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PARIS, DECEMBER 9.
Yesterday evening the King transacted business
with the Minister orMarine.
.... ...Their Excellencies the Ministers, the. Pope's Nun-
- 66, the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Prince de Tal-
leyrand, the Marshals Dukes de Reggio, de Dalmatia,'
dt Treviso, d'Albufera, numerous Peers, and a great
number of General,Plficers, had the honour of pay-
ing their respects to the King.
There was a report to-day of an action on the fron-
tiers, between -the French troops and the Spani.h.

There is no truth in it.
Letter* from Madrid, dated the 2d instant, state,
that there had been great movements among the di-
plomatic body in that city. The Foreigii Ministers
had met seWral dim is the hotel of the French
Ambassador ana in.that of Count Darnalt, formerly
Envoy from Dennbatin The public were unacquainted
with' the object of these meetings, which at any rate
created no anziety.—Jeurnal de Paris.
A letter from Toulouse, dated December 2, which
has been communicated to us, contains the following
postcsript:—
~ On the 29th and 30th Novembei that* was a gene-
ral affair in Spanish Cerdagne, between the Army of
the Faith and the Constitutional Army. The Baron
d'Eroles was dreadfully routed. Letters from Spain
sup that it is not known what has become of the Baron,
and that it was believed he was killed ; but a dispatch
from Lieutenant-General Belair announces that he had
entered France with an escort of sixty horsemen.—
General Mina commanded in chief, and had General
itoten with him.
d, Eight in the evening.—lt is this moment an-
nounced that General Eroles is at Toulouse ; that he
has taken u p his quarters at the Grand Soleil, and that
seals have been put on all his papers, at the instance
of the house of Ouvrard, of Paris.
Great numbers of Priests, Capuchins, and soldiers
of the Army of the Faith, arrive here. There have
even arrived seventeen Officers of the Constitutional
army,who had been taken prisoners, but set at liberty
on reaching the French territory. There are among
them five Lieutenant-Colonels or Colonels. The others
are Chiefs of Battalions or Captains. The son-in-law
of General Milans is among the number."—Conaitut.
A letter from Perpignan, dated the Ist, states, that
Mina took possession of Puycerda on the 29th ult.
after a general battle, in which the troops of the Faith
were hinted, and pursued to the French frontier. Two
thousand of the Insurgents found an asylum there :
the rest were killed or made prisoners. It is said that
Mosen Anton Col has been taken, but that is not cer-
tain. It appears that the Army f the Faith now de-
feated, consisted of the remains of that which the
Baron d'Eroles had before commanded, reinforced
by the bands of Cargoles, Malavilla, Montane, Col,
&c. During the action, our troops were drawn up
in order of battle on the frontier line, with four pieces
of cannon, which had been brought from Mount
Louis. When the Insurgents were driven into France,
they were so closely pursued that the balls of the
Constitutionalists reached our line. A French gre-
nadier was killed, and an Officer wounded. A (lapis-
chin was also struck by a ball, and fell dead on the
French soil. The Spanish General, however, stopped
the firing, and ordered our frontier to be respected,
as soon as he saw that the rebels had laid down their
arms within the French territory.—Journal du Com.
ADRID, DECEMBER 2.
Colonel Manuel del Pina is appointed Commander
of the Artillery of Madrid. Government has received
an account of the execution of many factious Chiefs;
amongst whom are Manuel Amador, a Capuchin
named Marza, and a Curate, who was also ranked
with the rebellious.
General Espinoza, before quitting the military com-
mand of the third division, addressed a Proclamation
to the troops under his orders, informing them that
he was replaced by Field-Marshal Torrijos.

MARSHAL NEY AND LABADOYERE.—The wall op- i
posite the spot where the Marshal (Nay) died, is daily
scratched or scribbled over with his name, or some
expression of commiseration or determination to re-
venge him. I went yesterday (says the writer of a
letter from Paris, dated the 6th inst.) to the cemetery
of Pete la Chaise, to see his grave once more, being
told it was the anniversary of his death (a mistake),
and that it would be decorated with fresh garlands
and chaplets. I was disappointed—it remained as I
saw it on le Jours des morts ; but I observed rather
an expressive incident—two soldiers were leaning
over the railing that surrounds the grave. I stopped
at some distance from it, but they heard me, and re-
treated precipitately. On LABADOYERE'S monument
I found newly written (the same soldiers had visited
it), " Labadoyere ! Tu seras venge un jour !"
GENERA!. MINA—The true character of this Officer
(says a person attached to his Army) appears to be that
of great but reckless bravery—an indifference to the
means, provided the end can be obtained. In 1812,
he succeeded in forming a body of 600 French soldiers,
prisoners of war, and making them fig'tlt, and despe-
rately too, for him, and against their own tountry men.
This single trait paints vividly the character of this
extraordinary being, and strews the irresistible in-
fluence that he exercises over those under his com-
mand. lie is now at the head of 12,000 men, whose
manners and way of living resemble more those of
banditti than regular troops. With the slender pro-
vision for each of these soldiers, of a cake of chocolate,
a bunch of garlick, and five or six segars, he marches
them up, when occasion requires it, to the top of a
bare and frightful rock, where they remain motion-
less for SO or 40 hours, until the patience of their
enemy is tired out, they then descend, like famished
vultures, into some miserable village, where they re-
gale themselves with oil soup. You cannot have any
idea of the nauseousness of this compound. Yet when
the Spanish soldier can get his fill of this horrible
potage, or hell broth,he considers himself restored and
nourished for the next three or four days. To man
so fed, or rather so starved, the sight of the French
soldiers, with their well-furnished haversacks, will be
like the sight of the stag to the hunters. Besides the
pleasure of killing an enemy, and above all a French
one, he will find three or lour days' feasting in the
daily ration of a French soldier. Such are the steely
stomachs and habits of privation of the men—or
rather human camelions, for they seem to live upon
the air—that Mina leads.