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APVELLATE JURISDICTION.

A Committee of the- Howe of Lords, appoint-
ed" to consider of the best means of facilitating the administra-
tion of Justice, as connected with, the hearing of Appeals,
Writs of Error, and other Judicial proceedings," has jus.
made an interesting Report on this subject; and, in the House
of Commons, on Monday night, it was ordered to be presented,
and printed, for the use of the Members of both Houses! of
Parliament.
Having consulted the various returns respecting the business
before the House of Lords, the Appeals, &c. disposed of. and
those remaining undisposed of, their Lordships state that they
proceeded to consider—
First, The causes which appeared to have produced the accu-
mulation of Judicial business now depending before the House
of Lords.

Secondly, The best means of preventing its future growth ;
and

Thirdly, The urgent necessity of disposing of the presen
arrears.

Their Lordships' remarks on these several heads are of con-
siderable length, occupying sixteen folio pages; but some of
the statements may be extracted with great advantage. The
first head of inquiry, the " Causes" of the increase of business,
their Lordships say,
" Amongst the various causes which have produced the pre-
sent accumulation of business, it is apparent, upon the accounts
referred to the Committee, that the great number of Appeals
from Scotland is the most prominent; there being at this time
151 Scotch Appeals out of the total number of 225 Appeals
remaining unheard, which according to the average number
annually heard upon three days in the week during each Session
since 1813, could not be disposed of in five years from this
time, exclusive of the additional number of Appeals which
may be presented annually curing the same period ; and it is
to be remarked, that the'Appeals from Scotland are not only
More numerous than other appeals, but that they generally
occupy a much larger portion of the time of the Holm.
" Ireland has also furnished a considerable accession to the
general mass of business in the Supreme. Court of Appeal.
" And in England, the increase' business in the Court of
Chancery,. in which the property of the suitors has, within the
course of the last reign, risen from 4,700,0001. to. above
33,000,000/. sterling, has not only increased of necessity the
number of appeals, but has also occupied so mucb larger a
portion of the time and labour of the Lord Chancellor in his
own Court, as to preclude him from bestowing an adequate
degree of attendance for the decision of all the appeals which
come from England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the House of
Lords."

