The Mexican intelligence ...
The Times, 1824-06-23T00:00:00

'The'Aexi.can intelligTce ef this day excites a niore that .ordinary interest. That acrisis of great anxiety and urgenc3 had arsena atheaffairs of that infant State, we may sus- pect from the'remarkable circumstance affirmed-in the New Yor};papers, of a-"I Suinreme Directorshi'i`..4mountingal- inoft to a Dictatorship, having been unarimtously recom- :einded by a Select Committee of the Congress, and after. warods agreed upan by a majority of.the entire body.. Sup. -posing this account to be atrue one, the dan'gerous condition of the country is not the only inference to be deduced.from it, but a mAore important conclusion still-namely, the ex- istence.of so much sagacity in the Congress, as enabled ihemi fully to discern the danger, with a fund of probity and energy sufficient to provide against it the most efiec- tuil safeguairds. No individual is specified as the person to be clothed wvith the trust of Supreme Magistrate; but it will be seen, from one of our private letters, that General Bx.tvo, the first functionary of the Executive Government, had'arrived in 'Mexico about the date assigned to the above -measuresoftbe Congress, and thatgreat publicconfidencehad already resulted from his active procecdings and his high reputation.w : e sitigular, though not incredible part of these state- me4ts, however, is, that ITURaIDE turns out to be what many people liave suspected-a treacherous engine of the BouRBoNS, for the subjugation ofhiscountrymein. A.let- ter of ITURsIDE, the ex-E1mperor, to FEkDIWAND,. the ex- King of that qrondanm Spanish 'province, was, it seems from a AMexican publication of the 10th of April, discovered ind eopied at Madrid, by a friend to the cause of Ameriea; wtvherein. ITUBtIDE is made to acknowledge that-he had studiously directed all his measures to the object of pre- servingAMexico to Spain,-tbat is, we take for granted,.after -he found it no l6nger tenable on his own account; and that he had abstained from capturing the Castle or St. John of TJlloa, that it might serve as a point dXappui for the Spaniards, There may be truth in these cont'essions; but whether IrunmIDE be a treble or only a double traitor, is perhaps of litile consequence to any other than to himself and his BouRBoN allies. His designs appear to be matters of notoriety in Mexico, -where on the 4th of April a con- ~piracy in favour of this adventurer was crushed, and 'the leader of it seized and beheaded. From the precautions which qre represented to have been every-where had recourse to on the part of the existing. Government, spmo lVhatever schemes may be projected by the Holy Alli- | ance. against the freedom of Mexico, or that of South Aimerica in general, a strong sus;picion prevails across the Atlantio, that the English MNfinisters stand by no 1aeans clear firom the guilt of secretly participating in them. The neutrality of England is declared, and by men of eminence and autlhority in the United States, to be no more than an artful screen for her determined hostility to the cause of American inidepandence-the Machiavelian. coolness with which Ministers looked on while Spain' was mnurdered in the very sanctuary of .freedom-the long postponement of the nicognition of that sovereignty-the childish or knavish talk respectin the prospect of their independence being acknowledged by FELDINNAND, before it woald be desiiable for England to adrnowledge it-the time now granted by this Government to the Holy Alliance, for, eVery purpose of intrigue and bribery, as if an exeure wvere hereafter to be founded upon the success. of such ma- *nceuvres against the Americans, for the backwardness of Great Britaip to show herself the protectress of their free- dno, as a similar excuse was furnished two years ago by t.hc triumph of French fraud overthe unfortunate European SP.aniards, for ouir passiveness in suffering the wicked in- vasion of the Peninsula. Our Ministers then said, " See "chow distracted the Spaniards are among themselves: how "can you ask us to meddle with or for a divided nation ?" So inay they, a short time hence, inform us, that the Bg4h Americans and Mexicans are too distracted for. this country to interpose with decency in defence of them; putting out of sight that in both cases we first permitted the distraction to be excited by foreigners, and then argued on it as a justification of our ovoi unwvorthy conduct. Our Consular Agents, accordingly, are now, by the. Anerican statesmen whose sentimeits bave been published at full lenth in the Bostor papers, called spies upon the newv Republics, andl intriguers against their tranquillity. We trust the truth is far otherwise-that Mr. CANNING iS not insincere on. this great concern of mankind-that his delays havebeen those of prudence, not of treachery-that he tlOm not sympathize . with the Holy Alliance, or has not become a protegJ of those of whom CASTLEPRE&QK was the pro. tector. Above all, -we do hope and expect from 'Mr. CAN. NIN%., that.hi. Consular Agenis to America are not to be counterparts of Sir 'WBt; A'COURT in Spain-that theit deportm ent will be honest, their official representations fair, and thlat teir despatches home may not be alleged as apologies for QuT further postponing a debt of honour and justice to men struggling for their existence, but rather a grounds for a mnore speedy discharge-of that obligation! Last of all, we conijure Mr. CANNING to think that, as being suspeted of duiplicity, England ouglt, eagerly'. tc clear herself of the foul suspicion.