The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-21 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

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(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE PROM THE COMMIT-
TIONNIL.)
PERPIGNAN, MAT W.—General Donnadien entered
Vich on the 6th. after merely a slight skirmish in the
wood of Tosca, between Olot and Laspresas, where we
had about 30 wounded.

The enemy continuing their retreat, they have passed
the bridge of Roda over the Ter. have abandoned the
left bank of that river, and retired upon the Llusanes.—
When General Doanadieu entered Vich, the enemy de.
tached 4,000 meu from their army, who reaseended the
right bank of the Ter, and having marehe4 by the road
of Vich to Ripoll, they arrived on the Bth at Campredon
a town three leagues from our frontiers, in Order to cut
off war c trumunications with that place, from whence
General Donnadicu draws all his supplies of provisions
and ammunition.

The entrance of this corps into tampredon was an-
nounced by the sudden and unexpected arrival of tue
same Monks, who on the 4th, at six in the morning
went forth to the sound of music to proceed to their re-
spective convents,and take possession of their estates and
benefices. The arrival of the enemy at Ripoll i; further
confirmed, by the way of teed:lgoe. On the 7th the in-
habitants of Ripoll fled to Cerdagne, announcing the ar-
rival of the army of Min sin their town. The whole of
the following night the tro Ts were under arms, ex-
pecting every moment to see the troops of Mill arrive
but, it appears to be the object of that lieneral to occupy
tampredon, and cut off the communications of Otner tl
Donnadieu. A cansiderahli convoy, which had set out
for Olot, returned to Pradts on the 6th, at half-p ist one,
in the afternoon.

We kn3a, n athing of the ulterior operations of these
two corps. We only know, that on the 9th General Don-
' ma:lieu sent orders to the 3d battalion of the 19th line,
which was at St. Laurent de Cerduns, to corer that part
of oar frontier; and to proceed in consequence to Olot ;
the battalion set out on the 9th. The enemy do not seem
much disconcerted by our entrance into Catalonia; and
those of their partisans who remain in the villages which
we occupy appear well satisfied with the operations of
Mina. The soldiers of the division of d'Eroles, who
remain in Cerdagne, des-rt every day, with arms and
baggage. The Officers of the F;ith pretend that it is
becatt-e they are not paid, their treasure having followed
the he'd-quarters of the Baron d'Eroles, there o as no one
left in Catalonia to pay the troops of the Faith.
BAYONNI, MAY 11.-.-We know from travellers that
the Constitutional government of Spain has prohibit' al
from the Ist instant, all commitnic ation with those parts
of the country occupied by the French. It is very true,
I repeat it, that on the approach of our troops* the greater'
number of families in easy circumstances tale flight.—
Segovia was evacuated five days ago, with the excep-1
final of some field-pieces, which th cleves of the school
of artillery there are to convey to Rodrigo. All the ma-
teriel was abandoned fur want of the means of convey.
mace. Madrid is almost deserted, nearly every one hav-
ing left it for the Andalnsias. The roads are encumber-
ed with emigrasts, carrying with them their most valua-
ble effects. There is no defection amongst the troops,
the troops, nor do the bands of the Faith increase. The
occupation of the capital has been fan-seen, and no person
appears alarmed about it. The necessity has begun to be
felt of escorting the convoys, from its being known with
cerainty that several Constitutional guerillas are focusing
in the provinces.
We know that the prisoners, GO ie nnmber, made at
thrall:tie of. Logrono, have arrived at Vittoria. Useless
efforts have been made to incorporate them with the
Army of the Faith ; they have all refused with great
energy, declaring that. they would lather be allot.
PARIS, MAY N.—The ri port which has been circu-
lated of the complete defeat of the Spanish Royalist
Corps, comnetnaled by Routaeosa, consisting of 2,1100
men, by Mina, who unexpectedly arrived, assumed more
consistecce yesterday. It is said that the plan of Mina
was to attack the two divisions of Eroles and Romagosa,
for the purpase of dispersing them before cowing into
cont act with the French army.
The Aturmal de Toulomse of the 12th instant, 'pores a
letter from Perpignan of the 7th, containing the follow-
ing pssssces:
" I'he 19:11 Regiment of Infantry of the line, which !
has arrived here, about 1,300 strong, which was to pro-
ceed towards Pisycertia, has received orders to march
to-morrow morning for Spain, by the way of lief-
iegartle ; one battalion is about to proceed to Gerona,
another to Alfa 'and a third to Jonquere. This regiment ap-
pears to be destined to protect the convoys which may be dis-
turbed by the Guerillas left by Mica in tne quarter ofOlot. It
is report,:g that the French Gorman !ant of Figueras sent
the day before yesterday a flag of truce to the Governor of
the fort to induce him not to Are upon the town %bleb lie had
damaged, threatening that when the garrison should be com-
pelled to surrender, they should be treated with rigour, if
this practice was continued. The Governor received the
flag of truce, look notice of the object of tae mission, but an
far from agreeing to the request, he had no sooner seat off
the flag of truce than he issued orders to fire."

A Fre'cli writer, accnvoined to the perusal of our
English newspapers, and not being aware thatt lie want
of room for the insertion of police intelligence dcring the
Session of Parliament, lawn the debates excite so much
interest, and occupy so much space, occasioned their being
for the greater put °milted, draws from this cireorn•
stance a conclusion not unnatural in a foreigner, and tell
his readers, tint " Such is the respect of the English for
their Parliament, and in ;Treat the benefit of its snperin-
tebdence, that while it is sit ing, crimes are extremely
rare; h it as soon as it rises, the papers are tilled with ac-
counts of the most horrible atrocities."

The srokrmen employed in laying flown the iron pipes
for the purpose of drawing off the water out of the canal
in St. James's park, for the purpose of cleansing out the
dirt that has so long choked it up, found, in digging up
the ground in the passage leading to IVhitelsall•stairs,
several human bones, which must have been buried for a
creat nunibtr of years. The water is to run into the
Thames at the above stairs, and report states that a
hand some Bridge is to be erected over the Canal in
the P.iwk, on the same spot that the old wooden struc-
ture stood.

As it has come to our knowledge that the ship George
Canning, of Liverpool, Mr. Liu urge burster, master, has
not reaihed her destination, boaresard.hounil from the
coast of Africa, and is supposed to have foundered, we
ewe, for the information of lice owners end the friends
and relatives of those on board, that she was hoarded by
his Majesty's ship Cyrene, commanded by Capt. Percy
(irate, un the 19th of September, b 22, inlet. 14. 33. N.,
lung. 19. 55. W., who put on board of her, for a convey-
ance to England, a large packet of letters, which were
left for that purpose at Porto Praya, in the island of St.
Jago, by the Sir Edward Paget East Indianian, with Mr.
Samuel nudges, the rely obliging. and respectable cmt.
sul from the United States of America. The George
Canning was deeply laden with a valeahle cargo of palm
oil, ivory, Sac., was very healthy, and had been about
eight weeks from Prince's Id and. A similar fate is sup-
posed to have attended the Windermere, of Liverpool,
which left Prince's Island late in November, and whose
, Eroomen found a conveyance to this port on board his
Majesty's ship Cyrene.---(Nicrra Lcone .I.lccras,r,
Mach I.)

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