Star.
London, England, 1823-07-30 00:00:00

FRENCH OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS.

We have received by our Express this forenoon,
from Paris, the Twenty-fourth Bulletin of the Ope-
rations of the French Army in Spain, which is not
contained in any of the latest Paris Papers that have
arrived. It contains, among other particulars, those
of the attack on Corunna, in which it will be found
to differ considerably from all the other accounts,
even those in the French Government Journals them-
selves, such as that which we copy to-day from the
Journal des Debats. We see nothing in it to dis-
countenance the intelligence received here from Fal-
mouth, of the French having ultimately retired from
before the place. The following is an abstract of
the Bulletin..

TWENTY-FOURTH BULLETIN. •
" Head.quarters, Madrid, July 22, 1223.
" Lieutenant-General Count Boutck states, that on
the 13th he set out for Lugo. At Betanzos, on the
14th, his advanced guard made some prisoners,
among whom was an Aide-de-Camp of Quiroga. On
the 15th, at three o'clock in the morning, he marched
on Corunna, and re-established the bridge of Burgo
with such celerity, that the whole troops had passed
over before mid-day. At one o'clock they encountered,
the advanced posts of the enemy, which occupied the'
heights that command the place, and drove them in
at the point of the bayonet. The Spaniards were
afterwards successively driven from all their posi-
tions and forced to shut themselves up within the
walls of the town, which, notwithstanding a constant
cannonade from the battelies, was completely in-'
vested .on the land side by four o'clock.
" While General Bourck was marching on Co-
runna. General Hubert bore on Ferrol, and General
Morillo on Santiago, where he arrived on the 16th,
in close pursuit of the corps of Palarea.
" Count Mollitor, after having made the necessary
dispositions at Murcia to strengthen the garrisons of
Alicant and Carthagena, has continued his move-
ment against the army of Ballasteros. His advanced
guard. under General Loverdo, arrived before Lorca
on the 12th ; the Governor of which being resolved
to defend himself to the last, rejected every proposi-
tion of surrender. On the 13th it was taken by.as-
sault, and the whole garrison, consisting of thirty-
five officers. and 530 subalterns and privates, made
prisoners, besides a large quantity of cannon and
ammunition. On the French side, three officers and
thirty-six subalterns and soldiers were wounded, and
one officer and three soldiers killed.

" After leaving a sufficient garrison in Lorca,
which will support his line of operations, General
Monitor resumed his movement on Daza, where he
must, by this time, have arrived.

" Colonel Clouct, who directs, provisionally, the
blockade of St. Sebastian, reports, that en the 15th,
at eleven at night, the enemy made a sortie with
about 600 men, disposed in two columns, for the pur-
pose of setting fire to the Faubourg St. Martin. One
of these succeeded in driving in the right post of
20 men, and setting fire to the houses in the skirts
of the place; but. the position was soon retaken, and
the flames extinguished. At the same time, the other
column attacked the centre and left of our advance,
but were repulsed at all points. During this attack,
which lasted more than two hours, the fort kept up
a fire from the batteries, but without producing any
effect. (Signed)

" Major- General Count GU I LLEM I NOT."
The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have
reached us to-day, by Express. From their contents,
which arc of considerable interest, we subjoin copious
extracts. 'The Etoik, the Oryiamme, and the Courier
Francais are much occupied with discussing the na-
ture of the plut by which the fire in Madrid was oc-
casioned. In the Gazette de Madrid it is stated that
the Regency are taking active measures to discover
the incendiaries. Several persons who occupied the
house where the fire took place, as well as others

living near it,have been arrested :