The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

!OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, SEPT. 19.
Cotton—There has been a moderate demand through-
little thew eek, at steady prices. Yesterday there was a
little more inquiry, and 2,400 bales were sold at an ad-
lance ef ie. per lb., at which the market closed firm,
C. per lb. advance being generally asked. The sales of
the week reach 7,700 bales, and were at the following
Prices until the advance took place :
Upland and Mobile and New
Florida. Orleans.
Inferior
Ordinary to good ordinary 7f to 74 71 to 71,
Middling to good middling 7-i —Bl 8
Middling fair to fair Bf —9 9
Fully fair to gcod fair 9l-91 10 —lok
none nominal
Flour—The market has been quite firm during the
week . .
, with light supplies, and a good demand for home
t-se 'lnd export. Prices advanced from 4 dolls. 561 c.
Zitddells. 75e., until the receipt of news per steamer on
salpslY morning, when they became unsettled. A few
811, were Made of Genessee at 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls.
at 4,
‘, and 3,000 bbls. at 4 dolls. 87. c., and 1,000 bbls.
11,,-„rlig• For export, 3,000 bbls. on Saturday and
,--(4IY, at 4 dolls. ,sands6l. to 4 dells. 62ie.: since then,
,eOO bbls.
4 dolls. 75e 2,000 bbls. 4 dolls. 87ic.;
2'ooo bbls. fancy Ohio, 4 dolls. 871 c. to 5 dolls. 12-ke.
lloiders of Southern are asking higher rates. Sales of
southern on private terms. Northern rye is still wanted
f
distilling and export, and the sales reach 30,000 to
j',.• °OO bushels, at 73e. to 75c., debvered ; 1,503 bushels
i7e. Sales of 1,400 bushels old btrlc at 50c., and a
~at of new on private terms, suppa,,ed to be between 55c.
,111 60e. Northern oats have advanced considerably,
,71'.1 are now held at 35c. to 36c. Corn arrives slowly,
,-nu,is wanted, and prices tend upward. Early in the
.",eeic sales were made o'f 40,000 bushels mixed Western,
65e. to 68e., and since 18,00.) bushels at 69c. to 71c.,
and yesterday 5,000 bushels at 75c.
„11:rovisions —Beef is scarce, and holders are advancing
er rates. Mess is selling at 7 dolls., and prime is
i.,"tiY held by one house, and they decline selling at
.;„resent, although 5 dolls. is the nominal price, Pork is
firm at 9 dolls. 75e. for mess, and 8 dolls. 25c. for
.",.mie; the demand is alsa active, and some holders de•
ilne. selling at present rate,.., anticipating higher prices.
Lard
;IQis firm at 6fe. to 61c., with a steady but a very
e demand. Butter arrives freely, and sells at our
Cheese sells from 100. to 15c. for Western and Goshen.
.....eese. sells freely at 64e. to Cie. ; Hams, 54e. to 7c. ;
Niotilders, 4e. • Smoked Beef, 61c.
ai.ethea—Ash'es continue in demand, and the re,leipts
trots m-111. All offering meet with a ready sale at 31 fee 2, arid 41 for pearls.
2 toelt of ashes on hand in the inspection warehouse,
ePteMber 17, 1846:
Stock P .ts. Pearls. Total.
Received o hand last report 4,923 2,327 7,250
this week
t•
'-yered

5,205 2,r53 7,758
346 395 741

4,859 2,158 7,017
I,,l3,,oesvrax—Prime Northern yellow is in fair demand,
*",„." 3,500'b. have been sold at 27c., cab-
k3oal—Liverpool Orrell coal has been sold to a mpde-
raL
,e extent, at 7 dolls. 75c. The market is not active
or any description.
Rice--The transactions of the week amount to about
650 tierces, from 3 dolls. 371 c. for ordinary and fair to
't dolls. 12 %c. per tierce for the best. Many holders
have withdrawn their parcels till news by the steamer
transpires.
