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FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. NEW-YORK, JULY 22. The ship Mentor, Ca|>t. Brown, arrived at this port last evening, in 35 days from Liverpool. By this arrival the Editors of the Commercial Advertiser have receiv ed London and Liverpool advices, the former to the 12th, and the latter to the 14th of June. A summary of their con tents, and sundry extracts will be found below. FRANCE AND SPAIN. The accounts from the Peninsula are as vague, contradictory, and uncertain as ever. Paris papers of the Liberal side, complain very much of the few and “ la conic” official letters received from their troops in Spain. The information they obtain from them is so unsatisfactory that it is often difficult, and sometimes impossible, to form any idea of the actual state of things among them. As to the cunning and undisc over able' Mina, there appears to he very good reason for want of correct information concerning him, and his troops, for he eludes his pursu ers in Catalonia in the most surprising manner; and if those on the spot cannot ascertain his motions, or understand or baffle his designs, it would certainly be a difficult matter for either Paris, London, or American editors to speak of him with any degree of certainty. One thing may be depended on. With a small force, comparatively speaking, be has manceu vered in a manner that has prevented the advance of the whole left wing of the in vading army, amounting to 20,000 men. And it is now stated that Marshal Mon cey has demanded a reinforcement of 8,000 men, who were on their march for France, together with 12,000 men to re inforce the Duke d’Angouleme. The immediate effect of AbisbaPs defec tion has hardly been perceivable upon the Constitutional troops, and has probably not a little disappointed the expectations of the friends to the French cause. It is said that his famous correspondence with Montijo was sent to the commandants of St. Sebastian and Pampeluna, to excite them to revolt, but without effect, alt ho* Col. O’Donncl, a brother of Abisbal, is in command at the former place. Indeed the example seems to have been almost entirely without effect ; and Abisbal has received the reward of a solitary and use less deserter—a measure of indifference not easily to be distinguished from con tempt. The Paris papers of the 7th assert, tlisre was -an extremely stormy sit ting in the Cortes at Seville, on the 23d May, in which a proposition for trans ferring the government and the King out of the continent, was rejected by a ma jority of eight votes, and the departure for Cadiz decreed almost unanimously. The Courier confirms this statement, and triumphs over it as a fulfilment of one of its former predictions. It will be per ceived from the foregoing, that there are four circumstances that look favorable to the cause of Spain : 1st. the peculiar and masterly generalship of Mina. 2d. The call of the French for reinforcements. 3d' The disappointment in respect to the defection of Abisbal. 4th. The resolu tion of the Cortes yet to hold out, and re move the King and government to Cadiz. A letter from Paris, of the 9th of June, stated that reports without end were in circulation, and it was said the govern ment had received despatches respecting the operations of the army of Catalonia, of a very different character to what was expected. On the other hand, from the French of ficial accounts, and from the unofficial letters published in the ultra royalist pa pers, it would appear that the light of freedom is rapidly yielding to the dark ness and gloom of despotism. The Paris Etoile of the 9 th, represents every thing at Seville as in the utmost confusion, and that the people had declar ed themselves loudly in favor of the King, and that the inhabitants of Cadiz had de clared that they would neither receive the King nor the Cortes. The editor adds, 44 The greatest confusion prevails among the members oi the government, which is rapidly drawing to a close. All the cities are sending in their submission to the Regency. Navarre, the. two Cas tiles, the Kingdom of Leon, the greater part of Catalonia, and the Kingdom of Valencia and Toledo, have acknowledged the government established at Madrid.” Several members of the Cortes, who were mostly compromised in taking the King from Madrid, have manifested an uneasy disposition >at the state of af fairs. Sir William A’Couft has promi sed them a safe reception at Gibraltar. Every thing was tranquil' at Madrid on the 5th of June. The troops continued their advance upon Seville, and the pro vinces were rising with enthusiasm in favor of the King. A proclamation has been issued by the Regency, addressed to the Constitutional soldiers. The in habitants, (say the royalist papers) con tinue to evince the happiness which they feel at being