The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(FOOS TB; IIONITIL)IO OF WOLF, JULY 110.-411/FICIAL
PART.)
ARMY OF THE PYRENEES.—BULLETIW.
" Major-General Huber, informing his Royal. Highness
of his arrival at Oviedo the 27th of June, gives him an ac-
count of a new affair which his troops had on the 23th, be-
yond Aviles. Captain Beaumitz, of the 4th Hussars', hav-
ing advanced towards the town immediately on the orrrival
of General Huber at Gijon, and having with him
.60 horse
of his own regiment and of the 17th Chesseurs, and two
companies of infantry, arrived at Aviles just as the rear-
guard of Campanillo had gunned it to retreat towards Mares.
He overtook it neer Fort St. John ; the enemy formed in a
square, and endeavoured to manoeuvre so as to put himself
under the protection of that fort ; but being briskly attacked
his ranks were broken, end fled in all directions. M. de
Beaumits immediately put part of his cavalry towards Fort
St. John : it entered with the enemy, and the garrison of
60 men threw themselves into a boat and endeavoured to
escape ; but Lieutenant Dues having caused the boat to be
tired at, it ran aground, and only ten unn were saved. The
results of this affair, which was conducted with vigour and
skill, were 70 prisoners, many killed, four pieces of cannon,
a large quantity ...8 muskets and baggages, cud the comple •
tion of the dispersion of Campanillo's troops, who r.sd
hardly 900 men left when he arrived behind ?felon. Cap-
tain Beaumita was perfectly seconded by Lieutenant Dues
of the 17th Chasseurs : he mentions, as having distinguished
themselves. Lieutenant Kersoiy and Brigadiers Chapelier
and Constant, of the 4th Raisers, and Quarter-master For-
est, of the 17th Chasseurs.
" The Spanish General Longa. arriving at tallest°, at-
tacked at the sometime on the96th two revolutionary bands,
one on the side of Caswpo Caro, the other towards Oviedo.
Both were destroyed; Bernard Meares; the chief of one of
them, surrendered.
" Part of General Hober's troops were at Oviedo on the
Stith. He himself passed that day at Gijon, in order to have
the men pursued who had fled to the mountains, and to col-
lect the soldiers of Campanillo. who presented themselves
in greet numbers. He has alsolaken several ls laden
with arms which were in the ports of the Asturias, and were
• destined for the places occupied by the enemy. He wee re-
ceived at Oviedo on the 27th with the acclamations of all the
population, who came out its meet him. Count Molitor has
announced to his Royal Highness, that the head of the 9d
corps was on the 110th at Moaforte, before Alleent. as well
as at Elche, a ISM& sat a halt from Murcia, whither the Ge-
&owning Lawsuit of the troops of Ballasteros.
" Head-quartet% drid. July b. •
seder of his Royal Highness,
" Ihe/biear4 sherd Count QUILLEMINOT."

MONDAY EYENINO. JULY 14, 1823.

STOCK-EXCOANOII. 12o'CLocx.---Consols opened this
morning at 83}, and are now 8.111. with a good market.
The Expresses from Paris have brought the French
funds at 91, 10, and Spanish, 371. A report prevailed
at Paris, that the Cones were going to enter into a Dego-
ciation with the French, in which England would lend
her assistance. The French loan has been as high as 2h,
but at present it is 2 to I.
FOREIGN Po:rm.—There is nothing doing except in
French, Spanish, end Columbian securities.
Spanish, 34—Columbia, Wl—French Scrip, to 21
premium.

We have received today, by express, the Paris morning
and evening papers of Saturday, from which we select
the following extracts
(Paola ?HL Etoile, 13th Juts.)
Army of the Pyrenees, Madrid, July 7.
General Bordesonlle writes that he Lopes, in a short
time, to be master of the Isle of Leon. Ail the letters we
receive agree in two points, that Cadiz cannot hold ant,
and that the king's life is not in danger. BaHastenss
to get to Cadiz, has left his army, which was defeated
by General Moliter. In several houses in Cadiz they
ha►e been already obliged to have recourse to water from
their cisterns.

The Erpectader speaks of the plot which wu to have
taken place at Seville, to carry off the King. Sir John
Downie, and 18 others have been arrested. Ths'Josr►

na /of Cadiz contains the following parapaph, which
appears to us very remarkable:— ,

a' A thousand different reports prevail this evening
on the subject of the arrival, near the port, (Cadiz) of
four vessels of war, one English and three French. It
is said, amongst other things, that a French ship of
the line, a frigate, and a brigantine approached the Cu.
tie of the fortress, and that of Saint Sebastian. They
fired on the frigate, which made off immediately. The
three French vessels kept in sight till night. At 6
o'clock two officers (English) disembarked and followed
by a great number of persons, went to the Secretary of
State to have an interview with him."
FOURTH Coin OU THIC ARMY.

