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London, England, 1829-07-30 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1829.

UNDER TUE HANDS OF TUE ENGRAVER,
Speedily to be published,
PATRIOTIC SONG, dedicated and addraisod to
Her liskjesry,
MARIA, QUEEN of PORTUGAL and ALGARVE:
The Words and Mode by a Goodman favourably known for his
musical prodadloos.
Pab&hers, Aaassianua Las and Lim Regent-street.

SLAVE TRADE.
The following Proclamation, respecting the fitting out
at Gibraltar of vessels to be employed in the slave-trade
hss been issued by the Governor of that place :

" Whereas representation s cautious to be made to his Majesty's
Government, that it is the practice for uvula ships and vessels,
owned by subjects of foreign States in amity with kis Majesty, to
resort to the lay of Gibraltar, and the roadstead and anchorage
ground thereof, for the express purpose of being equipped for the
slave trade, or of taking in cargoes of articles which are particularly
inked for that odious trifle ;
" His RUCIIIIILT the Lieutenant-Governor, In pursuance of
Instmetions ',dived from the Right Ho. Mr G. Murray, his
Majesty's Secretary et Site fee the Colonies, hearing date the S 4
of Jose Wt.
" Hereby especially aillisonishes all hlegistratis and Olken,
civil and military, under this Governinent, whose duty it is to in.,
sure the observance of the laws, and to maintain the peace in this
garrison and port, that his Majesty's Government Imperatively
calla upon each and all of them to see that no vessel, to whatever
sountri she may belong, do resort to Gibraltar for the purpose of
receiving quietism of any description In furtherance of the slave'
trade ;

" And his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor hereby again
warns all his Majesty's subjects within the said tartly* and terri-
tory at Gibraltar, and the port, roadstead, and anchorage ground
thereof, that any person or persons, who shall be engaged in the
fitting out. manning, navigating, equipping, dispatching, using. or
employing, letting or taking to freight or on hire, or who shall con-
tract for the fitting out, manning, navigating, equipping, dispatch-
ing, using, employing. letting or taking to freight or on hire, any
ship, vessel, or boat, in order to accomplish any of the objects or
contraeu declared unlawful by the Statute made and enacted by
W Majesty, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of the
UMW Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Sth year
of his Majesty's reign, for amending and cossolidating the laws
Midas to .the abolition of the Slave Trade, or who shall lead or
advance, or become security for the loon or advance, or who shah'
abstract for the !radios or advancing, or for becoming security for
the loan or adesnce of money, goods, or effects, employed or
Se be employed in accomplishing any of the illegal objects or
contracts aforesaid, or who shall become guarantee or security,
or contract for the becoming parasite or security. for agent,
employed or to be employed In accomplishing any such Mo.
gal objects or contracts, or who shall in any other manner es.
gage, or lientfilit to engage, directly or indirectly sherd, or who
!boll *hips trallabip, lady, receive. pet ea board, or seam for
the shipping. transhipping, lading, receiving, or pude. sip
board of any ship, vessel, or boat, money, goods, or elects, to
be employed in accomplishing any of the said illegal objects or
contracts. shall and will incur. and become subject sod liable to
all and singular the pains. penalties, and forfeitures, provided Is
and by the said statote fur the punishment of persons guilty of
all or any of the offences aforesaid ; and Isis Euellency doth
hereby again strictly command and enjoin all Magistrates and
Marrs, civil and military, and all other his Majesty's subjects
within the said town sad garrison of Gibraltar. shot they, and
each of them, in their respective places, be, to the utmost of
their respective ability. assisting in the prevention or detection
of all Inch offences as aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary
at their peril; and his Eracellency doth hereby again warn and
-strictly command and enjoin all his Majesty's subjects within the
said garrison and territory. that they 4. abstain from all such We.
gal practices, and from siding, comforting, or abetting any person
or persona engaged therein, en pain of his Majesty's highest di.-
pleasure, mid of incurring the several penalties in and by the said
Act of Parliament in that behalf provided.
" Given at Gibraltar, this ads day of July. 182 P.
" GEORGE DON,
* By command. " General and Lieut.-Governor.
" S. R. C.neessae, Civil Secretary."

