The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-19 00:00:00

rBiIITISII PRESS.]

The French Papers. of Wednesdat, with the
I'ilote and Etoile of Thursday, reached out dice
yesterday, by express. Moucey's attempt, at
length, to invest Barcelona, was, it appears, vi-
gorously opposed by the Constitutional chiefs
Milans and Lobera, who were strongly posted in
force to cover the Catalonian capital. Mitans,
according to the Firench Marshal's dispatch, had
two battalions' on the left side of the Llobregat,

before Molins del Rey. Llobera occupied, with
four battalions, the position of gartorell. The
latter (according" to Moncey's narrath of the
affair) had four thousand men in this position : he
was attacked by Achard, the French Gerteial,
with a single regiment, who defeated Llobera,
and drove him from Martorell.laps, in the
same way (if this account can be credited), was
beaten, and forced from Violins del Rey by a so-
litary regiment also of invincible French infantry,
aided only by the 13th hussars. While these en-
counters lasted, which, we are convinced, were
protracted and sanguinary, a part of the garrison
of Barcelona sallied on the besiegers in two strong
columns ; one by Wont Joni, and the other by
Barcelona. They attacked the brigade of Vas-
serot, at Esplegas ; but (the French account
asserts)' were repulsed on all sides : yet the con-
test must have been severe, for Moncey states
the firing to have lasted three hours. According
to his statement, the first column entered Bar-
celona in disorder; the second returned to the vii-

Inge of Sans, under the fire of the place. The
French loss, in all these affairs, is pretended
to' be Only 15 killed and 110 wounded : the
reports prevalent in Paris on I'Vednesday and
Thursday, however, speak of,it as Most serious
and heavy ; and Such, we are confident, it will
prove to haite been'. Will Moncey be able to
continue the blockade of the Catalonian-city with
so large a portion' of his force, and to preserve
also his positions at Gerona., Olot, Vich, and
elsewhere throughout the province, with
Unbent, %wield, and' the Indefatigable Mina
all swarming and presort% around him, besides
garriPon within Barcelona, fully provided; and
determined to fight, under Itotten, to the last man ?
The Pilote of Thursday states, that if the last
news from Spain is to be believed, most severe
fighting between the French and Spaniards took
place in Andalusia on the Ist, 2d, and 4th
of July) and there was a series of contbats ; in
censequence of which Lopez Banos and Hallos-
terns entered Seville on the sth, BOutmont hay•
ing been obliged to concentrate his forces. hi
San Linear. 'According to the Same news, the
Pilae adds, the Spanish army occupied the road
of Carolina, and the defiles of the Sera Mo.
rend, which lead to it. l.f this news be true,
the results might be most impoktant indeed to.
the Spanish cause : the situation, both of the be-
sieging army before Cadiz, and of Angonleme in
Madrid, under such circumstances, would be most
critical; u bile the seizure of the strong defiles of
the Siena Morena would effectually' intercept all
aid to Alid
alusia or Castile, from either party, in
the centre or South of Spain. According to the

imirnal des Dames, Cadiz was greatly agitated
it quotes a letter from that city of the id, which
says the last sitting of the Cortes was boisterous.
The question of submission, according to this
writer, was started ; and,the individuals who op-
posed it, and the multitude. of Madrid cried
46 Death to the King!" The French ministerial
paper is little to be.depended upon ; it will feign
intelligence Where it has no other resource,and the
account bears no truthAni the fade of it. Our
last accounts, on the contrary, frorh Cadiz, state
the spirit of resistance, both in the garrison and
inhabitants, to be unshaken; they say, that the
blockade was any thing but effectual, and that

the city was in no want of supplies, nor could it
be so while American vessels entered freely al-
most every day. Morillo, we are now convinced,
is a faithless traitor, anxious only to preserve his
own property in Spain, and careless of the fate of
his unhappy country. •