Official report of Baron Eroles, to his Excellency
Monseigneur
It was on the 7th of this month, in the morning, the
moment that Mina commenced his last operations, that f
received at Solsona from your Excellency, the order to
take the command of four Spanish battalions, and the
brigade of the Marshal Count Saint Priest, composed of
four other French bsttallions, and 100 cavalry, with your
orders to follow the enemy in everydirection. The same
day the troops moved on Bergs, distant 9 league, from
Solsona. On the Bth, after leaving in that town three com-
panies, we proceeded to Pueblo de Millet, where we learnt
that Mina had marched for Cerdagne a Dori, I instantly
made a rapid march on Rippoll, where 1 karat
the enemy was encamped on the 9th, in • the
plain of Santa Paw, but Mina broke up his
csmpt at day-break, and proceeded in the direction
of Redaura. 1 gave orders to a Freud' battalion, who
was at Rippoll, to march on Beasora, and I took the
direction, with the rest of my troops, on Volfugena.
Just as the columns had arrived at that town, I received
the information that Mina had changed Lis direction,
and marched on Castlefollit. 1 instantly proceeded on
Olot,:fearing Mina was proceeding to Barcelona. 1
arrived at Benin before nine o'clock in the morning.
We made this march with such rapidity, and with such
wise precautions, that the enemy were ignorant of our
movement, but by an unforeseen fatality. A soldier of
the B'h Regiment disappeared during the night, and
joined Mina in the mornilg, and informed him of the
whole of the dispositions we had made to attack him.
We learn that Baron Eroles, and Marshal Saint Priest
are before Cardena, and are going to form the Blockade
of that place, as well, as that of Sen.
•
FIGUEIIIIII, Juxn 28 —The Lieutenant General eons-

mending the corps of Observation of Figueroa is highly
satisfied with the conduct of Lieutenant Dumas,. as well
as the officers and soldiers in the bravery displayed in
defeating a sortie from the Garriaon of the Fort of Fitt-
ers& On the 2d of this month the Garrison of Seaton*
disembarked 500 men between Laredo and Calendres,
which are Only occupied by three companies of the 81st,
bnt the revolutionalists were obliged to retreat, and left
on the place snore •:.an 100 killed and wounded.

(FROM THE Coartitationcel.)
A Telegraphic Despatch. dated June the kith, from Bre st,
aneoanees that a convoy which left Martlnique on the 20th
of May,• composed of 87 Sail, iscorted by the Nereid.
(Agate has entered the above Port.
We read to day in a Ministerial Journal the following
Itoes :—"IWe are led to believe that the Negociatious have'
Commenced with the Members of the Cortes, and the party
who have the greatest power, and a favourable result is e=•
peeled."

News FROM TWO iltreinsu FROWTISC—BLOCICADI 011
PAIIIMLUMA, JOLT 3.—You have heard that DI. Laroche-
foactult was sent by the Duke d'Angouleme to summon this
place to surrender; but this Envoy was received by a sound
of music, which played the Marselloim and the Tracala,
and could not obtain any answer from the Constitutionalism

Bayonne and Bremen papers have also reached os this
monitr. The former contain accounts from Madrid to
the 2d instant. From these it appears that the struggle
is expected to be long and sanguinary. This apprehen-
sion is partly founded on the conduct of the Regency
which seems to flatter only the unenlightened and feroci.
one part of the Spanis:l nation. Ballasteros it was pre_
sowed, will throw himself into Andalusia, where be was
chiefly engaged in the war of Independence. The re-
ception of Mina at Barcelona was extremely brilliant ; be
brought with him several French officers, and 300 sol•tiers,
prisoners of war, and the Gazette of Barcelona says, that
be bad left a greater number in the various fortresses
held by the Constitutional troops. The General made
his entry at the bead of 1,800, and left the city on the
24th, with a floe division of 4,600 men. A French
squadron of one ship of the line, a corvette, and 3 brigs,
is cruising before Cailis. Two frigates have anchored at
Port St. Mary, and landed a quantity of Money and some
Military stores. M. De Martignac was about to set out
for France, and tbe approaching departure of the Duke
for Seville was spoken of. A great number of Portuguese
emigrants arrive In Spain, especially in Galicia,
The Brenton papers contain nothing but a very long and
elaborate article from St. Petersburg, dated 13th June, in
vindication of the resolutions taken at the Congress of
Verona.

A Leeward Island Mail has arrived this morning, after
a passage of only 30 days from St. Thomas's. By this
conveyance, we have received the Iris of VS nerstela'
which contains an article from Bogota, dated May 8,
repeating the opinion that one of the first determinations
of the legislature will be, the settlement of the debt con-
tracted by M. Zea.

