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• /101•••11M1 '4 , ,„ • FRENCH PiteERS. PARIS, AUGUST 24. rtlE SOCIETY OF MAIERNAL CHARILY, PATROVIIIIRD THE EMPRESS. The Central Committee of the Society of Maternal ('h int!, which met at St. Cloud, by order of the Zmpress, consisted of 1 he Countess de Segur and de Pastoret, Viee-Presidents. Cardinal Fest'', Secretary-General. tishop of Versa lies, Sub-Secretary. Count liejean, Treasurer. Count Jaubert, his SubstiNte. be Prince Arch-Cbancoilor ' Count s de la Place, M. de Liab ,..-oort, Count de Chanteloup, and Count de Segur, Coupsetjors. Mesdames Grivel, Gautier, Countess Portals, Ma d tme Dupont de Nemours, Madame Riffaut, asset the tinoness Pasquier, Ladies el-cted by the CoUtscil of :10ministration of Paris to assist at the Ceatxal Coin wittee. f' The Countess de Segur had the honour to present to the Empress the Substitute to the Treasurer-Ge neral, the six Ladies elected by the Council of Admi. stration of Paris, and the three new Counsellors named by his Majesty. • The Empress conversed a long time with the Mem.; bets of the Committee upon the affairs of the Society; put with equal interest and goodnets several ques tions to the Ladies of the Committee, upon the num . ber of the poor in their districts, the families they adopt, and the succours they distribute. • After the audience, her Majesty ordered a more .detailed account to be given of the situation of the 'Society by the Vice-Presidents,. Secretary, and Trea surer, who submitted for her approbation and signa. Inure, several decisions presented by the Central Com mittee, the object of which is to fulfil the benevolent intentions of her Majesty, to accelerate the execution of the regulations, and to organize-in the whole Em s)ire this Institution, so useful to humanity, which will owe its existenc , 2 and success to the benevolence of chi Emperor, and protection of the Empress. SPANISH , PAPERS. PRIVATE LETTERS. • CADIZ, AUGUST 7.—A Strong French party still exists in this city, which has of late gained a great as cendency ; and were it not for the few English with us, this town would have been, ere this, in the pow er of the enemy. We are informed that General Gra ham is coming back with a strong reinforcement, which I can assure yon is much wanted. 'l'o-elay we have accounts that Mike has disembarked at Mo. trilla, whence he has proceeded to join the army of the centre, under General Frere. Soult, at the head of 12,000 men, with a large quantity of artillery, had arrived at Cordova; on the 29th ult. his head-iluarters were at Castro del l.io; four leaguesfrom Cordova. General Abadea has been well received in Crallicia, and hailed in the village through which he passed as their deliverer. 'Cardinal Bourbon, with his fa.' iniiy, is gone to Tavira, feat ful that Cadiz might be visitad with a fever. PENISIOLA, JULY 14.—A1l foreigners have been or: dered to quit this city, as it is feared the enemy will. soon pay us a visit. The Valencia troops which had: embarked are come back. Great apprehensions are entertained fur the safety of this fine province. P.S. It is reported that 7000 English troops are cc'ming to i'ur assistance from Sicily; this has given' - • I "us great hopes. • • OFMCIAL INTELLIGENCE, The. Chief of the Staff of the 6th Army, Brigadier Juan Mourne, under date of the 80th June, gewn.i, -Vjga de Mager., gives the following ,account or the battle of Cogorderos, fought on the WO •of June : In order closely to watch the movements of Ge neral Bonnet, who was situated in Orbigo, I ex tended my principal force tow:yds that place. To prevent depredations being committed by his troops on the comitry of the right bank, the troops of the first section of the first division, and the second of the second, were on the 22d placed in a line, corn • prehending Suernsa Fontoria, occupying Astorgo with a detachment, and having the first section of the second division on, the royal road of Monsabal; to serve :is a reserve to the advanced troops. In this position our parties were on the 23d, born which they marched and dislodged a party of the enemy, consist. ing of 200 infantry and 40 horse from Benaventes ; but observing that considerable reinforcements moved fri•rn Orbigo, consisting of infantry and cavalry, be. longing.to General Valletaux, they commenced their retreat, which they would successfully have accom. plis!md, had they not