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PARIS PAPERS. [From the Etoile of Sateartio.l GENERAL HEAD.QUARTERS. Fora ST. MARY, SEPT. 11.—Hostilities COll - In a few days there will be a grand attack : every thing is prepared for it. General Bourmont set off yesterday for Rotta : he is to direct the disembarkation. Monseigneur is gone to animate with his presence all'our warlike pre parations. A great deal of artillery has been broaght from Chiclani, whither the head-quarters are to be transferred. All is in confusion at Cadiz. , The Cortes wished to esiltblish a council of defence, and to make Admiral Valdez president of it ; bet he refused, declaring that he considered the means of defence to be insufficient. - The city is in consternation. The pavement of Clic streets is broken up, anti the.flat roofs of the houSes are covered with dung. P.S. Within three times 24 hours great events will take place. His Royal Highness is going to Cbiclana to direct the attack, which will take place' on the side of Fort St. Petri, while our marine will bombard Cadiz. Several persons pretend that General Alava, Net' of the moderate party, returned here yes- tsni a y Our soldiers demand the attack with loud cries. Nothing can equal their ardour and their ci;thusiasm. Pants, SEPT. 20.—The 12,000 men assembled at Navarre under the orders of Marshal the Mar quis] do Lauriston will instantly direct their march to Lower Catalonia. Reuss and Lerida will not be long in follow ing the example of Pampeluna. One may judge of.the effect which will be produced by 12,000 addftional men arriving in Catalonia. Rear-Admiral Duperrey was to arrive yester dey.before Cadiz. Every thing may be expected from the talents and ardour of this new Admiral. (From the Journal del Debate.) . • We yesterday gave a formal contradiction to the Pilate, and to the journals - .which had copie d It, relative to a pretended protest of the Regency . of Spain against the Andujar decree. To that article was joined an address from the Royal Volunteers of Navarre; but it was omitted to be _ mentioned, that as soon as the Regency obtained informatien of that address, it was suppressed, and orders issued for prosecuting the authors. — The Regency only consented to stop the prosecu tion on the application of Marshal Lauriston, who became surety to the Regency for the Navarre Volunteers repairing their fault under the walls of Pempeluna, where, in fact, they have fought with great valour. All these efforts, which evi dently haVe. for their object the disunion of the Spanish Royalists • and the libetating army—all these efforts will prove vain. ' • [From the Moniteurl Camp. Marshal Baron Higonet, commanding the blockading brigade of St. Sebastian, ad .dressed the following letter on the 14th of Sep tember to Count Richard, Commander of the 11th division (sth army corps) And the blockade: "My General, —I have the honour to report to you that, c o n formably to your orders, I yes terday proceeded with the Colonel of your Staff, the Sub-Prefect of, Bayonne, an d M . Lnone, member of the Sanitory Intendancy of Bayonne, to the canal of Passage, in order to establish. the, Sanitory Cordon to lirevent the malady which has appeared in that town from extending itself outwardly. 44 For this purpose I stationed the 4th com p-any of the 52d regiment on the mountain of Alezo, where it‘will guard all the roads between • the sea and that village which lead to Passage. The first section of the sth company remains at Mean, to watch the road to'Passage, aed the ford at that . place. The .second section of the 'sth company is established at Reinteria ? to guard in second ihie alt tho debauches from that town to Passage. 46 The Gth company occupies the Peninsula on the right of the road from Reinteria to the Mill of Abolina; and the company of Voltigeors ex tend, approximating to the canal as much a pos.; sible, from Abolina to Aka, which latter place is occupied by a company of the 19th Light . ta guard the creek of, Erera. Another company of the same regiment, ur a detachment of Spanish Royalists, will complete the blockade across the mountain of Ulla. The .24 gendarmes arrived. from Bayonne with the four companiesof , the 52d, are distributed between Alezo, Reinteria, and A Iza, and are only employed in patrolling. " These arrangements leave to the inhabitants of Passage ,the enjoyment of the Peninsula (which extends from the mountain of Alec) to the sea, and which is. covered with villas unit