The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

CORN EXCIIANUE, SEEPT.IO.

The arrivalvf.grain in general is only moderate ; of Oats it
is large in proportion of other articles. There is at vaunt
scarcely any business doing in Wheat, and Monday's 'pica
cannot be supported. Barley and Beans continue dull. Our
oat-buyers purchase scarcely any quantity, and to make SQICS,
rather less terms must be submitted to. The top price of tiour
is not yet fallen to 501. per sack, as some of the Papua .v.ated
on Monday.

MOP INTELLIorNcE.
sou 111 W AU L, SEPT. flop trade is very dull, but
the prices continue the garnet -as they were when we lest wrote
you, and there is no anxiety in the holders to sell. The 444tY
in at 28,6001.
Marna Town. SRP'e. IL—Although the Hops Me lAA riper.
ing, yet from the great deficiency of sap in the lines they arc
prevented train growing out to their lifklifti Site"; it is lit.r.cr-
theless expected there will be many cant-Ors of escelitnt qua-
lity. The late fine weather has somewhat intinl"4 tae
pearance of the growth in those grounnds tree 1.41111 voll'hit hut
it hits had a contrary effect on these that are ilis.eaetdi
look maeli worse than did Li WWI 4go, arid are evidtntly
going of very fast. , In the latter grounds a species of ‘ rrial;go;►
xieyaUer, hits
niuilttlYesiirntslistarppmethaea,
ftt
arance, is colutuitting dreadful rasta*ea by
making its way through the mitre of the hop; destroying it;
condition. This is a species of verMin never known to have
the hop before, and is linlipost.d to be produced by the
oiltdil in filberts, but winch
.l
quantity of filth with which the plant;is loaded. The red tr.ould
is also doing much mischief in teeny Of the grounds. A pock,it
of New Hops, the first that has appeared in the mallet, grow,,,
by Mr. W. P. Bhir/07, of. Vim Suttou, . was sold in the
rough, on Wednesday last, and fetched 12 guinea% per cwt.
The Pocket was afterwards resold twice, and sycntually
14 guineas per cwt.

TI! LiQ o v JOULNALS.

p A I IX
Ixtrathfrom the Morning Papers, September 10.

