The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-09 00:00:00

(EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.)

" MADRID, MARCH 28.—An individual was ar-
rested on the 24th, for crying " Viva la liberta" in
a coffee-house, being in a state of intoxication. He
was condemned by the military commission, and will
be executed to-morrow. This arbitrary and cruel
proceeding combines ene circumstance; which has no
precedent—namely, an execution in the holy week.
The prisons are crowded, and %‘ e anticipate many
similar scenes, as arrests are made every night.
" Though part of the conspiracy is discovered, I
am led to believe by the Liberals, that the grand
scheme remains intact. How true this may be, I
am not able to judge, but certainly since my resi-
dence in Spain, 1 have never observed this party ex-
press its hopes so sanguinely as at this moment,
which is the more extraordinary from the check
they have just received from the Government. At
Cadiz an extraordinary vigilance is pursued by the
police, particularly towards foreigners who art ive at
that place. An English officer arrived there from
Gibraltar, and notwithstanding the protection of the
British Consul, his papers were seized, and he was
ordered away. He ultimately received permission
to proceed to Seville, but was ordered to keep him-
self at home (the Consul's house) during his stay at
Cadiz, on pain of being arrested if met in the streets.
This is occa%iened by the public demonstration ex-
hibited in favour of the refugees at Gibraltar, which
had caused the Government to look with much
jealousy upon Englishmen,"
(From the Madrid Gazette of the 29th.)

On the 22d three of the accomplices in the assas-
sination of the illustrious Governor, Don Antonio
del Hierro y Oliver, were shot in the back.
The police of Algesiras having discovered that
three of Manzartare's companions, and among them
his second in command, Don. N. Campos, were to
embark from the neighbourhood" of that town on
the evening of the 15th fur Gibraltar, succeeded in
apppehending the criminals. There have besides
been ;taken, 13y different parties of troops and royalist
volunteers, other seven rebels,. who had dispersed'
and concealed themselves. Tltese with the three
befocp mentioned, were conveyed to the Barrios, to
be shot on thp 22d, at four in the evening.
4.' This alludes solely to foreigners (evidently aimed at
the French) who are by law gluier the jurisdiction of the
Captain- General.

Ap opOnt, which had nearly proved fatal to
flue little hoy, occurred yesterday afternoon at that part
of the Serpentine river where the late Lord Ittynts lost
144 life a short time ago, and which, from the open unpro-
tected state that it is left in, moat be always liable to lead
to similar disasters. The poor little fellow to whom the
accident h ippened was playing at battledore and shuttle-
with a boy about his own age, and in his thoughtless
Arqiety to ca'ch the shuttlecock before it fell, he actually
ran over the bank into the river, and was put of sight in a
moment. A foreign gentleman, whq was passing near
pg, spot at the time, very humanely plunged into the
water after him, aid with the ass'stance of a large New-
foundland
.dog which he had with him, very speedily saved
the poor boy from a watery grave.
TqE TpjLEßls.—Tliere is probably no
episode in thir, &vat firma of history presenting a richer
fund of materials for the novelist than' the p'rerrpli 4evo-
' lotion that marked the close of the last century. of the
epoch thus abounding in the stimulants to emotion the
fair authoress of " The Tuileries" has boldly availed her.
and has constructed a story of terror and of tender.
'nese wilier can lumpy leave the least susceptible of readers
untouched. Those ;mew struggles betwixt opposite calls
of the heart, which were so often extorted by the anoma-
lous condition of -the times, and of which so many irgect-
jog instances were evinced by women, have furnished
some of the strongest points in the composition of the
work alluded to—and the female characters introduced,
from the unhappy MARIE ANTOINETTE downwards, must
occupy intensely the sympathy of all who peruse it.