SPANISH EXPEDITION AGAINST MEXICO,

" Havanna. July!.
" Mace my kilt letters to you of the tith of Juoe. I have been
enabled to obtain tame circuntstandal information of the eapedi-
don I 'ben spoke of as intended for Dhaka. The accompanying
tramiatioN of our Governor', proclantadon to the inhabitants of
that caary. and the original which I send you under a separate
cover, will convince you of the authenticity of my former commu-
nication.

Ever/ thing here, foe the purpose, is in the utmost state of
forwordoess. and but a few day. will elapse before all the equip-
ments will be on their way to the place of &athletes's—whatever
that may be. The schooner which ranks the proclamations has
already sailed hence in the dead of the night, and is destined to
MN She &Ptak can it, route. and apprise them of she effect they
bows had on the minds of the Mezic-aos. The General's address
M die seidieep has been already published likewise, and he recom-
mends in them conciliation, intiatlon. and brotherly conduct.—
The number of troops may probable rise to 6,000 effective men ;
ibe mad tone will be about what I gain you in my last, but sc.
tiongmoked by eight largo American and other national vent*, as
sure skip* Mid now to consider the motives which led to, and
the reliable consequences of, the enterprise.
" It has keg been a darling hope of Ferdinand's that the time
world yet come when he should regain his lost coluoies of New
Spain, although his comidSors, and the intelligent awn el his
country, have fur a length of time doubted k. When, therefore,
one of the most accomplished courtiers of the Spanislrealni had
the temerity to propose an expedition so decidedly consonant with
the wishes of his Majesty, you may be sure the thing was Mimes
distely unburned, although in opposition not only to the opinions
of most of the iidluential men about him, but particularly oboozious
to timer of this island. Our Governor and Intendant both very
wisely disapotove of it ; however, harradas has gained his object,
Mid, with the rttyal mandate in Isis pocket, all one atithorities must
sulelegs Mm.
" llge proceeding then, by interstice, proves to me that no as-
mires base previously been concerted, of winning the klenfall
from their present allegiswee by tenders of money; and the bees,
dooming?, which Gen. Hatradas may entertain of success, cannel
be brionlilut upon the effect hi. lenient proclaimed*, may bows
upon their minds, aided by conciliatory force, and this nt a Aline;
when he supposes the &Urn of New Spain sick of the even-
stientelny hen made of Republicanism, and disposed to any cheep'
whisk NW jive or .even promise theft wonky of property, end
order in Anotriglileni—inc former held by a very slight inotesangs,
the inter unknown. Without even being aware of the ikon*,
of affairs in the c..untry now about to become the theatre of the
wer,.l should proviso:lleac ruin to the enemy about to cause it;
hot whets I kart, that the • young Nepalese' of Alnico (Saws
Mins, ao called by the soldiery) k well prepared Act receive titans,
any coneicUon becomes the stronger.
" This republican 6etertl, k appears, was, 11 days see, at the
heed of atuoo well-equipped effective men, in the province e
xatios. Haase', by the soldiers toe the care he takes of think
and the regulatity.with which be paya thetiA, front Moon), Iseissil•
ea the • endue:se,' oe muleteers, as they 240 ,ficiat woe.—
ny a certain Per eemillie—he it ;dined onion them, and equally
so with the citizens Me the istildnest with which he governs, and
Ithor two dentonds be mites upon their-moon-bags. Woad, I am
informed by of his fkitousie Mange,y'e packet, .by which
ihit goes, the wi,h ilatuttj the foreigners mid Abe Natives in
the neighbourhood in which Santa Anna is stationed, is th.t their*
'twouratelleeo should become Meoperste. They bah dense -hi to
ossocomaptietions to :the emus,. MK nworaimeciaMy titenesemo,
.s kw* .ffeßtO Munn termed, and his smash-
Anew Ao ureigners very great. lie lass saline Mexicon, awl con-
sidered b ace.

