Star.
London, England, 1830-10-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

INVASION OF SPAIN.

Pants, OCT. 23. The friends of Gen. Mina received last night en
...xpress from Bayonne, bringing, together with the account of his entry
into Spain, already known by a telegraphic despatch, the Proclamations
issued by him and 1( Pastor. Mina was accompanied by a detachment
of cavalry, almost composed of superior officers, amounting to a
hondred, and followed by about live hundred well armed men. It is
known by Telegraph that up to the .21st. none of the Chiefs
had re-entered France. Valdes has bad serious engagements
with the Royal troops, and though the latter were timely re.
inforded, 'Valdez had kept his station. Some of his men approached
the French frontiers to -secure two pieces of cannon, which encumbered
their movements, but Anding themselves on the point of being disarmed
hy the. French Authorities, they re-entered Spain, and joined coldly.
We are anxiously waiting for the telegraphic despatch of today. The
Ministers behave themselves exceedingly bad in Spanish affairs.

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH FROM BAYONNE.
Afternoon of the 211 d Oct.

Yesterday General Mina entered Vcra at the head of 400 men, and
without experiencing the alighest opposilion advanced beyond Loam.
some carabineers joined his party ; and it is liclicrtd that he Is on his
march to Tolosa.

PERPIGNAN.
20.—A body of Spanish Constitutionali4ts have been repulsed
upon our territories. They haven enuredlas and Mantelllas.

From the Messages des Chassbres, Sunday, Oct. 24.
AFFAIRS OF THE PYRENEES.

The news spread yesterday, and the day before, respecting the former
operations announced by the Spanish tefugees, have been very much at
variance with each other, and have become to-day a subject of contra
easy between the Journals. The following seems to us to be the true
state of affairs up to the 111th :—but first of all, we must say • few
words on the policy of France, with regard to the Spanish refugees. The
Spanish Govemntent had been demanding for a fortnight, by repeated
notes, the dispersion of the refugees, who were organizing themselves on
the frontier, incontestibly for the purpose of hostility and invasion. It
asked Whether it was to be at peace or war with France, and whether,
in tecognising the new French (iovernment, it entered into relations with
a hostile or triendly, or, at least, a neutral Cabinet. It is evident that
our Government, after the neutrality which it observed in the affairs
of Belgium, and in view of the interests of the frontiers, of the pail.
cal advantages and national sympathies that might lead France to risk
the chances of war, would nut have acted comfortably to its honour.
able principles of nonintervention, if it permitted under its eye, and
nailer its auspices, the formation of an wmy destined to interfere in the
internal affairs of Spain. Grant that the Government of that country
is vicious, despotic, tergiversating, and despised, on account of Its sys.
tern of constantly wavering betweenitwo parties that are breconcileable,
it is for Spain herself to modify or change it, as has been done in
France and Belgium; but France could not embark in a war in which
its interest is not concerned, and justice and the principles of national
law, relative to the conduct of one Government to another, would not
permit France to lend its territory to an invading corps, unless Spain
had on her side maintained on our frontiers a corps of emigrated Carl.
ists, destined to bring civil war into ,our southern departments.
It will therefore be evident to every politician, as well u every im-
partial mind, that the keepintt and maintaining an army of Spanish
emigrants in the midst of the I. rench authorities, placed us in a state of
war with a neighbouring government which had done nothing to provoke
us to it. The permission granted to the Spanish refugees to go to the
southern department was that they might be nearer at hand to receive
assistance from their families, or to return singly into their own coun.
try ; but not to authorise them to form themselves into regiments, or an
invading army. In conformity with these principles, orders having been
sent to the French authorities on the frontiers to make the Spaniards
return into the interior. the insurgent leaders Valdes, Vigo, Pablo, and
Guerres, took a step which might at first appear hazardous, and calcu-
lated to endanger their cause, but it was the only one they could take
under the circumstances. They left the French villages to proceed to the
village on the Spanish line. There they will not be any more molested
by the French authorities; they will continue to obtain provisions in
France ; they will complete their organization, and if they experience
any check they will have a safe retreat. Such is the true ezplanatiou
of the movements effected from the 16th to the 19th. The refugees
took up some cantonments in some villages of the Pyrenees, but they
have not gone farther, and have not even penetrated to bun. Valdes
was on the 14th at Urdu, arid on the 15th at Zugarramardi. Mists was
on the 19th at Vera, with WO or SOU men. Other chiefs had occupied
various other points with their detachments. It seems certain that Valdes
had a sanguinary conflict at Zugarramardi with the Royal troops of the
Brigadier Juannito, and that part of his troops repassed the frontier in
confusion, but that Valdes coming up in time, succeeded In maintain-
ing himself on the Spanish territory.
The movement of the refugees is:generally from Bayonne to Perpignan.
They wait in the inaccessible positions which the summits of the Py.
suers afford, till the desertion of the royal troops or insurrections *the
interior shall enable them to act on a great scale. The chief obstacle to
the success of the refugees is their intestine dissensions, their jealousies,
and their unbridled pretensions to rank and honours. The proclama.
tion of Valdes represents them less as deliverers than as the conquerors
id their countrymen. After having said that he will consider as ene-
mies only those who shall appear in arms against the refugees, he adds
the following phrase, which is not maculated to inspire confidence
.6, The axe of the law alone must strike the other criminals." We
think that deliverers ought to hold a more conciliatory language. We
make the most sincere wishes for the noble cause of constitutional
liberty in the Peninsula. We know how worthy the energetic Spanish
nation Is of participating in the advance of modern civilisations we
should, therefore, deeply regret to see the implacable passions, the de-
structive hatted, of faction, endanger the doctrines of a great people, by
furnishing its oppressors with arguments against liberty.