Star. — London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

Wl' : • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1823. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 82j, went up to &4 for the Account, with some business doing. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds ripened at 341, got up to /, but lowered again. The Foreign Market is very brisk this morning. CVI74II:It Prices Spanish 54k. New Spanish 981, Co lombian Sak, Ration an, French Scrip 21 to I. The following notice is posted at the Foreign Stock Market " 14, Portland-place. very weighty reasons not to oppose Any longer the issuing of New Spanish Certificates of Renter, I have the honour to address myself to you, to beg that you will have the goodness to cause the notice sent you on the 21st ult. to be taken away [tom the Recharge, where it is as yet. " I have the honour to be, (Signed) " JOHN JABAT. 0 W.WAnZ, Esq. Secretary to the Foreign Stuck Exchange." PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 82 1 / 6 y i -3 1 / 2 per Cts. 97 1 / 4 IA 4 per Cents. New 102 i/8 1 / 4 Vs • Imperial 3 per Cents. 82% lischequer ItlUs (11,000) 365. 375. 355. Consols tin Acct. 823 Ya. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received to-day, by Express, the Moniteur of Monday. It supplies no additional information from Cadiz, but contains accounts from other quar ters of very considerable importance. CAPITULATION OF ANOTHER SPANISH CORPS. ARMY OF THE PYItENNEES. 44 REPORT 07 MARSHAL THE DUKE OF REGGIO TO HIS XXCILLLENCY THE MOUSIER AT WAR. " Madrid, September Z. " M. MARSHAL—The movements ordered by Lieutenant• General Count Bourcke to cut off•the re treat, by the side of Puebla de Sanabria, of the Con stitutional troops which left Orense, have had the happiest results. After some forced and arduous marches, Gene ral Marguerye overtook the enemy, with the SSth of the line, at Gallegos de Camp. He had made dispo sitions for the attack, when a flag of truce came with propositions, which were rejected. The enemy see ing that General Marguerye was resolved to fight, sent to him a second Officer, to announce that his ultimatum was accepted. In consequence of this, a capitulation has been signed, in virtue of which, Ge nerals Resell° and Vigo, Brigadier Palarea, four Co lonels, and six Lieutenant-Colonels, 140 Officers of all ranks, and 1,264 sub-officers and soldiers, have surrendered prisoners of war, and are to be conducted to France. The General has besides captured, along u ith the colours of the Regiment of Burgos, fifteen cases of cartridges, a number of arms, and a chest containing 29,060 francs. " General Marguerye is in march on Zamora, with his column of prisoners, whence he will move in seve ral detachments towards Burgos. " The taking of the corps of Palarea ensures the tranquillity of Galicia, and makes it necessary to leave there only a small number of French troops ; so that the greater part of the division of Bourcke is left quite disposable. I will recall it to Madrid, and in its way I hope it will reduce Ciudad Rodrigo, if •it has not already opened its gates before General Bourcke's arrival. _ ' " Marshal Duc de REGGIO." Extract of a private letter from Torredembarra, dated I st September : 44 Discontent and . disgust are at their height among the Constitutional troops. Yesterday there were fifty deserters from Tarragona. The . Militia and the Mi quelets especially, long to return to their homes. Milans is absolutely pennyless, and knows not how to raise the needful for his soldiers." SIEGE OF BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER 2. According to reports received from this unfortu, nate city, Rotten continues to rule there by terror. Friday last he caused two men to be hanged; the one was a husbandman ; who the other was is not known. Four ships have been arrested and put under seques tration at Sidges ; two of them, of considerable ton nage, had left Majorca laden with provisions for Bar• celona. While the revictualling of Barcelona is thus prevented, the French division under the orders of M. de Rosamel, continues to ensure supplies to our troops on land, To-day this officer himself escorted, in the Marie Therese, a convoy with forage for the army before Tarragona. FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT. " PARIS, MONDAY Arruzioom " The funds have nearly recovered to-day from the serious depression they experienced last week. The live per cents. are now at 90f. 40c. without the divi- dcnd ; the Scrip of the new loan at 21 premium. I need not tell you that this rise is in consequence of yesterday's news, of the taking of the Trocadero.