The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-10 00:00:00

MEXICAN BANDITTI.

Baltimore and Philadelphia Papers to the 9th
tilt. have been received. The following is as
extract from the latter :
" The arrival from Alvarado this day brought the distress-
ing intelligence of the murder of Mr. James Crawford of
this City, and in his death we are called upon to lament
the loss of a very worthy fellow-citizen. The details of
' this melancholy event, in the hurried account which has
been received, are as follows :—About five months since,
Mr. Crawford and Mr. Andrews were dispatched by the
United states' Bank to Mexico, for the purpose of effect-
ing some important negociations. On their return from the
city of Mexico to Alvarado, as considerable danger was
apprehended from an attack by robbers, on the supposition of their
having a large amount in specie, they were furnished with an escort
of 25 men, well armed, under the direction of Capt. Murray of
the British Navy. On arriving at Puebla, there were deprived of
this escort by the public authority, and an inferior guard, of 12
worthless men, badly armed, was substituted. A short distance
from Puebla most of this guard deserted them, and they were
soon after attacked by a set of banditti of 25, in ambuscade.
Mr. Crawford, who was an excellent horseman, being mounted,
by his customary gallant deportment and mien attracted the first
attention of the robbers—he received the first shoe, the ball
passing through his lungs. Four of the party were wounded,
and a courier, who had joined them at the moment, with dis-
patches for Captain Murray, killed. Captain Murray and Mr.
Andrews appear to have escaped odium The banditti made
the party prisoners, robbed them of all, including 25,000 dollars
in specie, and being joined by those of the guard who had de-
serted, deliberated whether to put them to death, but througb
the intercession of two or three who had some remains of hu-
manity, they were, after some hours detention and cruel treat-
ment, set free. 111 r. Crawford expired in the arms of Mr. An-
drews, three hours after receiving the fatal wound ; whether
any rites of interment could have taken place under the un-
fortunate circumstances of his death is unknown. Thus fell is.
the prime of life, on the desolate and inhospitable shores of a
foreign land, by the hands of cold-blooded murderers, James
Crawford, an accomplished gentleman, of a noble, generous,
intrepid spirit, respected sad beloved by. all who knew him."
A letter of the sth April from Alvarado states that the at-
tack upon Mr. Crawford and his party took place about 45 miles
from Puebla, and that a French gentleman named Vidal was
also killed. Mr. Crawford's remains were buried at Peron.
The letter thus concludes :
" To describe the sensation this cruel and unwarrantable art
produced here would be impossible. Suffice it to say—deep re-
gret, mingled with revenge, impresses every American heart.
Our country should notice it, but its representation should come
from its proper authority."

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—Yesterday a numerous and highly respectable meeting of thl
members and friends of the above Society was held at
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room, in Brewer-street, Somers Town; Lord J. R
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tion of the meeting to the Report, which was t
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Miller, the Secretary, and was highly Thesatisftictory.motlon
of Mr.
was approved of and ordered to be printed on the
children thcn,
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the Chair. The Chairman commenced by requesting the alien_
J. Butterworth, M,P. An exatninatte.
to take a lively in-
took place, in which the company appeared
ate s_peeelies, thanks were
by the children. After some any PT
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voted to the Chairman, who returneded.
terest, and were highly delighted wi
speech, and the meeting P
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BEf lis laudable Institution was .INSTITUTION.--
The Anniversary Anniversary Festival at
tbe Crown and Anchor Tavern,
brated yesterday evenings
e u_ and respectable company attended,
Strand, when
a numder°ndid entertainment. Sir JAMES GlLA-
tht hen telligence displayed
and partook of '.l:, splendid
the Chair, supported by Lord LON S.
t'Lieutenant of the County,, Lind several other
DALE, tne.1,4,0
Gentlemen of distinction. The Report of the
d the appearance of the children were highly grate.-
in an open barouche, with blue stream-
ers evening was passed in the utmost harmony.
fYing' "n LATE FIGHT.-Spring arrived in ToE
INsieAocbarrelet,an.:By:anrt.i d
ers displayed, and was occasionally cheered as
lie passed the Strand. He is very little injured,
except in his hands, which are greatly bruised
from the numberless thumps he was obliged to
inflict on the hard head of his brave opponent,
whom the Champion allows to be the best man
he has ever had to encounter. Langan having
lost not only his last pound, but his last shilling
(having Staked every thing, upon the result of the
battle), a subscription in his behalf is con.tern-
ypistteedrcliblyy
the amateurs of the science of pugilism,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jane 10.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

