The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-13 00:00:00

EXIC 0.

VERA CcWZ, JUNE. 25.—MiNk's landing, which,
at the beginning, appeared to create no great de-
gree of alarm, Owing to the active arrangements
of the Government, and the march of superabun-
dant troops to destroy him on the very coast of
Soto de la Marina, •has now caused the greatest
dread and consternation. Brigadier-General Ar-
redondo, who ought to have attacked hint, re-
mained quiet in Monterey ; Colonel Aiminan,
with► his regiment of Lstremadura and that of

Aiiietic, who ought to have arrived in time to
p: event Alines advancing into the interior, was
tl4-tawned for the %rant of baggage, or for other
reasOns, in Tampico and Altamira,-:-when Mina,
on the nth of Tune,. penetrated thrs-lugh the val-
ley of Mdiz, without any other obstacle than that
of -having tO encounter 120 Royalists, who were
completely routed by his ‘islvance of 60 men. Ac-,
cording to the most authentic information, we
learn that when be landed he had not more than
400 men, but among them many officers. He
lett behind him a.fortified point in Soto de la Ma-
rina, with 100 men ; he mounted the remainder
of his people, and Advanced towards the •intetiov
with 500 men, with those who joined him in, la
Colonia de Nuevo Santander, and complete in
every thing. By his daring attempt be has put
all the disposable troops in motion, agitated the
vernmeta, and spread terror and alarm through.
out the whole of the kingdom. The unexpected
appearance of the man, his name, and the object
he has before him, have given a confultive shock
to every thieig. His rapid and masked movements
seem 'to indicate, that his intention is to pene-
trate to Baxio, where the insurrection has been
kept alive and in full vigour by Curate Torres.
In other parts this spirit has received some shocks,
but Baxio is its cradle, and this besides is the fat-
test and most populous part of the kingdom—where
it has always been bursting forth, where most
energy has been shewn, and where the Indepen-
dents retain several well fortified points, and pos-
sess superabundant means„ to cause a dreadful re-
action, if Mina --Isrrives among them and there
becomes popular. The Viceroy has sent forwatds
all his disposable troops to prevent and beat him;
Ice has taken the most active measures, from
which certainly something must result ; but if
Mina again evades their vigilance and begins to
figure, the most fatal consequences are to be ex-
pected.

Our vessels of war, substantially, did nothing
in Soto de la Marina, unless it was to deceilie the
VicerOy with a most fantastical and false dispatch,
which was inserted rta an Extraordinary Gazette
of the 4th inst. When they made the land„there
was only a corvette, that had been cast away on
the bar of Soto de la Marina, dismasted, and with
all her rigging taken away. This is the brig
which, in the official report, is represented as
mounting 12 guns. An American schooner which
escaped, and a merchant vessel called the Cleopa-
tra, unloaded and without any crew, are ‘eh,i
they met with ; hut in taking the latter they only
found on hoard a few old coats, and no other arms
than a 12-pounder, which had been put into her
out of one of our captured gun-boats. All they.
then captured were about 25 barrels of salt beet,
and the whole" was set fire to in so precipitate a
manner, that even the 12-pounder svai not saved,
This was the only triumph we obtained after con-
siderahle expeoces, though I ought to have said,
• we took a badge, cot off one of the Independents
old coat's, which has been paraded about till the
thing has ln comet he laughing stock of every one.
Nor 'vas there any other blowing up of powder,
than xhat the frigate Sabina expended in firing at
the above-mentioned transport.
Should Mina not be destroyed soon, but should
he succeed in combining operations with the peo-
ple of Baxio, he will create, I again repeat it,
. an early and dreadful re-action, and cause the pre-
sent struggle to assume a steady and imposing
aspect, as well because of the seductive principles
he proclaims, as that the experience of the past
may suggest to these people a more regular and
political line of conduct hereafter, Gen. Cruz ar-
rested all the Judges of the High Court of Gua-
dalaxara and banished their Presid•ent, in conse-:

yielice of a competition ►vith his authority. The
p,►ticulars of this affair are not known, but, at
all events, it was a tttost impolitic step at the pre-

Sent moment.

