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London, England, 1823-03-28 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1823.
GOOD FainAy.-.—Holiday at all the Public Offices.

At a late hour this forenoon w•e have received ad-
♦ices from Madrid, to the 19th instant.

Every thing was ready for the KING'S departure.
Two conspiracies formed to prevent it had failed.
The new Ministers had not come into office : and
it was expected that the old• ones would continue in
their places: SAN Mtousi. is the soul of every move-
ment of the Government.

We were the first to announce (by a Second
Edition of our Paper of Tuesday,) the an ival in
Paris of an c,ffieial report from the Major-General-of
the French army, that " the condition" and " spirit"
of it was such as are likely to put an end, for the
present, to the iniquitous project of invading Spain-
The fact is now confirmed beyond' all manner of
doubt; not only by the Papers of this country in the
interest of France—(for such there are)—but by the
Paris Papers themselves.

The Courier of last night admits that " there has
Leer a waspirary, which had lot its object to replunge
France, and consequently (the consequence we do
not sec), other parts of Europe into all the mi;eries
and guilt of another Revolutiv."
_ _

The New Times says, 0 It has been asserted that
the appointment (of the Duke of BELLUNO) was oc-
casioned by the discovery of a conspiracy in the French
army, sad so far,tve are inclined to believe Me report."
—The Courier indeed affirms, that " the conspiracy
did not tar eak out in the army of the Pyrennee6, though
the conspirators hoped to make it the instrument of
their ci iniinal projects." But against the Courier we
will quote the Courier itself; for in the same paper
where it makes this denial, it announces the receipt
of "farther" advices, which' oblige it to confess that
one of the Aides-du-camp of General GUILLEUINOT,
Commander of the Army of the Pyreunces is " impli-
cated in the plot." The first advice; of this paper,
the Public will see, were erroneous ; they will observe
how ignorant, or affectedly ignorant it was in the early
part of yesterday, of a fact which we published on Tues.
day evening, and which has since become notorious;
and they may fairly judge from this, what reliance is
to be, placed on the Courier as a source of intelli-
gence, efr on its honesty in stating what it knows.—
Its fellow-labourer, the New Times, thinking it yes.
terday of nu use to pretend ignorance of what all the
world by this time knew through odicr channels, at
once avowed its opinion " that some treachery has
existed in (he army of the Pyrennees, but that, it has
not gone far, and has been discovered in time."
Now for the Paris Papers—those of Tuesday, which
came to hand last night.—ln these we have the facts
of the recal of GuiLLEatrator, the sudden departure
of the Minister of War, BELLUNO, the inefficient con-
dition of the French army (at least General GUILLE-
bIINOT'S report to -that effect), all fully confirmed.
We find too that the departufe of BELLUNO was not
regarded at Paris, as some of our contemporaries
wished to make it regarded here, as a matter of no
import. The Journal des Debats, a Government
paper, confesses that it has singularly surprised the
public (singulierement surpris le public).
The reasons for the .finistet's sudden departure
cannot, of course, be expected to be stated in a Press
subject to the Censorship of that Minister and his col-
leagues, with the same explicitness and clearness as
has been done in our private communications; but
vague as these explanations are, they will be found to
agree perfectly in substance with the statements we
have made public. The Journal des Debats says
that the presence of the " Minister of War will give
promptitude and unity (ensemble) to the operations,
and will probably hasten the entrance of our
troops into Spain ;" the Constitutionnd states, that
" the Minister of War will be able- to see with his
own eyes whether the accoutrements and other objects
furnished to the army have been made in a proper
and satisfactory manner ;" and " that an alteration
is to be made in the organization of the army."
What dues all this amount to, if not to what
we have said in more direct terms, that " the
condition and spirit of the French troops" are such
as to have caused a suspension of the intended opera-
tions against Spain. The Minister at War—goes to
see " with his own eyes" whe:2lter all that General
Guim.gastNoT had reported—for from him we know
the report did come—be true ; he goes to impart,
if he can, to the operations of, invasion, unity and
promptitude, and for this purpose there is to be a new
organization, Will any person tell us, after this, that
things are as they were?
We need scarcely mark out to our Readers the ab-
surdity of supposing with the Constitutionnel, that it is
merely to see whether " the accoutrements and other
objects furnished to the Atm" are proper and satis-
factory, that the Minister of War has hastened away.
What would anybody have thought of the Duke of
YORK setting off post-haste to see whether the jackets
and knapsacks, and other accoutrements of the troops
that had to fight the battle of Waterloo, were in :.;ood
and sufficient order ? No. The Public may depend
•upon it that it is not such external matters as these that
have called fot the Minister of War's presence. The

spirit or the troops is in fatiltiana it is this which must
be renovated—madeproper and satistrcior.y before the
invasion of Spain can be attempted with the least
chance, even of momentary success,
•
The Declaration to which M. CANNING alluded,
in his speech last night, was one made-by Lord CAb-
Tunteaou in the month of March, 1815, and is asl
follows:

