Star. — London, England, 1823-04-02 00:00:00

. FRENCH PAPER'S OF SUNDAY. • rAAIII,„ MARCH :A. • TRW TUB MUMS. ettarte.Auk, A Subscription has been opened at Strasburgh by party of the ex-guard national Of that city, to make M. Mercier a.ptitieat a a .goblet„ .wbe worked bY, the celebrated Kintigh'. • The list akeady contains #ime hundred 'signalers& ••• . It is repOrted; . tblitiktbe dishasaiettsint;the Budget, ime to takelibtee Mt' Mixidiy• 4di-04. ye*. -atintity),:thet amen* right.will farm, a Wong GPO- . 'attiOn to the • . .3. Stl • , andatiikitome efforts at re• teu ikbt et not believed. . The to r. 1 . 41 . 10 1 1 ) 46 . 014; ICM En / MCII , • b o now before us, lives las aosucklopes, tbatedacti 4,1 ons prOposedleing Wrylbstnifiegra.;• -1:4 • a • • The loan of 109,000,000 r which has been granted, will not be entaikli lt,khe war Actually begins, and the ieeingeisfstbefreasurt mast have been soon ex - Irallate4 l .llr.' equippWitt artily Of 'ro,ooo men. It was.becessary t tlieere; to negotiate for a loan; but -this tented hark fnUen (rem 95 to:78. A considerable sale would - have sankthem still lower. The issue of Agia equer hilltlikats de in taisse de service) seemed a better means' of tecttring the Treasury, because the negociation would 'not alter public credit to so great a degree. It has been decided, there fore, to create 40,000,000 r. of Exchequer bills.- -It was thought that the first houses of the capital would have beeti.reaily to lend their money on this security ; but, if :we area correctly informed, it was necessary to have recoarse to a foreign house, give it GI, per cent. •aild /p . pet cent. commission, on condi tion that it collects a sum of 40,000,0001. in four months, and receives in exchange Exchequer bills, at three, six, and nine months date. 'This is the begin ning of the circtilation--;•the end cannot be foreseen. The floating debt will increase, therefore, from day to day, and probably. will amount next year, with out including the expense of the war, to 380,000,000 f. Taking only four years payment of the acknowledg ments of liquidation, et 70,000,000 f. a year, will be 280,000,000 f. 67,000,0001. of arrears, and 40 millions of francs, Exchequer bills, Makes altogether three hundred and eighty-seven millions of francs. It is true, that to meet this the Minister possesses 25,000,000 renter, which he estimated at 93, 50 francs, but they are not negOciatesi, they are pledged to the Dank as well, it is smelt as, some Exchequer Bills. An Orduaace authorises the Bank to sell these mutes if the tonne of eachatige is bad, and .Most assuredly wir is not a hate which ,strengthens credit. Our fi oansial situatioe is 'therefore serious, and the stsOst A akillollnanciers Cannot improve it. • The Quotidiensse abuses us for having announced. 'the arrival of Getteral 'Mina on the frontier, without saying that he was accompanied by Colonel Fabvier;; and that thissroup , had displayed a tricoloured flag and an Imperial- eagle toour troops. We could not have believed that this - was one of those causes in 4hicli-M.i'de L. would halie insaried our silence as • * crime. . Several Inhabitant's:4l44k iesterday waited on .. .141..:Manuel, to .ptesent- him with the Civic Crown feast - that city. After accepting the present, M. Ma; itteideti a banquet of more than forty persons, . . :iuhabitents of Lyons, lining at Paris. The signature of M. Mercier has been forged to a letter, requesting a Nobleman to lend him the sum of 240 francs.. The fraud was instantly detected,, and. M. Mercier . made the whole affair public, to, spew the means which are taken to dd him an injury. • - 'The official Gazette of Madrid, of the 19th, con tains. the Decree of the Cortes, sanctioned by the King, to forbid the enu ance into the ports. of Spain of yes , i ds belonging to Powers which haiebroken the suni •cable relations with Spain. Our correspondent at Bayonne informs us that.the' twenty-two pontOons for passing the Bidassoa are, . ready. .The Duke of Angouleme was expected on, • the Slat. • • Vitionglit to have 'letters from Perpignan of the ;224 but We have this evening only received a letter . dated ;he 20th. It is thus conceived The Con-, stitatiooal troops of. Spain occupy the camp of Ruse Gonde, opposite St. Laurent de Cerdans, and they ; hate appeated at ,the Ccd de , Malrem, in front of our posts. They sang patriotic* songs, and displayed signs • which are proscribed by the French laws. These movemenis produced alarm among the Spanish refu gees. They expected news from the interior of Spain, •which could not reach them, as the line of posts which 'is established is very close, and the communications have become Constitutionnel. . The Echo du Midi,.after alluding to the above tir • comstances, says - mi