The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-17 00:00:00

,•11•1, . ~ ~ , ( i i , j tr au, t ! . No. 1,410.—V0L. XVI. WAR WITIi SPAIN. - -4116 . 7 • (Prom the Journal Ms De bias.) Ng's, MARCH 12 , —The inconveniences inse- . parable from a war with Spain are generally felt, and too well appreciated, to permit •us to announce without a pnifound impression of. sorrow that the leat *topes of peace have almost disappeared; but our just surgur telassial-4.4lwearrvietise, , drawing the sword from the scabbard we are fulfil ling a national duty, and a ecimitand of honour. 'Every thing has been done to draw from revolt!. tionary Spain a single proof of a wish to put an end to. the excesses which disquiet Europe, and compro mise France. There was no question of the sacrifice of liberal institutions, or of foreign intervention, nor, in a word, of any thing which could compro mise the'interests or wound the honour of Spain. It was only required of misled men to substitute for a destructive action, without ohject and without limits, that independent action of Royalty which is the life-spring of monarchical sobiety. Spanish li berty was only asked to recognize the rights of legitimacy, but she refused. She is then no Linger liberty. No veil now covers the hideous traits of anarchy—no consideration tempers its fury.--no friendly or pacific voice can stop its progress. Facts equally indisputable and shocking have just established the outrageous captivity of King Ferdi nand. It is evident that faction is determined to carry its crowned prisoner in its train, and the pro positions thr stripping him even of, the shadow of royalty find no longer any obstacle, except• the fear of opening the eyes of the multitude .on the real state of things. But what man of sense, what en lightened nation, can hencefiirth be deceived bythis empty image of royalty? Who can for a moment doubt that the King of Spain is now as Completely a captive as if he Were already loaded with • the base chains with which his Ministers have dared to me nace his august person ? But the revolutionists of Spain have, by their Suggestions, 'given to their confederates at Madrid the word of order for a blind resistance—for an im placably fury, in order to render fruitless the efforts • made by reason and loyalty to prevent a deplorable war. They sacrifice Spain to the infatuated hope of reviving the flames of a universal revolution along with a general war. That hope will not be realized. The invisible, and yet incontestable, presence of the revolution of 1793 in the councils of Spain, necessarily unites all governments in one common wish, that of repressing a known enemy, an irreconcileable enemy, whose terrible excesses they well recollect. Such will be the necessary consequence of the late events at Madrid: they will have at least the me lancholy advantage of justifying the foresight of France, and the measures which she 'has taken for her own security, The following letters:— are from private " PARIS, NlAncu "The English Paperwof Saturday last, containing the report of the dinner proceedings at the London Tavern on Friday, and the protest of the 62 Mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies against the expul sion of M. Manuel, were yesterday seised by the police. Copies of them, however, bud arrived by special couriers a day hello; and thus the aczount of the dinner appeared in the French journals of yesterday. None of them dared to copy the protest. This latter document was taken by the law officers from the hand of the President of the Chamber, and submitted to a Council of Ministers, to determine whether it did not warrant a prosecution against its 62 subscribers. Nothing but the number and res pectability of the signatures, and the dangerous ugh. tetlon that such a proceeding would excite, pre vented the the Council from placing the Deputies on their trial for seditious writing. The Ministers would, however, eagerly seize en opportunity of prosecuting any printer, bookseller, or journalist who would give it to the world, and therefore all those parties are on their guard. Lithographic co pies, however, are largely distributed; and thus, in l'aris ut least, every person who feels an interest in such sultjects may obtain a 1.,.u5al of it. Prink:id -;"*7 i . itr. anal( Our Wittig; tonitituttoit, anb %atm. MONDAY', itIARCH VT, 1823. find booksellers have been apprised by the police, that if any copy of it appears in their shops, they tvill be deprived of their licenses (or brevets), and have their shops shut up. , Mercier, the serjeant of the National Guard who refused to arrest Manuel, is to be tried, by a Council of Discipline. The ut most tonialtmout that it can junta is dismissal and a montleitivapassiorint. Even thib moderate Int mailman the authorities may he afraid to inflict, from a sense of aflame, and a fear of irritating the National Guard,.whose services will be now more hecessary than ever, when a great part of the troops is sent to the frontier. " There are variou3 rumours in town to-day, res pecting the relations between France anti Spain, but none of them can be traced to any authentic source. It was stated on 'Change, that Mina had entered France, but Mina by the last accounts, was at Bar celona. Another rumour was, that the King had consented to leave Madrid, and that the English Ambassador had offcTed to go along with the Court. We have no accounts later than the 311. " MARCU 12, FOUR O'CLOCK P.N. " The French Ministry, who founded their hopes of finding a pretext for avoiding the war, or of ren dering it unnecessary by the intrigues carried on at Madrid, have, since the last arrival from Spain, sur rendered all such expectations, and have resolved to commence hostilities as speedily and as vigorously as pssible. Orders have accordingly been transmitted to General Guilleminot, chief of the Etat-Major, to place every thing iu readiness for active operations. The attack will be made on the side of Biscay, and the Spanish territory will be entered between the Ist anti the sth of April last. The Duke of Angouleme certainly sets out on Saturday fur the army, and his arrival on the frontier will be the signal litr invasion. The French expect an easy victory, from the divisions of the kingdom and the distractions of the capital. The