It appears that want of money Will be no hindrance
to the French operations in Spain, at least for the present;
for the house of Rothschild has obtained the high honor
of contracting for the loan which is to sharpen French
bayonets against Spanish bosoms, or to bribe treachery
to accomplish what is found to be unattainable by force.
ITU loan is contracted for; and will doubtless be raised;
nod, as far as its application tan promote the cause of the
Imeasion, it will succeed ; but Fretted' millions have be"
r tore been found as unavailing as French swords ; and,
.inotwitbstanding the willingness of the money changers'
In accommodate the Genius of murder with the means
de mischief, we have great hope that this loan will be ad.
waned in vain; and the most earnest wish that the par
des contracting for it, may never have the power of bid_
ding for another. This is one of the curses of the non&
tural funding system. Money employed in the legiti-
mate modes of increasing commerce and agriculture,
cannot be withdrawn so readily from its ordinary ens.
ploymen.s to accommodate despotism; but whew
money is made to produce money, by its un
just operation upon the labour and industry of
a people, and accumulated in heaps as an &ti-
de of speculation, it is ready for any infernal occa
Sion; and Old Nick himself would only have to offer-
a larger bones, to obtain a loan for the extirpation
of religion. Still Spain remains unsubdued :—and
though the prospect be dark, it is not, we repeat, so dark,
as it bas been, when her day has again risen, and the
suppressed splendour again burst forth. Napoleon occu-
pied every fortress, but Cadiz. Louis has not yet take.
one, which has offered any resistance. The Constitutional
flag still waves upon more than twenty fortresses of the
first and second order. Napoleon was strong enough to
sweep before him every shadow of resistance until he
reached Cadiz. Did a town resist,' and but few thought
of resistance, he had the means of reducing it. His army
was more than twice as numerous, and ten times as effec-
tive as the present army of France. The Spanish army
misled by circumstances, was induced to array itself un.
der his banners. The nobility, and not merely the nomi.
nally noble, bat the intelligent and well 'informed classes
of society, who did not see that it was the wolf promising
to become the guardian of the lamb, went cap in hand to
the usurper. The French were universally better received.
than the English troops ; add Sir John Moore, if not
driven into the sea, was chased to its margin, and the
remnant of his army compelled to embark, after the glo-
rious bat ineffectual victory, which cost that lamented
commander hie life. The Doke of Wellington was also
driven out of Spain, and to the very margin of the sea, in
Portugal; and the subjugation of Spain seemed complete
—hat even the bidden pestilence was raging almost unseen,
yet felt most terribly in the ranks of the proud invaders.
?hot dreadful scourge to organized troops, a Guerilla
warfare had sprung up amongst them; and its vengeance
was as prompt add unexpected, as the visitation of the
lightning. Every night brought with its shades, some
novel attack; and every day was spent in apprehension
of an evil that admitted of neither prevention nor cure.
But it is now said, the Spaniards do not evince a suffi
@lent disposition to resist. We beg to ask, what dispo;
sition can they chew which they have not shewn ?
i Wherever a fortress was prepared with any thing like
the means of defence, it is defended. The first fortress
invested by the French, is not yet in their possession.
Not a single Constitutional troop has joined them—the
army of Abisbal, instead of being accomplices in his
iaison, refused to be biassed by him, and the traitor was
compelled to take to a solitary flight. More recently,
blotillo has found that bin soldiers were not to be
seduced by a great example to betray the commo n