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[THE TIMES.]
The telegraph has announced, it appears, that
4t three quarters past two o'clock, on the 31st
Ult." the-Trocadero" was carried by the French
trmaps, under the eyes of the Duke of Angou-
leme; that the Spaniards (this is worth attending
.to) lost 400 men killed and wounded, 900 pri•
!loners, and 50 pieces of cannon. The French
lost is.not, even glanced at in the meagre official
stittamk.t; but report was not idle in Paris last
Monday, from two to three thou Sand Frenchmen
beipg said to have fallen on this occasion. . It is
to be regretted that we are left in total ignorance
by (lie MoniZenr, not merely of the price which
his Highness of Angouleme has paid for his ac-
quisition, but of What it is that he has gained.
" The Trocadero" was carried on the 31st of
August. - What, then, is the Trocadero ? There
is an island called the Trocadero, contained be-
tween the inner harbour of Cadiz on one side,
and the canal of Trocadero on the other. This
island stretches N. E. and S. \V., and is on the
opposite side of the inner harbour from the Ca-
raccasnod from the town of San Carlos. There
is upon it the fort of St. Louis ; the whole being
altogether out of shot or shell distance, with
re-
spect to the city of Cadiz. There is, again, to
the north of this island, a peninsula WiTned by '
the canal of Trocadero on the south, and the bay
of Cadiz on the east. This oblong peninsula is
likewise termed the Trocadero, and on it there
stands three forts : one, with some contiguous
batteries, looking towards the land side, or
French quarters at Puerto Beal, bears, as well as
theiabove island and peninsula, the common de
nomination of Trocadero : the remaining two
long are St. Joseph and Matagorda, thp,, last of
whiCh is
,placed' opposite to the Castle 'of Pun-
tales, with a channel between thorn, 1,330 yards
wide. Puntales stands about mid way on the
neck of land which connects the -Isle de Leon
with Cadiz, nod the northern extremity of which
forms the site of the lawn. This neck is washed
on the' west -by the ocean, on the east, towards
Matagorda, by the harbour. But Matagorda is
the single point of the Trocadero, whence, even
with bombs of the greatest power, any shells
(for shot is out of the question) Call be thrown
into the nearest quarter of Cadiz. The distance
horn Matagorda to the head of the town is 4,100
yards---two miles and a half ; to the market-
plaCe of Cadiz, 4,400 yards. Sault's overgrown
mortars were cast, ihr the hope of being able to
terrify--to injure the garrison they could not ;
and, in spite of them, the Cortes of 1810-11-12
sat and laughed at the labours of the besieging
army, until the vicissitudes of war in another
part of Spain set the whole of Andalusia free.—
if, then, Matagorda itself he not in the hands of
the Frenclrarmy, the Generalissimo might just
as well attempt to bambard Gibraltar as Cadiz
from any other point of the Trocadero. •So far
RS Call he judged from the dispatch,
,nothing
more Whi tried than an assault unon those works,
of the ConStitutionalists fronting the lines of the
