Star.
London, England, 1830-07-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Meuager de; Chambres of July 21).
SECOND EDITION,—PARIS, JULY 20.—We Intend to give a
summary of the campaign as soon as we shall receive all oar
letters of the lit and Bth of July : meantime our impartiality
obliges us to notice a reproach, which was evidently no just
foundation, respecting the manner in which the operations have
been directed. It has been said that dilatoriness and indecision
had cost us many men—that much time was lost at Sidi Ferruch,
and Sidi Khalef, whence the army should have marched against
Algiers as early as the 20th of June,—that time was given to the
enemy to raise early
on our road,—that a fortnight was
spent in advancing five lesgues,—and lastly, that the campaign
which, however, took only twenty days, might have been ended in
ten. The public is sufficiently acquainted with the detail of the
operations to the Ist of July, to understand that these objections
have no real foundation. It would have been contrary to the most
simple rules of military art to encamp before Algiers, at the distance
of five leagues from the landing-place, without the heavy artillery,
and the apparatus necessary for the siege. One reason which
is conclusive is, that such a maneuvre was impossible, by
the delay of the convoy of the one hundred and seventy trans-
ports which had the artillery hones on board, and all the material.
AU tile letters are full of complaints of the delay of this unlucky
convoy. Arriving in the bay of Sidi-Ferruch, on the 2fith, that is
to say, 12 days after the landing of the army, it was assailed on that
day by a tempest. It was not till the nth that it began to unload,
and it was not till the 29th—that is so say, ten days after
the battle of Staoneli—that the Corommider-in-Chief could
employ some sixteen pounders, which he wanted, to dismount
the 'batteries of heavy cannon erected by the enemy before the
fort of the Emperor. From the 17th of June to the 2d of
July, the landing continued, as well as the conveyance of the
24. pounders, mortars, and large howitzers, and the ammunition to
the army, by a road which it had been necessary tomtit; and which
was very difficult and heavy, on a sandy soil, where the wheels sunk
eight or ten inches. AU the criticisms have been founded nn delays
which depended on the arrival of a convoy; or, in other terms, on
the caprice of the elements r there is therefore nothing military or
rational in them.—When an officer served well, Napoleon forgot
whether he had been at Coblents or La Vendee ; witness the
rank of Lieutenant, gained by M. de Bourmont, on the field of
battle, in the campaign of 1814. Let us then forget preceding dr.
cumstances, when we have to judge of new services and exploits of
which the country is proud. Our injustice would only injure the
national cause which we support, and give advsnge to its advet-
series, who are always ready to tax the opposition with bed faith.
It was this sentiment which led us to appreciate the affecting sim-
plicity of the report, in which the General-In-Chief announced the
severe wound done of the four sonswho accompanied him to Africa.
His words, it may be truly said, have interested all noble hearts
which know bow to forget political passion before the sentiments of
nature and sacrifices to the national glory. It was hoped that M.
Anunke de Benumont would live. " This hope," says the report
of the Bth, " has been disappointed. The army loess a brave sol-
dier. and I deplore an excellent son. Most of the fathers who have
abed their blood for the King and the country will be more fortu-
nate than I am." We do not make patriotism consist In a bard
and systematic insensibility. We know neither the General net his
sons; but if the death of one brave man has attracted our attn.
tion, and excited the interest of France a little more than that of
others who have likewise fallen with honour and Owls it is that
there is no other family in Franco which has exposed four of its
children at once to the fin of the Algerines."

TILE LEICESTER TRAGEDY.

A BALLAD.

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In Leicester, fam'd for maidens fair,
Liv'd Miss Lucretia Stively
Who was, some fifty years ago,
A maiden smart and lively :
She felt her heart sore smitten
By a certain wicked spark's charms;
And lull'd her honor fast asleep,
In Mister Samuel Clarke's arms.
Now, Mister Clark was not inclined
The matrimonial noose to tie,
And Miss Lucretia therefore thought,
She had much better choose to die ;
So to a tree, where oft they met,
She walk'd away by moonlight;
And thought, by tucking up herself,
To set all matters soon right.
Preparing then upon this tree,
To prove herself Love's martyr.
She slipp'd from off her dimpled knee
A silken

keepsake garter:
Wheo, from behind the fatal tree,
Sly Mister Clark outeprung fast,
But still resolv'd to hang herself—
Upon his neck she hung fast !

Maids are so prone to hang themselves
About the tender passion,
That some believe it is the cause
French garters came in fashion ;
My tale displays a safer course—
Indeed I do not fib it.
And may each pretty love-sick maid
Be hang'd on such a gibbet !