Star.
London, England, 1820-05-12 00:00:00

MADRID, APRIL 27.

Spain:

A Decree has been issued by the King, with the
advice of the Juata, fur forming Regiments of Militia
throughout the Provinces, with the intention, it is said,
of immediately dit•banding the troops of the line.
It is alleged that several English Merchants have
an ived, from London, to offer our Government a sum
of 400 millions of reals at a moderate interest : the
Provisional Junta, it is said, has rejected the proposal,
under the persuasion that, on the assembling of the
Co:-tes, the Government will derive ample supplies
from the immense resources of the Peninsula. It is
further reported, that our own Merchants have en-
gaged to advance the required loan at the most mo-
derate interest.

The following is the official list cf the new Aides-
de-Camp selected by his nijesty : Lieutenant-Gene-.
rals Ballasteros, O'Donoihu, Campoverde, Villa-
campa, and J. Zayas; Marechaux-de-Camp, Riego
and Quirogn.
The Jesuits are suppressed : each individual of
the order is to have 45 sous per day of pension.
The new Council of State is in full-activity. The.
Members have taken the caths.

The Minister, Canga Arguelles, is definitively in-
vested with the department of the Finance.
All the decrees of the Cortes, relative to the
affairs of America, are put in force.
The corps of Royal Carabineers has sent an ad-
dress of felicitation to the King. The Infant Don
Carlos, Commander of this Corps, presented it to his
august brother.
The pretended insurrection of Ayamonte (of the
Battalion of Guides and Loyalty) has dissipated in
air, or rather it never really existed.
His Majesty has issued instructions to the Heads
of the Universities, Colleges, and the Masters of
Schools throughout the kingdom, to initiate the
Spanish youth in the principles of the political Con-
stitution ; and to all the Ecclesiastical Dignitaries
and Cura:es, to expound the constitutional part, and
to expatiate on the advantages it confers, in all the
Churches of the Monarchy, on Sundays, and Fes-
, tival-days.—Five per Cents, Monday, 75 f. 6.5 c.

One of the minor French Journals, received this
mot ning, announces, that the QUEEN of ENGLAND:
had arrived at Macon, where she was detained twenty-
tour hours, on account of the Duke of ANGOULENIE
having previously engaged all the post-horses on the
road, but that on Thursday her MAJESTY had re—
slimed her journey. She travels, it is added, by
short stages, and would probably not arrive in Paris
till Monday night or Tuesday morning.
A Frankfort- article, of the 3d instant, says, " It
is currently reported at Rome, that the QUEEN of
ENGLAND, after her station shall have been recog-
nized, and her income fixed at London, will return to
reside in the Capital of the Christian world."

Mails have arrived to-day from Hamburgh and
Holland. Sandi, the assassin of KOTZEBUE, has been I
sentenced to death by the Tribunal at Manheirn, and
the sentence has been confirmed by the Court of
Paden. At 13rnges, on the sth instant, twenty-one
persons were sentenced to be imprisoned for one
year, and eight to be imprisoned for one month, for
blundering a wreck in the port of Ostend.

Lima Gazettes have reached town, to the sth of
December. Viceroy l'Ezust.A is so satisfied with the
country he commands, that he ordered! even the most
inflammatory passages of the Chili Papers to be re-
inted in Peru. 'The Army of Upper Peru is per-1
fectly well kept up. Lord COCHRANE'S failure with
his rockets had created some amusement. A Comedy,
or rather Farce, called after the Chili Admiral, had
been got up at the Litna Theatre. The Prologue is
a curious composition. The first scene is in the de-
sert Island of San Lorenzo. Great clamour, it is
said, had been raised against Lord COCHRANE in
consequence of his pluntlers on the coast. In Pisco

he burnt 8000 bartcls of brandy, valued at 200,000
dollars, all private property.

A .Dublin Paper of Monday, in a second edition,
announces the receipt of letters by the English mail,
arrived that.day, which state, upon the most credit-
able authority, that the Catholic Question will be
brought forward this Session with the whole force of
the Ministry. This expectation, however, we con-
ceive, is rather too sanguine. We cannot presume
that the LORD CHANCELLOR and the Earl of LlvEn-
POOL have seen any new lights since the subject last '
came under consideration.

Accounts have been received from Charleston, of
the 15th April. ' The brig Catherine, which arrived
there in seven days from Havannah, had brought
Spanish Papers of a late date, but their contents were
not interesting. The Government of the Island had
issued a Proclamation, forbidding the people to speak
on political affairs. The yellow fever was raging at
the Havannah, to a considerable extent, and was
generally fatal to foreigners. Business was exceed-
ingly bad, and the markets very dull.

