Star.
London, England, 1822-08-29 00:00:00


Breda, Augusti, eight o'clock In the morning 0 I
attacked the enemy at day-break in the streets of this
little town. They are covered with dead bodies, arms,
and hones. The cavalry, pursued the remainder,
nearly the whole were wounded. I mean to give a
little repose to my troops at Saint Celone, and from
thence I will send a more detailed report. In the mean
time I thought it my duty to send these -ftw words
in haste, .in order not to delay the publication of the

success."
Details of the most atrocious cruelties, committed
by the armed fanatics, have arrived from Navarre
and Catalonia. The inhabitants unite themselves with
ardour to the militia to march against them.
M. Ch. Gomez. Intendant of the Countess of Ta-
lava, was arrested on the 9th of this month, at half
past 11 in the evening. He is accused of having been
one of the principal conspirators against the consti-
tutional system.

The guards of the Palace have been doubled every
night these three nights past.

We have received a Spanish Mail, bringing Ma-
drid Papers to the 17th inst. and intelligence from
Bayonne four days lacer. The following are extracts :

BAYONNE, AUGUST so.

Several letters from Madrid state that General
Mina suddenly left that city on the 15th, in the even-
ing, for Catalonia, where he is going to take the
command of that Province. Hence it appears that
it has been desired to conceal the departure of the
General, either on account of the numerous bands
that are in the road, or from political motives ; for
the Universal (by the last post) stated that the Mar-
quis of Castel Dorrius was appointed to that cost-
mand. Eight persons of the number that it was in-
tended to arre't at Bilboa have arrived at the port of
Suesa. M. Martinez, Physician to the King, and two
persons belonging to the Palace, as well as the Duchess
dela Puebla, and three CUI Es, have arrived at Bayonne
from Lazaretto.

An the letters from Spain speak of the movement
of troops in the Provinces, marchipg towards Cata-
lonia and Navarre ; but, for the week past, not a
man has arrived.

The accounts from Madrid to the 16:1,, give the
following particulars :

We enjoy perfect tranquillity here, and the mea-
sures which the new Ministry have hitherto taken
excite the most flattering hopes. If we may judge by
the reports which arrive from the cities neat est to the
capital, where the news is already known, we may say
that we hope there will be a speedy termination of
the civil war in Catalonia and Navarre.

The speedy return of the Secretary to the English
Legation from London, has given rise to various con-
jectures. They speak of a Treaty of Commerce be-
tween Spain and England, as well as the assurances
of the latter Power, that it will not interfere in our
intestine dissentions, being disposed to support the
Constitutional System, and to prevent any foreign in-
vasion whatever. The Journals are u holly silent on
this subject. However this may be, there is already
much gained, in the Constitutionalists being free::
from the dread of foreign :ova:ion ; for they do no.
seem to fear France alone, against which l'ower the
Journals continue to use the most violent language,
on account of the support which they affirm has been
given to the Defenders of the Faith.
For some days past a rigorous surveillance has been
exercised towards strangers. Several who could not
give a satisfactory account of the motives of their re-
sidence in the capital, have been obliged to quit it.
similar measures have been adopted in all the other
cities in Spain.

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will be peothned which may contribute to the happiness of the
nation, mors firmly consolidate, the different parts of it. and hold
an honourable place among the important antelioratlans of every
kind for which we are indebted to the care of the Monarch, or
which may be expected from it in future,' and which together
comprehend all the great interests of the nation to which the
protection of the Government is at the same time equally ex-
tended. By prescribing the execution of Article II of the fun-
damental Law, your High Mighdnesseis have offered the King
means to give his subjects fresh proofs of the love he bears them.
" The nation, recognising at the time the right which this
Article contains, had in view only the sacred person of his
Majesty.

"The King, in making use of this right, has considered espe-
cially the interests of his people, and which will always be Lis
views.

" Provision has been made by your High Itlightinesses for the
grit wants of a nation, which, after multiplied advantages, has
to bear the great burdens which are inseparable from them.—
Your High Mightinesses have adopted a system of taxes, the
produce of which will be sufficient to cover these expenses, and
at the same time to preserve the advantages attached to this
system. Among its different parts, which perfectly agree with
each other, that which appeared to present the most difficulties,
has been almost unanimously adopted in the latter Sittings of the
two Chambers.

" May this unity of views and intentional be the precursor of
the unanimity which will reign on the approaching Session.
The King desires that this spirit of harmony and union may be
transmitted by your High blightinesses in your respective Pro-
vinces.

" Your loyal fidelity will correspond with this invitation of
his Majesty.
" I declare, in the name of the King, that the Session of the
States• General is closed."

