The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-17 00:00:00

to what has taken place since the Bth, the
date of Marshal MONCEY'S dispatch ! On that
point the Journal des Debuts is wholly silent!—
This deficiency is in some measure supplied by
private letters from Paris, which assert, that a
dispatch from Marshal MoNcy, dated the 11th,
was received in Paris on Thursday morning•,—
that it announces, that the Fourth Corps of the
Army has sustained a severe check,—that MINA,
instead of retreating by Olot and Castelfollit upon
Campredon, as was at first said, had turned right
upon itipoll,—had driven, before him ROMAGOZA
and a division of French troops,—and, thatching
upon Berga, had opened to himself a free passage I
into Arragon.' Having gained the Valley
of Segra, it was in his power either to pro-
ceed towards Lerida, to 'Occupy Cerdagne, or
to threaten the rear of the French and their Allies
of the Faith, in Catalonia!—The Journal des
Minas, in stating that Madrid is alinOst deserted,
seems to wish that it should be inferred that that
city has been Abandoned. by the military force.--
The desertion, however, has been on the part of
all the respectable inhabitants, Who have remov-
ed with their most valuable effects, while the
Count nEt. ABISBAL has advanced with his army
to the Santo-Sierra, in order to dispute the -
.march of the enemy to the Capital, and the
Frencli have retrograded from Val/olio/id to Bur-
gos, in order, according to the correspondent of
the Pilote, that they may politely avoid having uz.l.
action With ,the Portuguese, with whom France
is not at war? What does all this mean ? The
Debuts indirectly confirms the statement, that the
French had ben obliged to retrograde upon
Burgos, for it say s\, " We are tosct out again from \
Burgos on the 13th May we be soon enabled
to announce that the y have. been
\
set out again on thei , return toFrance .
_,_
alsftetrhse,ytheesrpeerni.ei illicebeaiiiryos,e;goo,uos.llis
tu.oc,:
s.e
% oliliffed
!I.°
they retain a foot of Spanish soil in their posses-
sion . .
been!deAsirlotlutosugel; it issssio".l4ijon .gdias: -
'that if brightening
it is impossible not to see
.coming to
ttehaetn bothile c parties have
driven to the
their national:
d i
discus-
sions, ces .
sions
haughtiness
till the French have been hetchtlsesosplevni i
ju upon
utphtely tril Spaniards,iinatet hteh
northern side of the Pyrenees !

[From the Yilolr i f Friday.]
" P.11:15. MAY s.—Tlie ;Toter/11 opinion this

day that Mina, instead of proceeding to Cam-
predon, had marched by Ripon and Berga, and
destroyed the corps 'of
posted in that direction. It is also said that from
Berga he was again proceeding to \rich; where
he would form a junction with the divisions of
Llobera and Milans.
" According to the news from Spain received

this day, the Portuguese are in the neighbour-
hood of Valladolid, and the Count of Affisbal
occupies the defiles of Samo-Sierra.
" It is said that an Army
~.a qeserre
will lac
organized immediately to b(rnllrched into Spoil'.
" It is believed that the French Army has
raised the blockade of Santona.
MAY 9.—The communications on
" Fawn TILE ENVIRONS or Sr. Scmismor,
the high road
from [run to Vittoria being in want of additional
escorts, several detachments have been sent ou

this service from the troops which' blockaded Sr
Sebastian. The garrison, observing/the weakness
of the blockading I'M-Cc, took advantage df the
circumstance and made a sorOe last night, when

they captured many prisoners.
"Two new Guerilla Chiefs have just appeared:
one is Mandeca, Ex-Aide:de Camp of General
Porlier : the other is Colonel Pablo, surnamed
Chapalanga, to whom is speciallY
confided Oa
service of operating on the road which leads to
Vittoria
sofnrs olonf cPamoupnetluit,;:;oeu
lqeSa, Ilvaxt.ilerrircae.royo7
of t
f
Navarre, is also in that Province, at the pearl

of a Guerilla party.
" The advanced guard of use French arn'J',
wl►ich was at Valladolid, has received orders
lU
fail back, and after having taken
.four des' Pro-
visions it returned to Burgos. His supposed that
this retrograde movement was made in order to
avoid an engagement With the Vortuguese, tl►e
French being at peace with then'. _ _ _

64 General Ballasteros r kee-i b Constantly in the
rear, of the -corps of Molitor, oithin one day's
march. An important affair ii expected in

Catalonia.

" BAYONNE, MAY 10.—The nussian Officer
who went to San Sebastian to propose terms of
capitulation to the Government,, was desired to
return immediately as soul' as he made his ap_

pea ra n ce.

[Front l'Etoile of prop]
" The fall of the English Funds caused the
depregsion in our reuses, t
General Donnadieu, as
sollzl. trot the defeat of
Persons hare been
pleased to report. Mina, by taking the direction