The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

FORENN INTELLIGEICE.

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SPA IS.
(Front the t;orfespoodence of the Standard.)
Illadvia, See. 3.
" On the 31st, of
,October the general-in-chief of the army of
the north was ivilh the greatest vita of his forces at Vilialaias,
a". 41 "4 tile hat,iition f constiainiug the factions to raise the

seige at BdUna.
" The faction of Gomez was, on the Ist of November, at
'tnniito. The Marquis de Roan had, the seine day, his head-
quarters at l'trafaila :le Mate; and the Geueial Marx, who was
at Aininnovdr, was ai,out to undertake his marcu on Estrama•

dine.
"The faction ,of Sanz, after having been beaten, has return-
ed tutu the Asturias, passing by the defile ut V egareda."
A ierter from . Bayonne, dated Nov. 7, says —" The siege or
Biluoa was not raised on the 3(1 of November, although the fact
has been inferred from the arrival of a letter fiver that town ;
it being thence cent:holed that the river was free. This letter
nay have been b ought front Bilboa to Purtugalette by taint,
the bearer having coutriveol to elude the vigilance of the
CarUsts."
the Phare .de ,Bayonne of the Bth instant says that " on.the
28th wit. the :Cerlists raised the Siege, -att•l, the-navigation toeing
oopen, 1.5151 men arrived as a rentCrifeetnent from Santander.
The Car.lists of Catalonia, connnattded by Roos u'Eioiles and
Borges, to.the amount of I,'Llk) or 1,500 men, entered the valley
of Aran in the me..ht dine 25th ult , and surprised frt) Christinos
at Esterry. Six oof them only escaped; the rest were either
-shot or burnt to death in a barn, which the rebels set on hie.
On the fotlowing clay a battle took place at Tridos, another
village in the Y.
".'l”', and the Christinos were obliged to retire
into the fort of La \Tiede, where they are blockaded by the
rebels:"
Letters.of the, 2d, from Saragosa, state that the Carlisle, hay..
ing evacuated Centavieja, carrying their arms and baggage with
them,
.the .reyoeuti,eary general, Evariste.. San Miguel, took
possession.,on,the 31st at eleven o'clock in the morning. The
revolutionists mune the General Lopez, furtY officers, and some
hundreds of soldiers, all prisoners made by Gomez in the action
cf Jedraca. Villareal is (occupied in conserving Espartero in
the Intereaciones.
AitstioA, Nov. 10—It is astonishing that, notwithstanding
the nifamously false intelligence given by the Paris telegraph,
faith should still he placed in its reports. Chits we find, be-
Cause this vehicle chooses to promulgate "that the Carlists have
raised the siege Of Bilboa," a large portion of the public ae-
tuoily believe that the Carhsts have renounced getting posses-
sion of that place, and tnat the inhabitants are once more in •
safety ! The reverse is, however, the tact, and, or I sin greatly
mistaken, Bilboa ere tong wilt belong to the Carlists. It is true
that Villareal mismanaged The attack—it is equally true that
the garrison has been reinforced by 1000 men, but the command
is now in the hands of Corint ale Casa, Eguia, and that general
has declared that Bilboajnust fall .(;oute-qui coutit !
By letters from the revel head-quaiWs, and dated the Bth,
• e
the most active preparations were cud-I-writ:ode forcorvinuing the
siege; fresh batteries had been erected, parapets thrown up,
sod an immense quantity of ammunition and bombs collected.
It was expected. that the fire would be opened against " La Ban-
deros" the same afternoon or the next morning.
Espartero finding it impossible to force the Cellists line has
returned to the-valley of 3lena.
Colonel Wylde. who was sent by-Espartern to General Evans,
with orders for• 2,000 of the legion to march instanter to the re
lief of Bilboa, has returned to the head-inarters of the Christine
commaorder-in-chief, greatly dissatisfied—Evans having refused
to send a. single man.
The French Foreign Legion is -all but disbanded.
(From the Correspondence of the Morning Herald.)
B.AYUNNa, Nov. lu.—fin the 4th inst. Dun F. Garcia ad,
vanced upon Lodosa with four battalions of Navarre, and two
squadrons of cavalry, to destroy the tort of that town. lie
ordered the garrison to surrender on pain of being attacked toy
him, and with the more success, as he had positive information
that General Iriharten had advanced with his cavalry en the
valley of- Mena, in Biscay,. to join the head-quarters of Espar-
, tern. The Captain-Gestural, ad interim, of Parripeluna having
;o-en informed of this !movement, ordered 3,(X)0 infantry and
011.) cevairy; commonded,by General Lebeau and Don Leon.
I riarte, to march from Pampeluna for Lodosa. On arriving at
a short distance beyond the bridge of Oben°. this column was
divided into three corps, which advanced by different roads on
the fortified hermitage of Santa Barbara, situate On the heights
by which Moment is crowoed, and which were defended by four
battalions of the Car!ists, who commenced their fire on the ap-
proach of the Christinos. The effints of the two enemies were
nearly:balanced, hut -General Garcia having received a rein-
forcement of two battalions, the Christinos were obliged to re-
treat upon Puente la Reyna. Nothing is known as to the losses
sustained by them. _ _

