Star.
London, England, 1823-05-19 00:00:00

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, MAY 19. 18423.
Wurc-111eNpay.—holiday at the Bank.
THE FUNDS.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

consequence of its being a Holiday, the Bank, Stuck Ex-
c Laitge, and Foreign Market are shut; but a number of persons
Lave assembled on the Royal Exchange, where Consols have
teen done at 781 to 793, Spanish Bonds at 30, and New Prus-
sian at SA. Little business, however, is doing.

We meet with the following curious statement in
C:e Journal of Antwerp. For our own parts, we have
little doubt that the requisition stated to have been
made by Austria and Russia to Switzerland, has
been made; yet that we should consider to be no
evidence of any immediate intention of marching to
the assistance of France. It may rather, on the con-
trary, be regarded as an indication that such a step
is aVutc sub judicr. It is natural that Austria and
Russia, before they form any resolution of the kind,
should be desirous of knowing how far there is an
open passage for them to the scene of action ; and it
is not to be denied -that the consent or refusal of
the Swiss Cantons to permit the march of foreign
troops through their territory must have an impottant
iiluence on the decision of these amateur belligerents.
Switzerland is an independent Power; it has a right,
by all the laws of nations, to resist, if it pleases, the
violation of its territory by a foreign army, though
it be merely fur travelling purposes ; and should any
attempt be made by Russia or Austria to force a
passage, in order to assist in what the Ministers of
this country have pronounced to be an unjust and
criminal aggression on Spain, we hesitate not to say,
that it may have effects " on the attitude of Eng-
land," which neither Russia nor Austria can be sup-
posed to contemplate with indifference.
No fault has been found with the internal con-
dition of Switzerland; no neighbouring Power pre-
tends to be in any danger from the principles,;
sects, or parties to which it gives protection; and the
presence of bands of foreign military adventurers,
bent on spoliation and slaughter, among 3 peaceful
and virtuous people, is a certain evil, which it is very
proper their rulers should be desirous of averting.—
We think, for these reasons, that if Sviitzerland has
refused the permission required, it will have done
wisely; and we have a higher respect for the pru-
dence which guides the counsels of Austria and Rus-
sia, than to suppose that they will rashly expose
themselves to the consequences which any attempt to
force a passage through an independent territory:—
to back one aggression by another still more unjusti-
fiable—might possibly have on the whole aspect of
European affairs.
ANTWERP, MAY Is.

A person of this city has received a letter from
Lausanne, dated 4:11 May, in which there is the fol-
lowing passage :
" I fear lest I should be obliged to quit this town;
The Governments of Austria and Russia have caused,
nn aPplication to be trade to the Cantons for the pas-
sage of an army through this country. This demand
Las been unanimously rejected. But I fear that the
neutrality of Switzerland will not be respected, and
I shall Ry not to become a Russian or Austrian."

Notwithstanding the authenticity of this letter, we
doubt the accuracy of this statement. Though the
Powers of the North have promised effective succour,'
the time is happily not art ived w hen it can be neces-
sary, and all appearances indicate that this fatal ne-
cessity will not occur. The arsui ances of the French
Ministry, the attitude of England, the dangers with
which Europe would be menaced in consequence of
this, intervention, ought to dispel, at least for the pre-
sent, the fears of so dangerous an extremity. Another
ciTcumstance makes us doubt the accuracy of our
Correspondent, viz. that supposing such a demand to-
have been made, it is not at all probable that Switeerr
land has had the energy to refuse it. For some time'
past, regard for its pieservation has induced that
country to make concessions which ii would not have
made before the events of the revolution:

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We have received, since our last, the Peri:Papers
of Fr iday. The news they contain ilom Spain is vague,
and indecisive. WrIA is accounted for in a way which
partakes too much of the absurd and marvellous to
be credited for a iliaa," says the Jour-

