The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-13 00:00:00

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?MOAT, JAM/AWL 13, 1818.
We hatirectivad 'New York Pepers to the 13th
ThOkielligeoce from Washington is of the 9th.
The only odditiOnal communication made respecting
the proceedings of Congress is a notice of the report-
ing of a Hill in the House of Representatives, on the
Btb, to authorise the commutation of soldiers' bounty
lands for money, at the rate of one dollar and forty
cents per acre.—lt is stated from New York, of the
12th, via Charleston, that • ship fall of passengers
had arrived at Amelia Island from New York, but
that it was very sickly at Amelia. The Congress
frigate, with the American Commissioners for the

Southern Provinces, had pet to sea.
It is officially notified in the Gemetie of the
Diesican Spanish Government, of November 1,
that General MINA and his followers bad been
eaptored and molted, and that his invasion
of the 64 faithful dominions" of the 46 beloved
Lord and King" FERDINAND, in Mesico, has thus
been terminated. The Courier of last sight has made
special use of this authentic and official information.
We doubt much the truth of this loyal Gazette. In-
dependent of the little reliance to be placed in Spa.
nish reports and Royal- Gazettes from the quarter in
question, we have reason to believe from previous
accounts of nearly as late a date as the above, that
MINA was in no danger of such a fate. From all
the previous accounts received from New Spain, it
is evident that to obtain possession of MINA'S per-
son a battle must have taken place, both with him
and Father TonnEs. Ilow MINA was situited
about the middle of October will be seen by the es-
tracts we have made from letters that may be relied
upon. Nothing wrs known at Kingston, on the 23d
November, of MiNA'a being taken, as the letters ar.
rived yesterday by the Ann are silent on the subject,
and we publish an extract of one dated the 13th.—
Letters from Ilavannah to the middle of November
were also received yesterday, and they are equally
silent as to any such capture. The Gazette article is
inserted in a Journal Eatraonlinsry of the Govern-
ment of Havauuah, of the Ist December, and states,
that MINA was taken prisoner on the evening of the
2'7th of October, in company with 25 others, in the
pass of Veuadito, belonging to the estate of Tlachi-
quera, where be was with 200 men, nearly the half
of whom were killed; among the rest the Patriot
PEDRO Moat:No, whose head had been brought to
Silso. It is not nicety that MINA was to be caught
in this trap. He had penetrated into the heart of
Mexico with above 10,000 followers, and was esta-
blishing himself in its most open end fertile Pro.
vinces. The Spanish Gazettes have been full of false-
hoods,and this, we have so doubt, is„ont gf this
preposterous fabrications.

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The Canada Papers to the 9th ult. mention that a
Public Meeting had been held at Quebec, to take
into consideration the proposed duty on timber im-
ported from North America into England. A Cow
mittee of eight Gentlemen bad been appointed to
draw op a Memorial to Government against the mea-
sure, stating that it would be the ruin of the British
Colonies in North America.

'The American Papers inform ai, that three thou-
sand seven hundred and seventy-five new settlers have
arrived in Lower Canada during the present
season.--These settlers gratuitously receive crown
lends ; but the Papers coufideutlypredict the ulti-
mate failure of this experiment to people a desolate
country with the refuse of an impoverished corn.
munity. The iron climate, and arid soil of Lower
Canada, they, say, will never sufficiently pay the
cultivator for his labour. Emigration will travel west
nod by South, but no farther north. Settlers will
arguable where they can obtain more than one eta
per annum, where their interest would be in-
creased, and comforts promoted : and instead of
dwellini amidst eternal snows, they will por-
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sue the " even tenor of their way" to softer
climates. These are among the few objeetions
against the success of emigrants in Lower Canada
—they also operate against the supposition of the
vast increase its the value of lands in that quarter,
and the policy oe the British Government in try-
ing to get rid of a portion of its needy subjects,
by gitins theta lands In Lower Canada; as the