The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-09-27 00:00:00

R .. 4v; 77 . / nd to call forth the distinct expression of public opinion n the subject. The Committee feel that their cause owes much to those pq:!ioner, n hn, in the last Session, addressed Parliament with such pr , mptitude and effect. They trust ti,-t the same arnot pleadings nil% he renewed at an early period of the next Session. They trust that, not only from the same places which have already raised their voice in the s a cred canes of justice and * humanity, but from every county and every town in the United Kingdom, one ener getic and concurrent appeal will be made to both Houses of the Legislature, in behalf of our enslaved fellow-sub jeets ; praying that they may he admitted, at the earliest safe and practicable period, to a prticipation in those ci%il tights and privileges, and in those moral and religi mt• blessings, which are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects: and that this nation may not be per muted to incur the farther guilt (now that oar eyes are opened to the flagrant iniquity of such a course of conduct) of daily augmenting the miserable victims of an unjust and merciless policy, by subjecting the children, who may I:creafter be born, to the same state of abject and degrad ing botidage to which we have been the criminal instru ments of reducing their progenitors. PARIS PAPERS OF WEDNESDAY. ARMY OF OF THE PYRENEES. REPORT OP THE PRINCE OP TIOTIENLORE TO TIIE MINISTER OF WAR. " Burgos, Sept. 16. i hasten to send to your Excellency a copy of the capi filiation of Santona, which I have just approved. The con ditions are the more advantageous, as the superior officers and others.wbo acknowledge the Regency, will notpreserve their employments, rank, honours, distinctions, and pay, unless the King or the Regency consent. I cannot on this occasion too highly praise General Se'Helfer, who does not cease to give proofs of his zeal and great military talents. " According to this capitulation, the officers and soldiers who 'hall not acknowledge the Regency, shall be sent to France by era : but few of the men will be in this case, The grv . ater part of the garrison is composed of militia, who desire to return to their homes, and 1 do not doubt but that . „ many ot the soldiers sill desire to serve in the Royal tt oups. Accept, &e. (Signed) " Louts, PRINCE or Nimmons, " Commander-in-Chief of the Third Corps." [Then follow the articles of capitulation, 19 in number, st Melt w. re concluded on the 11th. By the two first it is agreed th:t an effacer shall leave the place on the 11th (as the French General had Dreposed), and should not be tOoligett to Morn till the 26 . 11. He shall go to Burgos, where Prince Hohenlohe shall give him a safe conduct to Madrid, I% here he shall speak with whomsoever he pleases: if mit his return he confirm the fact stated by the French tieneral, viz. the convention between Ballasteros and M. litor. time capitulation of Ferrol, Corunna, and Vigo, the (love; roc shall begin to deliver the place to the French the very day the cfficer returns. The liith article provides, that Spaniards, not soldiers or functionaries, who have t":1:en refuge in the pl ace, shall receive passports to return hour and by the 16th, no Spaniard, whether military or other, shall be molested for the political opinions he has m3ilifested to the day of the occupation by the French troops. REP 'ET OF MARSHAL LAURISTON TO' TUE MINISTER OF WAR. " Head-Quarters, Orcayen, Sept. 19. " I informed your Excellency, in my report of the 14th, of the opening of the trenches on the 10th before the ci tadel of Pampeluna: this first operation having entirely succeeded, I direct my attention to the erection of the batteries, and suspended the labours of the engineers who were ready to proceed beyond the parallel. " The artillery had great difficulties to overcome. The rain had so spoiled the roads, that the conveyance et/ the cannon and all the apparatus was difficult. 