Star.
London, England, 1823-09-05 00:00:00

SPAT N.

RETRAET OF A PRIVATE LETTER.
MADRID, AUGUST 22..
We yet remain without any intelligence to be re-
lied on, of the exact nature of the transactions going,
on at Cadiz. The Duke d'Angouleme neither con-
sults with, nor communicates to the Regency any of
his measures, and appears as indifferent to that body
as if it did not exist, so that the Government is about
as ignorant of the most important circumstances as
those who have no access to the Palace. And in con-
firmation of this assertion, the Minister of State is
known to have declared some days after the news
was even out of the King being at liberty, that he
had six persons at Port St. Mary's employed to ob-
tain and send him news, and he had not then received
a word of political information, and nothing further
than that the King was in health, although at that
time, the propositions for negociation must have been
determined upon in Cadiz. Our information, there-
fore, comes from the French officers, who repeat so
much as the Duke de Reggio pleases to communi-
cate.—According to this channel, we learn that every-
thing w a; concluded on the 17th instant, the Treaties
being signed by four Deputies of the Cones and two
of the Ministers from Cadiz' and the Duke d'An-
gouleme and his Generals. On the 25th, the Day of
Sc. Louis, it was to be publicly made known in Madrid.
The French have been disgusted at the deceptions
they have witnessed. Their expectations have been
disappointed, and the promises made to them unac-
cornplished. The Constitution was as despotic on the
one hand, as the King's absolution had been on the
s.ther ; but the former held out the hopes—nay, the
certainty of amelioration ; and this has been the cause
cif the absence of so many families wherever the
French entered, or of keeping invisible. In Madrid,
the officers have had, and have but a solitary life of
it. The rejoicings have been mostly confined to the
lower orders.
They have had to fight all battles, and to bear

every expense; for where the Fi ench are not, the
Constitutionalists chew themselves, and the Royalists
bare neither stretlth nor energy to cope with them,
skis now the case in Estremadura. Added to these
circumstances, the misgovernment, the vengeance,
and monkish implacability of the Regency and Minis-
ters, make the idea of tranquillity, under such a rule,
quite absurd. The French Government, therefore,
seeing their army likely to be entangled in difficulties
of all kinds, should the war be ptotracted-much
longer, have, to get out with a tolerable good grace,
very wisely offered concessions (if the copy I sent you
be correct), which have as wisely been accepted by
the Constitutionalists; both sides lowering their pre-
tensions. A French officer has said, we entered Ser-
viles, and we return Liberals. I suppose they find the
latter better fellows. About one half of the French
army will remain, it is said, until the Government
shall be perfectly consolidated. In Vittoria and in
Saragossa there have been some disturbances on ac-
count of the release of the Constitutionalists, but
they have been quelled again. The French are de-
termined to carry this measure through. None of the
fortified places have yet surrendered on the recom-
mendation of Ballasteros.