Salt—Three cargoes of Ragged and Turks Island Salt
!lid an invoice of Liverpool, have been sGld on private
Lerms.
I Tobacco —The public and private sales of Kentucky
;extpni to about 175 hhd ; 70 hhd. were disposed of
)iiabiPt Sic. By anction-50 hhd. 21 to 41, and 24
Florida and inferior at lie. to ;45 cases Of
4t`;(l4
18e at 4c. to 81c. At private sale, 80 bales of Cuba
flocash ; 30 ditto on private terms.
Weste
Abaut 50 bales of 1845 growth, eastern and
014
,ru hops, have been received this week, and 30 bales
exportation at 14 to 15 for firs sort and unin-
tliiPeted; Brewers have taken about all the growth of
,6
45 that remained, and a few bales of new at 14c.
itt4l le, '
200
Iron—Scotch pig has declined; sales at 31 to 32 cash;
tons Swedes sold at a decline.
Freights—The European packets fill readily at the
following rates :
To Liverpool—Cotton, -1,1 to d ; wool, id to id ;
Pbeef (3041 b) 4s to 5s ; beef and pork per barrel, 3s 6d;
our, 2s 6d ; turpentine, 25 6d; leather per Ib, 5-16 d ;
to ad.
neav goods, per ton, 25 to 30 ; Grain, per bushel, 81d
y
To London—Tobacco, per hogshead, 30s to 355; flour,
per barrel, 2s 9d to 3s; naval stores, 3s to 3s 3d; mea-
surement goods, per ton, 30s ; heavy goods, 30s to 353 ;
seeds, per tier tierce, 10s to 11s; beef, per barrel, 3s 60
to 4s.
To Havre—Cotton square and round bales, per lb kc
to q.,n; ashes, per ton, 8 dolls, to 10 dolls.; rice, 10 dolls.;
Tneasurement goods,. 10 dolls.; whalebone, per lb, ic. ;
flour, per barrel, 80c.
jo Marseilles—Cotton square and`round bales, per
toC ; rice, per ton, 10 dolls,; quercitron bark,
`43 ; whalebone, per Ib, is ; rosin, per barrel, 75c
; measurement goods. p•r tort;„ 10 dolls. ; lard, c.
BUFFALO, FRIDAY ETENING, SEPT. 18.
jiur markets have not been very animated to-day.
"qe have been the following transactions :
,usbe hleat-4 000 bushels Milwaukie sold at 77c. per
u,
our—.150 barrels mixed Michigan, at 3 dolls. 871 c.
l(r barrel; 276 barrels good brands
at 3 dolls. 70c.
P,rn-5000 bushels were sold at 49c. per bushel.
"nent at Marshall, Michigan, sold at 61c.
Cotton_ NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9.
siWe bear of two sales, viz , 86 bales new at
fft,rind 76 ditto old at Tic.
-reights—No new engagement has transpired.
13,Echanges—Transactions limited. London 8 to 81
cellt. premium; Paris, sf. 30c. to sf. 35c.; New
1,").,r, GO days, 11- to 2 per cent. discount; sih,
•-aited States Treasury Notes 2 to 3 per cent.discount.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.
Ii,vI:IVERPOOL, TIIIIRSDAY.—We have no further Intel-
„se.•nee of moment to-day with re and to the Great
ci:t te subjoin the closing letter from a correspon-

SDIY AFTERNOON.