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Inayes Debats, "keisi but, ast'? stisys..th chooskt-tn
'figif;toiliirtelder;* troops. Ile ha' 4
del* 12 the last PitikiedbttwAtgo frontiers by Ge- '
ueral Curial niSdsWaron 41E114" :be has 'fled by
lett, across the mountains,. to endeavour to reach
Berga. General Curial and Baron d'Eroles continue
this kind of chase, in whirls our troops hare &yet been
able to fir.
It then proceeds to spew how this General without
troops (for they say he had dispersed them) may ir
cut off: if he goes one wxy, he will be met by DoNA-
DIEU ; if another, by MoLIT011; and this most au-
thentic history is summed up by an assurance
which, after the assertion that he had dispersed his
troops, appears somewhat superfluous, that he is
" without materiel, without cavalry, and•_seems to
have little ammunition and still less provisions." It
is impossible not to see that there is in all this sense•
less talk, a studied suppression of some unpleasant
truth in which MiwA has acted a part that fully
excuses the anxiety evinced about his future
movements. The Constitationnel is, we think,
in the secret ; but it ventures no farther than to
assure its readers of what is sufficient to prove all
that the Jostrnal des Debats says of the dispersion of
M INA'S troops to be fabulous. It gives a letter from'
Perpignan, in which it is said, " The enemy retires
in good order, and his army is increased' by all the
Constitutionalists, who abandon their houses. It
seems that hitherto none of the soldiers of MINA
have deserted or returned to their homes."

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MINA'S EXPLOIT. •

Since writing the .preceding analysis of the con-
tents of the Paris Papers of Friday, we have received
to-day by Express those of Siturday, and a letter
from our Private Correspondent. The Papers are
entirely silent with respect to MINA (a silence which,
at such a moment, speak volumes), but the letter of
our Correspondent makes up sufficiently for the omis-
sion. The fact turns out to be as we from the first
anticipated:

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N PARIS; aaerisiar Bvstma.

" The mystery respecting Alma is now removed.
Having made a forced *kith of ten leagues in
one day, be tell upooOstr 4 Rom ag osa, which
was stationed at itipol, cortsliing of from 2500 to
8000 men, and-after having cut it to pieces, turned
round on d'ErcAes, and beat him ako,_killing and
making prisoners about 1000 of his tnen. -
" The siege of Santona, which had been enta*ed
to QUESADA, is raised. Hellid ordered three of his
soldiers to be shot for some breach of discipline; and
the consequence has been such a disgust among his
troops, that they have almost entirely abandoned him.

" Figueras still hold's out bravely. It has been now
invested for several weeks, and up to this moment
not the least impression has been made on it.
" The following Telegraphic Dispatch, which has
been received by the Government here, will explain
to you what is going on in the West of Spain :

" Head-Quarters, Lerma, May 13, 11 &Clock at Night.
" The army continues its movement on Madrid.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme, with
the reserve, at tived this day from Burgos.
Marshal the Duke of Reggio entered Valladolid
yesterday. His advanced posts ate on. the Douro.
" General Obert was tobe at ilmasan.oo. the) Ith.7.

" The Renter have recovered a little. My last gave
you them at 87fr. sc. To•day they bays siren gra-
dually to 87fr. 80c. at which price they closed.*

We have received to-day Brussels Papers to the
16th inst. Among the extracts which we subjoin
there is a very probable statement as to the course
Count AUISIAL means to pursue on the approach of,
the French to Madrid :

BRUSSELS, MAY is.
According to the last accounts we have received
from Madrid, which are to the SOth April, all the

arrangements are completed for abandoning the ca-
pital of Spain, which the French army will shortly,
enter. Count Abisbal, as Commander-in• Chief of the
Constitutional army, isgoing to assemble all his forces
on the Tagus, near Toledo, which is twelve leagues
from Madrid : his right wing will take a positicni
in the environs of Ocagna, which is only nine leagues
distant : this last town is situated at the entrance of
the vast plains of La Mancha. In the last war in
Spain, a great battle was fought near it, in which
the Spanish army was totally defeated.

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