The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-26 00:00:00

REPULSE OF THE FRENCH AT CORUNNA.

We have at length the satisfaction of laying
before our Readers the gratifying intelligence of
the REPULSE OF THE FRENCH AT CORUNNA,WITH
CONSIDERABLE LOSS, and of the RETREAT OF
THEIR ADVANCED TROOPS from before that place.
The opinion which we formed, on the first accounts
furnished by the passengers who arrived by the
Augusta, was therefore correct; and their state-
ment that the French had " entered" Corunna
on the lath, although they added," report says
that the French had the worst of it," is proved
to have bad no other foundation than in the
panic-struck imaginations of persons hurrying on
board a vessel in the moment of an assault by
an armed force upon the town which they were
quitting. The present cheering intelligence of
the discomfiture of the assailants has been trans-
mitted to LLoYD's, and was obtained from a
Spanish vessel which left Corunna on the morning
of the 18th, and arrived yesterday at Bristol.
The retreat of the French cannot fail to
have an important influence over the fate
of the war, not only in Galicia, but
throughout the Peninsula. flow much might
have been accomplished if Moutt..r.o had been
faithful to the cause of the Constitution !
Bad Galicia contained another MINA, there,
can be no doubt but the Fre►;ch would ere this
have been in full retreat fro►tt Andalusia and
Madrid. There is ground of hope that even yet
the brave resistance of Corunna will awaken such
a spirit in Galicia as must render the situation
of the greater part of the French army (already
confessedly unsafe) sn dangerous as to compel the
Duke d'ANGOULEME to concentrate his scattered
divisions, and to retrograde to his former position
on the line of the Ehro,—a movement, by-the-
bye, which was but recently announced as pro-
bable in one of the French accounts, and the
execution of which was, perhaps, only prevented
by the certainty with which the submission of
Galicia was calculated upon after the defection
of MonILLo!

The following is a copy of the notice received
at LLOYD'S, this morning, from Bristol :

[FROM LLOYD.V.]

" BRISTOL, JULY 25.—Arrived the Alreveda,

CORTIENO, from Corunna ; sailed on the more•

ng of the 18th instant with Dispatches. Up

o that period the attempts of the French upon

Corunna had been repulsed with consi►lerable

oss, and their advanCed troops were retreating."

We have still to regret that the information
contained in the above notice, like that of all the
accounts hitherto received from Corunna, is so ex-
cessively scanty and inexplicit. Thus, if it were
not for the fact that the French were retreating,
we should have been led to suppose, from the
expression of 44 up to that period" (the morn-
ing of the 18th), the attempts of the French
had been repulsed, that they still continued their
assaults upon the place, and that the issue of the
conflict was therefore still doubtful. And thus,
too, we are left in ignorance of the cause of the
retreat of the assailants. A retreat is by
no means a necessary result of the failure of
an attack upon a fortified place. In the in-
stance before us, nothing, we apprehend,
but the most imminent danger could have in-
duced the French force to withdraw from before
Commie, although the failure of their efforts to
carry it by assault might have induced them to
desist from that mode of attack. Has their retreat

been occasioned by the approach of a Consti-
tutional force for the relief of Corunna ? Had
the 3,000 Spaniards, alleged to have been united
to the French by Mottir.Lo, revolted on witness-
ing the heroic defence of their countrymen in
Corunna ? Had the French received disastrous
accounts from their flank, or from Madrid, which
rendered their position in Galicia unsafe ? Or had
they been to weakened by their losses in the
actions before the walls, that the garrison were
enabled in their turn to become the assailants,
and to pursue the vanquished enemy in the field ?
These are questions which cannot be solved until
the receipt of further and more explicit intelli-
gence from a quarter in which the hopes for the
cause of Spain are now in a great degree centered.

e have in our preceding columns given co-
pious extracts from the Paris Papers of Wednes-
day.—We subjoin the fast official Report from
Major-General Count GUI LLEMINOT. It is evi-
dent that the defection of MoniLLo was consi-
dered at head-quarters decisive of the fate of
Galicia, although the very remarkable and sus-
picious circumstance that the accompanying Bul-
letin of the operations of Generals BOUnCE and
II C BERT is undated, induces us to think that the
Major-General has suppressed the sdetails of
some unpleasant events which had come to his
knowledge.

[From Mc Moniteur of Wednesday last—Official Part.]

REPORT OF THE MAJOR•GENERAL' OF THE ARMY

OF THE PYRENEES TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.

MADRID, JULY 17•

" MY Lone—Conformably to the hope which I expressed
to your Excellency in my report of the 12th, General Idorillo
has renounced the defence of the cause of the Cortes. General
Bourck found him at Lugo on the 10th of this month ; they
have made together suitable arrangements for the operations
in Galicia, and one of his confidential officers has just come
to his Royal Highness to give assurances of the devotedness
.of his General, and to declare that he recognises the Regency
to which he brings dispatches. Your Excellency will find
annexed the last Proclamation of General hlorillo, dated
July 8. At the same time he bas sent orders in all directions
to endeavour to recal to their duty the several revolutionary
detachments which before made part of the corps under his
command.

