The National Register. — 1817-07-14 (London, England)

SOUTH AMERICA.  PROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS.  Nrlt Yong, I.—in an intercepted dispatch, written fawn Valladolid. in New Spain, rind published in The Aurora, we have a distinct account of the situation of that country, and the cause of those numerous disasters which the royal interest has sustained. From this document we are led to believe, that the indepeurienee of South America may Hot only be securely relied on, hut is au event that it appears may Ise very J:!..1 ily anticipated. 'the best tiiends of Ferdinand are the daily progress of disasters; they are aware of the causes, but propose nothing which has a remote prospect of suceess. In fact, taking the peculiar situation of South America into view, there appears nothing favonrable to the Royal arms in extending the present contest : the resources of the kingdom are gradually exhansting themselves ; and such as are coliected with extreme difficuky, are wasted in skirmishes, remarkable only for their imberility awl extravagance. The tractional parts of this vast country in revolt are daily knitting themselves together, and cementing their (111/011 Hy the common ties of interest and multi:it suffct ings. Kai:tried with this slow, though sure progress towards indeprisdetece, the Patriots, whose numbet a daily Met ease, and whence cruise rains ground, will hue no time to bring the contest to a speedy issne. Supported by the powerful protection of puLtic opinion and the desponding hopes of the Royal party, the Continent of America may very shortly be wholly released from European jnrisdiction,and confederated against European tyranny or eoutrotil. One of the principal causes to which the fillet' e of the Spanish cause is attributed, is the deficiency of money. The mines of Mexico, hi which were formeily eniployea 100,000 men, now scareely find labour far 90,000; and the coinage of the A has been annually decreasing, until it is not mere than six millions of dollars. This snot is not sufficient to lure) the CIIITt lit Vit• peaces Ili' the Cuomo', much less afford any assistance to Spain by esporta Hutt. internal tit::es do not, at this day, minima to one fifth of the former income, and the revenue taws arc daily violated by smugglers d' varlims dcScriptions. - _  The trilinte formerly paid to the King iv now Waned ; and any attempt at comelon induces the party to go over to the enema.  s are no longer to be depended npnn ; net of fifty districts under the joristlietion of an Archuishop, thirty-seven are ih the hands of the insnrgents. The plate belonging to the Church. and which former/ no inconsiderable share of the wealth of the country, has been long applied fur politic purposes, and no oue is now• disposed to lend more.  Added to this diminution of resoorres, the toast of crotio• my, ofsystem, of coorare, and constancy, the Hoynl'..,ts hay.• to contend with a art of men who are capable of cloturing any pi kalliott, and whose habits of life assimilate to the savage.  modern Wench traveller, speaking of the frequency of suicides in England, appeals to the tomb stones in every church yattl as bearing testimony, that at least to ilciolis im every lod are of this description. Now, it ith treat deferrace to this acute stud intelligent traveller, vs e suspect that he never visited an English church-yard at all; fur we never yet saw an act of suicide recorded on a tomb-stone. rt person in Urtetiock is in possession of a canary bird, which recently btonglit forth five young from four eggs. The two birds which were hatched in the single egg are easily distingnisliable from the otlicts, and, Is lint is remarkable, are equally lie:dthy with the test. PROLIFIC FA M IL\ .-- the 6th ins•ant, Mrs. Claridge wife of Mr. Claridge. who keeps the Red Lion, at Paddington, was brooglit to bed of Illicit childicti ; about the same hour his cow valved two calves ; and his sow littered ki pigs, one of which had two heads. The whole are will ;mil likely to thrive. 'this is Mrs. C.'s first aeetutellement, although they have been married n years! About one o'clock on Wednesday nierning, the house of Mr. Lewin, appr.i,t-r and auctioneer, No. b, lf,all-stievt. Shadwell, was di titsemit to he on lire, and ihe whole of the lower put was in thintcs. It was welt marsh difficulty that tire family were alfinke, tit a kit 11 time the fire gained such a bead, that Mr. and Mrs. Lewin and chihhen were brought out at the first floor windows by llR'd Its Of lalltIVIS. Monday lasi, a inan wax found dross i.ed iu the river, at the Marquis of Salisbury's Park, fiatheiti, HcnLs. What is remarkable, his clothes were fuuud tan the margin of a buggy pit with little water in it, near a mile distant front the liver in which it is presumed he .fleeted his onono destirc ion. Two 11. 110 ten, Fume silver, anti duplicates, were foei:d iu tie.• pockets; mid front the latter it appeared that his ti.mie Moore, and that lie resided near liastliulometv Chris, Smith  Catizitx T.—A ifew days sine,. a maiatT hatcher, of Ipswich, maned Bead, for a wager of 101. undertook to tide LL Esekemy mare, 14 hands high. from Ipswhich to I.andon, and Lick again, a distance of 135 miles in 19 hours! The harba.ons owner, who weighed 50 stone. started from Ipswich at six o'clock in the evening ; he reached London at two in the morning, mud about two hulas, and arrived in sight of the town, and within half a mile of his own house, '25 minutes within the time allowed, when the poor sainisl staggered several peat*, and broke down. Thu rider instantly dismounted, and the snare fell to the ground. She male iuveral Meffectual attempts is rise, and the groans she uttered were of the most agonizing description. It :cis -deemed advisable to bread her, arol a taw minutes put an end to her sufferings, by dcxt:t ClIARtiNg Or TREAsost.—Wheatly, AVIIO 11:IS been brought up from I ludder.m!ield, underwent, with syvt r.d others, an exaination on Monday at the Home Office, and was afterwards remanded. Scroop the publican, front Wakefield, and Hartley front Sheffield, have been sent to the castle at Cambridge.