The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

THE TROCADERO.

To enable our Readers to form a just estimate
of the importance of the taking of the Troca-
dero, which has been officially announced this
morning in the Moniteur, we think it necessary
to give some details of the fortress,and of the po-
sition which we have gained, not from dictionaries
Or maps, but which have been furnished to us by
an old officer, who in the late war had for many
months, with a body of troops, occupied this point.
t.indiz,the Trocaderoond St.Mary's,form a kind of
triangle, whose sides partly encompass the great
bay of Cadiz. The most distant point is Cadiz.
On the right as you look to the sea is St. Mary,
and on the left, opposite to the canal which en-
closes the Isle of Leon, stands the fort of Mate-
.gorda ; and this is more important than*the Tro-
cadero, being situated about 3,000 toises from
Cadiz. Over against the Trocadern, on the
other side of the canal,. is the causeway of the
Isle of Leon and the Cortadura, a covered way
.which separates Cadiz from the continent. The
canal of separation between the covered•way and
the Trocadero is called the road of the Puntals,
defended by a fort of the same name, and under
batteries which must he passed before you arrive,
by sea, at the remotest bay which washes the Isle
of Leon proper.—lt was only in 1810 that the
,French, after they had made themselves masters
of the Matagorda, fortified that end nearest to
the Isle of Trocadero, and gave to the fort which
they constructed the name of Trocadero. It is
on .hese batteries that the famous mortars of Vil-
laintroi, which had been east at Seville, were
placed ; and this is the point from which they
fired the bombs, which arrived with difficulty be-
. fore Cadiz, but without exploding, as the success
of the contrivance was defealed by the distance,
and excessive rapidity of their motion. The oc-
cupation of Trocadero can much less facilitate the
attack directed against Cadiz, than that against
the Isle of Leon ; but the fort of the Punta's,
which commands and defends the passage, and
which in, addition is bomb-proof, will necessarily
present the greatest-obstacles to arriving at it. It
may even be presumed, that before they at tempt to
gain possession of this position of the causeway,
where they will find themselves exposed to the
batteries of Cadiz, and encompassed by the sea,
that they will direct the efforts of the army
against even the Isle of Leon, cent iguous to which
is another small island where the marine arsenal
is situated, and which also presents the great-
est resources of defence. Then after they
shall have made themselves masters of these
points it will still be possible to make a serious
attack on the land side against Cadiz, which
cannot be bombarded but from the sea. Finally,
there are in this brief notice facts and conjectures;
the facts are positive, but the conjectures arl2,
under the disposal of chance, which happily can-
not be very distant.----(Constitutionnel of ihnidali.)

CONFESSION or i tt'nurlt.,----Ctnmedintply rafter
the sitting 111agistrate et QuEux Sia east's; had yesterday taken
his next, l‘lr„ Airatere foreman at Ur. Vitiler'e mail-coach
Manufactory, applied ter advice. He said that One
of the men employed at the factory attempted to drown him-
self twice on Monday night, but was watched and prevented.—
On Tuesday night he made two attempts to hang hitnsell;
but was also prevented. He (Mr. Ntraters) ipieslloned hint
yesterday morning; he eppeared quite collected, and said
that something had preyed upon his mind, he would never
be happy, and he was, determined to destroy himself: Upon
being pressed ter an explanation, he declared he was present at
the murder of a young lady at Cadiz, by Nnglish sailors, about
If) years ago he had no hand in the murder, but he was one
of the party. The man was afterwards brought before the
Magistrate. Upon being questioned, he said he was born at
Wandsworth. His father died when lie was very young. At
an early age he was hound apprentice to a small, but left
bin apprenticeship and entered on board a King's ship, the
President frigate, then upon the Cork station, and com-
manded by Captain Willis. Ile was drafted in 11114 from
that ship to the Bacchus sloop of war, Ca pt. licit, who had a
Prone s and
roving c,ommission, and was going to cruise in the Western
Ocean, but on their way touched at Cadiz. One Fitzrohh
purchase
accompanied
an Iriehman, was steward. Ile understood the
Spanish languages, and was sent an shore with .
return, whilst he
necessariesisi ils)trmtthpeedshaiPt'stch°elTllPlatitlYte. talvieem(7lrlBliinntilee. Fitz-
gepurracihdasgeatvl ethheilguoolls. tnbirttlbleernotlniterrYlitta. twbgttlitt tillether he returned
or not, he did not know ; he never SaW hint since. Here he
met a sailor belonging to the London Indianan, and they soon
became acquainted ; hip name way (o fret' ; they did not
.go
on board, and their ships sailed ; tiodtley and other British
sailors joined. After spending time day,
at the ilope,
which watt kept by, a man named Racket, tlotiftey took
them twelve miles into the country, admitted them to the
house of a -rich lady, and he. cut her throat in their pre.
ence, lobbed the house, anti they eil separated. He (110,.
ler) had no share of the money, and he was afraid to di.
vulge the murder, leg he shouldbe lnurtlered himself. He
came to England afterwards in, the China, a British trader
and worked at the Wandsworth iron-nrks. Mr. Waters
this poor fellow had worked at their factory 'about nine
inoffensive. T years ;
lie was considered innocent and i ma....,strate
observed, he had been in Cadiz himself, and.knew the town
well; he was not satisfied of the IFeurtteY lof tie account given
of the town by nowier,wham he strongly rutPeeted has le-
homed under great delusion, or tome malady upon the brain.
Be desired him to be taken
intt o with hikhouse nt present, end
his friends to be made acquaed wis situation.

The
vo foundationn, over th
river t line of the new Carlisle mad, bits
inthe direst the
new
bridgo
been commenced this ii,eek by Mr. Jarnea King Hamilton;
the architect. It is to be tiniti I
let_ as soon as posbibje.