21 FEBRUARY 1829, Page 2

In NoVeMber, the City of Mexico was partly sacked by

an insur- gent mob ; and in the course of the fighting between the parties in the streets, it is said that no fewer than eight hundred persons were slain. This bloody affray was between the partisans of Fed- razza, the President, and those of Guerrero, the candidate for that office. Many houses were robbed, and numbers of the old Spa. niards were murdered in their houses.

The rebellion in Colombia was likely to become a serious affair ; nevertheless, Bolivar seems to hate determined to invade Peru.