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N.. 1,414.—V0L. XVI.

BAYONNE PAPERS.

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&tome, Aram, S.—We have no news from
Spain to-day. The mail Ins probably been stopped
the Royalists, who are posted at Berger*, and
Wan Ma sea the C=566%63110w'
'the emelt et which is not koowa ; but it was pga-
bably of *nail importances; as there are but few
troops of either party in that quartet. Zebela has
made a movement, the object of which appears to be
•to join his little corps to the Army of the Faith, as
soon as it shall appear on the Spanish territory.
General O'Donnell arrived here the day before
yesterday, doubtless to take the orders of the Duke
of Angouleme. It tensing to be seen whether, on
the return to the troops under his command, they
will extcute them. for it is certain they do not seem
well disposed to obedience.'
We learn from Iron, tirat the Political Chiefs of
the Spanish frontiers have had a meeting at Moil.
dragon, to concert the final arrangements for re.
moving all provisions, forrage, cattle, carriages. hi.
and withdrawing the inhabitants into .the interior,
in order to leave the country bare. This measure,
in fact, has alseallybeen ententedin part, for private
individuals have sent away all their valuable effects,
particularly provisions, to a distance from the pro-
bible scenes of military operations. It seems that
this want of resourees is foreseen by our Commander.
io•Chisf, for measures are taken to send to the front
provinces and necessaries for the army ; 200 wag-
gons loaded with such articles are to leave the city
to-morrow, and at least an equal number every suc-
ceeding day. The want of horses is much felt, and
those which have brought the pontoons here have
been purchased at a high price. The pontoons have
have arrived -here, and posed through without stop-.
-Obeveriredi es the letteseiems of the gat artillery.
The park of artillery at Pau has orders to proceed to
the Bidassoa, to cover the erection of the bridgehm.
The division of Autichamp, which it is said will be
one of the first divisions to enter, will occupy all the
west including Bilboa.
The line of telegraph is completed, and was
to be tried today, but the foggy weather has pre-
vented it.
Two English ships have entered.,: port : they
have on board-500,000 piaspel , sod they are con.
signed to Mr. Berlin, agent of the house of Roths-
child. The destination of the money is not known,
but it is supposed to be for the disbursements of the
Army of the Faith.
We have had almost at the same time the orders •
of the day, which are not public, but nevertheless
Akin. The second (of the first of' Aprile says, the
head-quarters of the first sups under Marshal
Oudinot are going to be removed to.Rorcegne, and
that the Prince will remove his. in a few-days to St.
Jean de Lux. Lastly, (the third) that a column of
Spanish prisoners, taken by the Royalist troops,. is
going to enter France by St. Jean Pied-de-port, and
to be sent to Toulouse. These, their orders of the
dip, are countersigned by Guilleminot, Major-Gen.
skewing, on one hand, that hostilities have com-
menced p • and on the other, that the Prince recog-
nises imly General •Guilleminot as Major General ;
another proof of the' high favour with which be
honours this general, is the flattering reception lie
gave him yesterday at the review.: after speaking
to him two different times, he shook hands with hint
as if he had been his equal. This review took place
• yesterday at two o'clock. General Molitor com-
manded. Generals Dambrugeac, Bordesant,
and also Quesada, accompanied the Prince. The
Marshal Doke of Helium) did not go out; the Prince
Hoenlohe was Dot in uniform.
They write from St. Jean Pied-do port that the
number of prisoners will be more than tripled by
people of the faith, who have coated to act this
part in order to give 'a great idea of' the first
stress obtained, and that they will immediately
return to another part to net the samo farce over
again.—They may deceive for a time the French
interior, but those on the frontiers have eyes too
sharp to be so grossly impobea upon.

Pnwetty to the amount of 30,0001. has been em.
harked by settlers in Van Di. m Lund, and this
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MONDAY, APRIL 14; iB2B.