— To-day we have no farther accounts from that quar ter; only it is said, that after -success had thus far crowned the Duke of Angouleme's measures, his Royal Highness, sent again propositions to the Cortes, which were again rejected. The report, however, receives but little credit. After the deliberate refusal of the Duke's terms be . fore the attack was made, any overture for an at, rangement must come from the Cortes, whose case is still thought by many to be so far from hopeless, that Spanish Stock continues at 43. The next news which we shall receive from Port St. Mary will, in all probability, announce an attack on the Castle of Puntales, on the Cadiz side, opposite to the Trocaderor We announced yesterday the taking, by assault, of the Trocadero. Before it was taken it was allowed on all hands to be a post of great importance; but now it is amusing to see in what opposite lights the event is regarded by our Anglo-Spanish and Anglo- French Gazettes. As honest chroniclers, desirous only of placing before our Readers the real state of matters, we shall first describe, as well as we can, the geographical situation of the Trocadero as regards Cadiz, and then give the opinions, professed to be en tertained by the two parties, of its military consequence. The city of Cadiz forms one point of the opening of the bay of Cadiz and the town of Rota the other. The distance between is about seven miles. The bay is about the same number of miles in depth. At the bottom of it, towards the North-east, where it re• ceires the river Guadalete, is Port St. Mary, the present head-quarters of the French. The South east side of the bay, or that opposite to Port St. Mary, is formed chiefly by a peninsula, called the Trocadero. The extreme point of this peninsula is about 1,400 yards distant from Cadiz, and between the two the sea runs in and forms an inner bay, or harbour. Cadia itself occupies the extremity of a narrow sandy neck of lantl, about four or five miles in length, which shoots out from the Isle of Leon, a triangular track of land, bounded by the sea on the West, the inner bay of Cadiz on the East, and cut off from the main land by the river Sand Petri. At the bottom of the inner bay is Puerto Real, about six miles South-east of St. Mary. It is obvious, from this description, that the first step of a besieging enemy stationed at Port St. Mary, must be to obtain possession of the Trocadero, and this is what the French have attempted, though to what extent they have succeeded does not yet •ery clearly appear. The peninsula which bears the general name of the Trocadero, is divided in its whole length by a canal. On that branch of it which fronts the French quarters at Port St. Mary, there are two forts ; the one the Trocadero, properly so called, and the other Fort St. Joseph. A little in advance or St. Joseph and directly opposite to the Castle of Pun tales, on the Cadiz side, is a third fort, called Mata gorda, which is, however, we believe, in a ruinous state. On the branch of the Trocadero beyond the canal and nest to the inner bay, there is a fort called St. Louis, which, though at the point nearest to Ca diz, is at too great a distance to be able to send shot or shell thither. The point which the French Bulletin of yester day has left in doubt is, whether they have taken the whole of the Trocadero—the parts on both sides of the Canal, with the four forts of the Trocadero, St. Joseph, Matagorda, and St. Louis; or only the branch of the peninsula fronting Port St. Mary, with the fort of the Trocadero, properly so called. We are inclined to think that the latter. is all that has been taken; and, having said this much by way of matter of opinion of our own, we now proceed to lay before our Readers what the Timer and Chronicle • say on the subject, on the one hand, and the New Times on the other ; FROM THE TIMES. Matagorda is the single point of the Trocadero, whence, even with bombs of the greatest power, any shells (for shot is out of the question) can be thrown into the nearest quarter of Cadiz. The distance from hhtagorda to the head of the town is 4,100 yards—two miles and a half; to the market-place of Cadiz, 4,400 yards. Souris overgrown mortars were cast in the hope of being able to terrify—injure the garrison they could not ; and , in spite of them, the Cortes of 1810-11.12, sat and laughed at the labours of the besieging army, until the vicissitudes of war in another part of Spain set the whole of Andalusia free. If, then, Matagorda itself be not in the hands of the French army, the Generalissimo might just as well attempt to bombard Gibraltar as Cadiz from any other point of the Trocadero. So far as can be judged from the dispatch, nothing more was tried than an assault upon those works of the Constitutionalists front ing the lines of the besiegers, and far enough detached front Matagorda. It may be