The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

MEXICO.

RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS, OCT. I.]
REVOLUTION OF THE INTERNAL SPANISH
PROVINCES.

Texas, August V.

Stn—l arrived at Saint Antonio on.the 12th inst
with my company, all in good health, and found the
government had been changed, and that instead of
entering the dominions of Ferdinand I. was in the
Independent Empire of Mexico. There has been no
commotion of importance in any part of the empire,
except in the cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz, and
Durargo, which are the only places in the empire that
have not declared in favour of independence. Ytur
bide was besieging Mexico, according to the last ac-
counts we had, with 56 thou4and men, and had de-
tached 12 thousand under General Negrete against
Dnrargo, land another large body againsti Vera Cruz.
There has been no disturbance in this province, they
are all anxious for their independence.

Extract of a Letter from La Bahia, Province of
Texas, Sept. I.—The mail arrived from the interior
this morning Saint Antonio.—Mexico has not
surrendered, but was still closely besieged, and no
doubt is entertained of its falling into the hands of
the Revolutionists, who were redoubling their efforts.
All is quiet in the interior, and the independent Go-
vernment is firmly established, with the exceptions in
my former letter (Mexico, Vera Cruz, and Durargo.)
The New Government prompt lyeontirmed the proceedings
of the old one, in regard to my grant of land, and has al-
ready furnished me with guides, &c. for exploring► the
country. This labour I shall commence in two or three
days.
FROM TOR CUARLEATOWN PAPER, NOT. 15.]
COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The following is all the information we could ga-
the? from our New York papers yesterday. relative
to the state of the English markets. At the last ad-
vices, per the Orion. all accounts from the continent
concur in representing the harvest to be good, and
the crops plentiful. After the arrival of the Orion
large sales of Flour were made in New York, at 7 dol-
lars to 7j, being a reduction of 1 dollar a l 2 from pre-
vious prices.—The Cotton market also assumed more
activity, and sales were readily effected at prices which
before had been heavy.

Ihe tempestuous weather which has prevailed fur
some days past, har greatly interrupted our intercourse
with the continent. Up to a late hour to-day, no
French papers had reached us. Where the occasion,
however, is urgent, mercantile interest can contrive to
effect what appears impracticable to regular official
duty ; and though the mails have nut arrived, two ex-
presses were, yesterday, received in town, bringing the
price of the renter, with an abstract of the news of
Tuesday morning. The French Funds, in cons..
quence of the collision of parties, have suffered a de-
pression, but not so great as might have been expected.
'fhe Five per Cents were fluctuating from 88f. 50c. to
sBf. 25e. and the state of affairs was still unsettled.
The Chamber of Deputies had assembled subsequent to
the King's reply to their Address, and a stormy debate
bad ensued ; but both the Chamber and the Ministry re.

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main is dote quo, neither the one nor the other be,
fraying any symptom of dissolution. The Ministers,
it is understood, have intimated that they inlaid to
keep their ground, and carry on public basin .% le
spite of the majority of the legislature agaikt
them. If they can carry on their business ie
this manner their measures must be unexceptioseih
indeed ! How long this state of things can last, or via
will be its result, is extremely difficulty to foresee. gf
this collision France has again become an object of
high interest, and let which ever of the parties yiew,
important consequences must follow; for the trim*.
ant party will not stop without taking further cleve
to secure its position, and promote its success. Theme,
sent struggle, as we before observed, is Woe's die
Ministers and a coalition of the Liberals and Ultra...
The present Ministers vainly thought they could stuT
clear of both, and even employ the latter against the
former; they have made the experiment soil fadedr.
Their failure was foretold by a writer in Fusee,
whose remarks on the state of parties in that cowry
are, at the present crisis, highly interesting yd ea,
couraging, as pointing out what a Ministry mid NI
by coalescing with the party which is expresin
public opinion. Referring to the men of the old re,
gitne, and those of the new, with the one oe

the other of which the government of Franc,
must make common cause, M. Unisot thas thews
the advantage which the Government mast gels
by attaching to themselves the latter. " Theft
are," he says, " two great classes of men in Frame
ready to serve, and be served in their turn, by
the Government—for there is nothing solid or
real, without reciprocity of interest. There is sa
the one side the ancient aristocracy, which pos.
senses the social saperiorities, and wishes to keep then
to itself: the other class consists of those who look to
enrich and advance themselves. The first class is
feeble, and in a false position mono us. It is an
aristocracy with much pretension, few privileges, and
little strength. What could such men do its an Admi.
nistration—discontented with their silnati:m ; thisk•
less for office, which they think their right ; a bathes