farm-Louses, and in which there are fountains s u pply in g ex cellent water), which may be of great advantage to the inhabitants in protecting them against the contagion. The cordon is drawn upon a radius of two leagues, with posts tied sentinels so near, that it is quite imposiihle for any inhabitant of Passage to pass it without being perceived, though the troops required for forming it do not exceed 500 men. " I have also to inform you, that in all the villakes adjacent to the canal I have experienced the greatest zeal on the part of the authorities to contribute to the means of defending us from the contagion , The preceutitels you have ordered, the good spirit of the inhabiients, the advauced period of the season, and the little intensity of the malady, which has as,yee Only had about a score of victims, ought to give us almost Cern.. plete confidence - , more particularly as one of our ships of war blockades the entrance to the port. " I have the honour to be with . resPects etc. " Baron HICiONET. ' " P.S. On the 15th the malady had made qo farther pro gress. The number of the sick was.l7. Th e Surgeon-Major of the 41st regiment,, who felllll on the 12th, after having, along with his colleague of the 19th Light, opened the body of g man who died of the diswder, is much better, thanks to the heroic care of his friend who would not leave him. Marshal Lauriston lest no time in sending to Passage Dr. Audouart, who acquired so much celebrity at Barcelona.' ARMY .OF THE PYRENEES. nrroaT OF MARSUAL LAURISTON TO' HIS IXCEL LENCY THE MINISTER OF WAR. 01ICOYEN. NEAT!. PAMPEtUNA, Sept. 14. " MONSIEUR Le,MAttsom.,—The necessity of .driving in all the exterior posts of Pampeluna, to enable the engineer officers' to reconnoitre the fortress, determined me to make the attack of the 3d of September, of which I have had the honour to render your Excellency . an account. That operation, which rendered us.masters of the suburb of Rocheappen, led me to make demon strations on the right bank of the Arga, fronting the town, and on the bastion Gonsague, the ob ject of which was to divert the attention of the garrison. A.trench was opened from the Maison Blanche to San Pedro, and 'another from the Maison Blanche to the Maison Carree. A mien was--t r aced out on the top of the curtain, and a 1...! Most under the glacis of the bastion Gonsague, which could be approached very closely unob.;' served, by favour of the inequalities of the ground.' Meanwhile, batteries of mortars Occupied the attention of the fortress. An entreprit of 50 pieces of artillery, brought from our great park, and depots of gabions and fascines were formed behind the front of the line of attack projected' against the citadel, in the little valley which closely approaches it from the Prince's fort, and which terminates at the Arga, near Zizur.Najor. " These preliminary arrangements being com pleted, I determined on the night of the 10th to open the trench Against the salient point of the citadel, the bastion Santa Maria,•and the adja cent half-moons. The works were to be' com menced at the distance of 200 toiSes from the glacis ; theoature of the ground favoured this bold measure, which had the advantage of occa:- stoning the first parallel to be opened at the distance at which the second usually commences, which will supersede the necessity of ourmaking a third. I adopted the ideas suggested by Gen. Garbe; particularly that of furhishing the pioneers with gabions, in order to compensate by this act of prudence for the boldness of our first opera tion; and to spare the blood of our soldiers.— Three thousand five- hundred pioneers armed with muskets, and furnished with tools and gabions, were,' with seven Chosen companies of French guards, directed from the assembling po i n t s on the ground, by engineer and staff officers, amidst a violent storm, which. at first impeded or retarded .all- our movements,' but without shaking the firmness of our troops. - A detachment from the Royalist division of the Spanish General was combined with the French detachments, and shared their ardour and duvet edness. The picked companies were distributed along the front and wings, to protect the works under the direction of Gen. Fernig and Colonel Schneider, commanders of the trenchei ; and Col. Desehallards, trench major. Gen.Garbe, asssisted by Lieut.