Star. — London, England, 1823-05-05 00:00:00

,•y_..~ FRENCH PAPERS. • PARIS, MAY 2. Letters from Bayonne, received to-day, say that General Jaureguy (called the Pastor) is endeavouring to cover Sr. Andero, with 6000 men. A letter from Bayonne, of the 26th of April, says, el A report is circulated here, that M. de I.artignac is gone to Seville on a mission; it is even added, that three of the most distinguished Members of the Cortes had repaired to the head-quarters of the Duke of Angouleme. We know not what to think of these reports."—Journal de Paris. We learn by letters of die 23d, from Perpignan, that Cargol, a Chief of the Army of the Faith, whose arrest we have befi)re mentioned, was still in the mi litary prison with four of his Officers: all the other Officers of this division are under arrest in their camp. It was feared that a plan of desertion had been formed .in this part of the troops of the Faith, and there was an idea of incorporating a company in each of the battalions of our at my.—Journal de Paris. We learn by a letter from Bayonne, that the Spa nish Government at Seville has already delivered thirty-seven licenses or brevets to authorise Officers to form Gueiillas. _ _ It is said that Ulman has entered Valencia, and that he has caused all those persons to be shot who .were concerned in the condemnation of General Elio.—Journal des Debuts. FROM THE MONITEHH OF MAY 1.•••••• OFFICIAL !MIT. NEWS FROM THE ARMY IN SPAIN. VITTORIA, APRIL '2 5 . The van of the Ist Corps of the Army, under the command of Lieutenant-General Vallin, composed Of the brigades of cavalry of Vallin, of Laroche Jac quelin, and of a battery of horse artillery, entered Burgos on the 22d. The head-quaff tets of the Ist division of infantry, commanded by Lieutenant-Ge neral Count d'Autichamp, were fixed there the same day. The Marshal Duke of Reggio arrived there on the 21st with the rest of the division, and his Excel lency immediately pushed his advanced-guard on the three roads of St. Andero, Palencia, and Aranda. It is difficult to give an idea of the enthusiasm and joy with which our troops have been received at Burgos. The cries of " Vive le Roi—Vive la Religion—Vive Louis XVIIL—Vive 'Alliance de la France et de l'Espagne!"—did not cease a moment while the corps were filing off, and the crowd was everywhere so great, that the troops could with difficulty advance. The brigade of Albignac, of the division of Bourck, has been directed from Vilorin towards Santora and St. Andero, having the Swiss regiment of the guard for a reserve, in (.:der to repel the enemy's columns, which seemed disposed to proceed against the Spa nish Royalist troops which blockade Santona. These troops got possession, on the 21st, of the fort of So redo, which makes us masters of the bay of Santona. After having operated in this quarter, the brigade of Albignac will rejoin the first- corps at Burgos, as will also the other brigade of the division Bourck. The division Obeit is still at Logrono ; it has pushed de tachments in the direction of Sol ia, and Tudela, where it has formed a coiuniunication with the se cond corps; it is going to occupy the latter town. Cobnt Molitor, who continues his movements on Sa ragossa, arrived on the 22d at Tudela, with his ad vanced guard. Ballasteros had evacuated that town the day before, retiring upon Mallen and Tarragona; a regiment of cavalry and a brigade of infantry were detached the same day in those two directions. Every where on its march the 2..1 corps have found the po pulation assembled to meet it. Triumphal arches a!orned the entrance of the towns where our troops have entered ; and they were met with music, and with transports of the liveliest joy : this reception has made a profound impression on our soldiers, and confirms their good understanding with the inhabitants. The corps of reserve, under Lieutenant-General • Count Bourdesoult, occupies Vittoria, Bilboa, Miranda d'Ebro, and Haro. The accounts coming from the interior of Spain anwunce that the Revolutionary troops are retreating in all directions—that the desertion is very consider able—and that a great number of militia, who had been compelled to march, are hastening to return, to their homes. His Highness Prince of Holienlobe has fixed to. day his head-quarters at Tolosa. He has repotted that the Governor of Pampeluna bad attempted, on the 21st, to send out about 200 men to attack a convoy of provisions destined for the troops before the walls ; but they were immediately driven back into the place. General Cannel will arrive to-morrow at Irun, with the Ist and 2d brigades, which are going to be placed, en echellous, as far as the Ebro; while the brigade under the command of General Schaeffer will continue the blockade of St. Sebastian. Exertions are making to hasten the arrival of the naval force before that place, or before Santona. • The division Or dragoons of General Domon must now have joined the second corps of the army. The division of General Caste: will arrive to-morrow at Burgos, whence it will continue its advance upon Burgos. The cavalry of the reserve, and the King's household, follow immediately the motions of the division of Caster. The Major-Ceneral Count GUILLENIINOT. