The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

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T.ONDDN, MONDAY, Amu. 14
Three o'clock, p. w.

The first bulletin from the French army, an•
ntruncing the comaiNacement of hostilities, is a pre-
cious slier:inlet' of empty boasting. A pert of the
ieraud army has already shed blood, and bravely
dispersed about 130 French, Italian, and Pied-
snontese refugees, who hod displayed the tri-eoluurcd
sockude, and endeavoured to induee the French
troops to desert: Victory crowned the first effort of
the urroy,..ated and behold, we are told in the
communication room Major-General Guilleminot,
that eight men were killed and four were wounded.
What an exploit ! The plan of the Duke of An-
gouleme, whose talents as a General no person dare
doubt, is, to divide hie antis, into three 'columns—
one to mask or to.beeiege St. Sebastian, the second
to proceed to Pampeltina, am/ the third to take the
rood dires:t road to Madrid. This will ociceeion. a
•Sliunion of thef revel' forces at the eery commence-.
spent of the war, And it, will scot, a pepeffile, from.
the nature of the country, tuikeipArAssontasuaica-
eion between the three .dixisione,. which wiliexpose.
them to great difficulties, even if there is only a
.4=ll opposing force to obstruct their march. The
../commender in Chief seems determined to avoid
every thing like
.an imitation of Buonateirte, as
.4{,lch would be a. condescension to wined the Illus.
eriout Legitimate would not deign to stoop.—The
•Prencb Journals are evidentle filled with palpable
.exaggerations and mis-statements, and we despair of
receiving gay authent4e intelligence now from the
„peninsula, except by the way of‘Corunna.
Governmerd has at length, -in compliance with
the wish,of the merchants, made some arrangements
for meMtaining a regular communication with Spain
by sea, now that the passage through !ranee is in-
irrupted. The Lisbon peeking are to leave letpers
at Vigo, and call on . their return, fir those phieli
may be in readiness for transmissien tosEngland.—
I n the outward voyage, this plan .may answer; but
it has not occurred to thevrojectors how Much time
must constantly be lust in beating up the coast to
Vigo on the return. The Lisbon packets have
liitle.cliance of effecting the passage home in time,
but by standing to the westward and getting out of
currents of the Bay of Biscay. There have been)
lrequent instances where vessels have attempted Ito
touch et.A'igo on l'ee return from Lisbon, of wive
than two moutbs being lust en the voyage. filly
not estahlah a distinct line of packets for tl? north
ot Spain?
A letter from Semlin, elated March 31'4, states,
that a terrible conflagration has ravage; Constanti-
nople and its suburbs., 'lurks arrVd at Semlia.
report, that the number of housed destroyed is be-
. t.ween 30 and 40,000, and that, the two great este-
bliiihments of the cannon-r‘oundery and marine
arsenal, at Tersana and Taphana, are consumed.
Letters from Havunn alt of the 20th of February
state, that advices treat Vera Crux of the 3d had
been received by v;sii of Tampico, auponecimrr', that
On the precedin; day a conveptiun was signed be-
tween the leteciers of the Imperialist and Republican
troops for
,:.carrying into effect the declarations of
Igusla:',,nd Cordova, and for establishing the form ,
uf g".4niment best adapted to the country. This
ly,peceding, it is supposed, at once puts an end .to
ithe short-lived power of the new ,Emperor Iturbide.
A clause is introduced into the.conveni ion, however,
for securing him against perantalmoleetation. Some
letterteruentron his having taken the determination'
to retire to a private station,
IMPORTANT NEYrs.—The brig Hawke,' Captain'''.
Jsitui Rue, alter a footage of 30 days tram Barba-
dulls, arrived at C,rk the sth inst. from which she
Image intelligence that a few days before she left
there a French spy boat from Martinique had been
tbacerned a' there, expressly come tar the purpose
or recouneitering the strength of the British force on
aid station. Communications beving been made
te,Commodore ,Qwen, he instantly despatched the
'crag to Martinique, where she found at anchor nine
French ships of war, who expected to be joined
directly by three French frigates of the first class.
Ti.it forusidable expedition is supposed to be for the
Wand of Cuba.
A Poirtheistl Paper says, that as soon as the
• Easter holidays are over, practical steps will be
• 'liken to .invite :and to rem an extensive union of
the landed interest, essel to convene meetings of the
sande to mike into cosplderation the condition of the
tifiricultural and It ge property at this important
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