The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-07 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1823.

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I •We have this morning received Bayonne papers of the
29th ult. from which we extract the following:—
We have been looking impttently for the appearance
i of a bulled's+, the delay in the publication of which
gives occisfon to circulate unfavourable reports. We

expect likewise the mail from Madrid, which we sup-
pose will net be stopped twice refining. Meantime It is
affirmed that Saragossa, which our troops are said to have
entered on the 25th, was on the contrary well disposed to
defend fleet!.
St. Sebastian is invested, but not so closely but that
'the garrison can come out of the town, and exercise
en the glacis. The besiegers have attempted to hin-
der this, but have been repulsed with loss. The
beery Winery intended for the seige of St. Sebastian
and liaelpeluna begins to arrive. They are fide 42
(ponders, made at Toulouse.
An officer belonging to the hospitals, who arrived yes.
terday from Vittoria, affirms that the hospitals are full,
especially of wounded.
A kind of proclamation has bees lewd by Egnia, to
fix the rate of the French money which is to be current
i■ Spain. It is terminated by an order to the inhabit-
' ants of thwe places in which the French troops may be,
• to supply the markets with previsions at a price which
is to be fixed every morning by the Municipal Author!•
tier. It is to be apprehended that this meant. will
•not have the result experienced from it, for it is the im-
mense profit which they have made that has in-
duced the inhabitants to supply the French. The
Garda du Corps are to leave us today. As an indi-
cation of the expectation that :he war will be of some
duration, it is remarked the great hospitals are
organised on the second line, and that a general
magazine of medicines are going to be formed at Bayonne.
11. Burdon, who hss arrived here, being appointed by the
. King, Intendant General of the Army, has resolved, it is
• • said, an order from the Duke of Angoolema not to go to the
allay, as he will not he received there. It seems difficult
to explain how the will of the King and that of the Prince
can clash.
St. Ander, against which the right wing is marching, will
probably make no resistance,

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Paris papers to the 6t! Instant hare come to band.
The Afonitsar of the sth contains-the following
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
e " Paris, May 5, 1923.
" The advanced guard of General Molitor has advanced
bposs Prigs. The Royalist garrison of Mequinensa has
taken possession of the fort and town of Alcania. Belles-
• teros his retreated from Caltaged apse Roca. Several
. barations of Royalists are organizing at Saragossa."
• This intelligence announces no material change in the
• positions of the armies. It only shews that the French
' continue to extend themselves along the line of the Ebro,
and the Spaniards under Ballesteros, to carry on their
- systematic retreat, inclining, however, a little more than
they have hitherto done towards New Castile. That
the Royalist garrison of Mequinensa, after being relieved
. from their blockade, should be able to occupy undsfend.
, ed places in 4be neighbourhood, is DO matter of wonder
, or of boast; for in proportion as they extend they must
• , - weaken their force. Marshal Moncey, however, has had
,I no occasion to waste his strength by the extent of
I his operations or the rapidity of his progress ; for
s-though it is some lime since be entered Catalonia, where
. be seas expected to strike great and decisive blows be
retains inactive where he was. His bead-quarter are
(
' ...,still.at Pentads. The private correspondence in the
French papers, explains the cause of this inaction. One
.'of the History. slants, it appears, who had formerly been
Z , ' iievernof of Vic rand wished to seduce the inhabitants,
'Ai ter having passed several days on the frontiers, has re-
. turned to Perpignan alarrned,on finding " that the whole
, • ',. petition of Catalonia had risen es masse to oppose the
mien, and that their friends had abandoned them and
*de common cause with the Constitutionalists; but
r. '
,1 l' liatlicet surprised them, and filled up the measure of
•` 'their •estosislrment, was their learning that General Mi-
r
ila, who was said to be almost without troops, was at
Vioh with 9,1100 men ; that Rotten• was at Olot, with
2,000, exclusive of 400 rcen, whom lie bad detached upon
I Campredou; that Lobera commanded at Besaluget and
, Tortola, where he had established himself with 2500 men,
, and that Thins was posted at Estella, Linda, and Het-
i nod& with 5000 men ; in short, that the ci-dennt Go-
( 1, rrnor of Vich despaired of being enabled to fulfil his
L sisiesioo, sad could rot resume his post so easily as was
.'imagined." By this disposition of his forces the skilful
. ' T Commander is enabled not only to cover a vast extent of
country, bat also to alarm the enemy in his position, and
k *. te compel him as it is admitted in these papers, to alter
the arrangements made for the march of troops from one
only tattle other; so that all direct communications be-
' lean Marshal Moncey and the Doke of Angooleme seem
.to be internyted. Another account from Perpignan
. states the forces of itlina, exclasire of the division of
Genes, at 20,000 men, troops of the line. The division
of Milan. was within 6 league and a half of l'ignonet,
which was occupied by the Baron d'Eroles. The Spa-
aish peasants who come from that part of Lampourdan
occupied by the French army state that besides these
troops, this Constitutionalists bare a considerable num.
, her of Guerillas who will be in motion in a few days.
11 Itappeais," adds the letter, "that there was much more
',correctness and exaggeration in the reports respect.
big the spirit which animates all the inhabitants of
Catalonia; the division of d'Eroles which was to bar