....
" The result of the news which 1. announce to your Excel-
lency has been the entrance of our troops into Galicia, with-
out experiencing a resistance which the natural obstacles tlu t
defend that province seemed to announce. It cannot fail be-
sides to have an influence on the surreuder of Coruuna, and the
pacification of all that part of Spain.
" General 3lorillo has joined the troops of General Bourck
with 3000 men. The greatest demoralization prevails among
those that have abandoned him. It is to be hoped also that his
example will be followed by other Generals who still obey the
Cortes.
" According to the last reports from General Bordesoulle,
the blockade of Cadiz is now as well formed by sea as by
land. Thus the population and the troops will be reduced
to subsist on the magazine. Labourers are employed night
and day at Seville in the ports and fleet to organhe the light
vessels, and whatever can promote the operations ; all the
Spanish workmen and materials that can be procured are
made use of.
-1" It seems that the greatest misunderstanding prevails at St.
Sebastian among the officers, and even among the troops of the
garrison. The brigade of Schoeffer having been relieved ly
fore that place, by that of the two corps of reserve, command-
ed by 31. de Menet, it has marched to take its position before
Santonia.

64 your Excellency will find the Bulletin of the Army an-
nexed.
" The Major. Gen. COUNT GUILLEMINOT•"

BULLET' N.

" Lieutenant-Gen. Count Bourck announces to his Royal

Highness that he arrived at Lugo on the 10th, and was perfectly
well received by all the population of that town and neighbour.
hood. Gen. Morino, who had let him know some days before
that he would fulfil the conditions on which Count Dour& was
authorised to receive his proposals, waited for him at Lugo, in
order to arrange with him the measures to be adopted, that
his troops might act in concert with ours. In consequence of
this conference, the movement upon Corunna commenced upon
the 12th. One of the superior officers of General Morino's,
staff has been sent to his Royal Highness, to inform him of.
ficially, that that General and the troops that he commandi
recognize the Regency, during the captivity of his Catholic

Majesty.
" General Huber, who has not ceased to pursue the remnants
of the corps beaten by him, as well as by General d'Albignac,
in the Asturias, has entered Galicia, proceeding along the sea
coast. His vanguard had on the 7th a brilliant affair at Navia,
after having passed the river of that name. M. de Richepanse,.
Lieutenant in the Ilussars of the North, at the head of a de-
tachment of thirty horse, charged the enemy's rear-guard. 200
strong, dispersed it, and about 100 men having entrem-hed
themselves behind an inelosure, he penetrated into it with
the utmost vigour, accompanied by the Brigadier Bezieax and
the Hussar Salle of his regiment, and the Chasseur: Lace and
Perrin, of the 17th ; after prodigies of valour these brave men
put this troop to flight, the rout of which was completed by
the arrival of the remainder of the little squadron of M. do
Richepanse. Eighty prisoners, among whom are Colonel
Erica, of Engineers, who. directed the operations of Campillo
and of Palarea, three other officers, a standard, sixteen horses,
200 muskets, and two drcw.s, were the result of this affair,
which does much honour to those who were engaged in it.
The enemy left eleven killed on the field, and had a good
many wounded. The Chasseur Luce was wounded by a mus-
ket ball.
" After having made the rest of the troops pass the Navia
Gen. Iluber continued his movement; he arrived on the Bth
at Figueiras ; he immediately met Count de Benumitz, com-
manding his Vanguard to pursue the enemy towards Mondo-
nedo, where Gen. Albignac arrived soon afterwards. Gen. Hu-
ber, after having sent some troops in the direction of Ferrol,
proceeded himself to Mondonedo, where he was when Gen.
Bourck entered Lugo. The defection of the troops is complete
in the ranks of the Revolutionists of Galicia, and deserters are

picked up on all sides. General Wesson, commanding the
Third Milliary District, and Colonel Villanueva, have pre-
sented themselves to General Huber, and made their submis•

sion. The same has been done by the Constitutional Juntas
of St. Sebastian and Vittoria, as well as by above 200 indivi-
duals belonging to distinguished families.
"By order of his Royal Highness.
" The Major-General Count GUILLEMINOT."
" Head-quarters, Madrid."
[The Itioniteur contains an Ordinance, prescribing the pub-
lication of 14 Papal Bulls for the canonical institution of an
Archbishop and several Bishops.'

An Express from Paris has brought the price of
the French Rentes 92f. 10c.

The importance of the intelligence so fre-
quently furnished from LLOYD'S, and particu-
larly that respecting the recent events at Corunna,
in which the public feel so deep an interest,
strikingly impresses the mind with the value of
that establishment, not only to the people of
this country, but to the commercial world at
large, and indeed to the entire population
of the globe. The utmost reliance can at all
times be placed on the highly respectable body
of commercial characters who form the Committee
at LLOYD'S, and such is the known activity and
correctness of the agents whom they employ in so
many quarters, that the most authentic intelli-
gence may at all times be expected.

