··The Cosmopolita, a newspaper published in Mexico, slates that such is the distressed condition of public affairs, that "Government cannot in any way procure money for a single campaign." IL refers to several executions that have recently taken place for political reasons, and compares the acts of the party in power lo the lyrnnny of Bustamente. The Congress, which is now in session, seems lo have exhausted all ordinary modes of raising revenue, and adverts lo the necessity of levying new contributions. The national power and integrity of Mexico seem to be lost in these domestic difficulties; and hence Texas are opposed lo the war, as they have already suffered severely in the progress and return of their own army through their country. Zacatecas and Chihuahua have manifested great desire for peace; and if the ambition of a few men contending for power could be allayed, Mexico would be quiet, and Texas free. The population of Mexico is about.eight millions, and that of this country between forty and fifty thousand; so that it cannot be supposed that, under ordinary circumstances, the issue of this war would remain long undecided. It is owing to the confused state of parties, the exhausted treasury, the division of the troops into opposite commandancies, the contest between those who are for a consolidated government and those who desire a republic, that the fate of Texas is thus protracted; and after all that can be said in regard lo her ability to sustain her independence, it resolves itself into the single fact, that, without foreign aid, her future security must depend more upon the weakness and imbecility of her enemy than upon her own strength.
I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, Henry .M. i\lorfit.
Hon. John Forsyth Secretary of Stale.
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