The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

rochial elections made in the provinces show the :
same spirit of order, moderation, and love of the
constitution, of which Madrid has given such a
distinguished example; the elections generally fall
on persons worthy of public confidence, and who
promise not to frustrate the hopes of the friends of
the constitutional system when the time for the dis-
trict elections shall arrive. This uniformity of opi-
nion is a fresh proof that the public spirit becomes
every day more and more consolidated.
LIIDRIGA, OCT. 6.—ln eight days 33 persons
have been seized with the fever; eight have died,
and two recovered, and the cases of the others are
dangerous. Almost the whole population have gone
into the country c the Alcade and Municipality fa-
cilitate the only means of salvation, by distributing
among the people wood and reeds to build bar-
racks.
GRANADA, OCT. 10.—The parochial elections in
that city have proceeded with the greatest harmony,
and the fears of the epidimic disorder diminish daily,
but we do not neglect to take the necessary pre-
cautions. _ _

06T. 11.—We have received a despatch from
Malaga, and the accounts of the epidemic are very
afflicting; the Junta and the Municipality have
met, it seems, to double the measures of precau-
tion.

SARAGOSSA, OCT. 10.—The Superior Board of
Health has been intbrtned by its commissioner, Don
Augustin Quinto, that the sickness at Mequinenza
is drawing to a close; for want of food, hardly 20
inhabitants remained in the town, the greater num-
ber went into the country; that even should any of
those latter be attacked, no great alarm need be ex-
cited, as the families are fully kept asunder. and the
duty of the cordon was strictly performed.

NEW SPAIN.
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DECLARATION OF THE /NDBFINDINCII OF MEXICO.

[Prom the Charleston Gasette of Sept. g7:]

By the arrival yesterday of the brig Catherine,
Wellsman, in five days from Havannah, we have
received some late accounts from Mexico, and parti-
cularly from the seat of war.
A cessation of hostilities between the Patriots and
Royalists has taken Oita. On the llth of August,
Colonel Santana had agreed to the proposition of the
Viceroy, that the gates of La Vera Cruz should be
thrown open the next day, the prisoners on both
sides should be liberated, and that the country people
be allowed to come unarmed, and in no great
numbers.
PLAN of the GOVERNMENT that is to be established
provisionally, for the poriso,e of securing our holy religion
and establishing the independence of the Mexican empire,
under the title of the Administrative Junta of North Ame.
rica, proposed by Colonel Don Augustin de Yturvide, to
his Ez;ellency the Count del Venadito, Viceroy of New

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Spain:-
1. The religion of New Spain is and shall be the Catholic
Apo-tulle Roman religion, without toleration of any titber.
2. New Spain it independent of Old Spain, and of every
other power, even upon our own continent.
3. les Government shall be a limited Monarchy, conform-
ably to the constitution that may be adopted by the kingdom.
4. Its Emperor shall be Dan Ferdinand the Seventh; but
in case he shall not personally appear in Mexico wi: hint the
time that the Cortes shall specify, in order to take the oath,
Most Serene Infant Din Carlos, Don Francisco de Paula,
the Archduke Charles, or such other individual of the reign.
ing family, as the Congress may think proper. shall be culled
in hi, place.
4. Until the Cortes shall meet, there shall be a Junta for
the purpose of bringing about such a meeting, and causing the
phin to be executed in its full extent,
6. Said Junta, which shall be denominated Administrative,
is to be composed of the members named in the letter of his
Excellency the Viceroy, by which it shall be convened.
7. Until Don Ferdinand the Seventh shall present himself
in Mexico ami take the oath, the Junta shall govern in his
Majests's name, in virtue of the oath of fidelity a much the
nation has taken. Nevertheless the execution of all the
orders that lie may give previously to his taking the oath,
shall be su,pended until then.
8. If D n Ferdinand the Seventh shall not condescend to
come to Mexico, the Junta or the Regency shall govern in
the name of the nation, until the Emperor who is to be
crowned, shall be fixed upon.
9. This Government shall be maintained by the army of
the three guarantees hereinafter mentioned.
10. The Cortes shall determine upon the constitution of
a Regency, un:il the arrival of the person who I. to be
CR), [lt'd.

11. The Cortes shall afterwards establish the Constitution
of the 11. xican Empire.
12. All the inhabitants of New Spain, without any
tinction or Europeans, Africans, or Indians, are citizens of
this Monarchy, and eligible to every other, according to
their merit and sirtue.

13. The person and property of every citizen shall be
respected and protected by the Government.
14. The secutai and regular clergy shall be preserved in
all their rights and pre•eminences.
'l5. The Junta shall take care that all the departments of
the State remain without noy aheration, and that all civil
and military officers continue in their present situations
those only shall be removed who may refuse to coact,: in the
plan, substituting in their place such persons as may be most
dts•in;uished for ?lane and merit. . .

16. A protecting army :hall be formed, which shall he
denou.inatect the Army of the Three Guarantee:, inasmuch
ns it takes under its protection, in the first place, the pre-
servation of the Catholic Apostolic Roman religion, using
all methods in its power that there may be no mixture of
any other sect, and that the enemies oat may threaten it be
timeiy attacked. Secondly. Independence under the system
above mentioned. Thirdly, The intimate union of Europeans

and Americans; and gertrantees the' filndamental bases u
the felicity of New Spain, to the infraction of which, rather
than consent, it shall sacrifice itself from the Comm:m.ler
in Chief to the last man.
17. The troop. of the army shall observe the host e cart
discipline to the very letter of the Art, les of War; ;.,,it
the Cniefs and officers shall continue upon the footing la
hick they now nre are ; ;hut is to say, in their reaper rise
station, with eligibility to the offices now vacant, and ts nick
may be vai.atsd by such persons as may be unwilling to ss err,
and with eligibility to such new offices as may be considered
necessary or convenient.
19. The troops of the said army shall be considered as of
the line.
19. The same privileze shall be enjoyed by those who shall
enl..t without delay. and those who having borne arms la
support of the former system of independence snail imam.
didielv join the said army, and, the peasants who may enlist
shall he considered as troops of the National Militia; ati,d
they shall he employed in the internal and external sector .ty
' of the kingdom in such manner a. the Cortes may direct.
40. The commissions shall be granted according to teal
merit. as reported by the respective commanding offices.,
and in the name of the nation, provisionally.
Yl. Until the Cortes shall otherwise direct, proceedirls
in ctiminel cases shall be agreeably to the Spanish C"n.
stitution. _

22. In case of conspiracy against the Independence, the
culprit shall be. imprisoned until the Cartes shall deter.
mine piton the punishment of that greatest or all crimes, .
except those against tile Divine Majesty.
k 2. Such persons as may attempt to foment disonir n
shall be watched, and reputed as conspirators against 1.,
dependence.
24. As tile Cortex who are to be ilvdalled are to tram(' a
Constitution, it is necessary that the Deputies shoaid t,.
ceive powers sufficient for that purpose, and as it is :,iso
of much importuuce that the electors should know they
are to be represented iu the Congress of Mexico, and not
in that of Madrid, the Junta shall prescribe just rule~ for
the election, and shall designate the time of it, an,!
time of the opening of the Congress; and as the elec•, its
cannot now take place in March. the time shall be exti.l.(l.
ed as much as possible.