On the second head of inquiry the best means of preventing
the future growth of the business, their Lordships report that
with respect to Scotland, according to the most competent au-
thorities on such !subject, many improvements in the forms and
modes of conducting suits might be there introduced with
great benefit to the suitors, and to the general administration
of justice. First., the forms of Proceeding and Pleading,
their Lordships suggest, might be so altered as to bring the mat-
ters in controversy to more simple and precise issues of law and
fact ; and matters of fact may be referred more extensively to
the 'Jury. Court ; that resort to a Jury may be had with ad-
vantage in the inferior Courts : and that by separating the de-
cision of fact as much as nossible from the mere matter of
Law, the Appeal might finally be reduced to a question of how
the Law should be applied to previously ascertained facts.
Secondly, That an Met-mediate Court of Appeal may be use-
fully established in scotivd, without any material increase of
delay or ',xpence to the parties; by laying aside the present
mode of reclaiming Petition to that Division of the Court of
Session with whose decision the party is dissatisfied, and by
giving the Annul from one Division to the other: or by divid.
ing the Court of Session into three divisions, and giving the
Appeal to the two divisions who have not pronounced en
the first hearing; or by giving an Appeal to the whole Court of
Session sitting together, the decision to be rested in a majority
of the whole number. Thirdly, That it may be expedient
to make the decirions of the Court of Session fined in smile
cases. Thus, that Ecclesiastical or Consistorial causes might
be left to their absolute and final determination in Scotland.
—Whether any Bankruptcn cases might be left to the final
decision of the Court of S'ession may deserve further consi-
deration; and also, whether the Admiralty Jurisdiction in
matters of prize might not be vested exclusively in the High
Court of Admiralty in England. 4thly, It has been suggested,
moreover, that the proceedings upon appeals would be more
properly conducted, with a view to the true merits of each
case, it the oripinal papers printed on both sides for the Court
of Session were lodged with each appeal, and reprinted for the
use of the House of t ords insteati• of the new statements or
cases, frequently containing new matter, which are now printed
and delivered upon the hearing of each appeal.—And, sthly,
Their Lordships state, that some Declaratory Acts might be
P 1 ssed.
" Some branches of the business transacted in the Court
of Chancery, it is conceived, could not be removed from
it without great detriment to the public ; whilst others might
be bencileially transferred to othei Courts or Judges.—l. Of
the first sort are matters in Lunacy. These employ occasionally
very considerable portions of the Chancellor's time of attend.
ance in this Court; they are not =mere in whiCh the Chan-
cellar, as such, has jurisdiction ; but are committed to hint by
a Special Commission, or 'Warrant from the Crown, which
may be given to any other person. The Lords Chancellors
have,,however, been entrusted, for a long series of years, with
the care of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind, exer-
cising on behalf of the King, 'as parens patrice, the duty of
taking care of those who are unable to take care of themselves ;
and the Committee think that, although this duty might, ac-
cording to law, be entrusted to bthers, the discharge of it ought
not be withdrawn from the Chancellors, who, in their Court,
have long administered the affairs and property of such persons;
according to settled rules and doctrines, and with establish.
menta of officers necessary for the dispatch of business, and the
security and improvement of the property of' such persons.
" Amongst the measures which it may be most expedient to
adopt for relieving the Lord Chancellor from sonic of the busi-
nees of the Court of Chancery, are the following:—lsteMasters
arising out of the execution of Local and Private Acts of Par.
dement, to be referred to the' Court of Exchequer,' instead of
the ' Court of Chancery?-2dly. Cases on Writs of Error to
be referred to the Courts in Westminster Hall, where the Lord
Chancellor deemed it reasonable so to As to 111117Cfrd,
and references to the Masters--=and 4thly. A revision of the
orders, &c. connected with the Practice of Me Court."
As to the most urgent part of' the matters referred, their
Lordships, state, on the subject of disposing of the present
arrears, that none of those measures which have occurred to the
Committee can be adopted without many great inconveniencies.
" Any such measure (observed their Lordships). must neces-
sarily have something of novelty in its character; but being in-
tended for obviating a temporary difficulty, it may be hoped
that it will be only of temporary duration yet even in this
view it seems to be desirable, that it' should accord, as much
r as possible, with establishedforms, and afford to the suitor, as
nearly es possible, the same tribunal as that to which he can-
sidered himself to have brought his Appeal; or he may have
just ground for complaint, that the expectation on which he
appealed has been defeated.
" The Appeals from all parts of the United Kingdom, since
their respective dates of Union, have beets to England, and it
seems therefore unadvisable to send their adjudication to any
tribunal constituted elsewhere ; and the Appeals from Scotland,
which are by far the largest number, and give the principal oc.
casion for any new measure of this sort, would not, as the Com-
mittee are informed, be decided any where SO much to the math-
faction of the parties, as in England, and in the House of Lords.
" If in the House of Lords, the hearing must be either in a
Committee of the House, or in the whole House. To the pro.
ceeding on such matters in a Committee, it has been consider.
ed as an insurmountable- objection, that the Report of the
Committee cannot bind the House"; and if the whole matter is
still to be open to the House upon the Report, no final adju-
dication is obtained by this sort of tribunal. It remains that
Appeals must he heard in the whole House. The object, there-
fore, of the Committee has been to provide some means of
heermg Appeals, by which the constant and regular attend-
ance at the Lord Chancellor may be dispensed with; and for
this purpone, it is submitted that it may be so arranged, that a
Speaker appointed by Royal Commission should preside in the
Howse, as according to the law of Parliament he occasionally
does preside now in the Lord Chancellor's absence.
'6 Such Speaker, although not a Lord of Parliament, to have
liberty to declare his opinion upon the case and the reasons
upon which it is founded, before the question is put, as to what
the judgment of the House shall be ; respecting which it may
beimportant to remark, that, according to the present Standing
Orders of the Houle of Lords, the Judges, and such of his '
Majesty's Privy Council as are called by writ to attend, may
speek and deliver their opinion, if required and admitted so
to do by the House.

