The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-16 00:00:00

AIItERICAN PAPERS.

By the John %V is we have received New York Papers
to the *4th October. The news from Mexico is highly
favourable. The Si:preme G:irernment is no. :thnly con-
solidated, aril acts with firmness and moderation. The
intelligence from the l'acitic in the Boston Online! is a
new version of the ridiculous calumnies which have latterly
been propagated with so much activity against Bolivar.
We beim: not one word of the whole paragraph. It is
strange, however, that we hare no authentic information
(ruin that quarter. We begin to be anxious respecting
the Peruvian war. The resources of Colombia will hardly
be competent to carry on hostilities in a distant and dis-
affected country. One thing is quite clear as to South
American news: that we might to receive it with the
utmost caution, come from what source it may, the interest
to fabricate and misrepresent being nearly equal on both
sides of the question. We cannot however be long now
before our uncertainty be converted into knowledge.
The domestic intelligence in the Papers of the United
States relates almost entirly to the intrigues connected
with the approaching Presidential election and the tour of
General Lafayette. The struggle for the Presidency seems
to lie chiefly between the Democrat Crawford and the
Federalist Adams. Great hopes are entertained by the
Federalists that their candidate will be successful. The
" nation's guest," as the French revolutionary veteran is
styled, has paid a visit to the tomb of his friend Washing-
ton. At the American capital a public entertainment was
given to the General by the President, and dl honours.
civil and military, rendered to him during his vieits to the
national institutions. A suggestion has been made that
the pay of Majar-Gencral should be continued to Lafayette
during his life, with the arrears since the war of inde-
pendence, in order that he may be induced to take up his
abode finally in the United States.
(From the New Fork America-al „,
NEW Vosi, arCT.
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The following letter from Lima is front a source that may be de-
pended on, and is as late as any thing from that quarter. It would
seem to discourage the idea of any battles having been fought be-
tween the patriots and royalists, notwithstanding positive assertions
asd accounts porporting to be (anal of such an event. The policy
hinted at as that adopted by the Spaniards, of avoiding any action
until they could ascertain whether a royal fleet was to aid them,
seems probable enough, as we know that such a fleet, consisting of
the Asia line of battle ship, and some corvettes, left Cadiz for the
Pacific last winter, and must, in the ordinary course, have soon ap-
peared on the coast* of Pent. Nothing can, however, be more
confused than the accounts of the military or political state of
that country. They are, t r the most part, so disguised or ',mtge.
rated, that little reliance can be placed in them. The writer cd the
following letter has been long in that country, and, at any rate,
speaks according to his belief and best information.
Extract of a letter front Enna, dated June II :—" alteration
has taken place in the state of this country since my List. The
army of Bolivar is said to have strengthened itself somewhat, and
to have moved in a direction towards Upper Peru. Ilia friends
have all confidence is his success, but some others who have seen
the state of affairs under the other llovertunent, and have observed
their operations during the last two years, think differently. It
would seem that the Royal army must have received order, from
the Vice-King not to risk a battle yet awhile, probably until it be
known whether a Spanish naval force is coming to these seas or not.
All late acmunts from Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres agree that an
expedition had left Spain with this object. In the mean time •
speedy conclusion of the war here, I think, does not seem se pro-
bable as when I wrote before.

%Ve have had several of the Patriot squadrons off the port of
Callao during the past month, with the object of blockade • but oa
a new system—that of permitting veusebi to enter the blockaded
pens on paying them a certain per tentage-1 believe they have de.
minded 2 t. 0 per cen on the value of their cargoes. Neither the
English nor American vessels of war have given into this new.
fanglvd system ; and all the arrivals under those flags have conic.
(ovule been brought in by them. How far they might submit to
blockade declared and enforced on peeper principles remains to be
seen. The Preoba. Captain Guise? was in l'isco by last ac.
eouLts; was said to be leaky, and going to Valparaiso.
OCTODEII 16.

