Star.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

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PROM THE ZTOILE, DATED SATURDAY, SEPT. 24.
ST. ILDEFONSO, SEPT. 12.
Since the return of the General Count D'Espagne to
Madrid, he and the Officers who accompanied him are
eagerly questioned respecting the details of the last mo-
ments of Bessieres and his companions. Bessieres and
the seven Officers who were shot with him, died with the
Treatest fortitude. He di'l not make any disclosures.
yro other Officers, who were taken with Bessierei, have
been pardoned upon the declaration of Goatee, that he
inducei them to accompany him without acquainting
them with his designs. The soldiers have been sear
t(' Ma hid.
At Sectuenza the Count D'Espagne had a temaikable
eonversattoa with some persons who were pointed out as
belonging to the party of Bessieres.
6. We have felusuch (said they) for what so sensible
a heart as your'i -must have suffered in carrying into
execution, orders which were doubtless just, but very
rigorous. Ye-, answered the General, but at that mo-
ment I was thinking of the Officers of Charles V. who
had orders to put to death the Bishop of Zamora, for
the conspiracy of the Communes, and I congratulate my-
self that I had to have a soldier shot instead of a Bishop."
The troubles which had been proposed in tae pro-
vintes for the moment when the conspiracy of Bessieres
should break out, have been promptly suppressed, and
most of the projects conceivs d have even been defeated
before they had manifested themselves by open rebel-
lion. But at Tortosa things went further. The chief
of tl:e conspiracy was a Catalonian named Wach, com-
manding a battalion in garrison in that city. By an
insurrection of the inhabitants of the country, and part
of the population of Tortosa, it was intended to depose
the Governor, to seise the citadel, to fall upon the
Negros, and to pil'age their houses. The Captain who
commanded the fort having caused the bridge to be
drawn up, instead of favouring the projects of the con-,
spirators, their accompl;ces in the city did not venture
to make any attempt, and the country people who were
already arriving at the gates thought it the most pru-
dent to retire. Their watch with two Officers fled, and
in the evening two battalions, sent by the Marquis de
Campo &firers, in consequence of previous informa-
tion, entered Tortosa. The celebrated Bishop Victor
Saes, offered to the Municipality, which had an Extra-
ordinary Meeting, money, and every kind of assistance
which could contribute to preserve order. A Junta met,
composed of the Bishop the Canons, Monks, and Public
Officers, but it was dissolved soon after by superior orders.
The Chevalier Anduago, brother-in-law to M. Zea, has
been enjoined immediately to prsiceed to Barcelona, there
to wait fet.further orders.

Letters from Corfu state that some dispatches bad
I cen seized upon a messenger of Ibrahim Pacha, by
..Lich it was discovered that several Austrians of rank
I,.ive been deeply intriguing with the Turkish Govern
thent for the destruction of Greece.
The Rosburgh Castle, bound to Bengal, carried a
hooner, with 135 slaves on board, into Sierra Leone
about the 15th of July, and proceeded on btr voyage
at few days after.
A lettei from Guatemala of the 12th of June says—
' in two years we have planted in Guatemala and San
balvador five millions of cochineal trees, three times the
bumber they have in Oaxaca, and our grain is of sape•
for cluality to theirs. Our mines and indigo are pro.,
grewavely increasing. In ten months we have coined
Loon minks of gold, and indigo has produced to the
state of Salvador more than two millions of dollars."