The National Register.
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must be taken at last ; and if the original plan be
led to, the transition from slow deliberation, to in-

temperate hurry, is so sudden, that what is material to the
success of the execution, is omitted, or delivered in an im-
r...rfe.et state.
14 proportion as we abhor the vices, let us imitate the
meritorious qualities of .the Usurper. The firmness and
activity he displays for the worst of purposes, let us prac-
tise to promote the happicess and liberty of mankind. In

his pursuits indefatigable and constant, he never betrays
alternate precipitancy, and tardiness; but, firm in his
views, he deliberates carefully, and executes rapidly. This
-et of government; and unless we adopt it
cur political conduct, we may continue to
, useless sacrifices of money and men, with-
single object worth contending for, or se-
-1 safety. We have immense resources at
,re than ever fell to the lot of any other
population is adequate for all the pur-
defence, as well as the most lofty ambi-
'c effects of our institutions are capable of
Iral character to the sublimest enthusiasm ;
ituatiou combines every advantage which
philosopher could wish.

To • appreciate our means, moral and physical, let us
suppose a CHATHAM, with the uncontrouled influence
which his genius and virtue should entitle him to, entrust-
ed with the direction of our affairs. With the army, navy
and finances of the country at his disposal, his soarinrand

comprehensive mind would erect a stupendous fabric
which we grow dizzy► in contemplating. The present
situation of the enemy in Spain he would consider as the
most auspicious circumstance which fortune has in her
power to offer; and we form an erroneous opinion of the

extent and power of human abilities, if he would not Cu-

deavour, by one of those bold operations which genius
• alone can devise, to terminate at once French rivality and
opposition. That great Statesman,' prepared for every
occurrence, would always have our whole disposable force
ready for immediate embarkatiOn, and an adequate num-
ber of transports to convey them wherever their services
might be required. We will not insult the memory of
that great man by even asking the question, if he would
have issued orders similar to those reported to have been
sent by the present Cabinet, on receiving Sir JOHN MoonE'S
dispatches. No : his soul was not to be daunted by ditli
cultics, or surprised by rumours the moment he received
the intelligence, a telegraphic dispatch would have in-
stantly ordered to repair to their destination the com-
manders of our fleets and armies. But it is useless as
well as impertinent to indulge even in a supposition of the
kind ; for, under an administration like his, our arm%
would not be reduced to the mortifying predicament of
flying before the enemy. Instead of 30 or 35,000 men, a
:British force of 130,000, conducted by a MaaLnonosen,
(for talents create talents,) would have, a month ago,
seized the passes of the Pyrenees, and shut up BONAPARTE
and his army foe ever in Spain. This may be termed idle
rant and extravagant speculation. To fools and cowards,
every thing decisive, and beyond the range of their puny
elmprehension, is ridiculed as impracticable. Quitting,
however, speculations of this nature, for what it is now in
our power to perform, or the Ministers of our time are
svilling to hazard, we will take the liberty of suggesting,
at least, the necessity of removing the public uneasiness,

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by ordering the Expedition immediately to sail. Whither ?
to Vigo undoubtedly, to co-operate with their country-
men, or cover their embarkation. We absolutely reject
the number of Frenchmen, which the Morning Chronicle
and other party Papers, opposition as well as ministerial,
have detachNl in pursuit of our army ; and are much in-
clined to believe they do not amount to 50,000 men. The
last Bulletin of the enemy seems to corroborate this con-
jecture ; and if Ministers have any respect for their own
reputation, any deference for public opinion, or a wish to
perform any thing effective in support of the Spaniards,
they will expose themselves no more to the imputation
that every trifling dispatch is capable of disconcerting
their plans and paralysing their vigour.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE FRENCH P. 4 PERc.

TWENTIETH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.

MADRID, DEC.l9.—liis Majesty this day reviewed the army
which is at Madrid, with all its equipage and appointments.
Sixty thousand men, 150 pieces of cannon, more than 1500 carts
loaded with biscuit and hrandy, formed an assemblage formid-
able in every respect. The right of the army was utationed ou
Charmart in, and the left stretched beyond Madrid.

. .
The Duke of Belluna still continues at Toledo with the whole
of his corps.
The Duke of Dantzic. with the whole of his corps, still con-
tinues at Talavira de la Reyna.

The Bth corps has arrived at Burgos.
General St. Cyr is forming his junction at Barcelona with
General Duhesme.

Our posts of cavalry are clearing the roads to the borders of
Andalusia.

