Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-05-27


pause somewhat longer, on the banks Of the
Ebro, that Ebro which washes the walls OF
Saragossai than his impatient ardor can well
brook. ii, however, the Prince be really at
the head of only $4,000 men, and has advanc-
ed tn VittOria leaving ST. Sebastians on his
right, and Pampeluna on his left, unreduced.
he may find employment enough in providing
Tor the safety and regularity of his own con-
voys. In this condition must, for the pre-
sent, be content Ia leave them: meantime,
we do not think there is much hazard in pre-
dieting, that, il the French forces be not great
er than is here represented. they have not at
this day reached Madrid There is no cause
yet 10 fear for Spain.
GFrcm The Morning Chronicle of April 1871
We have received the following from our
Correspondent -
Paris, Monday EUening.-An express ar
rived here late yesterday evening, bringing
intelligence ofthe first affair between the Span
ish and French troops under the walls of ST.
Sebastian. The ratification being incom-
plete, and the garrison weak, an officer was
sent in TO summon them To surrender he not
being permitted To return. another officer was
sent after the lapse of an hour-he was like
wise detained. An attack was then COM
manded, which the troops commenced, not
without evident signs of reluctance. The
Spanards made desperate sally. repulsed the
assailants, and killed a hundred and ten of
them. This, though trfing affair as TO IFS
results, rs yet impoI tant, as showing that the
Spanish towns are not so willing as has been
represented 10 open their gates to their pre-
tended deliverers, or that. when they do open
them, it is for the purposesof repulsing, and
not receiving their hostile friends The al
most total want of provisions and forage, has
compelled ihc Duke d'Angoueme TO halt at
irdh. The exact number of the troops that
have passed the Bidassoa is $4,000. The
number of those that have remained on the
French side of the river is $4,000. Sixteen
thousand ofthose are near Perpignan, under
lie command of Marshal Money, Duke de
Cornegliano. This General who in his best
day was not very remarkable for military ta-
lent, Is now 76 years of age, blind of one eve
half dOatinG. and incapable of mounting on
horseback. He requires almost the same mill
tary honOurs 10 be paid him as to the King,
and sends off an extraordinary despatch TO
Pans ON the most insignificant movement of
his division. Nina, with twenty thousand ex-
ce'lrni troops, has taken mp a position opposite
to the division of Marshal Money. Col Fat-
rier, witha thousand OF twelve hundred pick
ed men, is in the same neighhorhoOd II is
said to be- his intention 10 enter France. the
moment that Money crosses the Spanish
frontiers, and Money and his division are 10
enter Spain the cad of April, if they can he
supplied with sufficient money and provisions
by that time. The Spanards, il seems have
4olved 10 abandon St. Sch astian, and only
keep possession of the citadel of Pampeuna
They do not iOtend 10 make determined
stand hut at Madrid or in the mountains b.
tween that city and Seville The Magistrate
of Irun who bRsied himself in making public
the Duke d Angouleme's Proclamation has fai-
init, off y
If Is said, have beaten him to death. There
Is a report here OLA body Of French gdtrril-
las, To the number of three or four hundred
men, having made their appearance in the
neighhOurhoo Of Toulouse-hut the fact is
doubtful, though not improbable Fortosa is
quite deserted, Nina having announced that
he would burn the house of every Spanard
that should IN any way obey the French, and
moreover visit such disohedieuce upon those
guilty of it, or upon their relations 10 de-
fault OF finding themselves.
The Mouiteur OF Tuesday copies the follow
ing article from the Etoie of the preceding
evening =
''Whst we are writing, the French army
led by Bourbon, is in full march towards the
Ebro On Sunday morning, at 5 o'clock,
mass was celebrated along the whole line
and after this august ceremony, rendered more
solemn by the event To- which il was a pre-
Emina y, the movement commenced, and the
pas age of the Bidassoa was effected on the
same day"
Paris, April 7.-(Prirafe letter D" The
Duke de Bsilnno arrived at Paris early this
morning.-iir reached Bayonne on the 3Oth.
some hours before the Duke d'Angoueme,
de had Immediately an interview with Gull
tmnot, the Major General fthe army, whom
he came to supersedr. Guileminot still re-.
tanned his post, nowithstand ding the Royal
Ordinance IN the M0nitprr appointing Belluno
to flI it. His Royal Hghness arrived some
hours afterwards. He was Immediately wait
ed upon by GmiIleminot. The Prince desired
him 10 continue in his appointment his ROYAL
Highness added that the mission of the Min
lister of War and the dismissal Of the Major
General, whom he had himself selected, was
the result Of an intrigue which he would take
care to defeat. The Prince in the course of
the evening, received all the General officers
OF the army at Bayonne nay, even gave an
audience to the Trappst, but refused to have
any communication with BeiIuno. On the
following morning his order of the day TO the
army astODished the public. by coming out
countersigned by Guilleminot, who had been
superseded, and not by Belluno, who had been
appointed in his stead The Minister thus
seeing his services declined, became sensible
how far he himself had declined in influence
by leaving the war Office, and resolved to turn
to the right about for Paris, covered with
ridicule instead OF laurels. It is not stated
whether in his retreat another carriage has
broken down under him. 1t is supposed that
he will hrd it difficult TO effect Judgment in
his former hotel, where he. however, this
morning alighted. / formerly mentioned to
you as one ofthe causes of Beuno's disgrace
the runous contracts which he had authorized
for the benefit Of his dependents One of the
most striking Of these Jobs, because the most