Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-09-19

wards at Gibraltar, when they were Kissed on, |
of the Garrison by the Spaniards residing at
the place with Yive la Constitution.
| Sunday, July the eth.
with pleasure inform you that BODY nf |
Constitutional troops landed last night from |
Ceuta. and this morning attacked ST. ROGUE.
killed 80 Royalists and retook the town. Ii is |
stated that Sir Robert Wilson has arrived at
the vicinity of this place with body of troops
to aid the ConsttutIonalists." Phil. Press.
Among the inventions (says the New York
Evening POST which the French ministerial
journals have found il necessary to resort to.
for the purpose of keeping up the deluson as
to the affairs of Spain, we had recently a sto-
ry put in circulation at Paris about the defec-
ton oi Ballasteros, and his having gone over
with ms army tn the enemy. The Cadiz pa
pers, aliudnS to this calunny, remind the pub
lie that 1t was sufficient To know Ballasteros
was patriot that he had many good troops,
and that, when government was silent respect
ing his movements, this course had been a.
dopted from policy, and to insure the dscom-
iiture oil the beslegers by other generals who
had been specially appointed To watch the
motions of the enemy in the neighbourhood
OF Cadiz. Accounts from Grenada represent
Generals Ballasteros, Zayas, Monchaca, LaI-
lemand, and Villa Campo, to have been at
that place on the 18th July, with $4,000 dis
possible troops under their command, all anx
ious TO fight the perfdious invaders On the
18th an officer had arrived at Cadiz, with ac-
counts OF this army being in motion. 1t is no
way improbable, therefore, that the concentr;-
ton OF this force so near the French armesin
Andalusa, may have induced the latter to
Withdraw from the neighborhood of Cadiz, in
order to take upa more favorable position in
the event OF an attack, and that this NAV have
ieu 10 general engagement, as was reported
at Gibraltar on the authority of a private lei
ter from Ronda, dated the Sd August, and in
winch 1t was said that " the slaughter in this
obstinate engagement was great, and the
wounded so numerous, that there was difficult
ty IN finding room for them in Jaen. Still
if such battle had taken place the distance
between Jaen, the scene Of action. and Gibraltar
Is so small, that something of more authentic
nature than mere report must have reached
latterq place before the Trimmer sailed
The engagement must have been fought about
the LIST OF August, the despatch respectina il
said TO have been received al Ronda, being
dated on the Sd. Now Jaen is not a hundred
miles distant from Gibraltar, and yet nene dIys
subsequent tn the pretended defeat of ,Ilas-
teros, nothing of this was known at that
place beyond mere rumour.
Official reports had been received at CadiZ
from the governors of Granada, Barcelona,
Iarragona, and Lrrida, in which they stale
That . their respective provinces labor under
the same evils which afflict all those of unfor
tunate Spain, in which clerical influence and
foreign gold have introduced discard, and arm
ed the towns against each other" At Malaga
and Granada different spirit prevailed
New YORK, September II by the arrival al this
por, last evening, OF the ship Porosi from Gibraar
we are informed thai the u. S frgaie Congress,
with Mr.. Nelson board returned TO Gibraltar on
inc 2Hh July, having been refused ADMISSION into
Cadiz by the French Blockading squadron
ms intelligence is certainly unexpected 10 us
knowing as we do personally Captain Biddlc we
nave the hrmesi conviction that, If not withheld 10y
TIE opinion OF Mr. Nelson, (who, in APPOINT involving
question of international law, would under the
circumstances have been authorized nj least to AL
wise, II not to control Captain BIddIcl he would have
.o,ceu ms way INTO Cadiz or, II superior force
rendered thar attempt hopeless, have struck his
Nag To the French commander. The condition
indeed, ot the French blockadng force, with regard
10 neutials, is very peculiar. France has declared
mat she was not AT war with Spain she has scrupu-
Ionsly ahsained from The exercise of the Ordinary
rights of war against Spanish commerce no deca-
ration OF war mas ever been formally made bv
france and communicated is usual, Ia fnreign
nations IN amity with her: huw them having per-
formed no one of the acts by which the condition of
beilgerent IS ordinarily made known and establish
ed can she exercise towards neuiras those rights
which belong only TO belligcreni How. when sin
absaims from hostility against the peaceful aag of The
nation, whose King she affects he in alliance with
but whose subjects she is destroying she he jus.
tined IN acts OF rgor towards the Gag, TOO by
national ship of neuirals
hese are questions, which are persuaded Capt
| Bddle, IL left to himself would have resolved verv
summarily but which, matters have iurGcd out
must he the subjects of discussion between the 90
vernmens OF France and the United States. Ii IS az
all tines An odious exercise OF the rights of war;
declai ed and made after the usual formniics 10 in
teriere with the object of an embassy it becomes
much more so when the party interfering is in 50
questionable shape the French now stand in with
respect TO neuTrals.
Sir VIM A'Courr who had embarked At St. Lucar,
had also arrived ia al English irgaIe Gibraltar he
could not however, have been turned off, as some
morning papers Is represented from Cadiz for he |
as appears by the French papers, had no inleniiun
OF going there his destination, when he embarked,
being for Gibraltar
The Polosi sailed or the lst OF August and on the
"a firing was heard during The dIy and evening.
| which was supposed TO be al Csdiz .3merican
! u The Congress had left Gibraltar Tor Buenos
Ayfes, having taken Mr. Rodney on board.
| Among the subscriptions which have heen made
by the patriotic citizens OF Havana 10 enable Soain n
support the war which is present wlged aeains,
her by France, we observe, besides liberal sums of
money. the following, which go TO show the attach
ment Of the people of Cuba TO The mother country
and go the Constitutional sysiem:--
| " Don Francisco Garay offers to maintain COM
pqHy Of soldiers during The present war
Don Laureano Miranda offers maiatain sol
dier during the
"Don Francisco Perez dc Urea offers to maintain
q soldier during the war"
The evening before the Alorzo sailed plot which
had been formed by gang of the Havana de suer,-
does off the schooner Scott, of Phndeinl,,
living ~ the harbor Of Havana was discovered nv ,I
captain and consgnee Of the schooner On urrl;
cation to the General of Marines - guard of soldiers
was placed on board. During The night some boats
approached the vessel. but il was sufposed Ibev IL |
| covered the quad on board and made off
Bait. .HmericaH.