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SATUBDICY Mora'.

The Paris papers of Thursday publish 011ie later and fuller despatches from the Prince De Joinville and Marsh I Btteaud ; hich, altimbgh The Paris papers of Thursday publish 011ie later and fuller despatches from the Prince De Joinville and Marsh I Btteaud ; hich, altimbgh they announce no fresh events, possess co deraWnt realt ,

the Prince takes a moment of leisure to su

In the first, a despatch dated " Steam-boa "ustrstre44ai: tack on Tangier, and to describe the positiPogglre n regard to Morocco. To the details he adds little, except some statistics of the losses- " We attained this result with the lose of three killed and sixteen wounded. The ships suffered some slight injury. The enemy admits a loss of 150 killed. and 400 wounded; but it is impossible to ascertain accurately the number of killed, as they were still (on the 8th) withdrawing dead bodies from beneath the ruins."

The reasons for the attack on Tangier at the particular moment, are thus assigned ; and they explain away much that was disagreeable in the previous aspect of the affair-

" I informed you that on the 2d August, the day fixed for the reply to the ultimatum of our Consul. General, nothing had reached us. I then waited to commence hostilities for intelligence from Mr. Hay.

" On the 4th, a letter was sent to me from Sidi Bousselam, Pacha of La- cache, couched in more conciliatory terms than any previously received ; it re- newed, however, the insolent demand of the punishment of the Marshal. The letter of Sidi Bousselam said not one word of the removal of the troops col- lected near Ouchda. As to Abd-el-Kader, Sidi Bousselam assured me that be was no longer on the Moorish territory, and that orders had been given to prevent him from entering it. However, at the same time it was announced, to the Marshal, that he had been placed in the interior of the country, and that he was two days' march in the rear of the Moorish camp. This correspondence consequently had but one object, that of amusing us. "Uneasy and embarrassed at not hearing any thing from Mr. Hay, I sent the steam-boat Veloce to Rabat to bring information regarding him. The Veloce returned on the 5th to Tangier, with information that Mr. Hay was in safety at Mogador.

"In fine, on the evening of the 5th, the Etna, coming from Oran, brought me your despatch of the 27th July, commanding me to commence hostilities if the reply to the ultimatum was not satisfactory. It brought me news like- wise from the Marshal, proving the falsehood of the Moorish assertions with respect to Abd-el-Kader. It was not possible to hesitate longer : we were de- ceived with treacherous proposals at the moment that war was actively pre- pared against us; there was nothing left for us but to have recourse to

• • arms.

" During the affair Mr. Hay arrived from Rabat, where he remained to see the Emperor : I received him the following day. He told me that he found the Emperor much dejected ; the news of the withdrawal of the Consuls had reached him. Mr. Hay thanked me for the anxiety I had manifested for his safety."

The purpose of the attack on Mogador is stated, with an uncommonly distinct limitation of the Prince's views in regard to the naval campaign-

" I am now going to Mogador, at the other extremity of the empire. Mo- gador is the private property of the Emperor; besides the public revenue, the town is his property ; he lets on lease the houses and lands. It is, in a word, one of the clearest sources of his revenue. To attack and destroy that town, to occupy the island which encloses its harbour until we have obtained satis- faction, is to do an essential injury to Maley Abd-er-Rahman and the entire of the South of his empire.

" I shall confine myself for the present to these two operations; in order to prove to the Emperor that his cause is abandoned by every one, (the affair of Tangier has proved it,) and that we possess the means to inflict serious injury on him. This is what we are going to prove at Mogador. "Moreover, our appearance on the coast will bring back numbers from the interior to the defence of their homes, and thus disengage the Marshal from so many.

" We can then apprize the Emperor, that notwithstanding what has passed, we still wish for peace; and that what we have done at Tangier and at Mogador proves to him that he must not jest with us."

