New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-27
Later from Mexico.

Inc NeW-OrlGans papers ot the 18Th Inst. btlng
adyices from Mexico TO the Sth, by the Br. s!oop
of war Rose, from Sacrifcios The fever was
abating at Vera Cruz.
Santa Ana has placed the remains of Sentma-
nat at the disposal Of his friends in the United
States. 1t seems, after all, that Ampudia did
boil his head in oil.
Santa Ana, however, the Picayune says, ut
tery dlsavows the act and the Government has
in consequence issued all order requiring the COM
manding General at Tobasco 10 report at once
what actually did take place, that he rnay take
measures to satisfy public opinion and sail that
sort of thing" This order is dated the 18th Of
july, at Mexico.
Gen. Ampuda sailed from Tobasco on the l4th
of July, and on the 10th arrived at Vera Cruz
From. that city he addressed despatch to the
War Department, in which he says it was his in
enton to have set out at once for the capital, to
pay in person his respects to the Government, but
the seats in the diligence being all occupied he
found it impossible He promises 10 take the
next one starting, bet it looks to US as if he were
inclined to feel his way little. Boiling mems
heads in oil would be poor passport to favor at
any other court 'han Santa Ana's, and he must
not directly sanction SO exuberant display Of
feeling Gen. Ampudia expresses surprise at
the remonsrance5 which have been made against
the atrocities pcrpctrated at I'obasco. He De.
ciarcs that neither the Consus OF Spain or of the
United States at Tobasco lnterposed one word of
complaint against the seventies practised upon
the prisoners taken with Sentmanet, while the
Belgian Consul only asked the clemency of the
authorities in favor of q subject OF his Govern
ment who appeared among the prisoners.
1t appears that both the French and Spanish
Ministers at Mexico addressed the livelicst pro-
tcstations against the summary execution of the
subjects of their respective nations at Tabasco.
Our files are not so complete as to give us the
whole correspondence, but we have letter from
the French Minister, dated the 18Th OF July, which
thrus,s aside with scorn the subterfuge behind
which the Mexican Foreign Secretary endeayo.s
10 defend the action OF his Government in the
premises He reasons The point en- the general
ground OF the universal la~ CT nations He
charges that those French bjects IN Sentnanat's
expedition, who were shot, were shot without
trial, and therefore contrary 10 the law Of nations.
The responsibility he throws upon the Mexican
Government, and awaits instructions from home
is to the course to be pursued upon the blood
thirsty slaughter OF Tabasco.
That the Spanish Minister has been equally
spirited in MS protest against the same acts We
infer from the sensitiveness with which Ampudia
llludes to him in his despatch before noted.
The President shows himself resoluteIy bent on
-nforcing the law against the expectation of spe-
;ie, whether gold or silver, which shalI not have
paid thc duty imposed by law, and he calls upon
ais Custom-house officers to exercise the utmost
vigilance in the premises.
We cannot learn verbally any thing by this ar
rival as to The progress of the Mexican designs
upon Texas, and our papers throw no light or the
subject whatever. We must therefore be content
% await another arrival.