" The undersigned, on the exchange of the ratifications of the
Treaty of the 25th March last, on the part of his Court, is hero;
by commanded to declare that the Bth Article of the said Treaty,
wherein his Most Christian Majesty is invited to accede under cer-
tain stipulations,is to be understood as binding the contracting par-
ties upon principles of mutual security, to a common effort against
Napoleon Bonaparte, in pursuance of the 31 Article of the said
Treaty, but is not to be understood as binding his Britannic Ma-
jesty to prosecute the war, with a view of imposing upon France
any particidar Government. However solicitous the I'rince Re-
gent must be to see his Most Christian Majesty restored to the
'I brunt, and however anxious he is to contribute, in conjunction
with his Allies, to so' auspicious an event, he nevertheless deems
himself called upon to make this declaration on tho exchange of
the ratihcations, as well in consideration of what is duet() his
Moat Christian Majesty's interests in France, as in conformity
to the principles upon which the British Government has inva-
riably regiiiitvd its conduct."

This decimation mtht always be taken in conjunc-
tion with the 'articles of the. treaty alluded to, by
which our Government bound itself to make com-
mon cause against BONAPARTE, to understand
their due import. While they had for their object to
give security to Europe by destroying the power of
Napoleon, the declaration was intended to preserve
intire the principle of National Independence. We
bound outselves to oppose BONAPARTE, but would
not bind ourselves, because that was contrary to tte
principles of our Government to impose any particu-
lar Government on France. When this declaration
was discussed in the House of Commons, the Oppo-
sition of that day were quite as ready as their present
successors to impute to the Government improper mo-
tives. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY then contended that this
declaration was put forth by Lord Castlereagh merely
to conceal from the people that the Government
actually desired to force the BOURBONS on France,
just as at present Mr. MACDONALD imputes to Mr.
CANNING the absurdity that this liberal Statesman
is intriguing to make the Spaniards submit to the
Profligate attempts of the French. And as Lord
CASTLEREAGH then replied, that such accusations were
only circulated for the purpose of" calumniating the
Government," so may Mr.CANNING now say, that the
imputations of his opponents are made with no other
view. The object of the negociations 'Allis MAJESTY'S
Ministers has been, to preserve that peace of Europe
which they are pledged by treaties to preserve.
To obtain I eace was the avowed and actual object
dal' the exertions of the Allied Powers in 181 5, and
to preserve it has ever since been the steady aim of
our Government. Ministers have deprecated and
opposed the Bourbon invasion of Spain, by all the
honourable means in their power, without taking up
arms ; and they could riot take up arms, except to
enforce the observance of our own neutrality, with-
out siding either with the Ultra Liberals in Spain, Or
the Ultra-fanatics in France, and to the mad projects
of both these destroying factions their calm and con-
servative wisdom is directly opposed.

The following are extracts from the Bayonne Papers
which arrived this morning :

BAYONNE, AIARCH 20.

The Marshal Duke of Reggio arrived in this city
yesterday to take the command of the Ist corps of
the army. M. Sicard, the Intendant General, is also
arrived. The movement of the troops continues, and
all go to take up cantonments on the frontiers as
they arrive; of the two battalions of infantry of, the
guard, one has gone into cantonments in the Ban-
lieue of Bayonne, and the other, which is to do duty
about the Duke d'Angouleme, remains in the city. It
is impossible to form an idea of the immense quanti-
ties of provisions which are preparing, and of the large
sums of money that are daily employed; and yet it is
with difficulty that forage is procured at Bayonne
and in the environs. The want of this article is much
more sensibly felt in the three provinces of Biscay,
and it is impossible that Navarre, though fertile, should
long support 18 or 20,000 horses, which there will be
with this army.

We expect with much impatience two mails from
Madrid, but we learn that they have been intercepted
near Burgos by the band of Merino, and the contents.
burned. • However, by one of the many-couriers that
have passed through, we have the following authentic
accounts up to the 17th.—(These accounts contain
the information we have previously received relative
to the departure of the Royal Family).
Only a very weak garrison will be left at Madrid.
I If the decision of the Cortes, on the departure of the
jKing and the Government, has been generally ap-
plauded by the Constitutional party, the mass' of the
inhabitants of the capital are really afflicted and dis-
, contented at it; and, it may be affirmed that they
ardently desire the arrival of.the French.
The last levy for the active army had already been
made in the capital, and besides that a great nuMber
of young men had .enlistc.Onltintarily. All the ac-
counts from A ndalusi4, Estramadura, and La Mancha
state, that they were eagerly imitating chi capital,
:Lod that it the Treasus y had had the
,necesiaryllitiai'
it Quid, have beeu easy tO4aise the -whole popula-
tion eu flume.
In the midA of these favourable dispositions we
have Learnt, however, that Litman, who separated