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FRENCH PiteERS.
PARIS, AUGUST 24.
rtlE SOCIETY OF MAIERNAL CHARILY, PATROVIIIIRD
THE EMPRESS.
The Central Committee of the Society of Maternal
('h int!, which met at St. Cloud, by order of the
Zmpress, consisted of
1 he Countess de Segur and de Pastoret, Viee-Presidents.

Cardinal Fest'', Secretary-General.
tishop of Versa lies, Sub-Secretary.
Count liejean, Treasurer.
Count Jaubert, his SubstiNte.
be Prince Arch-Cbancoilor' Count sde la Place, M. de Liab-
,..-oort, Count de Chanteloup, and Count de Segur, Coupsetjors.
Mesdames Grivel, Gautier, Countess Portals, Ma-
d tme Dupont de Nemours, Madame Riffaut, asset the
tinoness Pasquier, Ladies el-cted by the CoUtscil of
:10ministration of Paris to assist at the Ceatxal Coin-
wittee.

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The Countess de Segur had the honour to present
to the Empress the Substitute to the Treasurer-Ge-
neral, the six Ladies elected by the Council of Admi.
stration of Paris, and the three new Counsellors
named by his Majesty.
• The Empress conversed a long time with the Mem.;
bets of the Committee upon the affairs of the Society;
put with equal interest and goodnets several ques-
tions to the Ladies of the Committee, upon the num-
. ber of the poor in their districts, the families they
adopt, and the succours they distribute. •
After the audience, her Majesty ordered a more
.detailed account to be given of the situation of the
'Society by the Vice-Presidents,. Secretary, and Trea-
surer, who submitted for her approbation and signa.
Inure, several decisions presented by the Central Com-
mittee, the object of which is to fulfil the benevolent
intentions of her Majesty, to accelerate the execution
of the regulations, and to organize-in the whole Em-
s)ire this Institution, so useful to humanity, which will
owe its existenc,2 and success to the benevolence of
chi Emperor, and protection of the Empress.

SPANISH,PAPERS.

PRIVATE LETTERS.


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CADIZ, AUGUST 7.—A Strong French party still
exists in this city, which has of late gained a great as-
cendency ; and were it not for the few English with
us, this town would have been, ere this, in the pow er
of the enemy. We are informed that General Gra-
ham is coming back with a strong reinforcement,
which I can assure yon is much wanted. 'l'o-elay
we have accounts that Mike has disembarked at Mo.
trilla, whence he has proceeded to join the army of
the centre, under General Frere. Soult, at the head
of 12,000 men, with a large quantity of artillery, had
arrived at Cordova; on the 29th ult. his head-iluarters
were at Castro del l.io; four leaguesfrom Cordova.
General Abadea has been well received in Crallicia,
and hailed in the village through which he passed
as their deliverer. 'Cardinal Bourbon, with his fa.'
iniiy, is gone to Tavira, feat ful that Cadiz might be
visitad with a fever.
PENISIOLA, JULY 14.—A1l foreigners have been or:
dered to quit this city, as it is feared the enemy will.
soon pay us a visit. The Valencia troops which had:
embarked are come back. Great apprehensions are
entertained fur the safety of this fine province.
P.S. It is reported that 7000 English troops are
cc'ming to i'ur assistance from Sicily; this has given'
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"us great hopes.
• • OFMCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
The. Chief of the Staff of the 6th Army, Brigadier
Juan Mourne, under date of the 80th June, gewn.i,
-Vjga de Mager., gives the following
,account or the
battle of Cogorderos, fought on the WO •of June :
In order closely to watch the movements of Ge-
neral Bonnet, who was situated in Orbigo, I ex-
tended my principal force tow:yds that place. To
prevent depredations being committed by his troops
on the comitry of the right bank, the troops of the
first section of the first division, and the second of
the second, were on the 22d placed in a line, corn-
• prehending Suernsa Fontoria, occupying Astorgo
with a detachment, and having the first section of the
second division on, the royal road of Monsabal; to
serve :is a reserve to the advanced troops. In this
position our parties were on the 23d, born which they
marched and dislodged a party of the enemy, consist.
ing of 200 infantry and 40 horse from Benaventes ;
but observing that considerable reinforcements moved
fri•rn Orbigo, consisting of infantry and cavalry, be.
longing.to General Valletaux, they commenced their
retreat, which they would successfully have accom.
plis!md, had they not met, at Benaventos, a portion
of infantry of Montc•ray, which they determined to
sive and accomplished, but with the loss of Ensign
Rialto and six men. The troops of Monteray, and
hussars of Galicia, continued their retreat, and nni-
tu:tlly supported each other till they pl iced themselves
-before the columns of the section. The commandant
of these. Colonel hiascauna; alter taking the proper
niestitires, informed the General of divhiou, and
•_marched 'towards Cogorderos, placing the troops of
;the second section rat the heights upon the right of '
*the river Tuerto. This disposition being taken; end
ibserving that the advanced companies were falling
back, whit the greatest order and security, and that
arrived within sight of the columns, they did not re,
trocede a step..
4. At this time the Guerillas, consisting of S corps,
'supported the fire for seven hours, throughout a space
~11 nearly half a league, without a single soldier of
aors flinching, 'who were reinforced in proportion to'
those of their opponents,commanded by F. Castanan ;
:and taking 'advantage of the situation of the ground,
they maneuvered with soch skill and intrepidity, that
,t night *had no: put an end to their exertions, the
enemy would have lost the,greeterpirt of the 30(K)
men with which thee attacked, because .the Companies
rf zedores of ()vied* antic k lig with the bayonet
ma the enemy to a precipitate flight t. in which, not-
•-ithitanding the obscuritypf the night, some were
4:ut'down by urn cay.iliy. Our two pieces of flying
artillery kept up a well-directed fire upon the enemy.
-ile loss of the enemy, whirl, according to our
first accounts Attliqn.iti to 300 men, many officers,
and General Valletanx killed, and Colonel Gautier
' '+ minded, we know by an intercepted letter from
llamet to Bssieres„ consisted' of near 500 men, a
i(2' at itt.mlser of officers, and the aforesaid General.
--Our osi consists (1.1.6. killed, and nearly 100'
o :54 d."