" !Cis expedient, also, that provision he made for obtaining
the opinion of the Court of Session in Scotland upon any goes.
tions of law which it may be thought proper to send for the
opinion of that Court ; such questions' and the answers thereto,
to be entered on the Jeurnals of the House. The answer of
the Court of Session, if unanimous, to be given by the Lord.
President, with the reasons upon which the same is founded;
and in case of any difference of opinion amongSt the Judges,
the answers of each to be given separately, with the reasons for
the same, and transmitted through the Lord President."
After some suggestion as to securing the attendance during
five or six days in the week, of four Peers, from ten till four
o'clock, their Lordships thus concluded their Report
" These statements and observatiOns comprehend all the
matters which the Committee have thought it necessary at this
time to lay bef9re the Nouse for its consideration. 2hey are

Among the arrangements, alterations, and

provements
in the old Palace, is the conversion
of tlle Duke of Cumberland's residence into the
King's guard,house.;
the necessary arrangements
for which Is one of the causes of the Royal
Duke's return to England.

CORONER'S INQUEST.--Yesterdayevening an
Inquisition was taken before J. W. Unwin, Esq.
at the Lord Nelson/ Old-street-road, on the
body of George Gardiner, aged 19, who died in
consequence of taking poison. Irwas stated in
eviden=ce that some months ago the deceased was
bitten by a dog supposed to be mail, and that he
had ever since been in a melancholy state, and
exhibitted aberrations of intellect. Verdict—
“ Insanity."

PARIS PAPERS.

[From the Moniteur of Sunday.-official Part.]

DISPATCH FROM THE MAJOR-GENERAL OF THE AUMT
OF THE PYRENEES TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINI-
STER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE WAR DEPART-
MENT.

MADRID, Ju NE 14.

MY 14oun.—His Royal Highness charges me with the
honour of transmitting to your Excellency the following news :
The second column of the expedition under Count Bourmont,
which had passed the Tagus at the bridge of the Arzobispo and
the ferry of Almaraz, formed a junction on the 11th at Truxillo.
On the 12th General Valin occupied 3liajadas, and the 2 roads
leading to Merida and Meledin. The rest of the column was
at el Escorial and Valmesia. ' Count Bourmont was preparing
to march on the 13th towards Merida and 31edelin, according
to what should be learned of the enemy. A. post of 100 men is
fixed at Truxillo, in a fortified house, to guard the town and
the communications with Madrid.

On the 12th a detachment of infantry and lancers had been
sent to Caceres to finish the disorganization of the revolutionary
Government and favour the army of the Royalists. This de-
tachment is to join the column at Merida.
The Brigadier Merino, who flanks the movement of Gene-
ral Bourmont, has 'beaten the Empecinado at Moraleja, and
killed 95 of his men, besides those who perished among the
mountains. This action has delivered an extensive territory
from the cruelties of the Empecinado, and permitted the inha-
bitants to declare for the Royal cause.

An officer of the Staff whom his Royal Highness had ordered
me to send to Salamanca for news, found that the division of
Count Amarante had left that town for Portugal. His division,
consisting of 800 cavalry and 4 or 5000 infantry, with six pieces
of artillery, arrived at Salamanca on the 2lst May ; it has ob.
served the strictest discipline. In the night of the 7th, three
couriers in quick succession announced the different events in
Portugal. The last courier brought word that the Infant Don
Miguel had left Lisbon at the head of 13 Regiments of the gar-
rison ; that this movement had united all the neighbouring gar-
risons with him ; that the King was declared free; that part of',
the troops had returned to Lisbon to guard his Majesty, while
the other went to fetch the Queen ; and that all the Royal
Family was united ; that the garrisons of Oporto, Braganza,
&c. had declared in favour of the King, and that it was hoped
that the city of Almeida was going to open its gates to the
Royalist troops.
According to this last courier Count Amarante left Sala.
manes the Bth of June at three A. ar. proceeding towards Al.
meida, passing to the right of Cuidad Rodrigo. That General
left at Salamanca a Portuguese garrison, consisting of two bat-
talions of militia, 30 cavalry, and two cannon, to protect the
town against the Spanish Constitutional troops that have re-
tired to Rodrigo.

