The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-23 00:00:00

MEXICO.

r (Atchley we received advices from the city of lletico
to the 13th of April, and from Jalapa to the 19th.
laxly in the month of April the Mexican Congress appointed ,
Commute: of their own body, consisting of eight member'', whe
were directed to report the best means of preserving the public
tranquillity of the nation. The Committee brought in a scant.
mous report, in which, after acknowledging the entire want of
moral strength and energy on the part of the Government. asst pre.
sent organized, and the loss of confidence on the part of the pte.
vincial Authorities and the Public generally, they preitoes , a
remedy, that the supreme Litecutive Power, consisting u tkere_
should appoint one of their own bod_y, who alsuald le. etyki,
'" Supreme Dictator of the Mexican Republic," to whom rittidd
be given the
_power to appoint a Vice-Dictator, to act In all case_
of inability of the Dictator, and who rhould also be Causietejees
in-Chief of the military forces of the country. To traaefer el'Government and Congress from the capital to any other Part Of the
country. To appoint military Commanders in any of the roe
vinces, and dispose of the military forces generally. To obtain
money on the credit of the nation. To resist, at pleasure, the acts
of the Provincial Legislators. To solicit foreign aid if necener.
To expel foreigners who have not been natutalized; and finally,
to annul any of the acts of Congress, whenever they shall i,
tufo* with his measures, !cc. The above report WWI immediate)
y
discussed in secret &sale,. and passed by a majority of that body.
The Committee of Public Credit of the Mexican Coolness re.
ported • Dill on the 17th March, for acknowleding and funding
!the debts contrieted by the different Governments of Mexico, mere
the 17th September, 1811. The Committee represent the whole
national debt as amounting to only forty millions seven hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Mr. Bourne, a respectable merchant, who arrited at Tampico
i in March, on his way to the city of Mexico' was arrival on sun_
picion of being an agent of Diabetic's, and it was expected he
would he sent out of the country.
A publication was put forth at Mexico, on the lOth April, of a
very curious description. It professes to be a copy of a mime
communication of the Er-Emperor Iturbide, data Noe. 2, Hel,
to King Ferdinand, and obtained through bribery, at Madrid, by
1.
! a friend of Mexican independence. Iturbide stated to the King of
I Smtin, that all his movements in Mimics had has ettedieasly
:adapted um the purpose of retaining the thrones/ that cientry for a
j Spanish Bourbon ; that he had intentionally &hominid from I%
dosing the Castle of St. Juan de Ullom as he might haw dens a
the beginning, with a view to leave a Mae "appal for the Roy
I oust ; and that the natives of Mexico are incapable of govermag
(themselves.
The Madrid correspondents of the Metiers Goverment are of
lof opinion that lturbide's departure from Italy tot kiogland was
1 eonritted with the Holy Alliance and Ferdinand, and that la is
acting as their instrument against Mexican independence.
An Act of Outlawry against lutrbide had pawed the fermi
unanimously.
The Mexican papers speak with much Indignation o(the murder
of Mr. Crawford, and the plunder of the American party •iilt him.
The American schooners Petra and Dorothea, from New emote,,
landed at Tampico, on the 217th of March, various Spanish Luigi-
toms:Abu., Including two l'ulonels of artillery and the former
Political Chief of Cadiz. Guitticrez Acuna.
31E X It 'A N CONGRESS--. oss I ow, 30t li 31 .sa cl 4 1221.
The Acts of the last Session having been approved. and way
official communications from the Government read, the dimension
was then taken up on each article of the Foreign Alerchandise in.
eluded in the list presented by the Secretary of the Treasury—Asa
it was decided that the following should be prohibited t._
Spirits distilled from the cane or other than grape: Fedi&
onions, of every kind, starch, beans and pest, aniseed, east
way seecl'ePrlticee, sugar, molasses, coffee and pumpkin., Wes sad
cotton goods ; cotton wool generally, thread \o. BID, or of as
leu than sixty hanks of thread; ready made loose robes; drums,
shirts, night shins, night gowns, shawls (cotton), white or colonial
tape., bed quilts, bed tapestry, ords of all kinds, curtains diva,
kind, linen bagging, aprons, petticoats, sleeves of every sat,
shirt ruffles, all ready made clothes of all deccriptions; therisgs
ready made; dreams, under arid over clothes, and all ornana.nef
wearing. Goods made of wool and hair—small clothe'. wanes'.
cloaks, men's cloaks, table covers, coats, waistcoats, sashes, bed
spreads, curtaining, tippet., muffs, coarse cloths, second and third
quality ; ready mule clothes of every kind manufactured from silk—
men's small clothes, cloaks, waistcoats, laces and edgings, figured
and ornamented laces.

MARCH 31-SESSION CONTINUED.

The following articles agreed to be prohibited :—Aide sad
pelt/Sea of all kinds, dressed or undressed, and all articles mats-
, fisetured from them—buck skins, chamois, sheep, and buffalo
skins, boots, leather halters, buckskin breeches, ofippers, shoes,
ether hats, sole leather, earthenware, glued autr.unglased;
bri,ks of every description, tiles, earthen jan, copper, is pigs or
sheets: lead, is pigs or shot ; shoulder knots of all descriptions foe
the military or other purposes; laces of every kind ; wood of
every kind ; tobaceo in leaf ; and gunpowder—these last two
articles in monopoly.
" The foregoing can be imported into the porta of the confide.
ration, from all ports of America, toe the term of four months ; and
if front Europe, us months are allowed from the date, for thtipors
on the Atlantic or Bay of Mexico; but if to any of the puts on
the Pacific. by tweeds from Europe or Asia, they shall enjoy the
terns of eight months from said date.
All other articles not mentioned here, remain as Tided in ths
temporary tariff' heretofore made and adopted by the Gevernment
on the 21)21 January, 1822.