'The artiTlery anen, with their usual zeal, worked night and day in erect ing batteries in the trenches under the fire of the citadel. in concering with General Boucher, I had especially en deavoured to direct the principal preparations of the attack. to hatter all parts of the front attacked with 50 cannon, 16 er 12 pounders, in 8 batteries, independent of 31 morters or howitzers, and 5 batteries previously erected. On the 15th, the enemy had redoubled his fire to destroy the new batteries that were erecting, and even succeeded in damag ing two of them. Notwithstanding these obstacles, all was ready in time, and I ordered the firing to begin on the 16th, in the morniuz. " In the night of the 15'h, the engineers having work men at their disponi, completed various operations (which are described) to facilitate the attack. " On the 16th, at day-break, the combat commenced between our artillerymen and those of the garrison. The , superiority of our fire over that of the place, which was balanced at the first, was soon manifest. Before 9or 10 o'clock, most of theembrasures of the citadel were damaged, those or the grand cavalier of the Royal bastion crumbled to pieces as it were under our fire: every shot in the stone work had the effect of grapeshot, from the splinters of the stones. In our trenches, on the contrary, our epaulments resisted, and though many balls strut k, yet most of them were buried in the earth, without doing mischief. The enemy began to answer the fire less vigorously, having, as we hive since learnt, already a great number of gunners /.ors de combat. Ours increased their efforts in proportion, and constantly fired with precision, without precipitatitat or confusion. The result of such a contest could not long be doubtful. The silence of the citadel slackened our fire, which soon ceased entirely, far want of aliment. About two o'clock the Spanish Bag was hoisted on a part of the rampart whence it was easily to he seen ; soon after it was replaced by a white flag. I gave orders to cease the fire every where, bat to continue the works in the trenches,— Iln the night, an important communication was, in fact, ef fected, and loop-holes were made before the head of the zig zags, to place there, two together, some chosen marksmen, with orders to keep up a constant fire on the gunners of the place. " These precautions, which might have proved not use less, became so by the event. Gen. Dainremont, com mander of the trenches, sent me in the evening a letter from the Governor, who desired to send to me officers with a flag of truce. to treat of a capitulation. I replied that I was ready to receive them. After some explanation. I sent them back to the town the chief of my staff, Major Gen. St. Cyr Nugeres, whom I charged with my instructions and my full powers to conclude and sign. He returned on the 11th in the morning, with the capitulation which '1 have had the honour to send your Excellency, signed in duplicate. lint by virtue of my orders, and of the last article, he caused, as he left the place. the gates of Secours. of the citadel, and of La Taconera. to he occupied by some chosen companies. I have since sent a battalion into the citadel. Gen. Dainremont establishes order in the city, and prepares barracks for- the entrance of our troops. The garrison, who are prisoners of war, amount to 5,400 men. 1 shall, without loss of time. send it under a good escort to St. Jean, Pied de Port. I have made it lay down its ; arms. My preceding reports have been addressed to your Excellency, it will be easy foe you to judge of the whole of the operations of the siege of Pampeluna, which was pre ceded on the ad of Sept. by a brilliant action of infantry ; commenced on the 10th, by opening the trenches in a man ner that does honour to the engineers; terminated on the 16th by afire of artillery, vigorously and skilfully directed, which destroyed in a few hones the defences of the place, against a more numerous garrison, and which might have hoped for succour. Oar army, notwithstanding our im nsensomateriel in artillery, could certainly not have under taken the siege. The infantry, by its zeal and valour, has np for all we wasted. 1 can say. that the troops of description have merited my praise and the ap- ulce n - n.sde u the p for i ersry descrip THE STATESMAN probation of his Royal Highness the Prince General in Chief. Accept, &c. " The Marshal Commander in Chief of the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Pyrenees. (Signed) " Marquess of LAURISTON." "Head•quarters, Orcayen, Sept. 19. "The Spanish garrison of Pompeian& left it this morn ing at five o'clock, for St. Jean Pied de Port, with an escort of two battalions anti a squadron, to pr 'ect it against the armed volunteers and the inhabitants, who are greatly ex asperated ; for in the last 'hree years many horrors have been committed in Paropelana. "The garrison was 3,800 men; 3,433, including 300 [ officers, are gone off. Many have taken their wives with them. The wounded who were able have chosen to ga. with the