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London, England, 1823-08-26 00:00:00

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We have received this forenoon the following in.
tetesting accounts from Bayonne:

BAYONNE, AUGUST is.

We have received the following communication-:-
"MADRID, AUGUST 14.

" According to all the accounts and information
that we receive from the Provinces, the Government
of Spain seems to be nearly at an end. The follow-
ing is an extract from a letter written by an officer in
the army of Ballasteros, who is well known for his
attachment to the Constitutional cause."

' ANDtTJAIL, AUGUST 11.

The submission of Ballasteros will, doubtless, sur-
prise all the friends of liberty ; but without entering
into the detail of all the causes which have led to it,
I will 'content myself with observing. that the Gene-
ral was not possessed of the necessary qualifications
to conduct his army, in the dißicelt circumstances in
which it was placed; he was not able to direct the
military administration, to combat or to raise the
'Pits of his troops, which were discouraged by a re-
treat of 180 leagues without any resources but arbi-
trary requisitions, which would, in the end, have
raised the inhabitants against us; the Cortes, from
whom we received only reprimands, but no succour,
became sensible, when it was too late, of the inabi-
lity of Ballasteros ; the French have profited by the
disorder and by our ditssentions.

Some of the principal Officers in the Staff, be-
ginning with the General, were gait:4d, so that in less
than a week we saw an army of twenty thousand men
disperse, and, in fine, vanish ; whereas, if it had been
properly commanded, we might have acquired the
greatest glory. I now expect nothing brat disorder
and defection among the rest of our troops, who
cannot make any resistance to the enemy. I shall,
therefore, take the first opportudity to return to you,
and to repose after my fatigues.
' ,4 The following is an extract from a letter, dated
Corunna, the 4th inst.-written by a Gentleman belong-
ing to one of the first commercial houses in Bilboa,
who serves in the Militia :

I still exist, though by miracle, after the fatigues
and the privations that we have endured since we
left Bilboa; it is notorious that the column of the
militia of the three provinces, especially those of
Bilboa, have defended the entrance of the Asturias
for two months, without any other aid than three or
400 soldiers of the line, of Campillo ; continually
fighting with the corps of General Huber, we arrived
here in time to take part in the defence of this town:
all my calculations have been false, and except four
or 5000 old soldiers, and about 2000 militia, we have
no means to oppose an enemy so protected by sea and
land ; for our unhappy chiefs, after having compro-
mised us and taken as from our homes, have basely
betrayed us. I see no means of protracting the resist-
ance of this place, unless we would sacrifice our-
selves : those among us, therefore, who are the most
compromised, are freighting a vessel for England,
whence I will write to Bilboa. .We do not know what
is passing out of the town, but what must we think
when Quiroga, abandoning his soldiers, embarks?
Since we have left Bilboa, wehave had eleven militia
men killed, SO wounded, and five missing, or pri-

soners:

"The followin4 letter was written by a person at-
..

tached to the Regency at Madrid, dated the li.h.
We translate it word for word:

I Madam—The affair of Los Negros is settled;
our triumph is no longer doubtful, any mote than
their complete defection, in all parts of the Penin-
sula. From the, events in Galicia and Andalusia ue
may expect the speedy deliverance of our master,
which will be followed by the surrender of the for- -
tresses which are still in the hands of the Itevolutionivs.
I send enclosed a passport for your son ; send it by an
express to Carthagena, and per suade him to take ai-
vantage, as soon as possible, of the assistance or your
friends to return to you, and abjure the party ut the
rebels:

" These three letters shew the critical situation cf ;he
Constitutionalists; nothing is wanting to complete it,
but the submission of Manso in Catalonia, which is
confidently spoken of. When the principal leaders
betray their cause, the soldiers are di.Aouraged, the
militia are filled with indignation and despair; but
these were all that the French had to combat in Spain,
because the mass of the population are tranquil spec-
tators of the struggle, except the small Uitra•ltoy-
alist faction, which has formed itself at Saragossa
and some other towns ; the people in genet al have
been deaf to the appeals both of the Constitutional-
ists and their adversaries ; the peaceable and respect-
able class desires to see an end of the present troubles
at any rate; and what pi ores this is, as soon as the
news of a speedy accommodation was published at
Madrid and other places, there w•ere.public rejoicings.

