Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-11-23

mate is most like that of Ireland, and equ ally
celebrated for It's salubrousess and tempera-
tlUes The chief place is the city of CASTRO
The people are expert seamen. The islands
produce the finest spars for masts any where
to be found. The population OF civilized per
sons is about $4,000 souls
The British cabinet had this archipelago in
its vast scheme of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, WHEN it.
was contemplated TO seize on the insular posi-
tons ri every sea; Chloe was to be one of
the naval keys ofihe Pacific, and To command
Chill as Trinidad was TO command the ORR
noco and Venezuela. Phi. .4,trorG.
LATE FROM VERA CRUZ.
PENSACOLA, Oct. e2.-By the Cal!arine s.
Jane, of New York. reported in our last, two
respectable aud intelligent gentlemen, no
went out and returned in the schooner, on some
commercial enterprise, give the Information
embodied below. Their opportunity to ac-
quire information was the best, from the length
of their stay at Vera Cruz, their subsequent
visit TO Tampico, and their free intercourse, at
both places, with the most respectable people
OF the country, merchants and Others.
Our iniormants arrived al Vera Cruz on
the 10th August, and remained there until The
9rd September, Oh which day they sailed FOR
Tampico-They found every thing in that
-
and all the respectable merchants engaged in
securing their families and property, sending
of both by the earliest safe conveyance. a
Patriot force had invested Vera Cruz and
were still lying before it, but after The ar
rival Of the viceroy, O'Donaho. he entered
into a negotiation with iturbidr, which rcs,;l;-
ed in an armistice. Ii being agreed on, that
ODonoho was to be received as yiceroy, and
iturblde was TO have the command OF the az
my IN chief, both recognizing the constitution
and cortes of Spain. This arrangement, de
pending on the reception Of O'Donaho by the
acting vIceroy, he proceeded To the CITY Of
Mexico, accompanied by iturbide, where he
was promptly repulscd by Don Francisco de
N0vea's declaration, . that he would not de-
liver up his authority, conceivlng that DIDO
| naho had forfeited all claim BY his association
with lturbide. lie held his authority by the
will of the people and the appreciation of the
royal army, and he-should continue to hold il
recognizing the constitution and cortes, until
some other was sent TO relieve him, and
should come under less suspicious circumstan-
ces than O'Donaho, whose association with
the lnsurgelt chieitan made himself traitor
On this the new viceroy returned to Vera Cruz,
where he presently after shut himse!fup, srn-
ding oil dispatches TO the Havana and Spain,
| asking for rcinforcemcns. The armistire be-
ing RACED, all again was war and terror
| Thus it seems there are three distinct powers
in the country-the legitimate, O'Donaho-
the independent, lturbide, and The will of the
people ofthe city ofMexico, guaranteed by
the appreciation of the royal army-De No
ycla. O'Donalio's force is ,e Y incnusidcra lie
stIll,-although he has reCei ed two reinforce
nents from Havana, one Of four hundred and
| fifty, the other Of five hundred mcn-a part of
these were the troops that last evacuated the
FIordas. Some good troops and some of
the black corps. Vera Cruz cannot hold out
much longer, unless promptly reinforced and
provisioned from the Havana All inter
course with the ncighboring country is COM
pletely cut Thy the independents much
so, there had been no mail from Mexico since
| March, except what arrived during The exis-
tcnce of the armistice. Iturbide's power seems
doubtful, if we must believe the representa-
tons given of his army--it is said to be com
posed principally of Washenangoes, Indians
and Negroes, badly armed and equipped.-
The whole force is estimated at about thirty
thousand men. Pueba is the present head
quarters of the Independents. Iturbide's forct
before Vera Cruz was variously stated, bu
did not exceed three thousand men. The in.
dependents however, have possession Of the
whole country, excepting the city of Mexico
Vera Cruz, and Perote strong fortress abou
60 leagues from Vera Cruz, on the road t,
Mexico. De NoveIa was fully authorised to
I bid defiance TO both the other powcrs-frolf
his great popularity in the city Of Mexico, anC
the devotion Oft royal army, said to conss
of excellent troops, and in force twcnty-fv,
thousand men. II is difficult To- believe tn
royalists are in such force, more particularly st
their commander is said 10 be a bold and on
terprisiug sOldicr--or the independents mus
be in greater force than is represented, how
else is it credible, that Iturbide holds ncarl,
The whole country?
Oficarintellisencc had reached Vera Cruz
of a battle between tire r0yalisis and indepcn
dents, in which the latter had lost thousan,
men, and been forced 10 rctreat.-Thc los
ofthe royalists is not stated.
|, A courier, from Mexico, reached 'Fampic
about the middle of September, and brough
L news (uDoflicial) of another recent and grca
battle, in which the Independents were de
ieated, with very great loss, said 10 be at Icas
: eight Thousand killed--this was doubtful
| though Believed by many.
Before the Cathariuc s, Jane called fror
: Tampico, they received intelligence from Yer
i Cruz up to the 18th Septembcr-fh tow
r still holding ont, but closely invested. Thi
T. it seems, was brought there by astearl boa
+ which plies regularly between Vera Cruz au
the Havana, touching at Tampic0-rThe boa
was built IN the United States and is o'vnc
by a Spaniard, but worked by citizens Of th
United States.
81 Our informants furiher state. that the pic
& y ncial viceroy, DE NOvela, in disregard Of III
y terms agreed upon, holds the former viccro
Ia ell La h. 9. q a.