The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-16 00:00:00

These despatches come down to the date of tl;(.
10th of September. They were brought to tlie
Havannah by a frigate from Tampico, detached from
the Spanish. squadron. General Barradas resumes
his narrative from the 27th of July, when the expe-
dition landed. After the troopi had disembarked,
they were allowed to repose till they had been put
in order, after which they marched towards Tam-
pico, and suffered much on the road by the great
heat. Barradas had an interview with the Mexican
commander, Garza, the same who formerly arrested
the Emperor hut bide. I3arradas made very &tter-
ing proposals to Garza to draw him over to his
party, but in vain, and they parted as enemies. No
Mexican troops appearing to oppose the expedition,
it marched without any precaution, as if it had been
in a friendly country, when a small corps of ;Mex-
ican troops, which had lain in ambush with two,
pieces of artillery, and had suffered the Spaniards
to approach within half pistol-shot, suddenly made
a discharge of musketry and artillery, loaded with
grape-shot, which killed or wounded 93 soldiers
and 10 officers; the vanguard was thrown into
die-
drder, but the. corps which followed advanced in-
trepidly; the Mexicans were obliged to retire, and
the Spanish army continued its march to
Tampico without any, other disaster. The
Mexicans retiring into the interior of the.
country have destroyed all kinds of- provisions, and
even set fire to the villages, so that the country can-
not afford the army any kind of resources. The
villages which have not been burnt are ab.ardoned.
In one of these villages nobody was found but a
:priest, and in another a Portuguese. Not a single
Mexican soldier has joined the many of Barradas,
and the inhabitants retire from it. In ,this situation,
he has thought it advisable to fortify himself at rine-
pie° till he receives reinforcements from the Havan-

iah. He asks'for absit4ance the more urgently, as
the fortifications whit!) he has erected at Tampico
are not very important, became he has not brought
any officers of engineers with him. Such is 11,e
substance of the despatches of General Barradag,
though he has endeavoured to represent his sitna—
tion less ditfieult than it really is.
'When the packet-boat which has brought this
news left the Havanna!), the mission which our Go-
vernment has intrusted to Major-Genera! John Jo-'
seph San Llorente was not knowa there; but if we
are not misinformed, this General is to take the
command of a corps which is to go from the Ha-,
vannah to Tampico, and when it arrives there he
will take command of the whole Royalist army in.
Mexico, for the King has been made sensible that.
Barradas is not fit for a command of this nature.

General Barradas has with him a Monk, named
the Rev. Father JacquesMiehael Bringas, Avho, ;11
his character of sub-vicar of the vanguard of the
Royal army, has addressed the following pastoral
letter to the inhabitants of Mexico:—

" To our very dear brethren the faithful inhabitants
of New Spain, health and peace in our Lord Jesus •

Christ.

" Misfortunes and our sins have precipitated you,
my dear brethren, into the abyss of misfortunes,
which you experience since, like stray sheep, aban-
doning your royal shepherd, you have been led into
the crooked path, which you have followed for
these eight years, shutting your ears to the voice of
your Monarch. 1, your countryman, son of St.
Francis, an imitator of his poverty, without ever
desiring the perishable treasures of the earth,—l
cannot be suspected by you; and I hope that the
prayers which I have constantly addressed to God
for your happiness, and for the salvation of your
souls, will be heard. •

" Do • not lose a single moment ; present your-
selves with confidence to General Don Isidore Bar-
radas, Commander of the vanguard, who, authorised
by your august and ancient Monarch, comes with
the olive-branch in his hind to offer you peace,, and
to restore to you the happiness which you have lost.
Formerly you were all happy, and you enjoyed the
good things of this earth with the certain hope, that
in the other life heaven will be the reward of your
virtue; but since the spirit of impiety has defiled
your soil, you have not had a moment's repose; war,
pestilence, robbery, and murder, and all the plagues
which have established themselves in modern Egypt,
have been the punishment which the Saviour of
mankind has inflicted upon you. God is great and
merciful, and is among us : his spirit has heard the
prayers which I have continually addressed for you.
Have confidence in me, and return to the bosom of
peace, under the protection of the best of Monarchs,
Don Ferdinand VII., who will receive you as a
tender mother receives in her aims a beloved son.
(Signed) " The Rev. Father J. M. BRINGAS."

A report is spread in our capital, that it is in.,
tended to choose, by drawing lots, some regiments
of infantry to be sent to Mexico, and that the King
will soon issue a Decree for a ballot to complete the
army. We learn from Grenada, that in the night of
the 19th three shocks of an earthquake were felt there.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Nov. 13.—Five per Cents.,
108 f. 75c. 65c. 70c. ; Three per Cents., 84f. 841. sc. 83f.
90e. ; Bank Stock, 1,920 f. ; Naples Stock, 93f. 15e. ;
Royal Spanish Loan, Soi; Spanish Rentes Perpetualles,
51.; llaytian Loan, 3471. 50e. Exchange on London,
one month, 25f. 70e. ; three months, 25f. 55c.—Coors
Authentique.