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London, England, 1818-07-11 00:00:00

frifna of the taunts'', wiso would encourage thee
to foreign emigration.

•
We have received Ne Orleans Papers to the
16th M.iy. It was expected that the American
General would take possession of Pensacola. The
manner in which it should kie surrendered was looked
for with touch antiety. It was supposed that the
Npeniah Commandent would resist; barb* had no
adequate force to sustain a long siege.

In somber port of our NWT will be fond a

lone article. which we have translated from one of
the French Journals. relating to the revolution in
Spanish Americo. The subject is daily increasing
in interest, heightened perhaps not a little by tlw
difficulty we all feel and lament of obtaining cor-
rect iiaellitresiee respecting the progress of the
conflict. We have occasionally exposed the cms.
trorlectioisti rood absurdities that con‘taistly appear
in the account• fabricated by the Royalists ; nor
can it he denied that those sent to Europe by
the opposite party. are by no means free from
similar imputations. In such a state. it is of
advantage towards forming • just notion of
the nature of the contest, to collect niformition
and opinions from every quarter. With this view
we have published this article from the Jeanie/ des
Debass, which, although not distinguished for any
brilliancy of conception, or strength of reasoning.
will, no doubt, prove acceptable, as Containing
such arguments as can be adrynced by the Royal-
iids. The writer asserts positively, that the Spanish
Colonies have hitherto enjoyed every indulgence
consistent with their happiness and their tenuity.
and contradicts the very general impreerion, that
in the Colonies the most humiliating distinctions
hail been drown between the native Americans and
Europeans. His idea of indulgences and privileges
may, however. be collected from his assertion, that
a!tlintsgh the Islands under the Spanish Monarchy
were entitled to a free trade in consequence of their
geographies! position, the main land ought slot. is
policy, to he admitted to any greater traffic than
was sufficient to employ the native marine (mean.
lug the marine of Spain in its present dilapidated
sate). lie acknowledges that several restrictions
had hems imposed upon the progress of American
ilitlu.try, but thot they affected only trifling arti-
cles ; but heliesi omitted to state that these trifling
articles are sugar,. *lie, wines, oil, all commodities
massufactired by the loom, and, in short, every arti-
cle which the uierehante of Cadix may find it ad.
vmstageous, in Sheik monopoly, to send to the Colo.
Ines. This monopoly also, granted to the aserchenb
of Cadie, is Dot noticed. ell if it were iihnlly on-
worthy of anemia). The pressure of tisetion.
the extravagance to the public expenditure, the
armies of Spaniards quartered upon the Colonies,
under the semblance of being engaged in public
duty, are forgotten ; and whatever hii assertion
might be with regard to the equality of all persons
in presence of Me law, the eiprrysion must be un-
Ilerstood strictly, fat the rules of iotiety, which are
ever stronger thin law, drew the most gelling dis-
tinctions between the several classes in thoie Pro-
vinces. This we assert on the authority of many
respectable writers, who have hitherto exposed the
internal condition of the Spanish Provinces, and more
particularly of the enlightened M. DI Hum eaLDT.
The gradations of society were distinguished iii
those Provinces, not by wealth. by personal ra It,
or by merit, as it generally the case in Europe, but
by the fortuitous circumstances of a MOW* birth,
si.il 1w was honoured, esteemed, and trusted, at-
cording to the caste in which he happened to be
hors; This prejudice arose and was maintuined
by the European Spaniards, who succeeded thereby
securing to themselves all places of trust, honour,
and emolument. It mattered, therefore, very little
to the natives of the country what the tern,* of the
law might be, as long as the Spanish Govern.
meld fostered • system inconsistent with its
principles. The Dative Indiana were uniformly
and systematically excluded from every evens,
to wealth or power, and being debarred eien
from the means of procuring, information, were
taunted with ignorance end stupidity. The writer
ill the French Paper asserts. that none of the upper
ranks of the people have engaged in the revolution.
This we bitten is the case, with a few exceptions;
but it arises frees the circumstances we have already
inelitioried. The upper classes ore an exclusive
cave; they are generally Spaniards by birth, or
immediate descent, and depend for their wealth and
present superiority oa the exigenee of the Spanish
Goveronsent in the Provinces. The quarrel is their
mini; it is their power and insolence that grate the
feelings of the people ; they are the tyrants against
whom the present contest is waged; end it is their
gelling and iosultssig aristocracy that is now in
reality sought to be overthrown, but which is at the
same tinse identified in interest and etiolates with
the Spanish Monarchy.

Count Mumma had an audience of the Patties
?t►:OLNT ) ramle.
"i'ebierdry the fluke of YORK trammeted military
Imsuirs, *nit the Patina Ream at Carltou
limi•e.

The following is an extract of a letter from
Oporto, 'laird June 16 :--•• 'The Fells Velstiora.
%hid' arrived here on the 11th ill/soot from Per-
thimbueo, aas boarded a few days after reeling by
Buenos Ayres privateer, but ending she was
Portuguese property, allowed her to proceed. By
ilipi it would appear that the Baenos Apes prive-
t•er• respect the Portuguese flag; but oilier prive-
t' fitted out at other ports under the same Alveo-
li act in a different manner."