While this reconnoissance was executing on the ...stile of Malrem by the Constitutional troops, those of . • Fabiegas and part of those of Lloberas passed along the line of Monas and Itivelles. It was remarked that 'the 'corps cantoned at Campredon and at Barge; were followed by an immense number of mules,loaded with .the produce of the booty taken from the Army of the Faith. The corps of Lloberas, of the Political Chief of Barcelona, of Costa, and of Atango, are destined to traverse the districts of Figuexas, (siren, and Vich. General Milans is to forward vs Barcelona the pri soners of war, the hostages, and the wounded. On sth the miquelets of the Junquera made an ex cursion to St. Laurent-de-la-Muga, and returned next day. Mina and Milans left Figueras on the 17th, and proceeded towards the Perthus. They were pre ceded to the Junquera by 5000 men. One half took position on the 18th before the village, and the other halt proceeded to Massanet. About eleven in the morning, Mina, accompanied by Milans, and several Officers of his Staff, appeared at the Maison d'Espagne, situated under the,walls of Bellegarde,and immedi ately contiguous to the line of separation of the two kingdoms. He was escorted by about 200 men. After some demonstrations, he announced that be had established an impenetrable cordon from the Urgel to the Junquera, and had forced the Army of the Faith to take refuge in France." The Moniteur contains three pr&nances, signed by Viscount Digeon. The last is signed by him as Se cietary of State for the War Department. TROIA THE JOURNAL DES DEBAT& TOULOUSE, MARCH 23. The Duke d'Angoulemd entered our walls op the 20th, at four o clock in the evening. Several Spaniards of distinction had the honour to be introduced to his Royal Highness, from whom they met with the most . - ; .skl CIO VA 34 honourable receptiow"-Thet t w ,l 4 l lX e lt re lt ri f t b6hops of Vilencia• *id tt ~ 4guia, Ortafa;Gistier, &e: OrtiMPPlinalectut+e* , 4 'Son, the followirtit w ordioiddressaidicrelteArcligaluip Valencia, wed hessi t —/ kee e ese you noel ;,.f. • r- THE.EVSNINO. STAR, • . • • ; • . LONDO.p. , • WEDNESbAY, APRIL 0, 1823. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 144,1, at which price they have remained steady ap to the present hour. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 29i, I, and went down Current 37 ex. die. New Spanish 29k, Old 36, New Prussian 79/, Old 32, Danish 31, Colombian 5610 Russian 711. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Expresses from Paris, it is said, have brought intelligence that a part of the French Army have gone over to the Spaniards. We are unable, however, to trace this rumour to any authentic sourse. • PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Consols 74 3 / a 'A 3 A 4 per Cents. New 94% Vi t ide Imperial S per Cents 74 Y 4 74 India Bonds 2.55. 245. 26s.—Sonth Sea 5t04.84 New Annuities 74V4 Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 12s. 10s. I Is. Bank for Payment 209 209% Conbols for Do. 741/8. Bayonne Papers, one day later than our arrivals of yesttrday, reached us this morning; they contain an account of some partial successes gained by the Constitutionalists over the Army of the Faith, but no military operations of importance had taken place. The fullowing are extracts ; BAYONNE, MARCH 25. While our warriors hoped, and even proclaimed beforehand that the Army of the Faith had even ex- , tended the sphere of its exploits beyond the Ebro, we see, on the contrary, that the theatre of war comes ; nearer to our frontiers. We were looking for the ac- 1 complishasent of the promises Of Quesada, °Tonne). &c. who flattered themselves with assembling lit Nsi-. vane and the three Provinces, an army 0f . 2.5,000 men in three weeks ; it cannot be said, however t ' they were in want of the resources necessary forihe ' eneutioa of their ill-judged enterprises, foentanat, arms, aniteitinkion, uniforms, everything bilk liiiia given, diem in abundance since the return of latitiOnta fi*, . - General Quesada , whose bead-riontelaiinskiWat St. Jean de Lox, had given orders talthe 'bond :if, Goroitidi to approach - the banks of the'llidaireiv,tad. even to attack Irun, to facilitatethe nOttiainniAtioas in case of success. In fact, the day before yisteiday (the 23d) that partisan, with 800 men, appeared be 'fore that town and at first got! possession of the apt promiches to it, but Colonel O'Donnell, at the headof 200 men, promptly, attacked and dislodged him, even from the heights of St. Martial, where the Royalists had posted themselves. The courage and resolution of this handful of Constitutionalists caused the complete dispersion of this band, which had thirty killed in .