W bile anticipation has been busy in its specu-
lations our the results to arise from the defeat of
the great financial measure brought forward by
the Count de Villele, and the fall of that Minis-
ter was confidently proclaimed in the salons on
the Bourse, and through the caffes of Paris, his
triumph in the Royal Closet is announced in
Tuesday's Eloile, and the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, the versatile Chateaubriand, has been sa-
crificed to his influence : the latter is no longer a
• member of the French Ministry. A Royal Or-
dinaece, dated on Tuesday, without preamble or
assigned cause of any sort, flings Chateaubriand
down from his short-lived elevation, and commits
the portfeuille of Foreign Affairs to his triumphal
opponent, the Finance Minister, till a more suit-
able successor is named. The immediate conse-
quences of this decisive policy have been a re-
storation of public confidence, and a rise in the
French Funds. Though Monday was a close
holiday, and the Bourse in consequence was shut,
considerable business, our private letters inform
-us, was done in the Rentes at the different Caffes
where such transactions are conducted, as soon as
the retirement of the Foreign Minister was
known, and numerous transfers were made at
pirces above 104 f., though on the Saturday before
the Stock Exchange closed at 103 f. 50c. The
retirement of Chateaubriand is considered as de-
cisive of the pacific policy of the French
Cabinet. The King and his family had given
their support to the Minister's financial mea-
sure of reduction, which Chateaubriand did
iiot advocate from the tribune, and the rejection
of which he is supposed to have contributed to,
by private intrigue. All Villele's influence or
consequence was directed to his removal. .Ells
exile from the French Cabinet, just at this mo-
ment, must be considered as an event of unques-
tionable importance. Chateaubriand's accession
took place at the period of the Congress of
-Verona; and his inflated oratory from the
-tribune was exerted to urge the war with Spain,
to fulfil the views of the Royal Confederates
assembled at that Congress, and to destroy with
a throng of bayonets every thing like liberty
within the Pyrenees. It is yet a subject
of doubt whether that unhappy war, so
ruinous in its effects to Spain, and productive-
of so little benefit to France, would have taken
place if M. de Villele's influence had then been
supreme. He had long substituted the slower
and more secret, but not less dangerous weapons
of corruption and intrigue. But Chateaubriand,
and the cabal of the " Pavilon Marsan," urged
on the war; and Louis opened the Session of
1823 with the annunciation of one hundred thou-
sand Frenchmen being prepared to pass the ,
Pyrenees and overturn the Constitution. What
subsequent charges may follow the dismission of
the Foreign Minister we cannot yet anticipate. The
indemnity intended for the surviving emigrants,
which was to be provided from the saving on
the interest of the debt, must now be abandoned,
or found from some other source. But the recent
change is satisfactory, because the policy of the
present Minister is decidedly pacific. Villele's
great engines are diplomacy and intrigue ; we
may look in consequence for a more liberal con-
duct towards the wretched Spaniards who were
ruined by their attachment to freedom ; and no
attempt will be made on South America that can
draw down a quarrel with Great Britain.

[THE TIMES.]
The intelligence from Paris yesterday was of
more than usual interest. The rejection of the
plan for the reduction of the Rentes, which gave
such general satisfaction in that capital on
Thursday last, has ended, strange to say, not in
the removal of the Minister, who was its author
and supporter, but in that of another who had
opposed it. M. de Villele, who sustained the
defeat in the Chamber of Peers, has triumphed
in the Cabinet of the King ; and his rival, Cha-
teaubriand, who succeeded in his underhand en-
couragement of legislative opposition, has been
turned out, to enjoy his victory with his opposition
friends. Private letters state, that M. de Villele
ascribes the failure of his measure to the trea-
chery of his colleague ; and as the King and 1,
Monsieur were as anxious as the Minister to carry
through a financial operation, from which the civil
list would probably have derived advantage, this
double-dealing could not escape with impunity.
In the first instance, the Minister of Finance has
acted with his. usual superiority, and has probably
gained a permanent advantage. It is impossible,
bowever, as yet, to foresee the result. Chateau-
briand retires with all the popularity of having
prevented the spoliation of the small stockholders,
and will be at the head of a party by whom he is
warmly supported, and he can powerfully
aid by his pen ; while•M. de Villele retains office
amid the disgrace of defeat. There will, there-
fore, no doubt, be a severe struggle between
these individuals and their friends.

[NEw TIMES.]
The I;tofle of Tuesday contains an unexpected
inn,. the Viscount dc latea CI • •
Ordinance, remov ü-
briand from the Ministry of
iI, oreign Affairs, and
entrusting the Portfolio ad nterim to M. de Vil-
lele. Nothing is said as to the cause of this
change ; but it may easily be conjectured that
the Prime Minister did not consider himself to
have been properly supported by.his Noble
Col-
league in the affair of the proposed reduction of the
Renter. It is said too, that M.de Chateauhrtand
differed from M. de' Villele on the South Ame-
rican question) ; the former was inclined to go
much further than the latter, in countenancing or
even assisting the King of Spain to recover his
Colonies. Be this as it may, the removal of M.
De Chateaubriand from the Cabinet clearly
sinews the firm footing on which M. De Villele
stands in the Royal favgour. It also proves that he
does not much regard the decay of his influence in
the Chamber of Peers, since he has strengthened
the Royalist Opposition there with the talents
of so celebrated a man as M. De Chateaubriand.
ratice do not intimate
The private letters from F