JUNe 28.—8 y letters from Toxpan, of the 25th,
we legri), that whilst General Arredando remained

gniet in his cantonments, Allua collected all the
iii les and horses to be . found in la Colonia de

Nut vo Santander, and that on the Ilth he pene-
ILated through the Valley of Maiz, with all his
people mounted, and with the arms he brought
with him, without experiencing the least opposi-
tion.from the battalion of Ferdinand Seventh,
which bad come down and was only eight leagues
distant. This corps, consisting of 550 infantry
and 300 horse, by the forced marches of Colonel
Arminan, passed the outlet of the valley on the
_ _

12 li, And this officer on the II t writes, that on

the .14,11 he intended positively to come up with
the invader and beat him ; adding, that by an-
other Chief commanding in the Valley of Maiz,
he had been informed that the Commaadant of
Tampico, Pedriola, with 150 cavalry, bad caught
sight of Mitta in the said valley, and that having
attacked him, he had been obliged to retreat in
good. order with,the lois of 2U men, supposing be
had,killed about the same number of the enemy.
ISJe also .nutlersta»d, that the people of Ihxio,
tcnrnt the landing of Mina, were preparing
to facilitate allunction with
,bllo,,and.t.hat for this

purpose one of their diVisions was marching for-
wards to meet .him. Father Mier was in company
with him, by which the report inserted in the Go-
vernment Gazette of 'the 14th instant, turns out
false, in which it was said he had bten taken.
JULY I.—By the post, which has just arrived,
we have received.a copy of the Extraordinary Ga-
zette of the 20th ult. a copy of which I inclose,
No. I. The official dispatch of Col. Arminan
therein inserted, is really curious, ant the contents
,respecting the action of the IGth will appear per-
plexing, when it is considered that., his encamp-
ment of San Jose, front which he dates, is three
or four leagues further back than thespot on which
the battle was fought, -which was one-fOurth of a
league from the point of Peotillo. Hence it mast
be deduced that the action was more adverse than
fa vont able, notwithstanding he had with him four-
teen. hundred men, cavalry and infantry. " The
coward, whom the Governor. of San Lois
Potosi, Torres, says has put. in motion, ikc..was
an Officer of the regiment of Estretnedara who
fled from the action, and entered the town, saying
all was lost."
JULY 6.—An express has just arrived through
Airigua, which left the city of Mexico on the
29th June, at five in the morning,.aud has brought
the Extraordinary. Gazettes ot 23d and 27th. - In
the first, is an Official II- port of the defence made
by our troops in Xalpa, and a Dispatch of the
Commandant of Sao Luis Potosi, to that of Que-
retaro, dated 19th June,, in which he says, that
on the -19th Mina slept at Espiritu Z.ipato,Colonel
Arminan, in La Corcobada, and that orders .11a,i
been sent to Colonel -Ruiz, of the regiment of.
Navarre, t. proceed on to join Colonel Orrantia,
and that he slept on the 19th at Bled°, not hav-
ing been able to form his junction on the 180,
an consequence of the injury his carriereS had ex-
perienced. The second Gazette is entitled, ‘• De-
struction of the banditti of the traitor Mina, ant
the arrest of the. apostate Mier, in Soto de la
Marina, Province .of Nuevo Santander." Timis
are we deluded here. It also contains a Dis-
patcle of General Arredondo, of 15th -June, stat-
ing, that at day-break, and after-ariuelt hard
fighting, they had been able •to -collect 2000
head of cattle of all kinds. Col. Castello, of the
regiment of Ferdinand VII., requestedpeiniisqion
to advance on the fort, and having-received per-
mission, lie did so, with 100 infantry, 50 horse,
and one al•pounder ; and General Arreihnlo, ad-
vancing frutis another point, joined in the attack
with the. rest of the troops. At time in the af-
ternoon, Graving fired 2000 cannon balls, 20,000
musket ditto, and a large climmity of grape, they
succeeded, having killed of the enemy 12 men, 4
women, and wounded several. Our loss was 4
killed and more than 60 wounaled, some of them
dangerously, and among them Lieut.-Colonels
Garza, !'',louse, and Madera, Lieutenants Vargas
and Neira, anti Ensigns Porcura.and :Castro. In
the fort there were 300 mew*: 44 classes;. and
the_details of the Action and surrendry of the,
fort, and what was taken, are promised for ano-
ther opportunity. . From Mexico we learn that
the place capitulated.
JULY B.—By the letters this day arrived from
Mexico we learn, that Colonel Armiaan's division
suffered greatly in the action of the 16th ult., in
which, besides the cavalry that was dispersed, or
rather deserted, be had 52 wounded and many
killed. Also, that he lost nearly, the whole of
his park of artillery; provisions, and -stores, and
that it was he and not Mina who, was defeated.—
The Utter had. caused the greatest asmeshment
by the celerity and success of hiS marches, and
well judged operations, having evaded, laughed
at, or fought, more than 5000 men destinred to at-
tal and follow him up. Alter
.the battle of
Peotillo, he proceeded on without any: inipedi-
incur to the town of Venado, having rested in
the estate_ of ,Espiritu Santo, and_taken the road
of La Sierra de Plaos,- where, according to the
official report of the Military .ComMander of San
Luis Potosi, dated the 20th, he formed a junc-
tion with the patriot Chief Moreno, sent On to
meet bins by• Citrate Torres, and that he was then
very near the district .of Basic). Colonel Armi-
. nan was following him at the distance behind of
25 leagues, together with the battalion of Na-
varre, -which was to join Colonel -Orrantia, at -a
similar or greater distance. Brigadier-General
Negreti, who was posted in Lagos with 1200 men,
was the one to present the nearest opposition to
him ; but as our. divisions march with artillery
and other impediments, it. is probable, Mina will
avoid meeting them, anti it is to be feared, that
under the shelter of the fortified ramparts of Co-
mange and San Gregorio, in the mountainous
country of Goaintxuato, and, the present rainy
season which prevents our troops front acting in
Baxio, he will organize the people of the latter
districts, anti assume an imposing attitude. When
the news war received in the city of Mexico of the
attackattack•of Xalira and Queretaro by the Insurgents,
they imagined it was by,Mina's --people, -and in,
scantly the guards at the palace were doubled, as
well as round the walls. Every other precaution
was also observed on this occasion, which, ae-
cording to the letters received, explain the alartit
that existed in the city.
JULY 14.—A little before suit-set, some Mule-
teers arrived front the Sierra, who report that the
Insurgents have re-established their cantonments
in Chiquibuita, Moral and Raagavanceras.
JULY 15.—.1 inclose to yOtt the official report
Government has published of the ." March and
progress of the Adventurer Mina," which has
spread the greatest alarm•among us.. It is much
to be feared, that if the people of Baxio join him
with a good heart, and subject themselves to his
discipline and good order, actuated at the same
time by the flattering principles he proclaims, all
the Spaniards in this quarter may return to their
native homes. By his well-directed marches, the
action of the 16th of June, and the renown he
has already acquired, he has inspired dread, ac-,
companied with admiration, in the minds of every
one. Viceroy Apodaca-labours hard, but without
reaping any great fruits. His anxiety personally
to command .and direct r all, and to arrogate all the
glory to himself, •has indisposed him greatly with
rite Provincial Leaders ; and even the .Comman-
ders of Divisions are not satisfied with his impe-
rious manner of commanding, without combining
his measures and orders .wit.h the means of sub-
sistence, and the other wants of the troops. Even
the half of what pigtit •be dude,. is not. done, for.

