Star.
London, England, 1824-08-10 00:00:00

AFFRAY AT MADRID.

The following additional particulars of the affray at
Madrid on the 25th ult. are from the French papers
and private letters:
MADRID, JULY se.

Yesterday the eaPital was the theatre of a lamentable
scene. Some French chasseurs, being in a pot-house,
were insulted by one of Quesada's soldiers, who was
soon chastised for his rashness. Other Spaniards took
part in the quarrel, and the guards, composed entirely
of Spaniards, instead of endeavouring to restore order,
took part in the excesses against the chasseurs. The
French soon came to the assistance of their comrades.
In an instant sabres were drawn, and the French sus-
tained an unequal combat. The Royalist volunteers of
the quarter caused /a generale to be beaten, and, after
taking arms, flocked in crowds to the scene of action.
A musket-shot was the signal of assassination. The
French, without any arms except their sabres, defended
themselves heroically, and dearly sold their lives. The
houses were closed—the doors were barricadoed—ter-
ror prevailed on every side, and cries of 64 Death to the
.French r resounded. The populace, armed with stones
and clubs, rushed upon the French. The Royalist vo-
lunteers kept up a fire. More than three hundred mus-
kets were discharged. Fortunately, they did not do
the mischief that might have been expected.
General Ordonneau and General. Quesada. coming
up with the French and Spanish troops, succeeded, after
much exertion, in restoring order. An extraordinary
thing is, that the Spaniards, who alone were armed with
muskets, had more killed and wounded than the French.
The latter bad five or six men killed, and twice the
number wounded. Upon this occasion la generale was
batten, and all the troops were under arms. We make
nctrefiections. AU the blame attaches to the Spaniards.
This morning General Digeon sent one of his Aides-
de-Camp, under the escort of eight chasseurs, to Sace-
don, with a letter to the King, in which it is said to be
stated, that unless within 48 hours he receives ample
satisfaction for the assassination of yesterday, he will
immediately quit the capital with his troops.

PIJVATt LITTIIt, SAM DATE.
" The degree of beat we are at this moment expel.'
encing here is almost intolerable, the thermometer has
not been known to mark so high for 107 years. This
intense sultriness of the weather seems to have produced
an effervescence in the blood of the populace—they are,
if possible, more inclined to be turbulent and evil dia•
posed than ever. This unfortunate disposition was called
tato action by the affair which took place yesterday
(Sunday), a slay upon which there are a sufficient
at enber of drunken persons to be found in the streets.
Five French soldiers, somewhat overcharged with
liquor, and probably rendered vicious by the heat,
were passing through the street of San Antonio, in
quarter Maravillas, where there is a sentinel placed boa
longing to the battalion of Guides of Quesada, which
has a guard-house in the neighbourhood ; the French
soldiers took it into their beads to disarm this sentinel,
but be resisted long enough to give his comrades at the
guard-house time to come up; which they did with their
fire arms. A great number of French soldiers who were
drinking in the adjoining wine-houses rushed also to the
spot; mob also soon collected, the greater part of
whom took the side of their countrymen, and is a short
time there was a pell-mell engagement between the
French and the Spanish soldiers and populace. At one
time there were probably not less than five hundred
persons engaged. Several shots were fired, and sabre-
wounds were dealt about in all directions with right
good will. The affair at length becan;e so alarmingly
serious, that the authorities talked of bringing down a
troop of cavalry and advancing some pieces of cannon,
when probably another second of May would have been
the consequence; but fortunately some superior Of-
ficers, both French and Spanish, having arrived on the
spot, succeeded, but not without considerable difficulty
and some personal risk, in quelling the fury of the sol-
diers and soothing the populace, who were exasperated
to the highest pitch; nor was the alarm and confusion
confined to the scene of the riot—it spread with incon-
ceivable rapidity through the rest of the city, the more
particularly as the inhabitants heard the drums beating
to arms in the barracks, and the tocsin sounding; some
of the populace having got into the belfries of some of
the churches, and set the clappers of the bells going.
In these kinds of popular commotions it is difficult
to ascertain the precise quantity of mischief done, as
yet we only know for certain that :fight men have been
killed, and twenty-nine wounded, some of the latter
dangetously. I myself saw seven or eight carried to
the hospital, one of whom bad the leg almost entirely
cut off, and another whose body was scarcely recogniza-
ble from the number of sabre wounds with which it was,
covered. A person who was in the melee told me he
saw four French lancers stretched apparently lifeless on
the ground. Both sides fought so well that it is doubtful
which had the better of it, when the officers interfered.
There is one thing certain, that if the utmost precautions
be not adopted to keep the French and Spanish soldiers
apart, there will be a frequent occurrence of similar
afflicting scenes. The Spaniards too, look with a most
evil eye upon the French soldiers; and they have un-
fortunately got an idea into their heads, that notwith-
standing the conduct of the French Government, the
soldiers of that nation are more disposed to respect the
Negros than the Blancoa"

A private letter from Frankfort states, that the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA has commuted the penalty of death,
pronounced last year by the Supreme Tribunal of
Verona against certain individuals for high treason, to
20years solitary imprisonment in thefortress of Spi tzberg.
Letters from Maranham of the 25th June, were re-
ceived yesterday. They give a sad picture of the state
of affairs in that part of the Brazils ; one of them says
—" I am sorry I cannot give you a better account than
the last. Our relations with the interior are all at a
stand. The boats which leave this place are invariably
plundered by a band of 400 soldiers, who, having put
down the General at Arms, have established themselves
on the banks of the river, and subsist upon plunder. No
European Portuguese dare venture out at night. Unless
Portugal should recognize the independence of Brasil,
the result of ail this may be dreadful."
A vessel was seized at Liverpool last week by the
Custom-house Officers, having on board a cargo of Bra-
bant wheat, which had been shipped under false docu-
ments as British. She is the Alert, of Rye.