Star.
London, England, 1816-01-06 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

Accounts have reached os from Vera Cruz op to
the ‘2lili September. Our accounts irr,in 4exico are
to the kith Juiy, brought to Vox Cruz by the way
of Tampico, the direct road haring been blocked up
far some time :

transpt,rts, accompanied by die frigate Sabina,
landed two thousand men in Vera Cruz, under the
command of General MYAHics, but they had not boot
able to eff:ct an thing. I'he soldiers were wretcheuay
equipped, end their Commander had the greatest d if.
ficalt y in ootaibing a tenth part of what he reqiiired.
' The Independents were within the. neighb
of Melico, and had cut off the cummunicationi with
the interior. The emergencies of the Spanish Go-
vernment were so great, that Viceroy CALLEJAs It id
several times coavened General Juntas, for the put-
pose of obtaining money, but without effect; nod at
last he resorted to force, and thereby obtained four
' hundred thousand dollars. No general action had
occurred between the contending parties, but secaril
p trtial ones in diffhrent points, in which the Indepen-
dents had the advantage.
The efforts of General STURBIDE to dislodge the
Exe:utive of the Supreme Government, stationed in
Ario, had proved unsuccessful. This is the same
General Sruttema who, on Good Friday of 1813, in
his dis.patch to the Viceroy (published in the Mexico.
Gazette), uses the hallowing words:—" This day, on
which our Satrtoue shed his blood for us, we have
fared happily, by bathing ourselves ia. the blood of
more than 600 of these excommunicated dogs (Mee-
can Insurgents), whom, being taken prisoners, I or-
dered to be shot, and the same, was executed."
The New Constitution of the Independents, and the
Proclamation which accompanied it, together with
their Almanack, were burnt in the square of Mexico,
on the 19th August, and the same ceremony was re-
peated at Vera Cruz on the Ith September. The
Viceroy, a second time, has proclaimed the penalty
of death and confiscation of property, against any one
reading or possessing papers belonging to the Insur.,
gents ; and the same penalty also against any onel
failing to denounce another, whom he knows to be
possessed of any such papers. The Viceroy calls the',
Constitution and Congress of the Independents cacti-
legtous, and says the former is opposed to the throne
and the altar, because it establishes the freedom of'
worship. e also orders that henceforward the
Americans shall not be called Insurgents, but that'
the denomination of traitors and rekh shall be applied
to them, and the Spaniards be called faithful Royalists.
This proves that the horrors of warfare, far from di-
niinishing, rather increase, and that the agents of
FERDINAND seek to exterminate the men whom they
call traitors and rebels. The execution of such a
plait could not hark been placed in better bands than
thote of the new Viceroy, General Cauz.
. The Mexico insurgents, however, have adopted
ne* plans, by concentrating their forces in the North,
to commtliticate better with Europe and the United
States, in order to obtain arms. They have fitted
out several privateers, and already made 26 Spanish
prizes. The insurgents were blockading the-river
Alvarado, and had taken the port of Huatuno.—
Three Commissioners from the Independent Govern-
,
ment of Mexico have gone to the United States.—
The Viceroy has prohibited- all reunions of Ladies in
the capital, from their being all so favourable to the
insurgents. FERDINAND VII. had created a new
Order, to be given to all those who should distinguish
themselves in subjecting the American Provinces.—
It is called the Royal American Order of Isabella
the Catholic. The Insurgents laugh at the idea of
Americans
.being rewarded by wearing * mark of
their own conquest, since it was Istpsetl.a. who 11/1•
dertook the originul conquest of .ILawri Ca.