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point, on the coast of Csualonia,whence provisions are make a movement after the troops of %Zina, u hole
brought for the army. companies refused to march.
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The-forts of Seu are so closely invested, that the
garrison cannot make any sorties without great loss.
Accounts from Madrid to the 18th inst. reached us
this forenoon. The following are extracts :
MADRID, JULY 17.
Events become more complicated as they succeed
each other, and the war daily assumes a more alarm-
ing character. The several parties become daily
more exasperated, and the governors, fearing for the
success of their cause, excite the passions, and give
more impulse to their exasperation. Intolerance,
persecution, imprisonment, misunderstandings be-
tween the Spanish Authority and the French military
Authority, are the order of the day. Hence the num-
ber of the discontented increases, and the ranks of the
Constitutionalists, who are firmly resolved to combat,
'and never despair of their cause, are augmented.
Every soldier is fully sensible of his military duties
and of his civil rights, and fights desperately, seeing
no resour:e or hope but in triumph.

The Constitutional armies are now chiefly com-
posed of veterans, or of citizens deeply interested
in their cause, or of men unjustly persecuted by the
partisans of the Faith, who cannot endure even the
word moderate. The French, who witness this shock
of the passions, generally convinced of the justice of
the cause which the prudent part of the nation would
desire to see triumph, are already alarmed when they
reflect on the sanguinary war which they have to
wage, and blame those partisans of the Faith, who
had made such fine promises to the French Govern-
ment, so that the morale of the army begins to be se-
riously affected, amidst the efforts of its administra-
tion to provide for all wants ; but in this also disorder
has arisen ; the Regency is destitute of resources ;
it seeks to make a Loan abroad ; the guarantee of
the French Government is required of it, and in that
case it would be just as well for the French Treasury
to advance the 25 millions which it wants, and which
it will never be able to pay.
We have had no Mails from Andalusia for several
days, which is attributed to the movements of the
Constitutional troops in the Sierra Morena and La
Mancha. The Government his not published any
news from these provinces for this fortnight, which
increases the uneasiness of the public, and gives con-
sistency to the reports of advantages said to have
been obtained by the Constitutionalists before Cadiz
and Seville : but we have no other information on
this subject, except what the partizans of the Consti-
tutionalists clandestinely circulate in Bulletins, which
say that General Ballasteros has raised the blockade
of the place, the garrison of which at the same time
made a sally, which was very disastrous to the French
army, the position of which, they say, is the same as
that of Dupont, at Baylen.
All this is, most probably, exaggerated; but the
carriers who arrive from Andalusia confirm the at-
tack, and the advantages of the Constitutionalists,
who repulsed their adversaries, at first to ,Seville;
but they add that they would soon make a second
movement on Cadiz. The Constitutional Division
which traverses the province of Cuenca, and the band
of Chaleco, which prowls about La Mancha, and
which shew themselves almost at the gates of Madrid,
intercept the communications with Valencia, Anda-
lusia, and Estremadura, and avoid coming to action
with the allied troops that are sent in pursuit of them.
These free corps imitate the guerillas of the last
war ; never fight except when success is certain, and
only seek to reinforce themselves, which they will not
find difficult,because the people, imperfectly protected
by the allied troops, begin to incline to them.
In Andalusia, Estremadura, and La Mancha, small
armed bands are forming, which call themselves some-'
times Constitutionalists, sometimes Royalists, and
which make expeditions on their own account; of
the number is that of Manchego, in the. province of
Cordova, which amounts to 40 horsemen.
The French do not look on with indifference; they
arc endeavouring to organise Spanish corps at Va-
lencia, Madrid, and Seville, but it is not probable
they will succeed ; the Spaniards seldom sell their
services to foreigners. The same will happen to
Bourdesoulle as happened to Soult, with the various
corps which he successively organised in 4ndalusia,
and which partly served, at that time, to increase
the army of Ballasterot.

The Constitutional corps in Estremadura are not
idle, and still less those in Old Castile, whose head.
quarters are at Ciudad Rodrigo.

The fevi troops of Don Carlos O'Donnell have
been by turns beaten and driven from Zamora, gala:
manta, and Toro, and the Constitutional guerillas
appeared even before the gates of Valladolid, whemi
the Royalism were in alarm, and have• sent hers'
for reinforcements.
The Government is silent respecting the events in
Catalonia and Amason : utterly rejecting the printed
reports or bulletins which are privately circulated
here, and in which the advantages of the Constitu-
tionalists are extremely exaggerated, it cannot be de-
nied that the war in Catalonia has assumed a serious
character,that the nameof Mina has tended to render
it popular, and that the French soldiers are discou-
' raged and dreadfully harassed by marches and coon-
termarebes, over almost inaccessible mountains, with••
out having yet obtained any decisive advantage, so
that there has been a great desertion among "the troops
of Stones ; and some corps having been of dried to,

The latest accounts from Barcelona mention ad.
vantages gained by Milans, Llobzras, and It.tten, at
Molins del Rey and Martorell. These Generals
obeyed the orders of Nlina (who was still sick at Bar-
celona), obstinately defending their positions, and then
retired in perfect order. All this weakens the allied
forces, not to speak of the uninterrupted attack of
the moveable columns, and the frequent sallies of the
garrisons of Barcelona, Lerida, 13a1aguer, the :Fen,
Hostalrich, and Figueras, none of which are yet re.
gularly blockaded.
The Constitutionalists have been greatly alarmed
for the life of Mina, but the eff.orts of his physicians
have not been in vain, and he is now much better.
But for the prohibition of the physicians and of the
people, he would have gone to the field of battle on
the Bth. When-he heard the firing of the musketry,
he said—" Me a cruel estar casi riendo el fuego y
na poder it dar una ketioit .1 esos perros pie no co„.
Lentos con ser esclavos quieron echarnos tam Bien
neustros las cadenas."

