Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-10-31
MEXICO.
From the National Gazette.


An address is published, dated Au-
gust Sd, from the Supreme Council Of
Mexico, to the Emperor, in which the
critical condition of the empire is de.
velcped, and system of energetic,
that is to say despotic measures, propo-
sed as a remedy for present, and pre-
servative against greater evils. The
council recommend the establishment
in Mexico, and the chieftowns through.
out the empire of special tribunals to
take cognizsnce of the crimes of sedi-
ton and conspiracy against the state.
Consolation for "'the suspension of the
forms of legal proceedings is attempt
ed to be administered by such phrases
as these
"With SO many evils threatening us,
shall we not risk small portion of our
liberty for the salvation of the whole? ~
s'In the most free states the foresight
of their Legislators has permitted re
currence in great crises to extraordina.
ry and temporary measures for the
safety of the country, it's constitution
end government. 1t would not be diff
ficult to prove by history, that public
liberty has been destroyed for want of
a similar resource; governments in ex-
traordinary circumstances have render.
ed themselves absolute forever, because
arbitrary power suas refused to them
for a short AMI determined period"
The following quotations from the
Address will be sufficient to disclose
the nature of "the critical circumstan-
ces" which extraordinary remedies"
are alledged to be alone competent to
remove.
"The people of Mexico have been
lately agitated to an extraoi binary DE-
gree, tranquility has been disturbed,
public confidence has been destroyed,
and the inhabitants frightened by the
enemies of order; it has been stated
that numerous meetings had demanded
republic, that the towns had pro-
claimed it, and that portion of the ar
my were in their favour. What could
be the motive Of those who forged aud
circulated such reports, but to intro
duce confusion among the people, to
produce division of sentiment, and to
bring about revolution Fortunate
ly those statements have been shown to
be false; but the official communica.
ton made by the government to the
council, proves that those rumors had
some foundation, that in fact there has
been conspiracy against the monarch
ical government in several towns and
provinces of the empire, and appearan-
ces lead us to suspect the existence of
a plot for the establishment ofa repub-
lie, and for overwhelming the nation
with irightfui revolution"
con the other hand, want Of conf.
dence has been excited in the national
congress, the members have been alarm.
ed it has been said that faction was
prepared to dissolve the congress, to
proclaim an absolute monarchy, and
that even the persons of the members
were not secure"
"The torpor observed in the execu.
ton OF the laws, the robberles, murders,
and assassinations, frequently commit.
ted in this and the other cities of the
empire, the banditti on the public roads
and other crimes which alarm the PEG.
pie, disturb the tranquility, and destroy
public confidence, the want of punish
ments, and impunity, as it we're. sane
tilted all prove that the administra
ton Of Justice is paralyzed, or rather
that there are no Judges, no tribunals,
no Justice in fact, these disorders have
arisen to such height, that no remedy
for them can be found in either the es.
tablished tribunals or the ordinary
laws
EDUCATION.