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my's batteries, to receive' on board all the troops
united at Rota. Twci Ships of the French
squadron were to coaduct them to the South
of the Isle of Leon. On the night of either
the 23d or 246, the troops were to be there
landed, and Cadiz attacked by land and sea,
op Lo9.is's Fete-day, thus sigTtlizing it by a waste
,of blood. If the French troops made good their
landing in the Isle of Leon, it would seriously
epdanger Cadiz ; hut we imagine the attempt
must, be attended with dreadful loss, and at
lengtii be found utterly impracticable. A land-
iitg,under the tremendous fire of the Spanish bat-
6ries, aided by the troops on the Isla, would be
annihilation to those who risked it. It was re-
ilorted in town late yesterday, that the French
Clad attempted the landing on the Isle of Leon,
and attacked the Trocadero, but that they were
iepulsed on both points with great loss. The
r,lesult is highly probable, but were it known in
raris on any good authority, we should have had
immediate intelligence of it.
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EMORNING CHRONICLE.]
Our readers will not be astonished at the tar-
diness with which news are received direct from
Spain, when they recollect that all the usual
channels of correspondence are cut off, and that
the principal ports near the theatre of the war
are besides blockaded. No one now risks a
political letter through France, although by
that route mercantile letters were received in
London from Madrid by the last mail, for the
purpose of being forwarded to Gibraltar?--
It will not therefore be matter of surprise that
we should to-day publish a diary of operations
in Barcelona, from the 7th to the 12th of July
inclusive, when the French accounts are so much

more recent. The details we-now publish, how-
ever scanty, prove that- the Catalonians are ac-
tive and resolved, and they also give us some idea
of Frenchmen deserting, and of their lilt; ing oc-
casionally waggon loads of wounded,.wrich the
Paris bulletins carefully keep out of view.—Ever
since the war commenced, we have been depend-
ent on the French for all the information de-
rived from Catalonia, the province in which the
contest for Spanish freedom will mainly be de-
cided ; fur if Mina comes out triumphant, as
there is every reason to think he will, this circum-
stance alone would give a favourable turn to
affairs, even if they looked worse than they now
do. The Catalonians have done their duty, and
although they have had to deplore the loss of
Tortosa, through an act of treachery, they have
still La Seo d'Urgel ; Cordona, strengthened
with new works ; San Fernando de Figueras,
with a numerous garrison, and an ample stock of
provisions ; liostalrich, impregnable, and well
garrisoned and supplied ; Lerida, an important
point, and also well provided ; Tarragona, the
defects of which were seen last war, and are
now remedied ; Barcelona, the citadel, and
Monjuich, three distinct fortresses, separately gar-
risoned and supplied, each capable of standing
a long siege ; .besides several other points of
minor importance. From present appearances,
we think the French may calculate on having
for a long time enough on their hands in Catalonia,
and it is a query, whether it will not tire out
their patience. The plan of defence adopted'
there is excellent. The fo'rtified towns, occa-
sionally visited and relieved by flying columns,
which the enemy cannot catch, although
always in pursuit, may stand out for years, and
their garrisons, from the moment the French sit
down any where, become objects which give
great annoyance. Harassed by marc!tes and
counter-marches in a hostile country, where every
straggler is sure to perish, and pressed by a
deadly Guerilla warfare, it is not to be wonder-
ed at that the French soldiers are dissatisfied
and desert, supposing them even insensible
to the injustice of this war in which they are
engaged. Their hardships and privations must
also increase as the season advances, parti-
cularly in August and September, when the mor-
tality will be great. The Catalonians have only
to persevere, and, pursue their plan of defence
steadily, and they will endear themselves to their
countrymen, and command the admiration o

[MORNING POST.I
French Papers to the 3d reached us last night
by Express. They contain fresh intelligence
from Port St. Marys, but it is nqt more decisive
than the "last, and only derives its importance
from the expectation vrhich'it holds out of some
great event taking place about the end of August.
That event is evidently of a military nature.-4
Active preparations were making for a general
attack on the isle of Leon ; for whilst the
Trocadero, or thle-depont which connects it
with 'the Continent, was to be stormedi
troops were to be landed in a different part
to divert the attention of 'the Constitutionalisti
and divide, their, forces. According to all .ac-
counts the Fete of St. Louis (the esth ult.) was
the day fixed for the attack. As the Papers of
the ed inst. contain no report on the subject,
although ' sufficient time had elapsed to coin.
mnnicate the result to 'Paris through the tele-
graph, we entertain strong hopes that this
silence is occasioned .by the nature, and not the
absence of Intelligence, and that ,the asser.
tion of a private letter, received 'yesterday, that
the French had been repelled with great loss in
all their assaults, will prove to'be,correct. Such
an event could not fail to have a -decisive influ-
ence'o'n the fate of 'the war. «" All eyes,", we
are told by the journal des Difbals, scare
turned ,towards Cadiz this is undoubtedly
the
_case ;„ and should Cadiz give the ex-
ample, not only of unyielding constancy, but
of successful resistance and glorioub triumph,
all hearts will be filled with the same spirit
throughout Spain, and all ,hands will be raised
against the baffled and scattered Invaders',
who may.even be abandoned in their turn hy
those, unprincipled Spaniards who went over to
their ,side when it seemed, crowned with pro.
sperity,' and who, will not remain faithful to the cause of, disgrace and dishonour, I
when it ceases
to be that 'of, lucre and interest. The at-
tempts 'to negociate, we are assured by the
Pilule,. had entirely failed, and "all hopes of.
an arrangement were decidedly lost." This
of itself is a fact of considerable moment ; but