besiegers, and far enough detached'frOm'Nfata-
i_sr,ordai It may he otherwise, for any thing we
-Know ; but such is the natural inference from the
effielni sintt,ment, and it is further corroborated
by the. small loss ascribed to the Spaniards—
which, although the tel would take
especial care that it should not be in any case
under-raied, estimates the force in defence of the
works, includingkilled,wounded, and prisoners,
at 0,4 1,300 melt. Had the whole peninsula of
the Trm.,,t,,ro 19,11 en, it must have involved the
surreedet• of a much larger garrison : St. Joseph
and 14ntozosda must, if we have rightly con-
anted the, French telegraph, be still attacked by
regular eoproschns. Grant that they are carried
—what then, has been effected towards a success-
ful siege of, Cadiz itself ? Nothing whatever, if
the -Cartes, the Governor,. and the troops are
stanch---literally nothing will have been gained
by capturing every foot of ground, which bears
the name of " Trocndero," except the possibility.
or throning a stray shell into Cadiz, which may
burst upon Ferdinand's head. in the mean time
the stormy ,season approaches, the French men of
war are blown. away, and the blockade Of the
Constitutional garrisou becomes an equal farce
with the proposed bernbardment. .

ImoaNtNo. cuitotocLE.]
The Paris Papers announce the capture of the
Trocadern by,as atllt on the 31st ult. The AC,
count of chi:: event was transmitted to the French
capital by telegraph, consequently the details
are e,xtremely scanty, yet care has been taken
to put in the los.; of the Spaniards, which could
not interest tin' gcod people of Paris so much as
their.owtiond, his ,omission warrants the con-
clu,ion that Ihk part of the dispatch was sup-
pressed after the receipt, the Ministers not. daring
to nhlkh that ti stint I •**important point had
cast (.!iprotopli number of lives, for re.
Pt)" 2,000
,of the Doke d'Angouleme's
army c t rt hilted and wounded, From the na-
ture of the pe,,ition, and the quality of the troops
sintinn,(l the Trocadero, chiefly determined vo.
tunl4 01!,uvt I, do nafron,ider the French 1056,0 s above
stated, to he exaggeraled, its the attack must
haveThern made with, at least, from 6 to 8,000
men, exposed for some time to a galling fire be-
fore y could effect a lodgment oft the forts.—
Th,Frelleh may, therefore, now state the question
1110,1 ifthe capture of the Trocadern, with a
garriswi 'of 1,1;00 Mel), roNt. 2.000 killed and
wounded, wlolt u that or La tact cost, with a
garf"t, of 10,000 And after the taking of La
Islet ;%.•y m'ay mahe the me calculation with
regai Jo. Cadiz: The French are now in exactly
the pi), I hey livid during the Peninsular war,
andibeyoad which they found it impossible to ad.
vance in more than -two years and a half, not-
with, t h ing all their efforts and, preparations.--
The,cocadero is Cl) isMated point that gives
them- 14 r• 0 11SN to fort Matagorda, , the extreme
point; of a long, strip of, land which separates the'
outer from the inner .hay.---. This position gives
thent !the partial command of the intervening,
hatorltil, yet removes.... them further from

