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at Piedras and Donna Cecilia, to intercept the
communication between Tampico and the fort, which
commanded the entrance of the river from the sea. In
this position, SANTA ANNA demanded the uncondi-
tional surrender of General BARRA Das. That Ge-
neral having refused under the expectation of reinforce-
ments arriving, SANTA ANNA made a general attack ;
but his principal efforts were directed against the Fort,
more especially as some Spanish vessels were seen
in the offing, supposed to be conveying the expected
Spanish troops. The fort, after a gallant defence and
heavy loss to the Mexicans (they having no cannon, and
the fort being defended by four twenty-four pounders)
was taken; when General BARRA DAS surrendered, on
the terms already stated.
It is not the least interesting part of General
SANTA ANN A's conduct in these memorable transac-
tions, that he no sooner had obtained the victory, ,
than he himself withdrew from the army, which
returned to its cantonments: whilst—to prove his con-
tinued allegiance to the Government—he resumed his
station as Governor of the province, to which he had been
appointed by the President Gu Ea AEI no—calumniously
stated to be the object of his rivalry.

'midis major. majorem In pace repartees,
Quiet &dam tante quesivit rnarte--tore

A volume containing the Manifesto of her Moot Faith-
ful Majesty Donna Mauro 11. supported by official let-
ters and papers of the highest importance, is said to be on
the point of being made public. Although we require no
new proofs of the justice of her claims, nor of the cruelty
exercised towards the people of Portugal, still we shall be
glad to hear that all the foreign Cabinets, and their
Ministers, as well as every influential Member of Parlia-
ment in this country, are furnished with a copy of the
forthcoming volume.

We are glad to perceive that the much condemned
system of free trade is making some progress on the
the Continent. We give the following instance in an
article from Mayence:—

MAIENCL Nov. U.
We learn that the Coundlior of State, Bourcound, Commies'=
of the Netherlands for the navigation of the Rhine. will be Consul
in this city. Our city, situated at the conflux of the Maine, the
Middle and Upper Rhine, not far from the mouth of the Necker.
possesses a spacious free port, and large magazines in it; is es•
tremely well adapted to be a principal depot for the commerce of
the Netherlands, whence the countries on the Upper Rhine, the
south of Germany, Switzerland, dm. may be speedily supplied
with all the goods that they have been used to, received from
Holland ; and likewise, all the produce of those countries may be
most conveniently sent as return cargoes for Holland. For the
facility of commerce in general it is much to be wished that such
a depot were established in Mayan*, which in many respects is a
natural staple place. Our Government, which is well aware of what
is really advantageous to trade and manufactures, will undoubtedly
favour an undertaking for the execution of which Dutch agents al-
ready come hither to obtain the necessary information on the spot.
In the address of thanks of our Estates to the Grand Duke, not
a word is said of the free navigation of the Rhine ; or of the com-
mercial treaty lately concluded with Bavaria and•Wurtemberg.—
though both were mentioned in the Speech from the throne.
We believe that we express the sentiments and views of all en-
lightened men, when we reckon measures designed to promote the
freedom of commerce and manufactures in Germany as calculated
to have the most decisive and beneficial influence on the welfare
'of the whole country. The Hessian and Prussian Governments
have the great merit of having taken the lead, and opened the way
to a general Convention between all the German States, for the
regulation of their commercial interests, and the establi.hment of
a uniform system of duties, /cc. Those who are sensible of the
importance of trade and manufactures, which, in modern times,
are the chief foundation of the greatness and power of States, can•
not fail to see in this union, and the free navigation of the Rhine,
the commencement of a new era, and the pledge of the future pro-
sperity of the German States.
The cold which has so sudden set in, will, if it should continue
and interrupt the navigation, which will be very injurious to
trade ; because larger quantities of Colonial produce are on the
way from Holland hither, and ear stock is almost exhausted in
consequence of consignments to Baden and Bavaria. Corn, as might
be expected, has fallen considerably ; and as the accounts from
Holland, France, and England are not favourable, a further de-
cline may be expected.
_

It pleased the Globe—some three weeks since—to
sneer at its more consistent contemporaries, who,
in the conscientious discharge of a great public
duty, denounced the system on which the New Po-
lice was established, as fraught with the most
mischeivous consequences to the whole country; as
detrimental to the domestic comfort, and even to
the morals, of the people ; and calculated eventually
to compromise the safety of our free institutions,
by the introduction of a " Military Government"—the
qualified designation of an arbitrary despotism. For the
praiseworthy purpose, therefore, of enhancing his epos-
tacy, the factious scribe set about disabusing the public
mind—as he vainly imagined—of " the idle prejudkee
which, if we were to credit his own ready assurance,
" appeared to be wearing off in the metropolis" even with-
out his rhetorical ad. With this view he affected to ridicule
" the idea that the poor men with coarse blue coats and
oil-skin capes were to act as domestic spies"—an "idea,
which he imprudently asserted, " would be now only
treated as a joke by the most credulous of the alarmists ;"
—and thus did he attempt to rebut the charge of Es-
pionage, which, above all others, renders the system dis-
reputable to the Minister, and justly odious to the people.
Disgusted by the unblushing profligacy of the slave, we
turned at once to the act of the task-master—from the
special pleading of the venal advocate to the re-
corded intentions of the Minister ;—we desired the
wanton falsifier of the fact to read over again the
" PROVISIONAL INSTRUCTIONS TO TRY Nzw Po-
LICE," and we dared him to deny the existence of
that inquisitorial principle, which it is as dishonourable to
the Government of a free country to contemplate,—as it
would be degrading to a land of freemen to endure with-
out remonstrance.! Has the abject sycophant read over
the instructions ? We know not, neither do we care
it is sufficient for us that he has not even presumed to
vindicate himself from the imputation of baseness which
we then cast upon him. We denied every one of his asser-
tions ; we refuted all his statements ; we exposed his fla-
grant dereliction of truth, in no measured terms ; and we