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,: . I , S s ' FRENCH PAPERS. 1 4 I PARIS, DECEMBER 9. Yesterday evening the King transacted business with the Minister orMarine. .... ...Their Excellencies the Ministers , t he. Pope's Nun - 66, the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Prince de Tal leyrand, the Marshals Dukes de Reggio, de Dalmatia,' dt Treviso, d'Albufera, numerous Peers, and a great number of General,Plficers, had the honour of pay ing their respects to the King. There was a report to-day of an action on the fron tiers, between -the French troops and the Spani.h. There is no truth in it. Letter* from Madrid, dated the 2d instant, state, that there had been great movements among the di plomatic body in that city. The Foreigii Ministers had met seWral dim is the hotel of the French Ambassador ana in.that of Count Darnalt, formerly Envoy from Dennbatin The public were unacquainted with' the object of these meetings, which at any rate created no anziety.—Jeurnal de Paris. A letter from Toulouse, dated December 2, which has been communicated to us, contains the following postcsript:— ~ On the 29th and 30th Novembei that* was a gene ral affair in Spanish Cerdagne, between the Army of the Faith and the Constitutional Army. The Baron d'Eroles was dreadfully routed. Letters from Spain sup that it is not known what has become of the Baron, and that it was believed he was killed ; but a dispatch from Lieutenant-General Belair announces that he had entered France with an escort of sixty horsemen. — General Mina commanded in chief, and had General itoten with him. d , Eight in the evening.—lt is this moment an nounced that General Eroles is at Toulouse ; that he has taken u p his quarters at the Grand Soleil, and that seals have been put on all his papers, at the instance of the house of Ouvrard, of Paris. Great numbers of Priests, Capuchins, and soldiers of the Army of the Faith, arrive here. There have even arrived seventeen Officers of the Constitutional army,who had been taken prisoners, but set at liberty on reaching the French territory. There are among them five Lieutenant-Colonels or Colonels. The others are Chiefs of Battalions or Captains. The son-in-law of General Milans is among the number."—Conaitut. A letter from Perpignan, dated the Ist, states, that Mina took possession of Puycerda on the 29th ult. after a general battle, in which the troops of the Faith were hinted, and pursued to the French frontier. Two thousand of the Insurgents found an asylum there : the rest were killed or made prisoners. It is said that Mosen Anton Col has been taken, but that is not cer tain. It appears that the Army f the Faith now de feated, consisted of the remains of that which the Baron d'Eroles had before commanded, reinforced by the bands of Cargoles, Malavilla, Montane, Col, &c. During the action, our troops were drawn up in order of battle on the frontier line, with four pieces of cannon, which had been brought from Mount Louis. When the Insurgents were driven into France, they were so closely pursued that the balls of the Constitutionalists reached our line. A French gre nadier was killed, and an Officer wounded. A (lapis chin was also struck by a ball, and fell dead on the French soil. The Spanish General, however, stopped the firing, and ordered our frontier to be respected, as soon as he saw that the rebels had laid down their arms within the French territory.—Journal du Com. ADRID, DECEMBER 2. Colonel Manuel del Pina is appointed Commander of the Artillery of Madrid. Government has received an account of the execution of many factious Chiefs; amongst whom are Manuel Amador, a Capuchin named Marza, and a Curate, who was also ranked with the rebellious. General Espinoza, before quitting the military com mand of the third division, addressed a Proclamation to the troops under his orders, informing them that he was replaced by Field - Mar shal Torrijos. MARSHAL NEY AND LABADOYERE.