The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

~ r ,, ;w , t rirr 4t,,.,;fry i'elg% co, 1 • 1 ! , • , CI, I, ~- -#,,- . . No, 1.397 —VOL. XV. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1622. TUE IiPERATIONS GLINtitAL JIIINA IN CATALONIA, - [From the Casette of SaragArsa.) Every body knows the situation of this province in the month of August, when Gen. Mina received the commaud. They knew that the Defenders of the Faith were in possession of every part of it, except Lerida, Nlaurerat, Cardona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Tortosa, Gerona, Fi ,, ateints, and ltosas ; even these places were blockadtxt and thiir weak girrLons were obliged to make frequent sallies to prococe provisions.. The success of the Defenders of the Faith increased, while they had to contend with forces so inferior that they were hardly able to oct even on the defbn sive. Yet the Constitutional troops, faithful to their oath to defend ;he gtiod cause, cad despising the great number of their us.sallants, the continual marches, distress, famine, and privations of every kind, never lost their courage, and preserved those important places with the aid of four weak moveable columns commantlad by .the brave Torrijos, ltateu, NI dans, and Mans°, to whom we partly owe the pre servation of Catalonia. arrive on the 18th or Roth. The whole 'district of Trempe, up to the frontiers of France, was covered with fugitives wandering in all directions. Tremp; 'Fulani, and several other communes, have been plundered and burnt by the constitutional troi;ps, who spread general consternation. Not w ithstand rev the preparations for defence making at Urgel on the 15th, it is not thought. that it will stand a siege, especially us the soldiers of the Faith refused to shut themselves up in it. Meantime it is abandoned by the Regency, and by all the inhabitants who havai any thing to lose. The niarm even extended to Puyeerda ; and if Malang continued his movemaot towards Campredon, there is no doubt but that piece will have the same fate as Urgel. The number of peasants who leave the army to return home, and of the soldiers of the Faith who offer to surrender to the Constitutional Government, is considerable. In fact, mansion and discord now reign in that army which boasted of re-estabaishing despotism in Spain. Such was the result of the operations up to the 10th inst. THE CONGULA General Mina arrived on the 7th of September at Lerida, entirely destitute of the necessary means to combat forces ten times u numerous as those placed under his command ; not but that the reinforcements • VERONA, Nov. 21. (merit. Act lf !WM A PRIVATE LETTEaI The ,principal, and perhups in reality the only, object for which the Congress was assembled at Ve rona, was the political situation of the Spanish mid Portuguese Monarchies. The conferences and deli berations upon that point arc terminated. With tho exception of the Sovereigns and Ministers who Piave taken u share in them, there is nobody who is posi tively acquainted with their result. The secret has been so well kept, that I could give you the names of several Diplomatists who have arrived here since their commducem , and are not a whit the wiser than they were leaving home. All, therefore, that I can do is inform you of what is entijectured by the dill; rent classes of society in this city: There have been four er.fiya sitting 3. of Congress specially devoted to the affairs of Spain. The Duke of Wellington has, ou each ozcasion, declared iu u formal manner, his hostility to every species of armed interv...ition; mid iu so doing, has Leen sup ported by Austria and Prussia. Russia has appeared to incline to the opposqe side, bat without urging her opinion with muck weight. The French daplo matists were busily employed in pointing out the danger to which their country would L exposed, were the royal authority ti be left us feeble us the constitution of the Cortes hull made it. They ade..:.d, that the very same danger would undoubtcdly me nace, in the long run, the whole of Italy, the Low Countries, end home of the small stases of Germany, and at a still later period, perhaps, even the more considerable states of' the same cumuli-, in which liberal, principles ancar to have a great number of partisans in all ela.. , es, and priacipally in. those that arc most. enlightened. The picture of these possibilities has produced it very lively impression upon the minds of the mem bers of the Coagr4.ss. however, they have