garrison; 170 sick and wounded remain in the hospitals. I know not how many were killed during the siege. About 200 of the royal guard who were compelled to serve have been discharged, and I shall send them to Madrid. Fifty soldiers and 7 officers of the Army of the Faith were in the prisons. In the garrison were 150 gun ners of the corps of artillery, and above 100 of the militia of the city, very ell exercised, and 2or 300 auxiliaries of the infantry, who had been long trained to•this kind of service, but when our fire commenced, it was so well• directed and so murderous, that it soon threw them into confusion. They were terrified at the development of our trench, and crushed by our artillery, the fire of which was such, that in four hours it forced the garrison of the citadel and all the gunners to take refuge in the town, abandoning loaded gnus, some of which were even primed, and which they had not dared to discharge. Seven bombs fell on the powder magazine, which was happily proof, but all the other buildings are very mush damaged. As the embrasures of the citadel are faced with stone, every ball that struck one, wounded several of the gunn..rs and attendants. According to the report of the Spanish officers of the garrison, the signal gun was so well directed that t killed three gunners at their piece. Accept, &c. "Marshal LACRISTON." [Here follow two despatches, one from Marshal Moncey and the other from General Rottemberg, to the Minister o War, relative to the surrender of the Spanish division of 2,000, commanded by Brigadier Fernandez, who, havin, been foiled in all his endeavours to reach Figueras, capitulated on the 16th to General Darius. There was some difficulty about 120 desei ters, to whom General Dimas, to prevent further effusion of blood, promised their lives, but nothing more.] The Journal des Debars gives the following intelligence in a letter from Port St. Mary, dated Sept. 14:— The Prince Generalissimo, who went to Chiclana to in spect the batteries and the preparations for an attack on Santi Pietri, has returned here to hasten the completion of the formidable batteries which are constructing at the point of the Matagorda and the Isle of St.Lutrii, in order to destroy Puntalee. It appears that the Ministry is changed at Cadiz. It is said that the new Minister for Foreign Affairs bas again ' had recourse to Sir IV. A'Court, to whom he addressed, at Gibraltar, -a melancholyepistle on the situation of Cadiz. Sir William communicated to the Duke of Angouleine the new propositions made by the besieged. but his Royal Highness replied that it was now too late, and that he hail henceforth resolved, though with regret, to take by force what he had not been able to obtain by reason. Admiral l)uperre is expected between the lath and the 20th, and immediately on his arrival the general attack will take place. The Madrid Gazette is voted for the number of French troop which have entered Spain by the way of Iron, and which is stated to be 95,780. Of this number, 164 are stated to have returned to France in health, and 63'i sick. The number of Spanish prisoners sent into France is said to be only 23-7. The artillery which entered by this road is said to consist of 109 pieces of cannon, and 35 howitzer+. The Restaurados has published the following list of the French fleet before Cadiz, viz. : Sures oe THY Ling.—The Centanre, of 36 guns, 36 and 24 pounders ; the Co!osse. 80; the 't rident, ParcaTzs.—The Unerriere, GO guns, 3ti.pqnn.lers; the Venus, 53; the Antigone. 41; the Oalatee, 44 ; the Ne. reide, 44; the I'hemis, 44; the Cybele, 44. CORVETTES.—The Ilyadere, of 24 guns, 21• pound car • ronades ; the Egeria, 20; the Moselle, 2-1. BRIGS.—The Zebre, 16 carronades, 24 pounders; the Dragon. 18 ; the Antelope, 18 ; the Lynx, 11/ ; toe Lil- Mee. la. To this list are to be added the gun•boat-, bomb, an 1 howitzer vessels, making al - ogether more than 2t:9. All these light vessels wount guns of large calibre, cahulatel to silence the enemy's fire. It is stated, on the authority of the Reset:um/or, that the capitulation concluded between Molitor and Ballaste ros has been annulled by the Duke d'Angonleme, oe ac- count of the defection of the troops of the latter, and their readiness to )oin Were. FRENCH 1' I:NDS, PARIS, Sept. 2-I.—Five per Cents. opened at 90 25. ; closed at 90. 35.• ' Bank Stick, 1,591. ; Neapolitan 5 per Cents., 771. Exchange on London, o ne month, 25. 80. ; three months. 25.60. OFFICE of THE MORNING CHRONICLE, No. 4, Norfolk.sweet, Lon.lon.