Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-06-30
FROM THE PROVIDENCE PATRIOT.

The United Provinces of the centre
Of America, (Which by the basis of the
Constitution as agreed upon, will be cal
Iedthe Federate States of the centre Of
An!erica, are at present composed of
tie Provinces Nicaragua, Honduras, San
S1vador, Costarica, GUATEMALA, and
Qleseltenango.-At present, three cit
lRns are at the head Of the govern
nrnt, without any particular title, al
though in turn they preside monthly, and
depressing one.iS called, for the time
being, President. There is a represen-
tatisn of deputies from each province,
Mli;h forms Provisional Congress.
The basis of the Constitution is very
similar to that of the Uuited States,
the exception Of an established religion
which is the Roman Catholic, any other
pubic mode Of worship being prohibit
ed. They will have a President, Sen
ate nd House ofRepresentatives cleo
tedl the same manner as ours, and for
the anne length of time and the prin-
cipis of the Constitution are as purely
republican, in every thing, excepting
religion, as those of the United States.
Slavery is not TO be permitted, and every
onelrriving in the Territory OF the Re-
pubic, becomes free. The standing
arm is reduced to 1900, and those sta.
tiohd at the different ports and garri-
Fsons The armed militia amounts to
owe, 10000 effective men.
The population Of the six provinces,
at resent united, is more than 1900
600 and the population of the PROV
ihceof Chiapa, which is about to unite
itseT to the others, has about 100000.
'rhEprovince is situated between Mex.
leo md Guatimala, and was united to
Mexico, but has withdrawn from that
govrnment.
The Envoy Extraordinary, recently
arrived in this country, isD. Antonio Jose
Cams with D. Fernando Valero, as Secre-
taryofLegation. Ayoung American, Fe-
liPeMolinas, son of their Envoy to the
Republic Of Columbia, came with the
Minister, for the purpose of receiving an
eduation here, and expects to remain
some years.
The principal sea ports in the Re-
pubic, are Acajutla and Isabal, in sweet
water lake, Cake Dulce,) Omoa, Trux-
illo'a San Juan on the Atlantic, and
Realego on the Pacific.
The Envoy has brought plan of a
contemplated Canal, from Lake Nicar-
aqua 10 the Pacific Ocean, shelving that
tie Canal would only require to be S
Or G leagues in length, and thus open a
communication between the Atlantic and
Pacific, for vessels of 4 TO 500 tons, at
one Of the. most eligible points for the
commerce Of the United States, The
country through which it would run is
thought to be one of the richest and
most fertile in the world, and, indeed,
the greater part Of the Territory of,he
Republic, abounds in all the valuable
productions, both Of the vegetable and
mineral world, and will, at no distant
period, become a most important part OF
the globe, to the commercial world.
b They have established their indepen-
dence without struggle with the moth
er country, and Spain has no troops
within their territory. But such is the
situation of the country and character
of its inhabitants, that it would, un-
doubleday, take a much larger army than
Spain can ever hope to send to recon
quer it.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 60,
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