Star.
London, England, 1826-09-21 00:00:00

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

PROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.,
LISBON, Barroom 4.
A great number of persons, amour whom are persons
of note implicated in the late conspiracy, have been ar-
rested within these few days. The Grand Prior of the
order of Comex, and an ex-Chief of division in the de-
partment of Foreign Affairs, who had been arrested
about two months ago, as being accomplices in another
conspiracy, directed from their presence the mutiny of
the police guard. These two personages have conse-
quently been more closely watched.
At Villaviciosa there was on the 41st of August,
during the fair of that place, a slight movement, which
had no serious result. Some turbulent monks were the
11 instigators. They have been arrested and brought to
the prisons of Lisbon.
The merchant vessel the Nueva Pied& arrived from
Rio Janeiro the 26th of August. She brought despatches
for the Government and commercial correspondence.—

Letters from that quarter announce that Admiral Lobo
had been tried and condemned to death for the crime
of cowardice: They add, that two Members of the Su-
preme Tribunal had likewise been condemned to death
and decapitated for the crime of collusion. These letters
give no further details on the object of this collusion.
The ship of war Don John the Sixth, which is carry-
ing out the deputation appointed to compliment the
Emperor, Don Pedro, on his accession to the throne of
Portugal, had not yet arrived at Rio Janeiro. She was,
however, spoken with near the coast.
Much anxiety was felt at Rio Janeiro on account of
the news which had arrived of the reverses experienced
by the troops and the squadron employed ageinst the
Republic of Buenos Ayres. The Council of State pressed
the Emperor to terminate the war by ceding to that
Republic the Cisplatine provinces; but his Imperial
Majesty shewed himself little disposed to adopt the ad-
vice of his Councillors.

• MADRID, Semmes 7.
There have arrived at the office of the Inspector
General of Cavalry, and at the office of the Minister of
War, despatches from the Captain General of the pro-
'vine of Estremadura, which announce that two squa-
drons'of the 4th Regimeht of Cavalry, which formed
the garrison' of Olivenza, have deserted into Portugal,
with arms and baggage, standards and military chest,
having at their head their Officers, with their Com-
mandant, Lieutenant Colonel Desgand.
Immediately after the Minister of War had received
this intelligence, he dispatched a courier to the Captain-
General of Estremadura, with an order to dismiss the
officers of a battalion of artillery which is at Olivenza,
and to cause the subalterns and soldiers of that battalion
t) retire from that fortress to Badajoz. • These facts,
which may be relied upon, have caused a great sensa-
tion in the King's council, where it is allowed that if
defection commences amongst the troops of the line,
the Royalist volunteers, of whom they talk so much,
would not be able to support the Government for
twenty-four hours. A scene which may have important
consequences took place on the sth inst. at St, Ildefouzo.

[PRICE SEVENVENCE.

The following is a statement of what took place:—
When the King returned from his promenade, the troops
of the Castle paid him the accustomed honours. These
honours consist chiefly in saluting the King with the
colours, a salute which belongs only to his M.sjesty.—
However, in half an hour afterwards, the Infant Don
Carlos having arrived, the troop formed itself, and the
standard-bearer paid to the Prince the same honour as
to the King; but the Ge. eral, Clint d'Espagne, who
was present, quickly raised the colours with one hand,
.nd with the other gave a blow m the Officer who was
lowering them. An inquiry is proceeding actively in.()
this affair, both against the standard.beater, and the
General who struck him.

The Supreme Council of War is occupied, at the
present moment, with the report require.] by the Mi-
nister of that department, on the expediency and MAW
of making a levy of 50,000 men.
Troops have been sent to Cnenza, where, for eight
days past, the Royalist Volonteers have bet n committing
excesses, and where the Authorities have been enable
to re-establish order.

The police has discovered and seized a considerahle nun of owswy,
which the Apostolical party was sending into Portugal.

CORONATION: OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.