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• • BUENOS Arius PAPERS:I7
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BUENOS.-AYRES EX T RAORDINARY GAZETTE Or
THE 26th JUNE, IR! 1.
• 11l the. Extraordinary Gazette of the 18th instant,
among other official papers which General Dan Jose
-Artigaz transmitted with regard to his operations
against Monte Video, there was also given an over-
ture made by Don XavielaElio after the battle .1
Las Piedras, soliciting an armistice. During this,
'Abe result of the nepciation also reached him, which
in that extremity lie had set on foot directly with the
most excellent Junta, through the medium of the offi-
cer Don Jose Obregon, and with which the public
'has already been made acquainted. As Elio perfectly
foresaw the rejection which his application, so con-,
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temptible in many respects, was doomed to meet
.with, he visibly attempted to influence the good faith
of General Artigas by the insidious mode in which
his letter was drawn up, pretending that the English
Government was embarked in the same cause, by the
instructions which it had actually given to Captain
Heywood, Commander of the Nereus frigate.
Our General, deeply convinced,,as`well• as ti.e
Government, of the true sentiments of the aglish
nation with regard to the present affairs. returned a
very proper answer: he spoke with a full knowledget
of the daring and cunning character of the man to
whom it was addressed, and with all the energy and
resolution which animate us in our undertaking.—i
But the honourable Officer of his Britannic Majesty
could not view with indifference the inconsiderate
audacity of Elio, who had so falsely compromised his
reputation in an affair of so much delicacy, and wl:o,
when Captain Heywood had been expressly charged
to observe a complete neutrality in our affairs, had
represented him as to a certain degree taking a part
in them. Captain Heywood, therefore, thought it
his duty to clear himself of all such interference, and
transmitted to the Governmeht the following decla-
ration, which is published for that purpose, and that
all may be apprised of the sole object tf his arrival :
" On board his l3ritaonie Majesty's frigate the Nereus,
before Buenos-Ayres, June 19, 1511.

" Most Excellent Senor—ln the Butnot-Ayres Ga•
tette of yesterday I have observed an cflicial docu-
ment, in which I am erroneously represented as a
negociator between his Excellency the Viceroy, Don
Xavier Elio, and the Most Excellent Provisional
Junta of Government. And as. wherever that Ga•
zette is circulated, it may produce an impression' in-
jurious to me as Captain in the Royal Navy of his
Britannic Majesty, whose duties areof a nature more
open, active, and decided than those of a crooked
policy and diplomatic intrigue, to which my charac-
ter is abhorrent ; and having also received an express
prohibition to interfere in these matters, I have
thought it necessary to observe for the present, that
the Viceroy must have been greatly mistaken in ex-
pressing himself as he has done with regard to me.
" I also leave it to your Excellency to inform the
public (if you think it of importauti.), whether or
not your Excellency, since my arrival in this river
the Nereus, has entered into any official conversation.
with me, or any other individual, relative to the:l
existing political disputes of these provinces.. in.
which we disclaim all right and even inclination, to
interfere: •

