Star.
London, England, 1823-08-04 00:00:00

MADRID.

(BY AN FXTBAOBDINARY countert
The 23d of July the Regency of Madrid m:tde an
order, that the commander ies and rents of the Infants
Don Carlos and Francis de Paula, shall be subjected
to the general contributions of the kingdom, conform-
ably to the decree of his Majesty, of May 30,1817.
The promotions in the army since 1820 are null,
as well as the changes of pay of the different grades.
The 23d the Regency also issued another decree.
The motives which have called for it are very re-
markable. The Regency says, that it had proposed
to stretch out a paternal hand to the men, who, wan-
dering from the paths of loyalty, co-operated to
destroy the rights of religion and the throne and
thus contributed to the greatest part of the evils that
afflict our country ; but experience has shewn, that
scull persons abandon their plans with reluctance.
Consequently, it has resolved that all Spaniards or
foreigners, inhabiting Spain, and in particular official
persons, who, since March 7,1820, have offered them-
selves to serve in the Voluntary Militia, as well as
those who have belonged to Secret Societies, are. by
this fact alone deprived of their pay—of the employ.
mints they have obtained, whether civil, military,
or municipal, and of all the decorations or honours
which have been granted to them ; and that till the
return of the King, and without prejudice to penal-
ties incurred for other circumstances.

The Regency, consulted to know whether credi-
tors of the army should be paid according to the rate
determined for each class the 2d of March, 1820, or
whether the augmentation granted by the Revolu-
tionary Government, has decided that his Se►eue
Highness (the said Regency) having already declared
null all the administrative acts of the Revolutionary
Government, there should be taken for rule of the
payments the arrangements of the Circular of the
30th of June last, without regard to the acts of the
rebellion ; consequently the 1 reasury will cause to
be repaid to itself all that has been improperly
paid hitherto.
A letter from Bayonne of the 26th states, that Ge-
neral Ricard had made a friendly summons to the
Governor of St. Sebastian, by means of an Officer of
the Regiment of Alexander, who was taken at sea on
his way to Gijon. The Governor replied that he would
hold out to the last extremity, and listen to no terms
of arrangement.

FROM TIIE CONSTITUTIONNEL.
PARIS, JULY 31

The departure of the Duke of Angouleme for Se-
ville, has produced a great sensation at Paris, agcl
given Ilse to many conjectures. It is said in the Mi.
nisterial circles (and this is sanctioned by the hints in
the Government Journals, and the whispers in the
saloons), that the journey of the Prince has, above
all, a pacific. end in view. He felt bound to remove
to Seville, that he might be nearer the point of nego-
tiation; and it was necessary to depart front Madrid,
where the Regency seem possessed by the demon of
war and discord, and where all the intrigues of Eu-
ropean pelicy are in action. We notice the change
which has taken place within these few days in the
language of the Quotidienne as an evident symptom
of the desire of terminating a contest in which, we
have so many sacrifices to make, and so few real ad-

varßages to obtain; a contest which was reported to
have terminated, but which with more propriety may
be said to have only commenced, at the very moment
,when it was said to have been finished.