By the brig American. which arrived this mornmg, in the short
tsar :sage of 19 days from Rio Janeiro, we learn, that a vessel sr-
tivel at dust place from Lima, on the 231 August, which brought
intelligence that Bolivar was waybill against the Spanish forces
with an army of 8,090 men.

[From tht Nes York Daily Advertiser.)
NEW YORE, 0CT.20.
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Arrived the brig Merced, Russell, frcnAl;arLL'Cariledijth
Sept.), with cochineal and specie. % e learn from Captain Russell,
that when he left Alvarado, every thing of a poiitical nature wu
quiet, and the minds of the people generally perfectly at ease.
General Victoria, it is thought, will be elected President, contrary
to the expectations of a large majority of the people of the republic
of 31exku. 'f lie votes stood, at the latest accounts from Mexico,
viz. Victoria 11—Bravo 6—Scattering 2. Only two or three wore
Ft3tet to be heard from when die Merced sailed. Matters and
things were also quiet between Vera Cruz and the CasF.e of St. Juan
de L !log.
CIIARLISTOS, OCT. 11.

FROM HAY•NWAH—By the schooner Usan,tapinilill4idd, we
have Havanoth Paper to the 4th inst.
The widow of Iturbide had been carried to Louisiana from
31exico, in the American schooner United S:atcs, which vessel hi•l
since arrived at liavannah.

203,G18 cajas of sortr, and 323,601 arrohas of coffee were ex.
ported from Havannah from the ht of January to the Sthit of Sep.
tember last.

976 vessels entered the port of Havaanah,during the lame period,
•ii—l 73 Spanish merchant vessels; 714 Foreign ditto ; 43 Spanish
vessels of war; 39 Foreign ditto.

The Supreme Executive Power provisionally named by the
General Constitutcnt Sovereign Congress, to all who shall see and
understand these presents, know—That the said Sovereign Con-
gra' have decreed as follows:
No. 62. The General Constituent Sovereign Congress of the
United Mexican States have been pleased to decree as follows:-
1. The commerce and traffic of slaves is for ever forbidden in
the territory of the United Ale:lean States, from whatever nation
they may cure, and under whatever flag.
2. Any slrea:s which may be introduced contrary to the tenor
of the preceding article, shall be free as soon as they teach the
3leat...th territory.
3. Every vessel, whether national or foreign, in which slaves
hare be.n transported or introduced into the Mexican territory,
shall be immediately confiscated, with the remainder of its cargo;
and the owner, and the purchaser, the captain, the master, and the
pilot, shall suffer the punishment of ten years' imptisotiment.
4. law shall have effect from the very day of its publica-
tion: but with regard to the penalties prescribed in the prec.aling
article, they shall not gs into effect until six months after, on cc-
count of the Colonists, who, in virtue of the law of t:te 14th October
List, on the colonization of the isthmus of Iluazacueles, are land-
ing slaves, fur the purpose of introducing them into the 31exican
territory. _ . .

The :-uprerne Eseemive Power shall tam this to be understood,
and shall take the tr....asurcs ne•estary fur its fulfilment, by having
it ptinted, published, and circulated.
Itl NA CI ( t 7.A LDI VA President.
DOMETRIO DE CASTILLO, Dep. See.
JOSE lONACIO tiONZALEZ CARAIs-
MURO, Dep. See.
. . .

Mexico, July 18, 1824.
Su is atainr.-0 eneral Victoria having been sent to Cajaca, on
&CCUYiIt of sonic difficulties, his aruty was freely admitted into the
citi, ar.d effected an immediate unconditional submission to the
gen:ral Government, without shedding a drop of blood. The people
have thrown themselves on the clemency of the confederacy. Some
dinulletion and disturbances exist iu the province of Snake, but
chef produce no serious concern.
The prospectus of a new paper. begun at thiadatadae, called
El IVii.t 1. promises to furnish notices of American antiquities, to-
ge:ht r with statistical and other important information contenting
that interesting comdrv.
The Congress of Vero Cruz, on the 19th of August, page(' a de-
cree, to prevent the debarkation, on their coast, of iiaasenvers,
brought by a SpaniA squadron from llaeannali, to the castle of
t; Ilea, until the will of the Supreme Government should ha signi-
tied. It was at first ri nutted to belong to a great Spanish tket, but
the alarm subsided on tinicurery tf:at it contained only passengers,
and 4 or :stfit soldiers for the fort.

