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revolutionists.
To these wishes, participated in by all the true
Royalists, by all the friends of European and.Chris-
thin legitimacy,, we add our desire to see statesmen
take into their serious consideration the plans which
we have pointed out for some days, on the possibility
of assigning to the Greek colonies certain territories
in Europe, which are useless, as well as chargeable,
to the States who own them; but which, in the hands
of an industrious and trading people) might become
the finest country,, and perhaps raise a new Syracuse
or a new Marseilles." _
We confess we do not think the cause of liberty
and humanity in Greece so hopeless; and have much
greater fears of its suffering by the pen and ink de-
crees of the Congress At Verona, than by the scimetars
of the Turks. -

M. BENJAMIN COWSTANT, whom the Government
agents at the late trial at Poitiers laboured so much
to'calumniate, has answered this atrocious prciceed-
ing in the following spirited letter: •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.
",Paris, September 14, 1822.
"Stn-1 have this day read the deposition of M. de Carrere,
Sub-Prefect of Satiatur. The explanations which I am just pub-
lishing as to that affair having been completed before that depo-
sition reached me, I have not been able to speak of it. That
omission I supply by this letter, which I pray you to insert lite-
rally. I render myself responsible for the facts and the expressions.
" MI. de Carrere says that I arrived at Saumur in the night.
This is a lie. Pray do not change the word ;it is the only proper
one. I arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, and M. de
Carrere knew it immediately, for, at four o'clock, the Police
were at my dour.
" He says, that during the night a consultation took place, and
that the public tranquillity was threatened. 14 lies lie 1 During
the dinmr, the tranquillity was threatened by cries raised against
me, under my windows. The letter of the Mayor of Saumur,
which is to tie published, states the fact. M. de Carrere knew it,
fur his agents were at the door, that the rioters, who it was sup-
posed would, frighten me, should nut break ft in prematurely.—
Several Magistrates of Saunter, and M.Bosibs, Deputy of Maine-
et-Loire, will attest these facts.

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of the garrison: It is pretended that nothing
lin agitation but to prepare the materiel for an
of 60,000 men: Yet we `see hardly any move;
of troops; for, except 200 men lately arrived
Pau, the cardcm has not received the reinforce-
ments which the Paris Journals have announced*, It,
true that preparations are spoked Ul,,TOsii-
a camp of 12,000 men in iris country. from_Bi...
dirt to St. Jean de Luz, as well as of the speedy ar•
rival-of the troops that are to compose it
Other reports are circulated of the hostile inten-
tions of our Government towards Spain. On the
other hand, a plot is said 'to have been discovered,
formed -by a small number of French • refugees' in
Spain, tending to disturb the tranquillity of that coun-
try, with the support of some Spanish troops t so many
conjectures, in short, are made respecting these mill:
tary movements that everybody desires to be relieveri
from this uncertainty. The most probable is,'lhat
the neighbouring Spanish provinces king the theatre
of a most sanguinary and disastrous civil war, the
French Government provisionally, and in expectation
of the results of the Congress at Verona, wishes to
make its territory respected against the innovators

" M. de Carrere mays, that I promised to set out early in the
morning. This is a lie. When, after having suffered the house
where I dined to be surrounded for three hours, hoping that I
should go out by a private way, he begged me to give up the
banquet of the next day, I declared that I would not dy like a
culprit, and I would depart only in full day. M. de Carrere
wish edit to be thought that the population of Saumur forced me
to leave the town. Thence his tolerance to the rioters who
threatened my hosts as well as me. M. de Carrera has sported
with their lives as well as with mine, to have this satisfaction.
" This was reckoned on, for the Quatidienne published a nar-
rative of 0 my flight,' and of the services M. de Carrere had ten-
dered me. These services were limited to the exposing me, as
well as those who had entertained me, to be assassinated. The
attempt began at eight o'clock, M. de ('arrere arrived at eleven;
and when he says that the National Guard resisted authority, it
is a fact that some of the National Guards not being able to
obtain an authority to protect their fellow-citizens and me,
came without orders round the house to save our live,.
" M. de Carrere says, that I alleged as a reason for. not setting
out, the health of my wife. This is a lie. I had declared that I
would not set out till nearly mid-day, and when M. de Carrere
returned to press me, he may recollect that the conversation was
shot t and clear.
" Ile concludes by a fifth lie, so much the less explicable as
public notoriety demonstrates its infamy. He wishes to have
it believed that I travelled with a female other than Madame B.
Constant, that I made her assume that name. I cannot guess
the motive of an imposition so easy to confound, and to throw
back on its author.

in Spain.
Tranquillity is far from being restored in the thrie
provinces of Alava, Ouipuscoa, and Biscay, notwith-;
standing the severe measures adopted by General
Espinosa. On the contrary, the bands of Zavala,
Guesala, and Uranga, daily increase.
Zavala and Guesala have collected about 1,100
men, and traverse the mountains of Alava and Biscay
in four bands, while Uranga maintains himself in
Guipuscoa. These three partizans cover the great
road, and have detachments for the express purpose
of intercepting the mails and the communication.
The Constitutionalists of these countries, with those
of Navarre, using reprisals, no longer give quarter
to their aiversaries. Harassed by fatigue from the
continual and fruitless marches which they areobliged
to make in a country full of mountains—fruitless,
because the Defenders of the Faith always fly at their
approach, attacking only the small escorts and the
unhappy stragglers, whom they shoot on the spot, al-
lowing them, they say, the advantage of confession ; a
ceremony which the Constitutionalist‘, have omitted
when they have made any prisoners. At this moment,