that any other changes are likely to take place.
The Rentes are rather improving ; on Monday
they were 103. 40. for money, and 103. 55. for
account ; they are said to have been done after
'Change hours considerably higher.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The retirement of M. Chateaubriand appears
to have had a favourable effect upon the French
funds. Et is not likely, however, to have any
decided influence upon the foreign policy of
France. It is true, he affected an exalted and
uncompromising character ; but no one has been
more flexible—more inconsistent with himself.—
He wrote tomes of pamphlets before his entry
into the Ministry. The measures and the
speeches of the Minister, especially on the
subject of the Election Laws and the Free-
dom of the Press, have been opposed, with
a sort of whimsical precision, to the lucu-
brations of the pamphleteer. His very ex-
aggerations prove his insincerity. --Without
any stable and uniform motives of action,—

without strong passion, or the conviction of ren-
son,—he always went beyond the mark, lest his
hollowness should be perceived. His zeal was
fastidious, and therefore exaggerated. In reli-
gion, in politics, in literature even, he was al-
ways acting a part, or rather he was over-acting
one. In religion his piety would stop nothing short
of the Crusaders—as a politician he affected no-
thing short of chivalry; and in literature he carries
what the continental writers call" the romantic,"
to very meJo-drame. In truth, he seems to have
assumed the enthusiast, just like a preacher act-
ing fanaticism, to make himself a name. To the
Ministry he brought little else than a certain
glitter of reputation, and a certain facility of
making phrases in a state paper or a speech.
His retirement, then, should the breach in the
Ministry run no farther, does not appear likely
to affect the strength or popularity, whatever
that may be, of the Government.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The news of the dismissal of M. de Chateau-
, briand created some surprise yesterday, though,
we believe, it was rather an agreeable surprise,
as the triumph of M. de Villele was viewed as
the defeat of the fanatic party, and an earnest of
a disposition on the part of the French Govern-
ment to remain at peace with this country—When
we say remain at peace, we only mean to say
that M. de Villele will probably avoid taking
any steps which will bring his Government
into collisio❑ with that of this country.—
As far as South America is concerned, the
policy of M. de Villele would probably lead
him to confine his exertions to intrigues for
the fomenting of disturbances. This policy
would not be viewed with any thing like ill will
by a party in the British Cabinet, which hates
independence as much as the Bourbons can pos-
sibly do, but which is kept in check by the feel-
ing which is now prevalent in the trading and
manufacturing towns. The extravagance of the
Russian, or bigk Ultra party in France,
would hardly be credited in this country.--
Would it be believed that M. Pozzo di
Borgo, its oracle in Paris, In a memoir
addressed to his Court, in 1817, on the im-
portance of replacing South America under the
dominion of Spain, actually allowed his zeal
against liberty to carry him so far as gravely to
propose the subjugation of the United States of
North America. This is, no doubt, very extra-
vagant, but it was not the less gravely stated by
the man to whom, more than any other, the
Russian party in France, look up. It is, no
doubt, a good thing that those who entertain
such extravagant notions should be removed from
power; but we must not exaggerate the amount
of the good. We may rest assured that what-
ever Party prevails in France, it will be hostile
to the cause of good government in every part of
the world, and that the same objects will still be
sought after, though by different means,—the one
giving a preference to violence, the other to
fraud.

[MORNING POST.]
Viscount Chateaubriand was, by a Royal Or-
dounance, dismissed from the post of Minister for
Foreign Affairs. This act of vigour seems to
have produced a favourable effect. Though it
was a holiday at the Paris Exchange a great deal
of business was done in the French Funds, at an
advanced price (104), and reports spread that M.
de Villele had been or would be raised to a Duke-
dom, as a marl; of the King's satisfaction. This
event is certainly one of considerable importance.
Viscount Chateaubriand was the representative
of the Ultras in the Ministry, and evidently
used the influence with which his situation armed
him to further their views rather than to give
effect to the measures of the Administration of
which he formed a part. He does not even stand
quite clear in the estimation of the French pub-
lic, and perhaps of the King, of all participation
iW the late affair in Portugal. That it was an
Ultra plot, and that its failure has been
lamented as such by the Ultra prints of France,
are facts which it is impossible to deny. If it be
urged that the conduct of Mr. Hyde de Neu-
ville at Lisbon exonerates the French Ministry
from having been a party to the conspiracy, we
shall answer, that it is now openly stated and be-
lieved in Paris, that M. Hyde de Neuville acted
as he did on that occasion, because he had been
left in the dark by the Minister who prepared
and directed the whole, and who knowing him to
be an honest man, did not think proper to put him
au fait of what was intended. Neither is this a
charge on the French Administration collectively,
but on one of its members, whose dismissal from
office is a sufficient justification for the rest,
as it proves that his conduct in both instances
hau been viewed with disapprobation by his col-
leagues. M. de Chateaubriand is said to have
been the most hostile of all the French Ministers
to the recognition of South American indepen-
dence. M. de Villele, in whose hands the whole
influence of the Ministry is at present collected,
has always sbewn himself, on the contrary, a man
of sense, moderation, and liberal principles. Had
not his more violent colleague, backed by the
authority of the Congress at Verona, interposed
successfully at the time, that unjust and unneces-
sary war waged last year by France against Coo-