Star.
London, England, 1823-09-26 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF GENERAL RIEGO.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
" Puerto de Santa Maria, Sept. 14.
" MoNsILUE LE lilAnsnAL—My letter of yesterday
must have informed your Excellency of the march of
Riego on the cantonments occupied by Ballasteros's
army. I now transmit to you some details skhich. we have
just received.---Riego, after having passed the Genii OR
the 10th, marched direct on Priego, which was occu•
pied by General Ballasteros. Being informed of this
march, General Ballasteros had moved two of his tfri.
trades to Carabuey and Lucena, and had therefore but
few of his troops with him. On the approach of Riego
they fired, and killed and wounded some of the enemy;
but Riego 's men threw their schakos in the air, and ran
toward.: the troops of Ballasteros, who believed that their
adversaries wished to join them. This caused coda.
sion, of which Riego took advantage to surround Gene-
ral Ballasteros by one of his battalions, and to make
him prisoner, along with General Mates, the Chief of
his Staff, and several other Officers.

" In consequence of these events, General Belenzat,
who commanded the brigades assembled at Carabuey
and Lucena, moved them on Inayar, near Loga, -to
avoid dtlection, and to be nearer General Molitor. But
these troops having learned what had befallen their Ge-
neral-in-Chief, marched to his deliverance, and coma
pelted Riego to retreat. on the 11th to Alcandete and
Martos. Not a single soldier joined Riego, while On
the contrary two of his squadrons went over to General
Ballasteros. This General immediately put himself in
communication with General Bonne:nains, who having
arrived on the 10th, with five battalions, and three re-
giments of cavalry, at Pi nos Puente, continued his move•
ment next day on Alcala la Real, and on the m.rning
of the 11th announced that he was in pursuit of the
enemy, and with well-founded hopes of overtaking him.
On the other hand, General Foissac-Latour, being in-
formed of what had occurred, assembled his troops in front
of Ardujar, and would act in concert with Borsnemains.
" According to the information received from Gene-
ral Ballasteros, Riego has with him only about 2500
men, who are in a state of insurrection and disorders,
whOse number is hourly diminished by desertion, and
who cannot withstand a vigorous pursuit.
14 General Bontlemains, in reporting these events,
states, that the conduct of General Ballasteros has been
marked by fidelity,. and that he has manifested much
decision of character.
(Signed) a GUILLMIINOT.
“ To the Marshal the Duke of Reggio, at Madrid."
Letters from Paris of Tuesday's date, communicate
the following particulars respecting the capture of
Riego:--Having arrived with four companions of his
flight, two of whom are said to be English Officers, he
supped on the 14th at a village caPed Arguillos, con-
sisting only of 15. houses, inhabited by the descendants
of the German Colony with Nhich Charlos 111. at-
tempted to people the Sietra Morena. Ile had an-
nounced himielt as belonging to the army of Ballas-
teros, but having been betrayed by the appellation Of
General, with which one of his comrades addressed him,
he was recognised by one of the peasants. Probably in
a-village inhabited by Spaniards under the dominion of
the Priests, he would have been mass;cred, but the good
'Germans only arrested* him and cnndpited him to Ca-
rolinis. From Carolina he will be conveyed to Madrid
by the French troops, to be placed at the disposal or
the Regency.
TROT[ THE MADRID GA2ETTE EXTRAORDINART ON THE
17T11 OP SEPTEMBER.
OFFICIAL. ARTICLE.
The Intendant of La Carolina has, by an express to
the Secretary of War, announced what follows :
ExcaLLENT Sallok--.This moment, nine o'clock at
night, the infamous leader of the rebellion, Rafael del
Riego, has just entered this town a prisoner, and is
lodged in a dungeon of the public jail. Tin ee other
officers were taken with him, and they are also confined
in dungeons. I cannot at presentEive your Excellency
the details of this glorious capture, but I shall transmit
them to you by another opportunity. Toe Civil Com-
mandant of Arguillos, dependent on this Intendancy,
and the labourers_ of that place, were, without a single
soldier, the meritorious captors. May GOD preserve
your Excellency many years.
" JUAN JOSEF CABALLERO, Intendant ad intsrints
" Carolina, September 15.
" To his Excellency the Minister of War."
The ordinary Gazelle of the 18th gives no further at.
count of the taking of Riego, but exults on that event its
these terms:—

" The notice of the taking the counterfeit hero Riego,
which was yesterday announced by an extraordinary
Gazelle, has filled with joy the heroic people of Madrid.
They see rendeyed powerless and delivered up to the
law, a man who, notwithstanding his incapacity foe
great enterprises, the anarchic faction had selected to
serve as a standard under which might be assembled i
multitude of those imprudent and evil-disposed men
who contaibute to support the faction, and aid it it
putting in practice the infamous means adopted to
carry its object, and of which all Europe has been wit.
ness. For his own part, the hero himself has done all
the'direct mischief of which be was capable. This the
city of Malaga erperienccd to its cost when he could no
longer continue to act the ridiculous haracter he had
assumed, and which he peiformed so ill as to draw
down upon him the mockery and contempt of even his
own followers. We might say much more on this
event, but we respect the situation of adeliuquent when. •
under the power of the law, and we now merely call
the attention of our readers to this visible dispensation
of Divine Providence, which cached the loudly boasted
Rieko to fall into the hands of some men belonging- so
a simple and worthy population, totally unacqUainted
with the delusive exhortations and flattering proinfset
of this perpetual preacher of falsehood and perjury.".