Indiana Palladium, Volume 1, Number 2, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 14 January 1825 — Page 1

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Foreign Intelligence.

MEXICO. The President of the Mexican states ap

peared before the congress on the 10th of

October, ana was sworn into oiuce. ne delivered on the occasion an appropriate speech; and shortly after issued 'a Manifesto' to the inhabitants; and the executive power issued another address to the people at the same time. We extract the following from the latter: "As to our relation with foreign powers, we have formed treaties of the greatest importance wrjth the warlike republic of Colombia. That of the United States of the North having already recognized our independence, has appointed a minister to reside amongst us, and even now her consuls are to be found in -our capital and ports, in the full exercise of the functions and powers with which they are vested. The same is

true of this class of agents from the king of

Great Britain, and from the free benevolent and friendly conduct of this nation, it seems we ought freely to expect that within a short time the independence of the people of An-

tamac will be recognized by the Ruler of

the Seas. On our part we have sent a mi

ister plenipotentiary to the government of

Great bntam, whose arrival at London has just been announced; and according to the course of things and the order with which business is presented, there is reason to hope

that the object of this mission will be fully

accomplished. Our legation to the United

States of North America, is already on the way. to its place of destination." The executive expresses regret, that for the good both of Spain and the republic, a treaty had not been entered into previous to the late restoration of Ferdinand to absolute power; and says, that since that event, such a thing is hopeless. It is added that they have nothing to expect from Spain, but hos

tilities and hard treatment, "which," continues the address, " we neither fear nor pro

voke. '

you of the brilliant action of Capt. Addison, who, with four boats and fifty volunteers, burnt and sunk six vessels, including the Spanish frigates Venganza and Santa Rosa, and drove fourteen under the batteries of Callao, it being very remarkable that he performed this service without the loss of a single man. I have row the pleasure to communicate to you that on the night cf the 19th instant, Admiral Guise despatched Captain Robertson, accompanied by captain Fleiinen, and Lieutenant Sulmans, oi his vessel, with one hundred and twenty-

five men, in nine boats, to take or destroy as many of the enemy's vessels as were in Callao, 46 At his entrance he was opposed by more than one thousand soldiers and marines, in the vessels, and fifteen hundred artillerists, who manned the batteries of the castles, and kept up a tremendous fire on our men. Notwithstanding this, they effected the object of the enterprise by destroying and taking

the following vessels: The President, of

twenty guns, burnt; Juana Gorden, tiag ship, taken; Perla, formerly of Chili, taken; a brigantine, name unknown, taken ; a large vessel, name unknown, burnt. "The Protector, the Congress, and the Macedonian, were employed in diverting the attention of the batteries, but almost all the fire of the latter were directed towards the brave men charged with the destruction of the vessels. "We shall not again abandon the blockade of the bay, until the surrender of the castles, or until the ship Asia may appear, upon which, pardon the vanity, we are determined to erect the triumphant standard of our country. "When Capt. Robertson returned, we found he had three men killed, and twelve wounded, one of whom since died. We had also one officer killed, named Thomas Williams; a lieutenant of marines, and the clerk of the captain of the Congress, mortally wounded. "The greatest lp bony exists between the Liberator and theVice-AdmiraL Guise.

7 since the seizure of Colonel Banco and Reyes: and his excellency is so well satisfied of the patriotism of Admiral Guise, that he has placed under his command the Colombian squadron, and has ordered the delivery of forty thousand dollars to M. Seller, officer of marines, who has gone to Hueras, to bring that sum for the service of the squadron. "The crew of the Protec tor is well paid and contented ; and the frigate in such order as to attract the admiration of stran-

The vanguard of our army is on the other side of Jauja Cantarac, who was within two leagues of Cachicachi, when informed of the defeat of his vanguard, retired, endeavoring to sustain himself in various points which he has successively obliged to abandon. He finally fortified himself on the skirt of the hill of Apato, apparently with the intention of maintaining that position, but with the sole object of gaining time to save his magazines in Guvanco. All the mountaineers, with their chiefs, have joined

General Miller, bringing more than seven hundred horses and mules, and they are now acting against the enemy in Chupaca and Chongos, reinforced by a strong division under General Lara. With another division, Ganarra, Otero and Carreno, joined by the mountaineers of the Patriot army, occupy the mountains to prevent the intended escape of the Spaniards. Our centre is in Sicago, and the reserve under the immortal Bolivar in Cachicachi." The battle of Junin in August, as we know, placed the Magazines of Cantarac, which from the foregoing, he appears to have been so anxious to preserve, in the hands of the Patriots.

