Star. — 1823-08-23 (London, England)

PRIVATE LETTER FROM MADRID.  0 MADRID, AUGUST 15.  14 The Marquis of Talarue is highly respected by the moderate party, but detested by the Regency, because he will neither approve nor tolerate their excesses. The Army of the Faith is just what it always has been. Quesada caused a considerable number of recruits to be murdered in cool blood, who had been discharged, or deserted from the Independents, and were returning to their homes. In giving an account of this massacre, he falsely asserted that he had done it because they cried " l'iv4 Riego muera d Rey!'. 44 A detachment of select troops (judge what the rest are), appointed to escort the Duke de Villa Hermosa to Portugal, where he was appointed Ambassador by the Regency, robbed, plundered, and ;l.  most assassinated this Grandee of Spain at a few leagues distance from Madrid, when he returned instantly with all speed. •4 La Locho, calling him elf a Royalist, has several times threatened General Courtin, a Swiss Officer in the Spanish service, who commands in La Mancha; lie finds him moderate, and menaces to hang, or at least imprison him, if he continues so moderate, and prevents him (Locho) from levying contributions, and enriching himself at the expense of the peaceful inhabitants.  " General Cisneros levies for his cavalry all the horses of the country, sells them a few leagues off? and puts the money in his pocket. He demands rations for them notwithstanding, and receives it in money, which goes equally into his pocket. General Sempere, who was three years since coachman to the Duchess of Osuna, commits all kinds of exactions, and, like Cisneros and Bessieres, carries off from their houses pretended Liberals, marches them as prisoners in the rear _of his troops, and after having extorted from.them large sums, sets them at liberty, and gives them excellent certcates'of royalists. The conduct of Merino and the Trappist make one shudder.— Generals Longa, D'Espagne, and D'Ernles commit fewer exactions than the rest.  ".Such infamous conduct, of which good men of all parties have repeatedly complained to his Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme, produced the Ordonnance of Andujar. Be assured that the Duke has the greatest aversion for those abominable -auxiliaries, of which some Constitutional Chiefs have shewn themselves worthy imitators. " The Generals of the Faith are not the only culprits: the Civil Authorities obey, nearly everywhere, the clamours of the populace: if you ask them why such a man is in prison? they answer, the public voice condemns him.  " The conduct of the Regency is not a whit the better ; the prisons are full, no laws are held sacred by it, and it is to be feared that on the deliverance of the King there will be a general massacre of the prisoners ; the Bishop of Osunalis at the bead of these wretches, who fancy there is no other method of defending the altar and the throne. The secularized monks have been banished from Madrid, and treated in the most atrocious manner.  Addresses pour in in great numbers for the reestablishment of the Inquisition; it is well known how they are got up, and by whom.  " I should never have done, were Ito write all the horrors committed -by this odious Regency. The Duke's patience is exhausted; Morillo and Ballasteros havejoined him for the happiness of the Peninsula: the hypocrisy of the fanatics is unmasked, and their incapacity'discovered.  ~ The Duke has frequently repeated, that Spain has a Government which is contrary to the interests of every class of society, save the Clergy and the convents.  • " The Regency has despoiled all the purchasers of Church national property, alienated in 1820 ; the purchasers are not even repaid the improvements they leave made and expenses laid out, the original cost and all is lost to them, and the Church regains possession without paying a real. The Duke hopes to influence Ferdinand to revoke these odious robberies and usurpations; if the King listens to his lessons of prudence, Spain may yet be happy, if otherwise she cannot."