Cabinet is likewise , of opinion, that the late events at Madrid will alter considerably the opinion of the English Ministry with respect to the policy of supporting the people and the constitution of. Spain against the reforming bayonets of the Bourbons. MARCH 13, TWO O . IPLOCK " The accounts contained in the journals of this morning of transactions which are said to have taken place at Madrid subsequently to the 31 instant, are finnided on 'no authority. No courier has arrived from the Spanish capital since the 3d; we could not, therefOre, have intelligence of what took place on the 4th and sth." a ., PRICE 9is about him ; yet he has not ventured to pass the !Valencia with twenty of his fbllowers, though there Was only a weak post of the Constitutionalists oh ' the other side. Neither has he succeeded, as be boasted, in allaying the tempest to facilitate the de. patina di` the *owls; aid lastly, though he pre. tends to be invulnerable by powder end cannon, he has declined acceding to the proposal of a serffeent of the 29d, to stand (with the cross in his hand) • tlm fire of his musket at the distance of 50 pates. these people (the Defenders of the Faith) cannot inspire our soldiers with Much . Confidence, for We all despise them." • The valet de chambre of Lord Somerset, whont his master had sent before, has been at Bayonne fl* these six days, waiting for him, which makes it imagined that some new incident had detained bit lordship at Madrid. Mr. Harvey, the English con sul at Bayonne, has just sent an express to Madrid with despatches, which he received front the English consul at Bordeaux. The regular mail front Madrid of the 291 has not yet arrived at Bayonne. We do not know whether it has been stopped by the band of Merino at So mosierra: however, we have news from Old Castile by way of Valladolid, the mail from Vittoria, and the three Biscayun provinces. The news spread by the Committee of the Faith, that Bessietes Was marching to the Ebro with 10,000 or 12,000 men, is Use. We have received accounts from Madrid by a pri vate •conveyence, from which we extract the follow ing passages : ••• MADRID, FEs. 23.—We enjoy perfect tranquil lity here, though still a prey to the division of par ties. A change in the ministry is still spoken of; 11111Dtleris fur choosing a new ministry ftere the party of Cethdlos,.Castanos, Muftis; and others from that of Osage, SalYst, and Romero A Ipuente. ilowever it be, under the circumstances in which the nation is now 'Arced, it will be difficult to find a ministry able to conciliate all parties, and to take the measures that are requisite to save the country from the dis. solution with which it is threatened, fir various very alarming reports are in circulation. It is said that there will immediately be formed in Andalusia, Va lencia, Catalonia, and Galicia, separate governments, which shall provide fin. the defence of their respec. live territories, detaching thearselYes from the capi tal, which is at preetent only a Mcus of intrigue anti discord. Such at least is the real plan of the Com. munerous, and the execution of it is more than pros bable, especially in ease of foreign invasion. There never was such a 'nabs of inflantntatory publications us now inundate the capital. Each party labours at its own ends, bat none attend to the principal object." --- Extract of a Letter from Perpignan, datedXloll4- I.—Every thing announces the approach of intl., sion ; the arrival of troops, caissons, and Amman'. Lion; the labours of the Itegency to arm and Clothe the soldiers of .the Fuith. ,, sthe arrival of the Baron d'Eroles. It has been settled that the soldiers of the Faith who arc in this department shall be hr. genised into five battalions, under the tiame of The Division of Spain." On the 2tth ultb a company of horse artillery and of the train departed from this town; the one to Thuir, the second to Terra& On the some day arrived from the inte rior, 21 caissons, 5 eight.puundcrs, 4 sitaach witzers, 182 horses, and , JO soldiers of the train, and une company of artillery, of the regiment of Narbonne, who escorted the convoy. General Gri. marest has departed for Toulouse —Yesterday two millions cf francs in gold arrived for the chest of the receiver general, :m4 a considerable sum in re. serve is to be supplied by the departments. Several ••• • hundred thousand francs are already provided. • The King is again under the painful influence of • • c, the gout, though the attack is much less severe than 1' ?. , on the late occasion. The unw e l c ome return o f th e :4 malady is attributed to the sudden change iu the . • weather. His Majesty is expected to return to town from, Brighton after the Easter Holidays, when he will /.. hold u Lzvee. „~, ~ :.; . 'BAYONNE IYTELLIGENCE. Bavotir4E,' MARCH B.—The troops whose arrival was announced continue to come in regular bUCCCS• sion, and almost all go into cantonments in the vil lages on the frontiers of Spain. The 23d of the line, and 7th of light infantry, are the first which go into the camp forming between Urragne and the Bidassoa, and which von4st, it is said, of 10 or 12,000 men. A great number of vessels have arrived in our port from Bretagne, laden with grain, which has given occasion to great speculations and pur chases.. The contractors for bread and fbrage to the army have bought 12 cargoes. General Quesada has returned to our city, after having embarked a great quantity of muskets anti ammunition, and a large sum of money, on board of three barks, belonging to the Defenders of the Faith, which were at Sows, and were to sail yes terday. The general having learned that three or four vessels of the constitutional party, sent from were cruising in the neighbourhood, pro bably did not think proper to embark. The Trap pist tarnains at St. Jean de Luz, where 11,1 has be- ' come an object of the ridicule and contempt of the inhabitants and of the French soldiers. The follow ing is sent us from that town " The Catalonians must be wry fanatic and ig norant to have suffered themselves to be led away by so stupid and fanatic a man as this Trappist, who, by means of his pretended inspirations, would make us believe that ut his entrance into Spain, those whom he culls the enemies of religion would vonish at the Light of the tructiix which he aways carries