Star.
London, England, 1824-11-18 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Letters were received yesterday from Mexico, bed
September 18, and from Jalapa of the 21st of that
month. The chief event they communicate is the elec-
tion of General Victoria to be President of Mexico.—
All the letters do not assert this to have been actually
the case, but those which do not, consider the decision as
certain to be in his favour. It is affirmed that General
Bravo, who was a candidate for the same office, has
consented to serve under General Victoria, by accepting
that of Vice-President. Three of the Ministers—Ala-
man, for Foreign Affairs ; Llave, of Justice; and Teran,
for War—were expected to resign in consequence of the
election of Victoria to the Presidency. This event has
caused considerable alarm among the old resident Spa-
niards, who were apprehensive, on account of the vio-
lent attachment-of Victoria to the independent cause,
that they would be treated with great severity, and per-
haps expelled the country. One of the le.ters has en-
closed the contract for the. new loan to the Mexican
Government, as published in the Gazette, of which we
have subjoined a translation. Some altercation, of little
importance, except to the parties concerned, has taken
place between the agent of the house which contracted
for the first, and the Mexican Government. As soon as
the last contract was duly signed and ratified, this Gen-
tleman sent to Esteva, the Minister of Finance, stating
that as no absolute engagement had been entered into
by his house to pay the bills of the Government, they
would neither accept nor pay any of those drawn by
Esteva, or by his predecessor Arrilaga. In this com-
munication to Esteva, the agent reie, red to is said to
have animadverted with some asperity on the conduct
of the Executive, in havinpublished a secret article
of the new contract, in which his principals were not
treated with the deferente he thought due to them, and
to have thence deduced a justification of his own pro-
ceeding. He even threatened to make public a notice
to the merchants againt negotiating the bills drawn
upon'his house. The Executive were apprised of the
whole affair through the Finance Minister, and gave-
Ihim instructions to prohibit the agent from carrying
his threat into effect. The agent, however, persisted in
his resolution, and after having met with a refusal from
the other papers, procured the insertion of she notice in
the Arida Mexican, but without his signature. The
notice alluded to will be found among the extracts from

