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.00 WAR IN SPA, rN. i ~ ,~ .:;. 11! VROM THE ;TWA ify4IVU R DAY. PARIrSEPTESSER 20. The 12,000 men assembled in Navarre under the or ders of Marquis the Marshal de Lam iston will instantly direct their march to Lower Catalonia. Reuss and Lerida will not be long in following the example of Pampeluna. One may judge of the effect which mill be produced by 12,000 additional men an. riving in Catalonia. Rear-Admiral Duperrey was to arrive yesterday be- 1 fore Cadiz. Everything may be expected from the ta lents and ardour of this new Admiral. 4 GENERAL HBAINQUARTERS. " Port Sainte Marie, September 11. • ig Hostilities continue. In a few days there will be a grand attack everything is prepared for it. General Bourmont set out yesterday for Rota: he is to direct the .disembarkation. Monseigneur is gone to animate with his presence all our warlike preparations. A great deal • of artillery has been brought from Chiclana, whither the head-quarters are to be transferred. • " All is in confusion at Cadiz. The Cortes wished to' establish a Council of Defence, and to make Admiral Valdez President of it; but he refused, declaring that he considered the means of defence to be insufficient. 5 , The city is in consternation. The pavement of the streets is broken up, and the fiat roofs of the houses are covered with dung. P.S. Within three times 21 hours great events will take place. His Royal Highness is ring to Chiclana to direct the attack, which will take place on the side of Fort St. Petri, while our marine will bombard Cadiz. , 6 Several persons pretend that General Alava, chief of the moderate party, returned here yesterday. " Our soldier s demand the attack with loud cries. No. thing can equal their ardour and their enthusiasm." ARMY OF THE PYRENNEES. " REPORT OF MARSHAL LAURISTON TO HIS &WEL., LEbCY THE MINISTER OF WAR. " Orcayen, near Pampeluna, September 14. "M. MARECIIAL—The necessity of driving in all.the exterior posts of Pampeluna, to enable the En gineer Officers to reconnoitre the fortress, determined me to make the attack of the 2d of September, of which •I have hart the honour to render your Excellency an ac • count. That operation, which rendered us masters of the rutnirb of Bocheappea, led me to make demonstra tions on the right bank of the Arga, fronting the town, - stort on the bastion of Gonsagne, the object of which was to divert the attention of the garrison. A trench was opened from the Maison Blanche to San Pedro, and another from the Maison Blanche to the Maison Carree. A redan was traced out on the top of the curtain, and almost under the glacis of the bastion Gonsagne, which • could be approached very closely unobserved, by favour of the inequalities of the ground. Meanwhile batteries of mortars kept up the vigilance of the fortress. An entrepot of fifty pieces of artillery, brought from our great park, and depots of gabions and fascines were formed behind the front of the line of attack projected against the citadel, in the little valley which closely ap proaches it from the Prince's Fort, and which termi maes at the Arga, near Zizur Major. " These preliminary arrangements being completed,l determined on the night of the 10th to open the 'Tench against the salient point of the citadel, the bastion Santa !.Ltria, and the adjacent half.moons. The works were to be commenced at the distance of 200 toises from the glacis ; the na:ure of the ground favoured this bold measure, which had the advantage of occasioning the first parallel :o be opened at the distance at which the s•cond usually commences, which svill supersede the necessity of our making a third. I adopted the ideas sa2;s:ested by General Garbe, particularly that of fur nishing tie pioneers with gabions, in order to compen• sate by this act of prudence for the boldness of our first operation, and to spare the blood of our soldiers. Three thousand five hundred pioneers armed with muskets, and furnished with tools and gabions, were, with seven chosen companies of trench guards, directed from the assembling points on the ground, by, Engineer and Staff Officers, amidst a violent storm, which at first impeded or retarded all our movements, but without shaking the firmness of our troops. A detachment from the Royalist division of the Spanish General was combined' with the French detachments, and shared their ardour and devotedness. The picked companies were distributed along the front and wings, to protect the works under the direction of General Fez nig and Colonel Schneider , ) commanders of the trenches ; and Colonel Deschal l ds, ' trench-major. General G:trhe, assisted by Lieut.