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LATEST FROM CADIZ.
The ship Canton which arrived at New
a 'fork. on Saturday, sailed from Cadiz on
ggp the 10th of last month, to which date, in
usive, we have newspapers, letters, and
-erbal intelligence. They generally con
cur, in stating that the place was well
supplied with provisions, and th,at there
had been no indications of a disposition
to relax the Measur,£.of defence.
Some, however, entertained' the opinion
.that the place would not long hold out,
ana that there was dot .virtue enough in
the people of Spain to support, or live
under a free Government. Eiego is said,
co Have become unpopular.
Cadiz was biockaddPby 2 ships’of the
one, 3 frigates, 2 sloops of war, 1 schoo
ner, and 4 gun boat, anchored off the. har
bor. The brig Win. Gray had been or
dered offi and proceeded to Malaga. An
English brig,laden with provisions, which
attempted to go in after being ordered
off, was boarded from the squadron, most
of Her cargo thrown o verboard, and the
.residue destroyed with salt water.
There had been no attempt to carry off
the King from Cadiz as stated in our last
London papers. The King w-as lodged
m apartments in the Custom House.
Mr. Apjfleton, the American Charge
d’Affaires, was at Cadiz.
Capt. Macauley, of the Canton, states
that it was understood there was three
months supply of provisions in Cadiz,
and numerous arrivals there daily.
At Algesiras, and ban rernando there
was a plentiful supply,
We learn, from the Cadiz papers, that
‘be Cortes were laboriously engaged in
the discussion of such projects as might
tend to aid the Constitutional cause.
In the sitting of July 3d, it was propo
sed to admit the importation into Spain
of the produce of Cuba, by Foreign ves
sels, on paying an additional duty of 4
per cent.
The Royal George Steam Packet arriv
ed at Lisbon on the 1st of July, from Lon
don, Corunna, and Lisbon—-among the
passengers were Col. Doyle, and the U.
States5 Secretary of Legation at Lisbon,
with despatches.
The papers say, that Madrid was suf
fering for every thing, except houses and
water—provisions of all kinds being
scarce and dear.
CADIZ, JULY 10.
Admiral Hammelin, commander of the
French squadron off this port, on the 8th
rust gave notice-to the Fishermen, that,
according to instructions from his go
vernment, he was under the?,painful neces
sity of putting a stop to their business,
in order to prevent the introduction of
provisions into Cadiz.
Three fishing boats belonging to Rota
and captured by the French, have sur
prised three other fishing boats coming
from the Levant, which were captured.
A Sardinian merchantman, with a car
go of 500 quintals codfish, from Lisbon,
was detained by one of the French block
ading squadron about 3 leagues from Ca
diz, and compelled to throw her cargo
overboard, when she was permitted to
.proceed.
july 2.'—A column of 1500 French in
fantry and some cavalry, set off from St.
Mary’s yesterday for Port Real. Letters
from St. Mary’s say, the. whole force des
tined to the siege of Cadiz, is 20,000 men.
July 3.—Several private letters receiv
ed to-day from Corunna, state that a
French division of 6000 men, had made
a precipitate retreat across the Pyren
nees.
july 4.—Ry a despatch from his Excel
tencyDon Juan Jabat, our Minister at Lon
don, we learn that a fleet-sailing English
merchant ship, sailed from that port on
the 11th of June for Samtona, laden with
provisions and- arms,, under the Patriot
Don Miguel Eutron. The English cor
vette Fanny would sail the following
week for Vigo, with 600CF muskets, and
as many cartridge boxes, to he placed at
the disposal of General Morillo, to arm
his recruits, which exceed 7000 men.
July 5.—An officer arrived this morn
ing with despatches from General Zayas,
commander of the third army of opera
tions. The despatches communicate fa
vorable intelligence—the army was rapid
ly moving, and the presence of the valiant
Chief, who destroyed Besseires and awed
Vallin, has inspired fresh vigor in the
troops. We expect to see them in a few
days crowned with.their laurels. Gen. Z.
offers to send to Gallicia all the warlike
implements necessary to equip a respect
able army in that province,
At 2 o’clock this morning a column of
2000 men started from San Fernando for
Chiellana in order to destroy some houses
■which might serve to shelter the works
of the enemy. Our troops offered them
battle, which the French declined. They
houses were destroyed by our pioneers,
who then returned quietly to their quar
ters.
july 10.—The Courier from the Levant
has brought letters from Malaga of the
2d iust. and Grenada of the 29th. The
state that Gen. Zavas was inLucena;
those from Grenada assert positively that
Ballesteros had arrived in that city; but
we have not seen any thing which would
authorize the belief that he was there on
that day.