the want of system and harmony, • which. would
prevent this'competition and discordancy among
the Chiefs, who are disgusted because they con-
sider themselves neglected and ‘ill-treated, and
their authority besides over-looked. No wise and
just system of policy has been adopted ; the ad-
ministration of-the public revenue still continues
iu the greatest disorder ; vengeance alone is
thought of. The greatest want of resources is
actually experienced, such as would havt• asto.
nished and frightened our ancestors, still no mea-
sures are adopted to guard against what has been
so long and so frequently experienced, so that
provision is only made for the passing day. No-
thing is in reserve, so that if some means are not
adopted to destroy Mina, I am unaware how this
edifice can sustain itself, without falling to the
ground.

MEXICO GAZETTES introducarby the way of Contrast.
No. I.—Copy of the Extraordinary Gazette of
the Government of Mexico, dated Friday, 20th of
June, 1817.—Attack made on the traitor Mina
and his party, one quarter league from Peotillo,
and 14 leagues from San Luis Potosi.

His Excellency the Viceroy has just. received
the following official Reports, which he has
.or-
tiered to he printed, for the satisfaction of the
faithful vassals of his Majesty in this City.
MOST EXCELLENT SlR,—The suspicions I ma-
nifested to your Excellency, in my dispatch,
No. 186, three hours set', were not unfounded;
and my surmises are net tcctly confirmed by the
official report of Colonel Arminan, which I now
inclose. According to
_tire • advices I receive
from the Colonel, he requires, in order to put
ri.iwn the wicked invader, 200 horse, which I
shall instantly torward to him. They will l.nve
this at day-break to- morrow, it the cominaod
of Lieutenant. Torres, au officer of known valour.
The coward. who has put us, all I,- agitatio.,, and
caused us to 'pass nt St unpleasant moments, re-
no ins under &wrest, till the superior determination
of your Lxecl:erev has heel, received. The of-
icer who brought the annexed report infonos me,
that the Rebel has had Many killed, and that.
among thOse who fled away there are many wound-
ed. The details of all 1 will commonicate to your
Excellency the very moment I receive them, hop-
ing that they will amount to a happy result, and
-s6 do away with the-disagreeable news previously
received. God preserve your Excellency many.
years, &c.