- the engagement , of whom 18 were drowned .... in, the Didassoa, to say nothing of the. arms and equi page which they abandoned. • Yesterday a part of the column of the Pastor, and the rrenels battalion, consisting of 500 refugees, car !sii9g the Spills:4, sioti.the bicoloured flag, arrived at Yray,- sad immediately made a military promenade,. .amidst the repeated cries of Visa la Coattitertioni ; lite laVbertf t It is eiien affirmed that more'tvoops . ~... are expected ; on this point; to Observe what passes its the Bidasiea,norktncover St. Sebastian. , While Colonel: 0:Donnell was .giving this Wall to Gorostidi, fifty Constitutionalists arrived at Irsmwith the Card Micheleni Ina seven or - eight men, who suf fered themselvqt - tO be' . inipriperl, on the evening of else . ... cart e 224, at Vera. This agent . of the Faith n ine in . . . . . ing to General Quesada 200,000 teals gold, anis . frons the voluntary donation made by the Nava for the assistance of the Arlby Of the Faith ? IV sum was delivered entire by 't)it! . C9b.ttittaii3o o ' into the hands of Colonel O'Donnell, who ipiiipkof half of it for the benefit of the iOldiirs who v."' - good prize. General O'llonnernot being able to and A 441 for the cavalry in the mountains of Rone4, detailed it into the plains of Ronceivalies; -but the Conatitu tional Colonel, Zumalacarregai, at . ;he - head a6h co. lump and of some cavalry r attaeked them (milli if st . at day-break, and the disoider.wAs ap Onzplfie. that 80 horses out of 140, and SO men, were taken and sent to Pampeluna ; only 18 horses beWev . ei - Avere fit for service, which gives an idea of the cavalry of the Army of the Faith. . , A report is spread, that General Quesada entered Irun Yesterday evening; but this news seems to be prematUre. What is true is, that 600 of Vierostidi's 'band entered France this morning, atViriaite, on the I3idassoa, to be. armed and equipped, astd, that they are immediately to return to Spain. We took notice yesterday of the insidious and unjustifiable efforts which have been made, by the advocates of the French Government, to represent the invasion of Spain as caused by circumstances which entitle France, on general principles, to the support of England and the other Allied Powers, The anziety of M. CIIATSAUIRIAND and his col . leagues again trus sunnert„app ; ean to increase in a 4FASVAPAIIIath tl*-apprpachto4ksrWs ,sid og eidi litTleek-01.-eliefidraie" riuilbObt efeselitiro rteldstheltilire'vintsivianstings, they steal as if zfroill 'iti e ttfikeihe blow, till they havepiade sure that Al led lowers will actually protect them against all the consequences of their iniquity and folly, One of the most immediate of these consequences,. they now foresee, will be counter-invasion of France: the tricolor flag, as appears from our Bayonne-stet-mints received to-day, has been already 'unfurled on the , Spanish side of the Bidassoa ; and its partizans only' await the signal of the Spanish . territpry being vio lated to advance into France, and to effect-perchance another march to Paris. Staggered at this danger, they now turn round to ask of England and her Al-, 'lies, whether they may not certainly depend on their support against any such dang erous re-action ?-In. the Journal des Debats of Sunay last, the point is thus explicitly put : " The five Powers are invariably leagued against every attempt to revolutionize the States of any one among them. The value of the guarantee has never been contested, and England approves of it as much as any one of the Allied Powers. The question - of what line of conduct they should pursue with regard to Spain was foreign to their stipulations, since Spain is not one of their company. England has been able to judge this particular question under a different point of view than that of the other Powers, without giving us a tight to conclude that she throws off the obligation contracted with her Allies, to oppose every revolutionary attempt directed against one of thc»t. Although neutral with regard to the Spanish revolu tionists, England is still a party to an alliance against the revolutionists who may disturb France. Such is the sense of the article of the Treaty mentioned by Mr. Canning. Such, certainly, was his view in re-] fusing to enter into the discussion which Lord J. Russell desired to bring forward; for it must be re collected that in all his speeches and all his actions, Mr. Canning has :hewn that be is one .of those who abhor the revolutionary spirit,- because he is one of those who tnow it best.' - - The Jottrnfil des : Pibats adds, that it throws out this-statement merelyto prevent the Revolutionists free* felling -into any K pernicious illusion" on the subject. N'Ye . .have no wish to abet the- designs of theses ~yelnVonists , but, as wb tijitik:lepernitious, illusions)! ess ;: either side are eqtaaily to be treated;='we<most,most - take the liberty. of ineking the ,Ltnatter of fact as clear as -we can to all parties.