The Portuguese troops, commanded by General Rego,
which were first sent against Count Amarante, have returned
to Portugal, and also recognised the Royal Authority. Ge-
neral Rego, as soon as he got back to Portugal, had been
summoned to Lisbon by the Cortes, and deprived of his com-
mand.

Lastly, according to private letters, all the troops without ex
ception have followed the example of the garrison at Lisbon.

The Major-General Count GUILLEMINOT.

•
IniRATCH FROM Tilt 34AJOH-OENERAL TO THE HMIS,

TER ♦T WAR.

MADRID, ..11:1:4E 16.
Mr Loan--I have the honour, to inform your Excellency,
that a movement in favour of the King took place at Cordova
the moment a batlilion of Quintos left it. Count Bourdesoult
hastened to proceed thither with his vanguard, and must have
arrived there on the 13th, to second this movement. The town
of Jaen, and all the environs, have also declared for the ,Royal
cause, and arc arming to repulse the fugitives of Placencia's

corps. _
The measures taken by Count Bourdesoult to send home
the Quintos, even those who are made prisoners, occasion great
desertion in the enemy's ranks.
- the Major-General GUILLE3IINOT.

LETTEIL iltOM MARSHAL MONCEY TO 1/18 EXCELLENCY

THE MINISTER AT WAR.

Vicu, JL'gr, 16, 9 P. M.

MT LORD—By my Report of the 3d June, your Excel-
lency has seen that persevering in the pursuit of the corps of
Mina, I formed a column charged with this expedition under
Lieutenant-General-Baron d'Eroles, composed of four Spanish
battalions, and the French brigade under ',Major-General `'is•
count St. Priest:

In my following reports I informed your Excellency that I
had also detached in pursuit of Mina, Count Salperwich, Col.
of the 11th of the line, with fourteen companies of his regiment.
Lastly, your Excellency has been informed of the movements
against Mina in our lines, of the enterprize which he seemed
disposed to attempt to the fort of Fig►ueras, and of his counter
movement in the direction ofla Cerdagne. Yesterday the Colonel
of the Bth, writing from Ribas, gave me the preliminary news of
an encounter and an advantage. All last night, and the greater
part of to-day I waited with impatience for a report from Baron
d'Eroles, commanding the expedition. I was in this expecta-
tion, when I received a report from General Donnadieu, who
as well as myself Is at Vich, inforniing me that the 2d Brigade
of his Division, composed of the 12th regiment of Light In-
fantry, and the 2d of the line, under General St. Priest, and the
Spanish under General Romagosa, have at length overtaken a
division of Mina's corps on the highest summits of the Pyre-
nees, near. to French Cerdagne; that 800 men of this column
laid down their arms ; that they have been made prisoners and
conducted to Mount Louis.

lam sorry I cannot go farther into particulars. That I may
not err in stating the facts, or in the praises due to the combined
Royal troops, I must wait for the report of Baron d'Eroles, who
conducted this operation.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
The Marshal Duke of Conegliano, AIONCEY.

TO 1115 EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER or WAR.

Vlcit, JUNE 17, Ten o'Cluek, A. M.

Al Y LORD—The good news which I gave your Excellency in
my report yesterday evening, is fully confirmed. 1 received
this morning a letter from Baron d'Eroles, dated Aja, June
14, at midnight.—(l inclose the original.)

