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London, England, 1823-06-12 00:00:00

was given orthe Levee in Madrid,on the day of St.
Ferdinand, which, it was said, was attended by
800 Spaniards. A private letter from that place
mentions, that no more than 19 Spaniards of re-
spectability were present, and these all of them
persons belonging to the old orderof things,and in-
terested in its return.—The public of this country
seem indeed condemned to hear of the events
passing in the Peninsula from no other reports
than those made up and transmitted from Paris.
This is a circumstance of deep regret to a people
who evidently take so lively an interest in the
present contest, though they are too sensible and
too reflecting to allow themselves to be duped or
deluded by what they receive through so pol-
luted a channel. They look at facts and results,
and find that the French, along their extended
line of march, have not taken a single fortress or
place it was intended to defend ; that the Bour-
bon hero has been two months in getting to the
capital, although the road was purposely opened
for him, when in Buonaparte's time the same dis-
tance was performed with a larger army in fif-
teen days, and, in short, that the French, who
expected large armies of the Faith to rise up to
aid them, feel themselves compelled to do all the
work themselves.

[nRITI9II MUM]
The indefatigable Mina, for whose efforts no
praise can be too great, has again baffled all the
efforts of his adversaries. A dispatch from Don-
nadieu, dated Soism-I'4'ole Ist of June, at eight
in the evening, states, that the Spanish Chief,
pursued night and day, escaped at Baga by a
miracle ; that he, threw himself across precipices
without giving his soldiers any rest, and marched
them over the highest mountains, near Seo Urgel,
where lie arrived on the 31st May. His intentions,
the Ultra Dotmadieu states, were to regain Car-
dona by St. Laurent; and according to his infor-
mation," Mimes army was extinguished and com-
pletely demoralized : he ravages the country he
passes through, and forces the inhabitants to give
him provisions." What trash this is! Donnadieu
was himself utterly defeated by the heroic Chiil;
so completely beaten, that he was stated to be a
prisoner; and it is followed by his bombastic
dispatch, stating the miracle by which his vic-
torious antagonist escaped, and the extinction of
his army for at Least the fiftieth time. We are
sick of such stuff. This notable dispatch is pre-
ceded by one of Moncey's, dated the day before,
the 29th. He went to reconnoitre the positions
of Mataro and Granolles : on the 30th he went
to Vich. Donnadieu, who would follow Mina in
the Cerdagnes, if necessary, was on the 300 i at
Berge. The Brigade St. Priest and the Baron
d'Eroles were also In pursuit of Mina.. This!
pursuit is like that recorded of the, first Inhabit+
ants of Arcadia, who chased the sun upon
the bills, and when they thought they had
found his resting place, discovered it to be
still as distant as ever from their view. Disap-1
pointment and defeat are the only results that
have followed the French arms in .Catalonia, let
MoncOy and Donnadieu unite as they will. Bal-
'macros, about whom so much anxiety was ex,
pressed since Abishal'a defection, entered Va-
lenein, it appears (from the report of the
Spanish Minister of 'War), and dispersed
the troops which blockaded the place under
the Swiss Uhlman. Molitor has been recalled
in post haste in consequence from Catalonia, and
ordered by Angouleme to march rapidly on Va.
lencia, to the aid of Uhlman and the cut-throats
of the faith. The live hundred prisoners an-
nounced to have been taken by the French at
Mature, have now dwindled down to twenty-
five. Two French officers bad unfortunately
fallen into the enemy's power at the same
time. Letters from Perpignan to the 2d, state
that Mina, with his usual resolution, had
announced his intention of shooting all the
French prisoners in his power, if these two
officers, taken to Gerona for trial, should un-
dergo that melancholy fate. The last accounts
from Bayonne to the 3d, state that the Duchess
of Angouleme was expected there on her
way to Madrid. We should deem it rather
a hazardous expedition for her just now. Three
thousand Constitutional guerillas, in several
bands, by the latest accounts, hung on the high
road between Madrid and Vittoria ; it would
not be pleasant for the Duchess to become their
captive, and lie taken up the mountains until
ransomed. A dispatch of Guilleminot's, dated
the Ist June, confirms the detaching, by Angou-
leme, two corps, under Bourdesoult and Hour-
mont, against Andalusia and Estremadura, both
to consist of 15,000 men : the first of 7,000,
under Bourdesoult, to proceed by Aranjuez,
La Mancha, and Cordova, for Seville ; the other
of 8,000, under Bourmont, after having joined,
at Talavera de la Reyna, the advanced guard
of General Vallin, to proceed by Truxillo to
Estremadura. A corps of 5,000 men only will
remain at Madrid ; the Ist corps and the re-
mainder of the troops to be encamped in the en-
virons, so as to be called in if required. The
dispersion of the French troops is the great ob-
ject of the Spaniards, and of the game they are
playing. The most pressing demands have been
made for reinforcement, which shows that the
present French force is unequal to conquest in
Spain. The period is now approaching when
Ithe climate and scattered state of the invaders
will fight for the Spaniards. We shall be bitterly
disappointed indeed if they do not take tre
mendous advantage of it, and cut up in every di-
rection the French iii detail before any reinforce-
ments can arrive. The French Funds had fallen:
the exact cause is not stated.

