The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIsTER

SOUTH AMERICA.

PROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS.

Nrlt Yong, I.—in an intercepted dispatch, writ-
ten fawn Valladolid. in New Spain, rind published in The
Aurora, we have a distinct account of the situation of that
country, and the cause of those numerous disasters which the
royal interest has sustained. From this document we are led
to believe, that the indepeurienee of South America may Hot
only be securely relied on, hut is au event that it appears may
Ise very J:!..1 ily anticipated. 'the best tiiends of Ferdinand
are the daily progress of disasters; they are aware of the
causes, but propose nothing which has a remote prospect of
suceess. In fact, taking the peculiar situation of South Ame-
rica into view, there appears nothing favonrable to the Royal
arms in extending the present contest : the resources of the
kingdom are gradually exhansting themselves ; and such as
are coliected with extreme difficuky, are wasted in skir-
mishes, remarkable only for their imberility awl extrava-
gance. The tractional parts of this vast country in revolt are
daily knitting themselves together, and cementing their (111/011
Hy the common ties of interest and multi:it suffct ings.
Kai:tried with this slow, though sure progress towards in-
deprisdetece, the Patriots, whose numbet a daily Met ease,
and whence cruise rains ground, will hue no time to bring the
contest to a speedy issne. Supported by the powerful pro-
tection of puLtic opinion and the desponding hopes of the
Royal party, the Continent of America may very shortly be
wholly released from European jnrisdiction,and confederated
against European tyranny or eoutrotil. One of the principal
causes to which the fillet' e of the Spanish cause is attributed,
is the deficiency of money. The mines of Mexico, hi which
were formeily eniployea 100,000 men, now scareely find
labour far 90,000; and the coinage of the A has been
annually decreasing, until it is not mere than six millions of
dollars. This snot is not sufficient to lure) the CIIITt lit Vit•
peaces Ili' the Cuomo', much less afford any assistance to
Spain by esporta Hutt. internal tit::es do not, at this
day, minima to one fifth of the former income, and the
revenue taws arc daily violated by smugglers d' varlims dc-
Scriptions. - _

The trilinte formerly paid to the King iv now Waned ; and
any attempt at comelon induces the party to go over to the
enema.

s are no longer to be depended npnn ; net of fifty dis-
tricts under the joristlietion of an Archuishop, thirty-seven
are ih the hands of the insnrgents.
The plate belonging to the Church. and which former/ no
inconsiderable share of the wealth of the country, has been
long applied fur politic purposes, and no oue is now• disposed
to lend more.

Added to this diminution of resoorres, the toast of crotio•
my, ofsystem, of coorare, and constancy, the Hoynl'..,ts hay.•
to contend with a art of men who are capable of cloturing
any pi kalliott, and whose habits of life assimilate to the
savage.

modern Wench traveller, speaking of the frequency of
suicides in England, appeals to the tomb stones in every
church yattl as bearing testimony, that at least to ilciolis im
every lod are of this description. Now, it ith treat defer-
race to this acute stud intelligent traveller, vs e suspect that
he never visited an English church-yard at all; fur we never
yet saw an act of suicide recorded on a tomb-stone.
rt person in Urtetiock is in possession of a canary bird,
which recently btonglit forth five young from four eggs. The
two birds which were hatched in the single egg are easily dis-
tingnisliable from the otlicts, and, Is lint is remarkable, are
equally lie:dthy with the test.
PROLIFIC FA M IL\ .-- the 6th ins•ant, Mrs. Claridge
wife of Mr. Claridge. who keeps the Red Lion, at Padding-
ton, was brooglit to bed of Illicit childicti ; about the same
hour his cow valved two calves ; and his sow littered ki pigs,
one of which had two heads. The whole are will ;mil likely
to thrive. 'this is Mrs. C.'s first aeetutellement, although
they have been married n years!
About one o'clock on Wednesday nierning, the house of
Mr. Lewin, appr.i,t-r and auctioneer, No. b, lf,all-stievt.
Shadwell, was di titsemit to he on lire, and ihe whole of the
lower put was in thintcs. It was welt marsh difficulty that
tire family were alfinke, tit a kit 11 time the fire gained such a
bead, that Mr. and Mrs. Lewin and chihhen were brought
out at the first floor windows by llR'd Its Of lalltIVIS.
Monday lasi, a inan wax found dross i.ed iu the river, at
the Marquis of Salisbury's Park, fiatheiti, HcnLs. What is
remarkable, his clothes were fuuud tan the margin of a buggy
pit with little water in it, near a mile distant front the liver
in which it is presumed he .fleeted his onono destirc ion. Two
11. 110 ten, Fume silver, anti duplicates, were foei:d iu tie.•
pockets; mid front the latter it appeared that his ti.mie
Moore, and that lie resided near liastliulometv Chris, Smith

Catizitx T.—A ifew days sine,. a maiatT hatcher, of Ipswich,
maned Bead, for a wager of 101. undertook to tide LL Esekemy
mare, 14 hands high. from Ipswhich to I.andon, and Lick again, a
distance of 135 miles in 19 hours! The harba.ons owner, who weigh-
ed 50 stone. started from Ipswich at six o'clock in the evening ; he
reached London at two in the morning, mud about two hulas, and
arrived in sight of the town, and within half a mile of his own house,
'25 minutes within the time allowed, when the poor sainisl stag-
gered several peat*, and broke down. Thu rider instantly dismount-
ed, and the snare fell to the ground. She male iuveral Meffectual
attempts is rise, and the groans she uttered were of the most agoniz-
ing description. It :cis -deemed advisable to bread her, arol a taw
minutes put an end to her sufferings, by dcxt:t
ClIARtiNg Or TREAsost.—Wheatly, AVIIO 11:IS been
brought up from I ludder.m!ield, underwent, with syvt r.d
others, an exaination on Monday at the Home Office,
and was afterwards remanded. Scroop the publican,
front Wakefield, and Hartley front Sheffield, have been
sent to the castle at Cambridge.
RAIN ON ST.SWITIIIN'S-DAY, .1 tnLY.—St Swithio
at his own previous solicitation was buried in the church
yard, instead of the chancel of his Cathedral, and when
an order was obtained to remove his relicks into the
choir, a most violent shower of rain 11:11 on the des-
tined day and continued for 39 successive days with-
out intermission ; in consequence of which, the idea of
removal was abandoned as dikpleasing to St. Sv.ithin ;
though the Saint. afterwards is supposed to have relent-
ed, and suffered his bones to be taken from the Ceme-
try, and lodged among the remains of the other Ilishcps.,
in A.D. 1093. From this Legend arose the vulgar
opinion of its raining fbr 40 days more or less, if it rains
on the 25th. The legal latitude of the words more or
less is not allwuys broad enough to secure the certainty
of the prophecy.