Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-08-22


in the following terms
{" By the team-ship Real Jorge, (Royal
George) $50 muskets have been sent To Co
funna To- hs disposed of bv Gen. Wilson in
the following manner-l20 for the company
of grenadiprs under the command of this gem
erai. and 400 to be placed at the disposal of
the provincial drputaiion. These arms have
been sent Ia you by the society of voluntary
subscriptions, which has been formed in this
place 20 assist the patriotic cause of Spain
! They also send $40 cartridge boxes to the
| provincial deputatl0u, and, en- another occa-
sion, they will forward To YOU 500 steel hell
NETS and 500 kuapsacks for the soldiers"
The public must receive tins information
with satisfaction, aud the most incredulous
must now be convinced that our hopes were
NOT untounded when we expected the people
l0f England would take an active part in sup
port of the Just cause which we defend. We
announce at the same time that the steam
vessel has arrived at Corunna.
General Wilson has sent letters of consider
able importance To- England by his aid Capt.
Erskine, who embarked yesterday in the En-
| giisi Packet. This generous man reposes
not a moment in his endeavors to procure as
sistance to the Spaniards and by this means
strengthens the evidence that we are really
worthy of being free.
| J,tne 2O.-EXtract ola letter.-rhe French
for EstIemadura have reached WruxilO, and
those for LA Nancha have established them
selves in Manzancres both columns are ac-
cOmpanied with corresponding corps of the
hctiuus. 1t is said they directed their march
upon Andaiusia, but the nalionai troops re
treated simultaneously upon the approach, for
| IN" purpose demonstrating their forces. Bal
esteros had arrived Ia take command of these
troops, which formed an army of forty thons-
! and H.,
of two thousand men under the command OF
the Marquis of Castuidorius. Lopez Banos has
now taken the command of the army in Es-
! fremadurn.
! The accounts by tins arrival, and several
others, repeat the information before received
NJ Havana, and published in our paper, of Mi
ma having defeated DOnnadieu and Money,
with great loss on their part.
| private letter oCthe 18th June, mentioning
this affair says that Donnadleu with 10000
men, had been cut to pieces bv Nina, who
mad also attacked Money at Mataro and de
ieated him. The head quarters of Balaste-
rns gre said to be at Cuenca and his ad,anc-
ed posts at SiSuenza his force is stated at
| 10 or II 900 men.
! letter from Barcelona repeats the account
OF Nina having taken 100000 francs from
the enemy-and says he is secure in the
Mountains.
| The garrisons Of s., Sebastian and Santona.
contaln each $500 men.--The garrison al St
Sebastian had made two salH,s and DESTROYED
a considerable number of the factious of Viz
caya.
The Steam Ship from England arrived on
The 18th June, in 80 hours from Falmouih
with the mails for that place, Lisbon and Ca
dZ. One vessel had sailed from England with
provisions FDr Sant0na, aud another had ar
rived thence N Viso with $500 mu skrts.
We also have accounts from Mexico &c tn,
9Th July. conference had been held be-
tween ID. Guadalupe Victoria, on the part o
the Mexican government, and ID. Juan Ramon
Oses anu ID. Santiago lra7ina, commissioners
from Old Spain, for Tie purpose of forming a
treaty between the two governments. At the
last conference the Mexican representative in
formed them that IN order to leave in clear
point OF view, the business relative TO the in
teresIinE commission in which they had been
eng Sed, he wished the Spanish commissioner.
expressly 10 state what were their views upon
me formation of provisional agreement o
commerce, lis conditions, and the time i
should last. The commissioners replied, tina
= III virtue of the powers with which they wer,
invested by their government, they were dis
posed TO form and conclude, Professionally
special treaties of commerce under the cOndi
lions which may be stipulated for the beneit
of both parties
In order that the commercial relations may
not be interrupted, until the desired concilla
ton be arranged by frank and friendly com
| tnnications between the two governments,
Victoria stated that for his part, he was willing
To agree 10 The same the duration To be settled
by the Mexican Congress One of the pro
positions submitted by the commissioners
went To allow modified Independence of
Mexico. Nothing however was finally decided
on at that meeting by the Representatives OF
either power
Captain Pearson states that the French in
habittnts in and near Malanzas, are much
/ dsquieted from the unsettled affairs of the
Island
BALrIMoRE, Aug. 19.-The brig Octarius
! Parker, arrived at this port yesterday in II
days from Kingston, Jamaica. Capt. r. in
ilrms that the u. States schooners Beagle and
| Greyhound had returned from "A cruize on the
Goth July from the south side Of Cuba thew
reported that on the 21st If July, near Cape
/ Cruz, on accommodating the Shore with THEN
bodIs, they were fired on by a party of pirates,
about forty IN uumber-the boats reiterated to
/ lhe sch0oners aud towed them in, for the pur.
/ pose of covering their landing, in which they
succeeded, and carried battery the pirates
had erected ON shore OF three pieces Of can
/ n0n-ihe pirates had eight large launches.
Fur OF which were observation-disclosures Of the
pirates were taken, as they took 90 The Man
I grove bushes, but a number are supposed 10
| nave been killed and wounded in their fight.
tfed. Rep.
From oar Correspondent