Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-08-14

are confounded with other little bands OF
handful. who act for themselves, g. plum
der every body that comes in their way.
The formation of National Guards has
been ordered, but no body appears 10 en-.
Tol himself. The season is not favorable
TO the increase of these bands, the pea.
SAINTS being preparing for the harvest, but
if the war should be protracted till the win.
ter, these countries will be infested by
them.
The country on the great road to Mad
rid, by way OF Vi,toria and Burgos and the
Some Sierra, is pretty tranquil; the army,
il is true, has just passed through it; the
lett, that is, La Rioja and La Soria, is less
SO; and their provinces will not obey the
DEGREES OF the Regency, but favor the con
sti,utlonalists, who traverse that part OF
the country. notwithstanding the influence
OF the clergy. On the right, the provinces
of Valencia and Valadolid DO not offer a
satisfactory appearance. on account of the
guerrillas, the movements in Gallicia, and
the presence of Gen. Empecinado at faro.
Though the French have great party,
especially at ValladoIid. the inhabitants
do not dare 10 declare openly in their Ia
vor.
The French still occupy Bsnaven,e and
Riosca, and the Constitutiunslisls, Astor-
ga; the Notifications OF which, though part
ly demolished by the inhabitants after the
late war, are wholly repaired. horillo
attempted to draw Bourck into the de6es
of VillaIFranca, but failed.
The EmpecinaGo mas 1000 foot and 800
horse; his plan is to attack Valladolid, and
bis point de nppui is Zamora, whence be
communicates with the Portuguese. who
occupy Miranda, with 5000 men. Work
men are employed in certifying Ciutsd
Rodrigo, and division Of 5000 men is or
gap,zing al Zamora.
The district of Segovia and Avla being
so near the capital, are pretty tranquil.
though alarmed by the guerilias left by
the Empecinado, which increase in num-
Der. AT Madrid guerilas OF the Faith ale
organizing, but they cannot procure hors-
es, the Constitutionalists having taken
them all away,
The movements Of Nina, the formidable
attitude Of Barcelona, which has IL 900
men under arms, the statements of various
circumstances, some perhaps true, and O..
theirs exaggerated, keep up degree of ag-
itation in the public mind, aud give rise
to reports which appear to have but little
| proba bility, when we see, whatever may
be said, that Generals Bourmont and
Bourdesoult continue their rapid march to
Seville, where they will arrive 90 the Goth
! or 22d.
In truth, il seems that these troops are
certain when they reach the capital of An.
dalusIa and the pillars OF Hercules, of
meeting with powerful support in the
Royal party, and that, whatever may hap
pen, they will be secure from danger, by
the want of Spanish forces, and the facili-
| ty with which they may, at all events, eff
tect their retreat, favored by their reserve
at Madrid. To Judge OF the reception
which the French have met with at Tole-
do, Ciudad Real, Carolina, Truxil'o, &C.
we must suppose that those hopes are not
iIl-founded' The Andalusians too are less
persevering and warlke, though greater
boosters than the other inhabitants Ot the
Peninsula,
There are many reports at Madrid OF an
approac ching arrangement, but even Ut the
Cortes should agree to such one, il would
remain TO be seen whether Nina, Ballas-
teros. Vllacampa and Morllo would sub
scribe to it, as il must be confessed that
there are elements sufficient to continue
the war, and that the French will want in
this case an addition of $4,000 men aud
large sums OF money.
| The moderate party is becoming more
numerous in Madrid and in The provinces !;
and general conviction prevails Except
among the communeros) that an honora-
Bile arrangement would be preferable to
the continuation of disastrous aud inter,
minable war; but they are adverse to re.
cogniZing and treating with the Regency
and its partisans, who are the very same
! men that have misled the king and brought
ruin on the country.
! Several persons have been arrested at
/ Madrid or exied from il. The police is
very strict and summary and the same
system is followed in the towns a nd pro-
vinces governed by the party of the Faith.
BAyoNNE, June l7.-At length there is
an end to all the tales told of Ablsbal for
some days past. He arrived here on the
10th in the evening. but though travelling
incOgnito, he has been visited by all the
officers Of the garrison, and was present
a, grand dinner given doubtless in his
honor, by the general who commands the
department. He is going it seems 10 Pa.
ris
, A packet has arrived in England which
lett Lisbon June Cd, having on board Gen.
Pope, the late Portuguese minister of JUS
tice, Sr. Jose de Silva Carvallo, wife,
brother and three children; Counsellor Of
Slate Jose Ferreira Borges Deputies in
the Cortes, Montero, and Joao Bernardo
da Rocha; Regenerators. Duarte Lena
and Jose Maria Lopez; - Carneiro ;
Maxine J. Pareira de Azvedo, of the
Tercera Islands; Sebastian du Pratt and
Son, merchants Joao Carpinteiro junr.
and Antonio Luis de Lima
LONDON, June 29.-Our intelligence
from Lisbon is 10 the 4tb inst. Il is stated
that Lisbon still exhibited an air of The
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