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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 2

[MORNING POST 4
The Factions Press of England, with all its
assumed ardour in the cause of freedom, and its
affected detestation and contempt of the projects
and character of that party in France which
wages unrelenting war against free principles,
• does not hesitate, nevertheless, to extol, the most
bigotted and inveterate individuals of that party,
and to dwell upon their assertions or insinua-
lions, as upon authority the most grave and
respectable, as often as they can extract from
either any thing capable of being employed
as the means to impeach or discredit the con-
duct of the British Government. The avi-
dity with which this unworthy portion of the
English press has availed itself of the speech
of M. de Montmorency, in the French Chamber
at Peers, in order to arraign the policy and con-
Iradict the statements of their own Government,
presents a striking instance of the certainty and
the promptitude with which the merit of being
an accuser of Ministers outweighs in the esti-
mation of Faction, the highest degree of poli-
tical or moral delinquency. The censures of
M. de Montmorency, destitute as they are of in-
genuity, force, or originality, would not certain-
ly have been deemed worthy of attention, if the
use which it has been attempted to make of them
did not serve as an index and a measure to the
feebleness, the hopelessness, and the tergiver-
sation of the English party, which seems anxious
to derive from them succour after its recent de-
feat, and assistance in it; future efforts. M. de
Montmorency affects to consider the statement of
the British Ministry, that they were not.informed,
previously to the arrival of the Duke of Welling-
ton at Paris, that the affairs of Spain were to
constitute a principal subject of consideration at
the Congress of Verona, as entirely unfounded.
And he expresses an opinion that this mis-state-
silent was an essential ingredient to the vindica-
tion of Ministers, and was in fact resorted to by
them from dread of the Parliamentary Oppo-
sition. All this is amazingly silly on the part
of the French. Statesman, for no one can have
paid the slightest attention to the course of the
discussion, whether in or out of Parliament,
without perceiving the absolute neutrality of the
fact in dispute, either to the defence or inculpa-
tion of the British Government. The silliness of
the Frenchman, however, is elevated to the rank
of meotal acuteness and vigour, in comparison to
the more deplorable weakness of those English.
men who repeat his surmises and adopted his con-
clusion. The fact asserted by ministers, and
which M. de Montmorency labours to reason away
for sihat purpose it seems difficult to imagine, is in
truth established by his manner of dealing with
it, upon an immovable bask. He infers, from
the known vigilance of the English Government;
and from what he deems the general notoriety
of the thing, that the intentions of France
could not have been unku,own. This vague and
loose manner of treating the subject on the par
of a Statesman who had abundant means of scat
ing the dates and terms of any previous commit
nication by the Government of France to that o
Great Britain, if any had been made, demon.

strates the correctness of the assertion that no in

formation respecting the intentions of the former
bad been previously. imparted. Thus'we find in-
variably that truth is fortified by .every-kffort to
shake it ; and that the factious, whether foreign
or domestic, which seek to impugn the veracity
of the British Ministry, afford to the world, by
every renewed attempt, only fresh illustrations
of their own weakness and folly.

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[BRITISH PRESS.]

Arenda, where Angouleme removed his head-
quarters on the 15th, is in Old Castile, 35 miles
south of Ilurgos,and in the direct road to Madrid.
Ohert's communication with l3essieres is the first
account given of that hitherto restless partisan
Mace the entry of the French into Spain. His
capture of iwisoners and arms from Ballasteros,
and the desertion of the troops of the latter,
e regard as pore invention, and destitute of an
atom of truth. The rest of the dispatch is in
the same character, a parcel of tiresome false-
hoods, Angouleme is getting into the heart of
Spain; he is rushing on the capital, and into the
nets spread out for him. There, separated from
his supplies, with disheartened troops, company.
tively scanty in numbers, and with more scanty
resources, almost inevitable destruction attends
him. Accounts from Perpignan to the 10th May
state, that Donnadieu had entered Vich on the 6th,
and that he had only a slight skirmish At the
forest of Tosca, between Olot and Laspressas,
where the French had about thirty wounded.---',
ounded.—
We remember the contest at Logrono, and that
before Ow walls of St. Sebastian, were men-
tioned at first by the French Papers in the same
way: it.howover afterwards appeared that the
invaders suitertql severely, and had some hun-
dreds Lifted and wounded, and the skirmish at
Totten. will probably yet turn out of the same
description. Mina's progress is stated in these
accounts to have been by the bridge of Roda
over the Ter, where he quitted the left bank of
the riser, and retired on Llusartes; it Was than
only the French General, Donnadieu, ventured
to approach Vicb. But Mina instantly detached
4,000 men from his army, who retraced their
steps by the right bank of the river by Vich,
again to Ripoll, where they had attacked
Romagosa and annihilated him, and arrived sub.
sequently on the Bth at Campredcm, three leagues
only from the French frontiers; Mina's intention
twin, to cut oil all the communications of the
French with that place, whence Donnadieu in
particular drew all his supplies of every sort for
his corps. The arrival of Mina's troops at Cam.
predon was first announced by,the unexpected
concourse of a number of Monks, who only on
the 4th, at six o'clock in the morning, had de-
parted to the sound of exulting music, to bestow
themselves in their respective convents, and
take possession, in lazy ease, of their rents
and benefice=s ; they fled on the first alarm.—
The entire nights of the 7th and Sth the French

