Star.
London, England, 1822-09-11 00:00:00

-BAYONNE, SEPTEMBER 3.

All accounts from the neighbouring provinces of
Spain state, that the Constitutionalists display great
activity, and are preparing seriously to attack Que:
sada, and to make his defeat certain. People are
curious to see whether, in such a case, the defenders
of the faith will be reatived in France with their
arms: if this should, happen, which is not probable,
the Constitutionalists are said to be resolved. to pur-
sue them, even into the French territory, where this
faction had it origin. It would inevitably compro-
mise the troops which form the cordon, who will not
permit foreigners to violate the French territory.
On the other hand, in case of a defection or defeat
of the Army of the Faith, it would be impossible to
place the soldiers who might be repulsed under qua-
rantine, the Lazaret of Behobie having only 100
places, which are almost always occupied by travel.
lers of the two nations, and that of Aldudes 40 places.
It will be curious to see what measure the French
Government will adopt towards these fugitives, the
only persons likely to introduce the plague into France,
by their uncleanliness and wretchedness.
It has lately been reported that the Lazarets are
to be closed; and evil-minded persons have thought
fit to believe that this measureiras merely intended
to facilitate to the fugitives of the Army of the Faith
the entrance into France, by removing every ob-
stacle. The military preparations which have been
observed at Bayonne for some days past, the arrival
from the interior of artillery and baggage, horses,
cannon, and ammunition, the activity employed in
making several millions of musket-cartridges, the in-
tended occupation of the position of Marrac by some
companies of troops which are going to encamp there,
and the placing of tour brigades of artillery at diffe.
rent points, seem to announce not any hostile inten-
tions towards Spain, as has been said, but rather
measures of precaution, which are very necessary in
our situation with respect to our neighbours, who ,
are perhaps now engaged in battle. 1
French travellers from the interior of Spain have
arrived here to-day from the Lazaret, and relate the
bad treatment they have experienced from the De-
fenders of the Faith : some have arrived without
shirts. The courier Blondel, who arrived here a week
ago with commercial letters for Spain, from Paris,
was stopped by the factious between Irun and Toluso:
after burning the dispatches and stealing the money
he had about him for his travelling expenses, they

let him go, threatening to put him to death if he
should come to Spain a second time.
Our Correspondent at Irun writes, yesterday, that
the factious last Sunday stopped on the heights of
Solinas the Mail from Madrid, which arrived at

Bayonne to-day. They opened several parcels and
took out all the official dispatches of the Govern-
ment, making besides, an auto-da-fe of the News-

papers. They, however, did not touch the corres-
pondence for France. The Mails from Bilboa, Sara-
gossa, and Pampeluna, have also been intercepted, so
that our merchants have had no letters from these
places for some days past ; the Mails from Bayonne
are likewise intercepted.
By the official accounts from St. Sebastian, dated
the Ist, we see that the partisans Guesala, Zabala,
and Uranza, have returned from Navarre into the
three provinces, with about 600 men, doubtless with
the intention of occupying the attention of General
Ruiz de Porras, who is lately appointed to the com-
mand of Biscay. The force of the latter is composed
of the columns of Colonels Campillo and Jaureguy,
amounting to about 700 men of the Regiment of Se-
ville, and a Battalion of the provincial militia of Avila.
The factious were marching towards Biscay on -the
28th, but being overtaken by the column of Cam-
pillo, on the road of Mendaro, they were beaten and
dispersed by only one company of chasseurs of the
regiment of Seville, and obliged to desist from their
project and retreat to the mountains. The Patriot
Mendizabal, a volunteer of Villa Franca, was taken on
the 26th by the factious : great uneasiness was erm-
ceived lest he should be sacrificed like the volunteers of
Durango, &c. who fell into the hands of their enemies.
The Patriots, therefore; begged the Authorities to
take the nearest relations of the Chiefs of the factious,
as hostages for the life of Mendizabal; and the Poli-
' tical Chief of St. Sebastian has accordingly arrested
a relation of the Cures Gorostida and Ezeira. There
is no doubt that these reprisals will become general

