The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-22 00:00:00

No. BAYONNE PAPERS. Bistro Nair, Scor. 9.—The attention of our poli ticians is excited in an extraordinary degree by the military preparations making here—such as the ar rival of a large quantity of ammunition, provisions, forges, &c. Yet we see hardly any movement of troops; for except 200 men lately arrived from Pa ris, the Cordon has not received the reinforcements which the Paris Journals have announced. It is taus that preparations are spokes at fa* .115,thig a camp of 12,000 men in this country fro*' art to St. Jean de Lux, as well as of the speedy arrival of the troops that are to compose it. Other reports are circulated of the hostile intentions of our Govern ment towards Spain ; on the other hand, a plot is said to have been discovered, formed by a small number of French refugees in Spain. Tranquillity is far from being restored in the three provinces of Alava, Guipescoa, and Biscay, notwithstanding the severe measures adopted by General Espinosa. On the contrary, the bands of Zabala, Guesala, and Urango, daily increase, and that the conscription ordered by the Constitution alists in those countries which have been hitherto exempted from it by their fueros and privilege*, hat greatly eentributed to the progress of the Defenders of the Faith—the young men enlisted under their banners rather than submit to be taken for soldiers, which they have always considered as contrary to their nobility and their prerogatives. Ztbala and Guessla have collected about 1,100 men, and tra verse the mountains of Alava and Biscay, in four bands, while Urango maintains himself in Guipus- , ate. These three partisans cover the .grtiat road, and have detachments for the express purpose of in tercepting the mails and the communications. The Constitutionalists of these countries, with those of Navarre, are making reprisals—they no longer give quarter to their adversaries. At this moment, there-, tore, both parties carry on a war of extermination. A Provisional and Ambulatory Junta has been formed in Guipuscoa. The columns of Colonels Campiilo and Jaurequi are continually in motion; the first in Biscay, the second in Guiptiscoa, where they have beaten their adversaries whenever they could overtake them, which is not cloy, because they follow the plan adopted by Quesada in Navarre, which is to enlist and organise troops, to cut off the communications, intercept the couriers, and attack the small escorts and garrisons. The accounts from Navarre are nearly of the same nature. Espinosa, at the head of 3,000 men, divided into th-ce columns, advanced on the 3d upon the positions of Quesada, And occupied on the 4th Urroz and Aoiz; but the General of the Faith and the Trappist, having together about 4,000 men, had ad vanced from the Boreal, going along the mountains on the valley of Cantrell, having left a garrison of 300 men at I.r:id, and a battalion of 600 at Ocliuga via, Taurieta, Aroma, Espana, and Le tioncal. On the sth, Quesada surrounded the fortress of JAM, and summoned ,the Governor to surrender; it is very probable that he would have taken it, if Gen. Empecinado, at the head of 800 men, had not arrived in time to force him to raise the sieg e on the fitli, after an action in which there were a bout fifty killed, and some wounded on both sides. Espinosa continuing his march to Le Rontal, to pursue Que 7 sada, the latter and the Trappist turned upon Me- . diano and Huesca, in Arragon, where they have carried off, and united to their forces, all the youth they have found in their way. To judge by Qoesada's proceedings, it should seem that. encouraged by the arrival of the Trappist, he has resolved to quit the mountains and enter Arra gon, which must have disconcerted the plans of Espinosa, who hoped to attack him, and force him to withdraw into France. Others pretend that Quesada has been forced against Isis will to enter Arragon. Whatever may be said, Quesada retains the command of the division of Navarre; his ser vices to the royal cans,: have procured him the praise and the confidence of the troops he commands; and certainly it must not be forgotten that it was not till the 25th of Juno that this General entered Spain with about 300 men, and that he now has under his command alxwe 5,000, of whom two thirds are per fectly armed, equipped, and disciplined; besides 300 cavalry, not anterior in courage to their adver saries. It is, however, positively affirmed to•day, that Gen. O'Donnell, who is at Bayonne, is going to take the command of the division of Navarre, which daily increases, Quesada having twice offered to resign. Yenta* there arrived, at the lazaretto of Al dudes, two soldiers of the Faith