DUNDRUM BAY,
TUt
Enecessa necessarily be meagre
fr My communication to-day
A.(1'11 the absence of any occmuliiTsernaceeianocfh_
latch of my last letter.ronliy)-tefaseint,clerotwhe-
evier, it is my duty to estate. One There is now no hope left
at the Great Britain can be rescued, at
tlheaesirt
climax,for tli
Drew.,b„, "‘• To-day the spring
in the bay pre-
tides reached
I,"` uain the violenee of the seaway erlited the approach of nssistsnce.
east'Eat night, at high water, it blew freshlY
ear to have
from the
t, lit this morning the ship did not s
*PPn probable she
bllcleriall alter d her position, though it Is • r of
had forgYed aheade in tomer ' degree. 'When thehour
'VI water arrived, the ship appeared to float to some ex•
tent. The steam-tugs, however, whiA at daylighatnhdaidt
returned to the
golfng, Could not near the vessel,.
I‘ai t vident to prActical men that there was
40 chance of her being .got off unless some extraordi-
ttary power of flotation were brought into requisition.
little
..o.r
The sipp's fore and art sails were spread on her foremss
during the morning, apparently with the view of keep-
tfrejing the head from forging upon the ledge of rock which
ects from the 'seta Is at the distance of some 70 yards
from the "tern. I left the spot at the ebb of the tide.
TI-e steam-tugs left in the cour4e of the day. The
surf in the (An," on their appearance this morning was
lunidrg YrY hi'gh, and ru , of them drew off towards
AT'T stbay Point, about S.W. from the ship, and we
hye since seen no more of • her. The Dread-
tought, however, anchored a long way outside,
and, though sho got her steam well up, she did
not venture to come in shore, although signals were
kveral times hoisted on the Great Britain's noixen to
hi in.g to if possible. The surf, e iused by the gale and
the inset of the tide upon the rocky and dangerous coast,
rendered the attempt unalvisabie, and Cl.iptain Hesken
Iv, as compelled early in the aft,rno.)n to signalize her
o;artare. It had been intel:dA to dispatch the crew
4,114 stores of the ship in her to Liverpool. The arduous
tfluties of these two fine steamers have been well per-
°3lfletl, And their commanders have throughout acted
with the greatest skill and energy. •
—...._.---_—__..............„=_.
the PRENCH PLEET.—Lloyd's agent at Genoa of
0,: Ist instant states, that the whole of the Fret ch
:ailtt as reported the previcus week, had, it was said, n a le
from* the Gulph of Spezia on the 27th ult., steering
'e the westward.
i v leToatA PARIC.—The greatest activity prevails
Z 4 tnaking the drainage, the formation of clumps, and
jilri..preparations for planting, which it is expected
A " completed in the course of the ensuing spring.
inengst other interesting circumstances to visitors
eennected with its progress, is the congregation of
twri„4ll,,Y arousand birds, particularly - starlings, •in the
t,i,.°`4ed part towards Old Ford. Maly persons have
ti;....e1l artvantage of this, by taking guns and shooting
1. tut to prevent which', and the disturbing of the
I'l ~,r,dat sc,ver.il additiunal park-keepsrs have been sip.-
'ctd, who have received orders to take any so of-
iato custody The site of the lake has been
dilLeg nut, and its -excavation will take place insure-
viY•
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PROCLAMATION of SANTA ANNA.
Address of GENERAL AN I'ONio LOPEZ DE
SAN-TA ANNA to'his countrymen upon the subject
of the plan proclaimed for the real regeneration of the
Republic.
(Issued at Vera Cruz, Aug. 16, 1846.)
Mexicans,—Called by the people and the garrisons of
the departments of Jalisco, Vera Cruz, and Sinatoa,
South Mex:c,t, and other points of the Republic, I
quitted Havannah on the Bth instant, at nine in the
evening, with the solo object of coming to aid you in
saving our country from its enemies, internal and ex-
ternal. Great has been my joy when, on arriving at
thi3 point, I learnt that the former had been overthrown
by your forces ; and that I was already proclaimed, on
all sides, as General-in-Chief of the liberating army. A
proof of so much conMenee will be met by me with the ut-
most loyalty ; but on accepting the plan proclaimed, al-
low me to enter into some explanations, which I con-
sider necessary, in order to dispel any suspicions founded
on a past, the recollections of which are so painful
to me.