The enemy pressed on all sides, and vigorously attacked,
left the field of battle covered with dead. Among the prisoners
is Ourrea, one of Mina's chief officers, as well as the Secretary
of the Revolutionary Chief.
Baron d'Eroles extols the firm conduct of Gen. St. Priest, as
well as the brigade under his command, and the five Companies
of the 7th Spanish battalion at the head of which was, doubt-
less, General Romagoia.
Your Excellency will see with satisfaCtion, that those brave
troops forgot their fatigue on seeing the enemy, and rushed for-
ward, crying, Five le iloi; The other French and Spanish Com-
panies, which had not the good fortune to be in this action,
have nevertheless contributed to the glory of this day, of which
Baron d'Eroles must also have a great share, for his direction of

these troops. Mina is retreating towards the Seo d'Urgel
measures are taken to cut off his retreat.

I have the honour to be, &c.
The Marshal Duke of Cornegliano, MONCEY.
Baron d'Eroles's letter which is annexed by the Marshal, and
printed with the above, merely state the same facts. lie gives
the number of prisoners at 700.

[Front the Journal des Debate.]
INTELLIGENCE FROM SPAIN.

MADRID, JUNE l6.—Ballastcros has but 'a small force;
a part of it was retreating towards Aliamt, and a part towards
the mountains of Alcataz.

The division of Bourck was to enter Oviedo the 9th. .The
Revolutionists of the Asturias are taking refuge in Galicia.

GERONA, JUNE 27.

[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.]
It was announced two days since, that Tortosa was occu-
pied by the Royalists. This-point is important from its po-
sition on the Ebro. It is besides the last town of Catalonia,
and the factious having no longer any hope of escaping either
on that side or the side of Arragon, will be more easily dis-
posed to submission."

PARIS, JUNE 22.

Our army is represented as dispersed over the vast
country of Spain, exhausted by fatigue, devoured by the cli-
mate—these are large words devoid of meaning; it is to sup-
pose an army in campaign, harrassed by its enemies, fatigued
by marches and countermarches, and diminished by actions.
But this is not the situation of our army. This army has
done almost nothing since it dispersed its weak adversaries ; it
has not lost 100 men by the fire Of the enemy, and in less than
three months it has occupied the whole of Spain, which took
Buonaparte six years to effect.

Our . soldiers cantoned iss friendly cities, or .encamped
round the fortresses, will tranquilly wait- under arms till those
fortresses which cannot be succoured fall, within a given time.
Our soldiers have done nothing but change garrisons ; instead
of being in garrison' at Paris, at Lisle, or at Strasburg, they
are in garrison at Madrid, at Burgos, and at Seville; this is
all. In the midst of a friendly people, they repay the hospi-
tality afforded them by their correctness in maintaining order
around them, and discipline in their ranks.

Away then with the spirit of party and the deceitful hopes
which would demonstrate to us every day that we triumph
against all the rules of art, and that we shall be immediately
lost. In some it is blindness—in others it is disloyalty. We.
cannot make the blind see, or correct perverted consciences.

The war in Spain is nothing but an affair of time and pa-
tience. Cadiz, which incloses every thing, the King and his
gaolers—Cadiz will fall like every fortress invested, and the
war will terminate with its fall. Providence has willed that
the Spanish Revolution shall be stifled in its cradle—it wai
born, and it will die in'the Isle of Leon.

(Prom the Coastitutionnel.)
[PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.]

