The position of the United States army in Mexico is
not to be accurately learned from the aCcounts received this week from America. Of course they put upon it the best colour they can ; but there must necessarily be much that is not stated. General Scott had advanced almost to the capital of Mexico, after a diffi- cult march and hard fighting : in his last engagement he con- fesses to have lost about a thousand out of six thousand men ; the Mexicans are estimated to have lost five thousand out of an army of twenty thousand more or less. Santa Anna had been outgeneraled, and had retreated, it is said, rather prematurely. But his coun- trymen must have fought in earnest. General Scott, wko,..liad scoffed at offers of peace, now volunteered to make them himself, and concluded an armistice to facilitate negotiations. This looks like a conscious sense of that weakness which his position im- plies—his army enfeebled by a hard-won victory, and stationed in the heart of the enemy's country. There the accounts leave him.