Some more Rio Janeiro letters have been received,
and from them we are enabled to obtain the follow-
ing extract, which, though not so late as those we
have previously publishq, contains additional infor-
mation respecting the affairs of Buenos Ayres:

RIOJANEIRO, FEBRUARY in

" We yesterday received news from Buenos Ayres, by which
we learn that the Director, General Rondeau, had been beaten,
and the army he had carried with him from the capital com-
pletely destroyed, in the neighbourhood of Rosario, by the Mon-
toneros, who, when our advices came away, were within six
leagues of Buenos Ayres. On this information reaching the
place, the Government was immediately overthrown. This de•
feat, and the consequent ascendancy of the Montoneroc, with
whom is Carrera, will, no doubt, affect Chili, and produce there
a change as complete in men and measures as has taken place in
the Capital of La Plata. The road to Chili, of course, still re-
mains intercepted. Sir Thomas Hardy has taken Commodore
Bowles' house, and was living a-shore."

Extract of a Letter received from Calcutta, dated
22d November, 1819: •
" Ati afflicting circumstance has recently taken place. The
('aptaia of the Bengal, a LiverPoOl trader, very lately gave a
Bail onboard his ship, which was just about to sail for England.
The party was very small, and more than half were taken i!1
with a violent fever immediately afterwards. I buried the Cap.
tam and the Surgeon a very few days after it ; nut less titan ten
of the party died within as many dap, all young persons. Only
one Officer survives of those who left England in the ship, and
be is just recovering in the I hospital. All sorts of conjectures
were made, but it turns out that there were 17,000 undressed
buffalo horns in the hold, in a complete state of putrefaction.—
This vessel has sailed fur England in this state, without a Su:-
geon. I question whether it will ever arrive; it ought not to be
admitted among other shipping if it does; the opening of the hold
will be death to him who does it, and perhaps to many more."

In consequence of this disastrous information,
Ministers have issued an order for the vessel, on her
arrival at Liverpool, or any other British port, to
undergo quarantine.

The Duke of YORK visited the Princess SOPHIA
yesterday, at Cambridge House.
Yesterday, the Duchess of YORK was better.
Yesterday, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER left town
for Frogrnore, on a visit to the Princess AUGUSTA.
Prince LEOPOLD paid his respects to the KING yes-
terday.
The Earl of CHATHAM had an audience of his
MAJESTY yesterday.
Yesterday, Viscount CASTLEREAGH was SO much
recovered from his indisposition, that he left his
house,. attended the Kim° at his Palace, in Pall-Mall,
and had a long audience.
ALMACK'S Grand Ball, on Wednesday, was at-
tended by 400 Personages of the first Rank and
Fashion. The company were splendidly dressed—
' the display of diamonds numerous and of the first
water : Four quadrille parties, which danced in
fours, eights, and sixteens. At four o'clock the
assembly broke up.
Mrs. WATSON TAYLOR entertained a large party
of fashionables ) esterday evening, at her house in
Cavendish-square.
Earl BATIIURST entertained a large party rf dis-
tinguished persons yesterday, at his house in Great
Stanhope-street, May Fair.
Countess BEAUCHAMP'S Ball, yesterday evening,
in St. James's-square, was attended by upwards of
200 distinguished fashionables.
Yesterday Viscount and Viscountess GRANVILLE
gave a grand dinner at their elegant mansion, in
Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. Among the distin-
guished personages invited on the occasion, were—
The Duke of Devonshire, Viscount and Viscountess Morpeth,
Sir Robert and Lady Hasland, Colonel Ponsonby, Mr. and Mrs.
Wilmot, Mr. Chetwynd, NI.P. Mr. Charles Greville, Captain
Clifford, the lion. Mr. Stopford, &c.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS
At the British Hotel, Jermyn-street—General Archdale, M.P.
from his seat in Ireland; the Rev. Mr. S. Phillips, from Ox-
ford; Captain Itechilesdak ; Captain Hamner and Colonel
Thoyts, of the Royal Bluer; Ashton Smith, II:sq. from the Duke
of Rutland's seat, Belvoir Castle.
At Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street—Mr William Cock-
burn, Bart. from Bath; Captain Schoenberg, from a tour.
At the 'Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street—Coloncl Sibthorpe,
from hi; seat in Essex ; John Hawkins, Esq. from his seat in
Northamptonshire.
Coußr CLAnts.—lt is expected that the Royal
Commission for adjusting these singular demands
will sit in the Painted Chamber, at the back of the
present House of Lords, on Thursday next, and con-
tinue their sittings for several days.
The Lone CHAMBERLAIN has received an order
from the Privy Council for the solemn Proclamation
of the iri!eatied ceremonial of his MAJESTY'S Coriia-
tion ; and, in consequence, the different Officers of
the Herald's College, and the Lord Chamberlain's
department, will assemble at Sz.James's Palace, at
ten o'clock to-morrow morning, in their official
costume. From thence they will set out in proces-
sion to Westminster Hall, and there Proclamation
will first be made, and afterwards it wilt be pro.
claimed through the Metropolis, with the same cere-
monies as those observed %%ben his MAJEsry was
proclaimed KING. •