Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-11-08
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FROM ENGLAND.
NEW-YoRK. OCT. Z

The arrival last evening 81 the James
Chopper, III % days from Liverpool,
has put US in possession of our usual
files of London and Liverpool papers Ia
the SIN aud 9th of September, andLioyd's
and Shipping Lists 10 September 2.
Some Interesting news from Spain is
con AIMED IN tnese papers. Toe propo-
sltons offered by the Duke d'Angou-
leme to the Cores, and on which he
gave them five days to deliberate, were,
Oh the last Of those days, rejected; and
ii is affirmed that the despatch contain
ing the rejection, is written oy Ferdinand
himself. Ii attributes the restraint Oh
his personal liberty TO the entrance OF
the French into Spain, charges them
with the guilt Of all The blood which has
since been SIZED, and expresses conf
dent hope Of she Intervention Of En-. and.
Ii this despatch, however, it is probable
nat The king has only writien what has
been dictated TO him; il is impossible,
after his refusal to leave Seville, TO be-
heye that he is sincere in disappearing
Of the lnvas ion. The French had at
tackled Irocadero, a fortress near Cadz,
and had been repolsed with great loss
The acknowledgment Of this defeat, APP
pears (by way of phenomenon) IN the
| Paris papers. In the mean while extern
sive preparations were making by the
whole force under the Duke before Ca
diz, for an attack upon that city, and on
the Isle de Leon. Ii is said that as soon
as the news OF The Cortes having rejected
the Princes proposals, was received al
! Paris, orders were despatched TO him 10
attack and lake the city, eoute qni coute--
let it cost what il may. IL catalonia not
much is doing There was report a.
perpigoaD, that The fortress a, FIgueras
had surrendered-but ii was not fully
credited. Mians is also said to have
had battle with the Baron dEfoies,
and 10 threaten the French territory,
The Baron d'Eroles was expected al
oeu, - ca,er into a personal treaty with
the governor of that frrtre il
continued 10 keep up a beavY lire. Mo-
| riiio took possession OF Corunna on the
2lst, and Oh the same day ii was entered
O( we EftHCD. DdiIdStCrOS uGleCtIOIl
is now said to have been only an arms
ice, to continue I'LL the answer oil the
| Cortes should De hnown-hc never re-
| gognzed the authority Of the Regency
The blockade OF SantoDa is continued
| Dy the prince Hohenlohe, and the prepa-
ra,ions FOR the siege of Pampeluna are,
1t appears, at length completed. W.
| shall probably. have here a grand dis
play OF the skill and science OF the French
in engineering, as The place is one OF
The strongest in Europe. Ihe heavy
| artillery were to be opened upon it on
the festival of 81, Louis. The former
accounts of the Surrender of Cuiaad
Rodrigo are conlradicted /; the place,
however, is completely block AIDED. Con-
| siderable alarm has been excited at Ma
| drid, by the vicinity Oh the Spanish troops,
and the approach OF more, and the pre-
! cipia.e retreat into the capital oil The
authorities, priests and royalists, from
Talavera de la Regina. Some symptoms
Of discomfort among the populace had
heightened ibis feeling, and the French
accounts complain that several officers
of educate were concerned in exciting
rather than quelling, these murmurs.-
The tone OF the Regency is more mode.
! rate.