Star.
London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, March 24:--" The
discoveries of the conspiracy are increasing. The police
have entered the house of an officer of engineers, of the
name of Marco Artur, who was a director of the plot. At
the moment of their entrance he was occupied in writing to
Mina ; and a number of other persons were also engaged in
similar correspondence with various parts of the Peninsula.
The officer made his escape by a back window, and has not
yet been taken. In the house were found a large number of
tricoloured cockades, with inscriptions of Viva la Francis'—
` Viva la Libertad'—and Viva la Constitucion,' such as
have been strewed about Madrid lately, and likewise tri-
coloured flags. The correspondence was seized, and im-
plicates a number of French people, and proves that large
sums cf money have been distributed to the troops. The
revolution was to have broken out in Madrid on the 19th
instant."

Mr. Burgos is preparing to set out for Paris ; he is sup-
posed to have unlimited powers to arrange the affair of the
debt of the Cortes, as well as to contract fresh loans for our
government. It is affirmed that our Minister of Finance
has given orders to M. Aguado to pay in advance to the
French treasury the 2,000,000 which will be due on the let of
July next, as interest of the 80,000,000. This would seem
to demonstrate that our coffers are not empty, whatever may
be said ; or perhaps it is only a bait, to tempt monied
men to take part in the new loan of which we have spoken
above The troops of the Isle of Leon, whose submission to
His Majesty's clemency is announced by the Gazette, are a
part of the brigade of artillery, and some single detachments,
which were not openly implicated. They were set by the
chiefs of the insurrection to guard some posts, for the pur-
pose of masking the retreat, which was effected by 2,000
men, with some field-pieces. This resolution, with that of
ahandonding the Isla, was taken when it was known that the
attempt on Cadiz, which was depended on, had failed ; and
afterwards, not to be compelled to sustain a blockade by su-
perior forces, which General Quesada was collecting from
all sides.

The Official Gazette contains no despatch from the civil
or military authorities of Andalusia ; its columns are filled
with accounts of the death of 17 Constitutionalists, who were
shot at Estepona. Among those victims are some distin-
guished persons, such as Don Paul Mae, Don Emmanuel
Ribero, Don Emmanuel Garcia Agundes, Don Vincente
Cegido, and Don Thomas Benites. General Quesada, who
heretofore had never known what mercy was, has refused to
execute the last act of cruelty that was dictated to him by his
master. He had obtained, by a promise of pardon, the sub-
mission of 400 marines who had joined the Constitutionalists;
bat Ferdinand, in his inexhaustible clemency, had decided
that every tenth man of them (making in all 40) should be
put to death. The General suspended the execution, and
sent a respectful representation to the King, to beg he would
accept his resignation in case his Majesty should feel of-
fended at his disobedience.

ITALY.
It is affirmed that news has been received at Paris of the
arrival of a division of the army of General Frimont at
Florence, on its march to Rome. Thus the Austrians
occupy not only the Romagna, but also Tuscany, and are on
their march to the capital of the Christian world. We
shall learn how all this is to be reconciled with the principle
of non-intervention. It seems pretty certain that the
amendments made by the Chamber of Peers on the elec-
toral law will not be adopted by the Chamber of Deputies.
It is said that the majority declares beforehand against the
ithanges made in the law. We shall be happy if this hope
should be realized.

MODENA, MARCH 25.--The Archduke would not have
the money in the exchequer of this city taken away, in or-
der that the inhabitants might not be burdened with the ex-
traordinary contributiuns by the revolutionists. On the ap-
proach of the Austrians, those liberal regenerators carried

off the treasure, which they divided among themselves, but
not without altercations and discontent in the soldiets, with
their chiefs, aho adjudged five-sixths of it to themselves.—
The tyrannical laws, and the pillage of all kinds, had so ex-
asperated the Modenese, that an insurrection against the re-
volutionists would infallibly have broken out. A letterwritten
from San Fermiano, near Bologna, dated March 22, an-
nounces that the population of all the surrounding country
had received the Austrians with testimonies of entire satis-
faction. Like the insurgents of Modena and Parma, those
of Bologna laid under contribution all the churches and the
principal farmers that were in their way. It is believed that
they are going to retreat into the Apennines, where the inha-
bitants will carry on a war of extermination against them.
Great apprehensions are felt for Cardinal Benvenuti, Bishop
of Osimo, whom they have carried off a prisoner, and whose
health was already impaired by the ill-treatment he had re-
ceived. Public prayers are put up in Upper Italy for the life
and speedy delivery of this prelate.