-Colonel Lafaisle, and the battalion commanders bmercier, bemerlis, and Itepecaud, stationed labourers on the line, and all set to work vigorously. The rain, perhaps, for) a moment favoured our enterprise, and diverted the, vigilance of the enemy; but the noise of our pickaxes' striking on a pebbly soil occasioned a shower of fire to be directed upon our line, which, however, was forte. Irately in par t protected by the gabions. Mean s\ bile the firing of grape-shot and musketry from the fortress was soon directed on our pioneers, but in a vague and unde cided way, and the balls, for the most part, passed beyond the line, because we were not supposed to be so near. The works were perseveringly continued through out the night, and at day-break the parallel extended three feet deep and four wide, along an extent of '2,000 toises, with a good communication dompleted on the left, and one traced out in the centre. In the morning the enemy commenced a vigorous firing upon the pio neers who had relieved those who had worked during the night; but they were everywhere well, covered, and, by singular good fortune, we have not had more than eight or ten men slightly wounded in this operation, and not one killed. " 4 Immediately after I turned my attention to the works of the artillery, the batteries of which were esta blished aloag this front of attack. Being confident of the weakness of the enemy's garrison, which I mean to fatigue, I have constantly kept up the appearance of a diversion against the front of the city, is the direction of the road leading to Tolosa. I shall throw away some works and some cannon-balls; but my object is to ac celerate the mounting of the batteries in the parallel and the covered way of the engineers, in order speedily to silence the fire of the citadel, and to approximate the fire of onr infantry to the ramparts, so asnot to afford the gunners of the fortress a moment's respite; and finally, to lose no time in crowning the covered way, and bat tering in breach. In two days, I hope to be enabled to open the fire, and the attack being once seriously com menced, will not relax. I shall be careful to commu nicate to your Excellency our successive operations, until they attain the result we are entitled to hope for.—Ac cein, &c. (Signed) " The Martial Marquis de LAURISTON." Here follows the Telegraphic Dispatch, dated Oreayen, thi 17t he announcing the capitulation of the town and citadeL 'CORRESPONDENCE ziErwErit THE DUKE OF REGGIO ATID THE SPANISH REGII,NCE " Swann Sca—After the verbal assurances which your Serene Highness gave me, that the insolent Ad dress of the Army of Navarre should not see the light, I have been extiemely sorry to learn that at this mo ment it is printing at the printing-office of Callado. In consequence of this, I have taken the necessary mea sures to stop the whole impression ; and to prevent the publication of any copies which may be struck off. I am about to make every possible inquiry to learn the source of this strange proceeding, and to punish, very severely., those who may have been guilty. " Madrid, August 30, 1813." • " EXCELLENT Stn—The Regency 'has received, with painful astonishment, the letter which your Excellency addressed to it this day. It repeats, by writing, those assurances it gave you verbally, viz.—no legitimate authority would give, and in fact has not given, the permission necessary to have the document in question printed. The Regency has, however, taken measures to know how all this has happened ; and although its agents have found the printing-office of Callado sur rounded by French gendarmes, as if the legitimate, Government of Spain had not a sufficient number of public functionaries, the Regency has learnt that the printer, deceived by some unknown person, expected every moment to receive the permission to print the Address, and had, in consequence, begun the work.— The Regency begs that your Excellency will cause the papers seized to be put into the hands of a Judge of the first instance, in order that the tribunals may punish this excess. GOD preserve your Excellency. " Madrid, August 30." " SERENE SLR—I have the horlour to transmitlayour highness herewith a copy of thti written perniiMilin, in viitue of which the printer at Callado's thou It himself Authorised to print the insolent Address of the Army of Navarre. In fact, he Was author iced ; for lam in formed that the signature at the bottoril of the permiN sion is that of the person appointed by your Highness to exercise a Censorship over the Press. I shall send an extraordinary courier to his Royal Highness the Duke, of Angouleme, giving him an exact account of every thing which has passed, and demanding from his Royal Highness the necessary authority for preventing similar excesses in future from - opposing the pate' nal views of my august Sovereign with regard to Spain. lu the meantime, without passing the limits of the authority with which I am invested, I shall know how to put a, stop to the effrontery, the spirit of di,cord, and the in solence of certain Spaniards.