met, at Benaventos, a portion of infantry of Montc•ray, which they determined to sive and accomplished, but with the loss of Ensign Rialto and six men. The troops of Monteray, and hussars of Galicia, continued their retreat, and nni tu:tlly supported each other till they pl iced themselves -before the columns of the section. The commandant of these. Colonel hiascauna; alter taking the proper niestitires, informed the General of divhiou, and •_marched 'towards Cogorderos, placing the troops of ;the second section rat the heights upon the right of ' *the river Tuerto. This disposition being taken; end ibserving that the advanced companies were falling back, whit the greatest order and security, and that arrived within sight of the columns, they did not re , trocede a step.. 4. At this time the Guerillas, consisting of S corps, 'supported the fire for seven hours, throughout a space ~ 11 nearly half a league, without a single soldier of aors flinching, 'who were reinforced in proportion to' those of their opponents,commanded by F. Castanan ; :and taking 'advantage of the situation of the ground, they maneuvered with soch skill and intrepidity, that ,t night *had no: put an end to their exertions, the enemy would have lost the,greeterpirt of the 30(K) men with which thee attacked, because .the Companies rf zedores of ()vied* antic k lig with the b a y onet ma the enemy to a precipitate flight t. in which, not •-ithitanding the obscuritypf the night, some were 4:ut'down by urn cay.iliy. Our two pieces of flying artillery kept up a well-directed fire upon the enemy. -ile loss of the enemy, whirl, according to our first accounts Attliqn . iti to 300 men, many o ffi cers, and General Valletanx killed, and Colonel Gautier ' '+ minded, we know by an intercepted letter from llamet to Bssieres„ consisted' of near 500 men, a i(2' at itt.mlser of officers, and the aforesaid General. --Our osi consists (1 .1 .6. killed, and nearly 100' o :54 d." • (1 7 1' • • BUENOS Arius PAPERS:I7 • BUENOS . -AYRES EX T RAORDINARY GAZETTE Or THE 26th JUNE, IR! 1. • 11l the. Extraordinary Gazette of the 18th instant, among other official papers which General Dan Jose - Artigaz transmitted with regard to his operations against Monte Video, there was also given an over ture made by Don XavielaElio after the battle .1 Las Piedras, soliciting an armistice. During this, 'Abe result of the nepciation also reached him, which in that extremity lie had set on foot directly with the most excellent Junta, through the medium of the offi cer Don Jose Obregon, and with which the public 'has already been made acquainted. As Elio perfectly foresaw the rejection which his application, so con-, 1 temptible in many respects, was doomed to meet .with, he visibly attempted to influence the good faith of General Artigas by the insidious mode in which his letter was drawn up, pretending that the English Government was embarked in the same cause, by the instructions which it had actually given to Captain Heywood, Commander of the Nereus frigate. Our General, deeply convinced,,as`well• as ti.e Government, of the true sentiments of the aglish nation with regard to the present affairs. returned a very proper answer: he spoke with a full knowledge t of the daring and cunning character of the man to whom it was addressed, and with all the energy and resolution which animate us in our undertaking.—i But the honourable Officer of his Britannic Majesty could not view with indifference the inconsiderate audacity of Elio, who had so falsely compromised his reputation in an affair of so much delicacy, and wl:o, when Captain Heywood had been expressly charged to observe a complete neutrality in our affairs, had represented him as to a certain degree taking a part in them. Captain Heywood, therefore, thought it his duty to clear himself of all such interference, and transmitted to the Governmeht the following decla ration, which is published for that purpose, and that all may be apprised of the sole object tf his arrival : " On board his l3ritaonie Majesty's frigate the Nereus, before Buenos-Ayres, June 19, 1511. " Most Excellent Senor—ln the Butnot-Ayres Ga• tette of yesterday I have observed an cflicial docu ment, in which I am erroneously represented as a negociator between his Excellency the Viceroy, Don Xavier Elio, and the Most Excellent Provisional Junta of Government. And as. wherever that Ga• zette is