The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-09-23


lem,unceasingly crying for mercy, and as
reward for your perseverance, that your
blindness may be taken away.
August II, 1898. MODESTUS.
STILL LATER FROM ENGLAND.
BALTIMORE, Sept. Eve stop the
press 10 announce the arrival of the fast
sailing ship Ulysses, Capt. Hancock, III
IL days from Liverpool. The ULYSSES
came up last night, and 10 the polite atien-
ton of Captain Hancock we arr indebted
for the liverpool Courier of the 3oth July,
and the London Star, GLOBE, and Obserrtr
of the Goth.
Notwithstanding the htcness of the
hour, we proceed 10 hay their interesting
contents before our readers.
Win respect 10 the Intended evacua from
of Spain, ms announced in the London
Courier of the 2Gth July, the Sun of the
28lh Judy has the following paragraph:
SuN OFfIcE-THREE o'cLock.--Wc
are Just enabled to give the most positive
assurance that our Government has re-
celyed no such information as was an
| nounccd in the Courier of Saturday last,
Prospecting the alleged intention of the
| French COVE rnmeut TO Withdraw their ar
my to the i.bro and that, ON the contrary,
the statement in question is believed to be
| a gross tahricaIion.'
The liverpool Courier of the 30th,
in commenting upon the same article,
says -
"The French bulletins, il is observable,
afford n" co4roboration of the intelligence
communicated by the Courier. of the con-
templated Withdrawing ofthe troops from
before Cadiz. Bourdesont had announc-
ed, that the blockade of the city was rs
well formed by sea as by land, and that
some ot the mGteri.l for u siege having
been found in the vicinity Of Seville, the
bombardment might commence on the
25h inst. But the garrison seemed dispo-
srd to thwart the operations tons of
! the enemy; fer, on the 10th instant they
made sortie from the city, to the
number of about 5000 men, protected by
all their batteries. They were, however,
according to the French topographic dcs-
patch, repulsed on all points, with the loss
OF 1900 men. The loss of the French
was, as is usual, inconsidcrable." The
| Spal@alds must be sad bungl,r rs, for whilst
the French NOV them down by hundreds,
they can never succeed in destroying any
thing like an equal number of their enc
mics -
The Constitutional GucriIaS are very
active in different parts of Spain, and ha-
rdss the French 4 Royalists considerably.
Nina is still in Barcelona, and Money
seems IT, BE- unable To make any progress
IN, fIn T,,A 4
ting that the whole country would Yield to
them Immediately on their entrance aud
that the gates of the fortresses would be
thrown open To receive them, brought no
battering train into Spain. Hence, their
Inability to carry on a regular siege, and
the lnss they must sustain by attempting,
rs at Corunna, to carry the Spanish foi-
tresscs by storm.
BATTLE OF CORUNNA.
We are enabled TO present our readers
win some additional aud very interesting
particulars OF the battle or Corunna. Our
intelligence from that city is now as late
as the 2lst duly, at which time il was still
10 possession of the Constitutionalists. -
The defcnce of Corunna has evidently,
from theRaccounts, been a brilliant affair,
and reflects great credit upon tire Consti-
tntionasts who garisoned it. As the
French have only few light field pieces
with them, the place. it ultimately captu-
red, can only be taken by assault aud the
heroic defence already made by the garri-
son, is sufficient proof that, if skIl aud
courage can effect any thing, Corunna is
not likely soon to fall into the hands of the
enemy. The French trlegraphic despatch,
dated Madrid, July 81, merely mentions
that General Bourck, after ueru smart
9tur, blockaded Corunna un the 18Th. ."
IL says nothing Of the loss of the French,
nor OF their having been repulsed on three
successive days.
We copy the following particulars of
the battle of Corunna from London pa
pers OF July % =
From the London Chronicle.
The garrison, when attacked, consisted
OF about 1900 men, the greater part of
them Guipuscoan and Navarrese yolun.
teers, the regulars not amounting TO more
than four hundred. The other dispose
bic force was on the side of Nigo and O.
fehse. The French attacked, with five
thousand men, the whole corps d'arinee
they have in Galcia and certainly. no
lh'nS could be more cool and determined
than the defence OF the garrison. Coh,nel
Horva, commander of the Guipuscoa mill
TIA, WAS killed, together with several otfi-
ccls Of minUr rank. The French are STA.