The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

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mercantile classes in every part of the United I
States seem to have produced a very sensible
impression upon the public Mind. The en-
couragement given tp French privateers in the
American ports 'is still continued, and forms
a strong and striking instance of partiality to France.
The following is an Extract of a Letter from Bar-
badoes, on the subject of the activity of French pri-
vateers in the West Indian Seas, and of the facilities
pf outfit afforded them in American ports
" Barlakicie.F., August 6, 181.
" The Duke of Dantzic. French privateer has
not been seen or heard of since my last. A•schooner,
arrived here from Demerara, was chased six days
ado iniat. U. by a brig, wnich, from the desci ip-
*kin, I take to be the Prince (21 Essting privateer,
which was to touch off Surinam, and then to cruise
ID the windward of St. Thomas's.
" A fine pilot.boat three-masied schooner is on
her way to this quarter. She left the United States
unarmed, but was supplied with men, arm,, and
ammunition in the American waters. I shajl. have
‘o give an account soon, I fear, of her depreda-
tions."

SOUTH AMERICA.
The intelligence from South America contrnres
checquered, according to the vicissitudes which be.
fal the contending parties in that interesting 1:•gion.
Whilst the hostilities are maintained with obstinacy
en the river Plate, and the Junta_of Buenos Ayres,
and the Viceroy, ELI°, are exhausting tlieir means
in mutual activity and oppositi(,n, the progress of
the 'revolution in the interior of the other Viceroyal-
ties is vigorously opposed and often successfully re-
tarded. The revolutionists muster generally strong,
but their adversaries have always the advantage of
military experience and discipline, The conse-
quence necessarily has been, that the regular troops
have almost uniformly been victors in the. field ;
though the other party, when worsted, have sel-
dom failed to re-assmble in greater numbers and
accumulating force. Disasters do not appear to
dismay them, and with the difficulties they have to
encounter their energies seem to rise. With such
qualities they must be foimidable, and will, if they
persevere in the exercise of them, prove absolutely
irresistible. Unless the free Constitution about
to be established in the Mother Country should
conciliate the innovators in Spanish America, the
possibility of ever again restoring them to their
late state of dependence must be remote indeed.
The very checks they have met, arutthe efforts they
continue to make in spite of all their losses, show the
firmness of their determination, and the steadiness of
their purpose. It is then to be feared that the •sea-
son of accommodation has, passed away, and that a
eople prosecuting, independence through a series of
is-sters, will not be easily induced to abandon their
great object, when the scale of success turns in their
favour ? We have been favoured, by a Gentleman
recently arrived from South America, with the fol-
lowing parziculars from the contents of a Spanish
Gazette in is possession
" New Spain continues to exhibit a state of

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things not free from danger. I have read every •
Gazette and privateletter from that kingdom down,
to the 2d June last, and find a still greater number
of rebels, than when they were wasted by hundreds
of thousands in the field of battle. Commericinr
with New Galicia, 150 leagues to the Westward off'
Mexico, there is a body _divided into three sections,
of upwards of 12,000 men. Towards the South,
85 leagues distance, there is another which has re.,
sisted several attacks in seven months time, ana keeps
the port of Acapulco strictly blockaded. From South
to West, there are several moveable corps, which
may eiLlier join Vallogran and attack Mexico, or
protect the main body t n Zetacuaro. From Capu-
lapa, ten leagues from Mexico, as far as 20Q
leagues to th,e N. W. iv:chiding Cadericta, • San.
Louis de la Paz, Sichu, Sante Maria del Rio,
Valle de San Francisco, Guadalaxara, Venadu,
Matepula, Real de Catorn, &c. no one can t:.a7
vel without imminent danger. And lastly, a let-
ter from a respectable correspondent in Mexico,
dated May (29th, states as follows
44 Akin) UOl the rebels have sustained, and are
sui,taining defeats, neither does the public opinica
vary,, nor do they submit."
The following is an extract from a journal of the
proceedings of the Junta at Buenos Ayres, during
the first week. ofJuly:—
LT .—An order was issued by the Government, that no
European (which. means the old Spaniards) should be permitted
to appear cut after sun-set, on pain of death. Patroles of guard;
paraded the streets in all directions to put this order into execu-
tion.
" TursnAv,t.—An order was issued, that European Spas
niards, unmarried, of whatever age or denomination, should
Buenos Ayres on the following day ; that they should not
r. main on this side the river, but proceed to the interior of the
country ; the order of the Ist inst. still remaining the same.
.6 NV tn N ESPAY, S.—The order of the 2d, was expected to be
put in execution this day. In consequence, numbers of the Eu-
ropean Sp.,niards, as denominated in the order, appeared befor,e
the tort or citadel, where the President of the Junta resided, to
know when they were to.leayse the capital. They were inform-
ed they should not be sent away that day, but hold themselves
in reoliuess to leave the city at an hour's warning.
" The orders of the Ist and 2d were issued, in consequence
of information the Government had received, that it was the
intention of Elio, the Governor of Monte Video, whilst the
Buenos ,lyres' troops were before that place, to proceed up the
river with 800 men, and endeavour to make a diversion here,
where he expected the old Spaniards would assist him. Another
stimulus for the Gtovernment to issue the above orders, was tine
conversations of the old Spaniards, which are genera 4
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violent and open, too much so for their own safety."

A Proclamation has been issued by the Lieutenant-
Governor of Gibraltar, prohibiting all .comniuni.
cation by sea and land between Gibraltar aid
Spain, inviting the inhabitants to come forward as
Conservators of Health, directing quarantine, and
discontinuing night fishing. The operation of this
Proclamation in the interruption it has given to
commerce, is. much and grievously deplored by, the
merchants, but most cheerfully submitted td as
absolutely necessary for the preservation of the
health of the garrison and inhabitants.
The attention of the Spanish Cortes is now oc-
cupied with framing a new Constitution, said to tie
on the model of the English ; that the King shall
no longer be absolute, but aided by his Parliament ;
grant no money but with their
,consent.; and the
difference between the grandee and .the peasant to
be abrogated.

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ligence of consequence. Things wear rather a
favourable appearance for an accommodation with
this country there, as the distresses of the
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