fitan Biscay, with despatches fur General Equia. On the same day, a Chasse-muse, from Laquei • anchored in the port of Somay to be plamd at the I of Gen. Equia. Yolog i f d ook. padanues , ,:1)11 . she road lime • 4tieweeitWileopelebee item for Paris, co tribe Lease of Bair atineehe. The courier h remained et the kismet of Behobie. It is affirmed that the despatches fiave been deposited with the sub-prefect of the city, who is provisionally intrusted with the direction of the police, and that, notwithstanding the application of the house of Bastarreche, it has not been able to get the despatches. The courier was for the house of Rotchschild house of the Congress must prove that he is attached to one of the Ministers, or in his office ; or if he cannot de that, he must prove that he is under the special pro. tection of one of the great Powers. His Holiness the Pope has given orders to have a residents ready for each of the three Sovereigns who are expected to visit Rome, either during the Con• gress at Verona or after it be. closed. The resi dences are - the Venetian Paiseker i llill &spea, of Austria, the Cavelli Pslaos libe the Wing of Priesia, and therfaria Palace fur the fasprig of Ibiaaia. Samara, Aug. 46.—N0 recent news from Serer and Bitoglia has been received ; but Turkish cow -- tiers from Albania say, that the Suliots, having been defeated in several actions by the Pacha of Arta, had submitted to the Porte, and made a convention with the Pacha. This, if true, would be a great misfor tune for the Greeks, as the Turks would have a large force at liberty. Count Buol Schottenstein, President of the Ger man Diet, arrived here on the 5 Ist of August. Laserre been ' not having that the ROUEN CATHEDRAL. meeting of October. the The will, tection MW loan the insur the share EIETRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.] " Al keg Oast five o'clock of the 14th, as electric cloud ad vabbeditr del sleet:e of the town. Several claps of Snider caste beet the last more terrible them the others, struck with lightalat base of the steeple, which in an instant set it on ire from the bottom to the very top of the pyramid. Yea may imagine this terrible spectacle, and the dread which seined every body do beholding the ire. The lead, which rue down in large waves, the beams separating from the upper parte, and burning as they fell, till at length the base coild no longer support the upper part, the pyramid fell with a dreadful seise, and a cloud of horning smoke, ashes, and pieces of wood rose from the volumes. The wind was from the N.E. sod blew to wards us. The beat was sensibly felt at oar house the ashes .and splinters fillml the sir, and were wafted, some of them, as as far as the street Des Cordeliers. The houses in Die Change-street tied Do Baemitreet were to heated, that the engiues played oe them constantly to prevent their catching ire. lo•felttee. the ?thistle thar,pyveleidl met the reef of the church on fire, a part of the nave was burnt ; all the covermg of the choir of the sacristy, is oessumed. The roof work of the Place de la Calendre, Street St. Domain, boa also 'Offered considerably ; the interior of the church, however, has ant suffered much, and the Archhtshop'• palace very little. The houses is de Cban;e-street, contiguous to the church, are very much damaged, two of them were destroyed by the falling of the burning steeple. Those also et Si Romain-stye et leave suffered considerably ; as also the Chapel. " Besides fee total destruction of the upper part, and the calcination of the stones of the tower, the galleries sad the arches have sneered very considerably. It seems certain, however, that we have to deplore the loss of only one iodivi ricked, who was sent le the hospital in sash a condiu - no as to be despaired of. The soldiers of the Garde Royale, the Pom p:era, sod severs/ citizens have been wounded more or less, hot we have not as yet received any certain information eh this point." them fiac iames's will Catalonia, that Mina, maintain them;eh _ way to join them shall arrive. la the southern provinces there are still some predatory bands, but the inha bitants are animated with the greatest attachment to the system, end perhaps even too ardent in their •seal; fur the accounts roma Gotha, Seville, Grenada, Cordova, Malaga, Jaen, r tuecii, and Valencia, state that a great many persons, chiefly ecclesiastics, have left their homes to avoid the persecution of the Li berals. GERJIA.V PAPERS. ST.• PETERSIUROII, Au a. Tr.