La Isla, and does not bring them nearer
Cadiz than Within, five .miles, -the bay being
still between them. ',This very same point,
during the last war, was taken by the
French, not as a basis of any ulterior operations,
as a small point from which they might annoy
us, and affording a kind of partial occupation to
an idle army. Even to answer this purpose, they
were obliged to send to Seville and east the large
mortar in St. James's Park, with the correspond-
ing shells—an operation that took up several
months, and after all, they were only enabled to
ruin a few private houses, without in the least in-
timidating the governor or the army, or causing
any other material injury.

riIORNING HERALD.]
It will be seen by the extracts from the French
papers, „received yesterday evening, that the
French have been more suscessful in their opera-
tions before Cadiz than the friends of Spanish
independence had anticipated. The Trocadero,
which is represented as a strong outwork on the
way leading to that city, was taken on the 31st
ult. with a loss on the part 'of the Spaniards of
150 men killed, '250, wounded, and 900 pri-
soners ; together with 57 pieces of cannon. The
dispatch, however, does not say a word of the loss
sustained by the French.—We are sadly afraid
that the Spaniards are greater talkers than doers ;
but we must patiently wait to see whether the
winter of this year will do as much for that
" heroic" people and nation, as the winter of 1811
did for the Russians, under nearly similar cir-
cumstances of unjust aggressions on the part of
the French.

[MORNING POST.]
LL French Papers to the 9th inst. arrived last
night, by express, and we regret to state, brought
intelligence of the fall of the Trocadero. As
the news was conveyed to Paris through the me-
dium of the telegraph, it is accompanied with
.very few details. At three quarters past two in
the afternoon of the 31st ult., we are told the
Trocadero was carried with the greatest vigour,
in sight of the Duke of Augouleme, the Spa-
niards losing about 150 killed, 250 wounded,
900 prisoners, and fifty pieces of cannon.—
No estimate is given of the loss of the
French themselves ; but as that of the assailants
in killed and wounded at the storming of a
place is generally considered to be at least four
times as great as that of the Defenders, who fight
behind the protection of walls (provided the lat-
ter display ordinary courage and resolution), it
may be fairly calculated that the enemy must
have had about 600 killed and 1000 wounded.
That such a number will be. owned by the Go-
vernment, we do not entertain the least expec-
tation. We shall be told, probably, that French
ardour carried every thing before it with such
rapidity, that it left no time for the Con-
stitutionalists to kill the soldiers of a Bour-
bon. .But assurances„ of this L:,kind will. con-
vince no one, unless they: should be accompa-
nied. by proofs that the Spaniards... did not await
the attack, or ran away at firstdischarge,,--
This however, cannot:_noWbe asserted.; for the
number of their killed and7:4ounded, demon-
atrates that they,must have. made an.obstinate:-re-
sistance.• French ardour could not come into
play, however fiercely it might burn, until after
the troops had crossed the wide trench filled
with the waters of the sea, by which the Con-
stitutionalists had isolated : the Trocadero from
the Continent. Neither could the storming
commence till a- practicable breach had been
effected in the ramparts of that fortress. -Those
operations must have occupied a considerable
time, and during them the loss must have. fallen
almost exclusively on the enemy. N'Ve are con-
vinced, therefore, that if the truth were to be of-
ficially pulashed, our estimate would be found
accurate. It is confirmed, indeed, by the state-
meets of private letters, none of which represents
the French loss to have been less than 1,500
men, whilst. most of them rate it as high as 2,000 :
and the belief that'it had far exceeded in magni-
tude the value of the object for which it had been
incurred, was so prevalent in Paris on Monday,
that the effect of this victory on the Funds was
that of a defeat,and they sunk instead of rising.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The latest accounts from the Grecian Archi-
pelago, slate that the gallant ChriStians were
occupied in planning a most bold and daring ex-
pedition against their ruthless enemies, which
would remove the seat of war in a great measure
from Greece, and transfer it to the rich shores
of Asia. Minor. Their plan is said to be, to
carry the war into Natolia, a province and the
western part of Asiatic Turkey—to attack and
plunder Smyrna, and make it for the future their
headquarters. .They haVe collected, it is aid, with
this intent, 12,000 chosen troops and warriors,
among the different islands of be Archipelago. The
embarkation and sailing of the expedition had, it
is stated, already taken place, and the
intelli-
gence of its operations was looked for with the
greatest anxiety. The Greek. Admiralty bad the
strongest hopes of success, as the Capitan Paella
was engaged in the lonian sea, and on the coasts
of the Isle of Gandhi, where all was placed in a
state of defence, and wonld therefore mock his
worst endeavours. The Porte, it appears, was
apprised of the intentions of the Greeks, and
had sent Ibrahim Paella into Natolia, at the
head of some thousands of its beat troops. The
success of the Greeks will depend, in a great
degree, on the co-opertition of their brethren on
the Asiatic shore ; if they join them, both.united
moat overpower the Crescent; if not, the under-
taking will he too hazardous for the adventurers
from the: Islands. They; may plunder Smyrna,
but cannot retain permanent possession .of that
city-,or the surrounding country. Smyrna is
one of the richest cities of the Levant; it is
inhabited by merchants from every part of the
world, and the depot of their varied mercha
disc. The population is about a hundred and
fifty thOusand, of all persuasions. The Ottomans
have nineteen mosques, the fireekS three churches
the Jews six synagogues, the 'Armenians one
church, and the Latins three- convents. It •,hatt
no fortificatiOns of any strength or ImportaUce,
and lies' at the head of a large bay,1430 miles South.

