The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

TIM UNITED STATES

AND MEXICO.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 7.
EY the
latYe paoket-ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, we
adviees from New York to the 17th ult. inclusive.
trielle intelligence from the seat of war is interesting.
natal Taylor was still in pursuit of Urrea.
The Mexican papers are full of details of the fighting,
tobberies, and murders committed in the capital by the
°PPosing armies and the banditti. In fact, that beauti-
wrill city was literally converted into a battle field. Streets
eat 'Unleaded by the belligerents, whose deadly fire
el----" the principal thoroughfares, and killed many of
'"a onoffending inhabitants and even women. Dwellings
Were plundered and stores robbed. Well-dressed citizens
Wee— .
Sew
hwaylaid in open day, robbed of their watches and
eetY, and in many instances murdered by the law-
leBs soldiers and banditti scouring the streets. For
leveled days anerchy reigned supreme throughout the
lin sad
city, All law was at an end, and 160,000 per-
,.. were exposed to the brutal passions of the infuriated
-4°b of soldiers and robbers. The robbers on the prin-
ciP4ll:flail routes had poured into_ the city of Mexico in
thoe ,
ehe"sanas, many no doubt to share in the excesses of
, tevolution, but more probably to escape from the
414Tetican forces, who were expected to proceed by the
aatPa road.
vehta Anna was at Cedral when he beard of the, rete-
lb -"°aary attempt in the city of Mexico. e
roto
the:e on the 3d of March, avowing his oppositiona e
VrenLattemPt, and then pushed on to Matahua .
-Hat_
Noce thence, on the 6th ultimo, to the Secretary
.t l
voesiiteucliaoisninrounoin.g that he. would manrcdhpuotndotwhen
tchaepiriei..
ge division of his forces, a
on entrance of Santa Anna into San Luis Potosi,esses
_ the Bth ultimo, was a triumphant one. All I
147.'4 ont to meet him two or threo miles on t.he
tero_.ad.
$t night he was serenaded, and the town illumiena d
t 4 The following day he wrote a dispatch to th. Secre-
corn3;-°"Var, announcing that two brigades of ififlr
btrayt.,
levies Posed of 4,000 men, with their correspondine, tobe
they were
. were on their march to San Luis, and .
the sur°lloWed by two others, of all arms,
. to the aid of
veL Preme
that
Powers of the nation traitorously attacked.
14.411.8 letter would lead one to suppose conclusively
.
w•tl'eui.te,nded to put down the attempt against Gomez
se,as s administration. He denounces in unqualified
loans the attempt at a revolution at such a time.
tlPl.but the day alter, March 10, he wrote two other let-
e trnevilloleuatiicon—°aryne to General Barragan, the head of
aratlyte•thz ontheerdentooeloemseezivFilardiaiss:
Itl: loe nwsai these
rdnss ' .Barrabhnist considerateitsognaeniPsand F arlina
sseeking terms of courtesy
desist from further houtilitie
bounces hiss in the capital, and an-
.. He- conjures. them to
~„.e urpose of proceeding thither immediately.
fi.u..__o tells Barr
agan not to fear for himself or others com-
rrenused by the revolutionary attempt; that he has but
a desire to unite all Mexicans &c. There followed
from these letter; which were published on the 13th or
Ith
exi._,ut.suspension of hostilities, though each party ac-
ii`e.7l he other of violating the truce. Santa Anna
fLuiitt arrived on the 17th, but would encounter no
hloYitniiPaatienntrnlyin,g power.
for
All parties were waiting
With the and each claiming that he will side
'hand m. Representations had been made to him in
gene °ace, and large delegations of influential men had
It " tovvards San Luis to meet and propitiate him.
capital
Wits reported that Santa Anna had arrived at the
"P '4l on the 19th of March, and was in full posession
over.
ei, he New Orleans Whig journals mention General
4114°:parsea.andidate for the" Presidency.
s Quitmani
appointedenthaasnd
Getierai
Ileallee rPillow,
of Mississippi and Ten-
or. respectively.
t_ Pakenham, the English Minister at Washington,
es, accordin
to tagianci tg to the Baltimore journals, about to return
Th e following are the official dispatches relative to the
e of Vera Cruz:—
cwFleul. DISPATCHES FROM GENERAL SCOTT.