It is said that three couriers from Ma
drid have not arrived at Seville, which
is attributed to their having- been inter
cepted by parties of the Patriots.
SAN FERNANDO, JULY 3.
Every thing goes on with activity, the
warehouses are filled with provisions,
and the troops are improving themselves
every spare moment. The two battalions
of city militia have been ordered to join
the army. Tracadero has been conside
rably reinfarced.
. G RENA CO, JUNE 26.
General Placentia has assumed the com
mand of this the 9th district. We should
be pleased t-o observe more activity, more
energy, and its a word, more decision in
Gen. Tacon. Placentia is about assem
bling a large body of troops in the imme
diate neighborhood of this capital.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
NEW YORE, AUG. 25.
We have received by the Minerva, Capt,
Wilson, Liverpool papers of the 10th, and
London to the evening of the. 8th ult.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool had
continued extensive, and prices had ad
vanced.
It is stated that the 10th French regi
ment in Spain has lost the greatest pro
portion of its men,
The sum of ^5000 has been paid to the
Spanish Relief Committee in London, be
ing the subscription of an anonymous f«
dividual.
The Reciprocity Duties Bill, passed
the House of Commons on the 4th of Ju
ly, 75 to 15. The Low Merchant’s Bill
has also passed.
The Irish Insurrection Bill passed thro’
a committee of the House of Lords.
The French squadron olf Cadiz have
sent in a flag declaring the port in a
state of blockade. Vessels would be al
lowed to leave the port provided they had
Spanish subjects on board.
The Viceroy of Egypt had been order
ed to send troops to join the Turkish
forces, but a portion of his soldiers, sta
tioned in the Delta, had revolted, and he
had been compelled to disobey his order
and detain his fleet.
Sir Robert Wilson and his English
companions arrived at Vigo on the 15th
June. They left Oporto on the 6th, pro
ceeded to Braga, where they were amus
ed by the populace, detained two days,
and were obliged to return to Oporto un
der a military guard. Thence they were
sent off without being allowed a mo merit's
rest, by way of Vienna. Sir Robert has
published an address to the Portuguese
since his arrival at Vigo, lamenting the
change that has taken place in that king
dom, and complaining of the attempt
that was made at Braga to assassinate
him. ■
TEN DAYS LATER FROM' EUROPE.
NEW YORK, AU0. 26.
The fast sailing ship Howard, Captain
Holdredge, arrived at this port last even
ing, in. 34 days from Havre. . By this-ar
rival, the editors of the Commercial Ad
vertiser have received regular flies of Pa
ris and Havre papers to the 18th of July
inclusive; and we have again devoted
our columns almost exclusively to trans
lations therefrom. Clouds and darkness
yet hang over the affairs of Spain. The
Journal dir Commerce well remarks, “The
history of the civilized world scarce pre
sents such an example of confusion and
shocking anarchy. The wars of princi
ples alone produced thesep-esults. Spain
is precisely in the same situation as
France found herself during the days of
the League. We restore now to Spain
what she gave to us.”
The defection of Morillo from the CV: -
stitutional cause, is amply confirmed, and
that instead of remaining neutral between
the two powers, (the Cortes and the Re
gency,) it is now added that he has gone
over to the French with 3000 of his troops.
We were, therefore, correct in our suppo
sition ot yesterday, that the conduct oi
this officer was not known at Cadiz, at
the date of our latest Cadiz papers. We
have given, among our translations, the
letter of Morillo to Quiroga at length. It
is said that, on the 3d, he published a new
and very energetic proclamation against
the Cortes, and another against the con
duct of Quiroga. Quiroga has promised
rewards to all the soldiers who should
follow him, and has published a decree
Containing twelve articles against those
who have abandoned the Constitutional
cause, which strikes terror into those
under Mina, Velasco, andTorrijos.
In Catalonia, the Constitutionalists still
evince a disposition to oppose the French j
inch by inch. It will he seen by the de
spatch from Marshal Moncey., that, in
marching to invest Barcelona on the.9th,
the Fourth Corps had a sharp action at
Molins del Key and at Martorel, with the
troops of Milans and Lloberas, who were
disposed to raise the blockade of Barce
lona. The Spaniards took shelter under
the walls of Barcelona, which place was
to be completely invested on the follow
ing-day.