f7IOIININ4 HERALD.]
Monday's aris Papers contain two French
bulletins from Madrid, dated the Ist and .2d of
June. Their contents are of some interest,
though they scarcely cause any change in the
aspect of tiffairs. Two coxpa, the One of 7,000,
the other of 8,000, and commanded by Generals
Bourdesoult and Bourmont, have been detached
from the main army under the Duke cl'Angonleme
to march, the former upon Seville, the latter in,
the =line of Estremadura. There appears every,
probability that Seville had already bein
abandoned, and the King and Government
removed to Cadiz,—The second bulletin men-

tions a movement of General Molitor, the cause
and object of which are left in the dark. This
General had been advancing upon Valencia,
when he received orders to resume his sup-
port of the 4th corps—that of Moncey, in Ca-
talonia. He was, however, soon obliged to
change his purpose, and again proceed in the di-
rection of Valencia. The cause is not diitinctly
sot forth—but it may perhaps be collected from
what is stated in the bulletin he would do, viz.—
First 44 encounter a Constitutional corps, which
he was informed had pursued 1500 Royalists in
the direction of Alcaniz," after repulsing which
(the bulletin prophecies with assured noncha-
lance), this General would proceed rapidly to
Valencia, 44 where he is impatiently (it adds)
expected by the numerous corps of Royalists,
assembled in the environs ; and even, as it is
thought, by a large portion of the population."
These are the words of the official dispatch.—
That the Royalists corps, at least, are impatient
for his arrival, may be readily believed ; and it
may be confidently suspected that the danger or
actual dispersion of the bands of the Faith, and
the progress of the Constitutionalists, has com-
pelled Molitor to resume his line of march, aban-
cloning Moncey to his fate. Ballasteros has
already been stated to have routed Ulman's band
before Valencia; and it appears not unlikely
that fighting between him and Molitor will soon
be announced.

NEW TIMES.
TIMES.]
A Telegraphic Dispatch of the Bth inst. from
Madrid announces that the Division of General
Laroche Jaquelin came up with the enemy near
Astorga, defeated them, and took 450 prisoners.
The routed troops appear to have belonged to the
army of Morillo, who, according to the Bayonne
news of the 3d inst. was retreating from Astorga,
southward to Ciudad Rodrigo. Thus the kingdom
of Leon is cleared of the Revolutionists. In Ca-
talonia nearly the same result has taken place.
Mina, driven backwards and forwards, appears
to have thrown himself for shelter into the for-
tress of the See de Urgel. Ills troops followed
him to 'that fortress in straggling parties ; but
many wholly dropped off by desertion. It would
seem that great opposition is made at Seville to
the removal of the King ; while, on the other
hand, the 'people of Cadiz refuse to' receive either
him or the Cortes within their walls. The people
of Cadiz are right. Why should they expose
themselves at once to a land siege and a sea
blockade ? People talk of another siege of
Cadiz; but they forget, that in the former siege
by the French the sea was open, and indeed was
guarded by an English fleet ; whereas now Ca.
diz itself is blockaded by a French squadron.
The' preparations for the French Loan have de.
pressed the Funds both French and English. The
French Rada ciosed on Monday at 87.15.
Yesterday was a holiday an our Stock Exchange ;,
but business was done to a considerable amount ;
l:
and the closing price of Consols, for account, was
80:. Spanish Bouds closed at 3b they had
been affected, in the course of the day, by a ru-
mour "that the Regency intended to disclaim all
the Loans heretofore raised by the, Revolu-
tionary Authorities. We do not regard this as
probable ; but believe it very much so that any
future Loan to those persons will be regarded as
a totally
lawless transaction. The lawful Spanish
Government being now established de facto as
well 45 de jure, at Madrid, will of course regard
the persons calling
Seville as mere themselves the Cortes at
rebels ; and cannot possibly
sanction their future contracts, whatever
may be done with the past Loans. —lt
would seem that Lord William Bentinck per-
severes in the intention of presiding to-marrow
at the
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the strangely in
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lavetivaolurreaodf already said pa
Swniesh lament
the situation in which
his Lordship will be placed ;
but, perhaps, re-
fection on those inconsistencies may yet induce
him to decline the intended office. Will his
Lordship, the descendant of a Dutch Officer,
who accompanied a Dutch Prince in the hive-
shut of England for the express purpose of
altering the Government—a purpose happily
effected by the Revolution of 1688—will he
assert that all foreign interference in the in-
ternal concerns of any state is unlawful ?—Will
his Lordship as a staunch friend of the British
Constitution, stand forward to advocate a toad
democracy like that miscalled the Spanish Con-
stitution ? Will he, as a military man, pretend
to say that the adherents of this monstrous anarchy
have acted with more bravery in the field than
they have shewn wisdom in the closet ? Will he
assert that there is the slightest trace of military
science in their operations--that they have the
elements of an army--that they have discipline,
organization, materiel, a military plan, or military
means of any sort, to afford them a chance of
success? We know he will not—he cannot—he
would expose himself to endless ridicule, if he
were to attempt to argue professionally on these
points—they will not bear reasoning.

