Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-11-11
LATEST FROM FRANCE

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By the arrival Of the ship O,heIlo can,
Cook, in "a days from Bordeaux. the ed;'
tors of The New York Daily Adyert,ss,
have received paper published in tb,,
city on the 26lh OF Sept. which CONTAIN.
nothing new from Spain except an accom-,
OF the destruction OF the corps of Copsh.
tutionalisls which left Barcelona on tho
10th, and alter landing at Monlgard, narcL.
ed into the country. According ia tho
Bordeaux paper they directed their cours.
through Ms0tague San Geronimo DE- Beso,
and Oh Malaga, their object being 10 throw
supplies OF provisions into liUstiIrcb and
Figuieres. They were soon pursued by
1900 French troops taken from the block.
AIDE OF Barcelona; while the tocsin va,
sounded in all the seghboring towns and
villages. and 5000 men was soon raised
and on their march.
The Constitutional column va. com.
handed by Fernandez, former governor
OF Cardona when Col. S,gunra made his
submission. Near F'guiere., between
Llers and LladoD. they encountered The
troops of the division of Damas from Vich,
! aaa 1eSe ga. o& ssh .sssikJIs ssausaaef,
2OOO prisoners are Ell eCted TO arrive a,
PerpignaD OIL the Goth, 2lst and s2d -
Among the Constitutional officers killed
was Frenchman from Lyons; & one from
| Mines was taken among the wounded.
The French appear to have uttered
considerable loss; aud they speak OF The
victory as an important one, Tor Tears were
| for time entertained that their own terri.
tory would be invaded and after the bat.
tie, expresses were sent to Paris with The
news.
From Manmslo the Consti,utionalss
took the road TO San Ceoni, where they
demanded 1900 rstions. and then pro.
ceeded on towards Vich On the 18Th
they encamped al Roda and Maulleau, Two
leagues from VIcb; but before hey arnv.
ed at the plain OF that city, they had 10
sustain heavy fire; General Rsstguac
having posted himself on bat road. A
bout 500 horse and 8ooo French inian'sy
passed Arbucias, and on the 9Th they
were in sight Of the enemy In the MORN
ing OF the l4lh, the French troops which
were al Chrome. marched out to meet the
enemy; and the 18th and 18th the CoDsli.
luIIOiidllstS "clS utSu'1cu
Account. from Passage say that the num-
Der OF sick has much diminished, and that
the vessel which introduced il, has been
burnt.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
The captain OF vessel which arrived
at Providence on Tuesday last, from The
Mediterranean, states that when b. pass
ed Gibraltar on the 25lh Sept he heard a
fir ng from the Sp .ni>h ships in the Bay,
and C. u,a and TarIfa, supposed in conse-
quence of some h'ora e accounts from
The Spanish armies Accounts were re.
ceived at Ivtca from AI,cant the day be-
fore he sail.d, hit the Spaniards had been
successful in several actions, and that
1900 French troops had deserted 10 the
Spaniards in one day.
The following remarks by the editors OF the
London Courier, on the 22d of September,
will be read with interest.
The war in Spain is now approaching
one Of those stages Of it's progress when
there will, necessarily, arise pause,
breathing time, for considering the fu-
ture. We will assume that Cadiz must
surrender. that the cortes will disperse,
that the King and Royal family will Do
set at liberty, and that Ferdinand VII
be reinstated upon his throne in Mad-
rid, but even then, will any rejecting
man say, that the accomplishment OF
these things will prove the accomplish
Dent OF that for which the war was un-
dertskenp Is it not, on the contrary.
quite obvious that, As far as concerns
the tranquility Of the Peninsula, every
thing will remain to be doneo And tho
difficult question that thence arises -
how this important remainder can %
broug ht about.
Our own opinion is, that although
Spain is not sufficiently advanced in her
political and moral condition. to use'
for ANY really practical good. that large
and liberal boon which her fahatlcalps'
triots threw to her in 1920, yet, on tho
other hand, she is much too far advan-
ced to re.rograde to what she was. IL
is now sixteen or seventeen years. since
she was ronsed from that inglor'ou' le'
thargy. that state of mental stagna,'o":.
which sunk her 90 low in the scale Of
European Powers, that statesmen
scarcely asked themselves what Spah
might think or do in any possible crisis
Of public affairs. During this period