The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS.

MADRID.—By a packet which arrived on the
24th ult. at Cadiz, we have received papers from
the latter place to the .12th of March. They
contain a Proclamation from the Viceroy of.
Mexico of the 3d of March, in which he com
municates to the inhabitants the rebellion of
Iturizde, and the insurrectionary projects which
he had scattered through that city. That
which has enraged the Mexicans is the hypo-
crisy with which Iturizde concealed his pro-
ject of raising the standard of revolt ; for, eight
days before he became a rebel, he wrote to
the Viceroy from Mazatlau, assuring him
that he had
.reduced Guerrero, and praising.the
zeal with Which Don. Antonio Mier, of Villa
Gomez, the postmaster of the city of Salomca,
had contributed to the successful issue of the en-
terprise. SO far was this from being true, that he
arrived only at Guerrero for the purpose of pro-
claiming the .independence of Mexico, and the
above named Mier. was the person who undertook
tocarry tcrMeXicollis plans and propositions for
an insurrection.... hose propositions are very cu-
rious. They ate- entitled 64 A plan for the Go-
vernment, which is, to be provisionally establish-
ed for the purpose of securing our holy religion
and establishing the independence of the Mexi-
can empire, and_ which shall be entitled the Go-
verning Junta of North America, proposed' by
Col. Don Angustin de Iturizde to his Excellency
the Viceroy,. Count de Vendito." The following.
are a few of the articles of this project :-
1. The religion of New Spain is and- shall be the Catholic
apostolic Roman religion, without toleration of any other.
2. New Spain is independent of Old Spain, and of every other.
power.
3. Its
_government will be a limited monarchy, with a consti-
tution adapted to the kingdom. .
4. Its Einperar shall be Ferdinand VII.; and in case of his
not presenting himself personally in Mexico to take the oath
within the time appointed by the Cortes, the most Serene Infant
Don Carlos, -or Don. Francisco de-Paula, or the Archduke
Charles, or any other individual of the reigning house, who
shall be thought fit-by the Congress, will be called.
5. In the mean times before the ortes assemble, there shall
be a provisional junta to make arrangements for convoking it.
6. The said junta shall be composed of persons called by the
official letter-of the Viceroy.
8. If Ferdinand VII. will not condescend to come to Mexico,
the junta or a regency will exercise the sovereign power till a
sovereign be-appointed and crowned.
10. The Cortes will continue the junta, or- if they appoint a
regency, they will name the Emperor, in which name it will be
exercised.
11. The Cortes will- then establish the constitution of the
Mexican Empire.
12. All the inhabitants of New Spain, without distinction of
Europeans; Africans, 9r Indians, are citizens of thia3loofirch,

-eligible to every employment-iccording to their merit and
virtues.

14. The secular and regular Clergy shall be maintained in
all their rights and privileges.
16. There shall be ?formed aprotectiikg army, which shall be
called the army. of "'The Three Guarantees,' because it shall
have under its proteciion—first, the ureservation of the Catholic
religion ; secondly, the national irApendence ; azld, thirdly,
e intimateasuon of Americans and Eorns.
AlthoOttes.,_whicli tr.; about M• belnstalted 'are to be
Con *tuent ortes,'lt if fieeeSiary that the deputies receive
powers to that effect. And as it is of great importance that the
Electors should know that their Representatives are riot destined
for the Congress of Madrid, but Mexico, the junta will pre-
scribe the rules for the elections, and appoint the time for the
Meeting of the Congress.

Accounts from Lima, of the 2Sth of December,
state that 2,500 troops had arrived from Upper
Peru, with, the assistance of which reinforcement
it was hoped that San Martin would be com-
pelled to re-embark, as his army had made itself
detested by the excesses which it committed,
and commanded only the-ground it occupied.
The English frigate the Royal Sovereign ar-
rived at Cadiz on the 23d of May, from Plata
and Rio de Janeiro. The supercargo says that
Lima was blockaded by 11 vessels, and by land
by 4.500 or 5,000 men, under the command of
San Martin, who was in the valley of Maure and
Supe, 50 leagues from Lima ; and that the Spa-
nish army, composed of
.10,000 men, was partly
in the city and partly at. Chancey, 14 leagues
distant from it.

Merino has carried his atrocity to the greatest
excess, having cruelly ordered the unfortunate
soldiers of the Ist regiment of Catalonia to be
shot, who, fought so bravely against him at Tor-
duelos, till they were obliged to surrender for
want of ammunition.

MADRID, JUNE 4.—The decree of the COrtes
is now promulgated, authorising the Government
to equip 5 ships of war, 4 frigates, 2 brigantines,
4 schooners, and the vessels necessary for the
colonial correspondence, and to raise 3,500 men
to form the crews.

MASSACRES AT CONSTANTS NOPLE.—lntelligence
of a very important nature has,.- we understand,
been received at the hotel of the Russian Em-
bassy. The ErnperOrs'of RUSSIA and AUSTRIA,
indignant at the outrages which had been perpe-
trated at Constantinople, in the ignominious
death of the Greek Patriarch and other heads-of
that Church, together with the cruelties com-
mitted against the unfortunate' and unresisting
Greeks, have, it is said, determined 'to insist on
such reparation from the Turkish Government
as the case-will admit, and, on some assurance or
pledge, as regards the future, that similar ex-
cesses shall not be repeated. From the quarter
in.ivhich this -statement is circulated, we find no
cause to doubt its authenticity, and feel, there-
fore, peculiar pleasure in the communication of
a piece 'of intelligence of so much interest to the
Christian, and, -indeed; to the whole civilized
world. But though the main fact appears worthy
of credit, that Russia and Austria will exact re-
tribution from the Porte, we - have been able
to collect nothing, beyond mere rumour, of what
ls to be their Anode of proceeding, or -the species
of security they are
,likely to. require. It has
been said thatl,ltussia will demand to, become
the protector of' the other Greek provinces, as
she is already- of Wallachia and Moldavia. We
hear also that an immediate cessation of hostili-
ties between the- :Greeks and Ttirks is to be re-
quired, and a compact formed between them,
which, while it shall secure the allegiance of the-
former, shall protect them _against outrage and
massacre. Another Opinion . is, that the cession
of Wallachia and Moldavia will be insisted on,
either to Russia or to Austria, or to those Powers
in conjunction, in order to afford an asylum to
those Greeks who decline to live any longer un-
der the Turkish laws. At all events, •it is be
lieved that the Divan must listen to whatever
terms may be.proposed. Russia has an army of
100,000 men on the frontiers of Turkey, which
would be powerfully reinforded by the Aus-
trians ; and, weakened as she is by the efforts to
suppress the Greek insurrection, has no alterna-
tive but submisSion, or a foreign invasion, to
which there would exist no chance of resistance.
Should this momentous contest actually take place,
the eyes of all Europe will be fixed on the result.
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