" The Constitutionalists, in forming their pi ejects of
resistance, reckoned upon assistance, and on probabi-
lities, which have not been realised ; they flattered
themselves that, in the end, they should have the sup•
port of the English ; they believed there ‘“);11,1 be
some internal disorders in France ; they could not
persuade themselves that the E ench .army would
fight against the liberty of the People : but the French
soldiers, well disciplined, well commanded, better
paid, and, above all, rewarded as they never were be-
fore, with titles and Orders for every step they have
advanced against the enemy, could not deceive the
hopes of their Monarch, who may flatter himself
I with having moo brave men to oppose to the.
enemies of his Throne.

,g The Decree of the Duke'of Angouleme, ordeting
the release of pet sons arbitrarily imprisoned, has pro-
duced in general a salutary effect ; 600 persons con-
fined in the prisons of Madrid, have been restored to
liberty ; about 50 ate to be brought to trial, but these
too Naive solicited the clemency of the Prince. The
mediation of England is now generally spoken of: the
Constitutional patty appear to wish it. Addresses
continue to be sent to the Regency, desiring the es-
tablishment of the ancient system, in its fullest ex-
tent, and, pamphlets are published, which, referring to
these addresses, blame the Prince for objecting to in-
stitutions which the present state of Spain demands,
and predict all kinds of disasters, if a Constitution,
liberal even in appearance, is to be maintained."

We insert today a copy of a Note addressed by
Count NESSELRODE to the REIS EFFENDI of the Porte.
The Russian Government, in this communication,
professes to found its claims on the faith of treaties,
and to feel solicitude for the welfare of the Turkish
empire. .It,"however, declines to renew the ordinary
forms of diplomatic intercourse by an Embassy at
Constantinople until the Porte shall put into a train
of execution its promise to evacuate Wallachia aad
Moldavia, to grant the inhabitants of those provinces
the privileges conferred upon them by treaties, and to
arrange the other points in dispute. The language of
Count NESSELRODit is modcrate.

Letters have been received from Marseilles, stating
that the whole of the Turkish fleet has been destroyed
by the Greeks, with the exception of ten sail, and that
these escaped in a wretched condition. The same
letters state that the Greeks have been successful be-
yond their hopes in Candia—that by stratagem they
induced the Ttirks to make a sortie in great numbers
from Retimo, where their retreat was cut off. In all,
16,000 Turks are said to have lately met their fate
in that Island. In Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Pelo-
ponnesus, success has also attended the exertions of
the Greeks.

Grimm.Tart.—Extract of a letter, dated Ang.l :
-" Our communication through Spain seems now
to be entirely closed, as we have received no letters
by that route for some posts. During the last week
a party of Seranos and some vagabonds on foot at-
tacked the Lines and killed eight or ten men and put
the rest to flight; they afterwards retired on San
Roque, from which place they were subsequently dis-
lodged, and several of them killed by General Or-
donnez, who attacked them with about 200 infantry
from Algesiras. The Lines are now deserted, and
numbers of poor creatures beyond the sheds, and on
the neutral ground, crowded together under awnings
or such shelter as they can put up. Last night we
had a heavy storm of thunder and lightning, with
heavy rains. Provisions still keep going round from
this garrison to Cadiz, which we learn, from indi-
viduals who have recently left there, is provisioned
for four months. The French squadron seems quite
unemployed, either according to their instructions or
from being incapable of enforcing the blockade, for
the small craft got into the river as they go from tins
place ; and although a few have been captured, they
form but a very small proportion to the great bulk
that have got in safely. Several merchant vessels,
however, continue to arrive here, which were bound
for Cadiz, but had been stopped, and commanded to
steer away for some other post by the French Admiral.'"