Star.
London, England, 1823-04-04 00:00:00

sertion that the army was ix prod east of eller?
thing whlth %ts memoir Went* success to. its 44:le-
r/Wm. With such • thereforeshirom6h
,iesl by one whb.i4azwions frlendlib thewitto,
,apitook contradicted bytbe President .f the °Mica
by which that war is directed, what other coneliision•
ean.be drawn than that they are altogether tree? le
it to be supposed that M. de LABOURDOISIT/ would
have so discredited the preparatioas for a. war, we"
which his heart is set, unless from a bitter certainty
that Matters are really in such a state as• toilefeat
every wild hope which he entertaius?' Did ever be-
fore the President of a Council thus paw over in si-
lence accusations which, if true, must cover it with,
disgrace, since it must make it the scorn and derision
of all Europe?
It is worth while, too, to mark particularly the
time at which this exposure is made. It is on the
31st of March, the eve of the very day on which it
had been so long pompously announced that all the
preparations for invasion would be completed, and
the army be ready to cross the Bidassoa. M. de la
BOURDONNAY6 waits till the last moment to see
whether there is any hope of'this being accomplished;
and not till all hope is vanished does he give vent to
his feelings of disappointment and rage. The Mi-
nister says nothing by way of defence or apology--
nothing to revive the hopes which he has blasted;
he is silent, because his vindicAtion consists in the

truth of the statements which have been thundered
in his ear respecting the inability of the army to ac-
complish the purpose for which it has been collected.
We must now beg to recall M.-the recollection of
our Readers one or two facts with -which •our own
credit, as Journalists, is more ittunediai4Oheensed.
It will be remembered that, asfor book fol.thi 2&h of
Afasch, the STAR was the first Paper to announce: the
same facts which the partisans of warissfrance are
now themselves, on the eve of All Fool's 'bay, obliged
reluctantly to Acknowledge. We said that the.ofii-
cial reports of the spirit and conditiox of the French
Army of Invasion were such as to make its advance
at theperiod announced impracticable-; and that un-
til it was greatly improved in both these respects,
no invasion of Spain could or would- be attempted.
We were accused by some of oar contemporaries of
making these statements without sufficient authority,
and with a view to divert the sympathy of the Pub-
Tie from the cause of the 'Spaniards, 14 lessening the
extent of the danger to which they are exposed. The
Public must now be satisfied of the exclusive correct-
ness of oar information, and will not, we presume,
require further of us, that we should chew cause for
communicating only what we know.
Some of the latest Paris Journals .now state that
the Army of the Pyrennees will break up on the 10th
instant; but now that postponement is the-French
order of the day, it would be idle to place the least
reliance on any such announcement.
. The COurier Francais states, that one of the Aides-
cle-Camp of. General Gutxtestiaor had arrived at
Paris, in the custody of an Officer of Gendarmerie.

We extract from the Paris Journals last received
the following -additional intelligence from the Spa-
nish frontiers :
A private letter from Bayonne, dated the 27th ult.
states, that the Trappist has been entirely defeated
near Irun, and has returned to Bayonne, followed
only by one servant. It adds that General QIJUADA,
who had passed the frontier, has also been com-
pletely beaten.

Advices from the frontier, dated the 23cl and 24th
ult. state, that two attempts have been made against
Irun, by the combined bands of GoROSTIDI and the
Trappist, who only, succeeded in burning two houses.
The Constitutional troops hastily arrived and put the
aggressors to flight.

Letters from Pampeluna, dated the 17th ult. state,
that Colonel Nat.°, with 60 horse, attacked a body
of the factious, consisting of 100 Cavalry, at Mont
Real, of whom they made 27 prisoners, and took 56
horses, and various articles of military clothing.
Intelligence from St. Sebastian, dated the 2Sd ult.
announces the arrival in that district of General
BALL ASTMS.

• Had the following account appeared in a French
Ministerial paper, we should have supposed that the
French Ministers were seeking for pretexts to creep
out of the war. As the report proceeds, however,
from the Oppoiition or Liberal party, we can only
believe that they are willing to suggest to their op-
.pooents some Method by which the Ultras may
escape with only a small quantity of shame from that
war of which they seem now to doubt the result, and
dread the commencement. The account is from the
Courier Min pais :
" Sunday, there was a Council of Ministers held,
after the arrival of a Courier, who, some say, came
from Perpignan, and others from Berlin. On the
breaking up of the Council, pacific reports were circu-
lated. Yesterday there was a renewal of the rumours to
which we have alluded, respecting the mediation said
to have been solicited from Austria--a mediation
which, joined to that of England, would be eagerly
accepted. An autograph letter, which the King of
Spain is, at the suggestion of Sir W. A 'Court, to write to
the French Government to induce it not to make war,
is also the subject of conversation. These decorous

Rretens for not commencing hostilitieh it is said,
would be eagerly embraced by even the partisans of
the wart who within these some days past bate se