—l have the honour, &c. " Madrid, Sept. 1, 1823." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1823. TIIE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 83j to for the Account, and for Money 851,1, at which price they have remain ad steady up to this hour, with scarcely any fluctuation. FOREIGN FUNDS.. The same stagnation prevails in all the Foreign Securities as•io the English Funds: Colombian opened at .56, and Spanish Bonds at 35%, with little or no business dui... Current Prices : New Spanish 261, Old 30 i, Womb. 556 to Russian 851 $4, French Scrip a, Danish 91, Poyals 146 to I. Pit ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent.Crans. 83 Vs lis 4. per Cents. New 102 V s 1 ,( 2 India Stock 263 1 / 4 266,- India Bonds 6.4.5. 6.55. (Cl,000) 3.55. 364. Smail 566. 38s. Commercial 1 2.1s.—Dmniuin 27. Cont.ols tbr Acct. 831( 2 Vt. We have received ;he Paris Papers of Saturday ; but they do not contain, as we expected, the details of the surrender of Pampeluna, intelligence of which, as we announced )esterday, had been received in Paris by telegraph, on Friday. A dispatch, which we have given in another part, from the Marquis of LAURISTON, details the operations preparatory to the " grand at tack," but which attack, we presume, the capitulation had rendered unnecessary. The news from Port St. Mary comes dawn to the 11 th. At that time the Duke d'ANcout.zsm had moved his head-quarters to Chiclana, near the Isle of Leon. The fort of Puntales was expected to be taken without delay, and confident hopes were held out that Cadiz, for the attack on which the most vigorous preparations were making by sea and land, would soon be obliged to stir- , render. Should Cadiz, however, hold out for any con siderable time, should the distemper that has broken out among the French troops make much progress, and MINA continue his successful defensive operations, the cause of national independence may still prosper. The quarrel between the Duke d'Atonotmaisit and the Madrid Regency, is a circumstance highly favourable to the Constitutionalists, because the invaders, althoigh fighting only against one party, cannot any longer expect co-operation or support from the opposite party; and suppose they conquer every place in the possession of the patties who still adhere to the Cortes, and reinstate FERDINAND in his absolute power, they will even then have a host of enemies in the bigots, whose excesses the, Prince Generalissimo t; ied to repress. The act of his recalling the French Minister from the presence of the Regency at Madrid is a strong presumptive evidence of the breach between him and them having become wider than ever. Does not this fact by the bye testify strongly in favour of the policy of the British Govern ment in refusing to acknowledge that body? The following is an extract of a private letter from the Spanish capital: " Numb, Sansmssa gi The affair of the Trocadero on the night of the 31st ult. I do not consider of any great political or milks' y consequence; it only places the Duke d'Angouleme in the same situation the French Army under Soulmvas in for nearly three years, during the last war; the canal, how ever, across theTrocadero, cut in the year 181$, will now enable the French to communicate by sea with - Puerto Real, which they could not do in 1811, by the on. sage between Matagorda and Puntales, and this ad vantage may facilitate an attack upon the Cavacca, and even upon the Ila ; but unless there is treachery on the part of those who are in command (and I am sorry to say this is generally too much the case), the attempt will, not be made by the French. I have news from Cadiz to the 2d inst. provisions were in great plenty, even fruit and vegetables, but somewhat dearer than usual. The time, however, approaches when the sea blockade will be merely nominal, and then regular supplies will be sent from Gibraltar and Africa. Negotiations are now at a stand." We have received, via Bayonne, the following very interesting accounts, from the Constitutional party, of some of the recent operations in Catalonia : MADRID, SEPTEMBER th The Constitutional Gazette of the 3d of this month, which has been circulated here with profusion, has oc casioned same arrests. The following is an extract from this Journal : " BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER S. " His Excellency the Governor of the place has just received a Dispatch from his Excellency the Comtn.:n der-in•Chief of the Army of operations, dated the Ist of this month, to the following effect : " I hasten to inform your Excellency that the Na tional armies are always victorious, thanks to Petovt- DENCE, which supports the jtht cause, and to the.brave men whom I am proud to command. After the