Head-quarters of the Army, Camp, Washington,
5ir,.....y before Vera Cruz, March 23, 1847.
te,__ esterday seven of oar 10-inch mortars being in bat-
heavy4 and the labours for planting the remainder of our
1..14 lnetal being in progress, I addressed, at two o'clock
the i__a summons to the Governor of Vera Cruz, and within
(I___e'ru hours limited by the bearer of the flag received the
4Zev..rlior' answer. Copies of the two papers (marked re-
It will A and B) are herewith enclosed.
la w'll be perceived that the Governor, who, it turns out,
ter_tae commander of both places, chose, against the plain
11,-.3 co
the summons, to suppose me to have demanded
the
isurrender of the castle and the city, when, in fact, from
rg° non-arrival of our heavy metal, principally mortars, I
711:1 no condition to threaten the former.
ordain, the return of the flag, with that reply, I at once
tii'red the seven mortars on the battery to open upon the
Nl' In a short time the smaller vessels of Commodore
ill..g7:asquadron—two steamers and five schooners—accord-
etitF„ Previous arrangement with him, approached the city
to,"erill about a mile and an eighth, whence, being partly
4Safer-et' front the castle—an essential condition to their
l ",Y--thev also opened a brisk fire upon the city. This
vitireri continued uninterruptedly by the mortars, and only
this "few intermissions by the vessels, up to nine o'clock
their=Ding, when the Commodore very properly called
04,-Tisfrein a position too daringly assumed.
.‘54.) in bat
remaining mortars are now
.(twelye o'clock,
early, if tt,ttery and the whole ten in. activity. To-morrow,
11124 6 wa're. city should continue obstinate, batteries Nos. 4 four 2; 4 De ready to adi their fire ; No. 4, consisting of
(aii rPounders and two 8-inch Paixhan guns, and No. 5
ta 'tat attery), of three 32-pounders and three 8 inch Paix-
-48-;the gun officers, and sailors landed from the squadron
en :r friends of the navy being unremitting in their zealous
-'-lterati s
mode and form.
offso
.far w° en li in
every
w that our fire upon the city has been highly
,ctive, particularly from the batteries of 10-inch mortars,
farted •at about eight hundred yards from the city.
neluding the preparation and defence of the batteries
from, the .beginning,. now many days, and notwithstand-
ing the heavy _Ere of the enemy from city and castle,
We have only--had four .or five men. wounded, and
one officer and, aril man killed, in or near the trenches. That
officer was Captain J. Rn. Ti ton of the United States 3d
Artillery, one of the most gifted, accomplished; and effective
al,enabers of the army, and who was highly distinguished
in(l brillianto operations of Monterey. He fell last evening in
De trenches, where be was on duty as field and commanding
neer, universally regretted. I have just attended
h.:s
;,`,4loored remains to a soldier's grave, in full view of the
-"DIY and within reach of his guns,
tl3 of the long-needed mortars—leaving 27, besides heavy
all, behind—have arrived, and two of them are lauded. A
eilvY norther then set in (at meridian), that stopped that
Z°Peration, and also the landing of shells. Hence the fire of
at mortar batteries has been slackened since two o'clock to-
-"Y, and cannot be re-invigorated until we shall again have
14tostMooth sea. In the meantime I shall leave this repo. rt open
pi. Purnalising events that may occiir to the departure
the steam ship of war Princeton, with Commander Conner,
Itc.% I learn, expects to leave the
. anchorage off Sacrificios,
for
the United States, the 25th inst.
karch 21.—The storm having subsided in the night, we
commenced this forenoon, as soon as the sea became a little
keeth, to land shot shells and mortars.
atnaval batterv,No. 5 'was opened with great activity,
-,l„ser CaPtain Aulick, the second in rank of the squadron,
at]; —lit 10 A.m. His fire was continued to 2 o'clock P,M. ;
It.ttle before he was relieved by Captain Mayo, who landed
,Vrlzthh fresh supply of ammunition, Captain Aulick having
foil Itils;t,ed the supply he had brought with him. He lost
aliiitsiay"rl34lsilled, and had one officer, Lieutenant Baldwin,
ogii_lidi; (1111e:tail); batteries Nos. 1,2, and 3 have fired but lan-
the day for want of shells, which are now going
1111retri the beach.