Another despatch by the Prince, dated "Steam-boat Pluton, Moga- dor, 17th August," narrates the attack on that port ; but the substance of the despatch is embodied, with some other circumstances, in this more vivid narration which we copy from the Times. The Prince says, that when the French fleet arrived off Mogador, on the 11th instant, the weather was so bad, that although they had let out two hundred fathoms of chain cable, their anchors "broke like glass." On the 15th, the day of the attack, the weather had moderated.

"The only vessels which could enter the harbour were the Belle Poule frigate and the three armed brigs which had been prepared for that purpose. The fire was opened by the frigate on the morning of the 15th instant, and sustained for the whole day with unabated vigour. It was met [or rather an- ticipated before the ships had taken up their position] by a very severe fire from the batteries of the town and of the island at the mouth of the har- bour; where it is said there were no less than 120 pieces of cannon, ably served by 400 or 500 of the best troops in the service of the Emperor. The Belle Poule suffered severely from this prolonged engagement ; and it appears that the effect of her fire and of the armed brigs was not sufficiently decisive to bring the affair to a conclusion. It was therefore determined by the Prince De Joinville to attack the islet, and to destroy the batteries upon it, or turn their guns against the city. This attack was made on the morning of the 16th, by 500 picked men, under the orders of Captain Duquesne (a descendant of the French Admiral of that name) and Captain Bouet. The troops who were engaged in this enterprise, and who effected a landing on the islet, en- countered a most furious and sanguinary resistance ; and nearly half the num- ber of the Moorish soldiers who formed the garrison perished on the spot with their yataghans in their hands. The rest at last effected their retreat to a mosque situated in or near the water, where they capitulated. Meanwhile, the islet being occupied by the French, the works were in part dismantled and in part directed against the city. The work of destruction proceeded with fright- ful violence; the batteries on the shore were gradually silenced, and the walk of the town were reduced to ruins. A landing was effected by some parties of the French in ships' boats; and it is with great pleasure we record that by this means the British Consul and some other British subjects, who had been de- tained i3 the city for the preceding five days by the authorities of the place, were rescued. They were conveyed by the boats of the Cassard, one of the French brigs, to the Warspite, which had followed the squadron to watch its operations ; and they were received by the crew of that vessel with great enthusiasm, whilst, as we are informed, the band of the Warspite played the national airs of France. " Terrible, in the meanwhile, was the fate of the devoted city. The inhabi- tants, to the number of 12,000 or 13,000, had already fled from it in all direc- tions; but fled to dangers scarcely less formidable than the fire of the French vessels. The boats which had effected a landing on the main-land were recalled,

but the natives of those inhospitable coasts and mountains completed what the enemy had begun. The Kabyles, descending from the hills, plundered the houses and set fire to the city in several places ; and the desolation of Mogador was consummated by Mussulman hands "in these engagements the Prince De Joinville had lost a considerable num- ber of men ; Captain Duquesne was severely wounded, as well as several other officers; the ships, and especially the Belle Poole, had suffered severely. The French squadron, therefore, leaving a small force to maintain the blockade of the city, which had been reduced to a heap of ruins—a needless precaution— retired to Cadiz, and left the coast of Morocco."

A private letter, written at Mogador on the 17th, says- " The attack of the island has cost us many brave men. The Prince was seen advancing, without arms, at the head of the columns ; the killed and wounded falling by his side. This brilliant courage, this generous devotion fills with a just sentiment of pride all his companions in arms."

A third despatch is from Marshal Bugeaud, and is dated "Camp near Coudiat Abd-er- Rahman, 17th August." It amplifies the telegraphic account of the battle of Isly, without adding any essential information as to facts. The interest lies in some passages of criticism. The Mar- shal says of the great effort made by the Emperor's son to bring an overwhelming force upon the French—" The Moors openly spoke in his camp of taking Tlemcen, Oran, Mascara, and even Algiers : it was a real crusade to retrieve the affairs of Islamism." The steadiness of the French infantry is highly eulogized : "not a man betrayed any weakness " : the cavalry "advanced with an irresistible impetuosity and overthrew everything found in front of it." In courage and in numbers, though not in science, the Moors were an enemy worth vanquishing.

