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THIRTEENTH BULLETIN.

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IT. 14.11CT1N.11, NEAk 11•011.1 D, DEC. 2.
On the 49th ult. the head-quarters of the Em-
peror were removed to the village of Bousealas ; ou
the 30th. at break of day, the Duke of Belluno
presented himself at the foot of the Somu Sierra ; a
division of 13,000 men of the Spanish army of re-
serve defended the passage of the mountains.—
The enemy thought themselves onattackable in
that position. They had entrenched the nar-
row passage, called Puerto, with sixteen piece.
of caution. The 9th light infantry marched upon
the right; the 96th upon the causeway ; and the
44th followed by the side of the heights on the
left. General Senarmoilt, with six pieces of artil-
tillery, advanced by the causeway. The action
commenced by the firing of musquetry and cannon.
A charge made by the General Moutbran, at the
head of the Polish right horse, decided the affair,
it WIN R most brilliant one, and the regimeut co-
vered itself with glory, moil proved it was worthy
to form a part of the Imperial Guards; cautions,
flags, mustpiets, soldiers, :ill were taken or cut
to pieces. Eight Polish light horse were killed
upon the cannon, and sixteen have been
wounded.—Among the last is Captain Dti• vanoski
who was dangerous'y woundisl, and liea alasost with-
out hopes of recovery. Major Seger, Marshal of
the Emperor's Household, charges' among the Po-
lish troops, and received many W 01.111415, one of
which is veri severe.

Sixteen gareeent cannon, 10 flax,, 20 covered
cht,t.,204) Wp,i.gotts, laden with all kind of baggage,

and the military cliesb of the regiments, ase
fruits of this brilliant affiir. Among the pti
which are very nulacroia, are all tile eis,„cs
lieutenaint-Colorwl* of the e0r;.14 of the :414,
division. All the soldiers Lore lorru
if they had no:. thrown nauy arias, Rod
persed in the- anolintoins.

Ou the ht of December the herul-quartont nt
&spoor were at Saint An4tastin. atm ua t...
the Duke of !stria, aids the caval, y, cmum„„
the heighbt of Madrid.
The infantry euultl not arrive before the 3,
The intelligence which we hitherto hove
leads 'Jr to think that this town is mitienu4
all kinds of divot arra, and that the doors are
rieadoed.—The svet.ther is very line.

BAYONAE, D 1.
Marshal 11w Duke of Treti-o urribed 1,,
few clap ago: he has set out for the heal,.

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Daring these last few days we have seen
sively pass thkugh this tors, the 2601, 27th. 5.,1
15th. 4Stit,
47th, 7011 i, 66th, 34th, and 61d, tr.'
merits of the hair, welt as Saivs remintut,
nusuermiv train of artillery, conducted h 3
cannoniers, has also passed,--Finer troop, t.,,h
these w c never saw. What a contrast they :rniN ,4
the unhappy Spauivli prisoners who crayoned)
arrive in ti.is town. The 15,000 bale, of
found at Fuego,. will arrive here to-morro,,
They belong to English merchants.

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The panne through our town of the sth
of the army continue,. Yesterdur the it'd' I:0,
infantry, and the 15th and Quth bragoona pus,d
and to-day the 15th and 4•2 d Dragoom, with a purl
of artillery.—(J airmail de l'Empirc. Dec. li.)

arareau•X, DEC. 4.
The Decrees respecting the I roliiiNtioa of h.,
lish tnerci,audize are executed aith the utini,„r r„
sour, and all the Auti,orities exert theinseivei w rp
zeal in disciturgiug this biaitch
their duty. Several arrests have taken p,,,ct, toi
violations el the Decrees issued upon du. au tie% i.

ROTTERDAM, DRC. 3.
Various letters from Italy mention, that theme.
dilated expedition of the combined troop. at;sia,t
Sicily, it not only no longer concealed, but that its
success is considered as certain ; for the Enith.i.,
in order to employ their troops elsewhere, have rc
duced their force in Sicily to only 40414) met,,
chiding the English and emigrants ies their ply.