circulated, it may produce an impression' in jurious to me as Captain in the Royal Navy of his Britannic Majesty, whose duties areof a nature more open, active, and decided than those of a crooked policy and diplomatic intrigue, to which my charac ter is abhorrent ; and having also received an express prohibition to interfere in these matters, I have thought it necessary to observe for the present, that the Viceroy must have been greatly mistaken in ex pressing himself as he has done with regard to me. " I also leave it to your Excellency to inform the public (if you think it of importauti.), whether or not your Excellency, since my arrival in this river the Nereus, has entered into any official conversation . with me, or any other individual, relative to the:l existing political disputes of these provinces.. in. which we disclaim all right and even inclination, to interfere: • 1 4 , 't hough I have not ihought it necessary or pro-, i per hitherto to say any thing, yet I now avail myself iof this opporttotity, that it may be well and clearly tuiderst , ,od, that the spit it, and tendency of the orders with which I was sent to, and still remain in, the river Plate, have in truth for their chief and only ob ject the protection of the persons and commerce OEI the subjects dins Britannic Majesty from any unjust effects of comu•otion ; and to lend all possible assist:. ' ante, by means of the ship under my command. to' such of them as may wish to remit their property or ' retire from the river Plate. " In the execution of this last part of my orders, I consider ;Only duty to endeavour to obtain the co. operation of this Government, for their own benefit, and that of my countrymen. Why this cooperation has been so suddenly and unexpectedly denied. is a questiun which I have neither tt.e right nor the incli nation to ask, and with regard. to which it becomes me, as an Officer of the English Navy, to be perfectly indifferent.-1 have the honour to be, Stc. • (Signed) " P. HETWOOD. " To the President and Memberii of the Provisional Junta of Government." The following is the letter of the Viceroy Elio to General Artigas, conveyed by a flag of truce, and to ullich the preceding correspondence refers : • " Monte-Video, May '2O. 66 I have to inform you, that I have set on toot negotiations with the Junta of Buenos Ayi es, through the medium of Captain Heywood, of the British jri gate Wrens, which Officer has also instructions from his Government to the same effect. One of the pro positions.which he hai to snake to the Juntas% is, that• an armistice and suspension of arms should cake place till our existing differences can . be ac pintnedasedr.—. I expect from day to day accounts of this - negtithi- 1 tion. and in the mean time I hope you will concur in the humane sentiments which animate me, by sus pending all hostilities between our troops,-as produc ing only a lamentable and useless effusion of blood; as the Junta must comply with the pacific Proposi tions made by the Zngiish and myself." The reply of General Artigas was in substance as follows " Camp at Las Piedras, May 10,11111. " Senor—Thc cause of the people does not admit of the least delay: 11 you really desire *to avoid le' effusion of blood, .so contrary to the feelings of hu manity, enter into acriegociation Keith inc. who Am well acquainted' with the wishes of the . juntas *and will give you and Monte-Video a new prOsif of its, generous and pacific views.. • Thcse are comprisiti in the re.establishment of communication and yelations between the inhabitants yfhlunte-Video and those of the capital—tie r s marked'out by the mutual interests of both, and by nature itsell , --ties which were broken by a declaration of war on yisur part, which has car ried desolation and monriiing into thine families which li lye suffered from that effusion of blood which you profess to lament. . " This army will shortly bring to a conclusion the work which is already so tar advanced, and voii will bring to a climax the misfortunes of Monte-Video, unless you resolve that the authority of the Provisional Junta of those provinces be tecognised by that city, in order that it may transmit its wishes by the rue. , • a Rerresentative, conform - ably to - the regttla tick has peen- published, and in imitation of the.measures which all the provinces of Spain adopted for the purpose of preserving entire the domi nions of our :wgiast Sovereigrf Pon Ferdinand VII horn the oppression of the tyrant of Europe. ,* “This is the only condition on which, in virtue of the authority which I exercise, I shall cause hostili ties to cease on the part of my troops. (Signed) 6. JOSS ARTIGAS." [From a letter of General Artigas to the Junta of Buenos Ayres, dated May 2t, it appears that hie army was encamped on the ridge of Monte Viden.