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made the signal to follow, and sent his boat 

 for one of the supercargoes. They went on 

 board the English frigate, Ranger, Captain 

 Fisher, which had arrived a few days before, 

 direct from England, having on board Dr. 

 Mackie, intrusted with a special commission 

 from the British government, but who, on 

 discovering the unsettled political state of the 

 country, determined to sail for the Havannah, 

 there to wait for further orders. 



The captain of the Ranger informed our 

 commodore, that the city was in the posses- 

 sion of the Republicans, under the command 

 of Generals St. Anna and Vittoria ; who were 

 on friendly terms with the garrison, and had 

 lately sustained a siege from Iturbide, then 

 Emperor of Mexico, who had retreated with 

 his army beyond Puebla, in consequence of 

 which, that city and Xalapa, were in the 

 hands of the Republicans of Vera Cruz. 

 Mr. Sultzer, the principal supercargo of the 