Desiring, to consolidate peace in the interior of the re-
public, in order to make it flourish and prls.per, and to
insure by that means the integrity of our immense terri-
tory, I have devoted all my efforts in consequence of the
events of 1804, to establish an Administration endowed
with vigour and energy, and capable of keeping down
the spirit of turbulence and disorder. Without ever
going beyond Republican forms, I endeavoured for this
purpose to support myself on property, on high posi-
tions, on cree( s. and even on the few historical memorials

existing in the country, hoping thus to moderate by the
inertia of Conservative instincts, the vehemence of po-
pular masses. But without ascendancy and prestige as
' I was, and the elements assembled by me being viewed
with distrust, resistance was made on all sides, which I,
however, expected to overcome in time. I call God to
witness that in this I acted with patriotism, with since-
rity, and with good faith.
After some years of trial I began to remark that the
republic did not advance, that some departments showed
tendenCies of separation from the others ; and that the
public discontent was daily increasing. Wavering then
in my convictions, they afterwards lost all their power,
when a part of the country had been occupied by
strangers, and our national existence of the whole was
endangered, I called on the people to the rescue, and
they answered me with threats ; as if any other misfor-
tune could have been preferable to that in which the
country then was placed. Urged •by the firm determi-
nation that we should be a sovereign and independent
people, and knowing, on the other hand, the vast re-
sources on which we could rely for support, I then be-
came convinced that our Government, being organised in
a manner by no means confirmable with the.wishes of
the nation, and governed by a secondary Legislature not
adapted fir the advancement of its interests, the people
revenged themselves in that way by seeking for an oc-
casion in which they should be called on to take care of
their own good, and to organise their Government in the
manlier a hick they should consider most proper.
In our time we have seen another nation, in a similar
conflict, employ similar means to oblige its Government
to promise the representaiive system, which it was
anxious to have e.itabliihed, and wh .tr that had been ob-
tained, we have teen its moral apathy changed into
heroic enthusiasm, against the foreign invader who en-
deavoured to subjugate it. Is there anything, therefore,
strange in the idea that our people should, in this in-
stance, do as much to recover the full enjoyment of their
sovereignty, acknowledged by all governments, though
trodden under foot by all, in the practical administration
of affairs ? On this point I owe to my country, in consi-
deration of the part which I have taken, to declare
frankly and honestly, upon this critical and solemn occa-
sion, that it can be saved only by a return to first princi-
ple., with entire submission of the minority to the sove-
reign will of the majority of the nation.
Upon proof so clear and peremptory, of the serious
difficulty attending that which I had considered best cal-
, culated to secure to the republic respectability abroad, I
found it right to recede, and to yield to public-
and follow* with the Same 'arils= and constancy with
which I had opposed it before comprehending it. Tu
dicover the most effective means of raising the spirit of
the public, and predisposing it to 'the war, with which we
are threatened on the north, was my employment ; and
was beginning to develop the measures for that pur-
pose, when the events of the 6th of 11, comber, IS 14 , oc
curred, and plunged the republic into the miserable situ-
ation in which you now see it.
Expatriated from that time for ever from the national
territory, with a prohibition to return to it under the
hard penalty of death, the obstacle which I was sup-
posed to present to the establishinent of an administra-
tive system, confcreaable with public exigencies, being
removed, I believed that the men who had succeeded in
placing themselves in my stead, by calling public opinion
to their aid in effecting it, would respect that opinion,
and summon the nation to organise its government ac-
cording to its own wishes. Pained, a 3 I was, not to be
allowed to take part in the real regeneration of the
country, I still most sincerely desired it, because I be-
lieved that, whilst our political horizon was daily beccm-
ing darker, no other means were left to save us.
