Star.
London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

long deferred on account of the occupation of the
kingdom by foreign troops, will, it is said, take place
in the course of May next.
• The second hearing of the causes of calumny be,
Ltween General CANUIEL and Messrs. SAINNEVILLE
and FAEVIZR took place on Saturday. M. Durex,
the Advocate for M. SAttexxviLLE, was heard in
continuation, on the law as it regarded the e.ate of
facts which he exposed in his former speech.
M. BEITILI, the son, was then heard on behalf of
Captain LEDOTT4 who is a sort of sub-party to the
complaint of General CANUZL, having been named
as one of the General's incendiary agents; after which
the cause was again adjourned for another eight days.
The official Paper of Munich of the 2d instant,
contains an Edict of the Kiwi, appointing the elec-
tion of the Deputies to the Assembly of the States,
which stands convoked for the Ist ofJanuar y, 1819,
to be completed and reported before the 25th of
•
December.
Field-Marshal Mos/twin, formerly Governor di
Norway, has resigned his situation as Governor Ge-
neral of Stockholm, and all his other military digni-
ties. Various repOrts prevail as to the causes of this
resignation, which has excited a good deal of sensation.

According to all accounts from Spain, that can is
any way be relied on, the inhabitants are in a most
miserable and pitiable plight. Such is the system of
espionage, that it is next to impossible to converse
with safety on any topic, but particularly on any sub-
ject connected with politics or religion. In this state
of things, such a knowledge of facts as might enable
a person to communicate any thing like precise and
defined information on any of the topics that agitate,
perplex, and terrify all within reach of the influence
of the baneful vortex that threatens to swallow up
every thing humane or rational, is hardly to be ex•
peeted ; accordingly, the generality of the letters (of
which we subjoin one,) speak only in the way of
surmise and evil forebodings, and are filled with
expressions of dismay and frightful anticipations.
A plot is hinted at, not by the Grandees against the
Government, but by the Agents of certain Ministers
against a great body of the Grandees, by charging
them with a design to overthrow the Monarchy, and
to establish an oligarchy on its ruins. The Pores
NUNCIO, the PATRIARCH of the INDIES, and the IN-
QUISITOR-GENERAL, as has ever been the case where
such vermin have been suffered to interfere with the
affairs of nations, are prime movers in all that is
most deplorable in the measures which harass and
oppress the people, and destroy all social harmony.
All commerce is nearly annihilated, and confidence
destroyed ; nor can any man count on the security of
either person or property—a state than which anar-
chy itself cannot threaten a greater evil.—A new Es-
pedition is projected; an embargo has been laid onl
such of the shipping in different Forts, as are.fit for
transports ; and the owners, in addition to the robbery of
their vessels, must also find means to defray all the
expenses of the transports.
" MADRID, NOVEMBTR

" An embargo has been ordered at Cadiz and
some ether ports, upon ships of a certain size, for
the transport of the troops, which are to be sent im-
mediately to South America ; the expenses of every
description which may be incurred by them will be
paid by the owners of the ships.
" There is a very odd rumour in circulation in
this capital, about the arrival of a personage, who,
it is supposed, has been sent by the Congress at Aix- •
la-Chapelle with some commission to King Ferdi-
nand ; and the most curious thing is, that a great
many people, who think themselves very well infor-
med in political matters, are very busy in making
conjectures about the subject of this strange message •
" A M. Santurio (oa whose information M. Calvo
dc Razors and several others had been imprisoned),
who was in one of the cells of the gaol called De
Corte, knowing that M. Calvo was in another close
by, began to cry out as loud as he could, begging
M. Calvo's forgiveness for this wicked and false in-
formation, which, he added, he was persuaded to
give by the intreaties and promises of an official per-
sonage. This affair has occasioned a great deal of
uneasiness to the party concerned in it.
" We are surrounded here with Spies and 'dor-
mers ; no one dares to communicate his opinions to
another ; `from hence flows a want of confidence,
which we cannot find words to describe. The evils
which are produced by the scourge of the human
race are of such a kind, that no person, however high
his rank, is secure against its attacks. A report is
whispered, with great mystery, that a plot of these
villains has been discovered, the object of which was
, to implicate different Grandees of Spain, and the
Captain-General of New Castile, Don gasper de
Vigodet, in a charge of designing to subvert the
existing Government, and to substitute in its stead
. an oligarchy like that of Venice.
" The number of persons intended to be affected

by this infernal plot amounts, it is said, to 60, besides
several others who are accused of agreeing to co-ope-
rate with them. The whole scheme is reported to

have been organized by persons in office, who, how-
ever, are merely instruments in the hands of the cle-
rical faction, at the head of which are the Pope's
Nuncio, the Patriarch. of the Indies, and the Inqui-
aitor-General.
" The state of this country is dreadful. The roads
• There was a report at Aix-la-Chapelle of an autograph letter
having been sent to King Ferdinand front the Allied Soverelitlw.
, in which the Spanish Wing was advised to chimp hie ersseares.