The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-01 00:00:00

INDAY.

FRENCti PAPERS'
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" PARIS, SEPT. 29.
" The garrison of St. Sebastian capitulated on the 27th.
•The down and the Citadel will be wimple.' by nor
treacle on the 3d -of •Ossohass- EhamalAirft. :...wanting
to 'ale men, see prisoners of tear, and yellispt out the
sae* day-for Bayonne, u here they wilt siOra Da the Oth."
(room Tie 11101111TEUL OP 817 N fItT.---OPPICIAt. PART.)
ARMY OF THE PYRENEES.
BULLETIN.
" The last Bulletin stated Count Molitor, Commander-
in-chief of the 24 corps. had given an a/venni to his Itoyal
Highness tW is consequence of the occupatidn of Malaga
lieueraMoverthe and of the arrival lir btege-lienerai
Bonnemane by way of 51mttreil, Mega had been obliged to
throw himself into the monntains of Alpujeras ; this rem-
luftenary chief had still 30110 men with him. He resolved
to make nee of them, to makeen attempt on the canton-
ments of General Ballaiteros, and endeavour to intlnve his
army to mutiny.. To shit end, after various round-about
wive. end marching day and night, he succeiled in passing
the Genii on the Bth, between Santa Fe anti Lnja. Count
Motion immediately dire+ tett Genera Minnesotans, with 5
battalions and three synadrons of cavalry to A lcala la Real,
and had already ordered li • I Coverts) to return front
Molars. anti to send in all haste a part of his troops in pia-
suit of Airco In fact, lien. St. Ctittnans with two batta-
lions of the 29th of the Line. anti the 211th Regiment . f
Chasseors, marched towards Motoefrin, and this last reri•
mint mule rich haste that it arrived at that point on the
nth. and serprisrd the corps of Alert) : Colonel 'Tessier tie
li~wouse mansovreel to draw the enemy !nto the plain, and
clip:rated therein a very brilliant charge, which cost the
enemy ten killed and malty wonwled ; we had three officers,
a arter master, and four cha-senrs wounded, hnt non..
intTently.' This affair does infinite honour to the 20th regt.
and its Colonel.
General Ballast-roc, on his side, being informed of the
movement of Riegle hall sent two of his brigades to Carca-
Itcy and Luce a, and had hat few troops at his quarters at
Priego, when Riego appeared thereon the 161 h. He how-
ever advanced to meet hint, and mingled with his sharp-
shooters ordered the firing to begin, which killed an aid-de-
camp and several solArrs of Metro, hut the troops of the
latter threw up their .1 is .kos (ear) in the air, nod joined
those of General liallasteros, who then thought that the
latter wished to unite with than. Riego took adventage of
this confusion, and tionnght to deceive lien. Rallattertee but
teeing that he would not snot& his guilty projects, and
that on the contrary he was molted to light rather than
violate his engagements, lie caused him to he arrested with
his whole • Staff, and • left nothing; untried to seduce his
troops ; they resisted. anti the Brigades stationed at Cares-
bury and Lorene. having learned what nas passing at
Priem and the ate of their General, inarelool to his de-
•• : liverance. Ripen having then totally failed in his enter-
'pri.e,and fearing to be overtaken by the troop. that lien.
. hlolitor had sent in pursuit of him, hastily retreated upon
Alcandete and Martos. Not on. officer. not a 'single soldier
• of General Hallasterns followed Rican; on the contrary, a
pretty large number of his men, among them two entire
squadrons, those of Namantia and Spain, had joined the
stony of that General on the I Ithe
During this time the measures ordered by his Royal
Itt alines. to he prepared for every event were carried into
iv cation. Lieoe-Oeneral Foissac Latour, who was• at
Cor lova, collected his troops, sad advanced to Andujae,
a Al Lieut.-lien. Valin arrived at Baja with Ids division.
