The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-30 00:00:00

THE LONDON: JOURNALS.

DAILY
E4qracts from the Morning Papers, September 30.
L narrtsit Patss.]
"The French apers of 'Saturday morning and
evening reached us.in due course yesterday. The
'installation of the Spanish Cortes Extraordinary
took place at Cadiz on the 6th, and was opened
v;,ith a written Address from the King; a rues.
sage was sent to Ferdinand, at six in the
evenins, to repair to the Assembly ; he re-
plied, that the communication was made too
ate, end that he had not time to prepare him-
svif,", As Angouleme draws nearer to Cadiz, Fer-
utend is becoming more reserved. He will
43-617 separate himself from the Cortes as much
as possible, and wait the hour of his redemption
)4trh anxiety, to hurl proscription on the Cortes
aid its followers from the French camp. The
Address from the Spanish King stated, that, in
mite of all his offorts, he had not been able to
obtain an honourable peace, because the enemy
o,e adds) persists in his determination to treat
with me alone, and when I shall be free." On
the next day the Deputy Galiano stated, that
fssiiitless efforts had been made by the Spa-
-Ith Government to obtain the Mediation of
'England. The hour has passed when England
?ight 'rap averted the-ittack on Spain. Her
isidiation has since been offered and rejected.
The 'Bourbon has grown haughty with success.
Thellfoniteur of Saturday contains in Its official
4Atitctng two dispatches from the army of the
Pyrenees.: one is from General Guilleminot,
dated Port St. Mary, Sept. 17, communicating
the cak,..3re of the unfortunate Riego ; the other
a:frorn Nfoncey, dated Soria, Blockade of Barce.
.oust, 'September L. In this 'he trumps up his
vstral account of an action.. between the troops
us:der his command and three columns of the
Constitutionalists, amounting, as he states, to
about .0,000 infantry, 100 cavalry, and 6 pieces
4cf..-ertillery, who made a sortie from Barcelona
orx• the 12th, and marched against the left of
Xancey's line of investment. The result,
according to his account, was, that the Spaniards
11rilie 'driven from their p2sitions, but re-
,
kritered Barcelona again. Moncey modestly,
*pd of course as truly, estimates the French
6/111 at about eighteen men, that is, one
Itilled 'and seventeen wounded ; while that of
Iktlipaniard is set down, in round numbers, at
:two hundred. Angouleme was' at' an Lucar on
414 13th, where the preparations for landing were
paselloc on, under the direction of Bourrnont.
,76`im. French Admiral Duperre arrived on the
17th at, Port St. Mary's, at two o'clock ; he
Ittirnediately joined the French sqnadron,• of
he took the command. The question'
o.cw is, whether, having effected a footing in' the
File of Leon by the--capture" of Santi Petri,
!the French Will -make the havairdous attempt of a'
:ending between the Castle of Puntales and Cadiz,l
cor' between' that ;slid Itie*Co.rtadara;or try Ito ad
vocce an Cadiz, &Om-where they now. are; but.
Lae they' have :to render- eititeivei istiza-;
Swear the of Sand Petri and the4tomorraus
trinish flotilla that communal* it. They would
'then-heed the fire of this flotilla, and of the tat.
teries oo the other bank of the river, to silence
the Spanish batteries of the Isla—to 'force the
'ikarcttge of the river, and defeat the troops that
defend die isle of Leon—to then advance on the
acaosearay to the Cortadara, and carry that strong
sizbsequently assault Puntales, and

reduce that Castle also; while Cadiz and its
ritinpartr, bristlirig with cannon, *mild then pre-.
it itself before thet;L., commanding the entire.
eauseway withits .tremendous fire. AU this the
French have to perform before they come before
1.1:e-gates of Cadiz. froM'Santi Petri. They' tnay
ettempt. the' landing nearer the city, and' attack
"the Puntales at once; but it Will be a.most ha-
iardous ad venture, and attended ti' ith -ruin should
if the:Spaniards defend Cadiz with any
.reiniution,, it '6ar,not fall before the force that now
•,4 •, • •
litetses the siege.

DeCortNrNG 00E71
French 1.1%6 ere to the '/Bth inst. reached us
°
oi express. by (press. 'The ilforliteur 4ontains
'twin official bulletins from the two extremities
44.1:ihe Pentritinia, The first, frdm Marshal Money/
lierorms us 'that the " priioned" garrison of
lilatiCalena hid; given him
,aitpther afarrno, As the
French term it, :That karrisOn, which must
rheas numerous as Itis-active and enterprising,
for it his 'sent Armies out of its walls, Some
of
wcich Still keep the field—that indefatigable
=garrison come out to the .number of 6,000 men,
with ten pieces of cantina on the morning of the
instant, end had the audacity to attack in
three places the posts of its besiegers. 'Moncey,
who strangely enough, appears by the date of
divatch to have-taken nine days to compose
ill admits that his reserve- was broUght into'ac-
lion; knot which it may be inferred that he.mtist
.itave been very hard pressed on one 'point at
-ffe itOweVer claims the victory-ms usual,
I,eesuse the 'Coofftltutiatialists•pitimately retired
into Barcelona. We have already shewtt that
the retreat of any garrison after a sortie is no
;goof of di:feat, a$ the roost successful sortie can
44rity lead to the attainment of tt-partiCular and
temporary object, 'unless there should 'he a
iltrerful allied array in the nAlghbouri3ad
:ready to co-operate with the besieged. When
this is not the case, all that can be done is to de-
stroy the works on an enemy, to 'break up lets
encampments, or tri favour the admission of con-
.vois ; and after having effected the object in
view, to re-enter the town and resume the defen-j
sive. The cunning Marshal is well aware of
*As as we are, but it is 9. very convenient thing
~/Pr him to even himself of the, general inalten.
Itsoo that prevails, and to 'represent, .as the
'efreet of his arms, vhst is ionly that of the
iposition in which 'his ar;tagonists Are placed.'
loss is represented as sa trifling, one
killed and seventeer wounded, that if his so!.
disers,shoulti enntinge to be so wonderfully, tit-
he imagined that he"
veared, it nlo jit time
tover leads them rithin the range at the ene,.;
ray's fire, or that they of themselves run too
fast to be overtaken evea by cannon balls.—