Star.
London, England, 1811-01-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

By the favour of a Foreign Legation, we have re-
ceived the subsequent interesting documents. The
first is a dispatch, taken from the bearer by a skir-
mishing party, shewing'the doubts the French enter-
tained of their security In the neighbourhood of the
Capital :
INTIRCILPTZD LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR or MADRID.
" Madrid, October C.
;‘ I this instant received your letter, advising me
of your arrival at Tarancon. In consequence of the
approach to this neighbourhood of the enemy, the
King commands, Senor Colonel, that you should re-
main where you are, instead of conforming to the
triplicate order forwarded to-day, directing you to
proceed to Guadalaxara- General Vial is about to
leave Morata to advance upon Guadalaxara, unless
you should require his assistance, from the pressure
of the enemy, of which you must apprize him ; but
take care not to leave your present situation, unless
impelled by actual necessity. Obtain every possible
information as to the position, force, and purposes of
the enemy ; and with this view inquire of all travel.
lers, carriers, and others, and transmit to me what-
ever important intelligence you may-obtain. Use,
Senor Colonel, your own judgment, but employ .he
utmost caution, as affairs are rather doubtful, and it
would has4a bad effect if we were unfortunate so
near thesehital; yet I cannot believe that the enemy
has increases at Tarancon in the manner your ad-
vices represent--I am, with perfect consideration,
(Signed) 44 AUGUSTUS BELLIARD.
" To Col. Fontein%
" P. S. Correspond with the Governer of Aran-
! juez, and desire him to send your dispatches to To-
ledo."
The next document is a general amnesty to all
mi-
litar and maritime delinquents, occasioned by the
peculiar circumstances of the present war.
ROYAL DECREE.
THICORTES TO TEL antrum

IThe Cortes, wishing to shew its clemency, pub-
I fishes a general amnesty to all military and maritime
persons in the dominions of Spain, whether in Europe
or Asia, under the following regulations :
ART. 1. AU deserters, in places not occupied by the enemy,,
may surrender themselves to the proper authorities within three
months, and receive pardon.
• The same pardon is extended to deserters residing in place*
occupied by the enemy, if they shall not have joined with the ene-
my, and if they present themselves before the proper officers
within six months.
s. Deserters who shall have gone to places occupied by the
enemy, and shall have enlisted with the enemy by force used to
induce them, it' they should not actually have fought against their
country, whether soldiers, corporals or serjeants, shall receive
their pardon, if they serve for eight years as common soldiers, and
if they bring their horses or accoutrements with them, four years
shall be deducted from this term.
4. Sajeants and others, who being made prisoners shall have
united with the ranks of the enemy, if they have not actually
borne arms against their country, will have the benefit of the above
regulations.
5. Officers who shall have married without Royal licence are
*included in this pardon.
1. The pardon likewise extends to all military offenders, with
the exceptions distinguished in this instrument.
7. 'lke pardon does not extend to traitors, spies, priests, killers,
blasphemers, or purloiners of public property:,
• Nor to aggressors not having obtained the forgiveness of the
pony aggrieved ; nor to those subjected to pecuniary fines. who
have not paid the demand.'
C. This pardon does not extend to these who may break the
law subsequent to its publication.
10. It does not apply to criminals who have fled, whose offences
.are not among the exceptions ; and such as are out of the country
will be allowed 12 mouths to testify their obedience.
• The Council of Regency will undertake the execution of this
Royal Order. (Signed) Lois oar. hothstra, President.
Pas. az ax CA yrs*, Secretary.
• Matiutt.Luscust, Secretary.
Published by the Regency the Ist December.
rtwithstanding the occupation of the city of Se-
}irj by the enemy, we have the following Irdvices
['from thence to the date of the 3d ult.
4, Orders were given on the 2d December that no
person should come in or go out of the gate of Car-
moaa on horseback. All day we have hail French
soldiers, which had been put to flight, come in by the
road of Tocina, General Girard, who commanded
the division in Estremadura, has returned to Seville
' with his troops in very bad plight
" On the 18th November Aranze transmitted to the
Consul Ado the order of Soult to embark all English
' manufactures and colonial produce, although consti-
tuted of cargoes by American vessels, with the excep-
tion of prizes, and articles of public sale by govern-
/pent agents, which are, however, to pay the duties.
"All these regulations are made directly from Na-
poleon to Soult, and from Souk to Narunza, without
flaming King Joseph; and Napoleon, under his own
signature, says, " that all colonial produce, which
shall be found in ray rix deparmapar of Stain, shall
be seized and confiscated. •
" On the 19th November, Soult celebrated, by a
inagpificpt banquet, the anniversary of the battle of
Ocana.
ff Joseph has sent an order commanding the Synod
Sovillcimmediately to give possession to the Eo-
Aesiastics'he has appointed, without requiring further
roof. We doubt if the Synod will obey his orders.
f‘ It is said, that General Girard tras instructions to
withdraw from Estremadura, if he shculil not Obtain
the pccpuTs rsuind iroin cosilovat. •