[MORNING POST.]
The present aspect of affairs in the Peninsula,
considered as it ought to be with reference to
the system and the hopes originally proclaimed
by the two parties to the struggle, seems to us
highly favourable to the cause of independence.
What, we ask, was the avowed system, of
France, and indeed the only rational system she
could have formed ? Was it not to augment as
much as possible the strength,. and Mature the
preparations of the servile party in Spain, before
the French armies passed the frontier? And,
having once passed it, was it not her obvious
policy, as well as her declared intention, by a
vigorous and unremitted succession of opera-
tions, to bring the contest to a speedy issue ?4.
What, on the other hand, .was the plan of
resistance which the degenerated Government of
Spain, from the first moment when the threat of
invasion sounded in its ears,determined to adopt.
That of surrendering the capital without wasting
an effort for its protection, of, retaining possession
of as many fortresses in the rear of, tho enemy as
might suffice, for the necessary points of ten.
dezvous or retreat to the Guerilla hands in the
course of their desultory mode of warfare, and of
trusting principally for the final humiliation or

'ruin of the invading force, to the harrassing and
fatal attacks, of these bands, to the baneful
influence ' of the climate, and to the pri-
vations and losses inseparable from the situa-
tion of any army moving through a hostile country.
Looking at these two systems, at the system of
attack, as well as that of defence, is there, we
ask, one single circumstance in the actual pos-
ture of affairs favourable to the former or un-
favourable to the latter? The French have
certainly arrived at Madrid ' • but it is equally
certain that the Cortes of Spain, in expecta-
tion of their much more speedy arrival, have
long ago removed the seat of Government from
that city to a remote part of the kingdom.—
The population of the country through which
the army of France has passed has certainly not
risen en muse to oppose its progress ; but it is
equally certain that the Government of Spain had
discouraged, both by opinions and example, any
such attempt. The only success which the French
have yet to boast, is a success not in furtherance
of their own system, but of the system of their
antagonists. Where are the bands of servile Sna-
niards which the French Treasury poured forth its
riches tocreate ? What are their numbers? Iu what
single instance have they withstood the bravery of
their patriotic countrymen ? What has been the pro-
gress of that division of the invading army which it
was not the wish of the Spanish Government to
allure far into the interior of their country ? Hon
has the gallant Mina baffled, and confounded, and
weakened the army opposed to him ? Could he so
long have been mocking, impeding, and gradually
wasting away a force greatly superior in numbers
to his own, if the population had not invariably
favoured his operation and misled or obstructed
those of the Generals against whom he con-
tends? Why, above all, should the Government
of France now send a second army of reserve,
, under the command of another French Marshal,
to reinforce the troops originally destined for
the invasion of Spain, if it had not discovered
the disposition of the Spanish people to be the
opposite of that which at one period it presumed
to announce as the justification of its interference,
and the pledge of its success. It is sufficiently noto-
rious that the bigotted Faction which now bears
sway in France spares noetfort or artifice to deceive
the people of that country, as to the circumstances
and the prospects of the war into which it has been
so unfortunately and criminally plunged ; the
French must, however, be the most stupid nation
upon earth, if it is not now convinced that the
wicked aggression of its Government is destined
to encounter a circumspect and calculating, but
at the same time, a most determined, vigorous,
and persevering resistance.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