-Col. Lafaisle, and. the battalion corn ma:iers Lemercier, Demerits, and Repecaud, stationed labourers on the line, and all set to work. vigorously. The rain, perhaps, for a moment favoured our enterprise, and diverted the vigilance of the enemy ; but the noise of our pick an.es strikik on a pebble apiloccasioned a shower of fire to be directed upon our line, which, how ever,.was fortunately 'in ~ p art protected by the gabions. Meanwhile the firing of grape-shot and musketry from 'the fortress was soon directed on our pioneers, but in a vague and undecided way, and the bails, for the most part, passed beyond the line, because we were not supposed to be so near. The works were perseveringly continued , throughout the night, and at day-break the pa rallel extended three feet deep and four wide, along an extent of 2,000 toises, with a good corn munication completed on the left, and . one traced out in the centre. In the morning the enemy commenced a vigorous - firing upon the pioneers who lied relieved those who had worked during the night ; but they were everywhere well co vered,and, by singular good fortune, we have not had more, than 8 or 10 men slightly wounded this operation, and not one killed. " Iminettiately after I turned my attention to the works of the artillery, the batteries of which were established along this front of attack. •Be ing confident of the Weakness of the enemy's gar rison, which I mean to fatigue, I have constantly kept up the appearance of a diversion against the front of the city,_in the direction of the road lead ing to Tolosa. I shall.throw away some works and some cannon balls; but my object is to acce lerate the mounting of the batteries in the paral lel and the covered way of the engineers, in or der speedily to silence the fire of the citadel, and to approximate the fire of - our infantry to the ramparts, so as not to afford the gunners of the fortress a moment's respite ; and, finally, to lose no time in crowning the covered way, and bat tering in breach. in two days I hope to he enabled to epee the fire, and the attack being once seriously commenced, will not relax. I shall - be careful to communicate to your Excel lency our successive operations, until they attain the result we are entitled. to hope for, " Accept, st.c., " The Mar s h a l Marquis de LAURISTON." [Here follows the Telagraphic Dispatch, dated Orcayen, the 17th, announcing the capitulation of the town and citadel.] [From the Courier Frangaiel (PatVATE LETTitt..) VIENxO, SEPT. B.—Conversation in our political circles gmerally turns on the motives which cart, on the sudden, have decided our Emperor to undertake this autumn 'a journey to Poland, at th e moment when another journey of his Majesty ro his Italian totes was announced. Besides the pressing invi. tations of the Emperor Alexander, it is believed that the units of the East have a great part in this determination. Not only. P r i nce Metternich, but also the Russian Privy Councillor Ta t:Naha,: will be present at the interview of the two,Emparors.-- It is known that the latter has been long destined for the cm htssy at Gonftantinople, and that the only cruse which hitherto has prevented the departure of this skilful diplomatist for the 13osphorus, is the obstinacy with which the Porte insists on tho surrender of the fortresses of the Caucasus, in execution of the last Treaty of Peace. It is said that the Rele Effendi has again declared to Lord Strangford and Baron Ottenfeli, that without this previous restitution, any direct negotiation between Russia and the Porte was impracticalile. On the other hand, Gen. Yer maloff, the Russian Govern& of Terns, in Georgia, called upon to declare his opinioti on this retrocession, has declared, that' it was of the highest importance to Russia to preserve these fortresses to guarantee the southern part of the empire against the incursions of the Tartars, as well as against a sudden at tack of the Turks or Persians. It is difficult at this moment to foresee how this negotiation will be terminated. The friends of humanity flatter themselves still with the hope of seeing some change in the policy of the Austrian Cabinet, and hope that Christian Princes will at last take some measures favour able to the Greeks. Perhaps this wished-for moment is at length arrived. Already Or Britain, as the Ministerial Journals themselves clearly siN, appears determined to change its system towards Greece properly so called. The impotence , of the Porte to reduce it by force appears also nearly demon stinted. Our Sovereign will set out on the 18th. The King of Prussia has, it is said, been also invited, but his answer is not known. Hitherto no important news can, have been re ceived from Rome. The Conclave was definitively - closed on the 3d, by Prince Augustin Chigi, Marshal of the Conclave.