— The battie of Las Piedras, in which he claimed the advantage, seems to have been a mere skirmish, in which the loss.on the part of the victors amounted (ally to 11 killed, and 28 wounded. They took, how ever, 10 or 12 pieces of cannon, and a good deal of ammuni ion. General Artigas says, that in conse quence of the advantages he had obtained, he sent in a flag of truce to the Viceroy Elio, demanding the surrender of Monte Video. Elio returned a verbal refusal, and ordered the officer with the flag of truce to depart immediately. We are led to suppose from these papers, that though shut up in Monte Video be ha's a naval force which gives him, in some measure, I the command of the river.] BUENOS AYRES GAZETTE, JUNE, 15. • LETTER FROM ins EXCELLENCY LORD STRANDFORD TO • THIS MOST FACELLENT JUNTA. Most Excellent Senor—l have received the letter of your Excellency of the 14th of February, in which' ,you inform me of the proceedings of General Elio, in ' interrupting the commerce of Buenos Ayres, :old in which (Attu- some observations on the supposed waiit' of legitimate official authority on the part of that Ge. neral) you beg me to communicate them to my GO vernment. On this point I will comply with your Excellency's wishes, but I am convinced that I only anticipate the opinion of my Court when I assure you, that this communication will be received with the deepest regret, and will augment those painful feel ings which must be inspired by the pr(, lit unfortu nate contest between Buenos Ayres and its depen dencies.. The confidence which your Excellency has placed in me, and the conviction that 1 shall acquire a new title to it by the proposal which I am about to sub mit to your consideration, encourage me to speak frankly and without reserve. Your Excellency, by constantly expressing a fixed determination to adhere to the common cause of the Allies against France, to respect the authority and' preserve the claims of your legitimate Sovereign, have secured an undoubted right to the friendship and good offices of Great Britain, founded on a basis much more solid and extensive, than that of the ad vantages and concessions which you have so liberally and wisely panted to its subjects. But it is nevertheless to be lamented, that while these principles deserve every applause, their pracii caLresults have hitherto so little corresponded to their saviour ; and !hat, in a crisis which requires mood efforts and undivided energy, the frisver. of the con federation formed against France should be weaksoest. by the failure of those resources, %%hick might ra tionally be expected from those who are moo smail degree interested in the event of the strizgle, but who, unhappily, cannot contribote to its turttioate issue, because they art plunged in all the evils ot dissentiun. Your Excellency knows too well the sefujinlons good faith of the Cour: of London, the'saeied ties 'which connect it with SON and the great and poi. versolly important object of their mutual alliance, to -believe that Great Britain, without Violating that faith, sacrificing those obligations, and abandoning. Vobjects, can lend the sanction ot her approba oi measures productive of dissention between the component parts of a coalition, the 'happy issue ot which' depends upon a cordial co-operation and good understanding among all its constituent members. But though it is thus impossible for Great Britain to act in opposition to her obligations, and the inte-1 rests of the just came which she supports, the just claims which your Excellency has to her friendship ,inspire her with a sincere desire to become instrumen tal to your happiness and prosperity, in the only way in whieh she can at present promote these objects. I therefore take upon me to offer to your 'Excel: lents-, in the most ample manner, the good offices and friendly interpositions of the English Govern ment, tor thy purpose of facilitating an amicable set tlement of the differencesWllick at present subsist be tween the Spaniards of both hemispheres, and