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for-0, eirl‘tv hack the ..rti T peets of Enskela anti PiAsila, I ordered the ahoy to retreat ' 1 abort a mile. intending to halt at Wirat. The ceenty ad - sauced torattns us 'abbot half a mile: On o u r arr i va l at IVirek . we' ere ithmetiiatety'' attacked by a new foree, who fbritied a inaction with the ether detsichitent'ef Russia, troops, which by this time NM revue up. The battle ram meld at halt' pest Your ec.lock in the sav m er ion, an was melamine' , great obstinacy and Lavery on both side, till ten at eight: and though the msnflieting armies were within twenty paces or each other, the. enemy; r Mention with rids, was repulsed. esti ebliged to pass the night c a pon tbesnow, exposed is the-inclemency of the weather, withent making a tingle effort to extri cate themselves. roßstoN INTEELIGIENCE. PTEN4II PAMS. T 'EI BUMETIN OF TIIE ARMY OR SRAM Minalv, DEC. 5. The id, at nowt, His Majesty arrived in person . on tln•heights which impend over Madrid, on which were' already placed the divisions of dragoons of Generals Latour Manhourg and Lahoussaye, and the imperial torsetguards. Tit anniversary of the coredistion. that rpaque which has signalised so many days for ever fortanate for Frun, e, awakened to all !scuts the most sgreealde recnilectimiti, gni Inspired all the tromps With an enthusiasm manifeste4 itself in a thousand esclatnations: The wee her was lwantiftd, and like that enjoyed in France in the mouth of May. The Marshal Doke of Istria sent to surnman the towo,•where a Military Junta nsa formed, tinder the presidency of Ate Mariviis of Goatelar, who had under his orders General Morita, Caplaiu-Ger end of Andalusia, and' Intinctut-fleie ral of Artillery.—The town con tensed a number of armed peasants, assembled from sill quarters, 6000 troops of the line, and 1011 pieces of oantion. Silty thous , 4114 men were in arm'. ...Their cries were heard on every side ; the bells of SOO. thatches rang • altogether ; and every thing presented the up; earence of disorder and se•wlne?s. 'The (;coeval of th e troop, of that line appeared at the affront-IA posts to mistier the ominous of the Duie of I,tri a . He was ercompauies? by 30 Inca of the people, whose dress, !oohs, ant? *melons language, recalled the ter ollectitkoethe eseasidis of September. When the spitnialt deucral wee aslsed whetherhe moved to etjtoseminneit, children, and old men, to the horrors of noisseult ?hemani freed secretly the grief witTpiltrelt be was pent trated ; he mmle }sown, by Slots. that he, as well Hs ell the honest melt of Madrid, groaned wafer eppremine Laud when he raised his voice, his worms were dictated by the wretches who watched over him. No cloud; could be entertained of tffe ex- Mimi to which the tyranny of the multituda was carried, when they saw biro weste down all , his words, an•; caused the reamed to be verified by the assassins who surrounded him. The Aid-de-Caiwp of the Duke of Istria, who haabeen sant into the town, was seized by men of ttre . lowest class of veo ple, and was about to be massacted. whoa the troops of the line, indiviant at the outface. took him under their protection, and caused him to be re stored to his General. A little time after, some deserters from the Walloon Chmed* atone to the camp. Their depositions convinced els that the people of property, and honest men, were a about influence ; and it was to be concluded, that conci liation was al Nether impossible. The'fil.irquia of Perales, a reputable man, who bad hitherto appeared to enjoy the confidence of the people. bad been, on the day before this, ■c eused of putting sand in the cartridges. He was immediately str►tugled. It was determined that all the cartridges should be re-made 3 or 4,000 rr►nnks were employed upon this work at the Retire. All the palaces and houses were ordered to he open to furnish provisions at discretion. The French iolantry was still three league* from Madrid. Th e .T.lnperor employed tl.e evening in reconnoitring the town, and deciding a plan of attack, consistent with the considenition due to the great number of honest people always tn i be found in a great capital. .t seven o'clock tl►e division Lapissi of the corps of the I)eke of Defiant:l arrived. The moon .