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• -A battalion has left the city, as the trench tell
i
Ilµ to set fire to Carraca, and to the troublesome)
,aduans in the bay of Cadiz. They talk also of
the whole island of Leon and the fortress of

Cadiz.
" The French partizans labour much to persuade
tis that there are no Spanish armiei, and that those,
that are called such, are merely raggamuffins and
thieves, and dictated in this spirit is the account of
the defeat of Blake in Murcia. In contradiction to
this story, Soult, in his own Gazette, states the force
of Blake to amount to 10,000 men. The same Ga-
zette mentions, that the news from Portugal Is highly
satisfactory, but it will not be published, until it will
be officially transmitted. True Spaniards are not un-
informed of the embarrassment elMassena, and place
no confidence in such misrepresentations.
44 On the Nth November the French demanded a
new contribution of six millions of rials. Eleven of
the principal persons of this place, of whom they had
required two millions and a half of this sum, have
refused, and, in consequence of their non-compli-
ance, they are prisoners in their own houses, with
two Gens d'Armes a piece to keep them company.
• At the same time a levy was made of all persons
in the district, between 16 and 40 years of age.
46 The French report that we have an epidemia in
the city, for some sinister purpose, for there is not the
smallest ground for the allegation."
After a long cessation of intelligence from the East
of Spain. we are enabled to lay before you the sub-
sequent Official Dispatch
44 Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund 0. Ronan has
transmitted from on board his Britannic Majesty's fri-
gate the Volunteer, to the General in Chief, the fol-
lowing
Most Excellent Senor—Since we left Mataro we
have sailed round the coast, and have levied contri-
butions in Salva, Coleht, Llanza, and Caduquez. I
proposed to go from Llanza to Peralada, expecting to
do so without risk, from my knowledge of the coun-
try, but a tempest arising, in which the frigate under
Captain Buller was in danger of being lost, the de-
sign was obstructed. We levied upon Llanza, from
the partizans of France, 2000 dollars, on Caduquez
4000, from those engaged in the French trade, in the
whole acquiring 10,000 dollars. In Llanza we de-
stroyed the trading vessels, and at Caduquez we burnt
those that could not be brought out to sea.
st While the Spanish troops remained in the
sight of Rosas, the enemy did not think fit to leave
the fortress• To-day we intended to land at Es-
cala, and to proceed from thence to Torruella, for
the purpose of obtaining contributions and destroy-
ing the castle of Medas, but the Conte ian frigate
having lost her rudder, we were obliged to make the
nearest porti, being only siz leagues from the Gulph
of Rosas. From Caduquez we obtained 19 ships, six
of them laden with grain and wine, which have been
manned and seat into Tarragon►a. At Selan we '
threw into the sea fourteen 24-pounders, and destroyed
the batteries, as we had done at Caduquez. The
Captain of the Volunteer was wounded during these
expeditions. Although I had only 25 men, I entered
the town of Figueras, where the French shut them-
selves up in the Castle, to the number of 280, without
daring to come out. We partook of the refreshme'ts
of the place before their eyes, carried what we chose
away. and were wholly unmoless‘
(Signed) —.rte. RONAN."
We shall be happy if, in giving the future history
of the war, we are enabled to recount many of these
expeditions, in which the brave Patriots are supported
by our powerful maritime sources, a siode of hostility
peculiarly adapted to ourselves, and'extremely
ous to the enemy.