deli -.veriag them Isom the greatest of all calamities, civil - discord, as the origin ot tneir ruin, and of the greatest ! - :clanger to the C0E1111)011 cause. I offer this . rriediation to your Excellency, in the lYirtn• confidence that it will be undertaken with promptness by the English Clove, nnient, and in the Atnewledge ot shat has been already proposed and Accepted by other parts of the Spanish Monarchy a l which were'in circumb:anceabintilarwthose in which'' ISisenos Ayres is now placed. • I beg your Excellency clearly to understand, that the'proposal which I make &cant* involve aivy dis position on the part of my Court to interpose it's the isolitital affairs of,the Spanish monarchy, or to sup pint any syitem inconsistent with liberality and jus tiCe,• and %with the permanent prosperity ot Spanish • America. It does not appear poisible .that..your Excellency can confide yogr antics us better hands than those of England. Every Motive of interest and of policy Mutes' in declaring that the prdaperity• of Buenos Ants must be to et an object 0 .inapormacel and 'this consideration. Liunded imidentity of interests; is 'calctilated to prodOce die most unlimited confsditsca on - the of your Excelleney. Shbutti the pIOpOUNi winch I bitve had the honour to make be Adopted by your Ezielleney, I would suggest to you, as the tirst step to its actual CIPKII tion, the adoption of measures for an armistice . be tween your Excellency and General Etio ; nothing can be more simple than such a negociation. The withdrawing of your Excellency's troops on the one side, and the cessation of the blockade tin the other, would be just measures of mutual concession. It might be stipulated, that this, armistice Ithollid 63 , fill the final adjustment, under the friendly mediation ot Great Britain of tee points at pre.ent us discussion, between the Government of Buenos Ayres and that of Spain. A proposition of this nature, so analogous to the - • nioderat;on . which has characterized the cnmmence. meat of your Excellency's proceedings, *ea! cOve r Buenos Ayres with honour ; and even siruf.4t rejected, the very fact of having Made so equitable in offer would prove, that you had left no means untriel to'avert the calamities of civil seT, while the patty that refused to accede to so just a measure would be in a great degree responsible Methyl'. Your Excellency cannot fail to perceive the various immediate advantages which would result - from this Proposal. 'Flie•restoration of commerce would is. stsntly follow—the termination of the diffictiltiPs nn. der which British Agents have lab lured • in this part of the world—and the removal of every dis,posittne to interfere in the affairs of Spanish America, which n%ay have been felt by any other St tes • under the influence of the jealousies excited by the military movements and political proc..eClings of its .neigh. hours. • I think it proper to apprize your Excellency, that .I have also written to. General Elio ois the subject to which this letter relates, and that I have laboured to produce in him a disposition corresponding in that which I confidently hope and believe is felt by your :Excellency. I conclude by again requesting your . Excellent I's attention to the proposition which I have bacltbebo• to f to make, and that you will favour me with ytur •ieltithents upon it as soon As you conveniently. ; and to believe that I am solely actuated. by a sincere d s:re for your peace and prosperity, and tor the pro. wens: issue of the just contest in which we ire equally engaged, and in which we cannot hope/to conquer if we are divided Among outselves. I have the honour, &c. STItANGFOIII6 (Signed) ANSWER OV MR JUN: A. Mort EXCZLLUNT Sic.ort —The Junta has receiaed by Captain Heywood, of the Kern the cou6denti .; letter addressed to them by your Excellency, acknow, ledging the receipt of theirs of the 21" th of February. It is not difficult to discover the reasons of your Es. cellency's silence on the most material part of , its contents, nor of your answer to the lax,dated March 6th, even had it not been ascertained by other chan nel., that your Excellency, acknowledging those ports to be in a state of blockade, even to ships . of your own nation, chose rather to give a silent rel usal, notwithstandipg the reasons in opposition to it. This unexpected event, and the excessive exert ions _ . of Admiral be Courcy to free the British flag f: om the o!.istructions put many months before, by the Go. vernment of Monte Video, their bring free ports, pre .sent to us a very mortifying contrast. The Junta can assign no case for this retrograde movement, un ' less it form part of the plan of the Iltitab Gov.rn anent to adopt no measures that may tend to disunite Amerca from Spain. The Junta, however, cannot reconcile welt inconsistent projects. It is certain that the.c , annsercial prospects of .Great Britain and Ame. rica have nothing-to Jo with this disunion. 