—The wall op- i posite the spot where the Marshal (Nay) died, is daily scratched or scribbled over with his name, or some expression of commiseration or determination to re venge him. I went yesterday (says the writer of a letter from Paris, dated the 6th inst.) to the cemetery of Pete la Chaise, to see his grave once more, being told it was the anniversary of his death (a mistake), and that it would be decorated with fresh garlands and chaplets. I was disappointed—it remained as I saw it on le Jours des morts ; but I observed rather an expressive incident—two soldiers were leaning over the railing that surrounds the grave. I stopped at some distance from it, but they heard me, and re treated precipitately. On LABADOYERE'S monument I found newly written (the same soldiers had visited it), " Labadoyere ! Tu seras venge un jour !" GENERA!. MINA—The true character of this Officer (says a person attached to his Army) appears to be that of great but reckless bravery—an indifference to the means, provided the end can be obtained. In 1812, he succeeded in forming a body of 600 French soldiers, prisoners of war, and making them fig'tlt, and despe rately too, for him, and against their own tountry men. This single trait paints vividly the character of this extraordinary being, and strews the irresistible in fluence that he exercises over those under his com mand. lie is now at the head of 12,000 men, whose manners and way of living resemble more those of banditti than regular troops. With the slender pro vision for each of these soldiers, of a cake of chocolate, a bunch of garlick, and five or six segars, he marches them up, when occasion requires it, to the top of a bare and frightful rock, where they remain motion less for SO or 40 hours, until the patience of their enemy is tired out, they then descend, like famished vultures, into some miserable village, where they re gale themselves with oil soup. You cannot have any idea of the nauseousness of this compound. Yet when the Spanish soldier can get his fill of this horrible potage, or hell broth,he considers himself restored and nourished for the next three or four days. To man so fed, or rather so starved, the sight of the French soldiers, with their well-furnished haversacks, will be like the sight of the stag to the hunters. Besides the pleasure of killing an enemy , and above all a F renc h one, he will find three or lour days' feasting in the daily ration of a French soldier. Such are the steely stomachs and habits of privation of the men—or rather human camelions, for they seem to live upon the air—that Mina leads. PARIS, DECEMBER 10. Yesterday, before Mass, the king gave a particu• lar audience to the Saxon Ambassador. Lord WELLINGTON arrived yesterday in this Ca pital, at a quarter before four o'clock in the after noon : he alighted at the British Ambassador's. Letters from Constantinople announce, that the Grand Vizier and the Mufti have been deposed, and Haleb Effendi has been exiled. They write from Toulouse, of the 4th of December, that " the Royalist General Laguna was going to Na varre, by order of the Regency; he arrived here on Sunday last. We also have in our town Don Fer nando Alvarez, superior Officer of the Army of the Faith." For some time past the passing of couriers bas been very active between Paris and the Head-quarters of the Army of Observation. On the other side, they have established, on the road from Toulouse to the Spanish frontiers, pickets of cavalry, charged with carrying important dispatches. FRONTIERS OF SPAIN, DECEMBER 1. The Regency of Spain was yesterday at Sailla gonse, a canton on the French frontiers, between Puycerda and Mount Louis. The Baron dTroll arrived on Friday at Selden, on the mountains, and continned his march with his troops without stop ping, and made a long march in the snow. On Saturday he entered Spain by Paillas. It ap pears his object is to harass Mina in his rear, and he is forming his troops into guerillas. The Army of the Faith has experienced great desertions. The gar rison of Urgel is numerous and true to the King, and has provisions4or a year. The division of Guergione, of the Army of the Faith of Navarre, passed the Ebro, and penetrated into the country of Riossa. They write from Tarragona that the troops of Mina have assassinated: fifty monks and priests. They write from Guipuscoa (29th November) that a convoy had passed there with the money of the loans for the Cortes, and to protect this convoy Torrijos united all his forces, which consisted of 6,000 men. PERPIGNAN, DECEMBER 1. The Regency of Spain set off on the 28th Novem ber, at eleven at night,*from Llivia fur Estavac, after an affair which took place before Puycerda. A great number of superior Officers of the Regency have set off for the interior. The Constitutionalists have pursued the Army of the Faith to the extreme of the frontiers. All the French troops who were at Cerdagne took to their arms yesterday morning, and set off for the lines with four pieces of cannon. VIENNA, NOVEMBER 29. . Baron Rothschild has added to his coat of arms the following motto :--,, Concordia, industria, et in• tegritate." . VIZNNA, Noe. 99.