Star.
London, England, 1823-06-30 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

We have received to-day, by Express, the Paris
Papers of Saturday. The following Report from
Major• General Gut ct.EmixoT gives, for the first time,
some authentic particulars of the Constitutional corps
under BALLASTEROS. It appears, by the acknow-
ledgment of the French themselves, that this Gene-
ral is in greater force and better provided with the
munitions of war than has been generally supposed.
General MOLITOR has had an engagement with part
of his troops, in which he claims to have had the
advantage.

" ARMY OF THE PYRENNEES.
" BULLETIN.

tg The Count Molitor informs his Royal Highness,
that the advanced guard of his army,under the com-
mand of General Bonnemains, who had advanced on
the 13th to Silla, having marched a part of the night,
came up with the rear-guard of Ballasteros at Alge-
mesi, overthrew it, and arrived at eight o'clock in
the morning before Alcira, on the Jucar. At our
approach the enemy concentrated 10,000 men at
Carcagente, and prepared for the defence of Alcira
1,800 light troops, 150 dragoons, and two pieces of
artillery. . .

" General Bonnemains immeiiately brought for.
ward the two companies of voltigeurs of the 4th
against the houses placed in the front of the attack,
defended by the head of the bridge. Although the
eilerny kept up a destructive fire, our voltigeurs, and
tour other companies, at length took possession of
the houses. This attack lasted about a quarter of an
hour. General Bonnemains profited by the ardour of
the voltigeurs; he caused them to carry the head of the
bridge. They advanced byt a few steps to the charge,
when the enemy retreated, and drew up the draw-
bridge. It took some time to let it down, by which
the enemy profited to make their escape ; but the
150 dragoons endeavoured to maintain themselves
in the Faubourg above the town ; the voltigeurs
charged them, killed e great number, and took several
prisoners. On our side we had only five wounded.
Considerable magazines, which Ballasteros had at
Alcira, have fallen into our hands. On the 15th, the
advanced-guard of the 23 corps pushed on in front
of Carcagente ; on the 16th were at San Felipe, which
the enemy evacuated at our approach, retiring by the
two directions of Alcoy and Mozente. General Bon-
nernains continues to pursue them ; the greatest part

of the division of Pamphile Lacroix is at Murviedro,
observing the road to Catalonia. The Count Molitor
has received news of the Royalist Chief Santos La-,
dron, who continues the blockade of Monzon. A re-
port limn Perpignan, of the l6th,.informs his Royal
highness that Mina, closely pursued by the troopsof
the 4th Corps, commanded by the Marshal de Camp
Saint Priest, was attacked on the 14tkin the Valley
of Osseja, near Poycerda, and one of his columns
destt oyed, and he lost 600 prisoners.
The above is an abstract) " Count GU ILLF.MINOT,
" head-Quarters, Madrid, June 21."
The Regency of Madrid have re-established the
Jesuits, which were suppressed by the Constitutional
Government.

Three regiments of the line are going to reinforce
Marshal Moncey, who is about to commence the
siege of the places which have been blockaded.

MADRID, JUNE St.
BY AN EXTRAORDINARY COURIER.
All remains quiet here. General Molitor pursues
his successes; and is trying to disperse the troops of
Ballastezos.

PRINCIPAL HEADS Or A DECREE or TIIE It/MERCY,

JUNE 22.
Article I.—There shall be formed an exact list of the Mem-
bers of the pretended Regency, elected at Seville, with the
Ministers and Officers of rlilitia, volunteers of Madrid and
Seville, who have given orders to transport die King from
Seville to Cadiz.

The personal property of those individuals on the list shall be
immediately sequestrated until further orders are given.
The Generals, Officers, and Soldiers of the Line, and Militia,
who have followed the King to Cadiz, are personally declared
responsible for the life of his Majesty, and may be brought be-
fore a Council of War, to be judged as accomplices of the via(
lence which may be committed on the Members of the Royal
- Family, end which it might have been in their power to prevent.