-.EDI ..-

11 We have already from time to time riven to our
Readers, accounts of the preparations made for the per-
formance of this august ceremony ; no expense had
been spared•to render it magnificent, to impart to it all
the solemnity of which the pageant was susceptible, and
to make it an impressive and imposing spectacle in the
eyes of the people. The accounts which we have at
present received are but- imperfect, still they ate suffi-
cient to shew, that on the part of those who had the
management of the pageant, nothing had been neg-
lected which could add to its splendour and magni-
ficence. The ceremony was confined within the walls
of the Kremlin, and that part of the Palace through
which the procession was to pass on it; way into the
Church, was entirely enclosed, and a scaffolding erected
on each side of the interior, upon which was placed teats
for the spectator!, who were accommodated with plac •
on paying a fee of from 25 to 75 rubles, the payment
varying in proportion to the nature of the accommoda-
tion. The Cathedral is very confined in space, and not
capable of containing more than five hundred persons.
The pressure here was extreme, not a place was left va-
cant, and scarcely one-fourth of those admitted were
able to obtain seats; the heat, as may be conceived, was
oppressive in the extreme, and many of the females,
overcome by that and the pressure to which they were
unavoidably exposed, fainted,, and were ()aged to be
removed previous to the commencement of the cere-
mony, to witness wnich they had subjected themselves
'to so much inconvenience, At the appointed hour,
however, the ceremony commenced, and in the gratifi-
cation of the present; the pains and inconveniences of
the past were forgotten. The Emperor and his Imperial
Consort were, in their progress to the Cathedral, greeted
with the warnsest marks.of regard by the spectators.—
Her Majesty is stated to have suffered considerable in-
convenience from the beat, although she supported the
fatigue of the ceremony much better than had been an.
ticipated. The ceremony of placing the Imperial Crown
on the bead of his Majesty, and the conclusion of the
ceremony, were announced to the multitude assembled
without the walls of the Cathedral by discharges of ar-
tillery, and received by thew with loud acclamations.
On their return, the Emperor aril the Empress, as they
passed,were greeted most enthusiastically by the people.
The Grand Duke Constantine, who arrived at Mos.
cow a few days before the Coronation took place, was
present, and aided in the ceremony. He occupied a
prominent place in the procession and in the Cathedral
during the performance of those religious rites which
accompanied the placing the Imperial Diadem en the
head of Nicholas; thus giving, by his presence, his ap.
proval and consent to an act which has placed himself
in the situation of a subject, where his birthright would
have made him sov?reign, and resigning, as it would
appear, of his own free will, the Imperial Sceptre to be
wielded by his younger ►rother, to ss hose nod he must
in future bend in humble obedience. Among the extra-
' ordinary and mysterious state dramas, which, within
the last half century, we have seen represented ors the
stage of Europe, this of Russia is not the least extraor-
dinary or mysterious. The time may, perhaps, arrive
when the curtain will be withdrawn, and the secret mo-
tives which have actuated those supporting the princi.
pal character in this extraordinary piece of State ma.
chinery will be made known to the world. Constantine
left Moscow two days after the ceremony, and returned
to Warsaw. The city was most brilliantly illuminated
during three successive evenings; and in the general
display the ancient Kremlin shone forth conspicuously
its venerable towers presented a blaze of light, proceed-
ing from variegated lamps of the most resplendent co-
'lours, with which they were thickly studded.
From these rejoicings, though not participating per.
tonally in them, an Englishman may still derive an in•
terest and gratification, in finding that his native coun.
try even here, as she does in all other places, and on
every occasion, excites the admiration of those with
whom she comes in contact. It is said, that the Duke
of Devonshire,the Representative of our Monarch in this
Northern Pageant, has by his princely bearing, and
magnificent and splendid mode of living, etched un-
bounded admiration in the minds of the Russian Sove-
reign and his Court. None of the Representatives of
the other Sovereigns of Europe, could at sit approach,
much less vle, with his Grace, in the splendour and
state with which his mission is characterised. Great and
active preparations have for some time past been making
for a splendid ball. which his Grace is about to give to
the Russian and Foreign Nobility assembled at Mos-
cow; tickets have been issued to five hundred persons.

Letters have been received from Paler;no to the 2d September;
from them we learn that every description of produce is upon the
advance there. Oil, Wheat, Barley, and Linked, are in great de-
mand. Exchange, 61 64.
Advice, from Leghorn to the 7th of September state, that more
business was doing than for some time past. Beans are gradually
advancing, but :he quantity there for export was nut lace. Ex-
change, 48 to-48k.
Extract of a letter dated Genoa, the 9th September:—" r
market, until lately, has been much depressed ; but the prospect new
held out, that the English post may be opened shortly for Barley',
Beans, Oats, &c. has caused an Improvements Exchange, 31 $ 6"