The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-03 00:00:00

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General William Pepe, dated Castel di Sangro,
twenty leagues from I his capital. It is as follows:
The corps commanded by General Pepe was chiefly com-
posed of legionaries and provisional militia, who were ',artily
assembled on the first ■uouuneement of the movement. of
the Austrian troops, and who never believed the was iu which
we were engaged.
it With this corps General Pepe bad to guard the valley or
Rovelo, Antroduco, Leone's', mot the Trouto.
The enemy appeared in force is the neighbourhood of Civita
nucleic. Amoug the courses which General Pepe bad it in
his power to follow, the most prudent was to dela:m.llr from
his positiou and to attempt an estensive reconnoissance. On
the morning of the 7th he attacked the enemy near Itieti,
sad at the same time directed an a•tark to be made near
Lermessa by three battalions. The national troops. and par-
ticularly those of the line, drove bark the enemy with the
greatest bravery. A dent battalion of the cipitanats distin-
guished itself iu the fir►t line, as did a demi battalion of the
3d light infantry.
" In waits did the enemy deploy all his easalry in the plain
of Rion, our sharpshooters handled the limners severely, and
killed a great number of them, including some superior
ofli7ers.
•' After a warm fire bail continued fur seven bonus, the
enemy brought lip fresh reinfureemente. 11 i. siundwrs soon
hi came very superior to our.. The G. trend urdereil a re-
treat, whirls was effected without may of our tinkles reeds,-
ing either a musket shot or sabre tut. Rot the enemy ad-
yenned; the lire of his artillery threw loses disooder the se-
cond hue of our militia, who, prrae•iviti that the troop'
composing the first line were retreating, hi hewed the coups
defeated which il.ey had so bravely susion.eil fur *repo boors
under the honest lire. Many of the battabuu of militia dis-
persed,
" Th► enemy, mitpriseil at the conrage our troops had
opposed to them, did nut •enttne to advance on ■ny I 1;
but bating learned from spies the disorder which bad tadreis
place, he seised the propdiuss moiorrit, nod irwal with
loge masses to forte the passage of Assiroelseu. This do
file was defended with e create %slime lay the brave General
Russo, whose troops (might well; but our troop. were osi ?-
come by tiiiirtheis, and the defile was carried. Genet al Pepo
moved his hem, guiltier. to So11114)11:1, suit uu the 11th
to caste! di 24111101, whore lie intends to it compose leis
corp., and to presi•ul to the enemy Illast se.ivtatate alt ch he
"light lo exist el from IN enpoh iao seddti•ra alien recw.crial
from a first tosrpro.e. Thls corps wilt be ireognize,d and
will be rendered northy of the esteem of the cattily aad the
a itiuss."

The journal adds to this bulletin, that G•neral
Pepe has disollyed all the coolutas and bravery of
H veteran. We err, however. assured that lie is
this day expccte4 in the capital, and that lie is re.
played in hi. command by General FilAngieti.
It way yi avidity asinniniced that the army of the
cent re and that 4.1 the kb, iii which are sunny troops
of the line, are tranquil in their cantonments; hut it
at the .ante finis stated that the Prince Regent
laid gone to the head•gasriers of the first corps of
the army ; that he found every thing there in good
order, and that General Cairasensa was mat cetiviiog
with his well-known ability to support the second

corps,.
It is added, that Mass Verditiosi, whose en-
lumn ssuAninest oo Ins, was in the province of
Chios, and that he would embarrass the etstuty by
man moat log nu his fl auks.
We Icarus to.day that a Council of IVar, presided
by the Prince Regent, has been held at Canna.
On the breaking up of Ilse Council the Pounce
sent Li-utenaist-Gesieral Fairlella to Florence on a
mission to the King.

MILAN, M %RIM 41.

General Fardells, who wits slisoutclnd by the
Duke of Ceilabel' to the King of !Shiites, tell Flo.
relive on the 191 h, to won) to Naples with a letter
adiltewseill to Ins Royal Highslew.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED NAPLES,
iaARCH 14.

" On the gth the Austrian' advanced and attack-
ed the posit:cm which towered Aquila. It riopearu
that they met with WI reeietatice, us all fled at their
approach; and even the defiles ul Antiod tiro, where
a few men would have stiffived to arrest the pro-
gress of a whole corps or the enemy, were aban-
doned. The militia and legioitury troops fled Irmo
their colour'. At length the whole army of Gene-
ral Pepe disappeared, rind he arrived alone at Cas-
tel di Saitgro.
" It is said that the runaways hoeing committed
some excesers iii the places through which they
pawed, the city rifSulaiona closed its gates against
them. The army of Cura.croirr, which found itself
in danger of being cut OF, has received orders to
abandon the ellifellehrd c:tinp of NIA:-,matin and the
line of the Gortigli•no., awl to retire to C•pua by
that or the Voltorito.

" As soon as the news of this defeat was received,
the Prince Regent coin 1111 l hieateil it to the Parlia-
ment, alto adopted the 11.1111.11010:1 of s.ndiag an
address of rnbnriss•on to the King. It lids bets,
carrted by General Pruden*, Aide-de-catup to the
Duke of Calabria.

" Orders have been issued for recalling part of
the troops to Nei'let., fur the pnrposc of preserving
the tranquillity of the city.
" There remains here .no symptom of agitation;
the lio)al Faintly have athernlnored the ',twice of
plug to Messina, and will telllUlll herr."

SPANISH PAPERS.

MAHON, MARCH G.

On the 28th of February the Spanish ornitil
brig Jasoa 'wiled from the Bny of Aigtero. 'rise
Captain, Duo Pedro Muclieu, bid a conference with
our Consul at Algiers, tind brings wind tlint the
Algeriurs were arming three ships of war will' all
expedition to cruiwe against the Spahiardn, became
the latter have nut paid the accustomed tribute.

MADRID, 'LARCH 18.

We have seen with satisfaction in the Guzette of
to-day. a Royal Order. which fixes the coovelits
which are to he pie+erved in Madrid arid its pro-
vinces, and points out those which are to be sup-
pressed. In Madrid ►ixtrett convents are to be
preserved. The religious belonging In tinny which
are to be suppressed will be united with other
convents. A proorlionste number of convents
will be suppressed at Toledo. Guailtilsjeux,
and smaller places in the neighbouring province*.

CI:M/1 NA. MARCH 7.
On the (id instant, at eleven at night, M. Cien-
fuegos, who acts as Deputy Political Chief at
Lino, proceeded to arrest the person and extunitte
the correspondence. of 13osi ‘'ioceist Lopez, Croon
of this Cathedral, accused of keeping up a aus-
picious correapondeore. These suspicions %ere
chiefly founded on tile circuluatonce, that a letter
togs found upon a traveller going to Genoa, which
the Canon had given bun, for Drnt Mikoel
Freire y Castello, who is a refugee in that city.
After due esamtitatiou had been wade oothing ap-
peared 'gaunt Lopez, arhu had merely gireu SOOIC