FROM THIN AQUILA MEXICANA OF SEPT. 14.
MINISTRY 1)1? FINANCE.
The Supreme Executive Power has entered into a
contract with Messrs. Robert Manning aid William
S. Marshall, agents of Barclay, Herring, Richardson,
and Co. of London, for a second loan, on the account
and for the benefit of this Republic, upon the terms
laud in the following document, which is here inserted
for the information of the Public :
"The Supreme Executive Power of the United Mexi-
can States, which at present consists of the Excellent
Senores Don Nicholas Bravo, Don Vincente Guerrero,
and Don Miguel Dominguez, to all those who may see
these presents be it known :—That being authorized, as
we were, by the Decree of the Supreme Constituent
Congress of the 27th August, 1823, to contract a loan of
20 millions of dollars for the set vice of this Republic ;
and it being advantageous to the better and more prompt
re-establishment of the important revenue of tobacco,
to the most convenient and useful adjustment of the
new financial system of the federation, and to the
provement of the national credit, by the payment of
its most preferable creditors, that a second loan should
be negotiated, limited to £3,200,000 sterling, or
16,000,000 of dollars, 'and under the precise condition
of employing the fourth part thereof in the redemption
of the obligations contracted for in London by Doa
Francisco de Barge Migonni, agent of this Republic ;
we have determined to grant, as we hereby do grant,
under special and sufficient powers, all the authotity
which may be necessary for the house of Barclay,,Her-
ring, Richardson, and Co. of London, in consideration
of the important services which they have performed
for this Government, to carry into effect, in virtue of
the aforesaid authority, and of the present general obli-
gation, the before-mentioned loan in that city, on ac-
count and for the 'sera& of those States, under the fol-
lowing bases and conditions:
" 1. Special obligations or bons shall be issued for the
above sum, which shall be drawn up and printed in the
usual form, and with the usual precautions, according
to the amounts and circumstances hereafter speCified—:
" With the initial C, woo special hone of 3501.
which will make - dit,400,000
With the initial D, 8,000 of 1001. - 800,600
£3,200,000
"These obligations shall be signed by the Minister
Plenipotentiary of this Republic, or whoever may offi-
ciate for him as Minister to the 13: itish Government,
and by the house of Barclay, Hen ing, Richardson, and
Co. and shall be payable to the bearer with the interest
of six per cent. which shall commence from the beginning
of the quarter in which they are put into circulation.
" 2. The said 2,400,000 special obligations must be
signed and ready by the 7th of February of next year,
1825, at the latest ; and the house of Barclay, Herring,
Richardson, and Co. shall proceed to sell the same at
the most advantageous price, in one, two, or more
periods, preceded with suitable advertisements in the
Newspapers, and acting in concert with the Minister
Plenipotentiary of this Republic, or his representative
w for the time being, and ith the Consul-General of this
Republic ; but the absence or failure of one or other of
these Ministers shall not impede this operation, nor
prevent it from having precisely the same effect sti-
pulated for, and for which the contracting house it
bound by the contract.
3. Fifty thousand pounds sterling of the produce of
this loan are each month destined, reckoning from the
day on which the first sale is made, to redeem the obli-
gations of the first loan, until the fourth part thereof,
amounting to 800,0001. sterling, be paid off.
" 4. There shall be appropriated to the redemption of
this loan the annual sum of £32,000 sterling ; and
moreover, the surpluses resulting from the total amount
of the interests, which must constantly fall in after the
payment of the corresponding dividends ; by the reduc-
tion of this gradual and successive extinction, and pur-
chasing with the sum total to which the same may
amount, special vales or bons at the current price, on
account of this Republic, and under the management
of the said contracting house. This operation shall
commence at the end of six months from the date asif
the first sale, and shall be continued every halt-.year
until the redemption be completed. Should the pi ice
of this paper in the market at any time exceed its no-
minal value, independently of the inteiest due in the
current quarter, this Government shall trot on that ac-
count be bound to pay more than what the bons repre-
sent; and in this case, the contracting house shall pro-
ceed in concert with the agents of this Republic in
London, to cast lots for the bons in circulation, and
shall publish in the London Gazette the numbers which
are to be paid off by the appropriated fund at the end
of the half-year or half-years, in which this operation
of redemption at par is to be repeated, paying in effect
the bons on their presentation with the interest for the
current quatter at the time of the notification, but not
the future quarters, which cease from the time of the
reduction. The bons, which shall be redeemed in the
presence of a Notary ,Public, of Messrs. Barclay, Her-
ring, Richardson. and Co. and of the Minister and
Consul-General of this Republic residing in Londru,
shall be cancelled and deposited in the Bank of Eng.
land, and their respective numberi shall be published
as they are paid of and cancelled during every ha
year ; at the termination of which, the whole and the
present general obligation, shall be delivered over to the
disposal of this ,Government; and finally, if at the MI ,
of 30 years, reckoning from i,he date of Ore first
osa •
there shall still remain any boas in existence, they
be redeemed and paid off, in order that the wide
transact ion may he concluded. _ pa-4mq
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d 4 .To tali nto due and full effect, the redemp-
tions, as well as tne payment of the interests in the man-
ner intended, the Supreme• Executive Power, id the ex- '
ercise of the authoiity given by the Sovereign Consti-
tuent Congress, specially appropriates and mortgages
for the present, the third part of the produce of all the
maritime customs of the Mexican Federation, which
amount to more than 4,000,000 of dollars annually, or
whatever may be sufficient to cover the respective divi-
dends of the interests and redemptions, without preju-
dice to the gengal Mortgage of the other revenues of
the nation, and.of the particular measures which the
present General Congress has under consideration for
covering the interests and extinguishing the public debt
by' stablishing great national book. The interest of
the six first quarters, and the necessary fund for the
three first payments of the half-yearly redemptions,
shall be taken in London from the produce of the loan
itself, 'in order to their punctual discharge, and the
amount of the Third part of the maritime customs shall
be appropriated to the seventh dividend ; the fourth and
the subsequent payments shall begin to have effect from
the Ist of May of the following year, 1826, the neces-
sary contingent being deposited, and punctually made
up in the Treasury of Vera Cruz, previous to the four
mouths of anticipation, in which remittance is constantly
to be made, on account and at the charge Of the Go-
vernment, in order that the same may arrive in due
time previous to the period of the payment of the said
seventh dividend ; and in future every three months'
for the interests, and every six for the redemptions, until

