Star.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

No. 1 ] .

TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.—STAFF.--SECOND SECTION.
&a muse Soma —The fatal and unexpected loss of the castle of
Santi Petri hai placed in the hands of the enemy, who was previ-
ously master of the waters, the true key of our position, whether
we consider solely the military relations, or the state of almost
absolute want of communication in which we are placed. The
probabilities favourable to the defence have diminished infi-
nitely. The equilibrium of force has been lest on our side. There
is but one means of re-establishing it, and unfortunately that
' means is unattainable. And, in fact, if it had been possible for
me to have constructed in the fortress of Santi Petri in proper
time, and with suitable rapidity, a complete and well-combined
system of works, and if it had been in my power to have held
constantly iu that point 2,000 determined and well-conditioned
troops, they -might then perhaps have been able to have ilentra.
lined the power of the enemy, and to have prolonged inilefiuitely
the defence. But the scarcity of artillery and engineering ma-
teriel, the absolute want of funds to most the expenses which such
measures would occasion, and to pay the great nrimber of labourers
which it wmaki be necessary to employ, were powerful and invinci-
ble obstacles which my energy and good wishes endeavoured in vain
to sdrmount. There was, too, another cause still spore powerful, as
it attacked the bases of all our ideas of resistance. Whether it was
that the reverses and defections which rapidly succeeded each other
of late, bad influenced the minds of the troops, or that the bribery
and gold of our enemies had corrupted them, it is certain that their
discipline and subordination began to waver and•lose ground, and
a pernicious spirit was seen to spread anwngst the most confidential'
corps. Their enthusiasm was succeeded by a deplorable wart of
energy, a clear and decided cowardice, to the eternal disgrace of otu-
military
glory, of Which we have just had such Lwientable proofs.
These, Excellent Sir, are the elements which I hold at My dispo-
sal, to sustain the Isle of Cadiz, the depository of the I.;overninent
and of the sacred person of the King, the asylum of so many well-
deserving citizens compromised in thy cause of liberty, and the cen-
tre of the hopes of the rest of the country. This view of the sub-
ject, while itendangera the object which -his lilajestrdu4ned to
place under my care, extends beyti its natoral limits the defence
of this point, and connects it with Ratio*, of high politteal.hapoet„.
ince ; and Such is the powerful reason which induces me to impress
myself to your Excellency in different terms. from those which I
should have adopted, had I been simply charged with the defence
of a fortress, or of a fortified hoe. From the statement which I
have given above, your Excellency will perceive, that if the enemy
should attempt a vigatous attack-upon the beach, the works would
afford no means of repulsing him, and that he would inevitably esta-
blish a footing on the island. Nothing then Would 'remain for us
but to draw our troops rapidly together, •and to risk au action in
open field, of the ill succeu of wisick,.the desuoralizatiau an 4 de-
cided cowardice of our troops conk! scarce give reuse-to 'doubt.
Tfie loss of an action if this killk*Onki assure th dOCOMMIT UP

