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of Yucatan and Tabasco, have determined to split off unless a central_ Government is Established, and it is ·my opinion thnt Genl. Santa Ana is only waiting until the present administration becomes a little unpopular to raise a Grito. and plnre himself at the Head of the Republic as Dictator,- The present aclministrnt.ion arc taking some high handed Measures, a.t Vera Cruz, the Commandant ~f the Marine has been taken from his station and dismissed the service without even the form of a tryal, Commissions which were issued by Guerrero to privateers have also been taken rrom them when just ready to sail (after incuring all the Expense of fitting out)- Poor Thompson who went from this place to Vera Cruz recently has been arrested there and confined to the Congresso 74. and· I am free to confess that I entertain some fears myself if I return that I my take up my summer quarters in the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa for overstaying my leave, however the next accounts will determine me, if I believe there is a probability of being arrested I shali be sent down by the consul as bearer of Dispatches for the Government which will protect me until my arrival in the City of Mexico where I can resign- • Meanwhile old foolish Ferdinand is preparing another expidition to reconquer lVfexico-3000, men have saild from Cadiz, to be fol- Jowcd by 7000 more and also a new Governor for the Island of Cuba, but. it is donbtfull if they gett, farther than Cuba for the •present (unless the:v turn their attention to Hn.vti the President of ~ • i which has Declared wars against Spain,) ns I am told by some ~entlemen recently from Havana that the Troops there mRnifest such a reluctance to embark for Mexico from the severe loss the last expedition sustained, that nothing short of a revolution wHl b~ the consequence if they are driven to the last extreemity- amongst other projects before Congress is one to repeal the law of last year prohibiting the admission of foreign Cotton goods, so you may perceive that no dependence can be placed on the acts of the Goverment, the fact is Such a man as Santa Ana is much wanted at the Head of affairs, one who has energy enough to adher~ to meas- ures when once adopted, and who will by the bayonet if it be neces- sary, quiet the country and end this grito work,- ! fear the law alluded to to stop emigration will pass- I do not presume to advise you what course to persue it would be presump- tion in me to do so, but If I might be allowed to express an opinion it is that whatever may be done by the Present Party, no difficulty will exist when they go out to get things put on thefr proper and former footing by their successors who I think inevitably must be
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