delivered from the revolu tionary yoke, and their hope of soon see- ; ing their King return. Every thing in dicates that their wishes will soon be ac complished. The Regency inspires uni versal confidence. Valencia expects the French army with the same impatience as Seville. The towns will be emancipat ed nearly at the same time. All the towns of Gallicia have sent in their sub mission. Morillo had retired into the Asturias, and it is said he has been joined by Sir Robert Wilson; but this is im probable, if the news direct from Opor to was correct, that he had arrived at that place on the 8th of June. The Re gency has published a proclamation ad dressed to all the Constitutional troops, from which the greatest effect >s expect ed. We have said, and we repeat it, (remarks the Courier of the 12th,) a few days more and the revolution will have disappeared throughout the Peninsula. Every where it ends aUthe aspect of our soldiers, and the penache of Henry IV. so unpopular is the revolution in Spain. Some soldiers, and the treason of several chiefs, explain the month of March, 1815, in Spain, as the same circumstances did the month of March, 1820, in France. This revolution will be as ephemeral as those of Naples and Piedmont. The Universal says, that the district of Ronda, which, in the war of Indepen dence, so successfully defended the cause of the legitimate King, has just hoisted the standard of revolt against its Consti tutional authorities, that is to say, against the factions, who would hold their coun try in subjection. I ha Spanish Royalists entertain the project of erecting at their expense, on the spot where the massacre of the 20th May took place, a pyramid, on which the following inscription will he engraven :— “On this spot perished several hun dred of the ihhit-bitans of Madrid, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, who were sa crificed because they went out to salute the white plume of Henry IV. and the banner of St. Ferdinand People, learn here the true character of Revolutions and Revolutionists.” The King of France has issued an or dinance appointing the Marquis Law. de Lauristan commander in chief of the se cond corps of reserve of the French army in Spain, and has raised him to the dig nity of Marshal of France, in the room of the Prince of Eckmuhl, deceased. The Journal des Debats, of June 10, contains an order of t\*0 day, from Gen. Moncey, dated from his head quarters, at Casdedas, May 29, in which he prais es the ‘ vigorous and brilliant defence ot Vich.’ He states that Mina advanced with 3,000 infantry, and 300 cavalry,.and was repulsed by a garrison of only 700 men, and was obliged to abandon all his positions. The action lasted 7 hours. The Constitutional General Zoaquin was killed in the action. An article dated Prada, June 2d, says, the cavalry of Gen. Bonn adieu pursued Mina as far as Bagua ; in his flight the enemy lost upwards of 600, in killed and wounded. Desertion has begun in the constitutional forces ; deserters pass thro’ here daily. An entire company, with, two officers at their head, had abandoned Mi na. The French troops and the Royalist Spaniards rival each other in zeal and courage, and Mina cannot stir without being instantly pursued ; the soldiers, he has left are exhausted with fatigue. It would seem that Mina was shut up in La Seo jd’Urgel, and a letter from Ge rona, June 5, says, if he remains there, he will soon perish of famine; the trench frontiers being well covered,he will doubt less endeavor to escape on the opposite side. All his movements are closely fol lowed by Gen. St. Priest, d’Lrolles and Domradieu, who every day make some of his men prisoners. The troops of his partisans are inconsiderable ; his force is daily weakened by desertion, and it is impossible for him to recruit in the coun try through which he ranges. On the 4th inst. the troops of Barcelona made a fresh attack upon Granouliers. The ene my was vigorously repulsed ;,his loss was considerable, and he utterly discouraged. A private letter from Paris, dated Tuesday night, 20th of. June, 10 o’clock, saygL-A I understand that Tortosa has capitulated—Gallion has sent in its sub mission to the Regency. The ambassa dor, Talara, has set out for Madrid this morning. The others from all the pow ers, will leave in the course of this week. The aid-de-camp of the Emperor of Rus sia is going to join the army. There is said to be but a single Spanish vessel at Leghorn ; the Duke of Tuscany has forbidden the entrance of ships under their flag:. The Duke of Angouleme is expected to be nominated. Regent oi“ Spain, by the Grandees and ancient Cortes, during the King’s captivity. The London Courier of the 9th, says, {C We learn from good authority, that Amarante is making great progress in the north of Portugal, throughout the province of Tras-loz-Montes, where he