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possession of all the wstrks of the line, which ha w 0.11.1 eta
by its gorge, getting into his own hands an immense p.trk ,bt
lery, which would smooth the way to his ulterior operatitc.s
deed, it is iniposi•ible to. say whether is defeat uncle: such
wtancea would not produce a total dispersion of the army, deem,
us of every resource for maintaining resistance. That fatal e,
too, would expose to all the horrors of war this city, which, hyl;
services in the patriotic cause, well deserves this consideratk,n
tl
Government. These and other reasons, which it would be nip,
fluous to add, have coovinced rase that nothing would he tnareA,
vantageous,u oder our present unfortunate cireumstances,than to eal,
fine our radius of defence to the country between Cadis sad 41
Cortadura, abandoning consequently this estnnded line, which
impossible to cover by the small number of ttoops.whiels ate v 4
to be depended upon. Though this vigorous operation will persik
the enemy to extend the line of his forces, it will afford an opporty,
nity for the wisdom of Government to find the means of causes*
state Irons the ominous lawswhieh open forest is accustomed todietA
This operation, executed in time and with tranquillity, wouldl4
able us to remove articles and means necessary for our objets,
to render useless those which we might net be able to bring aspz
In like manner, it would afford an opportunity for providing fw
safety of this well-deserving populatioo, by supplying the tweiens
army with the necessary steps for estaislishiog an armistice, utii-4.
in every way, it would be of ths: greatest interest to us to obtss
through the medium of the Government. Then, too, vie tni*
proeved to select the best troops now in this place for the erects%
of the defences and, in fine, combinations of measures might ~
provided, which it is not possible to execute in the tumult of bat*
particularly when its result is unfortunate. With this view, I leci
forward to a resolution of the Government, as rapid and determiata
as the present circumstances require, for every hour is mow an ask
in its results. For my pan, all that I have .aid has been dittaug
by the pure love which I feel for my country, and by the min"
reflections which I incessantly make on our terrible situation,.,„
The wisdom of Govcrnmert will consider my opinions with the
deliberation and caution which the importance of the subject 4,
mantis, and wit determine nn what meg he tooted ennveeit.lit, jt
is indeed painful to me that I ant unable to afford to give hopes of
a more cheering nature, but I should commit a criminal mot
acted otherwise than I do; and I have only the consolation to 0.4,
sure the Government, that tl-ere are many Chiefs and (Mem tad
even privates, of the troops, who, like 'myself, have for their gaol.
dire object the happiness and independence of their country, and
who would joyfully die rather than yield to the arbitrary law no
foreign conqueror.—Goo preserve your It:tc.lleney many years,
San Fernando, Sept. 24,1823.
To his Excellency the Secretary of State for the War Department,
No. 12, states, that a Junta of Generals had reported, tbst
Government could not answer for the defence of the I.la Gsditach
and that it would be wrong to risk a battle which presented ;tibias
prospect of a successful issue.
Nos. 14, 15, and 18, give short and insignificant reports of the
formality of proceeding of the Cortes, and to the advisable ow&
Bons of military defence.
No. 17 consists merely of the particular vote of User's Rot"
Calderon, Moran, Gerer, and Ruiz de la Vega, in the Canes.
Nos. 18 and 19, are equally unimportant, being anthill; No
than a list of the ayes and noes.

SPAIN.
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FROM THR RTOILZ.

MATA IW, OCTOBER 49.

I hasten to inform you that the Articles of Capitula.
Lion of Barcelona were signed yesterday, and thit King i
troops are to take possession of this important place Oil
Friday, the 51st, in the morning.

MADRID, OCTOBER 24.
The corps of the French army which are in And;ls.
sia are going to leave that province in the following sr.
der :=First column to consist of 1000 Infitntry and 30)
Cavalry. The head-quarters of this division will arrin
in Madrid on the 91st instant, One day after the Prism
The second, column, of 1100 Infantry and 900 Cavalry,
will arrive in Madrid on the Ist of November.

The tliird column. of 1500 Infantry and.6oo Caniff,
will arrive in Madrid on the 2d of November.
The fourth column, of 1200 Infantry and 530 CA.
'ally., will arrive in Madrid on the ad of November,
The division of General Valtin, consistirg of lON
Infantry and 1600 Cavalry, will leave Sev;lle Atm day
after his Majesty, and arrive here by the route of
Extremadura.

The brigade of M. the Prince de Carignan, composed
of 700 infantry and 750 cavalry, will follow his
jesty from Seville to Madrid.
All the other corps have received orders to march fur
France, and the Dauphin regiment of cuirassiers left
yesterday ; thole of Beiri, Orleans, and Cond(s, will
depart on the 25th, '26th, and 28th instant. Thom/WWI
will follow the same movements.
His Majesty, by a decree issued on the 7th instant,
has ordained, that all the non-commissioned officers and
soldiers, who are prisoners of war in Fiance, shall re.
ceive their permanent discharge; previously to which,
they are to deliver up all the effects which they may
have belonging to the Government.
The Diario of Cadiz, of the 26th, contains the 44
of -the Governor of Cadiz, which reestablishes all du
ancient police regulations upon the same footing as day
existed previously to the 7th of March, 1820,
• OCTOBER. V,
Don Carlos Annoy has taken possession,on thy)*
of the Military and Political Government of Cadiz,
which his Majesty has confided to him, on whisibt
immediately addressed a proclamation to the inhabi•
tants of that great town, in which he reminds theme(
all the evils which took place in the infancy of Ott*
volution, and says—" What is that liberty which is tie
echoed in all our public places ? It is a liberty to
;mirk
press, to pillage, and- to murder friends and ;mirk
bours ; true liberty will appear under the laws, aid
conformably with the paternal intentions of the Xisilt
who sends me amongst you, not to exercise vengeilaresi
but to protect and console the good citizens."
The Count Xtourmont has published, on the loth, a<
Cadiz, the following Order of the Day s—
" His Royal Highness the Prince Generalissimo; of die WM
orders that the Spanish troops at Cadiz and the lilt at LOP
al
receive their pay and provisions from the chest awl gnapomi d
the French army."
Ws are Wormed from Cadiz, that all the Constil*
tional troops have been disbanded. They also wrlV
us that Admiral Villa-Vicencio Ikas received orders II
arts the Asia, and the frigates Perle and ilreAlgii
send them with succeurs to Lima.
We learn from Murcia, that on the 20th they 011111
meuced firing on Carthagenat which refused to Atipkil
to die King.
The partisan Carondelet entered Aleria on the IS*
The Rciyalists attacked him, and put him to conspiso
rout, killing 4.0 of his men.
BAYONNE, OCTOBER SS.
sehd you the official repori of the French wolf
which comprises the garrison of Cadia and La Isla, 11
Bourmont, Commander-in-Chief.
The Ist brigade at Cadiz; 2d brigade at La Ws;
brigade at Port St.' Mary and at aiclana,
The French Army of Occupation is composed of 0
regiments of infantry, six of light cavalry, and OW
batteries of artillery, There will be garrisons at JO
drid, Badajoz, Corunna, Santana, St. Sebastiaet
Pamireldna,
CADIZ, OCTOBER ty,
Gencralf)allasttiros, foxing to experience some 's,'
pleasant treatment in travelling through Spain, 10 18'
tire to his own province, Arragon, has solicited IWO
mined permission to make Port St. Mary his rifinPriff
residence. fie vegetates there in a meisuchoily
übancioned bievery unc,