otherwise, for anything we know ; but such is the natural inference from the of statement, and it is further corroborated by the small Lou ascribed to the Spa. niards—ivhich,although the telegraph-writer would take especial care that it should not be in any case underrated, estimates the force in defence of the works, including killed, wounded, and prisoners, at only 1,300 men. Had the whole peninsula of the Trocadero fallen, it must have involved the surrender of a much larger garrison: St. Joseph and Matagorda must, if we have rightly construed the French telegraph, be still attacked by re gular approaches. Grant that they are carried—what then has been effected towards a successful siege of Cadiz itself? Nothing whatever, if the Cortes, the Governor, and the troops are staunch —literally nothing will have been gained by capturing every foot of ground which bears the name of ' 1 Trocadero," except the possibility cf throwing a stray shell into Cadiz, which may burst upon FZILDIXANIeI head. In the meantime the stormy season approaches, the French men of war are blown away, and the blockade of the Constitutional garrison becomes an equal farce with the proposed bombardment. • FROM THE CHRONICLE. The French may therefore now state the question thus; if the capture of the Trocadero, with a garrison of 1,500 men, cost 2,000 killed and wodnded, what will that of La Isla cost, with a garrison of 10,000? And after the taking of La Isla, they may make the same calculation with regard to Cadiz. The French are now in exactly the position they held during the Peninsular war, and beyond which they found it Impossible to advance in more than two years and a half, notwithstanding all their tgorts and preparations. The Trocadero is an isolated point that gives them access to fort Matagorda, the extreme point of a long strip of land which separates the outer from the inner bay. This position gives them the partial command of the intervening channels, yet it removes them further front La fib, and does not bring them nearer Cadiz than within five mites the bay being still between them. This eery same point, during I • the last war, was taken by the French, not as a basis of anp ul teethr operations, but as a small paint from which they might annoy us, and affording a kind of partial occupation to an idle' army: Even to answer this porpoie, they were obliged to send to Seville and cast the large mortar in St...Ttnes's Park, with the corresponding shells —an operation that took up several months,. and after all, they were only enabled to ruin a few private houses, without in the least intimidating the Governor or the army, or causing any other material injury.— The French, by the capture of the Trocadero, have only ex tended their line, without gaining any material advantage, ex cept that of knowing that their opponents are determined to de fend every inch of ground they hold, to the very last, in support of their rights and the independence of their country. During the last war, the 'frocadero was considered as a point so de tached, and at the same time so unimportant, that it was not then deemed worthy of being defended, except as a temporary check on the operations of the enemy. FROM TUE NEW TIMES. During the former siege of Cadiz, the possession of the Tro cadeio could not enable the French to bombard Cadiz; be cause they were still out of shot of its walls, and had not the com mand of the sea. Nuw, the occupation of the Trocadero gives them the entire command of the outer bay, they can cannonade or bombard Cadiz in any direction, and may cover their landing at any point they think fit by their ships, bomb vessels, and gun-boats. The importance which VALDEZ and his party asctibed to the possession of the Trocadero, is evident front the great care they had taken to fortify it, and from their having mounted no less than fifty pieces of cannon in the lines intended for its defence, all which cannon they have now lost ! The most determined Republicans, too, were selected to maintain this important post. A regiment which had evinced some symptoms of loyalty was removed ; and the most furious esaltados among the militia were sent to supply their place; and of these choice troops no less than thirteen hundred have been put hors de combat, reckoning killed, wounded, and prisoners. The exact distances between the.fort of Matagorda and different points of Cadiz, are thus stated in an official report made in 1820, by Captain Nicnou..s, of our Royal Engineers: _ From left bastion of the fort at Cadiz to Matagorda . From Mole-head to Matagorda From Market-place to Matagorda From head of the town to Matagorda From Matagorda to Puntales Yards 3,888 4,233 . 4,400 . 4,100 . 