has joined by all the militia.” Letters from Seres of the 3d of May, announce a victory gained by the Greeks, having attacked a column of lurkish troops that were marching to Salonichi. It is also reported that the Castle of La rissa has surrendered to the Greeks. Late Lisbon papers received at Phila delphia, contain no news from Spain, ex cept a notice of a terrible tumult which took place at Seville on the 1st of June, and which was occasioned by the militia of that place uniting* themselves with some of the refugees from Madrid, and making an attack on the persons and property of private citizens. To calm the tumult it was found necessary to have recourse to arms. By order of th^. Cortes, the ringleaders were taken into custody, and tranquillity was restored. This is stated on the authority of a letter dated Seville, June the 4th. GREAT BRITAIN". The King of England has so far recov ered as to depart for Windsor. He has announced his intention of taking an aqua tic excursion on the 24th, for which pur pose the Royal Yacht was in a state of preparation. It was intimated that Parliament would be prorogued on the loth of July, as no thing was anticipated which would pro long its session beyond that period. The Court of Common Council of Lon don had, by a vote of 74 to 25, appropri ated from the city funds the sum of 1000b in aid of the suffering people of the Pen insula. In the Court of King’s Bench, June 9, in the libel cause of Sir Hudson Lowe against O’Meara, for certain statements in his “ Voice from St. Helena,” the Court stated that it had no authority to fix any given day for the trial. From Thompson'a Island.-—The edi tors of the New York Gazette iiuv-e re ceived the following intelligence from Key West, by the schr. Caravan, 10 (lays from that port:—Vessels in port cn the 11th inst. Galliot Sea Gull, wearing the Commodore’s pendant; sloop of war Hornet, Captain Smith; schooner Fer ret, Lieut. Com. Newell, both roasts out, refitting; Sand Fly, Gnatt, and Mudge, fitting for a cruise.—-The Grampus, Lieut. Com. Gregory, sailed on a cruise on the 5th, and the Terrier, Lieut. Com. Rose, on the 2d, for the coast of Cuba. 1 he Greyhound, Lieut. Com. Kearney, was cruising on the coast of Yucatan. 1 he Peacock was soon expected from Y era Cruz. The crew of the Hornet were nearly all employed in repairing barges, and erecting the necessary buildings on shore. There had been no information of pira cies oa the coast of Cuba, since the rob bery of the brig Mary Joan. A large body of pirates had assembled on the coast of Yucatan, where they had erected fortifications, and committed many acts of piracy, having murdered the crews of several vessels. An officer, named Malla, left there by the government of Yucatan, had joined them. A detachment of the squadron would soon pay them a visit. in consequence of several Spanish ves sels which had been captured by the Co lombian schr. Centella, Captain Hopner, and purposely wrecked upon Key Vacas, and their cargoes shipped to Chatdeston and Norfolk, Gapt. Porter had, in order to prevent such proceedings in future, taken possession of the Key, and placed a guard of marines, with a twelve poun der. Some of the cargoes of these ves sels had been seized and landed atThomp son’s Island, and some found at the Key, all of which had been identified by Span ish claimants from Havana. Capt. Porter, it was understood, had given orders to our cruizers to bring the Centella in, if they should fall in'with her, as she has made captures under the American flag, and the most positive proof had been obtained of the intentional wrecking of her prizes, after having sold their cargoes. Strong doubts were also entertained as to the character she as sumed. A small schooner, from a surveying voyage on the Coast of Florida, reported that there was a body of Spaniards there of suspicious appearance, who had forti fied themselves with an eighteen pounder. They would be looked after. Officers and crews of the squadron ge nerally enjoyed good health. Only nine men in the Hospital, and most of them with diseases contracted in the United States. On the 7th June last, a Spanish brig, prize to the Patriot brig Aquilas, arriv ed at Barbadoes.. When captured, se ven men were put on board, and the ori ginal captain suffered to. remain in the vessel. A quarrel arose at sea, when the Spanish captain, prize inaster, and three of his crew, were murdered. The report is, that the Spanish captain was shot, three of the prize crew thrown ovrboard, and the prize master tied down to a ring drove in the deck, placed in an agonizing situation, and starved to death! The ring leader, on arriving off Barbadoes, went on shore, inquired for- a navigator, informed what the vessel was, and, as the story goes, told the murders he-had com mitted. The vessel was immediately taken possession of, and this man, (said to be an Englishman,) was committed to prison, and put in irons. Ilis two ac complices were also confined.