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM RILBOA, APRIL 20. We are here under the greatest anxiety ; for al though when the place was first taken some French troops entered, they have since left the place, and we are entirely at the mercy of the renegade Army-of the Faith, to whom we should prefer so many Turks. The Spanish garrison of 3000 men, on the 10th, went off to Burgos, to join the Constitutionalist Army:l They left us without a man to defend ourselves, so the victory of the French was not great. The plan is to abandon all this side of the Ebro, so the French may go where they choose in that space, without being seriously interrupted. When they have passed the Ebro it will be our turn; and then, if I mistake not, we shall make them dance to another tune." Sunday night, the sentinel of the Royal Guard, who was posted on the Place du Carousel, near the Louvre gate, perceiving an individual lurking near him, called out several times, " Who goes there?" and ordered him to retire. The man, however, con tinued to approach, and the sentinel fired and killei him.—(Gazette of France.) It is said that the age and state of health of Mar shal Moncey will not allow him to sul.port the cam paign in Catalonia ; and that Marshal the Duke of Belluno will take the command of the army destined to combat on that point of the Peninsula. THE EVENING STAR,. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 5, 1823. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 78i to 79, and got up to 791, at which price they remain steady. This improvement -in the English Funds, and a corresponding improvement in the French ilentes, which are said to have left off on Friday at 87f. are attributed to the report of a Negociation between France and Spain gaining ground. Saturday was a great holiday in Paris, on account of its being the anniversary of the entrance of Louis XVIII. and the Express consequently does not bring the price of the Funds on that dry. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds continue on the rise; they opened at 7.84, got up to 574, 58i, h, 1 1, with a good deal of business doing. Current Prices: Chilian 68b to 71, New Spanish 58b a, New Prussian 84 to 83, Old nothing done, Russian 791 to So, Da nish 87, Colombian G 7. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE. O'CLOCK.. Bank Stock 218-3 per (eut. Reduced 79 3 per Cent. Cons. 791's 3 / 4 I A 4 per Cents. Old, 97 1 / 4 % 1 / 2 4. per Cents. New, 99% 100 1 / 8 99 Bank Long Annuities 20% .5 16 7-16 Imperial 3 per Cents. 77 5 / 8 78 India Stock 219 1 / 2 —lndia Bonds 38s. Old Annuities 78% Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 16s. 19s. Consols tor Payment 79 787/8 79 3 / 3 4 78 3/4. The Public have been lately a good deal edified by the quondam opinions of Earl GREY on the impo licy of plunging the country into a war for the sake of merely foreign objects. We have now some old opinions of another Noble Lord to lay before our Readers, which will shew with what justice it has been imputed to Ministers that they are not sincere in their condemnaiion of the conduct of France, in in terfering with the internal concerns of her neighbours. When, during the short peace of 1801.2, the la mented BONAPARTE had the insolence to propose to this Government some modification of our great pal ladium, the Liberty of the Press, the following were the manly and spirited terms in which the present Earl of LIVERPOOL, who then held the situation now with not less ability filled by Mr. CANNING, replied to this intolerable demand : " You must be aware," says his Lordship, in his dispatch to• Mr. MERRY, dated 28th August, 1802, 46 that his MAJESTY cannot, and' never will, in copse penes of any representation or any menace from a foreign Power, make any concession which can be in the smallest degree dangerous to the Liberty of the Press as secured by the Constitution of this country. This liberty is justly dear to every British