" However, M. de Carrere and his compeers should not insult
women. This excess of meanness is naturally allied to.the excess
of ferocity. This genus had been lost since 1793.
0 I set aside the denunciations which do not personally con-1
cern me—against the Mayor of Saumur, his relations, the na-
tional guard, and the citizens. M. de Carrere bears down on an
unfortunate man whose private life all the witnesses had re-
speeted. So abject a spirit blasts itself without imposing the la-
bour of doing so on others.
" I repeat, I take on myself the responsibility of this letter,
and I beg you to accept the assurances, &c.
(Signed) " BENJAMIN CONSTANT."
PARIS, SEPTEMBER Is.
The persons condemned for the conspiracy at
Rochelle, have been removed to the prison at Poissy,

therefore, they carry on a war of extermination.
A Provisional and Ambulatory Junta has been
formed in Guipuscoa, like that in Navarre; it has
already decreed many measures of administration, to
which the inhabitants have not been inattentive,
especially to the summons to the youth to join the
Defenders of the Faith, for the number of the volun-
teers increases daily ; so that considering the opposi-
tion which the Constitutionalists have to combat in
this country, it is to be feared they will be over-
powered, or obliged to repass the Ebro.
The columns of Colonels Campillo and Jauregui
4re continually in motion ; the first in Biscay, the
second in Guipuscoa, where they have beaten their
adversaries whenever they could overtake them,
which is not easy, because they follow the plan (4.
Qnesada in Navarre, which is, to enlist and organize
troops, to cut off the communications, intercept the
couriers, attack the small escorts and garrisons ; but
it may be said that, with the exception of St. Sebas-
tian, Irun, Toloso, Bergara, Mondragon, Durango,
Bilboa, and Vittoria, they are masters of the whole
Province, so that the last remittance of the loan,
amounting to two millions of francs, which was forte
warded some days ago from Bayonne, for General

Espinosa, was still detained at Irun the day before
yesterday, for 'fear it should fall into their hands.
The accounts from Navarre are nearly of the Sala:
nature. Espinosa, at the head of 3000 men, divided
into three columns, advanced ca the 3d, upon the
positions of Quesada, and occupied on the 4th Urroz
and Aoiz, but the General of the Faith and the
Trappist, having together about four thousand men,
had advanced from the Roncal, going along the
mountains on the valley of Canfran, having left a
garrison of 300 men at Irati, and a battalion of 600 at
Ochagania, Taurieta, Aronoz, Espana, and le Ron-
cal. On the Stb, Quesada surrounded the fortress of

in the Department of the Seine and Oise. Those con- Jacca, and summoned the Governor to surrender.—
demned to death for the same affair, are still at the It is very probable he would have taken it, if Gene-
Bicetre, and continue to display great tranquillity. ral Empecinado, at the head of 800 men, had not
They write from Sancerre, that the Marechal Des arrived in time to force him to raise the siege on the
Loges, of the Bens d'armes, sent by the Procurestr deg 6th, after an action in which there were about fifty
Roi, has been to several houses of that city, and took killed and some wounded on both sides.
away several prints described as :editing& li, went Espiniisa continuing his march to le Roncal, to
particuularly to the house of M. Rivard, peraquier, pursue Quesada, the latter and the Trappist turned
street des Juifs. The prints seised were : upon Mediano and Huesca, in Arragon, where they
}lmo' Lithevaphk coloared Prisit,represeadastwe wounded have carried off and united to their forces all the
Grenadiers, stir dawdle( their eeleure Mallet a deteehoeutt at youth they found in their way.
Prussians. The later accounts of the two armies are not
&mood, the ,Cuicasare et a Woll3lo. eenteadiao with Jos
Husband for • pair of Breathes. .. known, but to judge by Quesada's proceeding, it
mid, two or woe cull:num of the &gush. -! r.. . should seem that, encouraged by the arrival of the
Trappist, he his resolved to quit the mountains, and
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This forenoon we received Bayonne Papaw to the enter Arragon, which must have disconcerted the
10th instant. They are full of details respecting the plans of Espinosa, who hoped to attack him, and
motions-Of the insurgents, and speculations as to the force him to withdraw into France. Others pretend
conduct of the French Goiernnutni. ,
.The following that Quesada has been • forced against his will to
111111 extracts : . enter Arragon.
BAYONNE, SEPTUM' p.. . .
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Yesterday some gendarmes stopped, on the road
•t: The attention of politicians.le aqtater brain 'from Iron to Bidart, a postillion, with dispatches
traordinary degree by the amitsiiirll.l4lo6lol4:4 from Madrid to Paris, consigned to the house of
La-
al! kinds making here; suck as the areield of • %re ' Dastarrethe: the courier had remained at the La-
•quatit•lLY of walitlaitioth piOtiskitaggiet,
,itc,:'tb• *ant of Behobie. . It is affirmed that the dispatches
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activity obsesved.ia the; •assaaheiged••••ii•• hlave been deposited with the Sub. Prefect of this city,
to train the reek-late tint bated' tili grits 1
ls. who is provisionally entrusted with the direction of
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a Conititutional‘crusade, to renderlime a .peopleitho spivs ,
would not haverstrength.to their own iisde- else is
pendence. But the Cabiiett:',4' ram can '4ls- 'army
tinguish the rash moversenti4 r of fenent
Ypilinti from the ancltt discontent of ibqoasis of lion;
the Greek nation, oppressed and despoiled by the ments
Pachas, and which certainly is not composed of is true
a naa