American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-03-25
From the London Morning Chronicle.

;. From the london Morning Chronicle.
| q Thus then the sword is fairly unsheahed. One
of the most unprovoked aggressions the ~of'u ever
witnessed is about to be committed against inc
Peninsula.
| :" We hone for the best 1t would i'll become US,
however, with our imperfect information as 20 .ne
state OF things in France, to pronounce no" lar 'he
French army is or is not 10 be relied on IN t's IN
| holy and unprincped attempt. We would ram per,
susde ourselves that the brave Spaniards WIZ mo
brethren instead of enemies in its ranks and that the
arms commissioned to rivet the chains oil the Pen
nsula may aid in storing France itself to liberty
| Speaking OF Louis the 9Th, Paris correspon'
dent Of the Morning Chronicle, makes the follow
ing observations
+" A glorious opportunity now presents itself OF
making some small atonement tor the. incaculaoe
mseries which his l-iaed family has entailed upon
Europe. He should reflect that the three Kingdoms
submitted to their sceptIe, France, Spain, aud Ma
pes have Tor ages been VIGOROUSLY the worst gov
erned in Europe-that in the former their prohtga-
cy and misrule generated the Revolution with all Its
horrors, while he himself was only restored to the
throne of his ancestors by two bloody invasons oil
his native country that IN Naples the King, after
swearing to the new Constitution, came back at the
head of an Austrian army to massacre his own sub
ects, and has ever since been gorging the axe and
Cutting the gibbet with the blood OF his best cti-
zens that in Spain, after the whole country had
devastated for years. and bed at every pore, tor
tho re-establishment ofa third Bourbon it was again
enslaved, oppressed and TOT nented with hldeous
ingratitude Of which history, so fruitful in royal
crimes, offers no parallel"
During the late wars in Europe, says the Balt-
more Federal Gazette, the London Times newspa-
Der remarkable for the extent and general accu
racy OF its military intelligence, we are therefore
more inclined to pay attention 10 the following:
From the London Times.
French Army Of ObSprration.--An officer who
crossed the Spanish frontier so recently as the 18th
ut. has communicated TO statement of the force
OF the French army stationed on the Pyrenees be-
tween Bayonne and Perpignan. Our informant had
the means OF forming an accurate Judgment, for he
had passed along the whole ine.-T here elgh-
teen regiments oil infantry, consisting each OF 000
10 1900 men ; two squadrons OF horse artillery of
zoo men each regiment o. loot artillery OF
600 men and five regiments OF horse chasseurs OF
500 men each in al about $4,000 men, The staff
OF this army IS very numerous and mdfprip con
siderable but it is far from being we'll disposed
the service on which it is at resent employed, ano
,till less to that future destination which has be-
marked out for 1t by the faction in Paris. The
devotion of the cavalry, il understood, may BIZ re
lied on, but that of the artillery is extremely doub
ful while among the ranks OF the infantry the a
der TO march into Spain would, in the opinion of on
informant, bring Sc ous dsaffectIon. Yet thl,
is 10 be the instrument Of eifecting that which
10000 Of Bonapartes best soldiers failed 10 accom-
plish.