The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-22 00:00:00


No.

BAYONNE PAPERS.
Bistro Nair, Scor. 9.—The attention of our poli-
ticians is excited in an extraordinary degree by the
military preparations making here—such as the ar-
rival of a large quantity of ammunition, provisions,
forges, &c. Yet we see hardly any movement of
troops; for except 200 men lately arrived from Pa-
ris, the Cordon has not received the reinforcements
which the Paris Journals have announced. It is
taus that preparations are spokes at fa* .115,thig a
camp of 12,000 men in this country fro*' art to
St. Jean de Lux, as well as of the speedy arrival of
the troops that are to compose it. Other reports are
circulated of the hostile intentions of our Govern-
ment towards Spain ; on the other hand, a plot is
said to have been discovered, formed by a small
number of French refugees in Spain.
Tranquillity is far from being restored in the
three provinces of Alava, Guipescoa, and Biscay,
notwithstanding the severe measures adopted by
General Espinosa. On the contrary, the bands of
Zabala, Guesala, and Urango, daily increase, and
that the conscription ordered by the Constitution-
alists in those countries which have been hitherto
exempted from it by their fueros and privilege*, hat
greatly eentributed to the progress of the Defenders
of the Faith—the young men enlisted under their
banners rather than submit to be taken for soldiers,
which they have always considered as contrary to
their nobility and their prerogatives. Ztbala and
Guessla have collected about 1,100 men, and tra-
verse the mountains of Alava and Biscay, in four
bands, while Urango maintains himself in Guipus- ,
ate. These three partisans cover the .grtiat road,
and have detachments for the express purpose of in-
tercepting the mails and the communications. The
Constitutionalists of these countries, with those of
Navarre, are making reprisals—they no longer give
quarter to their adversaries. At this moment, there-,
tore, both parties carry on a war of extermination.
A Provisional and Ambulatory Junta has been
formed in Guipuscoa.
The columns of Colonels Campiilo and Jaurequi
are continually in motion; the first in Biscay, the
second in Guiptiscoa, where they have beaten their
adversaries whenever they could overtake them,
which is not cloy, because they follow the plan
adopted by Quesada in Navarre, which is to enlist
and organise troops, to cut off the communications,
intercept the couriers, and attack the small escorts
and garrisons.
The accounts from Navarre are nearly of the same
nature. Espinosa, at the head of 3,000 men, divided
into th-ce columns, advanced on the 3d upon the
positions of Quesada, And occupied on the 4th Urroz
and Aoiz; but the General of the Faith and the
Trappist, having together about 4,000 men, had ad-
vanced from the Boreal, going along the mountains
on the valley of Cantrell, having left a garrison of
300 men at I.r:id, and a battalion of 600 at Ocliuga-
via, Taurieta, Aroma, Espana, and Le tioncal.
On the sth, Quesada surrounded the fortress of
JAM, and summoned ,the Governor to surrender;
it is very probable that he would have taken it, if
Gen. Empecinado, at the head of 800 men, had not
arrived in time to force him to raise the siege on the
fitli, after an action in which there were about fifty
killed, and some wounded on both sides. Espinosa
continuing his march to Le Rontal, to pursue Que 7
sada, the latter and the Trappist turned upon Me-.
diano and Huesca, in Arragon, where they have
carried off, and united to their forces, all the youth
they have found in their way.
To judge by Qoesada's proceedings, it should seem
that. encouraged by the arrival of the Trappist, he
has resolved to quit the mountains and enter Arra-
gon, which must have disconcerted the plans of
Espinosa, who hoped to attack him, and force him
to withdraw into France. Others pretend that
Quesada has been forced against Isis will to enter
Arragon. Whatever may be said, Quesada retains
the command of the division of Navarre; his ser-
vices to the royal cans,: have procured him the praise
and the confidence of the troops he commands; and
certainly it must not be forgotten that it was not till
the 25th of Juno that this General entered Spain
with about 300 men, and that he now has under his
command alxwe 5,000, of whom two thirds are per-
fectly armed, equipped, and disciplined; besides
300 cavalry, not anterior in courage to their adver-
saries.