—Course of Exchange.—Metalliques, 96), This forenoon we received Bayonne Papers to the 4th instant. They describe the wretched state of the Army of the Faith"—half naked, discontented, and in despair at not seeing the Fiench troops, which their Officers assured them would enter Spain on the Ist instant. These Papers state, that an energetic Remonstrance had been addressed to the Spanish Go vernment by the Constitutional Generals, to demand from France that she shall not, after affording shelter the Duke of WELLINGToN had arrived there, but do 1 to the rebels, give them new means to enter Spain not inform us of the date of his arrival. His Grace and commit their maraudings. The following are received on Monday dispatches from L,ndon, con- extracts: taining instructions to him to remain in Paris, where' IRUN, DECEMBER 2. . • he will fulfil; it is supposed, the high functions of 1 A Spanish Cabinet Messenger. from the Duke of mediator between the French arid Spanish Govern- i San Lorenzo, our .A mbassador at Paris, has just passed through, and is supposed to have brought 1 1 -pacific news. This conjecture is strengthened by the circumstance that for these five or six days the ex- change of couriers between Paris and Madrid has gfeatly abated. The courier that has just past had orders to make all speed, and ample autbority.to require whatever escort should be necessary. If the news he brings k really pacific, it will greatly sou. tribute to calm the effervescence b in the mind Of tl e public. On the 28th, General Torrijos commenced his ope rations with 6000 men. A column of 500 men has been detached towards Bilboa ; one of 800 has rein- I lforced the Pastor, as he is called ; a third, of 1200 Men, proceeds along the banks of the Ebro; while the General, with a fourth, of above 3000 men, in cluding 400 cavalry, went to Pampeluna, which le entered on the 30th. All the garrisons in his rear, and especially at the passage of the Ebro, have been reinforced, so that in a few days we shall see opera. tions commenced in the fifth district. The two co. lumns of Guerguet and Santos Ladron have fallen back towards the mountains of Navarre, doubtless to effect their junction with O'Donnell, whose troops, to the number of 1500 men, are at Lombieres and the environs, but they are not well disciplined. • The weather is dreadful, and it is thought that no more will be necessary than to scour the country and press the bands back to the mountains, to ob tain a complete victory fever them ; for the soldiers of the Faith have devastated the country, which now affords them no resources, and they are half naked, discontented, and in despair at not seeing the division of French troops which their Officers had assured them was to enter Spain on the Ist of this month. \V think we may expect that in about a week O'llor.. nell will be obliged to go and take up his v.itittr quarters at Bayonne. Notwithstanding the rigour of the season, the stitutional troops are eager to engage those wre;chi.d bands which desolate this fine country : as a proo: . of their spirit, we may mention that 300 recruits have most earnestly requested to go with the troc ps of Torrijos, which was refused because these young men do not even kftow how to march. The Paster has now about 1,500 men, !who, divided into three columns, will scour the three provinces: but wlat will this avail us if the fugitives retreat into France by the mountains of the Bidassoa, and return to take up arms at Irati ? , Till the measure is adopted of sending those who retreat into France 40 leagues into the interior, we shall always be harassed and exposed to their ma rauding: for how many times have we dispersed ani driven away the bands of Zabala, Barrutia, Guesai.‘, Cuebillas, Guerguet, Santos Ladron, and others?— and how many times have we seen them return; by way of Irati, provided with new means to make war upon us? To obtain a remedy for this is the object of an enerLetic Remonstrance addressed to the Government by the Constitutional Generals, and I signed by the Political Chiefs. ies . We have received German Papers to a!ate date, the Austiian Observer of the 28th and 29th Novem ber contains no intelligence from Greece, Ttu key, (3 Vienna. Vs=NA, Nov. 27.—Mrtalliques 87—Bank Shares 1 1 69 1-3. 48.