Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-09-25
THREE DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.
NEM-YoRK. Sept Is

NEw- YoRx, Sept Is
BY the arrival this forenoon of the
regular packet ship William Thomp-
son, we have received our regular files
If the London Morning Chronicle and
Courier to the evening of the Both OF
July inclusive; also, the Liverpool
Mercury OF the LIST August
France aud .Spain.--The most i'm
portant article of intelligence brought
by this arrival, is confirmation ofthc
report conveyed through the last Paris
papers, that the French had srith
draion their troops before Corunna,
and yetreuted, although the direction
taken by General Bourck and his dis
comiited troops was not known at the
time. Il was thought not improbable
that the enemy would retire into the
Aslurias to reinforce themselves by the
troops of General Huber, which, &C
cordlng 10 the latest accounts, were adj.
vancing in that line. But in no direc,
ton whatever, could a retreat be ef.
fected without great loss, and, per.
haps, total destruction; as the Span
iards, in consequence OF the happy
turn which their affairs had taken at
Corunna, were every where in mo
lion, harassing the invaders in their
disgraceful flight The attack on that
city was the result of the treason of
Morilc, who had persuadedthe French
generals that a rapid and bold attack
might put an end to the war in Call
cia.
Events have shewn how much this
enemy to his country was mistaken,
and that, instead of the province which
he aimed at subjecting to foreigners,
being placed in that degraded state, his
plans bad terminated in its being again
freed from the enemy. Every thing
had been suppressed in the Paris pa
pers respecting the disasters of the ar
my ia this quarter, except the account
of the first attack, which compelled
the Spaniards to retire witbinthe walls,
and in which the French had nothing
to boast OF. The truth, however, bad,
in some measure, transplred, and so
generally was defeat OF their army
believed in the French capital, that
fall had taken place in the funds.
Advices from Corursaa to the 22d
July positively state, that, after the re-
treat of the French, Sir Robert Will
son proceeded to Vigo, to make pre-
parations to give the French warm
reception, as they were expected to
make another attack on that side. The
defenders of Corunna had determined
to follow up their successes. A letter
from Bayonne, daled the ED July,
contains a number OF details respect
ing the operations of the constitutional
guerillas, from which it appears that
they were increasing in activity Cha
LEGO, one of their intrepid leaders, had
actually surprised Aranjuez, only %
miles from Madrid, aud carried of the
entire garrison; and the Empecinado
had entered Vittoria and Valladolid,
and released number of patriots who
were imprisoned at these places.
The late fire at Madrid is said by
the royalsts at Paris to have been the
result of plot of the Liberals to des
troy the Duke d'Angouleme, while
the Liberals accuse the Regency OF
having contrived the scheme for the
purpose OF laying violent hands onall
suspected persons. 1t is also SAID IN
the Etoile, that the people OF Madrid
wished TO massacre all that protested
opinions contrary to loyalty, but that
this was prevented by the Royal Duke.
The Greeks -Accordingto the la
test accounts received in London, the
Greeks were fully justifying the sym
pathy which had been excited for their
cause in England, by preparing and
opposing every possible resistance to
their oppressors.
Late and Important from Cadiz.
New YoRK, Sept, IL.
The following are extracts of let
ter from Cadiz. written by Spanish
gentleman, formerly resident here, to
respectable commercial house IN this
city. 1t contains not only the latest
intelligence from Cadiz, but the &C
count which ii gives of Spanish affairs
generally is most exhilirating and July
corroborates all that we have said OF
this interesting subject. 1t will be
IT.. os.xnte had heeu received
At Cadiz on the lst August, Of the adj