troops were under arms, expecting every in-
stant to be attacked by_ the Spanish Chief. His
rapid and _ successful movement had diffused
universal alarm. Complete ignorance is avowed
of a►y thing like the ulterior operations of Mina
or his army in the French papers,' D'Eroles'
soldiers, who remained In Cerdagne, desert, it
appears, daily, with their arms and baggage ;. pre-
cious allies to the Ultras, who lavished so many
millions on then-t. Accounts from Bayonne to the
11th state, that the Spanish Government has for-
bidden all communication with that part of the
country occupied by the French. Madrid was
almost a desert ; all were directing their steps to
Andalusia, the roads were covered with emigrants,
taking with them their most precious effects ; but
there was no' defection whatever in the Constitu-
tional troops, while the bands of the Faith had
dwindled to nothing. Sixty prisoners, taken at Lo-
grono, had arrived at Vittoria, where fruitless ef-
forts were made to incorporate them in the bands
of the Faith ; but they refused in the most deter-
mined manner to fight with these ruffians against
the Constitution of Spain, declaring to a man,
with the greatest energy, that they preferred be-
ing shot. Yet the French paters of some days
since stated that these brave men had mixed
themselves up with the traitorous bands of the
Faith. So much for the veracity of these Jour-
nals. Mina's defeat of Romagosa, in despite of
the caution of the French Ministers, had be-
come general in Paris, and was universally
known and believed. The plan of the Spanish
Chief was, it seems, to attack and disperse
the two divisions of d'Eroles and Romagosa,
before he came to blows with the French ; and
this he has effectually performed. Quesada's
troops, it appears, mutinied and broke into open
revolt ; the entire abandoned him, and he had to
fly with a single aide-de-camp. Of from three
to four thousand banditti who formed his division,
blockading Santora, not a man, it appears,.re.
mained. 'They pave now joined the Constitu-
tionalists, or turned Guerillas, on their own ac-
count. The French, it is stated, had to detach
several battalions to blockade Santona in their
place. These are the bands who were to form

the vanguard of the French, and do all the
work of fighting, leaving to Angouleme no-
thing but a triumphant procession. Where are they
now ? They have been cut.to pieces, or deserted
in hundreds, with arms and baggage. Suchet's
(the Duke of Albufera) departure for the army
was talked of at Paris. The Journal des Debuts
says almost nothing of Mina ; it merely states
that his movements were most doubtful ' • that on
the 11th he had been near Cardona, and appear-
ed as if he only sought to avoid an engagement.
The reserve of this paper is the best proof that it
has nothing favourable to its employers to com-
municate, beyond the occupation of Palarnos by
the French troops, and the accustomed trans-
ports of joy with which they were received. The
real ceremony of their reception is not yet com-
plete; but we shall soon see it commence in uni-
versa! resistance to the invaders.

[NEW TIM ES.]
We have received, by express, a telegraphic
dispatch which reached Paris on Monday. It re-
presents the undisturbed advance of the French in

!tree columns on Madrid. The head-quarters of
its Royal Highness the Generalissimo were on

the 15th at A ra—nda, 48 miles in advance of Burgos.
Marshal Oudinot was on the 11th at Valladolid,
and Gen. Qbert, who had come from Tudela, was
on the 15th at Almazan, and was to be on the
day following at Siguema. The last-mentioned
Officer was in communication with she Spanish
Royalist General Bessieres, who had intercepted
Ballasteros on his flight toward Valencia, and
taken from him 2000 men, 200 muskets, and
' four pieces of cannon. As to Mina, fugitive and
vagabond as he is, we Can learn little distinctly
about him. The latest news concerning him is
in the Journal des Dt;bals of Sunday, under
date of the 13th from Gerona ; and it repre.
scants him to have been on the 11th at Cardona,
forty-two miles South of the Frontier, 45
North of Barcelona, and 55 N. W. of Ilostal-
rich. It appears, therefore, that he is not
going to invade France, which The Morning
Chronicle has so long announced as his Intel].
tion. He may be endeavouring to escape into
Barcelona, or it may be his wish to join his former
associates at Hostalrich ; but in either case he
will probably be intercepted by the division of
Donnadieu in front, while d'Eroles Is pursuing
and harrassing him in the rear. A letter of the
10th inst. from the latter General to Marshal
Moncey announces the determination to harrass
Mina until he is totally destroyed.--0 I can
assure your Excellency," says d'Eroles, 66 that
if we vigorously pursue him for eight days, the
want of ammunition and provisions will cause
his destruction."