My prayers for this were redoubled on seeing that,
in consequence of the development of the invasive policy
of the United State;. stimulated by the perfidy of the
Cabinet of General Herrera on the serious question of
our northern frontiers, the European press began to in-
dicate the necessity of a foreign intervention in our
domestic concerns, in order to preserve us from the am-
bitious projects of the neighbouring republic. That,
however, which raised my uneasiness to the greatest
height, was to see in a newspaper of credit and influ-
ence, published in the Old World, a proposition made
in October last, to bring us back by, force under the
yoke of our ancient masters. My conviction was, never-
theless, still strong, that no Mexican, however weak
might be his feeling of attachment for his country, would
nael‘rnerdetaotnh fweamhv
Meanwhile,
tue,
tnshueewc such
s considerationideas
reached openly,me
eh. projected
ofo ever
sr ; for
by General Paredes, which revived m
though he had been the determined
enemyy
ofea a tnidle
resolution
stillople to recom.
lss e
presentative popular government,l supposed that hey hared-
altered his opinions, and I honoured himso far as to believe
him incapable of advancing schemes for European inter-
vention, in the interior administration of the republic.
He succeeded, and his manifesto declaring his adhesion
to the plan proposed by the troops quartered at San Luis
Potosi, increased my uneasiness, because I clearly saw in
it a diatribe against the independence of the nation,
rather than the patriotic address of a Mexican General,
seeking, in good faith, to remedy the evils of his country.
His perverse designs were in fine fully revealed, as well
as by his summons (for the assemblage of a Congress)
of the 24th of last January, issued in consequence of
this revolution, as by the newspapers showing the ten-
dency of his administration to the establishment of a
monarchy under a foreign prince, in the republic.
As one of the principal chiefs of the independence of
our country, and founder of the republican system, I was
then indignant at this endeavour of some of its sons to
deliver the nation up to the scoffs of the world, and to
carry it back to the ominous days of the conquest. I
thereupon took the firm determination to come and aid

you to save our country from such a stain, and to avoid
the horrible consequences of a measure by which its
glorious destiny was to be reversed, carrying it back to
what it was, and to what it never should be again. To
execute this determination was to offer up my blood to
any one, in case of failure, who might choose to shed it,
in compliance with the terms of the barbarous decree
which drove me from the republic ; but I preferred to
perish in this noble attempt, miler than appear indiffe-
rent to the ignominy of my country, and see the countless
sacrifices made for our independence, and the right to
govern ourselves rendered illusory.
Mexicans, the real objects of those who, while invoking
order and tranquillity, have constantly endeavoured to
prevent the nation from organising its Government as it
chose, have now been laid open; and the time is come
when all true republicans of all partics, the body of the
pebple as well as the army, should unite their efforts
sincerely, in order to secure entirely the independence
of our country, and to piece it at liberty to adopt the
form of Government most suitable to its wishes, each
sacrificing his own individual convictions to the will of
the majority. How, indeed, can the micro icy, however
wise and opulent, and powerful they may bra, pretend to
assume to themselves the right to regulate the affairs of
the community, or to govern the majority, without an
express delegation from the latter, given of their own
accord, not presumed, nor still less extorted by force?
This may be among people who are ignorant of their
own rights, and where the want of the means of inde-
pendent subsistence subjects the many to the few, who
have monopolised everything; but it is not to be effected
among us, in whom the democratic spirit in the midst of
hirty
many favourable circumstances, has been developing
-six Years and now renders imperious
and itself
d for
ecisi tve, the necessity concentrating by practice
the political axiom of the sovereignty of the nation.
This most essential circumstance has been disregarded
and despised in all constitutions hitherto given to the .
country; and in the only one which hen appeared most
popu
ered itthe
neffentagonism of the principles adopted has
rend iective ; so that democracy, which alone
can serve as a solid basis for our social edifice, has been
unable to develop itself, and thus to afford the peace
which is its instinctive law, and the other benefits in-
effable, which it produces. Hence the convulsions which
have so long .agitated us, and of which some European
writers have taken advantage, so far as to depreciate
opposing
i ;
"
our race ; simnganitrebsetinlgibetrhep
t
in necessityf inter-
fei eice, order o
liberty independence
of the republic and inde
to strengths n it against the febrile in-
vesion l
of the United States ; and declaring, in fine,
that it would be as easy to conquer Mexico with a por-
tion of the troops now quartered in the island of Cuba,
as it was in the time of the native Mexican princes.