" PERPIGNAN, JUNE 14.—The next day after his arrival
at Campredon, Mina occupied with his troops the mountains of
Capsacosta and St. Paul ; on the 10th he took positions on the
hills of Pia de Bragna, and at four in the afternoon he took the
road of Olot, passing by A rgelague. The whole movement was
effected on his left in the presence of the Baron d'Eroles, who
arrived at noon at Itippol and St. Jean, and who had written
that be would attack the enemy, but he has not fired a single
shot, although supported by a French brigade commanded by
General St. Priest.
" The Baron d'Eroles limited himself to sending ten mules
to Prati de Mollo, In search of cartridges, and made a retro-
grade movement with his troops upon Olcft, where he doubtless
thought to be before-hand with the enemy. As soon as NJ inn-
was informed of the movement of Baron d'Eroles upon Olet,
he took the road of Besalu and Tortella, returned upon our
frontiers by Talacha and Itoquebrune, and debouched on the
12th, on the Plateau of St. Marguerite, by the hill of Ares. lle
was seen defiling from the ramparts of Pratz de Mollo, on the
crest of our moontains, until he had passed the tower of Mir,
and gone:through the Plateau, covered with pasturage,- Which
separate the department Irons Catalonia, and which now feed
remounting the
number of
o ffloic,kicsh;aZedd,ehseceinudaerdelltehde, Bonaltaidlerefinlanodf
Paragon, and upon the Rogues d'en Illarcet to the southern
part of the mountain of Comte Bonne, arriving at length at Sept
Cases in the rear of the French villages of Py and Monte'.
"The 13th M ina took the route of the mountains of Nousi, and
marched upon Puigmal, and leaving the mountain upon his left,
and the hill of Nausons to his right, he debouched in Cerdagne
by the mountain of Llo, he crossed the source of the Segre, and
from thence marched upon the mountain of Er; he took the
road of Plaine, and has doubtless resumed his former position
at Palau, passing by Osseju.
4. Whilst Mina was effecting all these movements, that is to
say, from the 6th to the 14th, the French troops were under
arms and in bivouac throughout Catalonia, the departments of
the Eastern Pyrenvs, of the Aude, of the Arriege, and of the
Upper Garonne ; Manresa, Vich, (Irenolles, Itlataro, and Ge-
rona were in a state of uncertainty. Baron Damas raised the
blockade of Figueras, and took a position at Llado two batta-
lions were posted at &scare, and the whole of cavalry
were in order of battle on the plain of Lampourdan, on the side
of St. Leocadie.

" In the Eastern Pyrenees, General Darnaud, with all his
disposable troops, ascended the Tee, and marched upon Mount
Lotus, when he learnt that Mina had quitted Cerdagne ; but
scarcely had he returned here, than lie was obliged to re-
ascend the Tec, by Ceret, Arles, and Prata de Mollo. He
had scarcely arrived, when it was learnt here that Mina had
returned into Cerdagne. Having no other disposable troops
than 36 men of the 60th regiment,- they were sent at seven in
the evening to Mount Louis.
" General Donnadieu published at Manresa, the Lith, the fo*-
lowing intelligence:--
" • M. le Gouverneur, Lieutenant Gensral, Viscount Don-
nadieu, commanding the division, directs me to inform you
that he has this instant received authentic intelligence that the
troops which guarded Ferdinand VII. at Seville have revolted
against the Constitution, and set the King at liberty, and that
General A bisbal and other Generals of the Cortes have given in
their submission.

"" Make known this welcome news to the inhabitants of
Manresa. " I have the honour, &c.

" "The Chief of the Staff;
"6 DE LA NOUGAREDE.'"

PARTS, JUNE 21—The Moniteur, and the :Ministerial
Journals of all colours, were yesterday renmeat ipy Ncerile on
the subject of the affairs of the Peninsula. Not only t!). y
themselves to repeating the official intrlliget.t.t. .‘ • the day
before, but, contrary to their custom, they siLt;*;Lint4 ,iont ail
reflections and all comments upon it. They »utititAin, for ir.
stance, an absolute silence respecting the departure of the King
or Spain for Cadiz.

(From the Journal du Corntnerce.).