COMMENCEMENT OP HOSTILITIES. .
An express from Paris 'of Thursday, brings the
following extrait of a letter from St. Jean de Las,
April 7th, two krwit*els it-appears that 4osikillied
base actually.
0 ST. JEAN DR LUZ, Amu& 3.
t! One inmitklitioul Aft or two hundred French
and Spaniards presented themselves to-day with a
tri-coloured flag on the 'Spanish side of the Bidassos.
The 9th regiment of light infantry, with General
Walin at its head, were en that side. The General
ordered three cannon shots tote fired on this body,
fifteen of them were 101 ed er wounded. Among
the fiirmer are four French •dificcrs, or persons who
had fled from justiec. The trows wished to cross
the river on fimt, and pursue the enemy, who im-
tnctliately fled.

" The Bidassoa was crossed on the 7th. and the
Duke d'Angouleme sleeps on the filth at kun.
" De Lamotte, formerly
.0 Captain in the Legion
of the Seine, and implicated in the plot of the 19th
of August, 1820,11 seriously wounded in this attain
He had been condemned to five years' imprisonment
and 9,000 franca of fine.
• " The army marches in three divisions—one upon
Toloso, direct for Madrid ; tine upon Pampeluna;
and another upon St. Sebastian.
" The regiment Alexander, in garrison at Irun,
evacuated that town on the approach of the French.
PARIS, Arms 10, Foga o'ssoci
Intelligence has this morning arrived from the
army of Sptin dated the 7th• 'he Duke de Bel.
luno, MinisterOf War, whois still with the army,
has transmitted one despatch, enclosing another,
giving an account of the passing of the %dance by
General Guilkaninot. Hie. Royal Highness had
sent a &titian, whisk arrival yasestday, containing
the account of his arrangements for entering Spain,
and a programme of' his first day's march.
Some of these despatches have been tu-slity carried
to the Legislative Chambers, and there read.
The fidlowing is an account of what took place is
the Chamber of Deputies:—
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTI3IO 431, MAUL 10.
Before the opening of the sitting, the Minister
fur Foreign Affairs, and Viscount Digeon, charged
with the War Department, entered the Hall. A
numerous group of Deputies belonging to the right
side surrounded them. They conversed long toge-
ther, and appeared pleased. At two o'clo.:1 the
sitting was opened.
The Minister for the War Department rose (a
lively sensation) and said—Gentlemen,—All efforts
to stop the course of the faction which governs the
amnesia of Spain having proved fruitless. Monseig-
neur the Duke of Angoulema received orders to pass
the frontier, and on the 7th of this month passed the
Bidassoa at the head of the army. I have now,
gentlemen, to read to you the first despatch which
the Government has received from the Major-Ge-
neral of the army.
liesdivarten, St. Jean de Lus. April 7,
lutlf puit a in the morning.
" Monseigneur,—l have the honour to report to
your Excellency, that yesterday u troop of French
and Italian Retugees tussle their appearance on the
Bidassoa, and endeavourcxl, by songs and seditious
cries, to instigate the soldiers of his Majesty to de-
sert. At the sight of a piece of artillery, thou%
wretches cried Vive l'artillerie Franitaisel' Gen.
Walin replied by another cry, thus—' Yes, lire
l'artillerio, but Vtve he Rai! Fire!' At this very
instant, a company of the 9th light infantry, which
had b.. .ca masked, debauched, and completed the dis.•
persion of those whom tit; grupc • MIA, had spared.
" Thus the troops have manifested their love for
the King by something more expressive than their
habitual acclamations. Your Excellency will find
annexed the summary of the examination al lour
wuunded men who hate been picked up: it wall
give a jost idea of the pitiaele auxiliaries which the
Spanish lievolutionists have chosen, and whom the
Imperial Itegiment Alexander in garrison at Irun
have in a manner delivered up to slaughter, as they
withdrew their posts Wind the arrival of the refu-
gees on the banks of the river. A few minutes
after their Might, all the inhabitants of both tier./

my Lord," he tidied, " you .
Jury all a parcel
learned Judge directed a verdi
the defetylmt, na the words

been al•vlen in welt blind
likely to be seriously believed.