On the 7th a quantity of plate, from the churches of Navarre,
arrived at St. Jean Pied de Port, escorted by some companies
of Chepetgorrie. This and some other plate, which may arrive
in France, will be sold there, and the produce sent to the king-
dom whence it may have been sent.
According to the journals, the siege of Bilboa has been raised
-more than otice but the contrary is ;he fact, as the Carlists still
surround the place, and are more than ever disp•ised to carry it.
On the 7111 -inst., a quantity of projectiles'were sent to them,
and that cireumstance. compelled the Governor to write to
General Esparto° that untess,hecame to.the relief of the place
it would be-unable to hold out, The bearer of the letter was
'arrested by the Carlists, and though it produced no effect—as
Espartero bad •been ordered, in the apprehension of it eatati-
trophe,-not to measure his strength with Villarealeethe Carlists
weretheYerthetess, satisfied to learn that if the place could still
hold out for a few-days, it must, in the end, infallibly tall into
their. 'power. To expedite the moment of the surrender, they
have•jest oi,ened some covered, ways round the town and under
its wal.s, and- have commenced battering the only gate. which
eau 'resist them; -so that, in a few days, the town, will fall- into
the power of Don Carloe. -
SAN SEISA4TIAN, Nov. 6.—Here we are, the most miserable
wretches in the shape of soldiers .in existence, penned in on all
sides-by t he- C Artists, mull like school boys unable tit go one lot
-beyoutt boaudi. It would seem as if we hadtaken up oar qtvt r-
ters he're for life, for as to our'inoviti, in any direction it is quite
out of the question; tiMess, imleed, we woobt wish, as in the
Flmtaiitbitt :affair, -to return niscomiltecl. Winter is fa.t ap-
proaching-, and- it is more,than .proba,ite we shall experience
once more the:same privations,. the sa we hardships, disease, and
starvation, to .whichthe legionwere exposed, (and they bore it
without a murmur ) at Vittoria, where no houita afforded to the
poor soldier a blanket, or a covering, and where the cold con-
vents alotiei,•and alike, contained the hying and the dead. -
What are ice to de •If we luck back we esn only trace all
the treachery, alt the. heartlessness of the authorities, to the
want or spirit amongst ourselves. Front the very outset this
was perceptible, and I fearlessly, state that the whole loss sus-
tained by cs from fever at Vittoria, and around it, may be laid
at the doOr of .those who were-mean enough in the beginninV to
perm it Englishmen to be degraded to a level with brutes. Did
General Bernelle allow his legion to be so treated? No! he
t;irgtit not thfiir characters soldier:,—nor his own,----neither
did be forget the honour of hi., couniry. General Le dlerchant
(Adjutant-General,) left, a few days since, in the Ilhadaman-
thus, to talk over at borne the prospecta we enjoy; and General
Godfrey is about going to Madrid to Complaiu and ,to remon-
strate once more with the G,,vernineut as to our arrears of pay •
'•oh, that we may get i*.' •
Bilboa has been nearly destroyed by Villareal anti Eguia, the
Bishop of Leon planwrig,,'tis ,said, the operations. You have
no doubt heard that the•iactions, as they are courteously term-
ed here, were heatea trans thence with considerable loss. Now
the fart is quite the reverse, for by the official statement of the
Governor, Aarn. to that 'Minister of War, lfodil, the town was
literally a heap of ruins, scarcely a house escaped damage, and
one whole street: was cwtupletelV iietoolished. The truth is.-that
Villareal, having gained his object, which was the destruction
of the place,
wit bin ew his force after, I ant free to admit, some
hard lighting on both sides, and he is now with his staff at Her-
,

