Star.
London, England, 1821-05-28 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS.

MADRID, MAY to.

We received very late yesterday the account of
what had passed at La Fontana, so that it was not
possible for us to mention it. We can now say that
a Mr. Nunez, brother to the Captain of that name,
well known for the sacred principle which he has
never ceased to advocate, delivered a magnificent
discourse, in which, for the violent diatribes—its odi-
ous designation—the ridiculoos exaggerations which
have unhappily been too often heard in that Club, he
substituted most important truths and luminous axioms
in politics and legislation : and the whole in a lofty
style, which gave extraordinary splendour to this fine
production. We would propose to erect a Patriotic
Society in every ward of the city, if all the citizens
would speak on the same principles as M. Nunez ; or
we would order them all to be shut if they spoke like
the Valencian Clergyman.
MAY 11.—Yesterday evening the assembly at La
Fontana was brilliant. All the orators, including the
Valencian Clergyman, expressed excellent principles.
'di The love of his country and its prosperity were his
pride. If indulging in personalities, with which be was
reproached, had bad consequences, he would give up
that course," and in fact he spoke afterwards like the
brothers Nunez and the other orators. If the club at
La Fontana goes on thus, it will be advisable for all
persons who have not much to do to go in the evening
to hear lessons of pure patriotism.
MAY 12.—1 t is confidently asserted, that Senor
Dan Pedro Sainz de Baranda has been nominated
Political Chief of Madrid, and the Marquis de Casa
Irujo, to the post of Ambassador from Spain to the li
Court of Paris.
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Accounts from Vittoria, of the Bth of May, say,
that the troops and the local militia of that city, who
continue to scour the province since the affair of Sal-
vatierra, in pursuit of the rebels there dispersed, met
with some of them near Valpresta, of whom they
killed two and took seven, whom they have brought
Isere badly wounded, especially their chief, the Cler-
gyman of Pipaon,—he sent men to clear the country
of this rabble, who became robbers ; the Catalonians
as well as the Cavalry del Infante, and the National
Militia, have taken the field again. The preparatory
steps to try the rebels of Salvatierra and others before
the Military Tribunal, are proceeding with great ac-
tivity. The Captain-General of Guipuscoa and his
auditors are now here, and will probably remain till
the conclusion of the proceedings, which, though
very disagreeable, are absolutely necessary to main-
tain order. In the Sitting of the Cones on the I Ith,
the Secretary of the Home Department gave an ac-
count of the arrests which, at the petition of various
individuals, had been made in several great cities, of
persons considered as disaffected to the new system.
The Government, he said, was sensibly afflicted at
the repetition of disorder, which lowered the present
system in the esteem of foreign nations, and tended
to increase the internal enemies of the Constitution ;
*ad that it had taken all means to prevent any future
violation of the law.

His Majesty has signified to the Cortes by the Mi-
nister at War, that on account of the important affairs
now before them, the decision of which is essential
to the interest of the nation, his Majesty, using the
pow, ers vested in him by the Constitution, declares
the Session prolonged for one month.
The Regiment Royal Alexander, one of the most
devoted to the new system, is to be in garrison at Vit-
toria, where the military tribunal sits which tries the
prisoners taken at Salvatiarra.
!RUN, MAY se.
rrivate letters state, that General Elio, formerly
Military Governor of Valencia, who has been long
confined in the prison of Vittoria, four of the Chiefs
of Salvatierra, the Mayor of that town, and two Ec-
deeiastich have been condemned to death.