►core with a brightness that seemed to prolong the d.l. The Emperor ordered the General of Bri nth., Maisson, to take possession of the suburbs, surd cli.egeirthe Genera: of Brigade, I.ouriston, to wipport him in the enterprise, with four pieces of .artiNcrry• lrelong:nzto the guards. The sharp-shooters of the 16th regime:►t took poweitsion of sonic houses, ■nd, in particular,' of tl►c grand ccinetery. At the first f, re, the enemy „hewed as much cowardice sr he did of arrogance all the day. The I)u►.e of BALM() employed ;tII the night in placing his artillery io the post; tie signed for the attack. At midnight, ete I nee of ri;ufelsutel sent to Madrid a Slamrh 11.itlineliniit- IColonel of Artillery, who had been taken at So. titosierrn, and who saw, with affright, the obstinacy of his fellow-citizens. lie toot: charge of Hexed letter. No. 1. On the 3d, at nine in the earning, the .•ttne flag of truce returned to the hearl-glinrters with the letter No. 2. But the INe.. neral nr BriTatle, I.rtintannt, Tin (Meer. . i ,rcat merit, had already placed 3U pic•ccs eif artiNcc, hula ic4il commenced a very smart. f'''re, 3 !ri;vre'it 1 - 4 the bread:, their battalion followed ems, anti in less than a quarter of an hoar, t,OOO lortii who de fended the Retiro, were knocked on the head.— The Palace of the Retiro, the important posts of• the Observatory, of the porcelain manufactory, of the grand barrack, the Hotel of 111faline Cell, and all the outlets which had been fortified, were taken by our troops. On another side, W pieces of cannon of the guards, accompanied by light troops, threw shells, and attracted the attention of the enemy by a false attack. 1,..T0 THE COMMLNO•NT Or THE TOWN 0/ I • 4 ; 1 fttnntri. Before Madrid, Dee. 3, iris• The circumstances of the war baring conducted the trench army to the gates of Madrid, and all the diapositions being made to take possession of the town by storm, I boll it right, and conformable to the usage of all stations, to summon you, Monsieur General, not to expose a town so important is all she horrors of an assault, nor to render so many peaceful lulmbitants victims of the evils of war.— Washing to omit nothing to inform you of your real situation, send'yosilthe present summons by one of your Office's, 'who Me been mode prisoner, and who has had ma °ppm' u inty of seeing all the means-tint thr army ha. to reduce (lie two. Reorive, Monti. ut oil , the LISUPILIiCes of toy high cousidcratios- I • Mijor-Geseesl ALEX. BERTH I 1:11 •o. c,•—(111 TO MO 1110$TIMISUR Inc POIROT or is‘ve AAAAA - It is haisimeeekly inesusheet upon me, most Serene gig Mar, to consul!, perriousho ay giving a eats tartest asseer to :your High:msg, the constituted pulturities of my Cosset, cad, mot over, to arttert' lin the dispositiaos or the people, as impressed itbe circumstances of the day. ror e.sere rsrposts 'street your theism* to grant, for this siai, a suspension of arms, in order that I may cwmplt with shoat duties, eiranring psi, that tatty iu the morning, or this night, J will sond a General Wirer with my soserr to your Highness; seratiug yos, that I profess to you all the con sideration eau to your high rank andm-rit. • MACQUIS CASTELAAR Madrid, 3A December, iena. TO T%IE terNEN,•I. COMMANDING IN MADRID. imperial Cupp before Madrid, Dec. 4.--Ekvio a. IL Monsieur General Castelaar-I'o drfend 3ladrid fa eetr Gary to the principles of war, and !abortion towards the ir. bakitauts. His ill sjesty asthirrises me to send you u screed suionions.-1 mnicase batteries are mounted; valuers are prepared to hlturs up your principal buildings; columns of to. na r.r e the eatrances of h town, of which souse ruin. patties wf sharp-shooters have mole thenisrtres maste.r ; Ind the F.toperer, always tencrous is the course of hi. vis turiaat sosprods the attack till two o'clock. The lowa of 31atirid audit to look far protection and security for its praceaLls sahahitanta ; fur its llioisters ; in Clore, the 064- si4is of the past. Hoist a white flag before two o'clock, ai.d send CUTIMWI.IO:Jeff to treat for the surrender of the !Ires..—.lcet•pt, Alum. Ctn. &c. slejor-Gen. ALEX. BERTH lER. • The lath Bulletin is dated, Madrid, Dec. 7. — It contains particulars of the conduct of several Officers who distinguished tlientrelees ; with pro iiotions...