• • Wren: the Bury Gazette, June 101
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charge is false, and those Who Mike it, know its falsehood ;
that IttlriasPrne"eve
know that the opposition' press is not a free pne--the know
influence to secure the services of the press. to any extent
—they know that the enemies of all Government have never
ceased their endeavours to obtain the good offices of all
the venal tools of faction ; and it is to this application of their
means, to this prostitution of the mighty engine, the press, that
radicalism is indebted tits the hold it once gained on the ()Pinion
of the poor. It was not to the righteousness of the cause, but
to the unrighteousness of the means employed -to aid the cause,
that the alarming extent of discontent and on-English feeling
was to be attributed ; and it is only surprising that so little
mischief was done by an agency so powerful, in hands so un-
principled. The opposition press, and under this appellation
we include all who systematically oppose the government, had
long been pouring forth torrents of mischief, which not only
threatened to engulph all the institutions of which, as Britons,
we have hitherto been proud, but aimed at the destruction of
the foundation stone of all our greatness, of all our glory, the
loyal and religious principles of the people. The Protestant
Church was to be reformed by Carlile and Co.; the Crown to
be purified by Wooller, and the Parliament to be radicalised
by Hunt : our religion we were to learn front Tom Paine, and
our loyalty from Cobbett : universal suffrage was to Subvert
the Throne, and the Age of Reason to supplant the Bible.
To further all these ends, the opposition press" devoted
its whole strength ; and a few months since, the object was on
the very verge of fruition. How then has the plague been stay-
ed ? Vow has the blow been suspended ? Not by the severity of
the laws, not by the activity of the Attorney-General, not by
the redress of grievances, but by the bold promulgation of
truth. The loyal press has, at least, for a time, saved the coun-
try from a struggle which no thinking man can reflect on with-
out horror. They arc not venal flatterers, not " hireling
scribes," not tools of corruption, who have been the happy in-
struments of averting a calamity so dreildfUl, but brave and
honest men, who, regarding no ministry, no party, no faction,
have volunteered to defend the citadel of the constitution, have
beaten back the assailants, have stripped the rotten carcase of
rebellion of the gaudy rags which poorly concealed its pes-
tilential properties, and exposed the dremon-deity radicalism
in all its filth and feculence. Thousands who worshipped at
the shrine of the masked idol, now shrink back, disgusted front
the hideous object of their former adoration ; the fogs which
blindedthem have vanished before the light ofreligion and loyalty,
and the people of England have:returned to their national habits,
their national feelings ; habits and feelings founded on the best
principles of our nature, self-respect, arising from a conscious.
ness of being in full and unalloyed possession of all the free-
dom man can enjoy with safety to his fellow, and a determi-
nation to deserve that freedom, by neither ablising it, nor suf-
fering it to be abused. Truly, British principles will be
found in an ardent love of our native land, loyalty to our So-
vereign, veneration (hr our church, obedience to the laws, and
an honest pride in the birth-right of Britons real, substantial,
rational, practical freedom ; whilst these principles predomi-
nate, the Constitution can never be in danger, anarchy is
powerless, and sedition, nicknamed reform, may skulk in
corners, and feed upon its own disappointed spleen, for it will
no longer have the hearts of Englishmen to prey upon.

PRIVATE THEATRE.—At eleven o'clock' On
Tuesday' night, as John Linibrick, one of the
officers of the Hatton Garden Police, was passitig
by the end of Pool's-buildings, Mount-pleasant,
Gray's-inn-lane, he heard the sound of musical
instruments, and a most uproarious noise, issuing
from a stable in the rear of the houses. On in.
(Inking the cause from some of the neighbours, he
was informed k was a place where private Thep.
tricals were nightly performed. Limbrick pro-
cured a posse of watchmen, and entered the
theatre, where they were performing the last
scone of Romeo and Juliet. The appearance of
the officers caused the greatest confusion ; about
sixty persons effected their escape : the officers
succeeded in securing seven, whom they conveyed
in their theatrical dresses to the watch-house.
They were examined yesterday at liattoln.
garden, and, after receiving a lecture, wore disr
charged.

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