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'1 he move of Villareal was both a wise and judicious one;
fur learning ttniGEsitartero was tillhis tvitte to succour Bilboa,
and uot
choosing ti run any risk after toying succeeded in his
attack, acted the part tit' a good General, and his anus' retired.
it is it little laugh-aide to hear of
once a-week. .(whenb•i-ailres prevail, and Music parades the
the total a fillinih ti.M. 111)011t.
,trei•ls all uight,) of the rebels, and yet Villareal is at Bilboa,
and Gomez, Ira veiling through .Andulusirs, his tulloweis and
booty increased at every lowly he passes.
filet e seems to he no scarcity of alionvy or, cannon among the
C:lilist*, :is they bititiv,ht .irdo play 16 guns andiA to mortars at
IIIii."'". a"(-I ',snit n 57., res•-vitrds to deserters fvoin onr ranks.
The -Jaines Watt steatite:• arrived bele yestrorday from San-
'.l'l'l(" ' "S."'' brings int4lligence It •iii: l'ortitgatete that the com-
a the 11,-.111 bank and the inuinc al ion nub Biltioa by the ry.e,r is cat off ; th•it the whole
countri!, iticlo•lit,g Ziirosta. is in the
P'"ebt,'" it 1" (slims; :µU{l that the crow of his Majesty's
fyigate'Laz:tor, alga ..111,ru ot our ee4,,,;, iif
~,vtid t'iirtifttog the opi•asit.• 5j,,r,...
l'• •War, are busily ear;
Thus, Si far as matters
palls "f si,atit : and iitivit for a lett words
i.t's"'tt-4:4inh.L:=7:44-d:liou'''''lt'iceirt `ii"' '` kiriti.ll" ie 'ion :note, live, 'and
have beit).g." •
We are still at our lines, every man et his loop-hole, or on
rtkelettin of the legion against the force now be•
'fatigue, and there-1s little chance tit' our living awe to do ugly
r.;•„iiits unheeriett, and unat-
tended ii‘hVilthltedisairectrou in our ranks--a tlisatfection justifiable
and wart anted, groin the treatment iAe have received—faith
brut;-twoit(hZii,Ae)tifil:eeet,i;:iesiiillset,:tAn:avde byt. the Spanish Govern-
ment 'o.nly to he viritat.etli,litit:e,"p,o;;ltia
aree teniii.p.,aut,h2-I.itit,i,teile Eighth
by.the inhabitants:A.olls 1 :tt
II tideedhe a niliter tiso"R.4c
and so convincing, that it wou
feeling
1.. de ' " . "Peel', i
Iti either
wonder if auyht else save that feeling cu i i be ft.,:tial

officers or men.
If our wants still go unredresied, if the governments are so
weak or so wicked as to depriye fbe' labourer of his hire, the
wounded officer of his pension, and the soldier's widow that gra_
y which justice and humanity should have awarded them—
if they should cootiotte to do so, the cousetpteuces must be
that the legion will adopt an alternative which the eircuiu-
statices sanction—namely, that of taking from an ungrateful
people that which should have beau given without solicitation
or threat.
Those who love good order, and we hope in this class come
all delohttindtions,a Etiglisauteu, would nut wish such a couch'
to lot pursued : but if it should happen, what will be thought t 4
the British Government giciiig their countenance and cooleht
'to unit being entrapped
,into such a service, and leaving that"
to the tender mercies of the intriguing tninisters of the Spanish
nation—men without hearts, aud, it is too well proved, without
honesty. P. L.