Star.
London, England, 1817-08-28 00:00:00

rru•rc: A RI), A UGUS I" 17.

A remarkable Royal Ordonliance has just bests
publi.hrd, relative to the LAWS hither•o exlsting on
the subject of train. Tile King considering that the
abundant harvest of this year, has removed the mo.
lives for .prohibitirtg the tree exercise of the trade in
grin, has just revoked all the Ordonninces iisued
since the s:lt of November last on. this subject, and
re-e►tablished in the kingdom of Wirtemi.v:rg the
laws in existence previously to that period. The
export of corn is thus permitted anew, subj :at only
to the payment of the export duties then es•Ablished.
The crops are with us eves lime abendaut. theA
had been expected. . .. .

MADRID, AUGUST it.
OFFICIAL ARTICLE.
CIRCULAR of THE lIIINIsTER OF WAR.
" At the time of the capture of Cardiagena,
181 b, by tfie.Royal troops finder Lieutenant-Generals
1)20 Pablo Murillo and Don Francisco Moritalvo,
Viceroy of New Grenada, several individuals guilty
of having provoked disobedience towards the ',gills
mate Government, and of having fomented the Re.
hellion and Open resistance which retarded the occu-
pation of that city, were arrested; When it was rte.
resift), to try nine tat the individuals who were the
principal lenders and chiefs of the rebellion, to inflict
upon ;item the cliastistrn nit which they merited,
sonic doubts arose as ro toe proper Tribunal before
which they should be br.iught. The Viceroy decided
in that a Council ut Was c.,pused of Officers iif a rank
superior to that of the accused should be selected.....
He at the same time sent an account to his Majtssty
of the motives of his airangements relative to OS
trial, sentence, and execution of the criminals, ;e-
-ves:Mg the approbation ut his Maj-sty, and iristtutii
wins for the direction of his conduct in•future with
regard to persons guilty of similar offences.
The King has api,roved of the conduct of eta
Viceroy with regard to the accused, and atter having
consulted his Supreme Council of War upon the
measures which it would be convenient to adopt to
punish such sort of criminals, his Majesty has rewlo.
ed to range into eight cfassei, the favourers, the.?
chiefs, the provokers, and the supporters of revolts-
' tion and insurrection in America, in order to be
' judged as directed.
" Class 1, committed+ all the military In the now of the in.
surzents who skill be taken with arm+ in their hands.
t. 1 he spier who th..l attempt to enter the Royal forts.
" 3 All who esi.Lavour to excite the peaceably diemed
rebellion.

4. The @liken or soldiers who, having belonged tolha
Royal ar:nim, have abandoned them, and taken an oath to WVe
the revolutionary goseroment.
" 5. Those who, reuounclog employment under the IegItIMIIR
Government, shaU accept of 1.1:.re from the Inturgentk

" 6. Those who by their writings, their proclamations,Or po-
, !Meal opinion., may have kindled the bre of rebellion.
' 7. 'those whu, abusing the anarchy of the revolutionary
Governmtnt, have avianinated, pillaged, or p‘raecueed the yawl.
ful subjects of his Majesty.
S. (how who, being employed by the legitimate Govern-
ment, have continued to retain office under the lasurrectiomiry
Government, or have acknowledged hs audacity.
The individuals comprehended in the roar first
and the eighth class, if they are military wren, will be
tried by an ordinary Council of War, according to
their rank acknowledged by the legitimate Govern-
ment. The persons comprised in the four latter
classes will be tried by the Civil Authorities (with
the exception of military comprised in the eighth)
Their sentence shall b 2 executed like those of a
Council at War, because the insurgent districts of
America are considered in a state of war, and it is
requisite that the punishment of rebellion should be
prompt, to retain the inhabitants within the bounds
of obedience.
Madrid, July 28, 1817."
- The accounts from Mexico of the 6th of March
speak only of some partial and unimportant affairs,
in which the advantage VV.I4 constantly on the sitie of
the 4oyal uoops.