-It states that General Labienski had. on the 4.11, reconnoitred the remains of the army of Castano4, near Gnadalaxara, under the com mand of General Pena. Costume was said to have been deposed by the General imam. Then follows • Jong tirade against the Duke Del Infantado, which ends with stating, that " he will lose his ti tles, his property. valued at 11,000,000 of here, alearouithe will go to London, to seek the con tempt and ingratitude with which England has al. waysrewarded the men who sacrifice their honour and •their country to the injustice of their cause." The Bulletin continues, " As soon as the report of the Chief of Squadron, Connt lLulvieaski, was known, the Duke of Istria put himself in march, with 16 ; 'squadrons of cavalry, to observe the ene my. The Duke of BMus* followed with the in fantry. The Duke of Istria arrived at Guadalaaara, and found there the rear-guard of the coves, which was filing towards Andalusia, dispersed it, and made 540 prisoners. The General of Division Ruffin, and the brigade of dragoons of Bordessult. informed that the enemy were mowing towards Araajliez, proceeded to that place. The enemy were put to flight, and these troops were Udine diately put in pursuit of all those that are 1444 • toward, Andalusia. " The General of Diviiiion,Lahonssaye. entered the Escurial on the 3d. Five or six hundred 'wa ssail wished to defend the Convent, bat were driven nut by a brisk attack." Then follow further particulars of the tranquil state of Madrid, and the orderly manner in which 61 , ...a possession of that city aas taken, dte. A French soldier, found guilty of plundering* num ber of watches, was shot imthe principal square.— The disarming was carried on without difficulty, The King of Spain" (Joseph) had formed t a o regiments of foreign troop* from the lute Spanish army ; one. the Royal Foreigners, and the other, .that of Reding the younger, a Swiss General, of a very dill . ..rent character from that of the Spanish General of the some name. The Sth and sth mills of the Preach armies were but passing the Th.h.s.nai very far from the line of the French army, and all the ,stories recounted were alreaAy ob tained. and the business was alurost completely settled. After a ilo4i-ription of the disorder that reigned in 31adrid, the 1111 .proceeds, 46 'The enemy had. 113k/fr (6;10 10.) pieces of cannon mounted ; a more nunrtier4sad been dug up, taken ont of cellars:, and iihorl upon carts; a grotesque train, and in itwlf snAleient :o I • • the mashies,: of pcoisk abrintlo.ie,! to Bot all means of atufecteet wc:e is.sennit. U 3. 1. , P. The possLssors of ~1'.._ 1:... peer took ail possible care to prevent V.e trop is 'trine On from house to house. The city wa° ruined if many troops had been employed. Only some companies of sharp-shooters advanced, and the Emperor constantly refosed to rend any to sustain them. At eleven o'clock the Prince u Neufchatel wrote the annexed letter, No. 3. Ili Majesty, at the same time, ordered the fire to cease on all points. At live o'clock General Morle, ane of the Mem bers of the Milita a iy hum, and Don Bersiardo Yriarte, sent from the town, repaired to the teat of the Major-General. They informed him that the most intelligent persons were of opinion that th town was destitute of resources, and that the con tim.ation of the defence would be the height o f madness, but that the lower orders of the inhabit ants, and the foreigners at Madrid, were deter mined to persevere in the defence. Believing that they tonld not do it with effect, they molested a ;muse of a few hours, to inform the people of the real state of affairs. The Major-General presented the Deputies to the Emperor imp King, who ad dressed them thus :—'You make use of the name of the people to ne purpose ; if you rainnot re store tranquillity and appease their minds, it is be- cense you have excited them to revolt, you have seduced them by propagating falsehoods. Assemble the Clergy, the heads of the Convents, the Al eadra, the men of property and influence, and let ;lie town capitulate by six o'clock in the morning, or it shall be destroyed. 'I will not, nor ought Ito .withdraw my troops. You have - Massacred the uo fortuaaie Freoeb prisoners who had fallee ioto tour bands; otityl . few days ago, you suffered two persons in the mite of the Russian Ambassador to be drugged aloe; and murdered in the public streets, because they were Frenchmen born. The incapacity and baseness of a General had put into your power troops who surrendered on the field of battle, and the capitulation has been violated.