Star.
London, England, 1820-09-19 00:00:00

FROM THE MONITEUR.

MADRID, SEPTEMBER 6.
Eleven o'Cluck at Night.

The Public are aware that General Riego, upon
the order which had been reiterated to him, of re-
pairing to-his command •in Gallicia, and dissolving
the corps of the army cantoned in the Isle de Leon,
came to Nadi id, and in vain endeavoured to produce
a change in the resolution which the King and Go-
vernment bad taken in this respect. The only thing
he obtained by his efforts, was a new injunction-to
obey. Such was not, however, the intention of the
General and the party who had called him. Every
means was employed by him and his friends to en-
sure the success of his resistance.

Among other modes of exciting the passions, Ge-
neral Riego went, on the night of the 31st, to the
Theatre, and did not scruple to compromise himself'
in a manner the most burlesque, by giving out a song
to the parterre (pit), which he endeavoured to make
them understand by repeating it several times, and
the couplets of which. terminated by a chorus in the
lowest style—" Traga la perro," which cannot be
understood or translated better than by the words
" Gobe-le-chien."

This song was, two: days after, the cause of a
scene which was on the point of becoming bloody.—
On the 3d inst. General Riego was present at a ban-
quet given in honour of him by the patriotic
societies, and to which it was remarked that General
Quiroga had refused to go, declaring that he disap-
proved of the conduct and temerity of his colleague.
After the feast there was a representation extraor-
dinary at the Princes' Theatre, in honour of Riego.
They played a new Piece, Henry 111. of Castile,
which was only remarkable for a multitude of revo-
lutionary sentences. In the midst of the afterpiece
the parterre demanded the favourite song Traga la
perro. A warm altercation was on this observed
between the Political Chief and Riego, who hastily
quitted the box of the Municipality. The Political
Chief declared to the parterre that they could not
sing the couplets deinanded, because they were not
announced in the bills, and addressing himself to the
Actors, he prohibited them from singing the song.
A frightful tumult ensued; the people were on the
point of escalading the box of the Political Chief;
swords were drawn ; the double guard of the Theatre
was called in; arms were charged in the street; the
entertainment ceased ; and the Political Chief re-
paired to the Palace with an escort.

These excesses convinced the Government of the
necessity of giving a check to the popular societies;
and on the 4th a proposition was made to the Cortes,
tending to repress the licentiousness of the meetings
called patriotic.
This proposition was remitted tea Committee by
one of the strongest majorities which have taken
place in this Assembly. The Government thought
it also necessary to take the following measures ;
General Riego was deprived of the Captain Gene-
ralship of Galicia, and sent a prisoner at large (en
quartier) to Oviedo, his native country.
Colonel San Miguel, his Aid-de-Camp, and author
of his Proclamation, to Zamora.
General Velasco, Governor of Madrid, toValladolid.
Manzanaros, Colonel of Artillery, to Catalonia.
Captain Nunez, to St. Sebastian.
On the Lth, General Riego wished to appear at she
bar, and read there a sort of Representation to the
Cortes ; but he was refused permission, and sent the
paper to the Secretaries of the Assembly.
The Cortes, far from countenancing him, have
expressed their full and entire concurrence in the
measures taken by the Government.

General Itiego set out this morning at four o'clock,
with an escort of twenty cavaliers, who are to accom-
pany him to Asturia.
It may be said with truth, that the six days of his
stay at Madrid have been six days of disorder and of
crisis. Not one night passed without plots—without
abortive designs ; the tumult was incessant—the Go.
verument was sitting unintermittingly--and the gar-1

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