"The Moors left on the field of battle at least 800 killed, almost all of them cavalry ; of the infantry, which was not numerous, the greater part escaped from us, in consequence of the ravines. This army has besides lost all its ma- teriel. It must have had from 1,500 to 2,000 wounded. Our loss was—four officers killed and ]0 wounded, and 23 sub-officers or soldiers killed and 86 wounded.

" The battle of Isly is, in the opinion of the whole army, the consecration of our conquest of Algeria : it cannot fail, besides, in greatly accelerating the con- clusion of our differences with the empire of Morocco. • " " From all accounts of the prisoners and the Arabs, who saw the camp of the enemy, their cavalry cannot be calculated at less than 25,000. They showed themselves very bold ; but the confusion rendered their efforts power- less. The boldest stood to be killed. All they wanted to do well, was the force of combination and a well-constituted infantry to support their movements' -With a government like: theirs, it would require several ages to give them the requisites of success in battle."

Private accounts from Oran say that Abd-el-Kader was present at the battle of Isly. Other accounts, however, throw much doubt upon that assertion. A private letter has been received by the French Go- vernment, which positively affirms that Abd-el-Kader has been made prisoner by the Moors themselves. According to this letter, after the battle, the Maroquin army, when rapidly retreating and exasperated by their recent defeat, fell in with Abd-el-Kader, who was advancing to the frontier at the head of his troops : they immediately took him pri- soner, and carried him to Fez, where he is now in close custody. A Toulon letter of the 25th instant has a somewhat similar version of the matter, with an important difference- " The Sully, private steam-packet, has this instant arrived from Oran. reopen my letter to transmit to you the important news brought by this vessel. On learning the result of the battle of the 14th, the Emperor of Morocco in- formed Marshal Bugeaud that be was disposed to grant all the reparation de- manded by France. He immediately sent 400 of his Negro cavalry in pursuit of the Emir Abd-el-Kader ; who has been arrested, and conveyed to the Impe- rial residence. It now remains to be seen what will be done with the person of the Emir."

The Times has authority most explicitly to contradict a statement made by the Morning Post yesterday, that on Tuesday night Lord Aberdeen despatched a courier to Paris, with a communication to M. Guizot demanding the immediate evacuation of Mogador, under pain that "measures would forthwith be taken in conformity with the esta- blished usage in similar circumstances."

The Paris correspondent of the Times says, that on Sunday, Tahiti was the subject of a "warm altercation " between King Louis Philippe and M. Guizot : the King contended that the recall of M. D'Aubigny was not sufficient concession to the British Government ; while M. Guizot declared that rather than yield an inch more he would resign. The paper which we have quoted from the Paris Globe "was the con- sequence of this interview and its unpleasant termination."

Two passages in the Journal des Debate, though more of the nature of inferences or comments than statements of fact, encourage the belief that peace with this country will not be broken. Speaking of Morocco, the Journal says- " The Government has declared in the most solemn manner, that whilst re- pelling an unjust aggression, France had no intention of conquering Morocco, or of forming there definitive establishments. This declaration was witnessed by all Europe, and has the national faith for its guarantee." The rumours about the Tahiti question are thus dismissed— "It is not true that any ultimatum has been received by the French Government, or that anything new has occurred calculated to disturb the rela- tions of the two countries."

The Revue de Paris says, that orders have just been given by the Minister of Marine for a large supply of balls, bombs, and cartouches, for the naval arsenals ; and that an extensive promotion in the navy is immediately to take place.

"We understand," says the Morning Chronicle, "that Marshal Soult has made up his differences with his colleagues ; and that on Thursday the papers connected with his office, which he had refused to sign for the previous nine days, all arrived with the necessary signature attached. Among the documents signed is a decree reorganizing the Ecole Poly- technique."

A Cabinet Council has been summoned by the Earl of Aberdeen for Monday next, to take into consideration the reply of the French Government upon the late outrage at Tahiti.—Globe.