The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-02 00:00:00

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DAILY •
Bxtracts from the Morning Papers, August

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

No further- intelligence has readied us from
Corunna, but it is reported in a high quarter,
that the French, after their defeat, withdrew to
Betanzos, the point from'which they originally
advanced. Betanzos is a town situated on a pen-
insula, formed by the junction of the Mainlea
and another small river, at the distance of about
ten miles from Corunna, and twenty from Ferrol.
An arrival from Cadiz is looked for with the
utmost anxiety. If we are not much -mistaken,
it will turn out, that the sorte from La Isla, of
which the French boast'so much, as redounding
highly to 'the credit of their arms, has been a
dear victory, in niore 'than one sense.: The Spa-,
niards, from the confession of the French them-
selves, left their lines in three columns, marching
from three separate points, and at a considerable
distance from each other. The first coluthn went in
bonts,from the Trocade`ro, the second passsed over
the Suazo bridge, and the third moved forward in
boats over the river Santi Petri.- Their object
was to destroy works the French were construct-
ing in the vicinity of Chiclana, So that to support
the movement of the column sent on from Santi
Petri, the one from the Trocadero had to march
at least seven miles, and the other from the
Suazo bridge, four ; and, after finishing their
work, they had to march the same distance back,
and one column to ne-embark, and another to
pass over a narrow bridge—operations extremely
difficult in presence of en enemy. Yet the
French have not been able to boast of the cap.
tnre of n single prisoner, nithough, from the low
situation' of La Isla, and the higher - ground
they thernSelves occupied, and which of course
•the assailants were obliged to ascend, they could
distinctly see .the movements and 'advance of the
Spania44 long. befOre they. came in contact with
then). The French, neverthelesv,i candidly Re:
knowledge the firmness with which the ConstituL
tionalists fought. '

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the Ist instant, arrived last
• night by. Express. Their continued, silence re.
speetiug the events at Corunnts, is growing more
and more important. The Nonitcur of Wednes.
day last contains a telegraphic dispatch, dated
Jnly 26, which only announces what
I,A been communicated four days beiore
,through. the medium of an official Bulletin; vitt :
The ot:cupation of Ferrol,.en-the 15th,- by the.
Corps of General Huber. This is an extraordi-
nary
.6'om:stance ; for the Duke of An.
goeleme or his Alajor.General' 'cannot have
forgottee dna they dispatched the very same
intelligence hs a regular Courier on the 21st.
'Phis set my to have struck 4te persons who attend
the telegraph, and they have added a postscript
to the communication, which, whether true or
false, is intended to counteract the impression
which midi a remarkable want of memory was
ea leula tett to produce. They say that ' night
prevented them front receiving the conclusion of
the dispatch." Every individual is thus left at
liberty, according to his own wishes and opinions,
to suppose what that conclusion must have been ;
and those who may object to the absurdity of
dommunicatin4 old news by.the telegraph, will
be silenced by the observation that " that was
only the• beginning of the dispatch, and was
probably restated, because it was necessary
to the clear understanding of some new and
important operation which the conclusion
undoubtedly described." They would be
told to wait another day, and they might do so
patiently. But even then it apPears that they
would be disappointed ; for wig are in possession
of some of Thursday's Papers, and they contain
no fresh version of the truncated dispatch,though
sufficient time had elapsed for the telegraph
to repeat its communications .in broad daylight,
and to supply the involuntary omission of the
night before. What other inference can be drawn
front this circumstance, than that the omission
was not involuntary ; from which flows the rea.
sonable conclusion, that it was designed, it
must have been on account of the unfavourable
stature of the intelligence conveyed. Indeed every
communication from Spain, even through the
suspicious channel of the French Journals, shows
that a great. change has taken place •in the cha-
racter of tiny contest, and that the bright dawn
of national triumph is opening on the Peninsula.
That it has' been so long delayed can only be at-
tributed to the influence of the traitors who
having been most unaccountably left in impor-
tant commands by the Cortes, repressed the
spirit of the people, and neutralized the means
of defence of .the country.

[ilia TIMES.]
The Papers of Wednesday, which ar-
rived yesterday, are as destitute, of interest us
any that ha‘ reached us during the present
week—a circumstance, however, which is thus
far favourable to the Spaniards, that it shews
their atrocious invaders have it not in their
power to b 0 :14t Of any important SOCCPSS either
procured by military effort, or, what is inti-
niteiy inure to tie dreaded, by base arts of
intrigne and' corruption. Au imperfect tele-
graphic dispatch from Madrid, the completion
of which the approach of night is halt! to have
prevented, is given in the Monitctir. All that• it
announces is the occupation of Ferrol on the I'sth
ult. by General Huber. This is no news; the
fact has been stated in the Paris journals, and all
the details Might have been received by an ordi-
nary courier. Why employ the telegraph to
repeat an Already twice-told tale A bulletin
relative to 'Corunna was rather to be expected,
and we are informed that the French Ministers
have received accounts of what passed before that
place to the 22d ult. and that it is admitted that
the bravely of the defence rendered a speedy
capitulation• by no means probable; but such ac-
counts AS ti el-e do not, suit the columns of the
Moniteur. The Journal.do Dads confirms what
we stated yesterday, respecting the expectation
of a batik iu Catalonia aboat the end ()fate month