The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-12

pense of the Mexican government BY no means.
II is the extract Of letter, addressed as we have
stated to respectable gentleman in this city, and
purports give, good faith the belicose declara-
lions of the valiant Mexican general. With what
astonshment 1--WE do not say indignation, for the rid
icule it inspires strips it OF grave feeling) do we
hear Of this Mexican rhodomonadel
II will be recollecied, that this alLvaiant and
grandioquous Ampudia is one and the same mag
unanimous spirit who hung Sentmanat, and Boiled his
head in oil and, his reward is to be appointed to
the command of the formidable detachment of ten
thousand Mexican veterans, who are to attack the
southern States; to butcher and boil in oil all the old
women, men, and children; to lay waste the fields Of
the sunny South; liberate the negroes, give them
Mexican liberty, and the benefit of their humane
and benign laws and institutions
The National Integencer must have had pri-
vate communications, perhaps, copy of General
Ampudia's pronuneiamento, or procamation) with
it, and General Almonte's plans and system of re-
prisals, and with his declaration that it was now
time the id Yankees must be whipped, when it
undertook to predict the horrors of Mexican war,
and the destruction to our trade and commerce
in every sea.
1t is further said, that there in circulation
several copies of an old English plny-"Every man
in his Humor;'' but, more especially extracts from
the part of the famous Captain Bobadil---a copy of
which we hereunto annex:
"How are the Americans to be conquered"
"Why thus sir | would select nineteen more to
myself throughout the land; gentlemen they should
be, of good spirit, strong and able constitution.
would choose them by an instinct--a character that
have and would teach these nineteen the special
rues-as your punio, your rererso, your stoccaia,
your imbroccata your passada, your montanto-till
they could all play very near, or altogether, as well
as myself This done, say the enemy were forty
thousand strong, we twenty would come INTO the
field the tenth of March, or thereabouts, and we
would challenge twenty of the enemy. They could
not, in their honor, refuse usl Well, we would
kill them; challenge twenty more--kill them; twen-
ty more--k them too: and thus would we kill ev-
cry man his twenty a day--that's twenty score;
twenty score, that's two hundred; two hundred a
day, five days thousand; forty thousand-forty
times five We times forty-two hundred days, kill
them all by computation And this would ven
ture my poor gentemanike carcass to perform, pro-
vided there be no treason practised upon U.S. by fair
and discreet manhood--that is, civiIly by the
sword"
It's believed that General Ampudia extracted the
sentiments contained in his proclamation from this f-
nous plan ofBobadil He must have been aided and
assisted by General Almonte, who obtained many
of his views from the opponents TO annexation.
Some Of them were recorded and fully set forth in
the discussion of that important question.
The above is the text which, as far as we are adj
vised, must have been in the eye of the famous
General Ampudia. We shall hereafter give full
er account of General Santa Ana's declaration as
to his intended attack and burning of the city of
Washington, made in presence of the whole diplo-
matte corps; deeming it important at this crisis
that the people of the United States should be
warned Of the perilous situation in which they are
placed.