It is, however, positively affirmed to•day, that
Gen. O'Donnell, who is at Bayonne, is going to take
the command of the division of Navarre, which daily
increases, Quesada having twice offered to resign.
Yenta* there arrived, at the lazaretto of Al-
dudes, two soldiers of the Faith fitan Biscay, with
despatches fur General Equia. On the same day, a
Chasse-muse, from Laquei • anchored in the port
of Somay to be plamd at the I of Gen. Equia.
Yologifdook. padanues , ,:1)11
.she road
lime • 4tieweeitWileopelebee
item for Paris, co tribe Lease of Bair
atineehe. The courier h remained et the kismet
of Behobie. It is affirmed that the despatches fiave
been deposited with the sub-prefect of the city, who
is provisionally intrusted with the direction of the
police, and that, notwithstanding the application of
the house of Bastarreche, it has not been able to get
the despatches. The courier was for the house of
Rotchschild house of

the Congress must prove that he is attached to one
of the Ministers, or in his office ; or if he cannot de
that, he must prove that he is under the special pro.
tection of one of the great Powers.
His Holiness the Pope has given orders to have a
residents ready for each of the three Sovereigns who
are expected to visit Rome, either during the Con•
gress at Verona or after it be. closed. The resi-
dences are - the Venetian Paisekerillill &spea, of
Austria, the Cavelli Pslaos libe the Wing of Priesia,
and therfaria Palace fur the fasprig of Ibiaaia.
Samara, Aug. 46.—N0 recent news from Serer
and Bitoglia has been received ; but Turkish cow --
tiers from Albania say, that the Suliots, having been
defeated in several actions by the Pacha of Arta, had
submitted to the Porte, and made a convention with
the Pacha. This, if true, would be a great misfor-
tune for the Greeks, as the Turks would have a
large force at liberty.
Count Buol Schottenstein, President of the Ger-
man Diet, arrived here on the 5 Ist of August.

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" Al keg Oast five o'clock of the 14th, as electric cloud ad-
vabbeditr del sleet:e of the town. Several claps of Snider
caste beet the last more terrible them the others, struck with
lightalat base of the steeple, which in an instant set it on
ire from the bottom to the very top of the pyramid. Yea may
imagine this terrible spectacle, and the dread which seined
every body do beholding the ire. The lead, which rue down
in large waves, the beams separating from the upper parte,
and burning as they fell, till at length the base coild no longer
support the upper part, the pyramid fell with a dreadful seise,
and a cloud of horning smoke, ashes, and pieces of wood rose
from the volumes. The wind was from the N.E. sod blew to-
wards us. The beat was sensibly felt at oar house the ashes
.and splinters fillml the sir, and were wafted, some of them, as
as far as the street Des Cordeliers.
The houses in Die Change-street tied Do Baemitreet were
to heated, that the engiues played oe them constantly to prevent
their catching ire.
lo•felttee. the ?thistle thar,pyveleidl met the reef of the
church on fire, a part of the nave was burnt ; all the covermg
of the choir of the sacristy, is oessumed. The roof work of
the Place de la Calendre, Street St. Domain, boa also 'Offered
considerably ; the interior of the church, however, has ant
suffered much, and the Archhtshop'• palace very little.
The houses is de Cban;e-street, contiguous to the church,
are very much damaged, two of them were destroyed by the
falling of the burning steeple. Those also et Si Romain-stye et
leave suffered considerably ; as also the Chapel.
" Besides fee total destruction of the upper part, and the
calcination of the stones of the tower, the galleries sad the
arches have sneered very considerably. It seems certain,
however, that we have to deplore the loss of only one iodivi-
ricked, who was sent le the hospital in sash a condiu-no as to
be despaired of. The soldiers of the Garde Royale, the Pom-
p:era, sod severs/ citizens have been wounded more or less, hot
we have not as yet received any certain information eh this
point."

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join them shall arrive. la the southern provinces
there are still some predatory bands, but the inha-
bitants are animated with the greatest attachment
to the system, end perhaps even too ardent in their
•seal; fur the accounts roma Gotha, Seville, Grenada,
Cordova, Malaga, Jaen, r tuecii, and Valencia, state
that a great many persons, chiefly ecclesiastics, have
left their homes to avoid the persecution of the Li-
berals.