• The,e words were repeated to the people, who im-
mediately went in crowds under his balcony, singing
patriotic songs and crying 41 Viva Miz.a! Constitu-
cion o muerte." Among the Constitutional Guerillas
that infest Catalonia, that of Anton Eroles deserves
attention.
This partisan, who enjoys the favour of Mina, :Ind
has continually revictualled the Seu, has at present
800 Miquelets divided into several bands, who make
frequent incursions into Arragon, where they have
raised the blockade of Menzon, and thrown pro-
' visions into it, notwithstanding all the efforts of
Ladron. There are other small guet illas in Arragon,
land the 2600 men left by Ballasteros near Mursiedro,
act as guerillas in the rear of Molitor.
The defection of Morillo has placed Q❑iroga and
the Constitutionalists in Galicia in a very critical si-
tuation : it is not known with how many men he has
joined Bourck, who was marching towards Corunna
with about 4.000 men.
Various reports are in circulation concerning Ca-
diz and the Cortes; amang others, the Constitution-
alists boast that the French Will never set a foot in
that city, which, in case of emergency, will rather
be given up to the English, for the purpose of saving
from the fury of the partisans of the Faith, all
those Constitutionalists who have taken refuge
there; they add that the Duke of Angouleme can
hardly hope to see the Royal Family at. Madrid.—
However this be, his Royal Highness' is said to be
weary of his enterprise, and ashamed of the enor-
mous expenses of the war; but what will the parti-
zans of the war say, if they consider that it will be
absolutely necessary to occupy Spain for several years,
and who can calculate what this will cost France? •

A Cabinet Council was this day summoned to
meet at the Foreign Office, at three o'clock.
Viscount Stpuotrris's eldest son died yesterday
morning, at the Noble Viscount's house, in Richmond
Park. An Express was sent off to the Noble Visccunt
in Berkshire, where his Lordship would receive the
melancholy tidings under very distressing circum-
stances, as he only left town on Tuesday morning,
after.the solemnization of his marriage. The deceased
had been long affected with an internal abscess ; his
death was, however, sudden.

The Hon. Mrs. TOWNSBEND, who has given her
hand to Lord SIDMOUTH, is about forty ; his Lord-
ship about sixty years of age.
Count LIEVEN gave a grand entertainment yes-
terday to the French Ambassador and soite, Vis-
count GRANVILLE, and a distinguished parry, at
Ashburnham House.
The Earl and Countess of Sr. GERMAIN/ eater-
tained a large party of distinguished fashionables, or
dinner, yesterday, at their house in St. James's-sqoare.
Tke receipts for admission to the late exhibition to
the Royal Academy amounted to nearly Six Thou.
amid Pounds, exclusive of the.profit on the catalogr.
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ELIZA Arrituoy.v.—Thir
morning early, at low water, the body of Eliza
Anthony, suspected to have been murdered by Win.
Dyson, as stated in the Police Reports from Queen-
square, was found upon the beach at Chelsea Reach,
where it wits drifted by the tide. It was shockingly
mutilated, supposed to be caused by the friction in
the water. Information was sent to Mr Wooo,lar4-
lord of the Union Tavern, Air-street, Piccadilly, is
whose house she had been bar-maid at the time she
unfortunately became acquainted with Dyson, who
was there waiter at the time. Mr. Woon went to
Queen-square Office immediately to consult the
gistrate how he should proceed. Mr. WHITS, who
was the sitting Magistrate, desired him to amid
the Coroner, in order that an Inquest may be bel4
upon the body, and ordered that sufficient 6.10,
might be allowed to procure the attendance of sn
witnesses who knew anything of the parties, as it wn
a case which required serious consideratioe-
Dyson is confined in a lonely cell in. Totinkfte,
Prison, and is attended, day and night,.by tiels'elmb
at the request of the Magistrates. His I
permitted to see him, if tiley please; bat the'
person who has as yet visited him ie.Mrs. Relli •
whom he bad cohabited, and to whine.
deceased, Eliza Anthony, was to Inttggemet ur
night she was drowned, she not W-01010 10
main in her own lodging any longiii Weir
very-little, and maintains a very melancholy orid..or,
jected aspect ; his countenance is woefully sorrowing.
and he is upon all occasions completely downbeats'.
and digressed in mind. His re-examination wile
take place till Monday next, unless required by
Coroner"; Jury.
At the Berwick gaol delivery, after a trial which
'began on Wednesday seinnight, and lasted
o'clock on 'Thursday morning, Grate G#, she
of the late John Griffin, publican, in ffichs
died from ill usage received in his own homes ow
29th of April last, was capitally convicted of the ow
dec of her husband, and sentenced to death.