to the public by which they are reluctantly endand,

and which they are watching to despoil of its rights
and liberties ? It is among the men of new France
that any Uovernment in France should look for sup.
port. These are io a position with which they are
not discontented—they are not fretting at the dif-
ference between their present and past situation—
they serve the Charter the. more faithfully and
disinterestedly, because it is consonant to their
principles. They do nut, like their opposeots,
join haughtiness with begging importunity. A
nistry devoted to the fiemurbons should know that the
men of the Revolution, even those who have hails
part in its acts, and have grown grey nailer its he
oars, are far from intractable. For a great antior et
those men, and even the most distiognished of thew,
neither the revolution, nor absence, nor war, or the
career of their own lives, nor even their fears, have es•
tirely rstinguished their sentiments of legitimacy sad
of respect for the ancient race of our Kings. They
would thank the House of Bourbon to acknoniedp
their rights, and accept their strength."

A meeting of the Sussex Agriculturists have set as
example, but not of wisdom, to the Farmers in geseni,
They made a great many speeches, but all to little per
pose we readily believe. That such a meet*
should slur over the real cause of our distress, is sot
astonishing, though the whole country besides them-
selves know it, and feel its dreadful consequences.—
These gentlemen binge on the importation of pais
as if it were the sole cause of all our utisfortnaet.
Messrs. Et.t.stAx might take the lead in speakise,
but he must alter his tone and his line of up•
meat before he can take the lead In loud
sense. The whole meeting, save Mr. 11LACEMAN'
attributed the misfortunes of the country to tastes
very different from the real ones. We should wish to
ask the Noble Chairman, and the rest of them, was
it the importation of hops, that reduced their price to
one-tenth of what the article has been within the last
ten years ? Or, was it the importation of cattle, that
reduced the price of meat ? Or, is the reduced price of
corn, the cause of our misfortunes?- Mr. I3cacettais
truths ought to have carried wisdom to their near
standing. To crooked policy, not to low prices, is °mist
the wrctehednees of the country. Taxes, not
prices, are the real evil. The present prices are sat•
ciently remuneratieg to pay suitable rr awl moderate
taxation and the expense of producing. But heavy
taxes, heavy poor's rate, and other heavy demands
sink the Farmers and ruin them. We did expect
that the !eloquent gentleman would have tog
the meeting that the present state of the soused
was attributable wholly and solely to the tract of an
honest representative system, and that uo mestere un-
connected with a genuine Reform could he of any
use
' whatsoever to the encreasing evils that now summed
us. We have little to expect from meetings libel', such
wise men as Mr. ELL MAN ende.tvonr to separate Pit.
tics from a political meeting. It reminds us of row
parted from the sea. What! Mr. Ewa as, has the
evil come home to you ? Are roar ',Morino and
your Pitt Clubs of no service to yon now ? Have your
favourite politicians rendered your poor rates
heavy ; or, do you think the taxes independent of do
poor rates too mach for the Somric farmer as
as the rest of the nation ? The Paul., then, has net
weathered the storm, hut has wreeked Isis craty host
lt
in deep distress on the coast of Sussex. 10141 re
others staffer but those that contributed their soI
the present national distress, er should feel little
anxiety bow they gut through it ; lut unto-trawl)

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. dot rople have been duped, sad Moist- duffel for the
rrichistbsers of their leaden, in whose train Mr. ELL*
qiis was sot the least conspicuous. The Noble Chair-
sun boasted of bating so funded property; so much the
,ororoo for his Lordship, as the funded' as oat-lived
.tit landed, although in a short tulle even this may
Ow it close on the road to oblivion. No doubt his
Lorslship may soy “ my land cannot run away from me ;
sosponge may blot out the other, so that in all human
probability. I am better off as I sin, with my land'
litboat rent." We cannot help agreeing with his
Lordship; for, if the Ministers tamper with the Funds,
down comes the delusive fabric which enabled them to
sport with the rights of his MAJIIIITT'S subjects for the
thirty-two-years. That Meetings or Petitions can
be productive of so ultimate good to the Farmers, eves
•if listened to, we feel confident. But nothing we fear
osa divert Ministers and their supporters from the evil
course that has already disgraced them, and ruined the
prospects of the country. So bigotted are they, and
ssiformly attached to place and power, that we
doll not be surprised to see them adhere to the phon-
on, like SAlirsox to the Philistine" pillars, until the
*le temple came down.

The news received today relative to South America
Ise( a remakably recent date, and very interesting
character. We refer our readers to the preceding co-
lumn for the details, which tend to throw strong light
upon the views and plans of !turbid..

