Star.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

FROM THE JOURNAL DES MEATS OF SATURDAY.
MADRID, AUGUST 24.
The King has had an attack of the gout. On the
19th he signed the following Ordonnance :
" Art. 1. All military men, whether on full or half-
pay, from a Sub-Lieutenant to a Capt.-General, shall be
subjected to purification.
" 2. In the Supreme Council of War, a Committee,l
consisting of five members already purified, three of
them military men, one a civilian, and one a juriscon-
sult, shall occupy themselves with the purification of
officers from the rank of a Colonel to that of Capt. Gen.
" 3. As to the military men between the rank of
Colonel and Sub-Lieutenant, the Juntas to be established
in the provinces shall attend to their purification. These
Juntas are to be composed of the Captains-General of
the provinces, and five members already purified, pro-
posed by them to the Supreme Council of War, which
shall immediately attend to the purification of persons
who are thought fit to be employed in these Juntas.
" 4. The Councillors and others attached to the Coun-
cil, and those who exercise the functions of Civilians with
the army, shall also purify themselves before these Juntas.
" 5. Those shall be excepted from purification, who,
at the time of the entry of the auxiliary troops into
Spain, were serving in Royalist corps, provided that
they did not afterwards serve the Constitutionalists ;
those who have bein employed in any service, having
for its object to defend the rights of the throne, and
those who have been constantly near my person, or near
other members of the Royal Family.
" 6. For the purification of military men, the same
form of proceedings shall be observed as for the putifi-
' cation of civilians, in making secret inquiries concern-
ing them.
" 7. For the greater fhcility in executing the rote-
going Article, the candidates shall give correct answers
to the following questions:-1. Their employment on
January 1, 1820. 2. Where were they at that period,
and to what corps did they belong ? 3. The day and
the place where they swore to the Constitution, and by
whose orders? 4. What rank, or commands, or com-
missions they have received up to Dec. 31, 1823, the
time they served in every employment, where they lived
during the three years, how long in each place ? 5. If
they have been members of any secret society ? 6.
they have belonged to the National Volunteers. been
journalists, or orators of any patriotic Society ? If they
have made war against the Royalist troops, in what
corps, and in what provinces ? 7. If they have been
members of any Council of War for trying Royalists, in
what place, and in what trial have they been rappor-
teurs,. the condemnations which were the consequence,
and who were the members of the Council ? 3. 'Thei

•POST OFFICE STEAM-PACKETS.
Extracts from the Report of the Glasgow and Port-Pa-
trick Roads Committee, which Committee were also in-
structed to ascertain the best means calculated for the
speedy establishment of " Steam-Packets," for the con-
veyance of the Mail between England and Scotland, &c.
" In obedience to the instruction directed to your
Committee respecting the establishment of Steam.
packets for conveyance of the Mail from Scotland and
Ireland, they proceeded to follow up the inquiry which
was commenced in the last Session, and examined Mr.
Rennie on the present state of the harbour of Port-
Patrick. As it appeared from his evidence. that the
wot ks at Port-Patrick could not be in a state to give pro-
tection to Steam-vessels lying afloat at an times, for a
period of six nr seven years, they directed their attention
to the possibility of selecting some other point on the
Scotch coast which might be adopted as a temporary sta-
tion, until the works at Port-Patrick should be completed.
—They accordingly directed inquiry to be made re-
specting certain points in Loch Ryan, where they had
reason to believe that immediate accommodation might
be had at a very trifling expense, keeping in view the
essential requisite that there should be no increase of
distance by sea, such as to prevent the passage being
made at all seasons of the year, between sun-rise and
sun-set.
.Mr. Freeling's evidence is given in the Appen-
dix, and alio copies of the communications on the sub-
ject of a station at Loch Ryan, from which it will ap-
pear that at Cairn a safe and convenient station might
be had. Your Committee subsequently examined Cap.
tain Hamilton, of the Dover station ; from whose evi-
dence -it will appear, that there is no reason to doubt
the possibility and advantage of establishing Stearn-
packets at Post-Patrick, even in the present state of the
harbour, and mute particularly with the certainty of
its progressive improvement. Capt. Hamilton states his
experience at Dover, and his opinion, that by adopting
such improvements on the steam-vessels as make it pos-
sible for them to take the wound without injury, these
seems no reason to doubt that the same system might suc-
cessfally be introduced, without delay, at Port-Patrick.
" Your Committee were prepared to recommend,
most earnestly, that the Post Office should, forthwith,
establish Steam-packets on the passage between Port.
Patrick and Donaghadee, on the plan recommended by
Captain Hamilton; but they now feel constrained to
withhold. such recommendation, owing to the extinction
of all present hope of establishing the communication
to Port-Patrick by land from the centre of Scotland.
Had the road been rendered available, there can be no
doubt that a regular intercourse by steam would have
been most useful to the public, and that by an increased.
resort to that shostes.t passage between Scotland and
Ireland, the Post Office would have been justified in
incurring the necessary expense of a new and complete
establishment of steam-packets. It being now decided
that the great road from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the
whole populous districts of Scotland to Ireland, is to
remain in its present barbarous condi:ion, your Com-
mittee have the•mortification to report, that their pro.
ceedings, as also those of the Committee of last Session,
are wholly useless, and they cannot recommend that
any expense should be incurred in an establishment of
Steam-packets, which, under other circumstances, they
would have most earnestly recommended."

In letters of the 24th tilt. received from Corunna, it
is stated that two of the French sentinels had been as-
sassinated at their posts by some of the inhabitants.
The perpetrators had not been discovered. Corium*
was perfectly tranquil, and the feeling iu favour pf. the
Constitntion, or rather the hatred of the Fiencli, was
only evinced by the avidity with which reports were
believed tending to encourage a distant hope of their
expulsion. Thus, a tumour that MINA had landed in
the south-east of Spain, wish other stories equally
groundless, obtained the most eager credence, and the
insignificant movements in Andalusia were magnified
into a general insurrection.
An Inquest was held on board his Majesty's ship
Aar►uttta, lying in Chatham Reach, on Friday, before
Mr. THOMAS PATTEN, Coroner for Rochester, on the
body of David Batty, carpenter's mate of the Prince
Regent, who, whilst rowing a boat towards Chatham
Dockyard, Jell backwards and expired immediately.
By the evidence of the Surgeon of his Majesty's ship
CHEROKEE, who opened the head of the deceased, it
appeared an abscess on the brain had I,urst, which
caused immediate death.—The Jut y returned a verdict
to that effect. .

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