— The persons who flattered themselves that Archduke Rayner of Austria, Cardinal Archbishop of Olmutz, would obtain the Tiara, seem ( less confident for some time. It appears that the great majority of the college is certainly against this choice. Neither is it thought that Cardinal Hercules Gonsalvi, who has exercised an all powerful influence at the end of the reign of Pius VII., will succeed. . A powerful party is formed against him. PARIS, SEPT. 20—. The Journal des Debats declares, that the Protest of the Regency of Spain against the execution of the decree of Andnjar, given in our Number of the 18th, is a fabrication. "It was not necessary," says that Journal, "to make a great critical effort to perceive that such an impropriety (inconvenance) was impo , sible." We have no positive data which authorise us to maintain the authenticity of this docu ment ; all that we can say is, that it was printed at Madrid, and that it bears the following indication—" From the Press of Jose Canada." But if the contradiction of the Journal des Dubai: is only founded on the propriety or impropriety of the Protest, we may, with reason, decline deferring to such an authority. When they did' not stop at the impro priety of suspending at Madrid the execution of the orders of the Prince, when the Journals of the regency were guilty of • the impropriety of publishing articles full of violence, against the decrees of Andujar ; when in the provinces the de legates of the Regency fell Into the impropriety of formally refusing to execute the decree ;, when in some towns the sol diers of the Regency fell into the impropriety of revolting against the French Authorities, because they conformed to the will of the Prince, we do not see that it can be asserted that thelProtest in question is false on account of its improprieties. On the contrary, it seems to us, after so many improprieties, that one impropriety more is net improbable, or above all ins. possible. • CORRESPONDENCE between the DUKE of REGGIO and the SPANISH REGENCY. SERENE SlR—After the verbal assurances which your Serene Highness gave me, that the insolent Addresi of th e Army of Navarre should not see the light, r have been extreme. ly sorry to learn that at this moment it is printing at the print. ing office of Called°. In consequence of this I have taken the necessary measures to stop the whole impression ; and to pre. vent the publication of any copies which may be struck off, I am about to' make every possible inquiry to learn the source of this strange proceeding, and to punish, very severely, those who may have been guilty.—Madrid, August 30, 1023, Exc ELLeter Sta—The Regency has received, with painful astonishment, the letter which your Excellency addressed to it this day. It repeats, by writing, those assurances it gave you verbally, viz.—no legitimate authority would give, and in fact has not given, the permission necessary to have the document in question printed. The Regency has, however, taken measures to know how all this has happened ; and although its agents have found the printing office of Cal , lado surrounded by French gendarmes, as if the legitimate Government of Spain had not a sufficient number of public functionaries, the Regency has learnt that the printer, de ceived by some unknown persons, expected every moment to receive thq permission to print the Address, and had, in conse quence, begun the work. The Regency begs that your Excel. lency will cause the papers seized to be put into the hands of a Judge of the first instsnce, in order that the tribun a l s ma y punish this excess. God preserve your Excellency. Madrid, August M. • SERENE Sum--I have the honour to transmit toyour Highness herewith, a copy of the written permission, in virtue of which r, the printeat Callado's thought. himself authorized to print the insolent Address of the army of Navarre. In fact he was authorized : for I gun informed that the signature at the bottom o f t h e p erm ission is that of the person appointed by your Highness to exercise a Censorship over the press. I shall send an extraordinary courier to his Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme, giving him an exact account of every thing which has passed, and demanding from his Royal Highness the ne cessary