—E. Post. FROM TH£ SPANISH MAIN, g Extract of a letter, dated ^ 6i CUUAOOA, JUNE 24. «By our last advices from the Mai sue, the province of Coro was entirely evacu ated, the Spanish troops having embark ed with their commander on board two small vessels, and we are expecting to hear of the surrender of Maracaibo by the First arrival from that quarter. The Spanish frigate and corvette, Com. La borde, (the same that were engaged in the action off I’uerlo Cabello) are here since.the 18th, and will not proceed to Marticaibo. Morales has directed the money they have on board for him to be left here, subject to his order, which is pretty strong proof that he finds himself awkwardly situated. A few days will doubtless do away with all uncertainty. P. S. We have just heard from a con fidential quarter, that Morales was in fort St. Carlos, with all his forces, wait ing- for Laborde. to come over, as all his small craft were destroyed by Padilla.” Office of the Charleston Courier, July 11 Piracy.—-The Fan-Fan, arrived at Port Royal 14th uit. was bound to Cuba, but put into P. R. in distress, she was twice chased off Porto-Bello, on the 1st inst. by the privateer schr. Fortuna, under the Colombian flag, but belonging to Porto Rico, and escaped. It falling calm, the third time, the privateer sent her launch,, with 30 men on board. They plundered every article of value which they could lay their hands on, and treated a passen ger on board in a most shameful manner, by putting a rope round his neck, and told him if he did not confess where the mo ney was, he would be hungup ; but find ing nothing more of any value, except what they had already plundered, con sisting of tortoise-shell, silver, &c. they allowed the Fan-Fan to proceed, saying that they well knew that all they had tak en was Spanish property. About ten days ago, a bottle was found on the beach at Eleuthera, in about lat. 24 40, Ion. 36 30, in which was e«cJ«se(l a paper with ths fallowing Written on it—directed “ To Nefitune “ U. S. brig’ Spark, Captain John H. Elton, sailed from Gibraltar on the 6th of June, bound to America—the Colum bus 74, Commodore Bainbridge in com pany.—-June the 8th, 1821—at sea. A Pirate seized.—The N. Y. Statesman says, that as an honest jack-tar was pas sing on Friday last, in Broadway, near St. Paul’s Church, he recognized among the passengers on the side-walk, a Spa nish sailor whom he knew as a/iirate, and immediately seized him by the collar, charged him with being one of a gang who robbed a vessel some time since in the West India seas, on board of which he was a sailor, and forthwith dragged him before the police, where he was brief ly questioned, and committed to Bride well. JV&w Jersey Canal.—We have the plea sure to announce (says the Morristown Palladium of Thursday) that the Canal Survey has at length commenced under the superintendance of Mr. Beach. Ow ing to the pressure of business on the Erie Canal, it was impossible for the N. York commissioners to despatch another of their engineers ; for the present, there fore, we shall not see any gentleman act ing for them- They have, however, re solved to commit their part of the ope ration, so liberally undertaken by their Legislature, to Mr. Wright, who will come on the ground as soon as Mr. Beach shall have made the preliminary levelling and survey. Mr. Renwick will dedicate himself to the task after the 16th of July. Gen. Swift will, if possible, attend in the course of the summer ; and we are au thorised to state, that Governor Clinton will volunteer his powerful aid whenever our progress is sufficiently advanced. We observe in the Milled geville Re corder a statement that some poor In dians in Georgia, having encamped for the purpose of hunting, were most outra geously treated.™Some white savages went to their camp, while they were ab sent, seeking for game, and took all their blankets, clothes, saddles, bridles, provi sions, and skins, and made a bonfire of them. One act of this nature so sours and disgusts these poor wretches that years of conciliation and tenderness are required to bring them to a forgetfulness, of their unmerited suffering. We understand, says the Connecticut Journal, that David C. Deforest, Esq„ who has been resident in this country for several years, as Consul General, and Charge de Affairs of the United Provin ces in South America, has lately been re moved from Office; and that at present, there is no agent of Buenos Ayres resi dent in this country. LOUISVILLE, KV. JULY 5. We regret to learn that the citizens of Cincinnati are unusually unhealthy. The interments in that place tor the week ending on the 23d June, amounted to fif~ teen ; and it is said nineteen were inter* red the week preceding*...