Loth tw° reports of Colonel Bankhea*cl, Chief of Artillery,
th,., of this date, copies of which I enclose, give the inci-
,r,'s of those three batteries.
two 15atter.,,,
R 4 10. 4, which will mount four 24-pounders and
Lahti- taco Paixha%guns, has been much delayed in the
Ailed s of the indefatigable engineers by the norther, that
„„ up the work with sand nearly as fast as it could be
`,ll'.oed by the half-blinded labourers. It will, however,
oubtless be in fullactivity early to-morrow morning.
del 25."-The Prnceion being
.about to start for PHs-
.-", i stave but a moment to continue this report.
All the batteries, Nos. 1, 2,3, 4, and 5, are in awful activity
this morning. The effect is, no doubt, very great, andl
think the city cannot hold out beyond to-day. To-morrowto
teetnin man of the new mortars will be in a position
ozardgdani theirz fire,ywhen, or after the delay of some twelve hsohuarsli
4 no
.proposition to surrender should received, I
parties for carrying the city by assault. sult. So far the
defence has been spirited and obstinate.
memorial received last night, signed
, I enclose a copy of a Britain, Franca, Spain, and Prussia,
by the Consuls of Great
eto
grant a truce to enable the
Within Vera Cruz, salting In
neutrals, together
the
th Mexican women and children, to
withdraw from scene of havoc about them. I shall re-
ply, the moment that an opportunity may be taken, to say-
1. That a truce can only be granted on the application
Tbat
in of
Governor Morales, with a view to surrender. 2.
tending safeguards to the different consuls, beginning as far
back as the 13th inst., I distinctly admonished them—parti-
cularly the French and Spanish consuls—and, of course,
through the two, the other consuls, of the dangers that have
?nowed. 3. That although at that date I had already re-
ed to allow any person whatsoever to pass the line of in.
1' estment either way, yet the blockade had been left open to the
consuls and other neutrals to passo4uttbt,o their respective
I shall enclose to
lhiPs of war up to the 22d inst.; and,
'he memorialists a copy of my summons to the Governor, to
she
that I had fully considered the impending
tuoseot whaormdseinp
‘eistresses of the place, including a and
,pchLildren before one gun had been fired in that direction.
c‘''aos intercourse between the neutral shits obyf wu,armamndedtelriee
f,tY was stopped at the last mentioned
ti;rl.3', with my concurrence, which I
placedto the enemy moral
aid At the intercourse could not fail to give
a on the ground
i:md comfort
;till be seen from the memorial that our battenritebsrehuagvbe
aolte-'''Y had a terrible effect on the city (alsoaksnu
known
must
soon sources), and hence the inference that
Sh. " proposed.—ln haste, I have the honour to remain,
-I With respect, your most obedient
'INFIELD SCOTT.
Ilen* W. L. Marcy, Secretary-at •IN ar.

Sir Mead-quarters of the Army, Vera Cruz, March 29.
r—'ille hag of the United States of America oa
San
j tty ever the alls of this city and the castle of
thlrt de Ulloa 1Y
Our .
n(,\,., troops have garrisoned both since ten o'clock. It is
tyro pniZt.s. Brigadier-General Worth is in command of the
Artie!
Ime h_ es of capitulation were signed and exchanged at. a
%ien
"tu.r the night before last. .1 enclose a copy of the d0.,1
.,1 have heretofore reported the principal incidents of the
7`itegree up th the 23th inst. Nothing of striking interest oc-
ee_c d till early in the morning of the next day, when I re-
ilo_eaq overtures from General Landero, on whom. General
-,orrn c .
;tl'iniarturhasie°tsboi beNivlliangidteld t o entertain
y,daenvdohi-Ened the principal command. A terrible
and sand made it difficult to communicate
ceueelZrmittfiedre. Pc'sibthieetoprroepfeorsittoioUnoamlomnoed, oorretio)ecrorny-.
upon a place that had shown a disposition to
ll'-u-rreentclileer, for the loss of a day, or perhaps several, could not
~l~mitted.
The accompanying papers will show the pro-
g
kleste and results.
A
I'Y atter the norther had abated, and the Com-

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