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778THE CHAMPION.transports, on the 5th instant, and sail'd the amt day from this Port—their ilmtiiuttoD unknown.A letter been received in London from Lord Cochrane. dated from the capital of Peru, in which he Mato, that all his wishes in that part of die world have been necomplnhcd. With regard to hi. future intentions, m-thing is mentioned in thre eommunientjon ; hut it seems to tic the opinion of several of hi* Lnnl.hip’s acquaintance in London, tliul l.c will remain in Lima until the Independent Govern-ment shall have hern completely established, and afterwards return to thin country. Private Utter* from sncnl Knglishmcn ho entered Lima with l*rd Cochrane, mention that a vert large quantity of specie and other valuable, had devolved into the hands of the In.Court', Oct. 2fi A general Congress of the Greek* will toontake place in the Peloponcou*, to which tin- principal Lie* of the Archipelago and the free province* of Greece-ill stnd Deputies. Those from Hydra to the number of three, and from Spesia to the number of two, are already arrived In that Peninsula. The Congress will stole and proclaim a defmitive Government for Greece.Papers frian New York, to the llth ultimo, contain a variety of important intelligence relating to Spanish America- In Mexico itthe people, since it i* that spirit which lias awed the really dimlcml. The news which occupies meot of tile public attention is that from .Mexico,—out party regarding it as favourable, and the other as disastrous to the interests of Spain.It i* stated in a Utter from Madrid of the 16th till., that new change* were expected in the Spanish ministry, ami dial Pixarro would he .Minbtcr for Foreign Allair*; that the King would return Moncr than wav at first expected, and tlut the utmost tranquillity prevailed both in live capital and in the province.. The only ini. portant infdligcnec in these paper* is die report of the spi-reh of the .Minister of Finance, in presenting the budget on Tuesday last. Next to our own parliamentary budge., tltcre is probably no subject of mi much importance to six a* the er/.o/c made fioni year to year by die Government to the people of France. That pt'.plc arc now put out of pain as to the demands of tlicir rulers for llic year ensuing. Our trial, on the other hand, U yet to come; and we have to enjoy the participation of it for some two or three month* longer. Unfortunately, if it wn* out* to combat succtmfully in tire field, the triumph of the burton is with our neighbour. The consequences of the praco have well repaid her for the ineiilcnt* of die preceding war, however disastrous. The industry of Franco ha* been encouraged; Iver rc-n now certain that alfair. have relapsed into their former Mate of source* developed ; lu-r commerce been at once enlarged and pro-osifuuon and uncertainty. General O’Donoju, the new Viceroy , lected : and, alilio many painful and extraordinary obligations have Dominated by bide at Cordova.I uncertainty. General «» ISonoju. tire new v iccroy ( iccieu s ana, unuo many pamiui anu eaaauiuiuuiy vuiigMuxis ™*w 1 the forte*, after the signature of the treaty with Itor. .Ireon contra, ted towards foreign Powers, .he has managed to liqui-„a. on the 24th of August, proceeded widi that Chief \ date them all,—to cstobluh an effectual sinking fund,—and now to here lie hod on interview with Marshal Novella, the reduce the taxes by 1,3110,0001. per annum, which is announced asto Mexico “here 1 Viceroy choren by the army, but was unable to obtain his sanction to the treaty, or Ids acknowledgment of the rank conferred on hintby 1,3110,11001. per the commencement only of a system of progressive diminution. The charge for the army of France is above per annum, andby Spain. ' Iturbidc, therefore, drew his army nearer to the capital, that tor the navy about 2,400,0001. In the latter there » an increase and invested it. A bottle was fought on the 5th of September, in of about 200,0001. above lost year’s estimate, for the purpose of which the Independent* were repulsed. They subsequently sued putting “ the ship* into complete repair, and of oenilmg succour tofor an armistice, which was gTantrd them by Novella- Another attempt at conciliation followed, but the propositions of Iturbiile appealed so extravagant to Novella, that he rejected them all, and hoMihtie* recommenced on the 13th. lioth parties were concentrating their re sourer for a general engagement, which was expected to tokc place the latter end of feptcmber.Letter, dated 26th of October were received on Wednesday from llavannah. They state, that on the 29th of September, Itnrbidc, the leader of the army of the Three Gumitres. and General O’Do-nojn, became mowers of the city of Mexico without mtMsnce, cither from the Chief, the corporations, or the select part of the inhabitants, who all decided for Indcpendancc. Davila, the Governor of Vera Crux, had thrown a atrong force into the fortres* of St John .lc Ulloi, which command* the city, but with tllit exception the whole of Mexico is .aid to have fallen into the power of Iturbido and O’Do-noju.On the Spanish main the contest, which ha* for a long time been feebly maintained by the Royalists, i* rapidly drawing to its tlose-Uumana wa* taken by General llermude* on the 15th of October, and tire garrison, consisting of 1,130 men, shipped off for the ialand nf Porto Rico.all parts of the world, where French commerce, or the interests of humanity, demand protection.” In the .Mediterranean and the West Indies, wc already know that the objects avowed by the French Government have been efficaciously and creditably accomplished. The sum-total of the estimates is 890,000,«H)»f., or 3d,OuO,OOOI. The Treasury it declared to be rich and secure, and the minister will no longer be compelled to issue any more extraordinary securities for the ptiblfe slu ice, but will puv all demands in money. The conclusion of the bffityal.spCt^h contains a itrong picture of theEtrial means posretoid by France, and of her growing ui-d ripcn-pnwperity: if a correct one, she certainly, in what concern* the inistration of her finances, need not be ashamed to compare notes with the foremost and loftiest of her nvalr-After a long want of interest, tire French pipers liave become, us name may pcrhap* think, portcntccisly impartant. The King ii at variance with the Chamber of Deputies- If responsibility, iudrcd, were an well understood in France as in Kngland. the occurrence -Inch has taken plucc would only imply thix,—that the majority of the Chamber of Deputies is opposed to Ministers; for an address has been voted to tire King, in that Chamber, the most signifkaM passage* of which Ministers would have negatived if they hail been
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