-- )tot . England Then, at least, we think:we may safely venture to affirm that she is under no obligation r whatever to protect France from this or illy other in vasion which her own.wsmtonness and folly are the means of provoking. When she assisted in restoring . thellouesoNs to the Throne of Fiance, and pledged herself to maintain them there against any attempts of the dethroned dynasty to supplant them, it was Viith the hope, and on the express understanding, that, tinder the BOURBONS, France would cease to be that pen to Europe which it had so long been ; that the French Government would co-operate cordially and effectually with the other great Powers in put ting an end to the evils of war, and restoring peace and tranquillity to Europe.--The English. Government could not reasonably contemplate that the same system of foreign interference which had made the Government of BONAPARTE incompati• ble with the general interests of Europe, would ever become the system of a Government, which it had for purposes so directly opposite assisted in re-esta•. blishing in France. The eminent that such does become its system, the compact for its support is broken, and the Allied Powers must be at liberty to act as this new and tin expected position of affairs may seem to them to re- . quire. When the Bidassoa is passed, a new line must be drawn; .all • old obligations will be at an end ; and France caltavenothing to hope for from Eng land but seliit*ajr; ,under existing circumstances, be consistent: ~itb fi strict atteiitifti to her own inte rests and to dim* of Eative,.o4l far as she is involved • bat been one of the - arguments of those who :jun* French aggressiint on - Spain, that a majority of that nation are against the Constitutional Govern aiid that a.very little assistance will be necessary ,tp,suahlethe Army of the Faith to restore FERDINAND •te.full authority, and leave him at liberty to give the petiple those institutions which Louis XVIII.-de -claret they tan receivefrom him alone. If any proofi bad.beed necessary to refute these assertions, they have been abundantly furnished by the operations of this Army of the Faith, since France has not only declared in their favour, but furnished them With arms, money, and all the materiel of war.— Yet all this has proved abortive; they have not gained a single advantage in consequence, but on the con trary have achieved nothing more than a few ban ; ,ditti might accomplish in any country—plundering houses or travellers.. But those who had seen this - Army of the Faith, well knew how incapable it was of any military operation, and how much. its fume and real character had been misrepresented in the French Ultra Journals. M. TH sans, whose work on the Pyrennees and the South of France we noticed on Monday, speaking of an encampment of the Army of the Faith,- says, N I never saw a more melancholy and more original sight ; twelve or fifteen hundred poor creatures, men, women, thildren; and old people; were stretchel upon the groultd; with their betto r spread-out I lams were lying on a little ttmse„.otji t , s 'added tbefielothes, and endeayonted ler mg** ,orthem. la employed the little they 144 arsiwZ it together' sOtb a confused noise, speakirigelietba4i ilaeguege l iadAisplaying the most frightful uncleasts ness. Thej had just received their rations trblitral t -11% wele r ireedily devouring. Some w hb were poor as the rest, had added a little salt meat, t#tit greeter number siiiihed - it down syr . ithAte twitter - itib stream, Which flewed et.ilittledfStaisce, The.,.444 in paiticular, excited . my compassion, by an ain't . despondency and suffering which was not seen km men. They seemed to be the exclusive victims of-t evils of civil'var, and paying the penalty of theme bulent dispositions of their husbands. The late . were not melancholy ; likedefeated fanatics, notliiii seemed to give them any uneasiness but hunger; aid I saw this uneasiness disappear in most of theta it proportion as their ammunition bread was devoured. They then threw themselves, one after the other, et the ground, on which they reposed like real brutes, eh have done everything when they have lived a day!' This account of the Army of the Faith, wriktenb y an eye-witness who cannot be inspected of exaggev a . tion, exposes at once the fabrications which tha Eta, and the Qmotidienne have put forth, of thestatebf-tb e Spanish Insurgents, An article from Baybane, Wi t h reached ui this morning, confirms the statemegt of M. THIEis, and chews how little assistance the : in. vading army may expect from the factious in Spain, even if they consent to