The following letters were yesterday after-
noon posted up at LLOYD'S :--
GIBRALTAR, JUNE 23.—The French squadron, consisting
as follows, sailed yesterday, viz. :—Trident line-of-battle ship,
Guerriere frigate, Bayadere corvette, and Zebra brig, for the

westward; and the Centaur line-of-battle ship, for the Medi-
terranean. Those bound to the westward are cruizing at the
back of the Rock, the wind not being fair.
BARCELONA, MAY 28.—This Port is continually blockaded
by four or five French frigates and brigs of war; and I am
informed that their cruizers in the Mediterranean amount to
17 in number, including; two-line of battle ship. The only
vessel of any consequence that has been captured belonging to
this place is the Grand Turk, hound from hence to the Havan-
nab ; she was sent to Marseilles.
' JUNE 2.—Yesterday evening a fine large brig with British
colours, about 150 tons burthen, when standing in for this port,
was brought to by a French schooner and ordered to alter her
course, and was afterwards towed out to sea by the schooner
and a frigate; she was deeply laden, and apparently came
from the F.astward. It is stated that 12 out of 16 privateers
have sailed from :Mahon; 4 of them well manned and armed.
TARRALIOXA, MAY 29.—The Glasgow, Phillips, of Leith,
arrived here yesterday with a quantity ofish en board, from
Gibraltar to Barcelona. The master reports that when near
the entrance of Barcelona he was fired at and broil& to by a
French brig of war of 20 guns, whose boat came along-aide
and ordered the Master to alter his course and steer to any
other port he pleased, as Barcelona was blockaded.

[Extract from a Letter, dated Genoa, June, 21, 1823.1
" It is currently reported here that Lord BYROM, with his
friend Captain HAY, the gentleman who was wounded at the
Pisa-gate about twelve months ago, Captains WitIGHT, Ro.
DERTS, anti THELAWIZEY, with the three Counts GANDA,
are about to embark for Greece. His Lordship's yacht, the
B.lliva, has already sailed with ammunition and medicines, and
a brig now lying here is chartered to carry himself and suite."

Mas• Seettes.--This extraordinary Personage
has addressed a long letter to the Duke of
YoaL,
which appears this day in a Morning Paper,
'i maintaining her Royal pretensions with unabated
perseverance and resolution. It might be conceived
that the clear and ample statement of Mr. PEEL
would have put an end to her claims, and induced
her to " sink into the mass of private citizens,"
hut, without attempting to answer the Hon.
Gentleman's arguments, or to contradict his
facts, she resolutely advances the same preten-
. sions, and it is certain that though Mr. PEEL'S
speech might be thought to excite general con-
, victim) of the truth of his statement, there are
still many who believe that her claims are
well founded. We received a long printed
circular letter, signed ANDw. G. C. TUCKER,
addressed to Mr. PEEL in support of her cause,
w hich we did not insert because it contained no
satisfactory answer to what had been asserted by
that gentleman in the House of Commons. It is,
t.urely, however, proper that a final end should
he put to the question. And, indeed, some per-
sons even interested in maintaining her claims,
as well as others who have only truth and justice
lii view, have reasonably observed, that if she be
really an impostor she should be detected, ex-
Posed and punished ; but, if not, that a due pro-
vision should be made for her adequate to the
rank which she claims. In her letter of to-day
she declares that she requires the fifteen thousand
Pounds, which, 'she says, were bequeathed to
her by his late MAJESTY, not only to satisfy
her creditors, and to secure a future maintenance,
but 46 to. punish certain base calumniators of her
character." It is well known that she brought
an action against the Proprietor of The British
3fonitor, hut, after the usual legal proceedings,
thought proper to abandon it, yet not before the
defendant had been put to considerable expence,
Without any chance of indemnity from the plain.
tiff. This was a great hardship on the individual,
and other friends of truth and justice may be
equally involved on future occasions. We, there-
fore, on various grounds, conceive that it is full time
to have the matter finally settled. Besides, one
daughter of Mrs. SERRES was lately married ;
and she has other offspring, who, or their issue,
'nay hereafter advance similar pretensions, and
the whole question again become the subject of
Public doubt, parliamentary investigation, and
wen of daring pretensions to the sovereignty of
the Empire !!
__—.....----.

Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Which was at=
tteaded by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
the Earl of Westmorland, Mr. Se-
cretary Canning, Mr. Secretary Peel, Earl
!:latliurst the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
luke of Wellington, Viscount Melville, Lord
aryborough, Mr. Wynn, &c. The Cabinet
iiiisters continued till a quarter to five o'clock

In deliberation.
Yesterday Sir H. HERBERT TAYLOR, as Secre-
tary to the Commander-in-Chief, held a Levee
at thethe Office in the Horse Guards.
Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD left town for
n
I'laretrlont.