authority for preventing similar excesses in future from opposing the paternal views of my august Sovereign with re. gard to Spain. In the mean time, without passing the limit of the authority w ith which I am invested, I shall know how to put a stop to the effrontery, the spirit of discord, and the in solence of certain Spaniards. I have the honour, &c. Madrid, Sept. 1, 1023. STATE OF GREECE. ADDITIONAL rAcTs, SUBMITTED TO THE GREEK COMMITTEE, BY MR. BLAQUIERE, ON THE AC.. TUAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE MOREA, AND OTHER POINTS OF THE CONFEDERATION, READ ON SATURDA Y, SEPT• tOTII, 1823 Having in the Report which I had the honour of presenting to your Committee in its last Meet-. ing endeavoured to remove those unfounded statements which have circulated throughout Europe with regard to the Greek contest, and operated so unfavourably' to. the Greeks, as well as to establish the clairstr . of that unfortunate people to the support and sympathy of the Christian - world, I s hall now' proceed to state such particulars relative to the civil and military organization of the ffellenists, the territory they have acquired, their means of defence, and general resources, as may be of use to your Com mittee in drawing up an appeal to the British .nation, founded on the first Report. Your Committee is aware that the political code of the Con federation, or law of Epidaurus, as it is more commonly called, established that the system of Governtnent should be elective, consisting of Representatives chosen by the people, and an Executive of five Members, selected from the Legislative Body. There are, besides, Ministers of Finance, War, Interior, Pub lic Instruction, and Poli ce , . na m e d by the Executive for carry. I ng its decrees into effect; also a ,Secretary General, charged with the management of foreign relations ; this last office is ' now held by Prince Mavrocordato, the late President. The duties and power's, allotted to each department of the state, were prescribed by . the l aw o f Epidaurus, • and, as already , stated, several salutary modifications and improvements took p' Ace during the meeting at Astros : s and I cannot omit re p 'sting that the institutions of England and NOrth America . v.r 3re those to which the legislators of Greece chiefly looked for precedents and models. It is scarcely necessary to repeat to your Committee that, independently of` the measures adopted there for regulating the finances and collecting the revenue, the greatest importance was attached to the providing, without loss of time, for a general system of public education, as the best means of proving to Europe the anxiety of the Greek people to re-acquire that knOwledge of Which they had bee* deprived by centuries of oppression. The amount of revenue gllected for this year is necessarily very limited, and chiefly derived from farming out the crops on the national domains, of which only a small portion were sown. The crops on the Blain of Uastouni, in the Mores, one of the finest in the world, and which was even this year worth five millions offrancs, only yielded a sum of 800,000, owing to its vicinity to Patras. That. of Argos, equally rich, though of much less extent, has been in fallow ever since the invasion of last year ; there is however little doubt of its being all turned to account in the coming season. Your Committee will, not think my general statements exaggerated, when I add, that the produce of Candia, in oil alone, amounts on an average to 400,000 barrels per annum, and that each of them brings an average price of eight Spanish dollars in the markets of Prance and Italy. With respect to the naval and military organization, it is necessarily very imperfect : this arises exclusively from the want of pecuniary means ; for, as yet, it has been totally im possible either to levy . taxes to any considerable amount, on a people who were kept in a state of the most abject poverty and dependence on their late oppressors, much less to take advan tage of a soil the most prolific in Europe. Although nearly the whole male population of the Alorea, capable . of carrying arms, is provided with pistols and atta gansi the number which can take the field is comparatively limited, depending almost entirely on , the means possessed by the leaders, each of whim has hitherto been unable to employ more followers than he could provide for out of his personal resources, and the scanty and precarious aid of Government. These troops