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NEW YORK AND BOSTON PAPERS.

THE SPANISH SQUADIION.
It appears from the subjoined that a part of the Spanish squs-
drat) was seen ma the 20th ultimo near Tampico, and would un
questionably effect a landing there. One account describe+ the ves-
sels in question as a 74, two brigs, and a corvette. Our correspon
dent, who is generally very accurate, speaks of them u " three

ships of War and two transports." In either ease they cohtitute
but about halt of tbe original squadron, and the question is, what

has become of the remalcder ? Have they •ufertd the fate of the

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Bingham, or have they made a desceot upon some other NlezicAl
port?

Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.

" Mee of the Bee, New Orleans, Aug. 2.

" In our list, we announced to you the probability that the
SpanlA troops would be permitted to land at the English Turn.
By our taper of yesterday (French side) you will see that they
.ortbred there on Thursday last, and the order of the days which
was read to the troops. The ship Bingham will not be repaired
before IS or 20 days. to take back those troops to Havannah, or to
rejoin the squadron, which was dispersed in the Golf, in the gale
of the 9th ult.

By the Schooner Eclipse, Captain Marchand, arrived this morn-
ing from Tampico, we have been informed, that two days after her
departure (22d July) they met with five vessels of the squadron—
three vessels of war, and two transports : that it is probable they

intend to land at Tampico, where they will meet with no resistance.
that place being provided with a very small garrison. But in the
interior, large bodies of troops are in readiness to meet the enemy.
From our correspondents of the Beltinere American we learn the
following particulars :
The commandant at Tampico had received instructions front
his Government to declare that port blockaded on the first ap-
pearance of the hostile Beet, which, we infer, has actually taken
place in consequence of its arrival. It a also stated that a levy by

Government of ten millions of dollars was to take place on all
monks that shall be brought from the interior, for the purpose of
clothlng and paying the army, which was to be accounted for at
the dose of the campaign. Orders had been given to station
16,000 troops at Tampico, 8,000 at Campeacky, and at all other
places es the coast in the same proportion. The convoy, with
600,000 dollen, which was due at Tampico on the 16th July, bad
not arrived. Bad weather, it was supposed, had detained it.

• TRANSLATION.

" Swamis !—The fury of the waies has thrown us un the
shores of a foreign nation, and has prevented us from binding 'Mir 4.
brows with the laurel of victory ; but the civic wreath adorns.
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your heads, for you have supported with calmneakand wi • .
apprehension, the dangers 9f a terrible death, proving to the a-
verse that you are Spaniards. worthy of that glorious naiii, which
Europe respects and admires. It i •
" The nation which now receives you intlierbildioleh a hos •
pitailty so generous, planes confidence -mougis&ep oholdina-
don, your discipline, and your virtues, to Mem that you will
Dever compromise he neuUmilly; and I have prdnileed in your
name, and it is an act of justice which I reader you, that there 6
sot a soldier concerning whose conduct I can have any doubt.

" In short, we would rejoin our companions In arms, and when
they riceive us into their embrace, we will tell them, ' Since our
sufferings and the constancy with which we have supported then
equal your valour, we are worthy of you; and they will repeat
their embraces. Then our blood shall prate that the inclemency
of the season only could binder us for a abort time from contribut-
ing to the heroic enterprise conceived by the King, our Master,
Ferdinand VII. which we have the enviable glary of promoting.
" I hope that the soldiers whom I have the honour to command
will not forget their duty foe a aliment. But if unhappily ahy one
should give occasion for the least complaint from a friendly and
generous Dodos, which has opened its arms to us in the midst of
oar misfortune!, the most severe chastisement shall be inlikted
upon him. Illustrious Iberia, with a name pure and always re-
spected, will never pardon him who would tarnish it.

"Soldiers! I repeat it. continue to merit the heroic name of
Spaniards; sultain the confidence which has been plated in our
&tweet and belated Monarch ; and remember the proofs of affec-
tion which you owe to your chief the Commanding General, who
will in a few days ci.ver you with glory on the field of battle.
"English Turn. July si , 1849.
" The Commander of the td King's battalion.
MANUEL DE LOS SANTOS GUZMAN.
" BOLIVIA."

" We have before u a decree of Colonel Velma), who was ap-
pointed Provisionary President of Bolivia after the revolution
of December 31, or, as be styles himself, Vice-President of
the Bolivian Republic,' which throws some light upon the
eventi which led to the calling of the Grand Alinshal D. An-
dres Santa Crus to the Presidency, as mentioned in our paper of

August 6.
" It will be remembered that General Blanco, who seas killed
In the said revolution, was elected to the Presidency on or about
the 25th of December, by the Conventional Assembly, which met
at Chuquisaca on the 16th of the same month for the revision of
the Constitution. The decree of Colonel Velasco as dated the 51st
of January, and declares the Assembly dissolved. The principal
articles as follow :

" I. Whereas the legitimacy of the Convential Assembly is &i-
-nks' by the department of Potosi ; its dissolution demanded, and
its nullity declared, by all the deputies of La Paz, and by some
from Oruro, Santa-Cruz, and the province of Tarija.
" 11. And whereas the deputies having been convoked for the
sole purpose of revising and modifying the Constituriln, hive ex-
ceeded their powers by trampling on the laws of the constituent
congress, in tut bulent and indecorous sessions, dis racetul to the
nation, even to the extreme of dissolving themselves in effect, by
the desertion of some and the separation of others.
" 111. And wh , disappearing in this manner, the Assembly
have left the Government unsupported. without a new system to
regulate its administration, and the nation disorganized in regard to
its fundamental laws.
t' IV. And whereas, finally, the salvation of the country de
mands the adoption ot prompt and salutary measures in the critical
and extraordinary circumstances in which it is placed ; I have de-
termined to decree, and do hereby decree, the following :
" 1. The Conventionil Assembly is declared dissolved, and the
'members who composed it destitute of the prerogatives ot national
deputies.
" 2. The Government of the Bolivian Republic is re-established
in the same state in which the Constituent Congress left it at the
extraordinary Session, and the laws ut the Assembly remain with-
out force and void.
" 3. The Grand Marshal D. Androz Santa Cruz will therefore
be invited anew as Provisional President, appuimed by the Con-
stituent Congress, and desired by all the Bolivians.
" 4. The Government will convoke for the 2Sth of May, (11119),
or sooner if possible, a new assembly, to fulfil the duties assigued
to that which is now dissolved.
The Electoral Colleges which shall be constituted at the
primary elections, may appoint the same deputies as before, or
new ones, according as they th Al judge most conducive to the
welfare of the country."
From the New Cacaos Courier, Aug. 7.
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"ML EMITOII.—The several reports circulated in this city with
regard to the meeting of the Spanish :quadron, by the schooner
Eclipse, on coming out of Tampico, hying incorrect and calculated
to give rise to erroneous impresainns, I deem it a duty to state
the facts.
" On the 19th of July, at 11 A. M. I left the bar of Tampico.
Towards five o'clock v. at. we decried a man-of-war brig
about six miles from the port. lbe 1:1-14 was calm. On the 20th,
at nine A. U. fell in with four sail—tit wit, tine line-of-battle ship,
one frigate, and two brigs, bearing for Tampico, dinance 15 ur In
sni:es. Neither of them tiered its course, nor did they si-esst to
pay any attention to us. " N. NIAtICHANDs"