A letter from the Havanna...
.A letter froni the Havannah possesses some. interest. It states that the new XMexican Government has.prohibited all. intercourse between her few ports and the'islan'd of Cuba. The tammercial difficulties produced by -this.mesurevwill tend to alienate even the latter phu from Old Spain. In- deed, the penple of the Havannah begin already. to profess that they look to the recognition of the independenoe of South America by the Spanish Government at home. *Ve suspect, however, they may look long ere they see or ffnd the object for whicil tlieyare looking: there -is no such wisdomn in the Councils of FEaRDINAw. In the mean time heis losing all the advan tages which, through a speedy recognition, he might derive from friendly commerce, and the partiality of kindred origin, similar language, and identity of religious faith.- He will wait till all his partisans are extinct, aiiad thein Old Spain will have no more connexion with New than 'with Kamt- schatka. Those SQuth Americans who are now too weak to re-establish the obsolete counnxion with the mother country, might yet serve to infuse amiity and respect to- wards her into commercial treaties: they might consigni to her a preference, though they cannot reinstate her in a despotism. But no; a tyrant is a wreckless being: if he is not absolute, he thinks himself nothing. The Ameri- cans, from contiguity, and. other causes connected with their civil policy, are appropriating those advantages and that precedence, to wvhich the Spaniards of Old Spain may be supposed to have ihe most natural .claim, and to vhich, after them, all other states have an equal right. IVe think that while Ministers are paving this homage to the prej udices and infatuzation of Old Spain, they ought to be able to show that we lose nothing, or at least nothing important, by our forbearing to recognize the independence of the new States. Suppose Eome of the most important channels of commerce were to be pre-occupied by others, in consequence of our tardiness on this head; hou would Old Spain indemnify us for the loss? By ingraritude and hatred.