• SAN LUIS poTom.
June 16, 1817. (Signed) MANUEL TORRES.
To his Excellency Viceroy Apodaca.
REPORT OF COL. ARMINIAN, inclosed in the above.
Afterinarching- very near 13 leagues I came up
with the perverse Mina,-who received me with
his columns formed ; but I attacked him in an in-
stant, notwithstanding I had met with a division
determined to die, but not without havoc. No-
thing of this, however, was sufficient to prevent
a complete rout, after three hours and a half
tion, notwithstanding the cavalry of Rio Verde,
to the number of 600 horsemen, in the greatest dis-
order threw themselves on toy itilimtry, and com•
pletely heat it to pieces, the greatest part of it flying
away Without its being possible to contain it, by ei-
ther the efforts of the Chiefs or Officers. As soon
as- the infantry and cavalry of the Provinces,
Sierra Gorda and Tulaueingo, were rallied, they
followed up the wicked rebels, who have taken
the road to Vencedo. The small part of the ca-
valry that has remained with me of the three lat-
ter bodies, is left in a most .shattered state, and
this deprives me of the possibility of entirely
.4e-
stroying the enemy. 1 therefore hope your Ex-
cellency will send me a reinforcement of 200 ca-
valry, that I may be enabled to realize my project.
As soon as the infantry has recovered from the
effects of fatiguing marches I shall follow the
enemy up till 1 have completed his dcs-truction.
God preserve your Excellency, &c.
(Signed) BENITO ARMINAN.
- San Jose 'June 16, 1817.
To Brig.-den. Torr.

P. S. to the Gazette.—His Excellency the Vice-
roy awaits, with the greatest impatience, the de-
tails of this action, in order to reward those who
have therein distinguished themselves, as well us
to punish .those, in conformity to the Military
Regulations, who have been wanting in the com-
pliance of their duty.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CITANCERY,Nov. It.

The LORD CDACELLOR did not come into Court
this morning till eleven o'clock, in consequence
of his being engaged in hearing the case of
PROCTOR U. PROCTOR, in his private room. To-
day his Lordship heard the case more fully, but
reserved his judgment for a future occasion.

On coming into Court his Lordship decided the
Bankrupt case heard yesterday, the facts of which
are of not the slightest public importance. He
strongly animadverted on the nefarions,practice of
persons now becoming creditors on bills given to
them for no consideration whatever; and he waS
afraid that-there was an indispensable necessity for
the Legislature to, interfere, in, a summary way ;for
alie protection of honest but unfortunate trades-
men. Such frauds as that-he alluded to were
grown to so alarming an extent, that if Parlia-
ment did not do something, there would be.a total
end to public credit and fair dealing.
The case of KENNEDY v. Lee was re-beard, but
no decision given.

At two o'clock his Lordship rose and proceeded
to the Court of Exchequer, for the purpose of
nominating the Sheriffs for the ensuing year. His
Lordship was attended by the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his full state
robes, the Earl of Liverpool, who wore the in-
signia of the Knights of the Garter, Earl Bathurst,
Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Ellenborough, the Lord
Chief Baron, the Judges, and Mr. Leach, as Chief
Justice of Chester.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. It.

SEDUCING ARTIFICERS.

Mr. BALGUY, jun. moved for leave to file a Cri-
minal Information against a person of the name
of Clarke, tor seducing abroad an artificer, who
was a lace frame-maker, contrary to the regula-
tions of the statute of Geo. 111. which imposes it
penalty of 5001. for any person seducing an Ar-
tificer to leave. the kingdom. He stated tl:c facts,

st 9:
' from an afrlavit, which disclosed that the Peri.
hourhe moved ba.4 ititinc”! an A`iii
ficer to go to Basville, near Calais, and
was there employed.to make a lace machine
French factory, similar to those used at Nottl,ll..
ham. lie read the clause.. of the Act of
merit, by which it was enacted, that persons
fending against the provisiims of that Act 00.'1,
forfeit SPO/. and he prosecutecf either by
went at the Assizes, or by way of infoirfnationr
the Court of King's Bench.
• The Court said, they'did not recollect
.any r,fir
sedition by way of information ; aud asked b''!'
the usual . mode of. indictment had not been rg'
sorted to in this case.
Mr. BALGUY replied, that it was necessrY,i:
commence the prosecution widtin a twelvemot
after the fact was. committed. The fact in
case was committed last December, and the °fig:
der did not return to this country until last Pl'
not titne enough to indict hint at the last 4..ssioE-•
and before the next Assizes, which would be!
March, the twelve months would be elapse
They must either proceed by information, or ~
time would elapse.—Rule Nisi granted.