— You, Mr. Mode, what vet of an epistle did you write to that General? It well became you, Sir, to talk of pillage, you who, on entering Roussillon, carried off all the women, and dis tributed them as booty among your soldiers !'— What right bad you to hold such language else where ?—The expectation ought to have induced you to pursue a different line of conduct. See what has been the conduct of the English, who are far from piquing themselves on being rigid ob servers of the Law of Nations. They have cone plaieed of the Convention of Portugal, but they have carried it into effect. To violate military , , treaties is to renounce #vivilllation : it is placing ourselves on a footing with the bendiftiof time de sert. Hriw date you, then, presume to solicit a capitulation, you who violated that of Baylert ? See how injustice and bad faith always recoil upon the guilty, mid operate to their prejudice. I had a fleet at Cabs; it was under the protection of Spain, yet you directed against it the mortars of the town where you commanded. I lied a Spanish army iu my ranks : I would rather have viewed them embark on board the English ships, mid tie obliged to precipitate it from the rocks of Epinosa, than to disarm it ; I would rather prefer having 7000 snore enemies to fight, than be deficient in honour and good faith. Return to Madrid—l give you till six o'clock to-morrow morning—return at that boar—you have only to inform me of the sub mission of th e p eo ple—if not, you and pier troops shall all be put to the sword r This speech of the Emperor, repeated in the midst of the respectable people, the certainty that he commanded in T s son, the losses sustained during the foregoing day, carried terror and repentance • into all minds. During the night the most mutinous withhrew themsilves from the danger by flight, and a part of the troo:is was distanced. At ten o'clock General Belliard took the command of Ma drid ; all the posts were put into the hands of the French, and a general pardon was proclaimed. ;The Bulletin closes with a panegyric on the order observed by the French, in taking possession of the town, the security enjoyed by the inhabitants, amid with a tirade localism the English.] The . 16th Bulletin, dated 'Madrid, Dee. s , be gins, like the preceding, with the praises mid re wards of distiaguisbcd Offisers. The General of Division, Ruffin. having passed the Tagus at Aran joie:. advanced towards (kens, and cut ott the re treat of the remains of the Army of Andalusia, which wished to 'retire to their own province, and throw themselves towards Cuenca. The divisions of cavalry of Generals Lasalle and Milhaud were directed to march uot runup! by Zalavera de la Iteyna. His Majesty viiNhett to strive Sariti.torlin till d r i4 h a d iwrreuitered ; but if that town would be obstinate enough to make resistance, miner mutt bentlw should bring it to reason. The English fly on every side. The di e ;.:i on of Lasalle has, however, fallen in with 16 men of them, who have been put to the sword: They were stragglers. or such who had gone astray. Teen follow mane particulars of the siege of Roses in Cataloitia, which had nut siirrendeled ; but it is supposed the inhabitants were thinking to 'vacuole it. About 400 Englislierwn, who had landed. were killed or driven into 11!e sea by ati Itshsn reginie.st. An atta. k made Ly the Spa niards on the 'loom, watt repot:Jed with lust. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, THURSDAY, Dgcsaantre eg. srccessr.s OF THE FRENtH SPAIN--cApr. TULATION OF MADRID VONFIRMED..-PUR SUIT OF THE ARMY OF CASTANOS-ITS LOSSES —AN ENGLISH bTRAGOLING PARTY PUT TO THE SWORD HY THE FREI.CEL The French !nst no tune to inform us of their ruccesses in Spain. A Menitene. coutainiug the 14th. 15th. and 16th Bullinius of the French Army in Spain, was sent in a. boat from Boalogue to Dover, and was received in town yesterday. Tiit s boat contained nothing else. and consequently •as dispatched fur the sole and expreis parpose.of cu m . the intelligence in the 3fouitear, whio heel been previously annenneed by rein:it-In t ; and 414vbar A er of artillery along the French west. The lateut or the Bulletins is dated the Bth lost. at Madrid. It appears from it, and the two preceding Bulletins, that oft the evening of the 111. DON APlatt. arrived upon the heights that command that city, haviee, been preceded by a force. consisting of dragoons, and the Imperial pouffe, which he (amid misted there. The Mike of lirrate (Marshal Bessieres) • then sent hi. Aid-de-Camp to 'summon the town. ---Otehis arrival, he found that a Military Junta had been formed, with the Marquis of CAITiLatIt at italiestel, and uader hint Gewalt - Ma er,a. Cuptiii a General of Andalitsia.