1,330 We have received to-day the following accounts from Bayonne : BAYONNE, SEPTEMBER 2. By the mail from Madrid we have letters to the 29th ult. The army courier has not arrived, and we know not whether he has been stopped on the way, like the preceding. The capital enjoys tranquillity, though everybody is, of course, very anxious respecting the events be fore Cadiz. The Duke of Angouleme, who is fully sensible of the importance of terminating the war as speedily as . possible (which may be said to be con centrated before Cadiz), is collecting all the force he possibly can, both by sea and land. Several ships of war have already arrived from the Mediterranean, and ten frigates are expected. The troops which left Madrid with the Prince, are now at Port St. Marie (or, at least, on the point of arriving there) ; and Generals Beaumont and Moli tor are expected here. The Royal Family continued to enjoy good health• General Ziiyas has been succeeded in his command by General Riego, who arrived at Malaga on the 17th ult. Zayas takes the command of the army in Estra m ad u ra. The roads.in several parts of Spain are very un safe : at St. Clementi (Cuenca) the couriers, with let ters, have been stopped ; and couriers have been ar rested by the band of Chaleco, which was said to have submitted, but it seems it is divided into several small troops. A pretty considerable Guerilla, commanded by Castro, has appeared near Viersa. The Ex-Deputy Barros has armed a flotilla, and the brother of the Marquis of Albendana has done the same. These . two flotillas have committed various depredations along the coasts. An account from Zalamea de Serana (Estramadura) says, that the Constitutional troops ,in that province amount to 4000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, that a conspiracy has been disco vered at Aldeanueva for the purpose of re-establish ing the Constitution, and that 15,000 cartridges were seized in the houses of various individuals. We find, from the capitulation of Corunna, that most of the leaders in that place, especially Campillo and the Pastor, are prisoners of war ; from which it is inferred that they declined acknowledging the Regency at Madrid. We expect them to be .brought here on board of a French frigate. All the gunners belong. ing to the marine and the militia, who, with few ex ceptions, are Biscayans and Navarrese, have asked and obtained leave to return to their homes. The last letters from Pampeluna announce that the, trenches were opened, and that the firing was to begin immediately. There arc 8000 troops before the town; but especially. a most formidable train of artillery, which it seems intended to employ in burning town, in order to hasten, the surrender : if it should' be necessary to proceed to this extremity, • several mercantile houses in Bayonne will suffer very severe locses. It is said that the troops of the Faith that we: e before Pampeluna .have been removed, and a posi tion assigned them five leagues in the rear of the be= sieging army. It is supposed that their discipline is not so strict as that of the French troops. The re storing the prisoners to liberty, according to the De tree of Audujav, displeases many of the Spanisl. Royalists, especially the Priests and Mouks, soa.e of whom have not been ashamed to cry a Death to th e French !—Death to the traitors r Five companies of artillery ate ready to emba ß k here to join the army before Cadiz, and will certaw y sail the day after to-morrow. The Duke of YORK arrived in town on Mon* night, from the Lodge in Windsor Park, where N I Royal Highness dined with the ICtsio. Prince LEOPOLD has a select patty of spot-times now on a visit at Claremont ; they are out with hi, HIGHNESS frequently, from ten in the morning till seven in the evening. The game is remarkably abundant on the estate. Viscount Mst.viLLE has left town for Edinburgh,. Lady MARY ROSS is now at Balnagowan Cod e and Bralangwell. Her Ladyship was accompatie4 to the North by Lord CASTLEREAGH. Mr. and Mrs. TALBOT and family, and Mr. JABI T TALBOT, have arrived in town, from Alton Abbey Staffordshire, the magnificent seat of the Earl of SIIIMWSIIIIRY, with whom they have been :pm% the summer. Monday night the house of Sir JIMIN Oaroav, Batt. in the Admiralty Court-yard, was entered bt some thieves, and some articles carried off. A handsome Monument has heen recently erected in the Parish Church of Ile , lley-on-Thames, to the memory of General DuNrount _ _ _ Two Commissioners from the Greek Crovcrnmeet, whose names are MM. ORLANDO and ZAIIII, accont• panied by Mr. Luauerra, h ive arrived in this cool• try for the purpose of negotiating a loan. Wednesday se'nhight, Provost KER. of Dumfries, waited upon the Duke of BUCCLEUGH and Quatns• . TERRY, at Drumlanrig Castle, and presented his • Grace and Lord MONTAGU with the freedom of that • Burgh; and, at the same time, by sequest of the Con. vener, presented his Grace ‘.itit the freedom of the Seven Incorporations. General IJ'EvEtteux has been appointed Arnim. sador to the Northern Cow ti of Europe by the Co. lombian Government. The Ma s ters of Harsow School have consented t o add an extra week to the present vacation, on accoua of the honours lately obtained at the Universities by some of its Members. A lovely and fascinating young Lady, rf high ous. nexions, eloped from her friends, who teside a hurt distance from this city, a few days since. With a mar• ried man, late a Captain of Dragoons.