are also supplied with muskets, and are led by several chiefs or Capitani. The wants and privations of the Greek army are of a nature the most discouraging. When I state that there is not more than a third of the number, thus employed in saving a whole people from extermination, sup plied with sufficient clothing to shelter them from the incle mencies of a mountain warfare, that they often march forty miles a-day, almost invariably sleep in the oiren air, and fre quently pass two or three days without any o T er food than the herbs of the field, the astonishment of your Committeel at the bravery and perseverance of the Greek soldiery will not, I am sure, be 'diminished. ' Though the number of horses taken from the Turks, and now in the Morea, is sufficient to mount from t to 8,000 cavalry, it will be impossible for the Government to avail itself of this species of force until provided with funds. From the above facts, I need hardly add, that the Greek army receives no pay whatever. The general mode, adopted by the chiefs, is to advance a small sum to each soldier previ ous to entering the field r with this he provides himself with bread, tobacco, and whatever other necessaries he may require, as far as the supply will go ; for it very seldom exceeds -two Spanish dollars. - The naval efforts of the Confederation, like those of the army, have been principally, if not altogether, supported by the pa triotism and public spirit of a few individuals at Hydra, Spezzia, Ipeara, and Samos. There have not been less than a hundred ships and vessels of various sizes, employed at the meat fitie n o ceof l a s b t o nule about thirty dyasnhipte number -ohwn ers, sinceevheras,on more than commen ce. occasion, extended to one hundred and eighty. As the mer cantile marine of Greece had always been arrneetto a certain extCnt, there required nothing more than an additional number of seamen to enable the fleets- to obtain those triumphs, by which the enemy has lost three line of battle-ships, a large frigate; and several smaller vessels, not to mention the various expeditions, which have been directed against the coast of Asia Minor, Candle,. and other points. The Greek seamen, who amount to about 20,000 of the most expert in Europe, receive no regular pay ; all theyrequire for their services is the means of su b s i stence - f or their families. I am enabled to assure your Committee, that the delay, which has unhappily occurred in the naval operations of the present campaign, was occasioned altogether by the want of funds to make the necessary advances to the seamen. There is, how ever, just ground of belief, that, though almost exhausted by former sacriiices, the patriots of the above.narned Islands have again come forward; and that a very formidable fleet is now at sea. I need scarcely add, that the exertions of the Gre e k N a vy are greatly cramped, and must continue to be retarded, until the. Government possess the means of providing for its penile neat organization. It is with such means as Ihave thus shortlypointed out, that above a hundred thousand of the infidels, whose path was marked with carnage and devastation during the first two years of the contest, have been destroyed, and the wh o l e o f t h e Aro rea, Lived's, Negropont, a great portion of Romelia in Epirus, together with the islands of Candle, • Alilo, Naxia, Tin_ ,o My. conos, Skyro, Samos, A n d ro , Zea, Patterns, Serpho, Hydra, Spezzia, and Ipsara, have been conquered. There being_ only a few isolated points in the enemy's possession, ' viz.—. l lene„ Corinth, Patras .Alodon, Coron, and Cary a t a , on t h e cont i nent, and Canea and Retymo in Candia. Here I should add, that . all of these places are either in a state of siege or closely block. -ailed. The number of Turks shut up within the walls, and who cannot leave the gates without falling into the hands of the Greeks, does not exceed 10,000 men, two-thirds of w h om f or mthe garrison of , Patr as . Unprovided with battering and field. trains, the chief means possessed by, the Greek forces for re. ducing the above points, are confined to a rigorous system of blockade, and occasional assaults. Until; however, they are furnished with more extensive means, particularly besieging materials, it is to be feared th a t mos t o f t h e strong holds I have mentioned will remain in the power of the enemy. It is there. fore obvious, that next to a supply of money to pay the troops, and upon which I offered my humble opinion in the report of Saturday last, light and field.artiliery, Congreve-rockets, sphe. 