—Conntry Acents who have been orripitomed to:obtain their NeWF1,31...4 from London by the early Morning Conches, are informed, that The 3toraing Chronicle p•oblidhed to the:ticsamen at the early hour of Fly^ oTiook every Morning. The Chronicle may twobtaimol in every town within one hundred and tired! mite. .of London on the day of its publication, if sent off by the Morning Ciiarlira. M ARR. DUE. I I.... Dublin 0 I....Waterford•••• 0 O —EI & Jersey. • 0 I 0.... Lisbon O ...Gottenbenc . • 1 ALS. I AIM. DUE. 1.... Holland 0 o....HAntbro 0 r+ 0 0.... M alta •..0 PRICE OF STOCKS 7•llIS B auk Stock .. 3 per Ct. Red 3 p. Ct. Cons. 31 per Cent... .. 4 per Cents New Fours. Long Ann . Imp. S per Ct DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock.. 263' Ditto Bands 01-63 pm. ExDill . 2,l l 30 38 pm. WOW. .. pm. Smell.. Sas :ms Lottery Tickets Coo. for Acct........ —B3ll Ott *tattontan. SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 27, 152.3. STOCK EXCHANGS, 12 O'CLOCK.—Consols opened this morning at 83 to I, money, and 831, to for account, with little doing. _ - The Expresses from Paris brine the French Rentes at 90, 30; but private letters state them at 911, 10. They also report that the fall of Cadiz is soon carried. Fottume Fora ns.—Spanish opened at 34L sad have been done at 3514, but lowered again to the opening price.— French, 2 pron . —Colombia, 56—New Spanish, 24nominsl 83i to 13-I—Poyais opened at 12 prem. hut tall to 14. all sellers. There is very little doing in the above market. We have received to-day, by Express, Paris Papers of Thursday evening, and of yesterday morning; of which the following are vxtracts (room THZ !TOILE OF arm 21.)• GRAND HEAD-QUA Rms. The Duke d'Angonleme it still here. We expect• the day after to-morrow Rear Admiral Doperre. They coutiatte to throw bombs on Sand Petri. The sea is good, and the wind is from the north, blowing favourable for our opera tions. The taking of Puntales will decide the question. ANDUJAR, 56P1'..17.-At length we have the certitude that Riego will not any longer fatigue oar troops who were in continnal pu , suit of him. At the moment I am writing you, he is here in prison. We expected him yesterday evening at 5 o'clock. All the people of Andu jar were on foot, and the fermentation was so great amongst the people, that we thought at one period that the small I camber of troo?s which composed the garrison of the town were not sufficient to prevent their coming to extre mities. entered the town, escorted by .10 Men of the 4'h Hussars, end some peasants who arrested him ; the lsttter did not lose sight of him for a moment. On his entering here, Riego had on one side of him an English Colonel who was taken prisoner with him. They were both on horseback, dressed in grey coats, without any decora tions. This evening the 500 prisoners, taken at (inter by the Chasseurs of the Guard, were brought here. They are placed in a Convent. MADRID, Sept. 20.—Government has received accounts direct from Cadiz of the 14th. Their Majesties, and the Royal Family, were in good health. We are waiting great events which will take place under the walls a Cadiz ; hut we can announce, as remarkable, that today the Guardstle corps, who are at Madrid, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march for!Andalusis.—(flestaurador.) Pants, Sept. ts.—The Journals of Madrid do not notice the report, which was spread, that the Ambassadors of the great Powers have been called to Port Saint Mary's ; there fore we must believe they were not wanted, or they have refnsed.—(From the Memorial Bordelais.) Vrrronta, Sept. lS.—We are assured that the King has refused to sign certain conditions, proposed by General Alava, which the Cortes were anxious to have done. Great movements hate been observed in the maritime prepara tions, which indicate a vigorous attack against the Island of Leon. PUTCCIII34 Sept. 17.—News has ben "spread that the Constitutionalists were attacked by the Baron d`F.roles, in the Val de Rives, and that 500 men were killed and the rest took to flight. Ax, Sept. 19.—They write from Pitycerda, under the date of yesterday, that there is nothing to fear on the sub ject of the movement of the Constitutionalists, who are between Camprodon and Olot, and who are pursued by Baron d'Eroles and a French General. BAYONNIt, Sept. B.—The capitulation of Cuidad Rodrigo is announced today. The Governor of that place is a particular friend of Morino. NRPIGNAN, Sept. 17.