—Metalliques 864—Batik Shares 984. BRIGHTON, DECEMBER 10. The weather to-day has been seasonably cool, and tolerably favourable, though the preceding night was squally, but the unfavourable symptoms sub sided at day-break. The Band of the Life Guards, from the inclosed garden of the York I Tote!, cheered the paved walk of the Steyne, from two to few; o'clock this afternoon, with their melodies, occasion ing a muster of fashion there every way pleasing and interesting to behold. The KING was walking on tl.e Pa'•tcc lawn in the morning. Count MUNSTER arrived at the Pavilion yesterday, and, with the Earl and Counte , s Las.y GWYDYR, and Lord MELBOURNE, had the hollow (~1 dining with his MAJESTY. Yesterday afternoon his MAJESTY held a Privy Council at his Palace at Bt ighton. The Duke of YORK arrived at Bungay on Saturd.!!. - , on his way to the seat of the Marquis of HERTFORD. His Royal Highness was met by the pi incipalp bitants of the town at the Tuns Inn, where he took breakfast. During his short stay, hi, Royal High ness was saluted by a peal from the bells, wed .'e parted amidst the reiterated cheers of the Gen:len el and inhabitants assembled. llis Royal Nig, ness .T -peared in good health and high spirits, and gratified by the general expression of loyalty :; 1 1.1 attachment, which he returned with dignified :ilia bility and condescensior. Mr. CHARLES BANKIICAD, of the Foreign Office, who is attached to the British Embassy in Russia, arrived yesterday morning in Downing-street. wit. 4 important dispatches from St. Petersburgh, which he delivered immediately to Mr. Secretary CANNIG. The Countess of ESSEX, we are sorry to butte, 14; been much indisposed for some days, at her house. ni Hill -street, Berkeley ; square. By accounts arrived in town yesterday from Nor folk, we learn, that Lady Ass COKE is l'o.,iiy cl pected to be confined. A separation, almost within the honey-moon, lias taken place in fashionable life. The Duke of DEvoNaritrez is daily expected fier) Paris. His Grace had no intention to proceed tv 1 Rome this year.. The Hocfoul Journal of yesterday's slate, sni: it Our worthy High Sheriff' has refused to &mph with the requisition for the purpose of ctiftlig County Meeting Qa the state of Agricultural Dibtret'=. , k r H A'A a.' LONDON. THURSDAY, DECE\IBER 12, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market opened this morning at 801 e, and the moment' it was known that three Expresses had arrived from Paris, bring ing the French Funds eBf. 60c. (which is an Improvensect), Spanish 558, and Neapolitan 771. Consols went tip to so§ 1, at which price they remain up to this hour. There were several good buyers in the market this morning. TOIULION TUNDS. The most doing this morning is in New Spanish, which opened at 54 to I, and have been done at *toe ; all other foreign secu rides remain steady. Current I'rices :—Chilian72l, New Spanish 54i, Old 60, New Prussian 851, Old 85, Russian 84, Danish 89i, Neapolitan 77 (Scrip), Colombian . 79, Peruvian 79, Spanish Scrip 10 dia. . . PRUSSIAN LOAN OF Ism CONTRACTED BY MR. N. M. ROTHSCHILD, IN LONDON. The Half-yearly Dividend of this Loan falling due on Wed nesday, the lit of January next, will be paid on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of tea and two, at ohe Count• ing-house of Mr.N.?d. Rovmscuita, in New -court, St. Swithin's lane.—N.B. The Dividend Warrants must be left one day for inspection, viz. those presented on the Elst December will there fore be paid on the lst January, and so in continuance. NEAPOLITAN LOAN. The Dividends due on Wednesday, January 1, on the Neapo litan Loan, will be paid by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD, on all Stock negotiated by him, and according to the current rate of ex change, on that and every succeeding day, Sundays excepted, between the hours of ten and two.—N. B. The Dividend War rants must be left one day for inspection, viz. those presented on the 31st of December will therefore be paid on the Ist of January. and so in continuance. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 245 3 / 4 -5 per Ct. Red. 793/4 IA sis 3% per Cent. 91% %-4 per Cent. 96% 97 96% Bank Long Annuities 20 1 / 2 —lndia Bonds 325. s3s. Exch. Bills (E 1,000) 3s. ls.