PRIVATE 'LETTER.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
" PARIS, JUNE 26.
A report has been in circulation for these few days,
but is not credited, that on the 9th of this month
an additional treaty relative to Spain was concluded
at Paris, between the three members of the Holy Al.:
liance and France. I, do not believe this report, be-
cause the object of the treaty, which; is said to be
that the Allies are to take an active part in the war
in Spain, seems to be at present useless and ridiculous,
unless it is proposed to treat'Spain like Poland, and`
cut it into slices, that it may be more easily devoured.
" Two or three little circumstances have latelyoc-
cuffed, which seem to prove that the party of M.
Villele, in the present Ministry, the moderate party,
is gaining strength. Chateaubriand, who was at first
cool towards Villele, now enters warmly and with
zeal into his measures, so that they are quite sure of
having a'majority in the Cabinet. At the beginning
of the Spanish question, the Minister of the Interior,
Corbiere, the Minister of Marine, Clermont Tonnere,
and the Minister of the King's Household, Lauriston,
were the staunch supporters of Villele, and generally
gave him the'victory in opposition to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Montmorency, the Minister of War
(Victor), and the Keeper of the Seals, Peyronnet. Lau-
-I:ston has always been a firm adherent of Villele, and
the Marshal's Staff which he has recently received at
a reward for his attachment, is a proof of the victory
of his patron. The Journals of the Ultra part of
the Cabinet, have recently also been more violent
than before in attacking Villele; and that he has
lately assumed courage to order the most daring of
the aggressors in this way (the DI apeau Blanc) to be
prosecuted', is regarded as a sure sign of his triumph.
He is rather of an indecisive and hesitating character,
and is said to owe much of his present success to the
more determined spirit of Chateaubriand. In general
the friends of, humanity may rejoice, for although
M. Villele will direct his measures towards the same
objects as the more intolerant Ultras, namely, the resto-
ration of the Catholic Church and the kingly power
to all their former splendour, he will not use such
violent and terrific means; and whether he succeed
or tail, it will be at a less expense of blood than if
they had triumphed over him in the French Cabinet."
The Paris Papers of Friday, which we received last
night, contain the following Proclamation, which the
Regency established by the French in the Spanish
capital have published, on receipt of the news of FAR-
bINAND'S removal to Cadiz. The tone of it, we are
sorry to perceive, is somewhat angry and vindictive.
We are told that the system of moderation which
they had previously followed, from motives orpoli-
tical expediency, is to be succeeded by one of pru-
dence and energy. The sense in which the word
energy is here used, as contrasted with the previous
moderation, cannot be mistaken :
MADRID, JUNE 21.

" PROCLAMATION OF TUE REGENCY OF TRZ KINGDOM
TO TILL SPANIARD&

" Stainssesl—The Regency of the Kingdom addressed itself
to you in the excess of its most poignant grief, not to excite the
constant loyalty of your hearts, because the Spaniards cannot
cease to be faithful to the Goa of our Father, and to our beloved
Sovereign ; but to assuage the bitterness of its' sanction or yours
at the sight cf the evils which may ensue from the melancholy
situation in which the perfidious enemies of the country have
placed us. Yoe are witnesses of the forbearance, the mildness,
the indulgence,witit which the partisans of irreligicin, licentious-
ness, and anarchy, base been treated. You have, it is we,
sometimes deplored the impunity which men so criminal enjoy
in all places; and the Regency would even have (awed scenes
calculated to cause scandal, if, convinced of your wise patriotism,
it bid not known that you were acquainted with the motive of
its so mild and tolerant conduct. It must be said -frankly, this
motive was the liberty of the King and of hip august family.
is Spaniards, you know it. our legitimate and adored Sove-
reign has been daPrivcrl of the throne of bis fathers. So Mt rible

a crime has been comnitted to revenge tltie herisie answer Of the
Monarch. to the proposal to remove him to Cadiz—an snorer
the words of which ought to be written on marble and Wars
They will be the fit:est ornament of history for many ago, and
they will always be engraved on the hearts of allSiiii6lards,—
' My conscience, and the interests of my subjects do not permit
me to leave this place. As an individual, or a private person, I
should, see no inconvenience in removing to another place; but,
as a King, my conscience does not permit me to do so.'
" In speaking thee, Ferdinand has manifested his great soul,
and his love of his people. A Regency, named by the motto-
t ion i demagogues, has been the consequence of so mach heroism;
and Ferdinand and his Consort, and all the Royal Family, have
been violently transferred to Cadiz ; to Cadiz, where that act de-
structive of religion and the monarchy arose. There the Monarch
now is a prisoner; there is the Royal Family ; and can there be
a Spaniard who can see such an event without indignation and
without horror?

" Spaniards ! Your Government confesses that it can find ne
expression fit to paint so horrible a crime : your Government
frets itbelf reduced to the eloquence of silence.
" The Regency of the Kingdom, confounded, it is true, by
so great a crime, will not neglect to take, and it has taken, firm
and energetic measures to punish its authors, and to remedy the
evils caused by the implacable enemies of Coo and of the Mo-
narch. Prudence and vigour will govern all itssesolutions. You

wiU co-operate in so just an object, by confiding in your Govern-
ment, which will unremittingly pursue those whose infernal rage
has filled our hearts with mourning."

A Royalist corps, partly composed ofPortuguese,
blockades Ciudad Rodrigo, the siege of which will
soon be begun. It is supposed it cannot make along
resistance, being ill supplied with provisions.

Some Monks of a Convent at Madrid have caused
the revenues of an estate to be seized, which had be-
longed to their Order, and had been held under the
Con"stitutional systerh. The legal officer employed
acted by virtue of authority from one of the Mem-
bers of the Municipality ; this Member has been sum-
monaby the Regency, who blamed his zeal, because
no resolution had been taken respecting ecclesiastical
property sold under the Decree of the Cortes.

We have received, by another Mail from Lisbon,
advices to the 9th inst. which establish the complete
success of the counter-revolutionary scheme.
On the 21 the Cortes, as we briefly announced on
Saturday, taking into their consideration that the mi-
litary power which before supported bad now com-
pletely deserted them, and that the inhabitants of an
open city like Lisbon could oppose no effectual re-
sistance to regular troops, resolved to separate, but
without dissolving, and leave on record the following