars should be allowed, but should be lodged in the Bank
of Philadelphia, and drawn only so long u the family should rev
side In the Republic of Colombia.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs saw no opposition
between this aniendment and the original proposition. The Go.
vetnment would of course reserve to itself the right of withdrawing

the pension, if the family ne.:lectcd to observe die condition of resit.
deuce on which it was granted.
Two Members objected to the granting of any pension, on the
ground that other widows and orphans deserved better of the Re.
public, and oughtto have their claims first attended
The first part of the proposition, granting the pension to Madame
Iturbide, was agreed to. Toe latter part of it, extending the
sante to her family after her death, was postponed for further am-
sidermion, and we have nut the result in the papers before us.

The following are a few of the niiseellaneous facts in these
Journals:—

The Sovereign Congress have passed a Decree, which has re.
reined the sanction of the Executive, acknowledging the debts of
31exico under the Vice-regal Governments, up to the declaration of
independence. The same Decree acknowledges the debts con.
matted by the Independent Chief.' before the reign of Iturbitle.
Let Ferdinand of Spain look at this, and justify his refusal to ac.
knowledge his obligation to the creditors by whom he was clothed
and fed. tinder his Constitutional sway.
A robber has appeared in one of the missions of Sierra Gorda.
who promises to he as adroit anal celebrated as Gomez, on the lii;,,h-
-lr3t from Vera Crux to 31exino.
The disturbances in Yucatan and Tabasco had not been entirely
appeased on the 22d of June, as appears front • letter dated Cant.
peachy, inserted in the Sad of the 13th July. The agitators were
soon expected to be overpowered.
General Bravo, after putting down the disaffected of the pro 'ince
o Guadalaxara, and restoring the country to tranquillity, ret wiled
11,f Mexico oa the 27th July, where be was received with great dia.
' unction and applause.
In a discussion which took place in Congress on the 13th of July,
a proposition was made to approximate the Government of I
Ablzico to shAt•if the United &ass, by creating one President. I
instead of an Executive of three persons. If this project be
carried, it is supposed that General Bravo will be appointed first
President.

We understand that the clerk of Akan. Goldsmith,
who was the bearer of the despatches announcing the
death of Iturbide, performed the journey from Mexico to
Tampico in six days, and had two horses killed under him
with fatigue. The Forte frigate was at Tampico ready to
sail, in which he embarked, and the moment they were in
sight of English land, he got into an open boat, and was
rowed ion shore.

One of the letters by the last arrival Rom Bogota ears,
that it was ascertained that in the force commanded -by
the Spanish Generals in Peru, there were not more than
1.100 -Europeans. No doubt, the writer rays, was enter-
tained of the final success of Bolivar; but he did bot in-
tend to advance upon Lima until he had collected such a
force as to render the cause of the Spaniards utterly hope-
len, and thus to induce them to listen to the overtures
which he had again transmitted to them, for terminating
the contest without a further useless waste of human lives.
Amongst the various subjects of speculation which have
of late engaged the attention of our leading capitalists, we
learn that the enlargement and deepening of the line of
Canal between Portsmouth and Londo- , so as to make it
a Ship ('anal, is one that has obtained their serious con-
sideration, and is likely soon to become a favourite object
with them. As there cannot be a doubt either of the pra -
ticability or of the immense advantage of such an under-
taking, we sincerely wish it may meet with warm advo-
cates and supporters, both in London snd in the country ;
and we trust tae time isnot distant when the present una-
voidable delays and risks of a circuitous Coasting and
Channel Navigation will be completely avoided by a safe
and ready commtmication by ships of large burthen, be-
tween Portsmouth and the Metr. palis.—Hurnieshire 9e-
kg Yin&
The new sloops o: war, Pylaeles, Capt. Fend; Orestes,
Capt. Litchfield ; and Champion, Ca pt. Studdert (built on
the several plans of Sir Robert S:ppings, Professor Inman,
and Capt. Hayes), have assembled at Spithead, prepara-
tory to proceeding on an experimental Western cruise, to
ascertain their relative good qualities. It is believed that
the Bon. Capt. I'. B. Capcl will take them under his
orders, in the It_yal George yacht, to direct their
movements.

The mayor and bailiffs of Liverpool (all Wilts') yes-
terday refuse' to cotr.plv with a requisition presented to
them on Thursday, signed by a very large number of free-
men, requesting than to convene a common hall, on
business connected with the afiltirs of the corporation.—
.3/and:ester PI 1 IVY.

The Lanes T Assizes terminated late on Wednesday
evening, having lasted exactly a fortnight,—a duration
which is to be attributed chiefly to the patient laborious
manner in which the causes were tried, and the absence of
that disgraceful hurry which has generally prevailed to.
wards the conclusion of former iIIMiZCS. In regard to this,
and indeed to every other part of his conduct on the bench,
Mr. Baron Iluliock hoz given the greatest satisfaction.
After he had left the Court on Wednesday night, Mr.
Cross, the prothonotary, stated publicly that he had been
desired h the Bar to present their grataful altriowkslg-
inents to his Lordship, for the satisfac:ory and obliging
manner in which he had conducted the business of the
Court to three acknowledgments we consider his Lordship
to be justly entitled, as well as to those of cv.ry person
who has been concerned in the proceedings heft>, e
ilfascheacr Griardiar.

B r A ans.—One of tho greatest misfortunes which France
ever had to lament, the divorce of Louis le Jeone from
Elinor of Guyenne, resulted from the fashion. which this
Prince wished to introduce, of shaving his chin and crop-
ping his head. The Queen, his wife, who al p ars to have
possessed, with a masculine beauty, consideraole acuteness
of intellect, t bservcd with some humour, that she imagined
hers If to have espoused a monarch, not a monk. The
of 'Casey of Louis in shaving himself, and the horror con-
. e vei by Elinor at the sight of a beardless chin, occasion-
e I France the loss of those Rue provir.ces which cotstituted
the dowry of this Princess; and which. devolving to Eng-
land by a se cowl marriage, became the sour of wars
which desolated France during SOO yea:s.