The. inhabitants of Cadit continue to be distinguished
fora moderation 'which forms a wijigular contrast
with what is passing at Seville, Madrid, and other,
places. Notwithstanding the immense change which,
has taken place, no act of insult has been committed.
No song or acclamation which might, even indirectly,
the feelings of the fallen party, has been heard.
• The king is still at Seville. The Duke of San Fer-
nando, who. was Minister of Foreign Affairs when the
revolution broke out in March, 1820, and who has since
had no public employment, bn hastening to pay his re-
spects to his Majesty,was ordered to exile himself to Mur-
cia. Tills order caused great surprise. It is possible, that
the Confessor-Minister Mon Victor Saez), who now fills
the office which the Duke of San Fernando occupied in
D2O, has thought it prudent to remove his predecessor,
at a moment when it is proposed to place everything
on the old footing.
The decree of the Ist of October, signed by the King
et Port St. Mary, was not published here till yesterday.
This tardy publication of a document which completely
undoes everything which had been promised in the
proclamation of the. preceding day, caused the greatest
astonishment. Various attempts have been made to
explain the cause of the delay in publishing this impor-
tant document.
It appears, that on the eve of his departure from
Cadiz, the King told the late Minister Yandiola to hold
himself in readiness, as it was his intention to send for
him to continue his functions. Next day his Majesty
wroteto him 'with his own hand, to confirm this Rto-
itise. On the morning of the 3d, however, a fiiend
confidentially advised Yandiola to make his escape, as
the order for his arrest had been issued. Yandiola set
off immediately along with Calatrava.--Conatitutiorinel.

ARRAIGNMENT OF RIEGO.

FROM THE ETOILE.

Criminal indictment against Don Raphael itiego, in
the process commenced this day before the Second Tri-
bunal of the Alcaldes of the Royal Household of the
Court:—