contrived among them to discover that a mote immediate and general danger might result from un open aggres sion—they have said, that peace, after so long a war as that 1V.16 finished in 1815, was too preLicms blessing to be compromised by violent ineasuzes, against u people which, moreover, has the right to - ameliotaie its condition, so long as it does not inter fere With the &sal' int of other nations, and us it pre serves the monerulsied . principle . ; that the chances of war are always oneerlain; that it the Spaniards were to succeed against a. threign army, the fears which a propagatioo of the, prine.rles of the Spanish constitution inspires to-day, would then be much greater and better tbundcd—in shah, that prudimee suggested, that every thing should be left in stain quo, and that we should look for the changes tvmell tue Sovereigns desired, front the Spuniur.:s them- . selves. proirdoed were forwarded, and in fact, he received about 1.200 at Lerida; and Torrijoa, with a column of 800 which had escaped from Romanillo's, and other chiefs of the Army of the Faith, who had sur. rendered him at . S!rvera, succeeded in joining Mina at Lerida on the 10th. - It was with this force that the General undertook his first movement on the '12:11 towards Cervera, tic Defenders of the Faith evacuated at his approach in the night of 'the 3th. On the 16th the Constitutional General re . moved his head quarters to Culat, which became the central point of his farther operations. Baron d'Eroles, desiring to impede the march of reinforce .. merits in Catal'Uliii,''aitisaa "Itte• hears of tleeCinea to lye invaded by his troops, seriously threatening Arragon ; and, in tact, he succeeded at least in em ploying; thr a month the division of General Zarco tie, Vulle, consisting of 4,000 men, the greater part of which was destined to reinforce Mina, with other bands of the Faith, snore or less numerous were sent to the. right bank of the Ebro. Queseda was de tached into Navarre, in the hope of liirther diverting we attention of Zarco del.Valle. Nothing could reduce a change in the general plan of the Consti. tutiotialists, svhich was in the mesa to attack the adverse faction Kt its source, and to expel the Re gency from ; but yet this object was remote, ter it wos accessory, first of all, to restore the com inutticittion between Saragossa, Lerida, Vich, Man resa, &c. ; to reinforce the garrisons, to sup s ply them with ammunition .and provisions ; to form a line of defence ; to revive public; confidence in the country occupied by the constitutional troops, especially at Barcelena, flunk which they must derive their chief resource.* ; and this Mina elks:Led in hid coarse of it month, aequiring'also a knowledge of the ground, and of the real situation of the enemy's three.— Meantlme reinthreemcnts arrived front all (porters, though not in such numbers as had been hoped, becaiise the invvsion of the Defender of the Faille into Arragon. and even into the provin , x of Valencia, Lad dratvti off . 5 or (1,000 men. he Royalists, proud of their superiority, and taking for tear an inactivity winch was mity prudence on the, part of N:ina; daily groveled hint to battle; but it was not till the of o.iteher that lie re calved to attack Cabin:Wolin, and uu the 27th the division of Eroles a 'tore. Oar readers know the result of these two days : suffice it to remark, that they greatly con tributed to the increasing success of- the General, who wasutterwards reinforced by :3,000 men from the division of Z treo del Valle. Eroles then per evived that he evuld obtain no great advantage on en the right bank of the Seyne, and retired into the numnitains of the Conque de Treinp, his native rountiy, finally persuad:al that he should be .there able to resist time Constitutionalists ; but the affairs of the In .11, I 4 cis, I Mh, and 16. h, have prov,sl the contrary; ti..rt roops hive been , ).ialta !get' front their yosition, leaten, and dispersed; Erult s hinisellbeing forced to renew; to Urgel, where :tlitia expected to The French diplomai;qg have, it is &aid, persisted in endeavouring to them) uti;wetionit in thJ Lot sitting.; the}• havu confined their efforts in it to obtaining. this decision in their fitvettir—that. every Power having the int:isputrhlc• right to rii..ite war again,t ally other whoa it (.4!lka ii has jamit. Milt Ira vocative re,tailia for MI Caoing, France Trey employ t hat right iigninst Spain it Joe - '74m71 gry~;;h i . ~i Out' Litt , eottit.itution, an' itaUff. ~' . ~.... . • oer" , r 4 ell 11 ito'l ;11 I* - 14 * l4 ' • r. 4 '___ I,,•••''' _ PlucE 9,'D 'that in such ease the other Powers should Le bound in honour to remain neutral. Thus, if war were to .tole place; it would be a struggle hand 'to bland between France and Spain. Under any otitis circumstances, and for a ditiiment canse, the resources of Franc , without a doubt ate superior to the resources of Spain; but if France had to combat with the nation awl constitutional armies wer..