'Flor dedlutring is the proclamation :
" lidaeltitstiss en Ler Spain—A long And painlrid *apelike= ,
:apt ite Mee cumeloccd you that tliebilocioatistm nada,'
we cabin, of libeny and I:tarp:damn, seduced die meet insactioss

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PRICE SEVENPI/4C E.

among you, possessed no other object than to satiate the =basalt
ot dime who dictated them, and give a free rein to every Orscrip..
Lion amass, without caring for the lamentable fate which must
fail span the unhappy country wherein they had birth. The an-
cient and sacred ties which suited you with the mother country
were broken by wickedness and treason ; and eight years are about
to close, during which not a single moment have you enjoye4 of
that Inestimable tranquillity and blessed abundance which formed
your happiness for three centuries. At times subject to the rule of
a fantastic empire, at others in the midst of anarchy, by yogi called
freedom, never have you known other than disturbances. rumours.
persecutions, and general misery. For, the venerable customs
taught you by your fathers being displaced be the new cyder
of things, caused you, In the s metal perturbation between the
two, to attempt acquiring the name of philosophers, hut you were
dashed against the awful rocks of immorality and irreligion
Wherever one may cast an eye Upon your countryoSitlnguished by
nature with so many signal favours, nothing is to be seen but tit?
mournful elects of that frightful destruction which perfidy on one
pare, and imptudeme an the.other, introduced through all part, of
the social edifice. Hierarchies and ranks have been confounded,
the ministers of the altar abused ; the divine worship of the lie:
amuse of the human race forgotten, and perhaps scoffed at; and
in. their place secret associations have been authorised and
protected, in whose black and heretical synod nothing but sin
has been plotted. Your roads, and towns, and cities, waylaid by
outlaws—your filthy population left disordered and frantic—and to
induce whom to enter into the ephemeral plans which every day
arose from your senseless governors, you have been allowed to
accustom yourselves to sack, pillage, assassinate, and practise every
irregularity. What exists now of that pacific country, model of
Christianity, and worthy Imitation of European Spain in the prac-
tice of all virtues?

" Amid so many misfortunes, and when a terrific catastrophe
was about to crown, without doubt, the work of iniquity, a Spanish
army presents itself upon your shores, more desirous to reconcile
your minds and re.establish order, than to gather laurels in the held.
of honour. The august Monarch who sent them is your Monarch
also : whatever may have been the changes posterior to the month of
September, 1821, in which a crowd of insubordinate soldiers.
availing themselves of peculiar circumgances, dared to proclaim
rebellion in the name of independence, never ha+ his Majesty loosed
the ineoutestable right inherited from his progenitors,—never his
the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella ceased to be the legitimate
sovereign of the country of New Spain, which those renowned
kings and their successors discovered and conquered ; which the
crown of Spain, by constancy and every description of sacrifice.
illumined with the sacred torch of the Holy Evangelists; and to
which you owe your civilization, the arts, and whatever may dis-
tingulah yes from the savages which yet occupy pans of the interior
of your country.
" It is your brothers who go to suffocate the infamous soonsterof
anarchy, and to restore you all the blessings which your fathers
and you yourselves have enjoyed during the long series of 300 years.
We are one people—our religion, our language, and our customs,
are the same. Far be from us all idea of rancour and feeling of
vengeance for past grievances : there shall be an entire oblivion of
the pan, without exception of persons, ranks, or circumstances;
and it shall be the fundamental basis of all the operations of the
army to continue in their stations or employments, whether civil,
military, or ecclesiastical, all those who may obey the voice of their
Sovereign, and also to award them such recompenses and reattine-
nacos as they may become retitled to, by coeuibutingto the es-
tablishment of the noble object we propose.

" In the mai name Ohio Majesty Ferdinand ♦II. and com-
plying with his sovereign orders, I offer to you, Mexicans, and
repeat, that a thick veil shall be thrown over the occurrences of
the past eight years, and no one in any manner be persecuted or
molested, whatever may have been his political opinions and con-
duct during that unfortunate period. this being expressly the wish
of Ms Majesty, who from Ms royal throne has looked with eyes of
eoassiou upon the misfortunes and calamities of his beloved sons
of New Spain. Only a peremptory necessity will oblige the army
to employ force against those who may date to disregard their
dudes ; all others shall enjoy in tranquillity their property ; -their
persons shall be respected, mutual confidence renewed, and fra-
ternal love unite with holy ties the Spaniards of both hemispheres.
Then, in a moment, will cease for ever all painful differences, and
we shall return to be members of one family.