My bloo I boils on seeing the contempt with which we
o either do not know us
are tins treated, by men wh
well, or who, interested in transplanting among us the
fruits of their old social system, and of the. times in
.
.ich they originated, consider America the same
'tate in which it was during the sixteenth century.
Should any attempt be made, as indicated, to carry
t iese mad plans into effect, all interests of race wouldould then be
be silenced, and but one voice would be heard through-
out
- the Celt:tient. The one hemisphere w
•
seen arrayed against the othei,nd for the disasters
which would fall on the rash agresser who should thus
atte.npt to interfere with the internal administration of
other nations, ha alone would be responsible.
To pronounce thus against the many nations which
form the great Ilispano American family, to declare
them incapable of enjoying republican institutions, is,
in fact, to be ignorant of, or not to conceal, what is
proved by the testimony of Chili, New Granada, and
Venezuela, in contradiction of sueli assertions. It is to
attribute, no doubt with evil intentions, to men of a
certain race, defects of adminktrative forms which, not
being entirely democratic, have produced the bitter
fruits of monarchical forms engrafted on them, without
adverting to the fatal influence of the latter on the lot of
the others.
To expect, moreover, to strengthen the nation by
•monarchy, under a foreign prince, •is to_suppose the ex-
istence in it of elements for the ..t0,i;ebn,„—.....,1

ven:tnce of that system ; or that, wearied by its struggle
to c„,:uer its I:berty, the ration sighs for European
masters, for anything else than the peace which alore
it wants. Et:Toncous, most erroneous is this idea. In
the efforts of tiict nation to emancipate itself from the
power of the few. who, in good or bad faith, have en-
deavoured to rule it in their own way, its democratic ten-
dencies have acquired such a degree of intensity and
energy that to expose them, to attempt to destroy the
hopes to which they give birth, by a project such as that
advanced, would be to provoke a desperate measure ; to
endeavour to cure an evil by the means calculated to ex-
asperate it. Fascinated by the example of a nation not
yet a century old, and which under its OA n government
has attained a degree of prosperity and advantages so
enjoyed:by those of the old world notwithstanding their
antiquity, and the slow progress of their political sys-
tems, our republic aspires only to the management of its
own affairs, either by itself or through representatives
in whom it has confidence, in order to develop the vast
resources of power and wealth in its bosom.
This being therefore its dominant, its absorbing idea,
it would have resisted the other plan with all its might ;
and if an attempt had been made to change its direction
by the employment of foreign bayonets, it would have
flown to arms, and war would have burst forth through-
out its immense territory, renewing even more disas-
trously the bloody scenes of 1820, and the succeeding
years. From such a state of things, the Anglo-Ameri-
can race would have derived great advantage for the
progress of its ambitious scheme, or for forming a new
republic from our interior departments, by exciting their
sympathies and gratitude for the services recdered them
in repelling a project no less injurious to itself. This
tendency, which has been excited in some departments
by disappointment from not obtaining provincial liber-
ties, which they dezired, would have become general
throughout all ; and no force would have been able to
restrain them from carrying such views into effect.
On the other hand, the republic being composed for
the most part of young men, who have no knowledge of
the past, except from the sinister accounts of their
fathers, and who, educated with republican ideas, rely
wifi confidence on a Government eminently popular to
lead their country to prosperity and greatness—where
are the internal supports on which the monarchy pre-
sented as the means of our salvation can be founded ?