various' engagements I had with the enemy on the 17th, 1.1,t11,1 20th, and 22d, with the favourable result of which 1 have acquainted you, for the satisfaction of the loyal citizens of Barcelona, I resolved to effect a move ment on Mont Blanche,. charging General Lloberas to keep the enemy in check, who had taken up a positionon the Colernar. My inter ion was to give some repose to my troops, to protect the convoy of the prisoners taken from the enemy, and inspect the works of Tarragona. -The enemy, but little chastised in the last attacks, certainly took my movement fur a flight, as if the Constitutional troops knew how to fly, and forced the division of Lloberas to fall back from St. Olen's, St. Celeni, and Artafulla. Being informed of this movement, I ordered General Lloberas not to be drawn into an engagement, but only to keep off the enemy till my arrival ; he punctually followed my or- Iders, notwithstanding the reiterated attacks of the enemy on the 27th, to which night alone put an end.— I was soon convinced that the French meditated a more serious attack for the next day, and prepared to take part in it, making a movement towards Artafulla, and at the same time ordering General Lloberas to cover the point of Vendrel, towards which the enemy manoeuvred during the night, desiring, probably, to near the coast, to be seconded by his naval force. We did not perceive his fires during the night, ours could light his camp. 1 " On the 28th, at day-break, the enemy developed his columns on his left at Artafulli, feigning to lean on Vendrel, the better to disguise his attack on oar centre'. and the Royal road. I caused the ridge of Vendrel to be occupied by the foreign legion, which had covered itself with glory the preceding day, and by a battalion of the Asturias. My chassetirs, impatient to engage the enemy, began the attack at the Hermitage of St. Felice, against my orders : they were obliged to yield to him this post, which was reinforced by a weak batta lion. I . caused if to be dislodged by the 4th of La Co runna, and this engagement led to the general attack. " The French and their infamous allies, to the amount of 10,000 men, commanded by their able Marshal, Moncey, in person, reconnoitred and attacked almost at the same time our positions, but with an impetuosity not to be described. Our brave men repulsed them with unparalleled bravery; they returned to the charge;the po sitions are "again contested ; they are carried, taken, and retaken by turns ; the combat becomes obstinate and bloody, and continues with the greatest inveteracy for six hours, in contempt of fatigue, cruel thirst, and death; and the moment of victory or defeat is still uncertain " This indecision and the desire of General Lloberas, who had already had two horses killed under him, in duced me to bring forward my tescrve, supporting his division and mine by a battalion of Asturias, and the sth of the Catalonians, partly composed of recruits, and I ordered the Chief of my Staff, Colonel San Miguel, to lead it. These two regiments, without waiting fur the orders of their officer's, charged the enemy with fixed bayonets, broke his ranks, and obliged him to retreat Our brave men, encouraged by this noble example, redoubled their efforts, and with cries of I Tfie Constitution for ever !—Death to the French !' charged with the bayonet along the whole line, drove the enemy from all his positions, and spread confuion in his ranks. Our cavalry then decided the victory,. charging and pursuing him as far as Belver and Santa Cruz on one side, and as far as Santa Barbara and Santa Colomba on the other; we should have pursued him much further, but our infantry was exhausted with fatigue. I think, however, that our guerillas have harassed him in his shameful retreat. gi The result of this victory is, that we hindered the enemy from seconnoitring our camp, and caused him :t loss of 600 killed, 90) wounded, 170 prisoners, and 100, mules loaded with baggage. Our loss is not yet ascertained, but I estimate it at 259 killed, and $6O wounded, for whom I implore the assistance of the loyal inhabitnnts." Note.