Star. — 1824-04-23 (London, England)

THE GREEKS.  NUREMBP.RG, APRIL 14. Besides the extraordinary preparation which the Greek Government is making for the opening of the next campaign, in which the Greeks will act on the offensive en several points, the requisite measures of precaution have been taken promptly to repair any check that the; may experience. European engineers have betn sent t,) the north of the isthmus of Corinth to form there an entrenched camp, in order to oppose an effectual resistance to the attempts that the Turks may make to penetrate into the Morea on that side. Officers of engineers are likewise employed in raising fortifications mar Thebes. Entrenchments ts. ill also be made az the p: incipal passages over the mountains, so that the Turks will have to fight their way, step by step, everything being prepared to oppose the most obstinate resistance. The Greek leaders having received information horn Constantinople that the Sultan hal given posi•ive orders to the Capitan Paella to return with by fleet as soon as possible, for the.purpose of landing troops there, the? have hastened to send reinforcements to the corps block• adiryt that place, in order to enable it to make a vie. a,orous attack, it being their will-that the place.shail be taken by storm, if the Turkish garrison should refuse the capitulation which it is intended to offer it. Among the reinforcements are several English, French, and Polish Officers of consummate experience, having all partaken in the late wars in Europe.  SP,4IN. -.4.- The state of things in Spain is far from improving : the Treasury is so destitute, that even the handful of troops now on foot cannot be paid; for three days, it appears, they were without pay, and obliged to procure food on credit. On the representation of the Minister of War to Ferdinand, stating that he would not answer for the fidelity of these mercenaries if their pay was withheld, an order was sent to the Treasurer• General to make no future payment until these soldiers received their money. The most disastrous accounts arc still given from all the provinces. The fanatics are yet running riot in the most savage excesses, and practising the most shocking cruelties on the unarmed Constittrtionalists who are at their mercy. At Rueda, a town in Old Castile, where the Empecinado and about eighty Constitutionalists are in prison, ceaseless cruelties and insults were heaped upon them by the ltoyalist Volunteers. —At the Castle of Caravanca, in Murcia, four Constitutionalists, immured within its walls, were -murdered by the Royalist sentinels in their beds, with perfect impunity. A letter from Bayonne of the 1441 instant, states that numbers of the Spanish pi ;inners, who were on their return from France, alarmed at the cruelties of the Royalists, and apprehensive of the fate awaiting them within the Pyrennees, had escaped from their Conductors, and again returned into France. This letter also mentions that a great number of the Royalist volunteers in Logrono, Bilboa, and Vittoria, still refuse to obey the decree of Ferdinand, and lay down their arms. In fact, but for the presence of the French troops, every province would be one wide scene of civil sti ife and murder. These are the ,4 energetic measures" so highly praised by the Etude, which were to restore , credit and confidence in Spain, and assure Guebhard's ' Loan. No amnesty has yet been issued,. though peremptory-demands have again been made for it on the part of the French Cabinet. Bourmont, who has been created a Grandee of the First Class, left Madrid on the Bth for Toledo, to meet Ferdinand and his brothers. The monk S.tez, Ferdinand's former favourite Minister and Confessor, was at Toledo, and his pernicious influence was greatly feared by the Spanish Ministers.