subject," &c. ••• • • Again " Our Government neither has nor wants any other protection than what the laws of the country afford ; and, though they are willing 'and ready to give to every foreign Government all the protection against offences of this nature which the principle of their Laws and Constitution will admit, they never can consent to remodel their laws or to change their Constitution to gratifj the wishes of any foreign Power." And further, " Itis not his (MAJESTY'S) intention to interfere in the manner in which the people or ter ritories of France should be governed ; but he ex pects, on the other hand, that the French Government will not interfere in the manner in which the govern ment of his dominions is conducted, or call for a change in those laws with which his people are per fectly satisfied." Such were the independent sentiments which Lord LIVERPOOL, in common with the whole of the British Ministry at that period, entertained on the question of foreign interference with the internal concerns of nations, when his own was the country threatened by France; and the Public will see they are precisely the same, in substance, with those which his Lordship has expressed with respect to the present aggression by France on Spain. Can anything but a spirit void of all candour trace insincerity under declarations so explicit, and at a long distance of time, so consistent as these? Because BONAPARTE persisted in his pretensions, we declared our peace with him at an end. 44 We went to war," to use the words of Lord Etuts- BOROUGH in the debate on the Negotiations of that period, " for the greatest stake of civil society— for everything which an independent nation could prize—for the right of legislating for ourselves, which the enemy had proposed to submit to the standard of their arbitrary prinCiples." The Spaniards have gone to war for precisely the same cause, and it is impossible that the wishes of the British People can be more with them, than are the wishes of those under whose counsels they were enabled to achieve that triumph which furnishes to the Spaniards so encouraging an example of what a free nation, 46 single-handed though it be," is capable of doing in vindication of its independence. —Just and holy as that war was, yet so much alike is the spirit of party at all times, that in the Parlia mentary debates upon the subject, Mr. Fox was thus pleased to express himself:—" A sum equal to the war was to be directly raised. Every guinea was to be divided and every drawer inspected for this pur pose. And what Were the people to expect in return? Only a number of fine speeches in that House. These things were fine indeed, but he feared they were so dearly purchased as to have lost all their relish. This splendid display was similar to that of the Emperor of MOROCCO, who nevet put on his .fine clothes but when he was going to an execution."—lnapplicable as this language was to the state of affairs of 1802, it- is just such language as would have been singu larly apposite to the present crisis, had Ministers, instead of preserving for us the blessings of peace, madly hurried the country- into a war for the sake of the Spanish Constitution. What could " the people expect in return ? Only a number of fine speeches" in Parliament.—" Fine things in deed," but " dearly purchased." Like the Emperor of Monocco, we should have Lad our fine clothes on ; cut a la senliment, a la mauve:net:l de lame; while we would have stood a pretty certain chance of having our pockets emptied amidst the hustle, and not a stiver left to pay the cost of the wardrobe. Madrid Papers, to the 25th ultimo, have been re ceived by express, being the first direct communica tion from the Spanish capital since the commence ment of hostilities. An extraordinary courier passed through Madrid on the 24th, with dispatches to the Government from General Main, but their contents had not transpired. The Political Chief of Burgos, in the dispatches in which he states the entry of the French into that city, says—" In all the villages I perceive indignation against the French, on account of the eagerness with which they repeat the evils of the last war, and among the timid alone I observe a certain apathy." Private letters from Madrid, of the same date, re present the Constitutional spirit as much on the de- 1 cline, owing to the removal of the Government, the' emigration of numerous families, and the arbitrary and unlawful exactions of the Conde d'Antsnat..