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LATE FROM MEXICO.

The latest intelligence from the City of Mexi-
co that we have seen is given in the Hdr1nd d.
ario de la Marina of the 9th inst, from which
we translate the following:
'On the 3lst Of March, was published in Mexico
the capitulation of Vera Cruz. President Santa
Anna issued an address to his countrymen, in
which, among other things, he says:
"Mexicans, Vera Cruz is in the power Of the
enemy. 1t has fallen, not before the valor o. the
Americans or the influence of their good fortune.
We ourselves, 10 our shame be ii said, have
brought this fatal disgrace upon our arms by our
nterminable dissentions. |
am resolved to go and meet the enemy.
Chance may decree that the
proud American host shall take the Capital of the
Aztec empire: shall not behold that disaster,
for shall first lay down my life in the struggle.
Yet the nation shall not
perish swear that Mexico shall triumph if my
wishes are seconded by a sincere and unanimous
effort. A thousand times fortunate for us will
prove the disaster of Vera Cruz, if the fall of
that city shall awaken in the breasts of the Mex
leans the enthusiasm, the dignity and generous
ardor Of true patriotism. 1t will undoubtedly
prove the salvation of the country"
"Onthe 9Th of March were already assembled
some troops at the National Bridge, under the
command Of General La Vega and Of the Gov
ernor Of the State, Don Juan de Soto. Between
the 9th and 30th, two brigades of infantry and
one of cavalry marched from the Capital IN the
direction of the bridge, with their corresponding
batteries amounting in all to 1000 men,
son the 1st of April, General Santa Anna in
person would set out from Mexico, with 2,OOC
more to direct the military operation in the State
of Vera Cruz, resolved, as he says TO dispute the
ground inch by inch, and die before he will con
sent to a peace-his own words. as we find them
both in letters and in printed documents. Enrol
ment of troops is going on at various points.
"The army of the North has returned 10 Sar
Luis Potosi, where it remained at the date of the
latest aovices."
The Diario de la Marina published a conden
sed account Of the bombardment and capitula
ton, from its correspondence at Vera Cruz, il
which vehement reproaches are showered Oh
General Scott for his "hardness Of heart" in de
nying the prayer of the foreign consuls that the!
and their compatriots might be permitted TO leav
) the city after the attack had begun; and the no
: BILE conduct of the Spanish consul, Senor Esca
lante, is lauded to the skies, he having declared
the correspondent says, that "wilh his nation
; flag in his hand and at the head Of his country
men and countrywomen, he would go forth fron
l the city, and the American General might fire d
them if he choose" The correspondent add
that Senor Escalante was about putting his threa
in execution when the proposals for a surrende
were agreed on by the Mexican authorities.
The same story is referred to in letter fror
Senor Ramon Villa, ''the only civil authority re
naming in the place." to the Spanish consul, e2
pressing the admiration of the said 'cvi author
ity" for the consul's generous conduct through
out the siege-which the "civil authority cor
u trasts with 'the cruel and unheard of aroctie
of the Gerocious enemies of the rcpublic."-
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