Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1823-08-02

I NV YORK. July %.
The ship Mentor. Capt. Brown. ar
rived at tiis port last evening in a5
days from Livcrpool. By this arGi-
val the Editors of The Commercial
Advertiser have received !.cn;ion an'i
liverpool adyires. the formcr to tho
i2th and the latter TO the l4ih OF
June. 4 summary Of their contents,
AID sunday extracts will be found be-
loss.
FrANCE AND SPAIN.
The accounts from The Peninsula
arr as vague. contradictory. and un-
certain "a ever. The Paris papers Of
the Liberal side, complain very much
of the few and " laconic" Official let
ters received from their troops in
Spain. The Information they obtain
from them is so unsatisfactory that it
is of'cn difficult, and sometimes i'm
possible. 20 form any i'lca of the actu-
III state of things among them. As to
The cunning aud I'm iiScorcrable Nina.
there appears 10 be very grOd reason
for the want Of correct information
cunCer ing him. and Lis troops. for he
elLdcs his pursucrs, il. Catalonia, in
the most Surprising manner ; and IL
those on the spot cannot ascertain bis
motions, or understand on battle his
designs, il would certainly be a diff
cult matter for either Paris, London.
or American Editors to speak of him
with any degree Of certainty. One
ting may he depended on. With a
small! force. comparatively speaking.
he has IL nUuvrcd in a manner
thar has prevented the advance of the
whole left wing ofth invading army.
amounting to 10000 men And ii is
now stated that Marshal Money has
demanded Il reinforcement Cf 5000
m"n, who were on their march for
France, together with 1900 men, to
reinforce the Duke d'hn@0ulcmc
Tine immediate effect Of AhisbaI's
detection has hardly been prrccivahlc
upon thc Constitutional troops, & has
probably disappointed the expectations
of the friends to the French cause. 1t
is said that his famous correspondence
with M0ntliO was sent to the COmman-
dantS of t. Sebastian and Panpelu.
n9, to excite them To revolt, bat with
on effect; although Col. O'B0nnel, a
brother Of Abisbal. il iii command at
the former place. Indeed the exam
pie seems to have been entirely with
0at effect and Abisbal has received
the reward of a solitary ard useless
dcscrte--a mnas ire Of Indifference
not easily To be distinguished from
Contempt.
The Paris papeGs Of the 1th assert.
that theVo WIS an extremely stormy
sitting in nc Ccries at Seville on the
Esd Of Nay, III which proposition for
transferring the government and the
King out Oftho continent, was reject
ed by majority Of eight votes, and
the departure for Cadiz dccrccd al
most unanimously. The courier con
firms this statement, and trumphs o.
vcr il is "a fu!flment Of one of It's for
Nor predictions. 1t will be perceived
from the foregoing, that there are four
circumstances that Look favorable to
the cause of Spain: lst the peculiar
anH mastery gcneralship Of Nina
cd. The cali Of the From rcin(or~c
NOUS. Sd. The disappointment il
respect to the detection Of AbisbaI.-
9Th The resolution of the Cortcs We
to hold out. and remove the King and
government TO { adiz. 4 fcttcr from
P4rs, of the 9th Ct jan, stated tina
reports without end were in circula-
ton. and it was said tho gpyernmrn'
h. received dispatches respecting he
operations Of the army of Catal,ni2.
of very different character to Whit
was expected.
On the other hand, from The French
oiiri.I accounts. and from the unoii-
Gil letters Published in the ultra roy
alist papers, it would appear that thu
light Of freedom is rapidly yicldiugt I,
The darkness and gloon Of dcspotism
The Paris Etoilc Of 'hc eth. repre-
scnIs every thing at Seville ~ in tI.,
utmost confusion, and that the people
had declared Themselves Loudly IN f.
ror Of tho King. and that the inhahi
ANS Of Cadiz had declared tiiat thcy
woId neither receive the King nor
,hc tortcs. The editor ADDS, {" The
srtatcsi confusion prevails among tie
Sephcls o. the govCrnm 1T, Vh;tli is
RAPIDLY drawing to a dose. All tie
cities are sending in their Submission
to TIE Regency. NaVarrc, tie two
Castles, he Kingdom Na'oncil {.
roledo. have acknowledged tn GOV