Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-22
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I New YORK, May 1873 o'clock. The
elegant new packet ship Leeds, captain
Stoddard, (of the fourth. or Exchange
Line, has Just arrived in the remarkable
quick passage OF % days from Liverpool ,
bringing advices to the 24th OF April, To-
elusive sixteen days later than before re
| ceIved.
We have only time to say, that part oil
the French army had ENTERED SPAIN, and
bad summoned St Sebastian TO surrender
which place resisted, and some Skin
| mishes had taken place. Parnpeluna was
closely invested. The French head quar-
tiers, on the 18th, were at Villa Franco.
l,Nsr. .adu. Office.
| Courier office, London, 3 o'clock.
We have just received BY express from
Paris, the following Geographic iniorma-
! ton:
Paris, April 22 The port and citadel
of Gutsria have been taken by our troops.
Two hundred men, among whom were
TWO colonies and ten other officers, have
be N taken, together with five pieces OF
cannon, and provisions.
II 10 said that the enemy have abau-
doned Burgos since the l4tA. Every
where the French armies meet with the
best reception.
LONDON april 29-City, I2 o'clock
There has been soEe Improvement IN con
suis tins morning. They opened a, e6t e,
and before l2 clock had reached 964 rs.
The huctuation in Spanish bonds has been
great-opening at 325, advancing TO 81
| aud again receded 10 323.
An embargo has been laid ON all the
| Spanish vessels In the ports OF France.
1.-THE folloping zue copy from the Nea7
York. .nercaatiie .ddVeri,ser.
The Duke d'Ansouleme issued the toll
lowing proclamation and order OF The day
previous to the French army entering
| Spain.
| PROCLAMATION.
! "Ihe Duke d Ang0uleme, General IN Chef OF
the army of tie Pyrenee,, to tie opamiards.
6. The King of france, in recalling his am.
bassador from Madrid, had hoped that the Spa
/ nish Government, warned of It's dangers,
! would have returned to more moderate senti-
ments, and would cease to be deaf to the conn-
, sells OF benevolence and reason. Two months
and halt have elapsed, and his Majesty mas
waited in VAIN for the establishment, IN Spain,
OF an order of things COM atlble with the safe
| ty OF the peighboring states.
"T The French Government has supported
two whole years, with unexamPled patience,
the most unmerited provocatlonS The revo-
| lutionary faction, which has destroy ed In your
country the royal authority, which holds your
| king captive, which demands his forfeiture,
which menaces ms lite and that OF his family
has carried heyond your frontier its guilty ef-
! forts. Ii mas tried every means to corrupt the
army of his Most Christian Majesty, and to
| excite troubles IN rance, in the same manner
as it had succeeded by the contagion of its doc
trines and its example, to produce the iEsur.
| rection of Naples and Piedmont. Deceived IN
its hopes, it has invited traitors, condemned by
our tribunals, to consummate, under the pro-
lection of triumphant rebellion, the plots form
ed bv them against their country
"lt is time to put an end of the anarchy
| which tears Spain IN pieces, which deprives
her of the power OF giving peace to her colo
| MES, which separates her from Europe. which
has interrupted all her relations with the august
J Sovereigns whom the same intentions and the
same wishes unite with his Most Christian Ma.
jestv, and which compromise the repoSe and
the interests of France.
Spanards France is not at war with
your country: sprung from the same blood
with your kings, can only desire your lnde'
pendence, your happiness, and your glory
! am about to cross the Pyrenees at the head OF a
| hundl ed thousand Frenchmen, but 1t Is to sup
port the Spaniards who are the friends of order
| and the laws; to aid them to hberate their cap
| tive king, to raise again the altar and the
throne; to rescue the priesthood from pro-
scription, men of property from spoiation,
| and the whole nation from the domination of a
few ambitious persons, who, in proclaming
liberty, prepare only the slavery and ruin OF
Spain.
"spaniards Every thing will be done for
| YOU and with YOU; the French are and will
only be your auxilarics. Your standard alone
shall wave on YOUR cities. rbe provinces ira
versed by our soldiers shall be administered, IN
I the name of Ferdinand, by Spanish authori-
ties, The most severe discipline shall be OBJ.
served. Whatever is required for the use OF the
army shall be paid for with the most religious
| exactness We pretend not to impose laws on
| you, or to occupy your country. We WISH
! nothing but your deli"erance, when we shall
| have obtained it, we shall return to our coun-
! try, happy in having preserved generous
people from the calamties generated by a revo-
, luton, and which experience has taught US but
| too well to appreciate.
"Tiead quarters of Bayonne, April :, 1928.
Louis ANTOINE"
"By his Noval iIighness the Prince General
! in Chief, the Counsellor Of State, Civil Com
! missioner OF MS most Christian Majesty.
ODE MARriGNAC."
ARMY OF THE PYRENNEES.
| oeptR or rHE DAY.
s.eoidiers! he con Adence of the King has
placed me at your head, in order to fulfil the
noblest of missions. Il is not the spirit OF con-
quest watch has made US take up arms, more
! genecuus motive animates us: we are going to
/ place king n ms throne, to reconcile his