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PERU. Brilliant Naval achievements by the Patriots. Federal Gazette Office, ) Baltimore, Dec. 19, 1824. By the arrival of the ship Hope, Cap

tain A. S. Dungan, in forty-seven days from

Rio Janeiro, we have files of Rio papers to the date of the sailing of the Hope, and also Buenos Ayres papers to the 6th of October, for which we are indebted to the kind attention of Captain Dungan. These papers contain a variety of intelligence, particularly with regard to achievements of the Patriot Navy under Admiral Guise, blockading the port of Callao, which arc brilliant and important and quite new to us though some of them occurred so far back as early in July. It is evident, from these accounts, that there have been many exploits and successes on the side of the Patriots, of which we have not yet had anv ac-

count. This appears from the following

letter, which alludes to a "brilliant action b' the Patriot Capt. Addison," and of this

,wc never heard before. This letter is of

great interest. We translate it from El Argos, extraordinary, of Buenos Ayres: Extract of a letter dated on board the frigate Protector, in the Bay of Callao, July 17, 1824. My Deah Fiuend: In mv last. I informed

gers

It will be recollected that the

ship of the line Asia, alluded to in the fore

going letter, subsequently succeeded in running into Callao, pursued by Admiral Guise? but it was supposed she would novpr leave it under a Spanish flag; Bolivars Victories. The Buenos Ayres Argos contains the details of Bolivar's victory over Cantcrac of Junin, which have already appeared in this and other American

papers, but we have also a brief account of

a battle at A cobamba, previous to that of Junin, of which we have hitherto had no intimation. We translate it from the Argos of September 17, as follows: Passage of the Andes by Bolivar. We hasten to inform the public of the important news of the rout of the vanguard of the en

emy's army, by the arms of our country, which was contained in El Correo, received last night, by express from Chili. That paper says "The Liberator Bolivar, and all

his army, passed the Andes, in three divis

ions, on the 25th of June the first under the command cf General Cordova, by Caja JTambo the second, under the command of General Lara, by Chavin the third, under the command of General La Mat by

Guayanco. The vanguard of the enemy, composed of three thousand five hundred

men in Acobamba, was completely routed. Gen. Moner who commanded it, was wound

ed and taken prisoner. Almost all the di-

vision of this enemy fell into our power, the

number killed, on their part, being very great. Before this action, five hundred

infantrv, and one hundred cavalrv, under

the command of the

The sloop Nepture, which lately upset

and sunk in Hudson river, has been raised,

and the bodies of 7 men and 2 children re

moved from the cabin. Some are still missing. The following shows what a narrow escape one of the survivors had. The ves

sel sunk in very deep water, and it is suppo

sed some htty persons perished with her.

"Mr. Mullock was on the quarter deck when the sloop was going down. He saw, through the window, the awful mental suffering in the cabin, and heard the screams of women

and children for help, and lost for a moment all thought of his situation, and undertook to break awaj' the grating which protects

the window to let them out. He had par tially succeededjwhen the vessel went flown,

Some of the grating got fast to his clothes and he went down with her. She struck the bottom with a dreadful crash. He ima

gined his time had come. He made a powerful effort, and succeeded in extricating himself by tearing off a part of his vest which

was fit, came to the top of the water, and

was nnaiiy saved.

PRESENCE OF MIND.

At the time of the conflagration of the

Bcy?ie British ship of the line, a marine was

seated in his birth air, wife and child, a hoy

about twenty months old. Finding all hopes

of escaping ineffectual, the man took a 5meep

from the pens, and lashing the boj' on its

nacii, dropped them na the sea, saying,

"I here, turn to the land, and God be with

you." lhe wile leaped into the sea: the

man followed, and supported her till they

were both picked up by a boat; whilst the

sheep made for the shore with its charge

who was rescued by some of the spectators

who rushed forwaid to meet him, and re

tored him safe to his parents.

censed, inveterate Indians and ranarmu

and piratical states. The prospect is truly alarming, hopeless, and desperate in the extreme! It is certainly right for our Government to leave the Americans on the ground of their own choosing, that is of alienation from Great Britain nnrl

. ' .-V All Vllpendencies; there let them be, and let thrir

ambassador go wherever he pleases. His

departure irom us is a matter of no moment

not worthy of a serious conjecture or speculation of our meanest politicians."