—Afterwards the account mentions the corps and individuals who distinguished themselves, and makes a pompous , eulogium on the Foreign Legion, which in the•vari.ous charges killed a great number of the enemy, and took fifty prisoners, among whom are five officers. _ . We have received the Madrid Royalist paper El Re staurador of the 15th, and Li Itestattraor Extiaordi-. nario of the same dAte. The ordinary publics tains some unimportant decrees of the Rege Extraordinario, which is stated to be printtc purpose of calming the public anxiety on the Cadiz, gives the following articles relative tc rations against that place: a PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA, SE " This morning w,e have observed great m and maritime preparations, and everything an immediate and vigorous attack on -the hi: have sailed hence, in the direction of San Luc less by order of General Villavicencio, four with a considerable number of seamen, s tow vessels, fitted for having bridges thrown 431 Fifteen feluccas and other useful vessels, wits, men, have arrived at San Lucar from Ayani number of gun,poats are fitting out at that p: has been vWtecily General Bourmont. The of gun-boats and bombs which have sailed fro is 117. On the Bth, at nine o'clock at nigl learned from Cadiz, that the Cortes had insi the King approving, with the Council of State , stipulation, proposed by General Alava. His replied, that it was not within his powers, an( Cortes, as they represented the Sovereign peap deliberate and agree upon what they might, t per.' We give this news as certain." F:tES, SEPTEMBER 10, Tr, It' The greatest obscurity covers everything I observe at the head-quarters much activity an silence, suited to the existing crisis. Absurd tradictory rumours are circulating, the exagger of which will doubtless reach the capital." The same paper contains an address to the from the Captain-General of Arragon, the Rol rison of Saragossa, and the Intendant of the The following passage will sufficiently explai rit of this document: The Spanish Revolutionists are of differ and have been known by different names. they are dismayed, and considering them! veined by force, they yield, but they do not their designs. On the contrary, they only I imagination on new ideas; and those who three years past have been crying up the Coi probably now expect that an opportunity will their declaring for Chambers, - which are no trary to the Spanish character than the Cc itself. None better than your Highnesses know of the Spanish nation, what are its wishes, am worthy sons desire, and what has been their d tion, so well expressed in the public rejoicing have breathed nothing but Religion, the Bind Inquisition r Letters and Papers have been received from to the 2ti inst. General QUIROGA and Si WILSON were there waitiug events, which mil them to get- to Cadiz, or make a diversion in the Constitutionalists. General ZAYAS arri from Malaga on the 31st ult. after having culty escaped from Rtaoo, whom he des guilty of many acts of violence against the ii of that city, unfortunately too often need crises like that in which Spain is at present pl as successful, also, in raising large supplies and provisions for his troops. The abando Malaga by the Constitutional troops was known. It is remarkable that the Gibraltar lc of BALLASTRROS as still effective against d troops, and as the cause of the delay in Mot. vance on Cadiz to join Botranzsom.g. The Gibraltar seems to be, that whether the French pelled to attack Cadiz, or sought to reduce by a blockade, their chance of success was doubtful; and this opinion is founded both or of the supplies within the city, and the nume of the French army before it. Until the arri Duke of ANGOI.ILRMIC at Port St. Mary's, tl blockade had been so lax, that a large stock sions had been sent from Gibraltar, by far •tb part of which reached its destination; A ft occasionally fell into the bands of the Frenc value of the cargoes which entered was quite to cover that loss. After the Duke's arrival, of gun-boats were employed in aid of the sql intercept the small coasting vessels destin supply of Cadiz; but even that additional not restrain the enterprize of the Gibraltar 3 and a few vessels still, by extraordinary adro under cover of the night, were enabled to ent ever scarcity of meat existed in Cadiz, there doubt that the city was sufficiently supplied to endure a siege of two or three months. 1 force before Cadiz, even supposing Momor up in time for the general attack, would n i supposed, exceed 30,000 men. Tb at advance on consulting the French Journal;, which giv much later in date, we find not to have b and, that MOLITOR is almost as much fors his force had never formed a part of the arm; Without MOLI7Oft, the Duke of ANGOLILEUE reckon on more than 20,000 effective men— too weak, supposing common. spirit and re. exist within the walls, to take Cadiz by ass; besieged, we also learn, were in no want having levied large sums from the merchants contributions. In the latter end of August, i were repulsed in an attempt to take Tarifa. • The French Ultra Journals persist in saying that ti concealing himself, in the dinuise of a farmer's man, l A letter of good audio' ity, dated in Corfu of August, states, that at the latest advices, fleet remained inactive off I'atras, and that tip fleet had sailed from hydra to attempt their from that sea. The same letter also states, that the Turks and Greeks had met on the Coni effotts of the latter had universally been atm( most brilliant Lnccesi.