This fotenoon we received German Papers to the

17th instant. The Austrian Observer of the preceding
day contains accounts from Constantinople- of the
25th of July ; but this is not so late by one day as
our previous intelligence. The article commences
with an account of the 'severe measures adopted by
the Ottoman Porte with regard to the Janissaries, in
order to restore discipline and order among them.
The accounts are, as may be expected from this quar-
ter, unfa: ourable to the Greeks, but they belay the
fears- and weakness of the Turks as to the issue of the
war. We give the statements, however, as they ap-
pear in the Austrian Observer.
The Turkish fleet has lately' left its station off
Tenedos, after being joined by all the reinforcements
sent to it from this city. It is said that it will go
first to Patras,to fetch the new High Admiral, HARA
NICHMET PACHA, the news of whose death was false;
on the contrary, he is said to have made some
successful sallies against the corps of Insurgents
that blockade Patras by land. The Egyptian and
Algerine fleet was seen, on the 14th of July, near
Samos. What has been related of landings effected
by this fleet, on several islands of the Archipelago,
is not yet confirmed, except that it stopped at Candia,
and landed some hundred men near Suda, who were
immediately engaged with the insurgents. It seems
nowhere to have attempted anything.

The month of June has been the most unfortunate
for the Turkish army in their contest with the Greeks.
The citadels of Athens and of Napoli di Romania
capitulated nearly at the same time. The capitula-
tion of the first was signed on the 22d. According
to the conditions, the garrison was to withdraw un-
molested; but it is said, nevertheless, to have been
afterwards murdered. Coron, Motion, and Patras
were still blockaded by the insurgents. lIA RA M an-
MET PACHA, the new High Admiral, had hitherto
vigorously defended the latter ; and the unexpected
retreat of the insurgent Chief, COLOCOTROSI to Gas-
tuni (on the south of Patras), had been of much ad-
vantage to him. This was nearly the state of affairs
when accounts were received of the latest operations
of the Seraskier CHOURSCHID PACH A. It was thought
for a time that he was detained by the diversions
effected in Albania, partly by the Suliots, partly by
the Greek insurgents : it seems, however, that this

was not the case. CHOURSCHID PACHA had left the
conduct of the war in Albania to the l'acha of Arta,
who, with a cot ps of 6,000 men, attacked the insur-
gents in the middle of the month of July, and is said
to have obtained important advantages over them, of
which, however, none of the details have reached us.
—Meantime CHOURSCHID PACHA, with the main
army of 40,000 men (other accounts make it more
numerous), marched to Thessaly by way of Zeitun,
where the insurgents are stated to have received a
severe defeat, penetrated through the Thermopylw,
occupied Livadia and Salona, and, according to
subsequent letters, recovered Thebes and Athens. It
is certain that towards the end of July the greatest
consternation prevailed in all these parts, and that l
i,
desperate measures were taken for the defence of the
Peloponnesus.—To an army like that under CHOUR•
'CHID PACHA, the insurgents, it is true. cannot op-
pose one of equal strength ; yet their force would be
great enough, considering the enthusiasm with which
they must be supposed to be inspired, to make a
powerful resistance, did not the want of harmony
among their leaders impede their enterprises on all
sides. Their ablest military Chiefs are rough soldiers,
who will not be dictated to by the better informed
political leaders, who are wholly ignorant of war.
ODYSSEUS, celebrated in Europe on account of his
political name, was neither more nor less than a com-
mon Mainote highwayman, on whom Ara PACRA
conferred a kind of importance by employing him in
the most desperate and sanguinary enterprises. This
Chief, after having at first rendered important ser-
vices to the Insurgents, appears now to have met with
an end worthy of his former exploits. The Political
Janta, which calls itself the Greek Senate, sent to bias

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two Officers, who had been brought up in foreign
service, to waist him in conducting his military ope-
rations. ODYSSIUS had them murdered without cere-
mony. On this he was declared a traitor, and excom-
municated. He then joined CHOUROCIIID PACHA, and
has been of great assistance to him in his present ei-
-pedition.—UThis is confirmed by the accounts from
Corfu.3—According to the latest accounts he has
al-
ready met with his death, in what manner is not known.
COLOCOTRONI, though of rather, a better character
than Onvssaos, seems to be openly at •ariance with
the Political Junta. He has raised the blockade of
nitres, without any reason, and is even said to have
recalled his son from Albania, where he command ,d
a small corps. DEMETRIUS YPSILANTI, whose p2r-
sonal character was esteemed, bad lost all credit, by
his total want of military talents.
MAUROCORDATO, a young man of much under.
standing, and of great capacity for political affairs,
acts now the part of a General, for which he is not
qualified, either from ill-judged ambition, or from
the real want of serviceable Commanders. His ene-
mies accuse him of aiming at the Dictatorship, which
some accounts say his party has really given
Under such circumstances the cause cf the Insurgents
cannot prosper, except through extreme indolence and
want of energy on the part of the Turkish Government.
The annual appointments of the two Kadiaskers
and of the Supreme Judge of Constantinople, has been
made within these few days. HALLS SADE AEU,
BEY was appointed Kadiasker of Romelia, one of the
most important ports in the civil administration of
the Ottoman Empire.