'rice' case-shot, implements for pioneering, and scaling-ladders, would be amongst the most acceptible offerings which your Committee could send to the struggling Greeks. .1 have in more than one in s t a nc e p o i nte d out the inutility of sending troops to Greece, while those who are already there have such inadequate means of existence, no wonder that the German auxiliaries sent out should be reduced to a state of the greatest misery and privation. In deprecating the policy of sending soldiers, I recommended that a few skilful artisans should be seut under a steady and competent direction. I now beg leave.,to repeat , this suggestion. Your Committee is fully aware that no individual should attempt to visit Greece as a volunteer in the cause, without being provided with money enough to pay his expences for 12 months at least Touching the resources of the Confederation, I have stated tti,your Committee, that not less than nineteen twentieths of the territory, now in • the hands of The Greeks, belonged to Turkish masters. When it is added that little more w left to the people than the mountainous and arid districts, some notion may be formed of the riches which they will acquire, whenever a distributio n o f t h e nat i ona l domains takes place. These are, in the mean time, reserved by the Government as guarantees for any foreign loan it may be induced to contract. —Without entering into those statistical details, which more properly belong to a regular work on the state of Greece, it may be of importance to observe that the staple productions, upon which the Greeks may calculate upon becoming one of the most opulent nations of _Europe, consist of corn, olive oil, wine, silk, wool, valonea, and fruit. The other sources of na tional wealth in Greece, will spring from the talents, industry, end enterprise of her sons, vuided by liberal institutions and an united governmen t . Such are the additional facts which I now beg to submit for the information of your Committee, but it is my duty to ap prize your Committee, that I have nearly completed a work, in which the 'origin and progress of the Greek struggle will be set forth in the clearest manner I can, and that in my attempt to vindicate the rights of Greece from the effects of envy, male volence' and falsehood, and to ' ex p taie h er unmerited wrongs, I shall be guided by the strictest regard to impartiality and truth. • (Signed) ED. BLAQUIERE. London, Sept 20, 1923. - , CHRIST'S HosnrrAL.--Yesterday, according to annual custom, the Ldrd Mayor, several Aldermen, and the Sheriffs, went in state from the Mansion -house to Christ Church, Newgste-street, where they were met by the Governors of the severe! Royal Hospitals. The congregation at the Church was highly respectable ; and a most excellent Sermon was preached by the Rev. William Granger Cantley, M.A., who received his education in tht Seminry. After thc serice they repaired to the Great Hall i a n Christ' a s Hospital, where a fashionable audi. ence.attended to hear the Anneal Latin and English Orations, delivered by the two senior scholars. The Latin oration was 'spoken by Master Arthur Willis, who, from his graceful,and emphatic manner of deliver'', received the greatest applause.-- The English oration was spoken by Master Charles Cotton, and made a sensible impression on all . present. The Lord Mayor sat at it table at the end of the Hall, supportee by the Aldermen and the Governors. Three rows of benches were appropriated for the visitors at each side, extending, the whde length of the Hal!. After the orations purses were hander! round, and a liberal contribution was bestowed for the benefit Of the youthful orators. We have received the Paris Pacers of Situr-* day, and have given copious extracts from them in our preceding columns. The news from the Duke of ANGOULEME'S bead•quar ters is of the 11th.-It is only characterized. by the heat and fury of war. All was ready for the grand attack, and within three days great things were to be accomplished. But the Duke of ANGOULEME has now been four weeks before Cadiz, and, with the exception of the affair of the 'rrocadero, nothing has as yet been *done. We still think that he is endeavour- . ing,ifpossible,to effect his purpose by threats, and by the diiplay of formidable preparations. We still think that he has sent for the Marques de TALARU, under the expectation that the business may be concluded by a negociation. And, we still hope, notwithstanding the general de spondency of 'the friends to the Spanish cause, that if the grand attack be really made, it will - - be unsuccessful.