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assembled together, and the communication between
the two kingdoms was immediately established.
a Th. Alcade of Irun has even informed up that
the Imperial Alexander sigimesst has evacuated that
city, and that the Baal, of Pintas has also abaft
aottAtl fostanbias
• "In the number of this dmplervictims who are
etht killed and four severely Mounded,
nised the persons named Mallett and Deism:7s:
ready implicated in several conspiracies.
" I am. ex:.

" Coturt GUILIACIIINOT, Major General."
After the reading ,of this despatch, uaanimous ;
cries of " Vive le Rot! Vivent les Bourbons r burst
forth in the Chamber. • •
The Viscount Digeon continued as follows:
" This first intelligence win& justify, if neces-
sary, the measures of precaution, taken some time
ago by 4he Government. Atlempts have continued
to be made to corrupt our soldiers up to the very '
moment when they are called upon to give proofs of ,
their fidelity. They have worthily replied, as the
ltiag.and France expected of them. hat the King,
who still cherishes paternal sentiments, even for his •
guilty children, cannot see," without a feeling of,
pain. that French blood has Jawed in ranks where
treason alone could have plaoed it. This blood will
be on the heads of the instigators of the deplorable
revolution of Spain. In conclusion,
_gentlemen,
every thing gives us reason to hope thq this pest
is going to end. Spain, which we go to succour.
already recogniees4is as her libenwers and a11ie5."....
Thus ends all that was said in the sitting of the
Deputies.
While the Interim Misieterstwatrpot
this despatch in thetteintbes.
_d*td‘4 de
Ville* the Misiplakii Fillftekabitlild" of
the Council, had proceeded to the Peers to read a
similar despatch fuss the Bike de geflinto. The
despatch of the Marshal, which enclosed that of
Guilleminot, contained nearly' tie same facts. The
bulletin of his Royal Highness, which arrived yes.
terday, was not read in either Chamber—neither,
probably, ill:: whole of those of Belluao or Guilin.'
minot of the 7th.
The Miuister of War descended from the tribune
amid cries el " Vive le Roi Viveat les Bour-
bons!"

The Duke of Angouleme was to sleep on the at!
at 'run; on the 9th he will advance three et flew
leagues, and will proceed by short marches to To.
lows, where he will arrive on the 12th. He will
stoji there some daym,ro wait a little the oc/Iket of his •
entry into Spain. The slowness of his march is said
to be owing to the necessity of allow iag time Tut
all the otaieriel of the army to join.
Guillemiunt's despatch was addressed to Marshal
the Duke ofLiltuso, Minister. It bore the follow.
ing preface:—" His Royal Highness, by order of his
Majesty, desires me to. transmit to your Excellency
the following devuteli." This, of course, With not
read to the Chambers.

lsranns, MARS', 22.—Yesterday, at day-break,
we were much surprised to see Vesuvius and the
neighbouring mountains •covered with
Though now at the vernal eqpitiox, we have all the
rigour of winter—.a strange occurrence in our
mate, where the fine season timidly sets in early.'
Accounts which we receive from tho Abbruss
show that the cold* there also is very extraordinary.
In the city of Aquila, there fell such a quantity of
snow for 36 hours, without interruption, that the
rootk of fivii chtirches have sunk under the weight.
A cause having been tried b.ifore Lord Kenyan,
and a verdict given for the plaintiff. the defendant,
not eon•cnt with the verdict, called the plaintiff a
pijure(' !weal. An action was brought for elan.
tier; and, whets brought before Lord Kenyon, one
of the witnesses was called
4‘ WI: st else did he say !"

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asked Lord K. " Why,
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