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and reciprocal, which will place in a very kiltiCal
tuation many peaceable inhaLitants, who hive taken
no share in the quarrels of the two parties.
The French Papers of Sunday have been received.
They are still much occupied with the trials for con-
spiracy. In that at Poitiers, the Advocate whom the
Court forced on General BERTON, against his own
declared will, now refuses to defend him.
General BERTON read to the Court a written de-
fence which occupied two hours. In the course of it
he alluded contemptuously to that part of the speech
of the Attorney-General which asserted, that though
there were no material and legal, yet there were suf-
ficient moral proofs, that Messrs. Sebastiani, Voyer
d'Argenson, B. Constant, La Fayette, Manuel, Ke-
ratry, &c. were Members of the Directing Com-
miuee. • 64 The Attorney-General," exclaimed Gene-
ral Berton, " has spoken of a man whom he pretends
to have secreted immense treasure belonging- to the
Usurper, and with it to keep the conspirators in pay.
The man so accused is M. Lafitte, the Paris banker,
the same banker who during the hundred days had
at his disposal several millions belonging to the King
and to the Royal Family, and to the principal people
about the Court, which he faithfully remitted to the
King and Duchess of Angouleme when they were at
Ghent. Probably the Attorney-General had never
heard of a fact which, however, was known to all
Paris."—The trial is not yet concluded.
The offices of the Constitutionuel, the Courier Fran-
cais, the-Journal du Commerce, and the Pilote, were
visited by Commissaries of Police on Saturday last,
and all the copies of these Papers published that day
which could be found seized. " It appears," says the
Courier Francais, I, that this measure has been occa-
sioned by the article entitled Paris Court of Assize,'
in which we spoke of the courage and the resignation
of four condemned prisoners, and of the sorrow
of their Advocates." Another Paper is likewise'
proceeded against for two articles. The prisoners
themselves, whose case seems to have excited consi-
derable interest, were allowed, after their sentence, to
occupy one apartment, but under the view of the
gendarmes appointed to guard them. They at first
refused to avail themselves of the right of appeal
which the French law allows, and it was with great
difficulty that M. BERVILLE, one of their Counsel,
prevailed on them to abandon that resolution. At mid-
night on the 7th they were' removed to the Bicetre.
A private letter from Vienna, dated the 27th ult.
professes to give an account of the prevailing reports
on the subject of the Congress about to be assembled.
These, of course, possess no authority; but as the no-
tions of German speculators may be amusing to some
readers, we shall briefly notice them. The writer
begins with the rumours respecting the Germanic
Confederacy. New 44 mediatisations," he says, are
spoken of. It is also said that important modifica-

tions in what is called the gi Constitutional system"
of the Germanic Confederacy, will take place.—

Count Buor. de SCHAUENSTEIN, President of the
Frankfort Diet, bad gone to Paris, where he intended
to pass some time; but a courier from the Aulic
Chancellery recalled him to Vienna, whither he pro-
ceeded in great haste. Prince METTERNICH wished
him to be present at the Congress in which the fu-
ture fate of Germany is to be discussed. The writer

:hen proceeds in the following terms: •

" Now that it appears acknowledged in principle that the inte-
grity of the Ottoman States ought to be guaranteed by the Sove-
reigns of the Holy Alliance, and that the Greeks or other Chris-
tians who reside in the Turkish dominions ought to be aban-
doned to their fate, the approaching Congress will have but little
to decide respecting the affairs of the East; but the affairs of Italy
and the Spanish Peninsula present ample materials for future
deliberation. It is asserted that the Austrian army stationed in
Italy, far from being recalled, will, on the contrary, be strongly
reinforced. According to the latest accounts front Rome, the
Pope's health is daily declining : Cardinal Gonsalvi is also much
indisposed, and his life is despaired cf. In case of a vacancy in
the Holy See, the elevation of an Austrian Archduke to the
Popedom is considered certain.
" With respect to Spain and Portugal, it is from the nearest
neighbour of the first of those Powers that the strongest repre-
sentations for taking an active part in the affairs of the Peninsula,
come. These representations have made a strong impression on
the Emperor Alexander; bat the Cabinets of Berlin, Vienna,
and more particularly that of London, conceive the time is not
yet come for interfering ostensibly in those affairs, and in parti-
cular that the employment of any armed force would be attended
with much inconvenience. Meanwhile the report of the assem-
bling of a Prussian army of observation on the Rhine is renewed.
" What is certain is, that great activity prevails in the Aulic
Chancellery; that Gents, the soul and the torch of all the former
Congresses, the intimate confident of Prince Metternich, labours
day and night. Since the month of July, long diplomatic con-
ferences have repeatedly taken place at the hotel of the Prince
Chancellor. Count Gnlowkin, the ordinary Russian Ambassa-
dor, being absent, Count Tatlscheff supplies his place. The
Marquis de Cataman attends the conferences; and in the ab-
sence of Lord Stewut,- Mr. Gordon, the British Charge des
Affaires, has been called to them. The Prussian Minister,
Baron de Krusimark, having died, the Prince of 'Hatsfeld has
arrived for the conference of the 17th of July. All the peepers.
tory measures for opening the Ministerial conferences whkh are
to be held at Vienna are already adopted. Count de Tatischei
has declared that he is furnished with sufficient powers, and Mr.
Oordon has intimated that his Court will act in concert with
.chit of Vienna. The Prince of Hatsfeld has just signified that
the King his master intends to proceed directly from Berlin to`
Verona in the month of September. It is reported that our
Minister of Finance, Count Stadion, intends to contract for a
considerable loan."
The Journal ties Debuts copies a long invective
against the Greeks, from the .ipectateur Oriental,
which it deems it necessary to qualify with the fol-
lowing observations, which, considering the quarter
whence they come, deserve more than.comrnon atten-
tion :—.M It tsaya the Editor), to the disgiace of hu-