" And, in order to arrive at this desirable pacification, his Ma-
jesty has ordered immediately to be sent from hence a respectable
division of men, under t►e orders of Brigadier General Don Isiduro
Barradas. to which will be afterwards united the rest of the troops
having to compose the grand army, and to which his Majesty con-
fides the re-establishment of bis paternal government is aU the
{onetime. of New Spain. And it affords me the greatest satisfac-
tion to be able to monomer to you, that the Chief who commands
the division, and the loyal and valiant (dicers and soklias of which
it consists, are a model of discipline and moderation; and that
their proceedings will in all respects be analogous to peace absolute
forgetfulness of the past, and wit► that fraternity which animates
our generous and august Sovereign, ant all his vassals, tuvraNis
their brothers of New Spain.
" The Captain General of the Island of Cuba.
(Signed) " FRANCISCO DIONI3IO VIVES.•'
" Mavannah, June 17."

AITKEN'S ROCK, in the NORTH CHANNEL

The Chairman and Directors of the Association of
Underwriters in Glasgow bad latrly information from shipmasters
sailing from the Clyde of a dangerous rock in the Mink Fogel,
named Mtket.'s Kock. Several vessels, never heard of after sail
ing from ports on the west coast, were @opposed to hoe 4.4 the
misfortune to be wrecked on this rock. It is not laid down op the
charts; and. from its being nearly on a level with the sea, it bad
been comparatively seldom seen, and shipmastorsluivetempligreat
dilkolty in ascertaining its bearings with any ezactnen.

The Secretary to the Association addressed John Wilson Crokcr,
gaga reapectl ully suggesting that the Lords of the Admiralty would
give instructions to the Commanders of any of his Majesty's skips
on the station to endeavour, when the weather permitted, to fall io
with 4his Rock. An answer was received from C.aptaio ,Parry,
then I lydrographer to the Adosirsky acquainting the .flasqciation
" that the Admiralty were fully aware of the propriety of a search
after a danger of so much importatice, and that it was thop ineen•
don to do su wh:never a proper vessel could be ap4red for that
PePose•"
As the commanders *this Majesty's ships had oat,* was under.
stood, been successful in their -earth, the Association &inn
addressed Mr. Other, mod respectfully sunested the propriety of
*ending two vessels, as the most likely way of discovcrlpp she
rock, and giving its distances and bearings, and in direct goatee of
post the following answer was received irons him:

0 Admiralty Office. Jaslrgl•
5. Inr—Havlos laid Wore my Lords Commissioners of the Ad -
slinky ;our letter of the 17th instant. en the sobject of the dosser
:Caned Aitketes llodt. j am contniaadal by Abair 'Ankh* to
acquaint you, that they have directed Rea-Admiral Str Charles
Paget to semi two of the cruisers .in the Irish station to look for
that rederwitkilirections su follow a course suggested by the
Hydrograpber of this 'Ake for their proceedincio *et *web.
" 1 am, Sr, your very humble servant
J. W. CII;11(1111.
u Mr. hoedown,
." Secretary to the Association of Underwriters, &c. Glasgow."
The ids of the Admiralty ace entitled m great praise fur the
Iptomptitode and efficiency ut the means preenied fur aweeitiaing
a danger of great magnitude so vessels navigating the !Sleds *chan-
nel. If the precise liemings of the lioek were accurately owls-
Ohm', it is in view. 40 make application to the Conernissingots.ou
Northern .Lights to make • survey and examination. so is. ma} be
.awortaisied howler it hproctioble to.ertet a tigto-lionae,tat .{}ea.
,cost spun the Rock. In the 111C40 ante we sphjesipshrinkitristion
communicated to us regarding it.
snatract .4uns the 1.1 book of die Trua Whin. blues Reill.nlastor:
It is the True Orison, on Wednesday. lath Sestwulsor..l•24.
when steering R SA. a man at the moo-bead called out lb/tibia:
;war 15e.64,0 clowns our lorboorillsow ; i, las led,
go brig up .S.S.R. to dear them. 4p she sem.ul, 'two, •
mai appeased a littler Agee water. miorflunalt;
114011. and forty •blusil ;am broihesis eailankbliplVA644llllless
awW ilistinetly -ee the sea ersidtiminWaßrnAMllla trim
OW wok 411 ILL perminigniscN.
Weibull Inge," ACte 414 Whoa altihite. 444404. Pl6.4llfitz
—e her coMpass w vr. as magi.
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