GERJIA.V PAPERS.
ST.• PETERSIUROII, Au a. Tr.—The Persian mi-
nister, Mirsa Saleb, now here, a favourite of the
reigning Emperor, had his List audience of his Ma-
jesty on the 21st of July, when he presented & por-
trait of the Persian Crown Prince, hewn in marble
in the Oriental taste, and also a curious Arabian
manuscript. This Ambassador goes front St. Peters-
burgh to England. He nooks rench and English
fluently, and has employed kis time, during his
short stay here, in visiting the most interesting cu-
riosities in the capital. •Ille has a painter with him,
who is expressly coruinissionrd by the Scluth, his
master, to make drawings of &very thing remarkable
that he meets with in his travels.
The new ' - is not

rich, but an
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of Wulschia
the first instance.
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Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Alexandra is in expectation of her aceouchement,
at the new imperial palitee in Jelagin's Island.
Beaux, Sept. 7.—His Majesty love a dinner
yesterday in the new palace at, Potsdam, and arrived
here to-day.
On the Ist of September General Count Von
Ziethen, Commander-in• Chief in Silesia, to receive

the Emperor of Russia, with all proper ceremouony,
the trontiars of the province, and to attend on huu
to the Austrian frontier.
.His Majesty stops on the
Sd at Taruowitz (where Count H atket, of thinners-
mark, has uh•catty made preparations for his Majesty's
reception), and then proceeds by way of Cctiewitz
and Ratibur to Truppau.
VERONA, Aug. '47.-..--Gre;.t preparations of all
kinds are issuing here for the apprJacning Congress.
Every 3trunger who desires w IC+IIJI/11 here during

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VOL.. XV. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1822. ParcE 91d.

A letter from Berlin of the 7th inst. affirms, that
in consequence of some important despatches recently
transmitted from Constantinople to Vienna, it h..d
been determined not to postpone the deliberations on
the affairs of Greece to the assembling of the Con-
a-
bress of Verona, but to commence theta at Vienrri,
us soon 45 the Monarchs and the Ministers Plenipo-
tentiary arrived there. It is also asserted that L. 41
Strungtitrd and Baron Lutsow had been ordered to
proceed to the Austrian capital, to assist at the con-
ferences to be held there.
Letters from Stockholm of the 3,1 instant state,
that the question was under discussion by the coun-
cil, whether there should not be granted to British
merchantmen such a reduction of anchorage and pi-
lot dues in the ports of Sweden as should place them
exactly on the same footing as Swedish vessels. A
proviso was to be annexed, however, for the sante
reciprocity to be observed in the ports of Great Bri.
taut in behalf of Swedish ships. A sum of 30,000
piastre:. out of the funds of the bank at Stockitol,trt
had been remitted from thence to Hamburg!), to be
employed by Cie Swedish Minister resident there in
preventing a deterioration of the rate of exchange o‘l,-
b.:tw,.•en tnose two cities. The Goinsaituslit has as- <-47.- )
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as-
signed 3,000 dollars banco, fur thi research after, s• rt 4- .:
and the examination into, the ancieunsws of Swe- -e --.
den, appointing for that purpose MM. Collin and IF • - t
Schlyter, Doctors of Law, with a handsome allow- '‘_,
ance fur the expences of travelling, taking copies of, , it
and collating the manuscripts of those laws. M. *.-.%. '-',)
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Hambro, banker and counsellor of the Court at . ~...b.F . !
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Stockholm, has returned from Copenhagen, where he tufo
had concluded a contract for a loan, subject, with
respect to its conditions, to the ..pprubistiou of th 4 :Ta
Norwegian Diet. 11:4*

otchschild in Paris. Si: hours later the I
aserre received another caress, which, not
en detained, proceeded to Paris.
The letters from Madrid! of the sth state,
ecree of the King is published for the me
e Extraordinary Comes b the lit of I
he constitutional party hot% that the ne
ill enable the Government t• put down di
ction in the northern pinOsnoes; and th
Sea ken in it by the Engligh rs makes th
r themselves that the • , of St. Jame
it oppose the con.stitutionak •
Notwithstanding the
c. the greatest Loper are entertained the
orrijos, Milans, and Bolen, will be able to r
emselves till the reinforcements on their

Hospoitar, of Walachia, we learn, i
honest and pretty well informed :
ition of Hospodits taken from the li4
and Moldavia, of which the preset
4ince, has excited some attention lie
roceeding trouiConstantinople say.
IBagcliiii has (totaled the Persians;
tell where the the took place.
['airs with the Porta will probably b
he Congress, fliare is no occasion fo.
Turkish Aindlawiador to the front
negociations, as foreign journal;

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