—Small 2s. 4s. Consols for Acct. 80 3 / 4 3 / 4 3/4. In a preceding column we have given some further extracts from the French Papers of Monday, which we anticipated yesterday by express. Every account from the frontiers of Spain either relates some new victory on the part of MINA, or confirms the report of previous successes. The forces of Baron d'Ertouts have been entirely routed, and the Baron, according to some accounts, killed—according to others, he has taken refuge in France, with 60 horse. Notwithstanding the divisions which are known to exist in the French Cabinet, the Paris Journals are generally in favour of peace, the poor Etoile ex cepted. This Journal contrives nightly either to make an hostile of its own, or copies one from some foreign Journal. The pacific article of the Journal des De bate of Sunday has, as might be expected, occasioned considerable discussion among the other Journalists, though not so much as a silly answer to it, which has appeared in the Etoile. This Journal, which now appears the only advocate of the war party, labours very hard to strew that there is no reason why France should abandon her intentions of war with Spain, though it would be sadly puzzled to state one good reason for it. The Constitutionnel of Monday, in noticing the subject, says—" The Etoile of yesterday pretends to refute the Journal des Debals. The former Paper casts out the latter from the sanctuary of Royalty, and places it almost among the reprobate. There is in the refutation of the Dude about as much good faith and good sense as in the articles of the Journal of Urgel. One might be induced to conclude that M. Ortaffa, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Inte rior, and man of all work for the Regency, had yes terday superintended the editorship of l'Eloik." The Courier Francais observes— ,, The Etoile de voted three of its columns last night to combat and deny what the Journal said in the morning. Each of these Journals has a part of the Ministry behind it: which shall we believe? Which deceives the Public ? Do both disguise the truth for their own purposes ?—The Public puts these questions, and it is always disagreeable to see the Ministers compro mised in such a manner." The Etoile asserted, on the authority of a lettyr from Lisbon, that the QUEEN of PORTUGAL had 're fused to take the oath to the Constitution. The Courier Francais, alluding to the subject, says- 4, Of all the news that Paper ever gave, this is the least authentic and the most improbable. Every one knows that on her arrival at Lisbon, the Queen declared for the Constitution with the greatest spirit and enthusi asm. The Queen and the Princesses have now at their disposal, for the expenses of their household, more considerable sums than were allowed them un der the old system. The Queen has on several occa sions acknowledged the generosity of the Cortes in her respect, and expressed her gratitude for it. Ilow can it be supposed that this Princess has all at once changed her principles and sentiments, at the very moment when the King, her husband, finds in the love of the Portuguese people the recompense of his attachment to the new system, and of his fidelity . to his oaths?" Letters from Paris, of Monday last, mention that eats, in bddition to those of conviying the ientiments of his own on the points in discussion. Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, Dec. '2:--'r Our late Political Chief, San Martin, is to be set at liberty this day, and the process against him will be carried on before the Supreme Tribunal. That against the Officers accused of having participated in the affair of the 7th July, has been intrusted to the superintendence of an Officer of the regiment of Guadalaxara, who has al ready discovered great irregularities in the proceed ings, as far as they bad gone, of Paredes, his predecessor. The obnoxious numbers of the Zurriaga have been burnt in several places by different companies of the militia, who appear generally to be animated by the best spirit. Political doctrines of a violent nature can never take deep root in Spain, however for a short period harm may arise from their circulation among the lower orders, but at the present moment they are peculiarly to be deprecated. Madrid is perfectly tranquil, and our internal affairs wear every day a better aspect. Even in 'Catalonia and the frontier provinces, the state of the public mind has undergone a very sensible amelioration." Th;s forenoon we received the French Papers of Tuesday, by express. The Duke of WELLING TON has arrived in Paris, where he is expected to remain, until the affairs of Spain and France are settled. Private letters from Paris repeat that Louis XVIII. is for peace, an that he is anxious to refer the subject to the decision of the Duke of WEL LINGTON. The Moniteur, which copied the pacific article of the Journal des Debats, has not done the same ho nour to the inflammatory tirade of the Etoile, nor does it even notice it, which is certainly another pre sumpt ion in favour cf peace.