ewe: The exploits and devotion of Mina are the themes
of universal admiration ; and let it be remembered, that
when the first French invasion took place, the ,Minas
were to be caked into action, and the Guerillas to be
organized. Both are now in existence, and many illus-
trious chiefs are emulous of the reputation of the first
Guerin.warrior. One thing may be taken as certain,
that the French army at present in Spain is unequal to
the task of conquering that country. An army compe-
tent to the arduous business of reducing every for ress,
would not be sufficient to occupy Spain ; and without w
military occupation of Spain by France, a restored de-
spotism could not by any possibilityexist. If Cadiz could
be taken, and were afterwards evacuated by the French, th a
Constitution would be agai n proclaimed therem soon as ti
last French soldier had the gates closed upon him. Cadiz
bases enlightened a population as any city on the face of
the Globe. The political discurrion created during the
French blockade, the intercourse with America and
flogland, and the events that have locally happened,
have opened their eyes to all the enormity of despoti•m,
and have excited a most cordial abhorrence of its nature,
Our Ministers, therefore, in the desperate hope of induc-
log Spain to have two chambers of legislation, have left
Spain to the military occupation of France, if she could
keep it, and made the Bourbons a present of Celli; as a
countz.rpoise to our possession of Gibraltar. The Bear is
not yet killed, to be sure ; but the English Ministry have
sold the skin for a compliment. What has hitherto oc.
curred must have been expected. • It required no conjuror
to tell us that France could send a hundred thousand
me n into Spain, if she chose to take the consequences of
such a Step. It mas equally clear, that a State without
an army, in the usual acceptation of the term, could not
send one into the field to meet the insiders. The trea-
sury of Spain a•as known to be exhausted. The unfor-
tunate dispute with South Amerika bad cutoff the usual
supplies; and there was a feeling spinet the surrender
of the colonies, which the Cortes dare not oppose. That
the French could go to Madrid, was as evident, as that
their soldiers could put one leg before the other.—
Whenever the mass of the French army presented
itself, it could not but find the way clear, ex-
cept it had had mad men to deal with, who were
frantic enough na throw away their lives without
any hope of advantage from the sacrifice. Bin what
hare the French gained by the march to Madrid, and
the march to Seville? Nothing but disappointment,
and new enemies, hitherto. An army is no welcon a
visitor in any district; and those who were indifferent
enough to the coming of the French, will be heartily
tired of their presence. If the Spanish Cortes, and the
Spanish army, could have been seduced from their duty,
as was the case in Portugal, the affair would have been
different;—but, thank Heaven! liberty has firmer friend',
and more heroic champions, than she found at Liabon,
The great cause of Spanish security, and the best hope
of Spanish. freedom, is that the Icing of Spain is known
too well to• be trusted with the power of betraying the
interests of the Liberal Government. Had his keepers
relied upon tats honour, Spain would have long since
been lost, and the kti u mph of the Huly•Alliance com-
plete.

Yesterday the Dukes of York add Cumberland visited his
Majesty.
The Lord Chancellor had an audience of his Majesty
yesterday.
His Majesty will givea juvenile ball to-morrow-at Carl-
ton Palace.

The King will leers town the latter end of the present
week, to take his projected aquatic excursion.

The Marquess and Marchioness of Hastings and suite,
Lord Kinnard and suite, Captain Withrow, and about 60
passengers, landed at the Tower on Friday, from .Calais,
from the Earl of Liverpool steam-packet, Captain Franklyn,
after a most agreeable voyage, in eleven hours.

Satuiday the Marquess of Hastings had an audience of
the Kieg on his return to England.
The Duchess of Kent, on her visit to the Palace in Pall-
mall on Thursday. was accompanied by her youncest datu' -
ter, the Princess Victorli, who had never till that day beet
itttroduoql to his Majesty. She is an interevinn child, of ■
very lively and affectionate disposition. ills Majesty, had
sent her his picture, set round with brilliants, as a present on
her birth-day.

There is at present a man who is in the practice of
calling on persons with birds for sale of a very beautiful
appearance, which he says he has brought from Savannah;
but which in reality are nothing but Sparrows died cu-
rious colours!

The complete carcase of a horse, in a standing posture
w,s lately found in Eaglesfield peat-moss, where it must
have been some centuries. The animal was unshod, and,
by the teeth, about four years old.
EMIGRANTS TO CANADA.—This day (Tburtday) the
hips Slakesby and Hebe, Captains Johnson and H
will sail from Cove, for the new settlements at Canada
with 567 •emigrants, chiefly ruined farmers from the
south of Ireland, and under the superintendence of Mr..
Robinson, who has been appuinted by Government fur
the purpose, with very ample powers to encourage
settlers, and who takes his passage with them on hoaiLl
the Slakesby.—(cork Southern Reporter.)
A-letter from Montreal, dated June 14, says--" 1 have
Just been informed that the De Sub:berry steam-bust way
urnt to the water's edge on Thursday morning last, at
4 o'clock, off Cape Roue, and ail her cargo d •stroyed.
There was a eunsiderab,e number of settlers on board,
but they were fortunately all saved."

Steam navigation appears to be carried to a very.great
extent in the CitQa..49. On the river St. Lawreni e, be-
tween Montreal and Quebec, during the open season,
which lasts from the Ist of May to the 25th of Norco:-
her, no less than eight vessels are constantly plying, of
which the largest, the Lady Sherbrooke, is of 787 tons
burden, and is impelled by an engine of 60 horse power.
The marriage between Lady Elizabeth Con)egham and
Lord Burford being of by mutual consent—rumour has
assigned to this Lady a princely partner, the vicissitudes
of whose fortune have engaged so much of the public at.
,tention.

The reconciliation between the Highest Personage in this
country, end a welt-known naturalized Prince was. it is said,
effected by the interposition of the Commander-ta•Chief.
1 whose kind disposition has often led him to aet tb• part of
mediator. The presence oft Royal Duchess, and, as the
matter stands at present, the presumptive heir to Vte Crewe,
at the last grand part• at the Palace, was permitted in con--
sequence of the game interposition.