The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY. IMMART 14. 1/118. "

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We have received American Papers to the 17th
:December. We have eagerly inspected their contents
'in liberal of. articlet either confirmatory or contra.
'liettry of the officiel jlteUigence put forth in the
Mexican. Gaselier respecting the gallant and voter
prising Mien, open whose eaptare and execution the
.Spanish Government and its friend the Courier; en
triumphantly felicitate themselves. We have not
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beio entirely disappointed in oar hope of information'
i.sin. this interesting subject. It will be recollected
that the reported capture of Mist*, took place. ac-
cording to the Mexica►e Gazette, on the 27th of
October: the accounts from Mexico. which we
deri►e from the Papers before us, do not come
down to that date, nor are they official, but
they are far from being of a nature to prepare
us for such a result to Mtr4A's expedition, nne
can we, after perusing them, rest in the belief
that the Spanish statement is true. We most
remind our Readers that the Mexican intelligence ap.
peered in the Havannah Papers of the Ist of De-
cember. The Boston Patriot, of the 16th of the
same month, and the Philadelphia Gazelle state.,
on the authority of the New Orleans Papery,
and recent arrivals from Vera Crux, that the
news lately published by the F.pinish Authorities re.
specting the internal roncems of Mexico, is greatly
venerated, if not utterly unfounded. It was be.
lieved, in the heat informed circles at Vera Croz,l
that Ml2l A, so far from being destroyed, was mtkingl
a rapid and irresistible progress into the Most wealthy'
end populous part of the Viceroyalty. He bad do.
tested and cut to pieces in three separate affairs,
three different regiments of the goys! Army, who
hell attacked him. Persons at Vera Cruz, who dared+
to converse on the subject, and whew* information
was derived from authentic sources,Aeclared shit hill
motions and dispositions were admirably judidoes,
and that his troops evinced en invincible courage, as
well as the execte•t discipline. He had passed through
the cities of Leon and San Lois de Potosi, and was
within 100 miles of the capital. From the re-
pidity of his progress, and his taking uninterrupted
possession of two such important posts as Leon and
San Luis de Potosi, one of two inferences is in-
evitable ; either his army is so formidable as to look
down upon all opposition, or the People of the coun-
try are eatremely well disposed to favour his views.

Oa the subject of the intelligence which the Courier
boasts so much of having exclaseirely given from a
Spanish Colony, we can only remark, in addition,
that we have sera nothing to confirm the atatenteuta
in that very suspicious announcement. We cannot
Mt recollect that this is the second Extraordinary
Gazette of Mesico which has announced the capture
of film t, and the first account wore as great an ap.
;manillce of truth as the last. Neither can we for.
get, es a cotemporary remarks, that fifiGnEctoa has
been at least ten times killed in the Spanish accounts,
and twice sent pickled to Caraccas, though he now
happens to he not only alive, but in escellesit health,
in the United Staten.

The Courier, in its exultation' on the termination
of Mirci's " ill-concerted and guilty enterprise,"
throws in the following very valuable and correct
information, for its Readers. It would puzzle any
one to find out hi, authority for such statements.—
" That part of the Province of New Santander, from
Sotto la Marina southward, is but thinly poputded.
pud.smong the few- inhabitants which were scattered
over his line of march towards San Luis Potosi, it
does not appear that he foind reinforcements. His
career,. short as it was, would have been much more
brief, could his adversaries have met him sooner.—

The moment, indeed, he approached a more populous
district (Cusnasuato, in which Silao is situated) he
was surrounded and taken ; a clear proof that the
Pepple of slesico rook no part in his daring enter-
prize ; for if they had, he would have increased in
strength ■nd numbers as he advanced nearer to the
capital. His surrender, and the dispersion of his
rebel force, is a proper topic of congratulation.—
While there 'listed even such ea ambiance of
insurrection, mercantile "peculation', and the opera-
lions of commerce were impeded."
Admirable speculator ! The Spanish Government
if certainly the patron of commerce, and (boy who
look up with admiration to it are weleoine to its bless.
Ilop. !et the geographical knowledge of the Courier