That which was has disappeared. Habits of passive obe-
dience no longer exist ; and if there remains a sentiment
of religion, time has undermined the political power of
the directors of consciences. An influential aristocracy,
so necessary for the permanence of monarchies such as
exist in old Europe, the only proper place for institu-
tions of that clas=-, is not to be found, nor can it ever be
organised here. In Europe, the misery of the
great mass of the overloaded population, which
depends on its own labour to obtain what is
strictly and merely necessary for its subsistence,
in the midst of an industry which is so severe'y
tasked, allows no time to the people to think of their po-
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These difficulties being, therefore, of such a nature as
to render nearly impossible the establishment of monar-
chy in our country, attempts have been made, in order
to overcome them, to throw the affairs of the republic
into the greatest disorder, preventing the organisation of
its Government within, and aggravating the most serious
question of our northern frontiers with another nation.

In this manner the faction which fostered that para.
cidal project having attained the fi:st of its ends,by many
years of artifices and manceuvering, next proposed to
carry the second into effect, by provokinz, in a manner
almost direct, the Goveri•ment of the United States to
ag;randise itself by taking OM' rich department of
I eras, and then advancing into the very heart.of our
country. To involve our people in the evils of a fearful
invasion has been the last resource, in order to force
them to accept its painful altereative ; obliging them to
become the prey of Anglo• American ambition, or t) fly,
for the safety of their national existence, to monarchi-
cal forms under a European Prince.
For this o' j: ct it was that this party, having t'.e con..
trol of the Chambers of 1844'45, refused to the Govern•
merit of that period the appropriations which it asked
for maintaining the integrity .pf the national territory,
already seriously jeopardised,- It did tnore,, it raised up
a revolution, in which the slender allowance made to the
Government for that object, on its urgent demands, were
unblushingly declared to be suppressed ; and on its
triumph, it scattered the means collected for the war, and
hastened to recognise the independence of Texas.' The
chief of this revolution, who has always acted under the
influence of his own fatal inspirations, then appeared
again in insurrection at San Luis Potosi, with the force
destined fur the defence of the frond( r ; and withdraw.
ing that force to the capital of the republic, he there
slurped the supreme power, and began to put in opera-
tion
his; scheme of European intervention in our interior
administration, whilst the hosts of Anglo-Americans
were advancing to take possession, even of the banks of
the Rio Bravo. Having at his disposal considerable
forces in the capital and the adjoining departments, he
allowed the enemy time to advance, without resistance,
through our territory, and at length—mt. V, tardily—he
sent to Matamoras a small body of troops, needy and
unprovided with anything necessary for conducting the
campaign with .suceess. Who can fail to see, in these
perfidious manceuvres, the bastard desigr.s of attracting
these forces of the enemy tozi our central territories, in
order there to propose to us, in the midst of the conflicts
of war, as the oily means of safety, the subjection of the
republic to servitude, the ignominy of the country, the
revival of the plan f Iguain—in fine, to return to the
government of the viceroys.
With this object, and for this fatal moment, which.
every means was employed to hasten, was a Congress
assembled, chosen, for the purpose, composed only of
representatives of certain determined classes, forming
even a sixth 'of our population, and elected in aonanner,
pet fidiously arranged, to secure a number of voices suf-
ficient to place the seal of opprohrium on the nation.
Leaving with scarcely a single 'representative the great
majority of the nation, the eleven bishops of our dio-
ceses were declared deputies, and our ecclesiastical ca-
I•ilios were authorised to elect nine others on their parts,
giving to thubishopsithe faculty of appointing such proxies
as they might choose, to take their places in case they
should not find it convenient to attend in person. Does
not this prove abundantly that a decided endeavour was
made to supplant the will of the nation, in order to give
somei
tTe rhveespecies of authority to this scheme for European
nptriootnesitnattihonesseottflermepeunbtiojelf
aintseernntaiml affairs?