— He had ordered all the tobacco and salt which were stored in the Custom-house of Madrid, to be sold at one-third under their usual price. The people were buying the salt so rapidly, that it was impossible to answer their demands. The tobacco was going off slowly. This resource, however, did not appear to be sufficient, for ABISBAL ordered an extraordinary con tribution of eight millions of reals to be levied on the most opulent persons in Madrid. This also failed, and it was reported that the Count had those indivi duals arrested who refused to comply with his order. He had also issued orders, enjoining all militiamen to retire from such parts of the Province as might be occupied by the French, under pain of, their being considered as accomplices of the enemy, and traitors to the country, and to be dealt with accordingly. It was reported that anonymous threatening letters had been sent to several individuals and families in Madrid, who had been eminently'Constitutional, as suring them that as soon as the factious entered they should be assassinated. These letters were, however,. said to have originated with the Political Government, in order to excite irritation against the French, and to induce the families to quit Madrid. In an Allocution issued by the Ayuntamiento, it was stated that the French were everywhere commit ting depredations and massacres, similar to those which marked the former invasion. The Proclamation of the Provisional Junta, annul ling everything the Cortes had done, and restoring things to the state in which they were previous to the Revolution, had reached Madrid, and excited feelings bordering on despair. Seville Papers to the 21st of April have reached us. The following are extracts: SEVILLE, APRIL 20. The Government has received officially the news of the entry of the French into our territory. General Morillo, as soon as he heard the invasion had really taken place, adopted the most expedient measures to make war (these are his ow•n words) " against the enemies of our country and liberty."— He has chosen Benaventa for the basis of his opera tions, where he has arranged that one Member of each of the Provincial Deputations of the third and fourth districts, shall meet him. Yesterday we said that we considered as more eminently criminal those bastard Spaniards who are infamous enough to unite their arms to those of the invaders, than the invaders . themselves ; to•day we do not believe that we contradict ourselves in affirm. ing, that we ought to carry on a more exterminating war agaist the French than the AfranciScados. The reason is very obvious, the object of the imitators of the assassins of the 2d of May is, that we, Srniards, should destroy each other. The greater, therefore, the number of Spaniards who should perish, no matter to what party they may belong, the more Spain is weakened and bowed down, by so much then are the wishes of the infamous Government of France fulfilled. That Government seeks for nothing more eagerly than to annihilate this heroic nation, which has displayed sufficient energy to prostrate that great man before whom the despots of Europe crouched. They wish to weaken our stFength, without diminish ing their own ; and they desire that the battle field should be died with Spanish blood alone. Ought we not, therefore, to do everything in our power to frustrate the infamous object on the part of our. ad-' versaries ? War, then ! war to death ! and extermi nation to all those strangers who violate our soil. If . Spaniards fall, let Frenchmen also perish, and let them never be able to say that they made war against Spain through the meant of Spain herself, and at her sole expense.— El Espectador. An English Gentleman, who lef: Seville on die 17th ult. gives the following adciiiional news from that city "The intelligence of the entry of the French wid the Spanish frontier had not been officially commurli cated to the Spanish Government on the 17th, but reports to that effect had arrived at Seville on the previous evening. • The immediate consequence wa i a general desire on the part of the members of th e Cortes, who were in that capital, to anticipate the period of their adjournment, from which it would in suit that they were to meet on the 21st instead of the 23d. The King and Royal Family usually rode out, strongly escorted, every after noon; they were re. ceived by the people in a very respectful manner, but without vivas of any description. An unfortunatz tradesman presented himself before the Alcazar, or Palace, on the 15th, and cried out Viva el Rey, withote any other addition ;he was sabred on the spot by one of the Mach id volunteers, and was taken to the hospital, where he was not expected to