"Every account from America, confirms

the distraction that reigns in fhrvso u-hb-

which, taking their rise from the absolute in

ability of the people to support the necessa

ry expenses oi independent governments.

nust necessarily subsist as long as their in

dependency, nor will they probably enjoy a moment's tranquillity till they put themselves under the protection of some foreign mi ii. . . . O

power, l ne only alternative, therefore, left for them, is to become subjects of France, or

return to thQir former allegiance to England,

and which of the two will be the most eligi

ble, they may easily judge from a compari

son of the treatment the French colonies re

ceive from their mother country, with that which they formerly met with from Great

Britain. Heaven forbid that Great Britain

should accept their pjfh

Spanish chief Pena,

came over to us, and these men fought

allantly under the direction of their com

mander. We have also taken four cannon,

the tram, mutations, forage, and mr?nv muskets.

MAGICAL CLOCK. Droz, a German Mechanic,, once con

structed a clock which was capable of the

following surprising movements. There

was seen on it a dog, a negro, and a shep

herd ; when the clock struck, the shepherd

played six tunes on his nute, and the dog approached and fawned upon him. This clock was exhibited to the king of Spain, who was delighted with it. "The gentleness of my dog," said Droz, "is his least merit; if your majesty touch one of the apples which you see in the shepherd's basket, you will adni i nnttqrfldei i ty ofTnis-aniinai.w The king took an apple, and the dog flew at his hand, and barked so loud that the king's dog, which was in the room, began also to bark; at this the courtiers, not doubting that it was an affair of witchcraft, hastily left the room, crossing themselves as they went out. The minister of marine wras the only one that ventured to stay.'. The king having desired him to, ask the;negro what o'clock it was, the minister obeyed, but he obtained no reply. Droz then ob served that the negro had not yet learned Spanish, upon which the minister repeated the question in French, and the black immediately answered him ; at this new prodigy the firmness of the minister also forsook him, and he retreated precipitately, declaring that it was the work of the devil.

ENGLISH WISDOM. The following are extracts from an Euro

pean magazine for 1786. They show at

least the spirit of the times when they were written, and when the views then entertained are contrasted with our oresent situa

tion, they exhibit in brighter colours the

great improvements which America has

withm thirty-six years effected. It could

hardly be thought possible that such lan

guage as the following, should, in 1786, be used in their popular and periodical maga-

mes. A . 1. Mirror. "The States of North America keep rush

ing more and more into anarchy, confusion,

and political destruction. They are said to

have concluded a treaty with the emperor of Morocco: much good may it do them!

i ney win not nnd :t a very easy matter to feed him with presents, and even then, they

would have more work on their hands than

ever they, will be able to perform."

"America keeps receding farther and far

ther from peace and good order, prosperity, safety, and tranquillity. She bid adieu

to all these comfortable ingredients of na tional felicity, when she broke off her re

lation to, and connexion with Great Bri

tain. Surrounded on every side by en

emies, by land and water, unable to defend herself and protect her trade, without

a friend to protect her or aid her efforts in

her own defence bf is .left a prev.to in

From the National Advocate SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES May all be classed under these terms : Convex, Plane, and Concave. The convex, or, in other words, magnifying glasses, are for eyes that have failed by age$ or have been otherwise impaired in their structure. The plane glasses are commonly green, and neither magnify nor have any other effect than to shade the eye from that glare of light which is apt t6 irritate tender eyes, the concave are directly the reverse of those which have failed by age or other causes. They are for eyes that are near-sighted. Near-sightedness is never the effect ol age; nor of excesses; but is owing to the natural formation of the eye; a formation which, though it differs from the ordinary standard, can hardly be called a defect; for, although deprived of some advantages, it is possessed of others in a superior degree. . Near-sight

ed eyes are more powerful in discerning mi

nute objects; and are, therefore, best for engravers and other artists, who, if not near-

lghted have to borrow aid from magnify -ng glasses. Age, instead of impairing near

sighted eyes, changes them to the ordinary

standard of good eyes. 1 he disadvantage

of near-sightedness is, that objects beyond

the distatnee o a few inches, appear with less distinctnes; and, therefore, the near

sighted person loses much of the pleasures

and advantages of sight, it without the happy aid of cencave glasses. Convex glasses are not useful in viewing distant objects; and concave ones are not useful in viewing close ones. Both obstruct the sight, when applied contrary to their appropriate use.

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