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London, England, 1823-11-18 00:00:00

but in Mexico, Chili, and Colombia, a wreck of
her ascendancy does not remain. Morales was
driven from the shores of the latter country, and
is now at the Havannah, a predatory buccaneer.
--Brazil, in the same way, expelled Madeira,
and is now a Monarchy, utterly independent
of feeble Portugal. Are a few despots on
the Continent of Europe to set themselves up as
arbiters of the world, nud arrest the irresistible
course of time and circumstances ? and while
they possess, with the exception of France, nei-
ther maritime resources nor commerce, ►s England
to annihilate the pursuits of her merchants, and
check all her foreign relations, at the bidding of
a despotic confederacy of this description;!, So
long as Spain possessed a vestige of authority in
these countries, she took no step towards any ac-
credited intercourse with them.

[MORNING POST.]
We received 'last night, by Express, French
Papers to the 17th inst. The Royal Ordonnance
for the dissolution of the Chamber was expected
to appear immediately, the Electoral Colleges to
be convoked for the 15th of January, and the
Chamber for that day month. Preparations have
already been made by the Ministers to procure
satisfactory returns. Almost all the Royalist
Members of the present Chamber are said to
have been appointed Presidents of the Electoral
Colleges ; its consequence of which one of the
Opposition Papers pertinently asks—" why
the Chamber should be dissolved, since it was

intended that the new one should consist of
the saint! Members ?"—To this the Joirnal des
DAats frankly answers—" that the Government
wishes to have the same Chamber, because it is
a Royalist one ; but that it intends to dissolve
it at present in order that all the elections may
be of the same date, with the view of afterwards
proposing a septennial renovation, which it
regards as alone calculated to ensure the repose
and salvation of the Monarchy. 44 Nothing,"
it adds, 66 can be more clear or more consistent,
It replies to all objections, to all insinua

ons, and even to all calumnies; and proves

once that the Ministers do not forsake their
principles or their friends." This open avowal
of a determination to interfere with the freedom
of election and to procure a set of ministerial tools
instead of na►ional representatives, is another
proof, if any were wanting, of the total disregard
of public opinion which success in Spain has en-
couraged the French Ministry to display.—
lied it not considered itself so strengthened by
the issue of the late war, as to set decency and
decorum at defiance, it would have resorted on
this occasion to its usual diaguises. But they
are now thrown off, in the confidence that
power has rendered further caution or shame-
facedness unnecessary.

[MORNING CHRONICLE. 3
The Phaeton has brought letters from Mexico,
the latest date of which, we understand, is the
20th of August. According to the contents of
some mercantile letters we have seen, the whole
of New Spain is in a quiet and settled state,
although a difference of opinion had hitherto pre-
vailed among some of the Provinces as to the
form of Government hereafter to be adopted.
All the Provinces had formed local assem-
blies to discuss this topic, as well as the pro-
priety of acknowledging, in the mean while,
and until a definitive form should be adopted,
the Supreme Provisional Government, as it hud
been established at Mexico. The Federative
plan, of the success of which the United States
offer so proud an example, had been recommended
for adoption in New Spain, and the Provisional
Government, instituted after the downfall of
Iturbide, were desirous that it should be adopted,
as the best means of rendering the union of all
efficient.—The Provinci! of Guatemala was also
invited to coalesce, but the inhabitants preferred
forming a Government of their own, and the Ex-
ecutive was confided to three persons. Gua-
temala may, therefore, for the present, he
considered as a distinct nation from Mexico, al-
though it was thought, that, in the course
of time, the local prejudices would be destroyed,
and a coalition, be evetually formed between
them. At first,several of the Mexican Provinces,
owing to their distance, supposed diversity of in-
terests, and those local prejudices, which, creat-
ed by the old Spanish Rulers, had shewn a dis-
position to establish a separate independent Go-
vernment of their own, from which, however,
they had been dissuaded on account of the tend-
, ency of such a system to affect the strength of
the whole. The Congress were, consequently,
, engaged in drawing up the plan on which the ge-
neral Federation was to be founded.

• ' [MORNING HERALD.]
Mr. Canning has returned to London, after
rather a conspictieus excursion into the country.
The speeches 'delivered by him, in reply to the
homage not unjustly offered to his official dignity,
his talentsi and his personal consideration—the
publicity with which he showed himself—and
the readiness, with which he met the zeal of
those who did the honours of their respective
communities and Corporations to him as he
paised, are strong reasons to believe that his ex.
tursiVe visits had an object beyond mere recrea.
Alen. , When Mr. Canning visited Liverpool, and let
off a brilliant harangue, for the satisfaction and
admiration of .ail the Burgesses of that -town,
there was no mistaking his design. The'motive
of •his late.exeursions and appearances is said to
be pretty, nearly the same. His object was—
if we may use the 'term, to pcipuiarize himself.
It might be suspected that this maisumuvre looks
like a conscioustiesS of weakness in the Cabinpt,
and that he is-nianaging,- against all casualties,
the means7' or retreating with ecial. ft is cer-
lainly the time that Mr. Canning has
shown himself, particularly studious of popular
favourl' 'it is--more probable 'ivovvever, that- this
changeof system is a proorof increased strength
Mitt ' enfarge& ambition: Notwithstanding his
acknowledged talents,' and• something in his pe.
collar endowments and accemplishments, well
calculteted to fetich-late the popular gaze, he here.
Wore' canarchrto Foilice nod Went out without
exeitlhe 'a' ,sensatiOn '• .beyond the imniediate
circle of the Administration. But upon the deith