Per.t.iUßG, NOV. VS.
They write from Constatitittople, that the con-
spsracies succearively formed against the actual
Grand %Incr, by the partisans of the late Status,
and the Janissaries, have induced Mnstapha Bal.
radar to act with greater severity than he has here.
tofore done against his eaemiev.
Executions have greatly increased during the
last six or eight weeks at. Constantinople, but as
criminal jusfice is very expeditious, no publicity is
given to these accounts ; it is impossible to Lure
the details and facts which serve an the basis for
condemnation. besides, they abstain, at the er,:.
Nerd, with the greatest care, from speaking, at Con-
stantinople, of these different events, so unit they
remain enveloped iu the most profound secrecy.
We are only assured that the confidence of
Mustapha Bairaetar has been cruelly abused, which
lies rendered him very distrustful. In tarts *rustle
the persons put to death or banished, there are
many individuals who are thought valour parti-
zans of the revolution which has placed Sadao Ma.
hornet on the throne of the Osmanli. We are as-
sured, that Bache Aga, a restless man, who had
always about lion a troop of people without arca-
pation, and who has tereu beheaded in one of the
public places, had taken the resolution of killing
the Grand Visier, brit tile reject was discore.ed by
one of his accomplices, and all the conspnaton,
with their chief, were arrested. We no !carpi have
any talk at Constantinople of any new attempts of
the English Envoy, Mr. Adair, to enter into bego.
eiations with the Porte. It appears that the cats
goriest answers which the 'Turkish Goverument
has returned at different time to the application'
which this, Minister has suede to the Divan, have
induced his to renounce his projects. We are
assured that he will himself immediately re-
turn to England to iuform his Cabinet of the
bad success of his negotiation. The public
report at Constantinople is, that the et-Ramie
Cabinet had made some overtures to the Porte
before it had received the news of the deposition
of Suites' Mustapha ; and that it the mole
flattered itself with the hope of aucceeding, as
it had corrupted some of the principal memorei
of the Divan. It was upon the intrigues of ttic
personages that England depended for dctachi: g
the Porte from its alliance with France. For 14
detach more easily Sultan Mustapha from France.
the partisans of Englend endeavoured to persnali:
Sultan Mustapha, that it was France that had
cuuneelled Sultan Selim to annihilate by de,oe,s
the Janissaries, and to create an European army
but the revolution at Constantinople, and the el--
ration of Mustapha Bairactar to die place of Grand
Vinci., deranged all these plaus.
Mr. Adair having heard of this revolntion
Malta, informed his Government of it, ru .1
waited new instructions. The Blahs!) Cabinet te.k
every means to gain the new Grand V is:er, inlet
principal partisans; he then set out for the Arch--
pelage, furnished with very large sums of y,
but the means of corruption were destroyed, :al
he has retired, greatly surprised that his otte:a
would not even be listened to. They add, that ,has
Turkish Government is very well informed with
that England has done, for the last year, to :ow
discord on the Conti:sent, and that the Grand Vince

liairactar has declared: that he eatividera
power who makes a COIIII3IOII cause with England
as a lost power.
It appears determined that the Turkish Aert
should not pass the Dardasellis ; many ships lisse
already returned to port and been laid up for the
winter. The others will lose no time in tal;ovong
them. It is said that two English trisates.
were cruising in the Archipelago. have velar"-
ed to Malta. . Smyrna mid Alexandria a,e as
little blockaded a. hatlonieti, end it is not dome"
our enemies intend to renew the blockade uum
the winter ; but the commerce mud uavigatiest
these •ear are still disturbed ht• the great twitu,:.r
of privateer. which infest thisia.—(Alsmitenr, AT.
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MONDAY, DECEMUCR 19.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.

TIIE BRITISH PRESS.