-ly, the recollection would naturally rest upon the dint/Nous war which Buonapurte male against that .coun try, and the extreme bravery of the old French army would not entirely perhaps restore confidence. It is probable that the eiliats of France might at this moment be seconded by a strong party —Lut had not Iluotiaparte also his party ? It is added, that after this decision of Congress, the Emperor of Austria, and even the Emperor of Russia, us•veell as the majority of the ministers, ticularly the Duke of Wellington, have, in a friendly trimmer, advised the French Ministers not to undertake this war, or at least to reflect un it well and maturely Lethrehand, us it might place in dan ger the repose of Europe—an event of which it is not difficult to foresee the melancholy consequence_ I repeat to you, that all I have just been to is simply what is repeated is the diferent circles at Verona, and that I do not guarantee to you its au thenticity; although I give credit to it myself in common with a great number of persons, among, whom are likely to be well itArtned in spite ortlre closeness with which the secret is guarded. What I can inform you for certain is, that for some days past there Ins arrived here positive intel ligence that many foreign.merchatits have demanded letters of marque from the Spanish Government, for the purpose of arming privateers in case war should. take place between France and Spain, and that a great quantity of these letters of marque have already been transtniti.ed to dilli:rent Spanish Consuls, parti cularly,to.thuse resident in the ports of Eagiand, is order that they may be delivered to the privateers ut the very moment that Choy receive cfficial loos of the declaration of war. M. de Moteanorency sets out te-metrew en Li.; return to Paris. Madame la Vitsentesse de Nitet:e mummy, who was expected at Verona !for !several weeks, has not advaiieed farther than Chamber!, where his Excellency is to rejoin her. The other French plerileeentiarics will retreiin here until the departure of the S.ivereig,us. They will only take, it I may tLe, such an exueeesion, a secondary part in the stibi..c.s on whiclrtleCongress is likely to be still engitol. These a übjez;ts are rho ufiltirs of Greece, awl the over:Lion of Naplesani Piedmont by Austrian troops ; but we are asset:A that these points may be tansidt:red ut sleeedy set tled. It is said that the coudeet of the Otto:ilea Porto has been seeerely characterized Ly the Con gress, and even by the Dal:e el Wellington himself ; that the Emperor Alexander he shown great iudh,- union at it; thitt 11;s Impetial Majesty has nu longer ahy hope of an accommodation; and that he tveiy waits fur the arrival of the Cuisnt de- Lutz.v.v, to deLlare His determina.ien rte,te,eieg Turkey. The envoys front the Greek Goverinneot have riot been officially admitted to the presetr.e c.f the Sovereigns; yet every one of them believes that one of them has been here incognito thr same kme' and that :ne notes which he has presented have been favourably received. With regard to Naples and Piedmont, the report is very general that the Sitvereigns of these two countries and their Ministers have used every exete tion to get the Austrian troops withdrawn front them, but that Aas:ria has thrown great ow' taeles thu way of their iww.:nde, rki • bund on!y a eery teeth auppart in one, rf the wincinbers of tat. Congrem. PLlple are in euiLseltieneC::OliVill‘Va (11V . t.tvu exzr6: - .l.ties of !Idly wid sti:l for a v•.!ry.,lon l iron be occupied by Germane. It is 6,4 - it:vv.:l 11,t the rcustin urgcd by .2ustriA w. s the•sit'4- Wien ot tlie Spanish Kina cilftia plC:6 ullowcti ho inL:...L;cii o aixi;Lating Rowe; to tun:time public; al. was thoreti,re renr.nsh:d,- Iftu.r. tile crown would tn.:ll - ue learn by the DuLe . . C.hkbria, hls observation tit up' 'by autte others, it appt:ars for Tito preesta his Ni.t;::sty tags rcuJuttceU his deAgii. , ••••: , • 7- „ 0.• ...o•6lPilii.• X 444 410 , 4 •4 ?0 , N • • • 41,i Y . {`.,~ ,~~!