Star.
London, England, 1831-04-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
SPAIN.
(From the Madrid Gamete.)
The King, our master, has been pleased to transmit to
me, under date of yesterday, the following Royal order :
" The infamous and audacious incursions that the rebel
faction has dared to consummate in various points of the king-di
dom, the unexpected events at Cadiz and at the Isla, and e
multitude of criminal acts of simultaneous perpetration in
several places, have fully convinced my Royal mind of the
existence of a club of revolutionists, who, to put into execu-
tion the plans devised in other countries by the directors and
agents of secret societies, omit no means of realizing the iniqui-
tous work thus prepared for them. True it is that the results of
such attempts have been such as must necessarily have
been expected from the valour and decision of my troops—
from the frequently proved loyalty of the Royalist volun-
teers, and from the intimate conviction, that when recol-
!ening a period of odious memory, the whole kingdom
feels that its felicity and tranquillity depend on the preser-
vation of its ancient and venerated laws, and on the throne
on which GOD has placed me, and where the love and the
true fidelity of my subjects have repeatedly preserved me.
In every direction the revolutionary hordes have been
beaten and destroyed. Every where loyalty has rejected
with indignation the very Battering promises of perfidy;
and, finally, in all parts the people have manifested their
disgust at the plots and artifices which have been
introduced for the purpose of seducing their love and respect
from the government and religion of their ancestors. But
notwithstanding these facts, by which I can deduce the
ephemeral bases which sustain the calculations and machina-
tions of the ill-affected, a wise policy dictates to me moreover
the obligation of preventing crime, and has convinced my
royal mind, that to obviate the seduction of incautious per-
sons into a participation of its commission, the penalties
hitherto established by the laws and royal orders against the
perpetration of such atrocious and criminal attempts, are not,
nor can be, sufficient to deter them, if anterior to their applica-
tion, the forms and solemnities adapted to tranquil times are to
be observed. With this view, and considering the measures

which, under parallel circumstances, I judged it expedient
to decree a royal order on the 13th of January,lB24, I have
in compliance with the opinion of my council of ministers
been pleased to resolve, among other things, the following :
" Art. 1. From this time forward, a permanent and executive mill.
tart' commission shall be established in Madrid.
" Art. 2. Similar commissions shall be established in the capitals of
the provinces, where their respective Captains-General shall judge theta
opportune.
" Art. 3. These Commissions shall be composed of a president of the
rank of klariscal de Campo, or Brigadier, of an assessor, who in Madrid
shall be an Alcalde de Casa y Corte, at the selection of the Captain-Ge.
neral of New Castile, and In the provinces, the Minister of the Chanctl-
leria or Audiencia, to be nominated by the President of the Commis-
sion, and of six suffragans of the rank of Brigadiers, Colonels, or Lieu-
tenant-Colonels, to he proposal immediately by the Captain-General of
this province, and the others when they shall submit to me, for my
sovereigr. approbation, the necessity er propriety of organising the tom.
missions in the provinces under their respective commands.
_

" Art. 4. To each of these commissions there shall be attached the
number of fiscals and secretaries, as the amount of processes may
Induce the President to deem requisite: he shall propose them to
the Captain•Qeneral for his nomination, and they are to be of the
rank of Captain. _ _

" Art. 6. All persons shall be subjected to the jurisdiction of these
military commissions, who, from the date of their respective installa-
tions, do commit the crimes provided for in the articles 2,3, 4,5, 6,
7,8, and 9, of my sovereign decree of the lst of Oct. last ; it being the
duty of the Superintendent-General of the Police to remit to the Cap-
tains-General (where they may be organised) the lists mentioned in
Art. 6 of the said decree, for the application to the culprits of the pun-
ishment there expressed, with such others as they may deserve for
former acts ; but the criminals referred to in the let article of the said
decree, shall be punished in the mode and to the extent there ex-
pressed.

" Art. 6. Likewise shall be subject to these commissions, those per-
sons, who from the date mentioned in the foregoing articles, shall de-
clue themselves, by anns or deeds, enemies to the legitimate tights of
my throne, or partisans of the abolished constitution ; those who write
papers or pasquinatles towards the same ends ; those who speak against
my sovereignty ; those who seduce, or attempt to seduce, with words,
promises, or gifts, others from their fidelity to my royal person, or use
any means that has for its object to aid the plans of the rebel faction; and
those who spread alarming intelligence relative to the forces of the same,
or in any other way inspire fear in the minds of my pacific subjects.
" Art. 7 to 14 relate to the forms of process.

" Art. 15. The punishment of death, when confirmed, shall be carried
into effect by the public executioner, should he be at hand t if not, by
the troops, according to subsequent arrangements.
" Art. 16. All persons who may be charged with the crimes within
the cognizance of the military commissions as expressed, become de-
prived of their privileges, whatever may be their class, rank, state, and
condition, without any exception; for this object, I set aside all orders,
laws, and royal patents, which act in opposition to it. Should the cul-
prit be an ecclesiastic, it is my will, that although the commission shall
institute his process, it shall be conducted according to my Royal de-
cree of the 13th of September, 1815, which remains in force.
" Att. 17. States that the commissions are not to adjudicate beyond
the crimes expressed in articles 5 and 6, with the circumstance of their
being committed after their organization.
"Art. 18. The ordinary civil and military tribunals shall continue
to proceed with the processes already commenced, or that may offer
themselves, relative to the aforesaid crimes, until the installation of the
commissions, and they shall substantiate and close them with the great-
est possible brevity, in accordance with the laws and royal decrees;
but if, after their organization, they shall have notice of any of the
crimes expressed in art. 6 and 6 having been committed, they shall
verify the facts, and shall refer them with the culprits, if they can be
found, to the commissions. The police have likewise instructions to
inform on all such cases they may hear of.
" Art.l9. The foregoing disposure shall remain in force as long u
the circumstances which have necessitated it may exist.
" (Signed by the Royal hand.)
(Countersigned) "ZAMBRANO.

" Madrid, March P.,."
(EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.)

" MADRID, —Maims 24.
" From 200 to 300 persona have already been arrested In Madrid;
among whom, I am just informed, but have not time to ascertain the
fact before the courier leaves, are the Dukes de Friu and de San Lo-
renzo, the Marquis de Santiago, Berinbas, Regato, besides many other
persons of distinction and uote. The Government have, I understand,
at last succeeded in discovering a plot which has been a long time in
progression, in which these persons are implicated, and which had con.
neilon with the Cadiz affair. I expect much will come to light in the
course of a few days, as it is whispered that their ' cipher,' &c. is like-
wise in possession of the Government."
Frost Ike Madrid Gazelle of the toth of Merck.
TO TIM CAPTAIN.OEXTRAL OF TIM PROVINCE.

Sir,—The King our Lord having consented to this proposition
among others which the Council of Ministers have submitted to His
Majesty, he has been pleased to determine, that in each of the quarters
into which this capital is divided, elute shall ►e appointed a military
commandant of the rank of field-officer, an adjutant of the rank of sub-
altern, who having under their orders a scrjeant and twenty royalist
volunteers of the battalion of this capital, shall maintain the tranquillity
of their respective quarter.
(Signed) " ZAMBRANO,
" Madrid. March 11. Minister of War."
ZXTRACT OP A PRIVATI LIITTIII.
•' MADRID, Maims( 28.

"An individual was arrested on the 24th, for crying ' Viva In
lilierta' in a coffee.house, being in a state of intoxication. He was