The City of Madrid capitulated on the 4th
instant, and the French entered that capital upon
the same day. This important intelligence is offi-
cially announced in the llimitemrs of the 13th and
14th instant, brought by Mr. SHAW, 1110 is re-
turned from Paris. The military operation►, std..
sequent to Vie battle of Tudela, which led to this
event, are given in the 13th Bulletin of the French
Army in Spain, dated St. Martin, the 2d inst. It
states that on the 30th last the Duke of BaLLt7t4o
(Marshal Victor) arrived at Somosierra, where lie
found a Spanish corps of 13,000 men, in a
strong post, defended by sixteen pieces of cannon.
Here, however, as in the battle of Tudela, the
French derived great advantage from their cuvalry.
A charge made by the Polish light horse de-
cided the day, and the Spaniards sustained a total
defeat. In the beginning of the Bulletin it is said
that the Spanish soldiers were all cut to pieces, or
takeu ; but in a subsequent part, this boast
and it is merely said, that if they had not
ran away they must have been all taken. This
single circumstance is sufficient to .hew the loose-
mesa with which these Bulleti lid are written, although
intended to bear as, official character. BONAPARTE,
en the Ist December, removed his head-quarters to
St. A dgtistilie, end on the tit to St... Martin, on
which day the Doke of Law*, with his cavalry, took
possession of the heights which command Madrid,
and the infantry were expected to arrive on the 3d.
Here the thirteenth Bulletin ends; bat, as we have
already stated. the Moniteurs add, that the town
copitulated, end was entered by the French on the
4th. The Spenianls had collected a force at Guider-
Tainma and Escurial, in a direct line between So-
mosierra and Madrid, presuming that the French
meant to advance that way, but it wonla appear
that they took s circuitous course by the S,
I:ast through Butriago, at which place it is stated,
in one of the small Paris papers, BoxileAßTS had
Ibis head-quarters. Of the Spanish force at Gua-
darranima and Escurial there is no notice, nor are
$h English armies once meationed.
The Capitulation of Madrid, and Boesidrantes
entrance into that city, are unquestiouably of a na-
ture calculated to excite the most painful awe-
heesions for the issue of the present contest, and
the fate of the Spanish Monarchy. Those who see,
in the rapid march and progress of the French
arms, conducted by a Foreigner, whose name,
whose abilities, and uninterrupted success, are

of Europe, consider the capitulation of Madrid
as decisive of the struggle. g. If," say they, the
Spanish Juntas and the British Cabinet had known
bow to take advantage of the errors committed by
the Corsican Emperor, the destiny of the world
might have been reversed, and revolutionary France
might have been arrested in her awful career. Nl-
- who, since his repulse from Wore Acre,
has never failed in any project or enterprise which
he undertook, evidently miscalculated his own
power, and the resistance to be expected from the
Spanish nation. It required between three and
four months to re-adjust the machine requisite for
the 'subjugation of Spain; and in order to Sod the
materials, he was necessitated to quit the scene of
action. He went, in fact, for that purpose, near 1000
lades from Bayonne, into the centre of Germany,
and did not return from thence, till winter had
commenced among the Pyrenees. What an inter-
val 1 How precious and inestimable ! Bat was it
improved by Spain and by England ? On the
contrary., lit was completely neglected and thrown
arrays The presumption, or the national ♦anity
assd distrust of the S:mliards, rendered them slow

to receive, and r.!lnctant to admit, the proffered
ar•iatance of Great Britain. A coarideralaie time
elapsed before any central Government was esta-
blished. The brilliant aureola at Baylen, the
liclorions defence of Saragossa, and the Bight of Jo-
.

111 PH freta Madrid, intoxicated awl elevated the

nation. instead of bending the united fbrees of
England and of Spain against the armies or NET
and Beest SIM, in Biscay and in Navarre ; instead of
insoroving the time, in order to expel the enemy
from that vulnerable portion of Spain, and gaining
possession of the panes of the Pyrenees ; nothing

mar effected. The English Ministry, equally des-
titute of enlarged views, and of sound judgment,
as the Junta* of the Spanish Provinces; instead of
Illeadit.g armies to St. Andero, and to Bilboa,
.where aloue they could have been usefully or pro-
Manly eruplo3ed, looked only to the reduction of
Portugal. Lisbon. not St. Sebastian or Ps►upe-
iuns, occupied Lord CAITLEIIIitAGII% and Mr.
Caw:4Bmi* thoughts. Generals, if possible, still

Jess capable of to.kint aitsittg the glory of the British

Arms, than the Administration was formed to p:an
a wise' or a judicious campaign, were successively
feat to Portugal. The day of imiera was fool-

)ovrell by the Convention of Cintra. Je NOT and
Ins army were sent back by .ea t., Rochdh• ; while
oar o rig troops, which mi4iit have been transported
by the middle of September to %%eve heft to
Laud their way through the meet illipmcti alit pro-