—Bristol Gas. The Editor of the Drapeau Blanc has been con• demned to fifteen days imprisonment. andl4o fr ancs fine, for a letter to FRAYSSSNOUS, Grand Master 01 the University, condemning the system of education in France. Letters from Tyrol state, that upon the 14th of August a tremendous storm, which was attended oith rain and hail, made serious havoc in the Pusterthal. The two villages of Mohler and Tolbach particularly suffered; and in the latter no less than forty houses were flooded to the first story. A miner was killed last week in Nanjeles mine, and another so bruised as to be de , paired of, at Wheal Unity ; and both by too much indifference to danger' when blasting rocks with gunpowder. Senna has been successfully cultivated at Senegal The specimens of this plant have been submitted to the Council of Health at Brest, Toulon, and Macho` fort, and the result is favourable to the Senegal sena; when used as an ordinary purgative.—Paris Paper. The Penitentiary at Richmond, in Virginia, on the erection of which 150,000 dollars had been expended was destroyed by tire on the night of the Bth ult. No lives were lost, but as many of the prisoners confine in solitary cells were at first overlooked in the conf sion, they were with great difficulty saved. DEATH FROM FIGHTING. —An Inquest was held on Monday last, at Bromsgrove, on the body of a man named Levi Brown, who was killed on the Sa• turday night previous, in a pugilistic combat with James Sandford, when, after a patient investigatios of all the circufnstances, the Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Sandford, and also against W. Kay and R. Bing, the two seconds, and they were all committed to take their trials at next Lent Assize. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Last night, a Farce was produced at this House, entitled The Great Unknowl, which aimed principally at the ridicule of the (mi. ful system of Gall and his disciples, mired up with some badly conceived eguivogue on the mysteriess appellation and works of the Scotch Novelist; but the whole wanted stamina, and of necessity failed. Mr. Samuel Davis, who for many years filled the situation of principal Turnkey of Newgate, and was well known for his humanity to the prisoners (lately appointed Conductor of the City Police), has, within these few days, been appointed chief Turnkey at the King's Bench Prison. APPRIHRNSION Or HOUBEEIREAKKRS.—ThisMOrr ing, on the arrival of the Woodford coach at the Royal Exchange, a patrol from Woodford rode up, and secured two out of four outside passengers ; the other two made their escape through Pope's•head Alley :but one of them, in his flight, dropped a valu able gold watch, which was picked up by Mr. Bar nard, the proprietor of the coach. The two apps hended were taken to the Mansion-house. On search ing them, upwards of 151. in money was found on them. It appears that a house at Loughton, unr Woodford, was broken open early this morning, and property to a large amount stolen. From'circup stances which transpired, these fellows were suspect ed, and one of the Woodford patrol immetlial followed the coach, and arrived before they had get off the roof. PROJECT ON PROJECT.—On reading a proposal ia a provincial Print, for " dispatching to Lancsah Sound, in search of Caplan, Parry, some of the Whakn lately returned from Davi:** Straits:" What ! can't you conceive how a ship but just come " From Davis's Straits," may, with comforts from kW. Return, and reach Pamir, or frozen or floating? And think you indeed the projector is dewing Yon forget, Sir, " the Bottle" arrived but last week, Spine of storms and of icebergs, sans damage or halt $ And, surely, by simply retracing its track, The D 31114 that came, will as safely go back As into a nut, Ohl Homer they put, Or, as a lent lot of the wit of our maims. Was packed in a leak, by deep coljetureoft, So, into our bettie, the " Wheltr" shall slide. And, safe under cork, brave the storm and the tides The Wildgoose projector shall pilot the whole, And, like witch on A MotStOstick, asil-round the NCI Lynam& UmPriaiiin r i i ; , 1 le , F 4 • •