THE KING V. THE MARGATE PIER COMPANY% 4.
Nr. GURNEY moved fora rule to shew
why a mandamus should not issue against -tw:
Company or Proprietors of Margate Pier, Colfilr,
mantling them !o pay a certain poor's.rate.
had mentioued this case last Term, but it o'r
thottght.a4visable to pass it over, until. the Ger
pAny had regulated the Pier Toll. A tall havl
been made in August last, the rate was dernand
from the Company, which they refused to par;
and they had no property on -whieli.the Pat°
Officers could levy tile amount. Ir. was, 001;
fore, IIcceESAIT to 'calf for this madoinus;
to compel them to pay the w,t,ssment.
Lord ELLENBoitoUGH—" 1 thete-MOthing Op
whiel you call distraiu, so ti,at you are oOligrli
make this unusal applicat‘ion .
Mr. GURNEY— " 'Fbere is not, my
cannot distrait) the wlter, nor remort
Lord ELLENBOROUGH—" There
but:ding on the Pier."

,~~i
y y,~; ilk

Mr. Gurs.NEY—" There is nothing that we• ca°
distrain.”

Lord ELLENBORQUGII—" We must have 1311
affidavit, stating that fact."
My. GURNEY —`` I have an affidavit,. setrA
fnrth that, there is .nothing on %liltich we can
train."—Rule granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

1-101tItID DEPIZAVirY.

• MANSION- Ec.)-USE.—Yesterday Margaret Cradj,
the Nv res ch charged with inveigling a child., a ~./.o°. :
nine years, from its parents, and afterwards
coining an accessary to its violation by a monsir
by whom she was hired for the purpose, Ord
brought up for re-examination.
The circumstances- of this most atrocious ell
-were briefly these :—On the day of Cambet We
Pair, the prisoner met the child in the street, 8":
with Foulkes of treating and bringing her bac"'
in the evening, induced the unsuspecting lira.
creature to accompany her to the fair. Here sq
kept her until late in the evening of the veron
day, and then left the place to come home,'havia
previously forced the child to takes* quantity of e-
rits. Un the road they werejoined by a fellow,wnoi
with the assistance of the prisoner, fin-red the irtfal,.:'
into a field adjoining the road, abut half a ma l°l'
beyond the-Elephant and Castle, and there viii".'
laced her person. A patrole was passing near ibi
spot just as the hellish deed had been completed,
and hearing the cries of the poor victim, wea4
to the spot and apprehended the prisoner, but ire
companion made his escape. This patrole havipg
gone as far as Blackfriars-bridge, gave the p fi',.
soner in charge to a man named Griffiths, -frog..
whom, however, she contrived to escape. 17116
child, on reaching her mother's house in St. Alai'
tin's-le-Graml, was put to bed very ill, and never
afterwards left her room. She died about thre°
weeks since.

A letter was now produced from Dr. Lamb,
the London General Dispensary, front which 'is
appeared the child died from a violent iittiominal
tion, and that although there could be no doubt
of her person having been violated, still there we're,
not sufficient marks of violence externally to jos'
tify a positive assertion that such violation hod
caused her death.

Mrs. Allen, the mother of the unfortuate and,
said the prisoner had confessed having received 21;
stun of money from the villain alluded to, and siii°
that she had given part of it• to the patrole t°
allow her to escape.
Honey, the officer, stated, that he bad been to
Union Hall; where having stated the circumstances
Of the case, the Magistrate .imrnediately ordcre4
that every exertion should be used to discover the
pitrole who first took the prisoner into custody.
In consequence of this order, all constables awl
others had been summoned to the Hall, and exa'",
mined upon the subject,- but without ract, tbe,
man could not be found.

The LORD MAYOR regretted extremely ttiat
through the conduct of this man the case agaisiC
the prisoner should be rendered 'so incomplete gig
not to be cognizable at law, She. must be, dis-
charged for want of sufficient evidence, but of
her share in this infamous transactionstEcre cotl
*not exist the smallest doubt:: He '(the Lord.
Mayor), however, hoped, that the compunctiotio
visitings of her own conscience would be a severer,
punishment. than any which the law could
The prisoner was, of course, discharged.