It is sow said that Earl Talbot will, on his return
from Ireland, succeed the Duke of ►liontross asMaster
of the Horse.
Lord Cochrane it is undentood, has sent over to
this country for a diving bell, the recovery of some of
the valuable property being deemed practicable. The
O'Higgins, it is stated, foundered on a bed of rocks
sear the shore, and in shallow water.
Every arrival from the country brings the most un-
pleasant accounts of the effects of the late continued
rains. The fens in Lincolnshire are above a foot under
water, and several small bridges have been destroyed.
The 2 I battalion of the lst regiment of Guards, pre-
forming duty at Windsor, amounting to about 550 men,
received instructions on Sunday last to hold themselves
in readiness to proceed to Knigtsbridge barracks, where
they arrived on 'fuesday evening. This battalion is
to succeed the 31 battalion of the same regiment no w
on their route fur Ireland.

We understand that Government has, with prompt
and judicious liberalty, granted fifty pounds to John
Shea, of Tubber, in the county Tipperary, for the pur-
pose of giving a slated roof to his house. He was bro-
ther to the late Edmund Shea, the atrocious burning
of whose house, person and family, Ireland is deploring.
—(lraterford Mirror.)
Au arrival from Batavia bas brought letters to the
24th of August, containing the sequel of the expedition
against Palembang, which may be related in very few
words :—After the attack on the principal fortress,
which took place on the 24th June, the Dutch troops
landed and took possession of the other forte, the palace
•ft d city, without further resistance. By the Ist of July
all warlike operations had ceased, and the Sultan, who
Accompanied the expedition, was quietly seated on the
throne of his brother. The deposed Prince bad been
einveyed a prisoner to Batavia, and it was believed
would be sent to Banda.
ley • vessel from Rio de Janeiro, letters dated the 4th
of October have been received, which is two days later
than the packet. The city is represented to have been
then quite tranquil; and, as the Bank continued itspay-
meats regularly, confidence in mercantile affairs was re.
turning, and the Exchange had risen to 49. Some ap-
plebensions appear to exist respecting the political
state of the capital of Brazil, but the authorities of the
best class express their belief that there is nothing in
reality to be feared.
New Yonn, Nov. 11.—" Flour ! Flour ! Flour !
Tie speculators, and all the wounded pigeons,' were
yesterday in a great flutter, at a Liverpool ship, juet
telegraphed. More white bats, white coats, and white
faces were visible on the battery, than Mr. De Clew,
of the flag-s• aff. remembers to have seen since Corn-
wallis was taken. Every spy-glass was in requisition,
and it is said that a dealer, who was in for it to the
tune of 10,000 barrels, borrowed our friend Mr. Lati-
mer's telescope (which by the bye, is an excellent one,
and he wishes to sell it,) in order to have a better peep
at the Euphrates, when, 10, and behold ! Capt. Reed
telegraphed that Flour in England bad fallen to its
old price, and crops were better than expected. The
knowing ones, who bad sold out, went off to dinner
with a pleasant shake of the bead, and drank three
glasses extra, while those whose enteprise ontstripped
*dr prudence, and who would not look before they
kapild,' walked home with lung faces, and soliloquised
:on tie eccentricities of commerce.
ACIIIIDENT AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRI.—bast
nit a distressing accident happened to Mr. Abbott
while performing Protests, in the Two Gentlemen of
Perona. In the banditti scene of the last act, when
encountering one of the banditti (Mr. Comer, we be-
' ' be was wounded severely in the fate by the
• sword of the latter. From the unexpected nature of
the blew, and the great pain it occasioned, he shrieked
so load as to excite a shuddering sensation among the
audience, and to create a belief that he was mortally
wounded. Their painful sympathy was not much al-
layed by the report of Mr. Jones, who came forward,
and, informing them that Mr. Abbott was desperately
wounded, begged they would allow the play to proceed
without him. The spectators did not feel a disposition
to sit and be amused after having so recently witnessed
so painful an accident ; and required that the curtain
' should be dropped, and the play concluded. This
state of anxiety continued for about ten minutes, when
Mr. Egerton came forward awl announced to their sa-
tisfaction, that Mr. Abbott was not so severely wound-
ed as isas at first apprehended ; and that his eye,
which was at first believed to be injured, was not
toadied. The wound, we have heard, is immediately
under the eye, the point of the sword having pene-
trated and laid open a part of the cheek and the side
of the nose. Mr. Abbott was conveyed home in a
hackney-coach soon after the accident.