" hiusratous LORDS,—If the Magistrate, to whom
are confided the proceedings against the traitor Riego,
were obliged to enumerate all the offences and villainies
which crowd the history of his criminal life, and to
which he has added the climax by the crime of high
treason, of which he is accused, whole days would be
insufficient for the recital. The brevity, however, which
is imposed upon that functionary, the short space of
time dining which the Procureur-General has had the
documents in his hands, because he has merely con-
suited the interests of public justice, do not permit him
to enter into ample details in his expose; it is necessary
that the greatest and most atrocious of crimes should
receive a prompt punishment. Loge:Fenced by these mo-
tives, and desirous that this' cliuse should be decided
without delay, the Magistrate finds himself compelled
to limit the accusation, and to reduce the numberless
crimes Unwed to the accused to the single one of high
treason. The loyal Spanish people demand, with one
Voice, vengeance for the evils which have been com-
mitted in Spain during the revolution ; society and the
nation demand that Riego should be punished, as one of
the most guilty of the revolutionists; who, after having
tevolted against the legitimate Government of dur
Kings, caused.so many calamities to the generous and
noble Spanish nation.
The infamous Riego, availing himself of the base-
ness of the soldiers destined to pacify America, for-
getting the duties imposed upon, him by the mission
with which he was charged, and proclaiming a Con-
stitution which had been abolished by his Sovereign, as
destructive of his sacred rights, the bases of an anar-
chical Government, and the destroyer of the funda-
Mental laws of the Monarchy, of our mariners, of our
Customs, and of our holy religion—the infamous Riego,
I say, is the author of all these calamities ; it is he who
has caused the eyes of a just and magnanimous King to
shed tears over the misfortunes of Spain; it is he who
has disregarded the most sacred duties—who has vio•
lated the oath which he took beneath the banners of his
King and master, at the moment when he commenced
the honourable career of arms: it is Riego, in fact,
viho not only published that proclamation, but who,
putting himself at the head of a licentious soldiery,
violated the Spanish territory, forcing the inhabitants,
by the terror of his arms, to partake of his treason and
perjury. He removed the authorities who were legiti-
mately constituted, substituting for them Constitutional
authorities, composed of rebels and demagogues, which
ohta;ned for him the name of the Hero of Las Ca6exas ;
he compelled the King our Lord to accept this odious
Constitution, the source of so many miseries to Spain.
" Since that period, Riego has incessantly been an
object of opprobrium to the Peninsula, by presenting
himself in the public squares, and in the balconies of
all the houses where he lodged, preaching rebelliein,
causing the fatal Constitutional system to triumph, and
authorizing the most heinous crimes, the inevitable re-
sult of a revolution which inflicted upon the august and
sacred person of his Majesty the utmost bitterness and
outrage. If your Fiscal, illustrious Loris, using the right
which belongs to his function, were to collect all the
accusations that exist against Riego, he would unfOld to
the light of laity a series of crimes of every description
which have so incensed the noble Spanish nation, that
from all parts oldie Peninsula, the cry has spontaneously
arisen, Death to the traitor Riego!' In the ardour of
their zeal, they have mingled with this cry, that of
' Long live the absolute ring ?
" There is no doubt, however, that the precise nature
of the indictment preferred against Riego, imposes upon
your Fiscal the necessity of confining the accusation to
the horrible offence which this traitor committed, as a
Deputy of the pretended Cones, in toting for the re-
moval of the King and Royal Family to Cadiz; in
employing violence and menaces towards his Majesty,
who energetically refused to obey such a mandate; and
in can ying his audacity so far as to strip the Monarch,
already a captive, of the ephemeral authority which the
revolution had consented to leave him.
" But, in the case teferred to, we have in our heads
all the documents, all the proofs which, in cases of a
much less grave complexion, are absolutely necessary
to apportion justly the pains and penalties incutred.
Here, the crime consists us the violence employed to.
wards the King, our Lord, to force him to consent, in
spite of his resistance, to his removal to the Island of
Cadiz—a crime unprecedented in the annals of Spain;
it consists, too, in the creation of airgency, its conse-
quence of a proposition which was ade in the same
tortes by the Deputy Galiano, another traitor, th 4 ac-
complice of 'Lego; and all those acts or violence and
of revolt manifestly constitute the clime of high trea-
son, which our laws punish with the pain of death- and
other infamous penalties, conformably to Tit. 2. of the

7th partidar, which agrees in this reticular with the
Recopdat
go We recognize** accused and convicted of this hor-
rible attempt, the said Don Raphael Ritgo, one of the
Deputies by whom the odious proposition of Galiano
was adopted. The proof of his culpability results, not
only from the inforinations obtained by the Royal Court
Audienaia at Seville (Criminal Chamber), and which
are found corroborated by all the Journals of that
period, which inserted a faithful and very circumstan-
tial report of the scandalous sitting of the 11th of June
last ; but, further, by the confessions of the criminal
himself—confessions which cast upon the mass of im-
portant proofs which we have collected a living light
which itself becomes evidence.
" Front all these considerations. the Fiscal demands
that the traitor Don Raphael Riego, accused and con-
victed of the crime of high treason, ;hall bq condemned
to death; that his property be confiscated for the public
good, that his head be exposed at Las Cabecas de St.
Juan, and that his body be divided into four quarters,
one of which shall be carried to Seville, another to the
Isle of Leon, the third to Malaga, and the fourth exposed
in this capital, in some place of public resort ; these
cities being the principal points where the traitor Riego
fanned the flame of revolt, and manifested his perfidi-
ous conduct. Thus dergands the Fiscal, in behalf of
public justice, whose dehisce is confided to him, and in
virtue of those privileges which belong to him in quality
of King's Piocureur.
" Madrid,- October 10."

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 132,.
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