The sovereign Congress has published a decree, recognizing the
" United Provinces of the Centre of America." not including, how-
ever, the province of Chiapas, to which another decree relates, dated
in May last.
1 trort the Dorton Centinell
FROM THE PAClFlC.—Advises have been received in Ja-
maica front Panama and Clinics to the Ist September, many days
the latest. They report. that Itiilivaes army still remained in the
departments of Guartiptil and Truzillii, and consisted of 11.000
Colombians. and 4.0tn0 Pertivians.—that the troops a !itch had
beer sent to hint from Chili had beili ordered home, in consequence
of their Chief, Riva,tuero, having been superseded by 134ilivar
that the Spanish army in Putt amounted to 70 ,Otn) —th a t Bolivar
was suspected of anabitiou newt, and that his object was to be-
come Emptiror as well as Ph:boor—that fiT accusing him of this
design, two Colombian Colonels and a Lieutenant-Colonel had
been shot—and, that both Buenos Ayrenn and Chaim Go-
vernments were opposed to Colotubis, which they considered an a
common enemy. These 81,COU:.:A evidently are coloured by per-
sons hostile to the Colointii-ii Republic, but they chew that the
reports which have been circulated fur weeks and months, that
littiiYaT had recaptured Lims a td l'anao, were forgeries, and that
he had bum :one inactive.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

"Further Extracts from the Ca::utta Paperg
Cm( tT r 4 111.orn:
•

FUNERAL OF SIR JOIIN MACDON.II;I;:k.(' It
Sir John Macdonald. K.C.8., a Lieutenant-General in the Ho-
noutable Company's service, died in talm.ta on Sitill!‘;:ly Lot,
aged 71f. llis remains were ii.ttrr..tl yeme. day ev.aniog, b.
live and six o'clock, atte! tied by his Excellercy the 'o:Ftitai.tt, r.
in-Chief, all the General Stall: and a large body of t'iviliaaf, Fo
essembled to pay the lam tributa of roircrt to ore ig the
Officers of the Honnurable Cooniany'a service In I
something in a Military Funerals, particularly column 101.1 i.t•-
pressive, that callous indeed limn that lour 1.., which ran wit-
ness unmoved a Procession similar to the one it is our tit;
duty to relate, and few there ere, we are sure, who 'le:tall to tiiet
hon.cs, without experiencing in full force, those awful aml striuns
reflections attending so iolen.n a duty.
Every respect, which the Uoverinuent is ever ready to show to
a long life of meritorious public service, was evinc,til ie. the
funeral we witnessed yesterday evening. At about a
peat five o'clock the Right honourable the Cori rnor-Ceneral's
Body-guard, with its galloper guns, commanded by Captain Sreyd,
together with all the European troops in Fort Irilllams the
whole commanaltal by Lieutetant-Colonel Vaughan. Fort Major,
were drawn up opposite the residence of the late Sir Jehn
Macdonald. On the body being brought front the house, the
funeral party presented arms, the tranupets of the Body-(Huard
sounding a funeral dirge, the bands playing the Venetian hymn.
On the coffin being plaCed in the hearse, the party moved
off in slow time, flanked by thousands of natives (many
of whom had been partakers of the deceased's charity), to
the burial-piace In Park.strcet. I)urit•i; the pro:elision, 111111llie-
guns were tired from the fort, the trumpets sounded at intervals,
and the muffled drums beat their solemn rolls, until at a proper
distance front the gate of the burial-ground, when the cavalry and
invantry halted, and were formed into a street, through whicn the
corpse was borne. Ou the coffin being laid in the grave, the guns
of the nods-guard fired twenty-scven rounds, ant! the infantry three
rallies. ending a ceremony as imposing in appea:sacc as it was aw-
ful and solotan in its erect.