The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-02 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Vic Eibrypoot ef:tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNI.ArG, FEBRUARY 2, 1836,

By the Cornelia, Captain EATON, we have Charleston
papers to the 9th January. The most prominent subject
we find in them is the irruption of the Seminole Inlians
into the territory of East Florida, where they are de-
scribed as having burnt and destroyed every thing that
came in their way. Volunteers were raising at Charles_
ton to assist in the expulsion of the invaders. We take
the following extract from the Charleston Courier of
January 6th :
" The New Orleans Courier of the 24th tilt. contains an account
of the butchery, in the most barbarous manner, at Tampion, of
twenty-eight men, part of an expedition which had gone from
New Orleans, to aid the Texians. Of those persons who suf-
fered, twenty-three were Americans, three Frenchmen, and two
Germans. The Mexicans, it is stated, fired their guns first at
the least vital part of the persons of their victims, thus rendering
a number of shots necessary to cause death, their object appear-
ing to be to make them suffer as much as possible. After they
were all dead, a pit was dug and the bodies thrown in promis-
cuously. In a subsequent paragraph, however, the editor says:
" We have conversed with several respectable merchants,
who have receive.; letters from Tampico, who represent the
circumstances of the death of the twenty-eight men who were
shot, as entirely different from what we have stated, and that
the barbarity which our informant alleges against the Mexicans
in this case, is quite unfounded.' ,

" A letter from an American gentleman at Tampico, dated
14th December, which follows the above, makes great complaints
of the course pursued by Americans in attacking that place, and
expresses surprise that the American government does not in-
terfere, and prevent the fitting out of vessels and troops. The
letter closes by saying, All sensible merchants in Mexico wish
for peace, under whatever form of government the nation may
think fit to adopt; and it is really vexing to think that our se-
curity, and that of our property, should be compromised at
home.'

"The New Orleans Bee corntains a despatch from the Mexican
minister to the government of the United States, deprecating
the fitting out of expeditions from this country against the
Mexican government, as an infringement of the relations of
amity which subsist between the two countries. The minister
also protests against the capture of the Mexican vessel of war,
Correo, Captain Thompson, lately carried into New Orleans,
and requires her restoration, and the li!)eration from confine-
ment of her officers and crew.

"The New Orleans Bee, of the 25th ult., says, Texas is now
the determined goal of an army of nearly 10,000 men, under
Santa Anna, who has been furnished with arms and provisions
of all kinds; and with funds, by collections from merchants and
others, as well as donations from those interested in establishing
a central form of government in Mexico—to the amount of two
or three millions of dollars.

We much mistake if the career of the foul-mouthed
and mendacious beggar, who visited Liverpool on Wed-
nesday last, be not near its close. This wretched old
man must ere now be conscious of the slender hold he
has on public opinion, and of the certainty that be will
shortly be hurried by disappointment to an infamous
grave. The Irish bravo quailed and trembled under the
hootings and execrations with which he was greeted in
our Exchange Rooms. He grew pale, stuttered, and
looked faint in the presence of honourable men. He
walked in sallow sickness and in helpless trepidation,
like a convicted felon leaning on the arm of hit. gaoler,
once his friend and companion, to the gallows; while on
all sides were heard the hisses of scorn, the shout of de-
rision, the yell of hatred, the groan of disgust, and the
triumph of justice over detected guilt. . Never was a
more humiliating spectacle witnessed in a public assem-
bly. He came reeking from the embraces of an Irish
rabble, like a culprit from a den of thieves, into the pre-
sence of men who thoroughly despised and loathed, be-
cause they perfectly understood, his real character. In
their presence he looked the very picture of misery. It
was an atmosphet'a uncongenial to his nature and habits.
He was dragged before the merchants of Liverpool, who
have an unconquerable horror of any thing in the form of
a cheat or a swindler, and who equally detest a liar; and
he was dragged thither by a kind friend in kind simpli-
city of heart, who, perhaps imagined that hospitality
would overlook fraud, and that vulgar impudence, though.
it might not attract respect, would iit'lea.;t. command
silence.

Never was the moist quaker or the characterless papist
more disagreeably undeceived. DANIEL never experi-
enced such a reception in the whole course of his. life.
He was literally, as we said on Friday, jostled and hooted
out of the room—not a voice to cheer him, not a hand to
defend him, not a gentleman to take his part, not a single
being in decent attire to escort him—the joints of his tail
on this occasion being a few unwashed and filthy Irish
paupers ordered out for the purpose by the priests !
Need we wonder then that the mendicant arrived sick,
chopfallen, disconcerted, and " too late for dinner" on
the following day at Birmingham ? The coarse lumps
of beef and pork were devoured, the cheese was down,
and the guzzlers nearly all drunk, before DANIEL, their
invited guest, could make it convenient to present him-
self before them ! What befel him on the road, which
detained him three hours beyond his appointed time, has
never been explained. Whether he had dined early, and
had forgotten himself afterwards, we cannot tell; but
we strongly suspect that the treatment which he had met

n Liverpool had produced a serious effect upon his
nerves and his physical powers. How the nailers and
bellows-blowers of the environs of Birmingham must
have stared when, having paid their money to see an
Irish wolf feed, the wolf did not come until they were
not in a condition to see, and who, when he did come,
did not condescend to feed with them ! Mr. THOMAS
ATTwooD, before eigh(u'elock came, must have wished
himself at the bottom of a coal mine, and MuNTz, the

chairman, somewhat deeper !
But • what, more than these failures and disappoint-
ments, indicate the speedy termination of the popieh re-

The subject alluded to by a "Sandonite" would much better
remain unnoticed for the present. fVe are prepared!
If " Fair Ply" will send us his name, and the testimonials of the
clerg,yman alluded to, we will serve him as far as we can.
The 'subject broached by B is noticed elsewhere.
The letter to " Win. liathbone" shall appear, if possible, in our
next.

We regret that we are unable to find room for any portion of
the splendid and unrivalled speech of the Rev. Mr. M`Gbee,
at Glasgow. It contains some new and important disclosures
relative to Irish popery and Dr. Murray, which we shall take
care to notice on Friday.