PARIS, JUil 22.--Another deception in Spain, and which
exceeds all" the others. The people of Seville have not pre-
vented the departure of the King, nor has the Regiment of
Marines. Cadiz has not shut its gates against the Cortes : the
Cortes are not therefore disheartened, ready to fly, or to seek
refuge in America, and however the Ministry has permitted
its Journals, even the official Journal, for 15 days to deceive
their readers, it is not thought that any, discredit results from
these Journals now reacting upon the Ministry. They must
calculate upon readers and a country singularly disposed to
conjecture for the future, and judr.of it by the present. This
future must appear to them disquieting, for they will doubtless
use this simple reasoning :—" (if all that the Ministerial Jour-
nals have announced to us of importance, the contrary is pre-
cisely what has been realised. The Army of the Faith has not
made any progress—Mina has been neither tracked nor shut
up in Barcelona—the inhabitants of Madrid have not prevented
the departure of the King—he has not been carried off in his
route—neither in Andalusia or in La Mancha have there been
any risings against the Constitutionalists—nor in °labels, not
a company of the Constitutionalists have abandoned their co-
lours. Thus, if the future resembles the past, the war, instead
of terminating, is about to commence, and the enemy, instead
of disappearing, are about to shew themselves upon all points,
and singularly compromise our army spread over the whole
Peninsula."
It is stated that the Ministry received last night important
intelligence from Portugal. If we compare what has transpired
with the embarrassed recital of the .Etoile, we shall have reason
to believe that this intelligence is not of a nature to satisfy the
readers of that Journal.
One of the Journals states, that M. Lodoix de Maxcellus,
French Charge d'Affaires at London,
ing Miss Canning. •
is on the point of marry-

TIM SUN.

SOLE.II OUIS D1C131.1; FALSIIM AUDE-fr ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1828

We have inserted in our. preceding columns
copious extracts from the Paris Papers to the 23d.
The Monilcur publishes a number of official

reports, chiefly detailing some of those military
operations, with the principal features of which
our Readers are already acquainted. There are,
however, two dispatches from Marshal MONCEY,
dated Vich, the 16th and 17th instant, which
lay claim to an advantage having been gained
over one of 114INA's divisions on the mountains
near to French Cerdagne, and in which the
Constitutionalists are asserted to have lost 700 or
800 /prisoners, and a number in killed and
wounded. But as neither MINA nor the main
body of his troops were concerned in this action,
we are induced to believe that it was much less
important than the French wish to make it ap-
pear, and that its results have besides been
greatly exaggerated. Late advices admit that
MINA had opened his way, with his cavalry, to
the See d'Urgel, and that in the neighbourhood of
Puy cerda he hi►d surrounded a French corps, 300
of whom only effected their escape by the bayonet.
Even if it be true, therefore, that NINA has
lost one of his columns, it would appear that he

has retaliated by cutting off, in his turn, a corps
of the enemy'; and At all events, that by his rapid
and, skilful movements,be continues to accomplish
his great object,—that of effectually prmnting
the advance of the enemy, who, instead of as-
saulting Barcelona, or penetrating into the inte-
rior of the Peninsula, have been compelled to
lose upwards of two months in following an adver-
sary who always eludes their pursuit, and who
has rendered it necessary that they should keep
close to their own frontier. In the mean time,
the striking proof which the Cortes have just
given, by the forcible removal of the KING to
Cadiz, of their inflexible resolution to maintain
the struggle for the independence of their country
to the last, if it should have the effect of stimu-
Whig the lloyalisis, or even, perhaps, that of
Mill further embarrassing the diplomatic relations
of the Constitutional Government, must at the
same time convince the Army, the Constitutional
Authorities, civil as well as military, and
all whom the disclosure respecting ABISBAL may
have induced to waver, that, so long as they
tare able to make a stand against the foreign

vaeer, there is no danger of their being alian-
cloned by their own Government. The French
having now penetrated completely across the
Peninsula, the utmost co-operation which they
could expect from the Spanish nation has already
been obtained ; and as the Constitutionalists have
also, for the same reason, ascertained the utmost
extent of the defection from their cause, and
the firm and unshaken confidence, with scarcely an
exception, with which they can now rely on their
mutual fidelity, we may calculate that a great
and simultaneous effort will shortly be commenced,
if it has not already begun, to roll back the tide
of disaster upon the aggressors.