vii:ces of Portugal, and Spain, to hfairld, or to the
Ebro.—What has been the remit of such illeiPsei-
ty, error, and misconduct ? The ruin of the common
canted! BoahrAr.TE is already ut Madrid, before
Hoer and Moods hare etii•ctt.d a junction at Sala-
manca, two hundred miles from the theatre uf war ;
while BAIRD, still farther off, is alteruately advanc-
ing and retreatiog amour the immotains of Leon or
of Gallicia. Even the Central Junta, however pa.
triutic in their feelings, have mauffested a want of
capacity in all their measures. They neither display
the energies of despotism, nor the enthusiasm of
freedcm. The invocations made to the Spaniards,
to arm in defence of their imprisoned Kiug, and of
their insulted comitry, may touch the upper, and
even the middle orders. Blit, the people, the pea-
svet,the mechanic, and the laboarer, will they feel
the nice emotious of loyalty, national dignity, or
independeui e ? Will they not KA, are we to hate
any ditui tttt taxes—aily remission of feudal
servitude—any amelioration of our individual con-
dition ? Huve not NAPOLLON and JOSEPH, more
profound and more subtle, touched this delicate
wire? Have not they promised, in their proelatna-.
tons, a golden age to the Spanish people, a retitle-
the' of tits royal expenses, and engaged to give a
sort of Constitution to Spain, ruder the new dy-
nasty 1 Has the Central Junta ever issued or sane-
honed such a declaration ? Never. And can we
wonder that the people do not or will not rise in a
muss, to restore FERDINAND the Vilth ? They
sight hare been propelled upon their invaders, hut
the time, we fear, is eve., avid cannot be recovered."
Such are the opinions which we hear, and which,
it must be confessed, it s not easy to refute or to
reject. We must, nevertheless, know touch more
of the circumstances couneeted with, and conse-
quent upon, the capitulation of Madrid, before we
venture to decide on the probable fate of Spain.—
If the Spaniard* are net conquered, the loss of an
opeu and indefensible capital can be an event of
no moment.

The Monitertr contains an article from Constasi-
tineple, probably written at Paris ; the object of
which is to inculcate a belief that Mr. ADAIR has
failed in bis mission to the Sublime Porte.
ildsolanie Boa aaaaaa will reside at the Thud-
!crier during the whole of the winter. We may,
therefore, presume that BONAPARTE means to re-
turn *hardy to Paris.

The transports from which the Dragoon Guards
and Royal Horse Artillery disembarked. sailed on
Friday morning from Portsmouth, for Vigo, empty ;
but ou Saturday morning orders were sent after
them, to put into Falmouth, instead of proceeding
to their original destination. 'This order, it is pre-
sumeil, is in consequence of the more favourable
news received ou Thursday, from Spain. They
amouut to upwards of 14 sail. Several transports,
with 600 Artillery Drivers on board, sailed with
there. As bad news, however, was received from
France on Saturday, the countermand will pro-
bably be recalled, and the transports will he di-
rected to proceed for Spain, as was originally in-
tended. Such is the steady system of policy pur-
sued by Ministers. It changes with every whiff—
Every new blast produces a new determination.
We have been hitherto accustomed to look to the
weathercock for the state of the wind.

The Thalia, of 36 guns, Capt. Kixtiw, from
Gibraltar, arrived at Portsmouth, on Thursday,
■nd was released from quarantine on Saturday.—
She gulled on the .26th ult. haejng had northerly
wind* 3,1110 e that time. Lord COI.LINGWOOD was
off Toulon on the 17th ult. watching the French
lied there,. Capt. Du N ISAR, of the Leonidas ; and
Captain SANDERS, of the Atlas, came passengers
in the Thalia, having given up the command of
their Alva for a tittle, nn account of ill health.

On Thursday afternoon, arrived at Plymouth,
the American ship Violets, Capt. GIRDRON, from
L'Oricnt, which place she left on Monday last;
she has on board a Messenger with dispatches from
the French Goveroment to that of America, and
came here to take on hoard a Me►senger from this
country, whose arrival from London at Plymouth
was hourly expected. She brings intelligence that
BONAPARTE, with his brother JOSEPH, entered
Madrid on the Yd instant. The expeditioo against
Spain is @toted to be very unpopular throughout
France. As Congress met on the 7th of Novem-
ber, we may consider it • fortunate circumstance

that the intelligence from Spain that would reach
America about that time, was unfavourable to
France, and that the determination of that coun-
try respecting the Eusbargo must have been taken
before any account of the reverses sustained by the
Spanish nation could be received in that country.

The Gazetit of Saturday contains His MAJZI.
TT's Declaration respecting the Overtures from
Erfurt'', the Prorogation of Parliament from the
16th to the 19th of January. and au Order open-
ing a free trade with the Spanish part of St. Do-
mingo.
On Thursday a meeting of a Committee of the
Privy Council was held at the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, to hear and deteunine Prize Appeals.
Several transports are ordered to Cork, to take
oats and forage to Spain, for the use of our ca-
valry.

On Friday, the 77th Regiment marched into
Southomptou from 'il'inehrister. to ba quartered,
unti! the Ercetion for the County is teriuiosterl.

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