—1 t is asserted that several French refugees and Piedmontees have been shot, in sight of the Citadel of Figueras. This fortress will not resist much longer. (PROM THE PILOTE, SEPT. 26.) Mamma, Sept. U.—The last journey of General Alan to St. Mary's, had for its object, to inform the Duke d'An croulenie that the Constitutional Government would not agree to his propositions, and that it was decided to main. t tin the Constitution to the last moment of their breath.— rie division of Quesalla is entirely destroyed in the affair of Torre:nacho. The French &assents, who bad joined that division, it is said, by the intrepidity of their Chief were exposed to a superior force, anti a certain number o; them were made prisoners. The Constitutionalists bad 900 cavalry. 11‘voNNe, September 20.—We have not yet circum slantial accounts of the t.tking of Patnpeluna. We only know that the citadel was occupied on the 17th by the French, and that the troops of the Faith did not enter the citadel, nor the town, as they wished to do. Their Gen. Count d'Espagne is greatly enraged that he could not take possession of the capital of his Viceroy,—that of iaa• VS There is a long Report from Guilleminot, dated Port St. Mary, September 15, on the affair of Ballasteros and Itiego. lie calls it new det ails from Gen. Molitor. A report prevails on 'Change that the taking of Riego wants confirmation. It is also said t h at the Equinoctial g a les, Web blew haul on the sth, have forced our fleet from off Cadiz, and that the vessel which obstinately wanted to keep its station, has suffered much. There has not talcen place any serious engagement either by sea or by land, in the environs of Cadiz. It is said that an important pie& is circulated at Paris. It is a copy of a new Constitution by the Cortes, and sanctioned by the merchants and Sir %William A'Court. The Moniteur is silent as yet on the taking of Gener I Itiego, member of the Cortes, and :lid-de-Camp of his Ma' jesty Ferdinand VII. We cannot consider the letter of th Duke Reggio as official: it does not confirm it positively . The Etoile announces yesterday that bombs have been thrown on Santi Petri. We think that the Etoitc must be deceived, if the distance is examined which separates the point and that occupied by our armies. The public must be convinced that it must be projectiles of an extraordinary ulture to reach that point. This information is so palpable a falsehood, that it cannot remain long without being re fitted. By the arrival of a wail from Holland this morning, we have accounts from Batavia of the 23th of March, but they are not of general interest. The following are extracts from Dutch Papers of the 24th inst., and Limburg of the 19th inst BRUSSELS, SEPT• 22.-09 r papers begin to speak at ready of various changes in tt:e administration. The object is to simplify the transaction of the public business, and effect a reduction in the expeuces. A reduction of the army is spoken of. The public seems to take much interest in tli• proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce, thanking bis Majesty for his advice of 22d Augus•. We understand that the bureaus of the Ministers will leave L t this City for the ilague, on the 3d of Oct., and thrt the King will go to the Hague about the same time. CHRISTIANA, September s.—From the official accounts received by the Government, it should seem that that the harvest in Norway bas been indifferent; that it will be necessary to make up the deficiency by importation. STocsuoLst, September s.—As a thing quite new is a Court of Justice, we have mention that a Swedish Academy, which has the privilege of publishing the State Gazette, is indicted for a libel in that Journal. The trade of Swett , n, with Alexandria, has extremely increased fur the last seven year', 400 ships having visited that port. Sr. PETERSBURG, September 5.--Count Nesselrode goes from hence to Odessa, and then proceeds to join the ElK peror. Several American vessels have lately arrive:l at Cronstadt. In enteral trade has been very brisk; for some time great quantities of sugar Las been imported, and tallow to a great amount exported. FRANKFORT, September It —Several Autcrian battalions belonging to the corps of Slutterheitn, are returning from Italy, through Tyrol, Viroul, The present fair is worse than was expected. All are hastening to Leipsig in hopes of better success; but it is to Le foreseen that great scarcity of money will be felt there. Although the capture of Riego has become probable, from the reiteration of the circumstance from misses sources, there is still a