1; Spain should ever renounce her system of exclu ' i wittaxaspectlo..Arrerica-, .it.is.aisne -fat her to know thea• in the state of insignificance in which ig is, her s ibmintereasqnsistainjelfeagranliatid to approach these soerces, _Whence she may supply that strength which she has exhausted for the in terest of Spain, and-heaostrabled to clothe a people left naked by §pttlilh tyraiiny 441 1 404 in tlsis, way she mightiltave 'acquired an idea of gratitude an' jestas...a.-bus she chuses rather to Be datficiein on t• ii scree, tiasiato renounce exclusive rights; to'whicli she he ;eves herself to be entitled to all eternity,: declare 4 imp :riou sly by Emissary, Gelletal .Elio, aaaw pats to 'be , in a state Cif blockade; indisiuing apt eu ord....rs to annihilate the British commerce in this q u.4:- .let--.wl,i,e olie cannot reconcile such conduct with tie declaration of attachment to Great Britain, her. ally, she gives the highest offeace to the colutiles, a ha, as subject to the same King, have an equal right with Galicia, the Abtusimi, and Catalonia, to a d rect in tercourse with the nation that affords them protecrier. These reasons are of weight sufficient to convince tha Junta, that without any violation of the good fain. pledged to Spain, and without a breach ot any posi tive.agreement, the Court of London may resist the .blockade which General Elio has imposed upon Be. nth ships.- . . Your Excellency observes, that it is a matter of re. -gr !', • e that in the present crisis,. the power of the con. - taderacy against France should be weakened for a al.: of resources; • :,...,... . The Junta is of nettlik, -that to avoid the preja. dices of which your Excellency. speaks, and not to come to a state of the greatest weakness, the most el fectnal way is, not to place the resources of America in the hands of Spain, without Making them pass tq, England, by means of an open and unrestricted cbmtncrce. The whole world is not ignorant how in- Cap . -able Spain is to employ her public funds with ectiniNnty, as well a , : to direct her armies, beca , ae she leas already dilapidated`the sepplies remi:ted tr, in Antes:ilea for her defence. , Sach contribution; 'of loyalty and. of fionotiramight *tab* kept. aaered 4 . their (14i:isogon was determined, 6y, All! tame IleteSbkieSl and the intention of those who granted. Oiem. Not. withstanding this, 'no consideration was sufficient to limit the prodigality and 'Covethusness of . the Sisiinitit Administrations, yet they now haughtily ask,ivlio his provided funds sufficient to'support so many years the expences of the armies ? These provineetsirofess entire fidelity to Ferdinand the Vlitts; they wish to direkt only by therns'elves, and withopt the haiard of-risking their means to therapatitV iiir tinfaithful hands; they promise to enter into the iibalitionOgaiust the.tyrant, su long as. their civil independence is acknowledged. Here your Excellency will observe a means of strengthening the poser of the conk. duration s till a final success, much more secure and more conformable to the principles ot equity, dial' by 'threatening us with menaces, punislonents, and blockades, into a subordination which no person hat a right tri require. . Yanir Excellency may be firmly assured that the blockade imposed by General Too is mere prejudi. date ;the interests of Great Britain, and to Spain *AM', than it is to us. If the scrupulous conside rations of your nat.ou carry it to dissemble sues Aggressions, the Junta cannot propose to etc pcopl such a species of humiliatimi. They can Krztive i,t it nothing else than a determination t ,, ;cost tha audacious attempts of a Chief, who, without. any other authority than a simele letter from the Secretary dardaxi, his relation, exhibits himself a hostile Vice roy. It was this circumstance which hacened the uversion they formerly bore in their minds, and made E