The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS DAY !►T TWELVE 0-CLOCK.

3 per Cent. Red. . 77
3 per Cent. Cons. 77J- 78
3,11 per Cent 87:4
4 per Cent 9;3i- 96
5 per Cent. Navy Ann 110 i 111

Bank Long Ann. 19:; 9,16015
India Bonds...
Excheq. Bills,
9niniurn 5 7
Cons. for Account 73

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THE SJN.

SOLEM OUTS 'DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1821.

The French Papers of Tuesday, Brussel'
Journals, Frankfort and other German Papers
have arrived since our last. Their contents will
he found under the usual head of Foreign lute
gence, and though they still leave-undecided the
great question of peace or war, yet from the tenor
of some of the articles, it would seem to be the
general opinion that the present negociations
will terminate in war. That such is the impres'
sion throughout Holland, we have the best autho'
rity for stating; and orders, we understand, were
received yesterday, by one of the first 'Mercantile
Houses in the City, connected with that Country,
to buy up all the Salt-petre that could be pro•
cured ; in consequence of which a large quantiti
was accordingly purchased.

The rich, populous, and wealthy kingdom of
Mexico has in a moment severed itself from 041
Spain, and become an independent empire, with
the concurrence of the Spanish Viceroy, who Was
reduced to the necessity of concluding an armis-•
tice with the Insurgents,. which was immediateil
followed by a treaty, recognizing the absole"
independence of the Empire of Mexico. This i 5
a tremendous blow to Spain ; but may be
of very great advantage to the' commerce
.°1

this country, the exclusive system of Sin'in
having been enforced with greater rigour
Mexico than in any other of her transatlantic
minions. Mexico, in its largest sense, includes

all that extensive peninsula situated betweelt
Louisiana and unknown countries on the noobP-
and Terra Firma on the south ; but the Audience
of Mexico contained only the provinces of
Mexii.:o Proper, Mecnoacan, Guasteca, Tlascalat
(the aboriginal inhabitants of which aided the
Spaniards in the conquest of their country z 1
Guaxaca, Taba,:co, and Yucatan. It is washed ou
the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south
and west by the South Sea; and is above t‘s,s,--""
thousand miles in length, and from sixty to
hundred in breadth. It was divided into 0
districts or provinces, the principal of which etas
Mexico Proper. :t contains mines of gold and
silver,, of the latter of which there are above a,
thousand, and it also produces iron, copper,
lead, alum, crystal, vitriol, precious stones',
marble, &c. The soil produces Indian Cur"
cabbage trees, cocoa nuts, vanillas, plantaios,
pine apples, cochineal, cotton, and a variety 4)t.
vegetables, fruits, gums, and drugs proper to the
climate. The animals are a species of lion, le
formidable than those of Africa, small tigers, bears'

elks, or moose deer, pecaries, warres, beavers,°Y:
possums, armadillos, guanoes, flying squirrels, 11"
coons, crocodiles, manattes, or sea cows, monkelsl
parrots, macaws, pelicans, cormorants, and a grev't
variety of other birds, and of snakes and inse°°.
tn general it is a mountainous country, diver'i-
fled with many rich val lies ; but the higher
mountains, many of which are volcanoes, are Ben'
the coast of the South Sea. The eastern coast 13
a flat level country, full of bogs and morasses, 31)-
is overflowed at the rainy season. The hills beva-cell
the mountains and the flat country are best in'.
habited, because there the air .is the•
temperate. This province is vastly populous'
and the original natives in general pass their
lives in easy circumstances. The city of Mc:jet',
the capital of the province, and of the Itc.,Y
can Empire, is seated on several islands, in al►
extensive lake, to which there is no entrance but
by causeways, three of which are about two wit°
in length. The suburbs, which are extensive, or6'
inhabited by the native Americans. The /111'3'
bitants are immensely wealthy ; and ti Akist al"P;
dance of silver, gold, and jewels, is'
I I,
in plate and toys in the streets, by the ge-'
smiths and shopkeepers. This city enjoYe
a prodigious commerce, having been the centre'
of all the trade carried on between Spanish Arrje'.
rica and Europe, and Spanish America and the.
East Indies. Nine-tenths of the inhabitants 41.
native Americans, Mulattoes, Negroes, all
mixture of them all. The remainder are Srl
niards.--Though the Roman Catholic is declared to
be the exclusive religion of the New Mexicali
ref
pire, and the establishment of the Inquisition is r
cognized and preserved yet as the distinction
abolished, aad all Alexi, ails
C.lstes is arc