The Somerset Herald And Farmers' And Mechanics' Register

A Foreign Prince for Mexico.

This subject is still talked of—and in some quarters, the scheme is alluded to as by no means impossible. Mexico, it is contended, is tumbling to pieces, and unless some of the monarchies of the Old World interfere, she will beyond question, be absorbed in the United States.—Would it be politic, wise or practicable in England, France, and Spain to attempt any such movement? We perceive that the scheme is advocated, not only by the London Times, but indirectly by the Journal des Debats, the organ of the French Government. That paper, after stating that Mr. Poinsett, conformably to the instructions of his Government, labored to bring about the Federal system in Mexico, in order to dismember her the more easily, pretends to have been informed by private correspondence and trustworthy travellers that all the honest and well-intentioned people of the country regretted the Republican rule, and expressed lively wishes to see it reconstituted in the hands of some foreign prince. "This return," adds the Journal, "of the Spanish American Republic to monarchical ideas is a serious subject of meditation: they turn their spirits to monarchy as their only means of safety."—Bicknell.