Intelligence arrived yest...
The Times, 1824-09-16T00:00:00

Intelligence arrived yesterday of the lauding of ITUmatnDE on t1be shore of ;MIexico on tile 15th of July last, but the accounts of what befel hi. after his landinig are so ex- tremely confhused and contradictoxy, as tb render'it imipassibl? to pronounCe detisively on tihe Irsult. The best authority on the subject is, unldoubtedly, the letter of Captain Q&Brsih oe tle STAring, the vesscl"which carried the cx-Thx1Pe6r,: from Sutlhampton, to his owner in Loiidon ; the sub_ stance of whicb is, thit he anchored on the 13th of July off' Soto la Marinat, a port-'about 150 miles to thc nqrth-. ward of Tampico, where onc of General Iturtabe's.suite landed. On the'cvcniiingf of the 15th, the Gencral himself ianled, and proceeded on 'iorsdback to Soto la .IUarina, wihere Gencral GARBIA wihO commanded in that district, received hi;in turned out the troops, and pneiaimed him, ITURBiDE, Captain-General of all the troops. On the 17tl, MDadame ITURIDE, the family, and( baggage, !were lauded, and1 it appeared the wlhole were very well receive(L It appears that Captain QuEr.sE, of wvlhose letter we lhave not been able. to procure a copy, remained ofl' the bar of Soto la,ilarina, whlich is 16 miles from the shore, until the 2tA of July. Up Lo the previous eveninlg lhe continued to receive favourable reports from the shore, that all was goingl oni well; but oil the morning of the 22d, he was informed' by .sortze Ameirican Captains, that liceur- I BIDE lhad been shot oni the I9th. It is sai(d also. in ano- thier arcoult, but this. fact we believe does not test on the Captain.s auLhority, that somle people -wVIo 1ha;l corice off fironm the shore in boats had stated, tnat they lhad themselves seen the party of soldiers returniing from tIle exbcution of ITURBIDE. Calpftnin Qosu.sis, weurnderstand, inhlisletter to his ownier, gives no faith to this account, because lie carried a lctte'r,to Havatmnal, tllc port to whiclh ie next sailed, froin one of the American Captains who hlad circulated tile account of ITuRnxDE's execution, whichl letter Captain QUET,SI saw, and wvhicli did not contali any allusion to the evenit. 'lThis is the only information onI tlle subject of ITCII31DE'S landing at all worthy. at- tention ; for though various letters whichl arrived yestprday from Havannah, into which port Captain Quil.sil put on the 1Otlh of Atigust, contain different versions of the af- fair, they are obviously all derlved. frorn his verbal infor- mnationi, and magnified or embellishbed according to the fancy of the respective writers. It is to be regretted that Cap- tain QuEisII, wiho must have beein off Soto la Marinawwhen the report reached him of ITURIIDE's exeelition, didl not sendl his boat asliore, whiolh ho might easily have done, in order to ascertain the fact. Wlhat $trengtliens, per- hlaps, the probabilitv of the- General's having falleni in thc way described is, that Captain QUEI.sH re- ceived a promise fromt liim when hle quitted the ship, thiat if successftil he would send him-ir. a few days some pTCescrts, as tlhe testimnony of a liappy issue to his ad- venture, whieh promise the General did not perforin. It is true that his mind might be too mucli absorbed by the new situation in whicli he was placed, to allow hiim to bear this promise in his tecollection ; but as he has left ulany friends, ani( iiis two eldest chiltlreln, in this country, of whlose anxiety for tidings respecting him he could have no doubt, it is difficult to adoplt that conlstruction of Iiis silerce. We incline, therefbre, on the whole, to the opi- nioni that his enterprise h15 terminated unfavourably. The extrenme readiness of tile military to welcome and place hirm at their hea l, has the appearance of a snare laid for his destruction. It is known that the Mexican Government, who havalongentertaincd thesuspi- cion thatsuch an enterprise was meditated, had taken thepre- caution of chlanging the officers commandiing at the different ports on the Gulf of Iexico, and of placing others there on whlose fidelity they could place depcndenice. These men, if faithful to their trust,would allow ITUCBIDE to land, in ordler to collect From him who the individuils were in Milexico on whose assistance lie depended, and thus enable the Go- vernmelnt completely to extinguish a party justly considlerr ed to be dangerous to its safety. If the design has actually miscarried, a few days will set the question at rest, as the Cvcnt mniglht easily be comnmuniicated by the next arrivals from New York ; but if he has been allowed to pass uni- molested into the interior, it may be a long period before any further partictlars transpire.