survive many hours. "This incident, however, had no effect on the tray. quality of Seville, though it was t a lk e d o f very ge. nerally with a whispered indignation. Rumour; were afloat as to a new removal of the Government: some supposed to Cadiz, some to Badajos, others beyond the frontiers of Portugal. Amongst the Exaltados there is an eager desire to get rid of the King and his brothers altogether, to call the infant 'Mn of Don Carlos to the Throne, and in hi; name rule by a Re. gency; bat those who speak these sentiments are at the same time prepay ing for their own emigration to England, in case the French should advance too quickly upon them. Should the Constitutional arms experience any singular good fortune, these plans, and many others, may be urged te some son of ma• tut-ay; but in the present circumstances of the ennui. tutional force they may be put down as idle reveries. The prevailing spirit of the people of Seville is not in favour of exaltation. They are very much under the influence of the Church, which does not invite their attention to public affairs either for one side or the other, but very much engages their minds in the duties of their religion. The Cathedral, one of the most magnificent structures in Europe, is seldom unattended during the earlier part of the day, and the remainder is devoted to business, and to the amusements of their beautiful climate. The Seviii ans are certainly not yet initiated into the interests of i politics; they seem to have little taste for them, a barbarism of which the Madrid emigrants complain. The church in which the Cortes are to meet beluags to one of the suppressed convents, and was not nearly finished when I came away. The want of money was complained of in every department; and so augmented are the difficulties in procuring sup plies by the removal of the GovernMent, and by the expenses which that event occasioned, that it would seem the whole system would dissolve of itself, ifthe French should make a gear approach to Seville. The idea of a further removal to Cadiz, even if it wereto be accomplished, appeared to afford little consolatioe to any party." In a preceding column we have given extra from the French Papers of Thursday and Fri(lay containing the latest intelligence from the army i Spain. A Proclamation has been issued by BataAl as President of the " Provisional Junta of Spain and the Indies," in Which he states that the Junta has been solemnly recognized at the head-quarters, by hii Royal Highness the Duke crAtac.ouuttan, in tIE name of his Most Christian MAJESTY. The Junta is composed of Don FRANCIS DI EGUIA I Baron am, 'As, and Messrs. Don ANTONIO GOSIEZ, CALDERA and JEAN BAPTISTE &ERR& • An English Gentleman who recently passed thrall the French lines, in his way from Madrid, says:. " A report was very generally prevalent, that r ciations were on foot for entering int ments for a modification of the Spani as might render unnecessary the la, the French army. A new Ministry be nominated immediately after the; Cortes at Seville, with CALATRAVA Ministry of FLORES ESTRADA was I the exercise of office. It is undersi TRAVA and his friends will accept only upon the condition that negoci forthwith entered into:' A report also prevailed at Sevil courier, attepded by a Spaaish way to that city, with offers of Pepe] Duke of ANGOULEME. The Bayonne Papers, which we h. late date, also speak of the Probabi tion being entered into between Frani The following extract refers to this BAYONNE, APRIL An express has arrived here, conn haste from Paris, to carry, it is affirmed, Highness the Duke of Angouleme pend the march of the troops, till tin voy Extraordinary, who is to go to sals of peace to the Cortes. If it i! Martignac is to go on this mission, have to go to Cadiz, because the King were to go, for their security, to that city, as Sol information should be received of the actual )n& of the Peninsula by the French. This news, tbo# it is very possible, does not agree with the diso: l of the Constitutional Consul, and the public rer nition of a successor appointed by the Junta. The Duke of Yoak arrived in town on Sato"! from Newmarket, and paid a.lona visit to the VI into such arrang ,anish Constituti arther progress y was expected e re-opening of A at its head. s not to come int rstood that CALA their nominatio ;ociations shall ille that n Freaci fficer, was on satiation from hife received to )ility of a neg . ance and S subject: 26. sing in the grra rtmed, to his R directions to to return of an make new p is true that N. 1, it is said be • :ins and the Col I Z ,( vi • Ir Al