Star.
London, England, 1823-08-23 00:00:00

EXPRESSES FROM PARIS.

This forenoon we received, by two separate Expresses,
the Moniteur of Wednesday and Thursday, and the Pi=
tote of yester,day. We have also, by the same convey-
ance, received a private letter from our Correspondent
in Paris, inclosing an interesting communication from
Spain, said to be wtitten by a person high in the con-
fidence of the Duc d'ANGotnnts. The following
are the letters:—
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
PRIVATE LETTER.

" PARIS, AUGUST 2!.

" Government has received dispatches, dated Ma-
drid, 15th, announcing the capitulation of Cartha-
gena and the dissolution of the Cortes, who have left
A Commission, for form's sake, at Cadiz : there is lit-
tle doubt that, at the moment I write, all is over, the
King is at liberty, and the French army in Cadiz."

PRIVATE LETTER FROM MADRID.

0 MADRID, AUGUST 15.

14 The Marquis of Talarue is highly respected by
the moderate party, but detested by the Regency,
because he will neither approve nor tolerate their ex-
cesses. The Army of the Faith is just what it al-
ways has been. Quesada caused a considerable num-
ber of recruits to be murdered in cool blood, who had
been discharged, or deserted from the Independents,
and were returning to their homes. In giving an ac-
count of this massacre, he falsely asserted that he had
done it because they cried " l'iv4 Riego muera d Rey!'.
44 A detachment of select troops (judge what the
rest are), appointed to escort the Duke de Villa Her-
mosa to Portugal, where he was appointed Ambas-
sador by the Regency, robbed, plundered, and ;l.

most assassinated this Grandee of Spain at a few
leagues distance from Madrid, when he returned in-
stantly with all speed.
•4 La Locho, calling him elf a Royalist, has seve-
ral times threatened General Courtin, a Swiss Officer
in the Spanish service, who commands in La Mancha;
lie finds him moderate, and menaces to hang, or at
least imprison him, if he continues so moderate, and
prevents him (Locho) from levying contributions, and
enriching himself at the expense of the peaceful in-
habitants.

" General Cisneros levies for his cavalry all the
horses of the country, sells them a few leagues off?
and puts the money in his pocket. He demands
rations for them notwithstanding, and receives it in
money, which goes equally into his pocket. General
Sempere, who was three years since coachman to the
Duchess of Osuna, commits all kinds of exactions,
and, like Cisneros and Bessieres, carries off from their
houses pretended Liberals, marches them as prisoners
in the rear
_of his troops, and after having extorted
from.them large sums, sets them at liberty, and gives
them excellent certcates'of royalists. The conduct
of Merino and the Trappist make one shudder.—
Generals Longa, D'Espagne, and D'Ernles commit
fewer exactions than the rest.

".Such infamous conduct, of which good men of
all parties have repeatedly complained to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Angouleme, produced the Or-
donnance of Andujar. Be assured that the Duke
has the greatest aversion for those abominable -auxi-
liaries, of which some Constitutional Chiefs have
shewn themselves worthy imitators.
" The Generals of the Faith are not the only cul-
prits: the Civil Authorities obey, nearly everywhere,
the clamours of the populace: if you ask them why
such a man is in prison? they answer, the public
voice condemns him.

" The conduct of the Regency is not a whit the
better ; the prisons are full, no laws are held sacred
by it, and it is to be feared that on the deliverance of
the King there will be a general massacre of the pri-
soners ; the Bishop of Osunalis at the bead of these
wretches, who fancy there is no other method of de-
fending the altar and the throne. The secularized
monks have been banished from Madrid, and treated
in the most atrocious manner.

Addresses pour in in great numbers for the re-
establishment of the Inquisition; it is well known
how they are got up, and by whom.

" I should never have done, were Ito write all the
horrors committed -by this odious Regency. The
Duke's patience is exhausted; Morillo and Ballasteros
havejoined him for the happiness of the Peninsula: the
hypocrisy of the fanatics is unmasked, and their in-
capacity'discovered.

~ The Duke has frequently repeated, that Spain
has a Government which is contrary to the interests
of every class of society, save the Clergy and the
convents.

• " The Regency has despoiled all the purchasers of
Church national property, alienated in 1820 ; the
purchasers are not even repaid the improvements they
leave made and expenses laid out, the original cost
and all is lost to them, and the Church regains pos-
session without paying a real. The Duke hopes to
influence Ferdinand to revoke these odious robberies
and usurpations; if the King listens to his lessons of
prudence, Spain may yet be happy, if otherwise she
cannot."