The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-06-06
rrom the New York pnily Advertise

r,nr the summer III this city.
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From the New York Daily Advertiser
.Skirrlishing. Several letters have been
received in this city by the Elizabeth, dated
the 21st April, from respectable houses in
uavre, which state that ad,ices were re-
ceiyed there mot published in the French
papcrs) of several attacks having been
made by detaehments OF French troops on
The Spaniards before Pampeluna, in which
the former had met with very serious los
Ses.
.Narroic escdpc.-In the first attack of the
French on the fortress of ST. Sebastian,
the soldiers are said TO have distinguished
themselves To such degree, that the
Duke dAngouleIne distributed crosses Of
honor TO them with his own hands. The
Spaniards having observed him from their
fort, ordered forward 81 FOUNDER. but
they were so slow in mounting il that the
Duke had Time 10 leave the ground
When fired off, the ball passed through
house, and struck a platoon precisely on
the spot where the Duke had been dlstr-
buting his decorations, and killed and
wounded fifteen men.
The Chancellor OF the Exchcquer ADVERT
sers in the London Courier, the receipt of
letter enclosing Bank of England Note
No. 8,6o2) for SO pounds, which he says
will be placed TO the credit of the pubic,
according to the desiie of the writer.
The period that has elapsed since Bona
parte was driven the second time from the
throne of France, says the London Times,
has been so filled up with treaties, declara-
tions, and acts nf Congress, that it would
he difficult for any historian 10 reduce the
whole of them to perspicuous aud CON
sislcnt narrative. We have, we believe,
extracted accurately those parts of them
which relate to England, and can be az
snmed rs fit To regulate our conduct ut thu.
present crisis. Indeed, we believe if must
be admitted as a general position, that all
the diplomatic acts that related to the pr,-
teclIon OF France were only meant to pro-
feet her, at least SO far as our interference
was concerned, against the return of Do-
naparte, and that she has virtually dis DIV
ed them all by standing forth as snhslan.
five power, and making war upon another
nation and that nation the friend, w,
might almost say the ally, of England. -
Ii was under the present constitution of
Spain, that we fought side by side with
Spaniards, and drove the troops ofthc then
peridlous and sanguinary ruler of France
from the Peninsula. Ii is under The same
constitution and by the side of the same
brave allies, that we might now, it WE
pleased, and without any violation OF trea-
iy, re-cornmence the war, in order 10 ex-
pei Invaders, no less treachcrUus, unjust,
and cruel.
PYRENEAN MOUNTAtNS.-As
these mountains are about becoming once
more the seat of European war, the follow
: ing short description OF them may not he
uninieresting To some Of our readers
This prodigious range of mountains
extends from the Atlantic to the Mediter.
ranean, distance OF twu hundred miles,
and many parts Of them are one hundred
miles in width. The first and greatest is
that which Joseph Bonaparte tuuk an his
Route from Bayunne to Madrid. This
road for about % leagues, lies through
the Pyrenecs. The second pass is from
PerpiSnan 10 Barcelona, distance of so
T,lles through the mountains, where in ma
Nay arrest the march of an army, and
1here neither houses, PROVISIONS, nor ac-
commodations can be found. The third
pass leads from Bayonne to Pampeluna,
the capital of Navarro this difficult defile
is only passahe between the months of
May and October. The fourth road is
that which leads from Terhes, in Bigoree,
10 Saragossa. Ii Is a tract merely per, ious
Ia muleteers during the summer, but in
winter the wolves and SHOWS render it to-
tally impossible.
There are nearly sixty other narrow
passes, called openings, most Of which are
ragged, intricate, aud hardly passahe for
laden beasts, and even ttosc are frequently
blocked up with SNOW"
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NJ. Chateanbriand is the chief spikes
man of the legitimatesn bf France, whose
ahominabe design it is 10 reduce Spain to
slavery and chains--and who have foster
ed and supported, even daring apparent
peace, numerous hordes of traitors and
murderers, wagins ruthless war against
The unplicndng people of the last named
country. This man recently delivered
long speech in the deputies, on the right
and necessity of relieving Ferdinand from
that constitution under which the Span
,ards, ~ with rivers of their Own blood,
opened his way To the thrune, and which
he bound himself by the most solemn ohli-
CATIONS of honor and honesty 10 maintain
as the Fundamental principles on which he
would govern. Chaicaubrland was one
of the tncanest who licked dust from the
shnes Of Napoleon, and was told loudly of
Il when he delivered the speech above al
iuded TO. The Federal Gdzshe speaking
otthis lighminded gentleman. Observes
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