—All uncertainty, however, will on this subject be soon at an end. Time presses on the Duke of ANGOULEME. W take it to be certain that the French army cannot winter in their present situations in Spain. The season is far advanced ; and the Duke, there fore, must speedily decide, either: on granting a honourable peace to the Constitionalists. or on attempting that grand attack, the failure of w Lich might be fatal to his army, or on a retreat t+llitil would be not less ruinous than disgraceful. • W e have received the Madrid Royalist paper El Restagrarlor of the 15th, and El Iliestaurador Extraordinario of the same date. The ordinary publicationtains some unimportant decrees of the Regency ; the Extraordinario, which is stat ed to be printed for the purpose of calming the public anxiety on the events of Cadiz, gives the following articles relative to the operations against that place : ‘‘ PUERT O DE SANTA MARIA, SEPT. 10.—This morning we have observed great movements and maritime preparations, and every thing indicates an immediate and vigo rous muck en eye his. There have sailed hence, in the direction of San Lu. car, doubtless by order of General Villavicencio, fOur feluccas, with a considerable nu mter of seamen, towing three. vessels , fined for h av i ng bridges thrown over them. Fifteen feluccas and other useful vessels, with 150 seamen, have arrived at fanLuur iron: Ayainonte. A number of gun -boats are fitting out at that port, which - has been visited by" - General Bourmont. WEST INDIA DOCKS. DELIVERIES for the WEEK, and STOCK ON HAND, for the Week ending the 20th of September, 1823. Delivered. - con- Exports. Hand. ~.. ~ gumption. "''''" - f Hhds - 3,031 132 43,889 Sugar 1 Tierces . - - - 353 - 3,223 Rum j Puncheons - 203 378 28,175 1 Hhds - 4 11 1,312 Coffee . 5 Hhds and . Tierces • 141 739 13,579 I. Barrels and Bags 174 605 20,331 Cotton j Bales and Bags 30 - 660 & Pockets and Serons - - • . 29 Wine I Butts and Pipes 19 2 1,778 1 Ilhdi and i Casks 14 - - .969 Pimento / Casks - - 6 • 11 , 190 . *. Bags _ _ 48 292 '2,747 Ginger { I S' A : k -..s - - - 39 - ' 425 , C a sks Cocoa ' - - 8 - 71 573 5 1 Bags - - 5 - ' 440 Logwood Tons - - V 6 f 233 i 3,736 Fuatic Tons . . 8; - 1;776 Chests of Sugar - - - - . - 1,537 Casks of Molasses - - - - - - 8.815 440 3,736 1,776 1,537 8,815 PRICE O. • THIS DAY AT Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Red , - shut 3 per Cent. Cons . ....... 34 per Cent. Old s hut 4 per Cent. New - inn 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. Imp. 3 per Cents. V STOCKS . ONE O'CLOCIC. India Stock — India Bonds 64' South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 35 37 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons, for Acc., 83iiii PRICE or FOREIGN STOCKS Dr LONDON, SIPT; 23, AT ONE O'Cir.ooK. French i Five per Cents;9l. 1. Scrip, 2/ pr. ~ Six per Cents. 00. Russian Fiv e per Cents. (hletallic) 00. llitto New 84. Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. . Austrian Five per Cents. ( Metallic) 00. ( Five per Cent. onds, 1820, 00. Spanish 1 Ditto • 1821, 35g. Ditto , 1822, 294. Prupdan 1 Five per Cent. Botids, 881. I. Ditto New, 861. ' . Danish Five p er C ent . Bonds, 91. Chili 73k. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 551. Peruvian New Loan, 00. royals 14g. (Bank Shares .£2l 15s. , Seven per Cent. 00. American Six per Cent. 931-101%. Five per Cent. 98-100: • Three per Cent. 70. ' PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, SEPT. 20. Bank Stock 249' Grand Canal Loan,4 pact. — 3 Gov. Deb 3i per cent 95 —Ditto 6 per cont.... Stock, 3A per ct 93 —DittoStock Gov. Deb. 4 per cent. Royal Canal Stock Gov. Deb. 5 per cent. Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct — —Stock, 4 per cent. li Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec — —New 31 Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. Treasury Bills, 0 per cent. Do. 6 per cent. City Debentures, 5 per ct. Ballast Office Govt. Sec. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. 5 per cent. Exchange on London, Sept. 19, 8. HIGH WATER AT LONDO &laming, 14 minutes after .4. J BRIDGE TO-MORROW- Evening, 34 minute* after 4- THE SUN. SOLSJI QVIS DICEIIR F4LSUV AUDE.iT Y. LONDON, • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1,823.