General Paredes, after these irretragable proof.; sents, aodfeulblyy
tcoo n d
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aintet nrdesetd,
and to arrange the occasion for carrying into effect
his base designs, lie uttered these protestations in
the middle of March last, when he saw the public
discontent manifest itself against his power and plans.
But what followed? Did he not continue to protect the
Tiempo, a newspaper established in the capital-itself, for
the sole object of rendering republican forms odious, and
recommending the necessity of a monarchy; advancing
every argument which could be supposed calculated to
lead astray the good senses of the nation? Did he con-
vene another popular Congress? Did he retract ;the
summons which he issued in January, placing the fate
of the nation at the mercy of the few men who remain
among us of the old regime ? Everything continued in
the same way, and when the press was prohibited from
discussing forms of Government, it was in order to give
an amnesty to the writers in favour of monarchy, who
were then prosecutedby the judicial power, and to en-
courage them to continue their criminal publications
while silence was imposed on the defenders of the re-
publican system. Meanwhile he hastened by every
means in his power the assemblage of the "Congress
destined to carry into effect his monarchical plan; he con-
centrated his forces in order to suppress all movements
on the part of the people, alarmed by the near approach
of such au unpropituous event; abandoning our frontier
to the invaders, or rather surrendering them to the
foreign enemy, by the reverses which he had prepared
and arranged at Pala Alto and Resaca de In Patina.
No, Mexicans! let there be no compromises with a
party a hose conduct has been a ti,sue of cruel treachery
towards our country ; have nothing to do with it, how-
ever
flattering be its promises, and whatsoever the forms
with which it may in future invest itself.
In the last convulsions of its agony, it sought to assure
its safety by its accustomed mancea:res. It proclaimed
principles which it detesteld. It allied itself with bastard
republicans, and exhibited itself as the friend of liberty,
in order, by that means, to avoid its just punishment, to
maintain itself in power, and to continue to determine the
edifice cemented by the illustrious blood of the Hidalgos
and Morelos.

The fraudulent schcasz.s of the enemies of our country
being thus unfolded, and the true source of its mis-
f•irtunes being laid open to all, the radical remedy of the
whole evil consists in putting an end for ever to the
ruinous 'control of minorities, by calling on the nation
honestly to fix its own destiny, and to secure its terri-
tory, its honour, and its welfare. Thus placed in
entire liberty to act, as it should be, in the midst of the
discussions carried on by the press, in the tribune, and
mu in the streets and squares, it will take into
consideration the evils which surround it, and seek the
means of resisting them; and satisfied in its desired mi-
tras of its own tate, it will display the energy peculiar
to a free people, will prove equal to the conflicts in which
it is to be engaged, and will come out of them, not only
honourably, but, moreover, entirely regenerated. In
this way the administration established, resting or, and
springing from public opinion, may display all its or-
ganised forces to maintain its territory, instead of quar-
tering them in the central towns, as hitherto, under a
Government created by seditious m.,vements, constantly
at war with the nation, and occupied solely in endea-
vouring to save itself, without regard for our external
dangers.
Fellow countrymen, never has the situation of the re-
public been so difficult as at present. Its national existence
threatened on one side, en the other an attempt has been
made to subject it to the hardest of all lots, to European
dominion. Such is tho abyss to which we have been
brought by the endeavour to govern our young society ac-
cording to the system adopted in the old. This is the true
cause of the long struggle in which we have been engaged
which has weakened our forces, and by which the inte-
rests of the majority have been sacrificed t,) the extra-
vagant pretensions of a small minority. This state of
things must be ended, in compliance with the wishes of
the nation ; and, by opposing to the former the union of
republicans of true faith, the concert of the army and the
people. By this union we shall conquer the independ-
ence of our country; thus united, we shall ccirilirm it by
establishing peace on the solid basis of public liberty ;
thus united, we shall preserve the integrity of our im-
mense territory.
But now, with regard to • thl. plan proposed for the
revo.u.ion, it is my honour and my duty to observe,

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