Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-06-21
FROM BUENOS AYRES.

Of Santa Fe, EntIe Rios and Buenos Az
res The blow was TO be struck at the
same time in several places Nothing
however, was done at Santa Fe. There
was rumor OF rebellion in Entire Rio:
but said to have been suppressed with
little blcodshed.
The provinces of Santa Fe and Entire
Rios, have united in war against the
Brszilians. and are determined TO Grlve
them out Of the Banda Oriental. They
will probably draw into their cause the
province of Buenos Ayres.
Col, Garcia has been shot at buenos
Ayres for conspiracy against the govern
ment Also on the 9th April, Don Jose
Maria Urien, formerly Colonel in the Pat
riot army, and Don Benito Piralta, late
Captain of Artillery. both concerned in
the late conspiracy. Col. Vidra banished
to the coast of Patagonia for years and
Col. Rolon to the same place for years,
| both concerned in the recent disturbances.
| A circumstance occurred yesterday,
which more fully, perhaps, than thous.
and arguments, demonstrates the utility OF
the Stepping. miH as mode OF punish
|
pose, over incarceration in the state prI-
| son.
fellow by the name of Perry was ar.
raigned on an indictment Tor stealing SUM-
dry articles of property, the value OF
| which was therein mentioned to be few
cents over p9O. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, when the Recorder on looking
| at the indictment and observing its near
approach 20 the limit which would reduce
the offence and It's punishment, by the
terms OF the statute, from grand to petit
larceny-rsmarked, that it was proper
the prisoner should distinctly understand
the subject, and humanely suggested to
him that possibly it might turn out, on in
vestigation by jury, that the value OF the
articles had been overrated, whereas the
general plea OF guilty would necessarily
subject him to the punishment prescribed
for grand larceny. 1t appears, however,
that the fellow was fully aware OF the con
sequences OF bis plan He persisted 10 it
and refused trial by jury, for the express
reason that he preferred confinement three
or four years in the state prison, to the
exercise of the stepping mill for perhaps
80 days in The Peniteniary.
We have been since informed that seve-
raj gentlemen OF the bar, who had kindly
volunteered their services in behalf of cri-
minals who were unable to pay, have been
severely censured by their clients for hav-
ing done them great disservIce in lessen
ing Gin the eye OF the law the measure OF
their punishment.
These facts we think conclusively prove
~ no CT
continuance Of similar character, COM
pelling convicts to more unremilting and
laborious exercise than has been hitherto
practiCed, shall be attached to our state
prisons, the grades OF crime and punish.
ment will be reversed, and our telons will
be induced to commit the greater offence
rather than the lesser:-not because of its
superior temptation, but 10 escape the
consequences of more dreaded punish.
ment in the event of conviction.
". Y. american.
As no very definite object can be as
signed for the arrival here at this moment
OF Spanish letter OF margue from CadIZ,
conjecture is busy in framing various mo-
tives; and among them that of bringing
out commissions TO be distributed or sold
in this country. We cannot suppose this
probable, as, independent Of the general
obligations of neutrality, the citizens of
the United States are expressly restrained
by their own laws from fitting out, or en-
gaging in priVateers that may be attempt
ed to be fitted out in the ports OF the Unit
Ell States, against the commerce OF any
nation with which we are IN amliy The
voyage of this vessel is more probably one
of ordinary speculation, as we understand
that she has cargo on board-atler dis
charging which, it is possible, il enough
encouragement be presented by any intor-
nation she can gain as to the extent or va
lue of the trade in French vessels in these
or neighboring seas, she may set forth on
a cruise.
The only political information which
she brings is that Spain had formally de-
clsred war against France; and that nu-
merous privateers were fitting out at Ca
diz against French vessels We do not
know how the French merchants will
bear the unequal and one,sided war car.
ried on by thei. governmental war which
while it exposes the commerce OF France
to devastation and capture, permits that
Of Spain to be carried on without risk or
molestation. Havre and Bordeaux and
Marselies will derive, we should think,
but little consolation amidst The losses and
interruption TO which their trade will be
exposed, from the consideration that their
good King LOUIS XVIII. is only marching
bis armies into Spain as friends to It's mon
arch, aud that therefore no hostility must
be permitted against those who are engag-
ed under his flag in the peaceful avoca-
tons of commerce, however widely that
same dag may wave over vessels OF war
armed against all Frenchmen and French
property indiscriminateIy. Ibid.