The defection of Morillo produced a
sensible effect on the French funds, by
causing them to rise. It'.is states he w
ever, that they had subsequently declined,
in consequence of the rumor that Balias-,
teros and Lopes Banos had re-taken Se
ville.
In addition to the despatch which we
have given below from Marshal Mon
cey, our translator has furnished us with
another long one, of an antecedent date,
(July 4,) but which we deem it unneces
sary to publish at length. It commences
by giving a pompous account of two sor
ties which had been made by the garri
son shut up in Figueras, in both of which
they were repulsed, with a very trifling
loss on each side. We are next i»
fornaed’o-fficially of the Seod’Urgel being
invested by Baron d’Eroles, from whence,
however, Mina had fled, leaving -behind
in the fortress the troops who escaped
with him from the action with Donnadieu
on the 14th and 15th of June, and taking
with him 7 or f0.0. of the former garrison.
Mina arrived at Taragona, sick, arid, on
the 26th of June, started again for Bar
celona. Baron d’Eroles left the Sco in
vested by a small force under Gen. Ra
magosa. On the 28th of June, a sortie was
made, which was repulsed ; but it was
judged expedient to reinforce the block
ade with another battalion of the line.
The Duke San Carlos, Ambassador from
the Regency to the Court of France, was
presented to the king on the 10th of July,
and received a,public audience. He was
afterwards conducted to the palace of the
Tuilleries in the king’s equipages, and
presented to the royal family. The
Duke’s speech on this occasion, and the
answer of the king, will be given to-mor
row.
Gen. Man^o had died at Reuss, of a
complaint in the chest. This is a new
loss for the Constitutionalists.
There have been sortie disturbances at
Malaga, and some lost their lives; it
was quelled by the intervention ..of t'ne
regular troops and militia. Two; of the
ringleaders were condemned to death by
a court martial, and shot nest day.
A Bayonne letter'says “ much talk had
been had with regard to che sieges of St.
Sebastian and Pampeluna ; but we in
Bayonne see nothing of those trains of ar
tillery which were to operate in the siege
none have arrived here as yet.’5
The latest accounts received at Paris
from Cadiz were of the 8th July—mot so
late by two days as were received here
and published yesterday. A letter of the
2d mentions that the late sittings of the
Cortes have been very tempestuous ; that
the question of surrendering was agitated;
that the individuals opposed it, and the
militia cried out —-Death to-th.s King,
A Cadis paragraph of the 7th says,
“ the King- who had already been forced
to give to the militia who took part in
the affair of the 7th July, a particular de
coration, has conferred a new decoration
oil them, which brings to mind the three
charges they made on the Spanish guards,
and each of them attached by a pension
of two reals per day.”
The defection of the Constitutional v
Genera! Saurfield, is. announced in the
Paris papers of the 4th.
A rumor reached London the 12th of
July, that there had been a counter-revo
lution in Portugal in favor of the Consti
tutional system.
Among our extracts will be found sun
dry interesting articles relating to the
Greeks and Turks. In Greece, and
Greece only, a ray of sunshine breaks
thro’ the general gloom of European des
potism.
«, -seC'f’SjDCQSJl
LATE FROM GIBRALTAR.
Captain Tiers, of the brig Ruth, ar
lived at Philadelphia in 25 days from
Gibraltar, informs the Editor of the Au
rora, that a detachment of the French
army was encamped within two miles of
St. Roque, on the 25th of July. The
commander, uatne not remembered, sent
a ilag into Algesiras, demanding the sur
render of that place, but which was re
fused by the governor. The women and
children had fled from St. Roque, in or
der to escape the dangers of the expect
ed attack, and had encamped on the
beach of the neutral ground. The Con
gress frigate sailed on the 23d for Cadiz
with Mr. Nelson and family. Mr. Rod
ney was at Gibraltar with his family all
in good health. Captain Tiers brings
despatches to government from Mr. Rod
ney. A number of French and Dutch
men of war were lying at Gibraltar when
the Ruth sailed.
i o the above we are enabled to add
the following- extract of a private letter
dated “ Gibraltar, July 22.—Cadiz still
holds out, and there is not much proba
bility of its surrendering. It is reported
that a battle has been gained by the Con
stitutionalists over the French in Catalo
nia. General Lallemand is said to be in
the neighbourhood of Valencia, with a
good force. Terriffe, Algesiras and St.
