The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Despatches, dated the 30th or August and 6th of September
last, have been received by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., his
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from
Mr. Pakenham, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, and
Mr. O'Gorman, his Majesty's Consul General in Mexico, con-
taining decrees, of which the following are translations :
" GOVIRNNIENT OF THE DISTRICT.
" EDICT.

"JOSE GOMEZ DE La CORTINA, CITIZEN, COLONEL OP THE
BATTALION OF COMMERCE, AND GOVERNOR OF THE Dis-
TnICT.
"The following decree has been communicated to me by the
Secretary of War and Marine :
" His Excellency the President ad interim of the Mexican
Republic has been pleased to address to me the following de-
cree :
" The President ad interim of the Mexican Republic, to the
inhabitants thereof, know ye, that the General Congress has
decreed as follows :
" While the uegociations pending with her Majesty the
Queen Regent of Spain for the recognition of the independence
of this country are being definitely arranged, hostilities with
that nation are suspended; and the government is hereby em-
powered to regulate its dispositions with respect to commerce,
without exceeding the basis of reciprocity.
" MIGUEL VALENTIN, -President.
"1 ATENOGEN ES CASTILLERO, Secretary.
"` RAFAEL DE MONTALVO, Secretary.
" Wherefore, I command, &c.
" Mexico, August 27, 1836.
"`JOSE JUSTO COUR°.
" To Don Jose Maria Tornel.'
" Aud I communicate it to you for your information, &C.,
" TORNEL.

"To the Governor of the Diitrict.
" And, that all may know it, I order that it be publabed by
edict in this capital and throughout the district, being placarded
in the accustomed places, and distributed to those charged with
the observance of it.
" Given in Mexico, this ',nth day of August, 1836.
" JOSE GOMEZ DE LA CORTINA."

" DEPART:MO.4T OF FIMANCE.—SECII:,N I.
"His Excellency the President ad interim of the Republic
has been pleased to address to this department the decree which
follows:
" The President ad interim of the Mexican Republic to
the inhabitants thereof, makes known that the General Congress
has decreed the following :
" Art. t. The tonnage duty, which the law of the 16th of
November, 1527, imposes upon foreig❑ vessels, when once paid
by them at the port of delivery, neither ought to be, nor ought
to have been, exacted from them in any other port to which
they may proceed, and may have proceeded, for any purposes
permitted by the laws.
" Art. 2. Neither shall said impost be exacted from distressed
vessels which may be driven involuntarily into any port of the
Republic, provided always that the fact is satisfactorily proved.
" 'MIGUEL VALENTIN, President.
"'JOSE R. '.HALO, Secretary.
"'AT ENUGENES CASTILLERO, Secretary.
" Wherefore, I order, &c.
" Mexico, Aug. 31, 1836.
" JOSE JUSTO CORRO.

"And, for the due observance of the preceding law, his Ex-
cellency the President ad interim orders that, with respect to
the vessels which may be circumstanced as mentioned in the
first article thereof, the authorities of the respective maritime
custom-houses forthwith proceed either to cancel the bonds
exacted by them from the parties concerned, fur the payment
of the duty in question. or to refund to the said parties what
they may have recovered from them, making the proper entries
of the same, and informing the Supreme Government ir. the
manner pointed out by the superior orders upon the matter.
" I communicate the above decree to you fur your information
and guidance.
" God and liberty.
" Mexico, Aug. 31, 1836.
"J. DE LA FUENTE."