their absolute completion.
" The above payments shall be made in the time of
war in the same manner as in the time of peace, without
the lea-t distinction with respect to the proprietors or
holders of shams, whether they belong to a friendly or
hostile nation ; and in the case of any proprietor of the
said actions dying intestate, the bons belonging to him,
which shall pass to his representatives or.heirs in the
order established by the laws of the country of which
he may be a subject, shall be regularly paid ; and,
moreover, the special bons of this loan shall be, exempt
from every kind of sequestration, either at the suit of
the &ate or individuals, according to the general prac-
tice observed in this respect, and also from the seal duty,
in the same manner as is every document of the -Go-
vernment in this Republic.
44 And finally, the present general obligation and
mortgage, with the said sovereign decree which is
drawn up, authorized in form, and the special authority
which the Sapreme Executive Power coolers under this
date on the house of Barclay, Herring, Richardson, and
Co. shall be deposited in tbe Dank of England, accom-
panied_ by a faithful translation, made in presence of the
Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General of this
Reput)lic, of the said Messrs. Barclay, Herring, Rich-
ardson, and Co. and of a Notary Public of the city of
London, until the final cancelling of this loan, for which
rpose this dqcument shall be delivered in duplicate tb
Messrs. Robert Manning and William S. Mal-sheik
agents of the contracting house. In testimony whereof,
we expedite these presents, signed with our hands, and
sealed with the seals of the Republic and countersigned
by the Secretary of State and Dispatch for Finance.
" Given in the National Palace of Mexico, on the 254 of August,
1824, the 4th year of Independence, and the 3d of Liberty.
(Sign d) 0 NICOLAS BRAVO,
" VIPENTE GUERRERO, '
" MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ,
" LOSE IGNACIO ESTEV A, Sec. for Finance."

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Ai ticle Ist, of the additional contract concluded with
the agents of the house of Barclay, Herring, Richard-
son, and Co. of London.
" The Commissioners of the house of B. A. Gold-
schmidt and Co. resident in this, city, having circulated
notices, which have given rise to some doubts as to the
acceptance of bills drawn by this Government (for the
first loan contracted with that house in London, by the
Consul-General of this Republic, Don Francisco de
Borga Migooi),w•ithout the intervention of the sainoms
missioners, that not being necessary or requisite by any
of the article of the contract, and the payment and ac-
ceptance of the bills are therefore strictly obligatory.
Nevertheless, to prevent the consequences of the im-
pression which might thus be produced in these States,
and of any unexpected accident in London, the Agents
of the house of BArclay,_Herring, Richardson, and Co.
of that city, engaged to endorse the bills which the
Government may think fit to draw, payable to its or-
der, and upon Goldschmidt and Co. without requiring
any Commission from the Government for this transac-
tion."—From the Mexican Government Gazette.
NOTICE-PROM THIVAGUILA MttICANA.
" The Supreme• Government of this Republic and
Messrs. B. A. Goldschmidt, of London, having entered
into no separate agreement of the nature of that men-
tioned in the ninth article of the contract for the loan
concluded in London on the 7th of February this year,
by the said house and Don Francisco de Borga Migoni,
the method stipulated in articles 6,7, and 10, for pay-
ment of the instalments of the same loan, shill be
• strictly adhered to as the same may become due, and
consequently, Messrs. B. A. Goldschmidt are not bound
to accept, nor will they put their signature to that effect
to any bill which his Excellency the Minister of Finance
may draw; or may have-drawn, on the said house, and
on account of the said. instalments."

`the public pest" or for the security or preserestlon of any -public
or private property.
" The prohibition containta in the 11th clause is intended to pre-
vent the tae of the whip as the immediate impulse to labour, and
as such, it is to be strictly conitrued ; but it is not to be inferred
' therefrom that slaves refusing to work are thereby screened from

punishment.
It having been objected to the 15th clause, that female slaves,
being thereby no longer exposed to punishment by the whip, are
placed in a better situation than the female free inhabitants, I am to,
acquaint you, that his Majesty's Government do not see therein
ground for withdrawing the protection granted to the slaves, but
rather for extending the like security to the sex in general, by some
farther order of his Majesty to such purpose.
" His Majesty's Government do not anticipate any of those evils
which the 12th clause is represented as likely to create ; and that, as
the slave is to be duly examined by the Court, and to make a parti-
cular, consistent, and probable statement of all circumstances at.
tendant upon the punishment, before even the presumption 9f guilt
will arise, the danger that has been anticipated from this clauOe does
not appear to his Majesty's Government to rest on sufficient founda-
tion. It also appears that this principle was established in the
island of Dominica by the 14th clause of the Slave Act, dated the
22d of April, 1818.
" In the next clause, namely,the 22d, the power of election given
to the slave is to be considered u providing for cases of sickness or
absence on the part of the Commandant or Assistant Protector,
or where the Commandant might be the master ; and not as giving
or implying a power to quit the estate against the master's con-
sent. application on the part of the slave may also be made
either by a message, or by obtaining a letter to be written, as
the duties of the plantation or other circumstances may render
most convenient.
"The power conferred by the 24th clause, by which slaves are
permitted to acquire lands, is not to be held as exempting them from
the existing restrictions as to the mode in which lands mar be cul-
tivated by persons of their class and condition, They are therefore
not authorized, by the mere acquirement and tenure of hand, to cul-
tivate, for their own profit, the staple commodities of the island.
I' The obligation required by the 34th class::, In the cases of vo-
luntary manumissions, to give security to the Crown for maintenance
of the slave, does not apply to testamentary manumissions ; and, in
other cases, it is not considered probable that the party disposed to
confer the benefit of freedom would withhold the boon merely
beano* he will have to enter into a legal obligation to Bart y his
own purposes into effect.
" /is respects the 42d clause, and the penalties attendant upon
it, I have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that, fur the purpose of
allaying any apprehensions that have been entertained of this enact-
ment, it has been directed, that the penalty on the second conviction
shall never be enforced until the !thole case has been referred home
for the consideration of his Majesty; and you will observe, that In
this special instance, the forfeiture is to the benefit of the Crown,
and therefore would not be enforced unless the offence were of a
grave and serious character.
" Having also submitted the inconvenience that some of the Com-
mandants might suffer by being required to come toPort Spain every
quarter, for the purpose of sweating to their returns, I am further
to acquaint you, that the returns of punishments by Commandants
upon their own estates will be required only every six months from
those officer* (Signed) " RALPH W OODFORD."

