Star.
London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

ARMY OF THE PYItENNEES.

44 REPORT 07 MARSHAL THE DUKE OF REGGIO TO HIS

XXCILLLENCY THE MOUSIER AT WAR.

" Madrid, September Z.

" M. MARSHAL—The movements ordered by
Lieutenant• General Count Bourcke to cut off•the re-
treat, by the side of Puebla de Sanabria, of the Con-
stitutional troops which left Orense, have had the
happiest results.
After some forced and arduous marches, Gene-
ral Marguerye overtook the enemy, with the SSth of
the line, at Gallegos de Camp. He had made dispo-
sitions for the attack, when a flag of truce came with
propositions, which were rejected. The enemy see-
ing that General Marguerye was resolved to fight,
sent to him a second Officer, to announce that his
ultimatum was accepted. In consequence of this, a
capitulation has been signed, in virtue of which, Ge-
nerals Resell° and Vigo, Brigadier Palarea, four Co-
lonels, and six Lieutenant-Colonels, 140 Officers of
all ranks, and 1,264 sub-officers and soldiers, have
surrendered prisoners of war, and are to be conducted
to France. The General has besides captured, along
u ith the colours of the Regiment of Burgos, fifteen
cases of cartridges, a number of arms, and a chest
containing 29,060 francs.
" General Marguerye is in march on Zamora, with
his column of prisoners, whence he will move in seve-
ral detachments towards Burgos.
" The taking of the corps of Palarea ensures the
tranquillity of Galicia, and makes it necessary to
leave there only a small number of French troops ;
so that the greater part of the division of Bourcke is
left quite disposable. I will recall it to Madrid, and
in its way I hope it will reduce Ciudad Rodrigo, if
•it has not already opened its gates before General
Bourcke's arrival. _

' " Marshal Duc de REGGIO."
Extract of a private letter from Torredembarra,

dated I st September :

44 Discontent and. disgust are at their height among
the Constitutional troops. Yesterday there were fifty
deserters from Tarragona. The. Militia and the Mi-
quelets especially, long to return to their homes.
Milans is absolutely pennyless, and knows not how to
raise the needful for his soldiers."

SIEGE OF BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER 2.

According to reports received from this unfortu,

nate city, Rotten continues to rule there by terror.
Friday last he caused two men to be hanged; the one

was a husbandman ; who the other was is not known.
Four ships have been arrested and put under seques-
tration at Sidges ; two of them, of considerable ton-
nage, had left Majorca laden with provisions for Bar•
celona. While the revictualling of Barcelona is thus
prevented, the French division under the orders of
M. de Rosamel, continues to ensure supplies to our
troops on land, To-day this officer himself escorted,
in the Marie Therese, a convoy with forage for the
army before Tarragona.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
" PARIS, MONDAY Arruzioom

" The funds have nearly recovered to-day from the
serious depression they experienced last week. The
live per cents. are now at 90f. 40c. without the divi-

dcnd ; the Scrip of the new loan at 21 premium. I
need not tell you that this rise is in consequence of
yesterday's news, of the taking of the Trocadero.—
To-day we have no farther accounts from that quar-
ter; only it is said, that after -success had thus far
crowned the Duke of Angouleme's measures, his
Royal Highness, sent again propositions to the Cortes,
which were again rejected.
The report, however, receives but little credit.
After the deliberate refusal of the Duke's terms be-
.

fore the attack was made, any overture for an at,

rangement must come from the Cortes, whose case
is still thought by many to be so far from hopeless,

that Spanish Stock continues at 43. The next news
which we shall receive from Port St. Mary will, in
all probability, announce an attack on the Castle of
Puntales, on the Cadiz side, opposite to the Trocaderor

We announced yesterday the taking, by assault, of
the Trocadero. Before it was taken it was allowed
on all hands to be a post of great importance; but
now it is amusing to see in what opposite lights the
event is regarded by our Anglo-Spanish and Anglo-
French Gazettes. As honest chroniclers, desirous
only of placing before our Readers the real state of
matters, we shall first describe, as well as we can, the
geographical situation of the Trocadero as regards
Cadiz, and then give the opinions, professed to be en-
tertained by the two parties, of its military consequence.
The city of Cadiz forms one point of the opening
of the bay of Cadiz and the town of Rota the other.
The distance between is about seven miles. The bay
is about the same number of miles in depth. At the
bottom of it, towards the North-east, where it re•
ceires the river Guadalete, is Port St. Mary, the
present head-quarters of the French. The South-
east side of the bay, or that opposite to Port St.
Mary, is formed chiefly by a peninsula, called the
Trocadero. The extreme point of this peninsula is
about 1,400 yards distant from Cadiz, and between
the two the sea runs in and forms an inner bay, or
harbour. Cadia itself occupies the extremity of a
narrow sandy neck of lantl, about four or five miles
in length, which shoots out from the Isle of Leon, a
triangular track of land, bounded by the sea on the
West, the inner bay of Cadiz on the East, and cut off
from the main land by the river Sand Petri. At the
bottom of the inner bay is Puerto Real, about six
miles South-east of St. Mary.

It is obvious, from this description, that the first
step of a besieging enemy stationed at Port St. Mary,
must be to obtain possession of the Trocadero, and
this is what the French have attempted, though to what
extent they have succeeded does not yet •ery clearly
appear. The peninsula which bears the general
name of the Trocadero, is divided in its whole length
by a canal. On that branch of it which fronts the
French quarters at Port St. Mary, there are two
forts ; the one the Trocadero, properly so called, and
the other Fort St. Joseph. A little in advance or St.
Joseph and directly opposite to the Castle of Pun-
tales, on the Cadiz side, is a third fort, called Mata-
gorda, which is, however, we believe, in a ruinous
state. On the branch of the Trocadero beyond the
canal and nest to the inner bay, there is a fort called
St. Louis, which, though at the point nearest to Ca-
diz, is at too great a distance to be able to send shot
or shell thither.

The point which the French Bulletin of yester-
day has left in doubt is, whether they have taken
the whole of the Trocadero—the parts on both sides
of the Canal, with the four forts of the Trocadero,
St. Joseph, Matagorda, and St. Louis; or only the
branch of the peninsula fronting Port St. Mary, with
the fort of the Trocadero, properly so called. We are
inclined to think that the latter. is all that has been
taken; and, having said this much by way of matter
of opinion of our own, we now proceed to lay before
our Readers what the Timer and Chronicle• say on
the subject, on the one hand, and the New Times on
the other ;