Star.
London, England, 1824-04-16 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The I:toile of Wednesday contains advices from Ma-
drid to the 9th instant. They announce that the head-
quarters of the French, with a regiment of cavalry, two
of infantry, and a division of artillery, were to remain
•u► that capital together with the Bureaux, and the Mili-
tary Hospital, and that the rest of the garrison was to
be quartered in the neighbouring villages and towns.
It appears that the Commander in Chief, Count Boor-
mont, had incurred the displeasure of the French or
Spanish CGUIt, as he was to be removed from his situ-
,ation, and to be succeeded by Count Rivaud L'e la Raf-
tiaiere, who, if he has not so much military experience
us his veteran predecessor, possesses over him the great
advantage of a name, the very sound of which speaks of
emigration and the ancient regime! A notice horn
the Superintendant•General of the Police of the king-
dom, posted up in Madrid, and published in the Ga-
zette, warns the inhabitants against the plots of the ill-
disposed, who thought to disturb the public tranquillity
by circulating false reports and odious calumnies.—
They are said to have even sent circulars to the Com-
mandant of the Royal Vulunteers, enclosing forged or•
ders purporting to come horn the King, directing them
to resist the execution of the new regulations for their
corps publicly approved of by his Majesty. The Etoik
also denies the truth of the statements published by the
Journal des Debuts, respecting the occurrence of tumul-
tuous scenes at Cordova, Seville, and Valencia. Both
Papers, however, agree in stating that a sanguinary
conflict took place at Tours (in trance itself) on the I
7th instant, between some journeymen carpenters and
several dragoons of the 9th regiment, in which one of
the jou* neymen was killed by a blow from a sabre, and
another wounded, and three dragoons wounded, one of
them mortally. The cause of this conflict is said to
have been intoxication, but it is difficult not to believe
that it was connected with political feelings.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
MADRID, APRIL i.

The first decree that we are favoured with from
Aranjuez relates to the claims on the French Govern-
ment for supplies to the armies of Napoleon, from the
year 1807 and succeeding ones, by various corpo:a.'
lions andindividuals of Spain, the liquidation of which
was agreed to by the treaty of Paris of 1814., and rati-
fied by the Convention of November, 1815; in virtue
whereof the said claims were finally settled in 1818;
and thirty-seven millions of francs were inscribed in the
Great Book, to the credit of the Spanish Government.

By the very nature of this Decree, the claims w

never be liquidated, with the exception of four or five,
to make a she w-off ;or admitting the possibility of the
whole being settled, in what does the payment consist?
—in certificates. The certificates of the Spanish Go-
vernment ate at a discount of 91 per cent. and if any
one were to offer to buy to the amount of a tlicusand
pounds sterling, he would find them at a discount of
99 per cent. which proves, as much as anything can
do, that the good faith of Ferdinand the Seventh is
worth one per cent. and no more ! So, for 120 millions
of cash received by the Government on account of its
own subjects, the latter will receive about one million
two hundred thousand ; and this is to be blazoned about
as an act of the highest justice, a scrupulous regard to
duty in watching over their interests and welfare, and

as a landmark (a tlecoy, I would say) for all others who
may put their trust in it.
Although the order for banishing the inhabitants froth
Aranjues has not been put frilly ittto execution, yet
those who remain will be about M badly off as those
who have gone; for the King has ordered that no one
shall enter the place without a passpom had expressly
from him, excepting only the Ambassadors and suites,
and those employed in the palace.
Everybody in the money-making way is most sadly
disappointed. The Royal Family have taken with them
everything they needed, with the determination of not
laying out a sixpence among the disloyal inhabitants.
I hear that the Royal mind is highly delighted with this
display of ingenuity. He says he has bit them—if he
hadn't them one way he has them another.
Since the departure of the French troops, the people
appear more unletteied, and speak their minds very
freely. Everybody is disgusted. They all say the
peesent system cannot last; that some changes ale
about to take place, but what they are they cannot di-
vine. The Royalists have taken an odium to the French,
which is fomented by the Constitution.rlists giving out
that they have taken the King to Aranjnez to make him I
sign the Charter, and the formation or two Chambers;
and they allege in proof, his being surrounded solely by
French troops, and the order that no one shall enter the
place without the King's authority, and which can only
be obtained through a Frenchman.