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SOLEM QV'S DICERE FALsum AUDERT

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1823.

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In addition to the statement which we exclu-

sively published on 'Wednesday last, respecting

the removal of obstacles to an accommodation

between France and Spain, we can further as-

sure the Public, from the same unquestionable

authority, that the bases of the negociation are
already determined upon, and will be forwarded
by a distinguished Diplomatist, to the King and
Cortes at Seville, as soon as the Duke d'ANGou-
LEME enters Madrid, which will positively be
on or before the 23d instant.

His MAJESTY.—The report of this day at
Carlton House is, that His MAJESTY is much
better, and obviously in a convalescent state. The
illness from which His MAJESTY is so happily
recovering, we understand to have been an ery-
sipelas, occasioned by the great pain which his
MAJESTY had suffered from the secondary effects
of an inconsiderable operation on his foot. His
MAJESTY'S general health, we rejoice to state,
has not been impaired by the disorder.

We have gleaned (see our fourth paged some
further extracts from the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday, the highly important intelligence in
which, respecting the movements and positions
of the armies in Catalonia, we were enabled, by
the arrival of our Express, to lay before our
Readers yesterday. Further accounts will now
be looked for with intense anxiety. Our
Readers are aware that one of the charac-
teristics of MINA, is the impenetrable secresy
in which he wraps his designs. Every one knows
the movements which are to be made by the
French Armies, weeks before they actually
take place. The general outline of the system
of defence adopted for the Peninsula was pro-
mulgated without reserve, long before the invad-
ing Army crossed the frontier. But there is no
individual who even yet can offer any thing more

than conjecture as to the probable intentions of
MINA, who has for several weeks paralyzed the
superior force opposed to him *Hader Marshal
MoNcEy, and has at length, at the very moment
►•hen it was thought that he was in a situation
of almost inextricable difficulty and danger,
confessedly " given the slip" to his adver-
sary, and baffled that experienced and cau-
tious Commander ! The pertinacity with which
the Spanish General has maintained himself in
Catalonia, in spite of ,the movements which
threatened to cut off his communications with
the interior, is now however so far explained,
that it appears to have been his design to inter-
pose himself between Marshal MONCEY'S corps
and the frontier, whether for the purpose of in-
vading France, or for that of merely taking pos-
session of the mountain passes, and cutting off
the supplies of the enemy, time alone can deter-
mine. At this critical moment, it would be im-
portant to know something of the French and
Italian Refugees who have taken up arms in the
cause of Spain. Where are they employed ?
Are they shut up in St. Sebastian or Pampeluna ;
or are they with BALLASTEROS or with MINA ?
The French have never mentioned them since a

mall part of the Corps Franc was fired upon
from the French side of the Bidassoa !

We have received Bayonne Papers to the 9th
instant. On the Bth a Messenger from Marshal
MONCEY to the Duke d'ANcouLEKE passed
through' Bayonne, and stated that MINA was
then, with his whole army, surrounded on a

mountain. The Bth, however, is the date of
Marshal MONCEY'S official Report to the French
Government, announcing that MINA. had given
him the slip, so that whatever might have been
the case when he sent off his Messenger to the
Duke d'ANGoULEME, the positions of the Armies
were greatly altered by the time the Messenger
reached Bayonne. The following are extracts :

" BAYONNE, MAY B.—We have no official accounts to
enable us to form an opinion of the state of affairs in Spain, but
a courier is said to have arrived with dispatches for the Prince,
from Marshal Moncey. This courier affirms that Mina, with
the 14,000 men, of which his army now consists, is entirely
surrounded by the French army upon a mountain, the name
of which he had forgotten. We are, however, not inclined here