The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-28 00:00:00

, The following are extracts from the private ltit,

ters:--
Pants, Aram 26.—The news from the Spanish
army of the west have suddenly ceased to be lute-
resting. The army of the Eastern Pyrenees has
now begun its movements, and will fir some time
occupy public attention. The same system of daily
government estafettes is established between this
',art of the invading force and the capital. as be-
tween Bayonne and the same capital. The tele-
graph, however, is wonting, which conveys the
tidings of a victory with such celerity from 'Bayonne
to Paris. By account from Vittoria of the 22d, we
learn that a brigade. and a half of the division of
Bourck are proceeding upon tiantona, a sea-port of
the Bay of Biscay, übout 12 leagues from St. An-
dero. The citadel or fortress of this plucc is regarded

as almost impregnable.
The prisoners taken in the affair of. Logrono are
said to have arrived ut head-quarters ut Vittoria on
the 22d instant. They amount only to 150 or 160.
The division of Molitor ptue.ed Pampeluna on the
166, and proceeded directly upon Saragossa.
The crowds who hail the French army as deli-
verers, told the new Junta us their legitimate gayer-
non, shout, uni!er the dictation of the priests by
whom they are led, " Viva el Ile absolulo: Viva la
j'rancia! Viva Chrisio, y tambien In santa

don 1 '
The French have been received as "deliverers
principally in those places where the Army of the
Faith exercised its accustomed cruelties and robbe-
ries.

On Saturday at three o'clock bis Majesty held a
Court at his palace in Pall-mall. his Majesty
aficrwards held a Privy Council, at which Lieut.-
. General Sir-Edward -Barnes was introduced, and
*warn in.Govetnor of Ceylon, in the room of
General Sir Edward Paget. , His Majesty gave au-
diences to the Earl of Harrowby and the Marquis
of Huntley. The Court broke up soon after five
• o'clock•
It is reported, that the introductien of English
newspapers into France has been prohibited by the
French Government, maker at penalty of 5001. fur
each paper.
A traveller, who arrived on the 19th of April at
Bayonne from Spain, speaks of the good arrange-
ments that arc every where nicking in the interior.
The Constitutionalists are preparing, not to attack
the troops of the Arsuy of Occupation, but to harass
them ; and it is said they will not attempt any thing
till the line of operations is become much mere ex-
teude.d, and till the corps of the army are near Ma-
drid; by that time the Lot season will have set in,
which will be very favourable to the Patriots.
A royal decree, dated the 21st of April, published
at Brussels, orders that no fitting out of privateers
under the French or the Spanish flag shall take
place in the ports of the kingdom of the Netherlands,
or of its colonies; that neither the cruisers of the
belligerent powers, nor the vessels captured by
. them, shall be admitted into the said ports A and that
in care they should be obliged to put intu awn), to
repair any damages, they shall be °bilged to put to
sea again without loss of time.
At a 'meeting of the principal British merchants,
held at Rio de Janeiro, on the 30th or January last,
a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr.
• . Hume, for his exertions to reduce the enormous fees
of the Consulate, and to place the trade with the
• Anglia on a more just and equal Meting. Mr. Chem-
as.Consul, presided ut the incetilqz.
Charles inaction, in consequence ui having, a few
A ys slues, caught a violent (silt', which has settled
o his lungs, lies dangerously ill at his Louse in
1%1)1mA Place, 131101011.