possibility, in the absen:e of ali account of the events from the 12:h to the 17th inst. th►t he may not only have escaped, but that he may not have beta in any danger of capture. By a supplement to the Madrid Restaurador, we are informed that " the capitulation be " twcen Molitor and Ballasteros, bad been declared nail " and void by the Dake d'Angeuleme, in consequence of " the defection of the troops of Ballasteros, and theirjuncties "with those of Riego." ltihat became of the army of Rieg which must have been considerable after thisjaection? Roo came Riego to be found almost unattended, after such as event as the induientent of the troops of Ballasteros MOW him. The united divisions must have composed a respect . able force ; and they would hardly be soon totally diapers. ed, even by a defeat, as to leave their commander, and such an oflicer,only in company with two or three individuals.We I trust, as much for the sake of the Spanish Ultras as that of Riego, ti.at the intelligence is unfounded ; for we can easily • gather from the savage rejoicing. of the royalist fattier, that if they can have their will, he will be made the ob. ject of some brutal exaltation, and perhaps of were torture. The royal blood-hounds are of coarse cheers on to sanguinary measures, by the New Times;—bat they should remember that the Constitutionalists, if they have any portion of manly spirit, will revenge the murder of Riego, by the instant sacrifice of every foreign std domestic prisoner to his manes. We cannot help smilio at the clumsy manner in which the New Times apses the natural malignant ferocity of its editor. He real• tulates all the acts of cruelty which bare been runtevel against Riego, as positive, admitted, and notorious lam; while not one has been authenticated, and from the het information we can gather, no act of unjustifiable semis can be itnputed to him. The editor of the New Times— himself first a revolutionist, and then a hireling of opps site opinions—says of Riego—" this is one of the wretches " who has most disgraced the Spanish Revolution" Ad again " such wretches as Riego, Mina, and Rom. are a di4grace to the military character; al " should be tried by the common mucicipl less " of the country for the murders which they law " committed in violation of all law, civil or military' " human or divine." it would be unnecessary to givL a writer as this, any epithet. The naked political yin. , the innate thirst of blood, the depravity of the hart • could prompt such language, must be apparent to Nothing but a desire to bathe Spain iudiscriminately w with foreign and with native blood, poured out is es vagant profusion at the shrine of the Moloch of l tisem could have suggested the judicial murder of • ' brave men, whose only crime las been to defend country against the unprovolced 'Measles) of a host , foreign banditti. Their offences have been the manly able support of the national independence—an obser • - of their oaths of allegiance to the representatives the people —and the coercion of the traitors It . would have sold them to the common enemy. Tb mortal offence, particularly of Mina and Roten. ate t constant defeat of the French enterprises against them: and the scorn with which theylswe resisted all attempts , bribe them from their duty. Fur this, the genitoof jai r cial murder is invoked. They are not to be treated assn t diers, nor tried by a military tribural ; but the menitk^i law, administered by cowardly wretches. is to' e timbal's meat of shedding their blood, with gresoer certainty. 'Po principles promulgated by this wretched editor, 00 0 justify the execution of every individual is tie it vatting army, from the Duke d'Angouleine to * meanest drummer in the serviee. la Spain, they have neither right to interfere, nor Wier to rem tin, they are nothiog but lawless robot.*' ( " ussassins:"—and there is no doubt that the mullet d ltiego would be followed by retaliatory massacres $ sides. His sacrifice should be the signal for letting log assassination, and multiplying eeecutions in every geom . . Such a state of things would probably delight the NO of the New Times beyond measure :—but the French Co manders will probably have more regard for their Os safety, and the safety of their soldiers. than to alw them to the justifiable revenge which the sanction ofsstba murder would originare—tban to allow the Royalitt of furious monks, and fanatic nobles, to wreak UAW goinary vengeance on the head of a gallant though 0 1 ' unite soldier. I ~. Di ini tit •9 in CI al th cc