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Mexican complications.
--A late letter from Matamoras, alluding to the Mexican complications, says:
It seems, from the te of private letters received in this city from Mexico, that the Government became thoroughly straightened for money about the 12th ult., and that in order to meet the emergency, and in order to provide some manner of revenue to subsist the troops, the Congress passed a law suspending the payment of all interest on foreign debts, and stopping the liquidation of all claims held by creditors against the State.
The effect of this measure was to incense the English, French, and Spanish Ministers to that degree that they instantly demanded their passports, and at last accounts were about leaving the country.
You will recollect that solemn stipulations were made with the English holders of Mexican paper, that a certain per centage of the Custom-House revenues should be regularly set apart for the payment of English claims, and for a considerable time this