--Tiede were in the town 60,000 m e., M. arms, iocliiditiledoo troops of the line, the remainder consisted M . 0.-toed citizens and peasants. The greateit - eallinsiasei prevailed asoases the mass of the inhabitauts.--The Menials of PURA LE:s. who ha I been accused bf pnttiog 1411 d in the cartridges. hail been massacred on the pr. - ceding day, and the eartri.l4es were ordered to he re-made. Four tin-Ts:soil monks were employed is this work, and all the houses were opened to famish' provision'', and every other necessary,tu the defenders of die piece. A Spanish General %vas sent out 'with a refusal to the su in mime, declaring the detemi too ion of the citizena to defend the tenni; and so great wastheir iielignathei, that the French. Ai . rl-de-Ca .who was the bearer of th summons,' narrowly escaped with his life. All this happened on the itd, at which time the French infantry were three leagues from Madrid, and Boneraarr. devoted thin remainder of the treeing to reconnoitring the place, and preparing a pi to of attack. At 7 o'clock, a corps of infint7, part of the division of the Duke of Barre NO, I .Marebal Victor), arrived, unit the French proceeded to take passeacien of the suburbs. The .Spaniards fled at the first fire, 43 the Duke of Bituanto.spent the isikist in placing his artillery. preperetory to an immediate attack.— Atviridnight the Prince of Neurcitatat. (General Berthier) rent it second siminsons to the citizeue, the bearer of which returned at nine o'clock, on the morning of the 3d. with an answer from the Mar quis CASTULAAS, requesting a suspension of arms for that day, to consult the constitated audio ram' and ascertain the disposition of the ci tizen.; and promising a categorical answer sa, ly on the next morning. The French, however, had not relaxed in their preparations from the beeilie thing, and in the mean ' time an attack was made, and a breach effected, in the Palace of the Retire, by • battery of 30 pieces of caonon, which they had , brought to Year against it. The Retiro being a commanding situation, it was resolutely defends by the Spaniards. The French entered the breach, but did not obtain possession of it, until after 1000 Spaniards had fallen in its defence. All the strong posts in its vicinity were of course occupied by the French. A false attack, 61 opposite quertet, which drew off the attention of the Spauiards, cnii tributed to the success of the enemy on the RI la of the Retire. The French having made this greimp, and fully prepared minute for storming ice town. the Prince of NEUIPCOATIL seat another summons, at eleven o'clock, on the morning of 1.1. 4th; stating, that every thing was ready for an ii:- mediate attempt to take the place by storm, end granting until two o'clock to send Coutinisbuilers to treat for the surrender of the place. The adr3l:•• tapes already obtained by the enemy had not, hew - ; ever, the desired effect. No answer was return'. I meal five p'clovk, RI NI then General Biotite, ;ic• coin ponied by number Officer, repaired to the te:,t of the nines of NauretafraL, sold represent.t.l that the lower onlers of the peopie, and the r•- reigners in the city, were determined to persev. e in its defence. BONAPARTR here personally iurrn fire:i, nod reproached the Spanish Deputies, 1 , .r• titularly %Inst.*, with the .iolatMn of the Om vention of Bayles, contrasting the conduct of t;ze Spaniards. in flint particular, with the punc tuality with which the English had eiccuted the terms of the Convention of Cintrais—Af-:: this rebuke, he gave theta until six o'clock the morning of the sth, to summon the leading men in the city, and perrusde the lower orders to mai:e no father resistance: threstning, iii the event of a w- Inmel, to destroy the town, and put the treeps tr, •:ze sword. The well-known character of Bo NAPAATIE nothing to hope for. flee Spa:muds were well awArli that he would keep his word. in the course of the night, the troop•, and the most determined of the loyal and patriotic I:lttatAtants, uithdrtw from the city. At tea c'..:otk, on the morning cf the h'