1 4, 't hough I have not ihought it necessary or pro-,
i per hitherto to say any thing, yet I now avail myself
iof this opporttotity, that it may be well and clearly
tuiderst,,od, that the spit it, and tendency of the orders
with which I was sent to, and still remain in, the
river Plate, have in truth for their chief and only ob
ject the protection of the persons and commerce OEI
the subjects dins Britannic Majesty from any unjust
effects of comu•otion ; and to lend all possible assist:.
' ante, by means of the ship under my command. to'
such of them as may wish to remit their property or
' retire from the river Plate.

" In the execution of this last part of my orders,
I consider ;Only duty to endeavour to obtain the co.
operation of this Government, for their own benefit,
and that of my countrymen. Why this cooperation
has been so suddenly and unexpectedly denied. is a
questiun which I have neither tt.e right nor the incli-
nation to ask, and with regard. to which it becomes
me, as an Officer of the English Navy, to be perfectly
indifferent.-1 have the honour to be, Stc. •

(Signed) " P. HETWOOD.
" To the President and Memberii of the Provisional
Junta of Government."

The following is the letter of the Viceroy Elio to
General Artigas, conveyed by a flag of truce, and to
ullich the preceding correspondence refers :

• " Monte-Video, May '2O.
66 I have to inform you, that I have set on toot
negotiations with the Junta of Buenos Ayi es, through
the medium of Captain Heywood, of the British jri-
gate Wrens, which Officer has also instructions from
his Government to the same effect. One of the pro-
positions.which he hai to snake to the Juntas% is, that•
an armistice and suspension of arms should cake place
till our existing differences can. be ac pintnedasedr.—.
I expect from day to day accounts of this- negtithi-1
tion. and in the mean time I hope you will concur in
the humane sentiments which animate me, by sus-
pending all hostilities between our troops,-as produc-
ing only a lamentable and useless effusion of blood;
as the Junta must comply with the pacific Proposi-
tions made by the Zngiish and myself."
The reply of General Artigas was in substance as
follows

" Camp at Las Piedras, May 10,11111.
" Senor—Thc cause of the people does not admit
of the least delay: 11 you really desire *to avoid le'
effusion of blood,
.so contrary to the feelings of hu-
manity, enter into acriegociation Keith inc. who Am
well acquainted' with the wishes of the. juntas *and
will give you and Monte-Video a new prOsif of its,
generous and pacific views.. • Thcse are comprisiti in
the re.establishment of communication and yelations
between the inhabitants yfhlunte-Video and those of
the capital—tiers marked'out by the mutual interests
of both, and by nature itsell,--ties which were broken
by a declaration of war on yisur part, which has car-
ried desolation and monriiing into thine families
which li lye suffered from that effusion of blood which
you profess to lament. .
" This army will shortly bring to a conclusion the
work which is already so tar advanced, and voii will
bring to a climax the misfortunes of Monte-Video,
unless you resolve that the authority of the Provisional
Junta of those provinces be tecognised by that city,
in order that it may transmit its wishes by the rue.

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a Rerresentative, conform-ably to-the regttla-
tick has peen- published, and in imitation of
the.measures which all the provinces of Spain
adopted for the purpose of preserving entire the domi-
nions of our :wgiast Sovereigrf Pon Ferdinand VII
horn the oppression of the tyrant of Europe. ,*
“This is the only condition on which, in virtue of
the authority which I exercise, I shall cause hostili-
ties to cease on the part of my troops.
(Signed) 6. JOSS ARTIGAS."
[From a letter of General Artigas to the Junta of
Buenos Ayres, dated May 2t, it appears that hie
army was encamped on the ridge of Monte Viden.—
The battie of Las Piedras, in which he claimed the
advantage, seems to have been a mere skirmish, in
which the loss.on the part of the victors amounted
(ally to 11 killed, and 28 wounded. They took, how-
ever, 10 or 12 pieces of cannon, and a good deal of
ammuni ion. General Artigas says, that in conse-
quence of the advantages he had obtained, he sent in
a flag of truce to the Viceroy Elio, demanding the
surrender of Monte Video. Elio returned a verbal
refusal, and ordered the officer with the flag of truce
to depart immediately. We are led to suppose from
these papers, that though shut up in Monte Video be
ha's a naval force which gives him, in some measure,
I the command of the river.]