During this last summer, the plague has appeirel
in various parts of the Turkish Empire. Even e e
capital and its environs ale not t% holly free from it.
The same is stated to be the case at Salonichi; but it
is said to commit great ravages in Albania. Alex-
andria, in Egypt, and Algiers, have also been viiited
by this scourge.
Aociusr 14.—Metalliques, SI S-;3—Bank Shares,
S4l 9-10.

Accounts have been received from Algiers, which
give the most melancholy descriptions of the ravages
made by the fever in the provinces ; and the pi Intl•
pal inhabitants of the Capital were in the greatest
consternation. The differences between Spain and
the Day are likely to lead to hostilities.

GIBRALTAR.—EXtrACt of a letter from the :fig-1
to Lt.oyo's at Gibraltar, dated Bth August:

" The United States frigate Constitution sailed yesterday .1-c:11
this Bay, with a contr4ry wind, for the purpose, it seernf, of
proceeding to Minorca, to remove their depot of naval stores,
in consequence of a peremptory order to that effect troll the
Spanish Government. In the course of the afternoon, the On-
tario, American sloop of war, and Nonsuch schooner, arrived,
and being admitted to pratiq.:e, at a late hour took in sonie pro-
visioos, and sailed again, at 10 o'clock last night, for Cie same
destination as the Constitution. This stet. appears to hive been
taken by the Spanish Government in consequence o: the late
recognition by the United States of the South American In-
dependence."

To-day is fixed for the K t NG'S depa: ture from Edin-
burgh, when his MAJESTY will pay a visit t , the
Earl of HoPErovs, at Hopetoun Hoa,,e. Should the
weather be favourable, his MAJESTY will then embark
on board the Royal yacht at Quee;lsferrv. or one of
the harbours in that neighbourhood, and take leave
of his Northern subjects by whom he has been so en-
thusiastically welcomed. A Cabinet Council we un-
derstand is summoned for Monday, in ez'ectation
that his MAJESTY will art ive in time to attend it.—
We need not observe that filling up the blank in the
Administration will be the first object of the Royal
attention.

In the account of the civic banquet at Edinbur,r%
it has been stated that a Gentleman presented a silver
basin and ewer to his MAJESTY. This service was
performed by Wm. HOWISON CRAWFURD, the younger,
of Braehead and Crawfurdland, in place of his mo-
ther, the Proprietrix of Braehead, in the county of
Mid Lothian, being the tenure by wh:ch these lands
are held.

To judge of the interest which the KING'S visit to
Scotland has excited, we are informed that one house
in Birmingham had sold two hundred thousand me-
dals struck for the occasion.

It is said that, soon after the KING'S return from
Scotland, his MAJESTY will visit St. Paul's in state,
and dine at Guildhall, as usual after every Coronatiin.
The ACTIVE frigate arrived at Dominica, from
England, on the 4th ultimo, with the Earl of llusr-
INGDoN on board (the new Governor), and suite.

There has occurred in the Netherlands another and
a striking instance of the opposition between the seams
and feelings of the age, and the unyielding bigotry
of the Catholic priesthood. It is well known, that
though plays were at first, in modern Europe, the
offspring of religions ceremonies, and have been sub-
sequently brought to the service of public morals, yet
that players in most Boman Catholic countries are a
proscribed caste. Their existence may be necessary
for the amusement of a luxurious and literary age —•
their exertions may be witnessed and applauded by
King; Judges, and Ministers—their profession ma) be
allowed necessarily to include accomplishment, and
not necessarily to imply depravity—still the religious
bar is not taken off. Instances have occurred of their
being refused Christian burial; and we have before
us an instance in which they have been refused Chris-
tian marriage. M. MOREAU and Mademoiselle Ltr-
CILZ SAINTE, of the Theatre of Brussels, both, it is
said in a French Paper, remarkable for their irre-
proachable characters, applied lately to a Cure for
the nuptial benediction, and were refused, till they
should renounce their theatric condition. If they did
so, they might next renounce their life. The parties,
after going to the confessional, and appearing at the
holy table, preparatory to the ceremony, were com-
pelled to forego the nuptial benediction, and to be
contented with a civil marriage.