—The Persian mi nister, Mirsa Saleb, now here, a favourite of the reigning Emperor, had his List audience of his Ma jesty on the 21st of July, when he presented & por trait of the Persian Crown Prince, hewn in marble in the Oriental taste, and also a curious Arabian manuscript. This Ambassador goes front St. Peters burgh to England. He nooks rench and English fluently, and has employed kis time, during his short stay here, in visiting the most interesting cu riosities in the capital. •Ille has a painter with him, who is expressly coruinissionrd by the Scluth, his master, to make drawings of &very thing remarkable that he meets with in his travels. The new ' - is not rich, but an The nominal of Wulschia the first instance. Reports proceeding the Nati of man. 'boyars present is here. v. that but nobody can tell As our all'air ranged at the sending of a ' to open the be at ter the have stated. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Alexandra is in expectation of her aceouchement, at the new imperial palitee in Jelagin's Island. Beaux, Sept. 7.—His Majesty l ove a dinner yesterday in the new palace at, Potsdam, and arrived here to-day. On the Ist of September General Count Von Ziethen, Commander-in• Chief in Silesia, to receive the Emperor of Russia, with all proper ceremouony, the trontiars of the province, and to attend on huu to the Austrian frontier. .His Majesty stops on the Sd at Taruowitz (where Count H atket, of thinners mark, has uh•catty made preparations for his Majesty's reception), and then proceeds by way of Cctiewitz and Ratibur to Truppau. VERONA, Aug. '47.-..--Gre;.t preparations of all kinds are issuing here for the apprJacning Congress. Every 3trunger who desires w IC+IIJI/11 here during (u Or IliTtittu 1 1 . k. tlittr+ Our Mug, eoraftituOon, anti . _ VOL.. XV. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1822. ParcE 91d. A letter from Berlin of the 7th inst. affirms, that in consequence of some important despatches recently transmitted from Constantinople to Vienna, it h..d been determined not to postpone the deliberations on the affairs of Greece to the assembling of the Con a- b ress of Verona, but to commence theta at Vienrri, us soon 45 the Monarchs and the Ministers Plenipo tentiary arrived there. It is also asserted that L. 41 Strungtitrd and Baron Lutsow had been ordered to proceed to the Austrian capital, to assist at the con ferences to be held there. Letters from Stockholm of the 3,1 instant state, that the question was under discussion by the coun cil, whether there should not be granted to British merchantmen such a reduction of anchorage and pi lot dues in the ports of Sweden as should place them exactly on the same footing as Swedish vessels. A proviso was to be annexed, however, for the sante reciprocity to be observed in the ports of Great Bri. taut in behalf of Swedish ships. A sum of 30,000 piastre:. out of the funds of the bank at Stockito l ,trt had been remitted from thence to Hamburg!), to be employed by Cie Swedish Minister resident there in preventing a deterioration of the rate of exchange o‘l,- b.:tw,.•en tnose two cities. The Goinsaituslit has as- <-47.- ) N - l c as signed 3,000 dollars banco, fur thi research after, s• r t 4- .: and the examination into, the ancieunsws of Swe- - e --. den, appointing for that purpose MM. Collin and IF • - t Schlyter, Doctors of Law, with a handsome allow- '‘_, ance fur the expences of travelling, taking copies of, , it and collating the manuscripts of those laws. M. *.-.%. '-',) I; Hambro, banker and counsellor of the Court at . ~...b.F . ! - _ ':lsiceo - E 1 ``~ Stockholm, has returned from Copenhagen, wh e re he tufo had concluded a contract for a loan, subject, with respect to its conditions, to the ..pprubistiou of th 4 :Ta Norwegian Diet. 11:4* otchschild in Paris. Si: hours later the I aserre received another caress, which, not en detained, proceeded to Paris. The letters from Madrid! of the sth state, ecree of the King is published for the me e Extraordinary Comes b the lit of I he constitutional party hot% that the ne ill enable the Government t• put down di ction in the northern pinOsnoes; and th S ea ken in it by the Engligh rs makes th r themselves that the • , of St. Jame it oppose the con.stitutionak • Notwithstanding the c. the greatest Loper are entertained the orrijos, Milans, and Bolen, will be able to r emselves till the reinforcements on their Hospoitar, of Walachia, we learn, i honest and pretty well informed : ition of Hospodits taken from the li4 and Moldavia, of which the preset 4ince, has excited some attention lie roceeding trouiConstantinople say. IBagcliiii has (totaled the Persians; tell where the the took place. ['airs with the Porta will probably b he Congress, fliare is no occasion fo. Turkish Aindlawiador to the front negociations, as foreign journal; ;,.' - ..... :. .1 r ..1 1 i ± 1 1, 4 , #4l • li . . r I taken ter *' &c. Torrii 1 • 1