west of Constantinople. This is a bold and des-
perate enterprize of the Greeks, but they are in-
creasing every day in strength and determination.
The Turks cannot now conquer them ; on the
contrary, they will ;et drag the Crescent down,
and trample the power of the Ottoman in the
dust.

[N Env TI m Es.]
We have at length received the important in-
telligence of the attack on the Trocadero. It
has been made, and has been attended, as we
fully expected it would be, with complete suc-
cess. By a dispatch, dated at the head-quarters
at Port St. Mary on the 31st ult. and trans-
mitted from Bayonne by Telegraph, we learn
that on that day the Trocadero was carried by
assault, the Revolutionists losing thirteen hundred
men, and 50 pieces of cannon !—ln order to com-
prebend fully the nature of these operations, a
general description of the place may be proper.
The Spanish coast from the mouth of the Santi
Petri river runs North-West to Cadiz about 12
English miles. Cadiz forms one point of the
opening of the Bay of Cadiz, and Rota, about
seven miles further to the N.W., forms the other.
The Bay is also about seven miles deep, and at
the bottom of it, N. E. of Cadiz, is Port St.
Mary, situated at the mouth of the Guadalete
river. The South-east side of the Bay is
formed by a Peninsula called the Trocadero,
which separates it from the inner bay, or har-
bour, leaving a narrow passage for the sea be-
tween the S.W . extremity of the Trocadero and
the land on the Cadiz side. At the bottom,
or N. E. part of the inner bay, stands Puerto
Real, about six miles S.E. of St. Mary ; and the
S.E. side of this bay is formed by the Peninsula
called the Isle of Leon, the shape of which is a
sort of irregular triangle, bounded by the inner
Bay, the river Santi Petri, and the sea, but
connected, at its N.W. angle, with Cadiz by
a narrow sandy neck of land, about four or five
miles in length, at the extremity of which the
City is built. The entrance to the inner
harbour was formerly commanded by the Castle
of Matagora on the Trocadero side, and by that
of Puntales on the Cadiz side, only 1330 yards
asunder ; but the former is now in ruins. How-
ever, the Trocadero itself had been insulated by
a cut across its E. extremity-, which was
strongly fortified, under the direction of Valdez,
the Governor of Cadiz. During the former
siege of Cadiz, the possession of the Trocadero
could not enable the French to bombard Cadiz ;
because they were still out of shot of its
walls, and had not the command of the sea.
Now, the occupation of the Trocadero gives them
the entire command of the outer bay, they can
cannonade or bombard Cadiz in. any direction,.
and may- cover their, landing at any point .they
think fit by, their 'ships, bomb vessels, and gun•
boats. The, importance.!. which Valdez .and his
party ascribed, to the posiession. •of the 'Tr°.
cutler°, is evident.from the. great care +they had
taken,.,- to _fortify-: .and. _from_ their ,having
mounted. no ,less.Abatt, .pieces of cannon
'in the i,lines intended for- its defence-all which
CBllllOll they hav&'now lost ! The most-,deter*
mined Republicans too were selectedAo.maintaln
this important .post.„ , A regiment
;which had
evinced some symptoms ot:lariity Temoved;
and the most
,furious exultudos ,among The Militia
were sent to supply their place ; and of these
choice troops, no less than thirteen hundred
have been put hors- de combat!, reckoning kill-
ed, wounded, and prisoners.—This news, we
should think, will be fatal to the Spanish
Boieds. How any man could for a moment be the
dupe of the last clumsy method of tricking John
Bull out of his money, we cannot conceive. ;
and Admiral Jabat was singularly unfortunate in
choosing yesterday for the announcement of his
coalition with the schemers. The. Admiral says
he has very weighty reasons for no longer .oppos-
ing the issuing of new Bonds. No doubt be has.
,The fractional sums paid in cash on the exchange
of Bills for Certificates may form not a despicable
fund for those poor Spaniards whose official sa-
laries have. been so long in arrear, and whose
case the Admiral doubtless cotupassionates very
deeply.

MEXICO AND SPAlN.—According to Mexican
Goalies to the 27thJane„quoted in a New. York
paper of the 9th ult., a treaty between Spain and
Mexico was in some forwardness. The re-
presentatives of the Mexican Government, and
the Commissioners from, Spain sent out 'to treat
with them, held a preliminary meeting at Vera
Cruz on the 28th of May, at which they pro-
duced 'their respective commissions, and agreed
that their future meetings should be held at Xalapa.
They accordingly assembled in that citron the
12th of June, when the Spanish Commissioners
read -'a long letter in which the disposition of
Spain towards Mexico was fully explained, and
a copy was ordered to be sent to the Go-
vernment at- Mexico. fn the Sitting of the
14th, D. Guadalupe Victoria called on the
Spanish Comthissioners to declare expliCitly th'e
views of the Spani4t Government on the re-
cognitiow of the independence of Mexico, in
order that a definite reply might put an end to
the idle reports among the common people of the
sinister views of Spain.
'The Spanish Commis-
blotters replied that they could give no stronger
proof of the diSposition of their Government
to recognize their independence, than the fact
that they .had offered them suitable conditions
and guarantees, and had clothed their corn-
Inissioneri with the necessary authority to
act on • the subject. Nothing ersticulayly lute-
resting was transacted in the sitting of the
14th, except ordering a copy of the proceed%
ingS of the ' day before to be' forwarded to
'
Mexico, and 'they then adjourned. 'Thepre.
assembled on the 18th, %viten Gandalupe VictOria
signified to them
the indispensable necesSity
he was under of leaving . Xalapa; but pre.
viOns to departing, inquired of the Commissioners
if they were disposed to enter into a provisional
treaty
of commerce,
They replied, and on what conditions, &c.
that in exercise of the authority
vested in they were dis-
posed • by Government,
posed to conclude a treaty of commerce . under
such: conditions •as would .operate to the mutual
advantage- of. bOth coufitries: After which. tho
Session was dlsiolved,. '..'