Edwardsville Spectator

FOREIGN.

LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

The fast sailing ship Franklin, Capt. Graham, arrived at Baltimore on Sept. 7th, in 41 days from Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 28th of July.

INTENDED EVACUATION OF SPAIN.

The London Courier of July 26, assures its readers that they may rely on the authenticity of the following intelligence:--

The French government have it in contemplation to retire across the Ebro, and to take up their line of defence along that river. The heavy artillery has been ordered up, to invest the strong positions of that line.

It is the intention of the Duke d'Angouleme to withdraw the troops from before Cadiz, unless there should arise a more favorable prospect of being successful in accommodating the differences between the contending parties in Spain.

The dissentions, in fact, between the Royalists themselves, form almost as strong an impediment to the adjustment of matters, as the dissentions between the Royalists and the Cortes.

A letter from Madrid, written "by a person well qualified to form a just and impartial estimate of the present and future prospects of Spain," states:

"The French are not masters here. The violent party which continues to urge the Regency to acts of arbitrary power, finds no support in the Duke d'Angouleme, or his adherents. They are anxious to negotiate with the more moderate party of the Cortes, and to endeavor to save the king's life, by giving favorable terms to the former. The supporters of arbitrary power are decidedly averse to any treaty with the rebels in Cadiz. It remains to be seen whether the French party will have power enough to oppose successfully their more violent friends and allies.

"The fact is, that this delay bears most heavily on the French finances, and necessarily must, in a short time, force that Power either to join the advocates of arbitrary despotism, or to leave the contending parties to settle matters with the Cortes as they may."

We will not pretend to say (adds the Courier) how far events may change the intentions of France, but it is certain that if there should appear no chance of a speedy conciliation of parties, what we have above stated will be the course adopted. The French decidedly support only the more moderate Royalists.

It is true, that the 20th Light Corps shewed symptoms of mutiny at Bayonne. Fifty-one of them deserted in consequence of Marshal Lauriston's refusing permission for the Regiment to join the Campaign in Spain.

The French army has been remarkably healthy, which is ascribed to the unusual coolness of the season.

FIGHT OF CORUNNA.

The following has been posted up at Lloyd's:--"Biarritz, July 25. Arrived D'Atreveda, Cortieno, from Corunna sailed on the morning of the 18th inst. with despatches. Up to that period the attempts of the French upon Corunna had been repulsed with considerable loss, and their advanced troops were retreating.

The London Globe of July 26, says:

"We have just seen a gentleman who left Corunna on the 18th in the Atreveda. The French were repulsed with great loss. Our informant states that they left upon the field one hundred and thirty wagon loads of dead. On the 19th, the Atreveda was still in sight of Corunna, and the Constitutional flag was flying. All the cannon at Ferrol, with the exception of two pieces, had been removed before the French obtained possession of the town. No immediate communication from our brave countryman Sir Robert Wilson has been received, but as he received only a flesh wound in the thigh, it is hoped that he may soon be enabled to renew his useful services."

WASHINGTON. SEPT. 12.

By this day's mail we learn the arrival, at Baltimore, of the ship Ulysses, capt. Hancock, in 41 days from Liverpool. The dates are, from Liverpool to the 30th of July, and from London to the 29th,

The foreign papers by this arrival furnish nothing very new. Corunna was still invested by the French up to the 20th of July. Sir Robert Wilson had been wounded just above the knee, after having had a horse shot under him. One report is that he will have to suffer amputation; and another that the wound was very slight, and that he would soon repair to Vigo, to collect a force, in order to fall upon the rear of Gen. Bourck. The wife of Mina had gone to England.

A sortie had been made from Cadiz, by 9000 men, in several columns. The French retired as they advanced, and then fell upon them and compelled them to retreat. One of the constitutional columns, on this occasion, behaved very well, and maintained its ground for nearly an hour. The garrison of Cadiz is said to consist of 15,000 men.

The agent of the Spanish Cortes has been refused to be accredited by the government at Lisbon, on the pretext of the conduct of the constitutionalists, to King Ferdinand at Seville, prior to his removal to Cadiz.

The truth of the report of the intended retirement of the French army behind the Ebro is peremptorily contradicted by several London papers.

Cadiz, Barcelona, Santona, Corunna, Ferrol and St. Sebastian, have been officially declared in a state of blockade by the French government.