(set the-other hand. Ciene-lienerel Boonetwains closely fol-
lowed the enemy, and at length overtook bins at Jaen, on
thi 13th. •
‘• Riego, who 'occupied that town, and was levying eon
tributlorts, endeavoured to defend himself there. General
B. nneniains bad only the half of his troops sith him;
106.44 he caused as attack to be made on all points,
sod le a few minutes the town was is oar power. The
Moony rallied on the heights behind Jaen. in the direction
of: Mancha Real, hut soon the 4th Light Regiment, and
the 24 benefitsa of the first of the Line, advancing al
the,* de *Urge. carried this position. ;The enemy oc-
cpmed a new one with part of his infantry, and all his
cavalry. - General 'Etninemans advanced against it the 19th
C..asseers„sopported by the 4th, and flanked by the Ist,
and hy •the 4th Light Regiment and the battalion of the
10th of the line. Colonel Choiseul, at the head of the 19.1,
executed .a brilliant charge, traversed the infastri, and
OliTibrew the mean,. which he threw, into complete di.-
Arr. Ftocn that moment the enemy was driven from
position to position, repee dans les reins, beyond Al sham
Ha, where our troops entered at eleven o'clock at night,
after fourteen hours' fighting. Wee° when he arrived atl
Jack bad still about two thousand flee hundred men, the
day Of the 13th cost him 500 killed, wounded, and prisoo-
era ; and it is probable that his column would have been
destroyed if all the Infantry of General Bonnetnaina could
bate core op. This General Officer, who has given on
this occasion fresh proofs of indefatigable activity, an-
nounces that he was perfectly seconded by Major General
Sachet sod Levavasseur (commendstions of other officers
and of the troops.)
" On gating Mancha Real, Rim) had taken the direc-
tion of Judar, intending, without doubt, to try whether lie
enuld he more fortunate with the part of the army of
General 13allasteres, cantonel shout Übeda, or attempt at
least to reach the Sierra-Storm., or the Mountains al
Sacra, by which he might have taken the way to Cartha-
peas, but LientenantOeneral Fois.ac Latour had taken his
measures to disappoint thesesevethl projects.
".Already on the 13th he had sent Colonel &Argent with
throe squadrons of chasseurs and three companies of infan-
try of the Royal guard towards Btjigar, to continue on the
140 his momnent on Jotter, and by a forced march he
repaired, himself, with the Dragoons and five other com-
posies of the 2.1 Regiment of the (hard, to Bison, in order
to check the enetny in rase he should have passed Jotter
before the arrival of Col. d'Argout.
" The village ofJodar, by its position, appeared to be ne-
temerity a des isite point for him who should first occupy it.
Col. d'Argout therefore, leaving his infantry behind, made
all speed to reach it; but when he arrived on the 14'h at
soon, Riern had reached it as hoar before with about 1560
foot and 500 horse. Colonel d'Argout skilfully took ad-
vantage of the surprise which his sudden appearance
caused, and without suffering himself to be delayed by the
firing of the posts, he nude his regiment proceed along
one of the exterior sides of the village to advance with ra-
idity to the other extremity, where the enemy's infantry
lad formed two squares between the roads of Qeseemla and
Cabra ; one of these squares was charged anti broken by the
lit squadron, sad supported• by the 2sl, immediately ad-
vanced upon the cavalry, which was attacked with the same
vigour, and put to Bight. Duriag this dine the other
ware had succeeded in, gaining the mountains against
which Jodsr in a manner leins, where the men who com-
posed it dispersed, eying in all directions, while Colonel
d'Argont ceased the enemy's cavalry to be briskly pursued
by the rest of hie troops.
" This daring enterprise, which has completed the de-
struction of a corps composed of the Revulutionists who
were the most implicated and the most determined, has
cost the enemy 613 prisoners. among whom are one General
six Colonels, sod Slofficers; 60 killed and wounded ; among
whom are several officers; besides whicb, we took one
pair of colours, four chests of money, and almost all the
baggage. On our side two chase/tun were kilted and about
le wounded, but wily 4 dangerously. We had 20 horse*
killed, but they were almost immediately replaced by those
we had taken."
" Colonel d'Argeot contleuted this operation with the
greatest vigour. He highly praises his Lieutenant Colossi
IL tie Chateaubriant. (Praise of several Officers and