assist in the invasion of their country. All the troops that arrive successively at Bayda (says this account) express their eager desire to se the famous Army of the Faith, of which the 1,71te Journals have spoken so highly; but how great has, been their surprise when they have learnt the truth, and have surveyed with their own eyes, at [Lyme, at St. Jean de Luz, on the banks of the Bidassoa, St. Jean Pied de Port, and the environs, these horde of wretches, most of them naked and without military spirit and appearance, and wit?, countenances on which pillage and rapine are aloof expressed—bands of Colonels and whiskered Officers, as they call themselves, but little better than naked, and flocks of Priests and Monks, who haunt the fientkv towns and the country, like ravens eager for their prey. —A strange embarrassment for the French General; and still more for the soldiers, who openly curse these unhappy tools of despotism, who have torn them from their wintry, to so and find death ia • mountains and plains of the Perlidsula. s We extract thniallowing.intelligence from theP6 vate Cot resp.ondence of t Morning , Paper : it is all e the chapter of probable events r but is not confirm by any accounts that we have ourselves received; gi Paris has been inundated with reports, and oe of the moot extraordinary nature, for the last day's two. At this very moment, it is said that, the Tuille ries is filled with agitation and inquietude, the in mediate cause of which is the.intelligence arrived la night by an estafette from the Duc d'ANGove.rion: the nature of it is as follows:—General CURIAL. issued an order to the various bodies of troops quit their cantonments, and assemble in the plain Cauet, for the purpose of being reviewed preparatoey to the arrival of the Duke d'Axceouegors., This order was executed on the 22d instant; but no kooneihai! the French troops quitted their positions, than 1111 . 1 1 / 1 at the head of. a detachment, dashed in upon the Army of the Faith, ,under the command of Mow ANTON, who has escaped near the little. town of Ceret This vet y division of the Army of the Faith had Ina but the day before armed and clothed by the Prood Authorities. On the approach of MINA 500ofthea faithful soldiers put their shakos on the points of their bayonets, cried Viva Maul and passed over to bin. so The others defended themselves for somettlaw, until a great number were killed or taken pritenen; those who escaped fled precipitately to Ceret„ whet they were received by the National Guard with o.tfig charge of musketry. MINA after this immediately retired into the Spanish territory, concentrated bis forces, and made preparations for a fresh attack. , A body of French troops were immediately sentagaing him, but they obstinately refused to fight, aid astiP considerable desertion followed. It is further a/ded, that the Duke, in his dispatch, declares to the Cabin of the Tuilleries that the army will not fight, sail dig he sees no use in his remaining any longer theme- All the letters from Perpignan were stopped at lb', l Post Office yesterday. Not a single letter has reach Si any commercial house. Perpignan .ia said to be ni 1 the greatest possible state of confusion. There al much talk here at present of a second 6th of Sep tember. A work has been published this here, calculated to pique the public curiosity. called Relation d'uu Voyage a Braselles et a C ' public en 1791, par Lords &oxides: Xavier de (Louis XVIIL) et dedie a Antoine Louis F d'Avaray, son liberakter. Th e motto is, Tee n et auspice Teucro. It is said that an edition of same appears to-day in London, Brussels, and . Bard. The spirit of it is counter-revolutioniuTe I - By the Mary,. Captain PAJINIIO,I, arrived at Lie, pool from Lisbon, having left the Tagus on theist* ing of the 14th ult. letters of the 19th have been! ceived from the Portuguese capital. By t b * ascertained that the rebellion in the province sf os Monte: was completely quelled ; that Gen. had entered Chaves ; and that Count d''-A:[ lad fled into Spain, probably intending to joie. Ultra friends, or his old colleague of the troops whom he had deceived by WWI , moms of the support they were likely to receives.? previously abandoned him and joined the -C clonal Army under General Rea°. Captaiu'As reports, that as late as the 14th the Duke GLI packet (No. 2), which sailed from Falmouth ost . d .Cth ult. had riot &rived at Lisbon, a hick ucor no riAckct having* left since the MAriltoivaght wit" ' sailed on 9th, and !cached England last wee& 4 it ' • Soto*• ll43 ° 1 Altair 8811 "" Ur yy ilV, ' 7 1#4,1 6/111 tki w r• ossirs. r adii; la ft *Arbors. *Ad WW I N "Virginia. Bail • D i u. Ara' for the la lino' a! • i mis I s Chi :eine. 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