THE EVENING STAR.

140. N DON. ,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1824.

THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened at 95j to 96 for the Account, with scarcely any
thing doing.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Corrent Prices: We* Spanish 171 1, Old 2MI, Russian 8111,
Mexican 6Si 6, Colombian New 831 846, Old 821, Chilian 78,
French Scrip 151 1 pre. Austrian 911, Alliance Shares 9i pre. New
Prouian 1001, Old 991, Portuguese 911 1, Brazilian 11.21 pre.
Buenos Ayres par 1 pre. Greek 6 .51 disc. Peruvian 726 73h Few
Neapolitan 1 I pre. hlsritte Alliance I

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. • . t
Banit Stock 234 • •
3 per Cent. Red. 9534 1/8 •
Sper Gent. Cons. 955 96 955
Si per tent. Red. 10134 5/s • .
4 per Cent. New 10834 3/8 Vs 3/4
Long Ann. 231/8 1-16
India Stock 2901/2 290—India Bonds 97
£l,OOO Excheq.. Bills (2d.) ; (11/2d.) 57 9
£5OO ditto (2d.) 57 t (114 d.) 57 9
£lOO and 1:200 ditto (2(1457 ; (11/4(1.) 57 9
Cons. tot ACct. 951/8

Letters are in town from the Havannahl of the 6tl
October, but they bring no news.

A Mail has arrived with advices from Barbadoes of
the 27th of September, and St. Thoma:s of the 16th of
October, but they contain no intelligence cf interest.

Among the reports ou 'Change this morning, is one,
that letters are in town from St. Martha, of the 28th
September, stating, that the Government of Colombia
begins to get impatient for the termination of the war
in Peru, and the return of BOLIVAR. It was aho re-
ported on 'Change, that the French troops had begun
to evacuate Spain, bit this is not the case; and it is
psbable that, at the urgent request of FERDINAND,
they will remain some time longer. •

The French Papers ofTay contain an article
from Odessa, on the subject of the successes of the
Greeks, in the battle of the 7th of October. The Otto.
man fleet appears to have been almost wholly de-
stroyed, and although the ship of the Capitan Paella
has reached the Dardanelles, it is said he was not on
board, and it is not known what has become of him.
The news from the armies of Greece is equely favour-
able to the cause of independence,

The following extract oaf a letter from the Agent to
Lloyd's at Genoa, dated 6th November, has been re-
ceived this morning :
" Recent letters from Palermo, of the lath ult. state,
that an Algerine squadron of six sail had been cruising
on the Suuth cdast of Sicily for several days, bringing
to most of the vessels that were sailing along that
coast, but had not heard of their detaining any of them:
that one of the squadron went off Trapam and saluted
the fort, which returned the salute ; they then asked for
water, which was granted.
" On the arrival of his Majesty's ship Tribune, Capt.
Gijon, in this port, in giving a salute to the King, some
of the guns remained ,hotted, and one of the cannon
balls struck the Albion, of Newcastle, Pattison, and made
a hole in her; the masts and yards of some other ves-
sels were struck, but fortunately no person ha; been
hurt by them.*

Brussels Papers to the 12th instant reached us this
morning. The following are extracts :
FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER 5.
The Russian army of the South has gone into winter
Quarters. in the several frontier provinces in which it is
stationed, and there is every appearance that it will not