Star.
London, England, 1824-04-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL, is.
This being holy week, politics are for the moment ptit
aside, and piety—or at least the appearance of it, is the
order of the day. The streets of Madrid offer to-day
(Holy Thursday) a spectacle something similar to that of
the Promenade de Longchamp, for all the pretty women
of Madrid, dressed out in their best, are abroa . visiting
the Churches. Many persons here are looking forward
to important results from the King's journey to Toledo;
but upon what they found this expectation 1 know
not, unless they hope his that his Majesty may, by his
frequent visiting of Churches, Convents, and Hospitals
assiduously attending attending at all pious ceremonies,• and
giving an example of the most profound absorption in
prayer and religious meditation, obtain fr om Heaven some
special illuminations that may enable bin► to adopt mea-
sures that will put an end to the sufferings of a great pro=
portion of his subjects, who are deserving of a much
.better fate. The decree for epurating the various
:employes of the public offices has at length been put
forth, and is published in the day's 'Gazette. The
decree has created constern'tion, for, in fact, it is
almost a repetition of that of the Regency on the 7th of
June last. It holds out but little prospect of hope tb
numberless fathers of familie. who are now pining in
indigence, and who will, in ad likelihood, be precluded
altogether from resuming their employments, as this
decree orders their claims to be submitted to a commis-
sion of three persons chosen from the opposite party.
The persons likely to be thus thrown .destitute upon
the world have committed no other fault than that of

obeying the heads of their respective departments,
and following the Government then in power to Cadiz.
This decree has spread tribulation in every quarter of
tile city ; and after dusk you meet in every street in
Madrid men of well-known integrity and talent, who
are forced to apply to the passers-by for relief. The
Junta of puration is composed of two Councillors of
Castile; Sobrado, President; and Otal, the Director of
the Post-Office; -Melgar, Director of the Customs;
Oja Pellon, a Member of the Council of Finance ;
Hetedia, and the Advocate Canter°, who acts ,as
Secretary. Amongst these there are- but two who
have the slightest pretensions to anything like to-
leration-, the rest are staunch fanatic Royalists.—
Most of those who have been lately named to Episco-
pal and Archiepiscopal Sees refused, as is the cu.tom,
the proffered honours, for the purpose of having them
pressed upon their acceptance by a little gentle violence,
as has been hitherto the case ; but on this occasion they
bad their affected modesty for their pains, for their
refusals were definitively accepted. The President of
the Executive Military Cemmission of New Castile, .
Don Vincent Moreno Gonzalez, has been named Go-
vernor of Santauder; and Don Joseph Soleil°, Cattellar, •
Member of the same Commission, has been made Com.
mandant of the Douaniers of Catalonia. This change
will not be in favour of any unfortunate persons still to
be tried before the Military Commission, •as these two
Members were two of the most rigid supporters of the
rights of legitimacy, and sheaved but little mercy to
those brought before them; and yet this M. Moreno
Gonzalez was, under the former Government, one of
the most fiery partiians of the Constitutional system.
Yesterday there were brought in here twenty deserters
from Qnesada's division. They, as we:l as the soldiers
who guarded them, were in a state very nearly ap-
proaching to nudity. Tile reason they give fur having
deserted is because every promise made to them had
been broken. A fire took place yesterday in the street
de la Rodas, which caused great mischief. It is said it
was intentional, and for the purpose of injuring a dyer
(in whose house it commenced), who is well kuown for
his attachment to the Constitutional system.
FRENCH PAPERS.

FROM. THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS MONDAY.
The King has been graciously pleased to grant a
free pardon to Colonel Mazian, who was in prison upon
conviction of being implicated in the conspiracy of
August 19, 1820.
The King, upon the proposition of the Minister of
the Marine, has decided that the 120 gun ship Le For-
midable, recently launched at Toulon, be called
Le Trocadercy in memory of the capture of that fort by
the army under the command of tlieDu ke of Angouleme.
FROM THE JOURNAL DU COMMERCE.

The letters and papers from Madrid, arrived by the
regular post, are up to the 15th instant. On-the evening
of the 14;11 a conflagration had broken out at the same
time in four quarters of the city ; but the activity of the
French troops prevented its making any great progress.
Two children, however, perished.
It is said that the Empecinado and some other Con-
stitutionalists, who were prisoners at Roa, in Old Cas-
tile, have, been massacred.'

The news from Toledo is to the 13 h. The Marquis
of Talatu shad arrived there, and it was ',mown that
General Bourmont was to be remove! from the com-
mand of the Army of Occupation ; but King dis-
tributes his favours only to pt noes in his good graces,
it was expected that the General, bef.:re lit, departure, •
would receive a decoration, and perhaps a patent of
Nobility. This is the more probable, tid>m the circum-
stance of his having confer; ed the Order of Charles 111,
upon General Donnadicu, uho ha; been removed, for
reasons which have probably some analogy with those
whisll induce the recal of General BoUrmont.'
FROM THE ET:,ILE OF TUESDAY.
• Our letters from Spain inform us that the prisoners
of ar enter their country without experiencing the

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