=inky, the treets of the Peloponnesns are to B.!
massacred like those of Chios, Fraiace would have a
noble part to play by offering to the remnant of the
Greek nation an asyltirn in Corsica, in Lantuedoc,
Provence, where in former tittles so many Stow ishing
Greek colonies wereestablished. Francessould thereby

gain an important accession of maritime and com-
mercial populations she would gain the-Greek navy,
which, at all events, will be able to save itself fruni
the hands of the Turks. 'This measure does not db-
pend upon any foreign consent; and requires fok its
execution no more than to consult the honour of thi
great Christian kingdom, the sentiments of a gene•
rous nation, and the heart of the Bourbons. But
perhaps PROVIDENCE may yet presei:ve Greece."

A private letter from Leghorn, dated August 23,
contains the following intelligence--€, Sixteen Austriah
vessels, and some English, lately landed 11,000 Turks
at the extremity of the Gulf of Lepanto. These bar-
barians hoped to retake Corinth, and to repeat the
massacre of Scio; but, being repulsed by the cannon
of the Acrocorinth, or citadel, they proceeded toward;
Anapoli, or Napoli di Romania, pursued by such of
the few troops which the army of Thessaly could
leave in the Peloponnesus, and by all the population,
armed with any kind of weapons they could procure.
' The march of the Turks from Corinth to Argos was
remat kable for the kartialiosses which they sustained.
They intended to take refuge in Anapoli, which they
believed to be still occupied by the Mussulmans; but
they were thrown into despair upon learning, at some
distance from that town, that it was in the possession
of the Greeks. Surprised by the Greeks of Anapoli,
joined to those of Corinth, and the inhabitants of the
country, they endeavoured to intrench themselves in
an old monastery near Argos. Having lost a great
part of their baggage, being deprived of all means
of procuring provisions, anal in want even of water,
it is not likely that they can escape the vengeauce of
the Greeks:'

Letters from Vienna of the 28th ult. ,repeat the
news of the entire defeat of Chourschid Pacha in the
Straits of Thermopylae, and assert that all the accounts
published in the Austrian official paper of a contrary
nature are groundless. None, indeed, tan suppose
that the descendants of Leonidas and his illustrious
baud would retire over this theatre of their renown
without emulating their glory. The most important
letter received, however, is from Arta, and it is dated
so late as the Bth of August. By the assistance of
foreign spies and native traitors, a body of Turks hld
suddenly possessed themselves of Corinth ; but the
particulars of its capture are a yet unexplained.—
The Grecian Senate had, however, acted with dis-
tinguished patriotism and vigour. A levy had been
made of all men between the years of 16 and 60, and
when the latest accounts had been teceived at Arta,
an army of thirty thousand Greeks had surrounded
Corioth, and the barbarians were closely locked up
in that town: On the whole, the news from the
Morea are favourable, and the next advices may be
expected to communicate very favourable results of
this invasion of a Christian conntry by these border
lof ti ue believers.

Extract of a letter from Messrs. Wartni and Co.
Agents to kJ:n(l;s, at Smyrna, dated August 2:

" We have just seen a copy of a document addressed by the
Austrian Naval Captain on this station to the senior British Offi-
cer, with a dispatch of the Austrian Government enclosed, that
they do not acknowledge the Greek blockade.in wt.) way whir:-
ever; and order the Captains of their ships of war to protect
their merchant flags against violation by the Greeks ia all cases;
stating, at the same time, that the orders are the result of a
mutual arrangement between France, England, and Austria, and
that their ships of war are to act in concert to enforce this deter-
mination. These documents we can vouch for as being authentic
and official; but none other than the Austrians have received
any communications front their Government on the subject."

We learn from a Gentleman who was present at
the Review by the Emperor ALEXANDER at Moscow,
that above 80 Petitions were then presented to him
by Officers'and soldiers, who stepped out of the ranks,
calling on him to commence hostilities against the
Turks. A Priest of consideration had, at the same
time, loudly denounced ALEXANDER for his insensi-
bility to the sufferings of his fellow-religionists, and
that in very unpalatable language. Our Readers may
draw their own conclusions from these circumstances.

A letter from Rio Janeiro, dated May 27, says—
The Prince has been declared perpetual Protector
and Defender of the United Kingdom of Brazil. A
Petition, signed by the Citizens of this place, has been
presented to him, praying that he would call a Cortes
—.the same has been done by a Deputation from t::e
Province of Rio Grande, and in due time, it is ex-
pected all the Provinces on this side of Para will adept
similar measures: these are, however, mere form,
necessary in the- political drama to preserve con-
sistency, and furnish the Prince and his Ministers
with plausible pretexts for introducing the preludes
to the grand finale, a catastrophe which will probs.
bly follow close after. A Cortes will doubtless be
called ere long, and one of their first acts of legisla-
tion will perhaps be, to dignify the Prince by a new
elevated title."