Roque are in the possession of the Con
titutionalists, so that the cause of the
Spaniards is not desperated3
Extract of a letter from Havre, July 2 Oth.
“You will see that Mina is not yet
dead. Morillo has followed the example
of Abisbal, and is said to have carried
with him three thousand men If he had
been faithful 'much might have bee;;
iu Galllcia to ann-ov the French. The na
ture'of the ground and its .proximity to
England, from whom supplies are con
stantly going, might have enabled the
Constitutional party, perhaps, to have
turned the scale. As matters stand there,
I fear they cannot hold out long. The
French' have too much money ; still Qui
mga may give them trouble in that quar
ter.”—! jY. Y. American.
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
BALTIMORE, AUG. 29.
By the brig Midasij Captain Dickinson,
at this port from Smyrna, avc learn that
a vessel immediately from Negroposit
had brought intelligence to Smyrna, that,
on or about the first of June, the Turks
had landed an army of five thousand men
at Esparmatore, (Negropont) the whole
of whom had been cut to /iiec.es or taken
fir is oners by the Greeks.
I he Algerine, 1 urusxan, .Egyptian, ana
Turkish fleet consists of about a hundred
and fifty to a hundred and sixty sail of
vessels. TheTurks have no ships of the
line in their Met this summer, they be-,
ing fearful of the Greek fireships, of
which the Greeks have about 15. On
the 17th Juue Capt. Dickinson saw the
Greek fleet of 135 sail, between the Is
lands of Mytilene and Ipsara, steering
for the Gulf of Smyrna. There was not
one ship among them—about 40 or 50
sail of brigs and schooners, and the rest
smaller. At Milo, Captain D. was in
formed that the Turkish fleet had been
seen ofl the Island about the Sth of June,
standing towards Candia. It was said
the instructions of the Captain Pacha
embraced the power of exterminating the
Greeks if possible, or of making peace
with them. It was alscr reported that if
something decisive was not effected this
summer, he would not return to Constan
tinople, but would make his winter quar
ters at Smyrna
Captain B. reports that every part of
the Mediterranean was full of small crui
zers or boats, many of which were be
lieved to be pirates. Off Tunis he saw
two of them which shewed the Tunisian
flag—-they bore down towards him, but
owing to a fine breeze and the appearance
of his vessel, they soon hauled off. Two
days afterwards he saw another, which
: was supposed lo be a fisherman, until the
latter fired a gun and hoisted French co
lours. He commenced a chace after the
Midas, which was continued for three
hours, and abandoned.
The Midas experienced much calm
weather on the pass'kge,—\_Amer.
NEW YORK, AUG. 27.
From Lisbon.-— Lisbon papers to July
9th, are received by the Hercules. No
thing is said of any counter-revolution in
that country, but all appear to have qui
,-eliy submitted to the new order of things.
. Anjarante had been appointed Lieutenant
General of the Army; and among other
appointment's, is that of ■Camillo Mar-.
Lags, now charge d’affaires in . the
Netherlands, to the same office in the
United States.
FROM MEXICO.
We learn, by a vessel arrived at New
Fork 22 days from Tampico, it was re
ported that St; Anne, who revolted against
the government, has surrendered so for
ces sent against him at San Luis Potcsi,
before which place he had encamped his
army. Previous to his surrender, he had
seized Spanish property to a considera
ble amount on the road to Tampico. His.
army, which amounted to about 3 and
4000 men, had made the roads between
San Luis de Potost very unsafe, particu
larly for the conveyance of Spanish pro
perty.
RISE OF FLOUR.
The Alexandria Herald of yesterday
says: “Flour, since our quotations on
Monday, has risen 25 cents in the barrel,
in consequence of the news by the last
arrivals from Europe ; and. it is the opi
nion of our roost extensive and experienc
ed dealers in this article that it will con
tinue to rise until we have further infor
mation from abroad.”
JOHN RHEA.—‘We have it from pret
ty good authority, that John Rhea will
probably be a candidate for the Senate of
the U, States, at the next election.
For the benefit ofia ‘widow and her or/ihans■,
ON Friday night, 5th inst. the Thes
pian Society of this place will per
form Kotzliue^s much admired drama, in,
5 Acts, of
After which the celebrated afterpiece of
With many other entertainments which
are calculated to arouse and gratify those
who are pleased to encourage the drama
For particulars see the bills of the day
GREENVILLE, (ten.) AUG. 16.
THE STRANGER.
TOE POOH SOLDIER.
Sept. 3, 1823