The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-24 00:00:00

THE NATION.

" The Republic is about to be governed by one President,
arid Wore this memorable event takes place, we are anxious to
address ourselves to our countrymen for the last time, and *to
give them an account of our administration.
" Recalling the past, and fixing our eyes on the point
whence we started, we observe that by degrees our situation
has sensibly insproved. We shall not be so inconsiderate as to
ascribe to ourselves these improvements and advantages. We
have Leen actuated by good intentions; we have sincerely and
zealously desired the happiness of our country; we have done
our utmost to attain it; but the favourable position in which
we are placed must be ascribed principally to the good sense
and indulgent character of the nation, to the integrity and
wisdom of the Congress, and still more to unforeseen circum-
stances and events—eircumstuncee and events which show in an
ostensible manner that he who governs nations has especially
favoured the people of Anahuac.
". We received into our arms a republic recently sprung up,
but in a state.truly pitable—with an exhausted treasury—with
a pnper money at a discount of •76 per cent., with a want of
credit which had reached its height—with msourceit either re-
mote or difficult—without economy or system in the adminis-
tration of the public finances—with an army unprovided, un-
armed, and undisciplined—with our little navy, in want of
every thing, incomplete in action, and even nothing in the har-
bour, before the value of equipping
it was paid. On the other
hand, without consideration in Europe, without official contact
or relation with any one of the nations which compose it, with-
iesi
out allianets with the people on this side of the atlantic--in ad.
dition to this, with powerful and exasperated parties in the in..
tenor, with conspiracies sue ling 'each other every monient,
with authorities of the first consequence acting in an equivocal
or hostile manner, with the first Congress opposed by public
opinion on account or the convocaloria, with a part of the pro-
vinces anticipating a movement
and simultaneous, with dangerous which was to belegal, uniform,
th marked symptoms of a dis.
solution on
mime points—in tine, with others scandalously:sub.
verted in the very seat of the Supreme Power, with a capital
in the hutot a faction, and the Government seeking an as]_
Nu,in the bosom of the Congress. Such, fellow-citizens, is-the
!lower frightful ruins and dangerous precipices through which
we twee passed, in a few months, to reacts the point at which
we have now arrived.
It must be confessed that this picture is neither flattering
nor vet), 'satisfactory ; but for the glory of the Ales:lean nation,
for the confusion of the tyrants who delight in our disorders,
end for the instruction of nations, who, without prejudice pr
partiality, observed our progress; what country in the: world
has disorder visited on a leea cruet, fatal, or disastrous
In what nation of the earth have the appearances and changes
which have been realized in our country within so short A pe-
riod, not produced the same fatal results? liven in the memo-
rable days of the 24th, 25th, and 26th of January of the present
year, widen our enemies in Europe so much endeavoured to
emblazon for our discredit, did any blood flow? Was not the
property of our fellow-citizens respected ? Is it not certain that
even the common disorders of the populous citieedisappeared
on those nights ? Let, therefore, the injustice and the slander
cease of those, who on the other side of the Atlantic calumni.
ate, because they cannot devourne. •
But that which ought to discourage the malignity, anti to
make thenelose the hope of ceelswing us a second timc, is the
consideration of our progress, and the view of the contrast which
exists between our situation 18 months ago, and our situation
at present. Our credit has perceptibly recovered, our paper
money is at par, and almost all redeemed—the civil debt is sa-
eisfied—pate of the loan which had been authorized by the Go.