The Emperor has given the army a few days of repose.
Very fine fortifications are carrying on upon the heights o!.
Madrid. Six thousand men are employed on these works.
The small besieging train, composed of 24-pounders and of
small mortars, is arrived.
There has been found at Talaverade de la Regna, about 5
men in the hospitals, two or three hundred saddles, and some re-
mains of magazines belonging to the English troops. Some de-
tachments of cavalry have made their appearance in the neigh-
bourhood of Valladolid. This is the first symptom of existence
which the English have indicated. Their sick and their de-
serters arc in great number. On the 13th of December their
army was still at Salama:ica. Such distinguished self-denial ;
such a singular state of inurnbility for the last six successive
weeks, must be acknowledged to hare the appearance of some-
thing very extraordinary.
His Majesty enjoys the most perfect state of health.

FROM THE SPANISH PAPERS.

CAPITULATION OF MADRID.

FROM THE MADRID GAZETTE, DEC. 7, ISOS.

CAPITULATION

PROPOSED EY THEMILITARY ANDfCIV IL JUNTA OF MADRID,
TO lIIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF
THE FRENCH.
Art. I.—The preservation of the Catholic, Apostolic, and
Roman Religion, without any other being legally tolerated.
Answer.—Granted.
Art. 11.--The liberty and security of the liveinnd properties
of the citizens and other persons residing in Madrid, as well as
of those in public employments: the preservation of their situa-
tions, or the option of their retiring from this Court, if they
should prefer it.—Likewise the lives, privileges, and properties-
of the secular and regular Eccle=iasties of both sexes, together
with the respect due to the Churches, all in conformity to our
laws and customs.
Answer;—Granted.

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Art. II I.—The lives rad properties of all Military Officers'of
rank are I i kewi..e to be saf?.

Answer.—Granted. . •
Art. tr.—No person shall be liable to persecution, on ac-
count of their political opinions or writings, any more than.
those employed in a public capacity, for what ttiPy may have
done hitherto in the exercise of their employments, or in obe-
dience to the former Government ; nor shall the people suffer
for the efforts which they have made for their defence.
Answer.—Granted. •
Art. V.—No other contributions shall he exacted beyond the
ordinary ones that have hitherto been pail.
Answer.—Granted, till the Realm shall definitively be or-
ganised.
Art. Vl.—Our Laws, Customs, and Courts of Justice shall be
preserved in their present constitution. •
Answer.—Granted, until the Kingdom undergoes its definitive
organisation.
Art. Vll.—The French troops and their Officers shall not he
quartered in private houses, hut in military lodging honses and
tents, and by no means in Convents or Monasteries ; the pri-
vileges allowed to the respective classes by the laws being
preserved. '
Answer.—Granted, it being well understood that both the
Officers and privates must have (porters and tents that are
furnished conformablyto the military regulations, unless the said
buildings be insufficient. •
Art. V I IL—The troops shall march out ofthe town with the
honours of war, and be at liberty to retire whithersoever they
chuse.

Answer.—The troops shall march out with the honours of
war; they shall march off by files to-dav at four o'clock in the
afternoon, and leave their arms and cannon; the armed peasants
shall also leave their arms and artillery ; after which the inhabi-
tants sliall retire to their houses, and those from without the town
to their villages.
All the individuals that have enlisted among the troops of the
line four months ago, shall be free from.their engagements, and
retife to their villages.
All the rest shall continue prisoners of war till an exchange
take place, which will commence immediately between equal
numbers, and rank for rank.

Art. IX.--The public debts and engagements of the State shall
be faithfully and constantly discharged.
Answer.-✓-This being a political object, belongs to the cog-
nizance of the Assembly of the Realm, and depends on the gene-
ral administration.
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Art. X.—Those Generals who wish to continue in the Capital,
shall preserve their rank ; and such as are desirous of quitting it,
shall be at liberty so to do_
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Lentz, DEC.
nances has conimunicrita to this funrettteo Jan ta,
lowing Royal o,rder, dated the 17 Witte': :' - ' • 'lO 01 1/414
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" NOtWkWanding• *lle/OW iOn% (1111,14gUiNgellitr
Junta of Government, by Royal Order of the 4th Am it
la,t, concerning the permis,,ion 4rantirolm;yo.ll*,4x4tFY•dor
the importation of Logl)sit g :. at
0141 tilV.,l)ol:t. of - ra( ~I has
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been pleased to direct that the. iiitegsli\ccii lii,:iilrt, titittued
~,:enerally, and that fir Coe preoct.le '-oi t 4E4° ties he
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V.t LENCIA, DEC. 7.—The Superior Junto of Government of
this .kingdom has just.: recc i ved the foltioic i4oll,43;cpruit by; it li
the Saragossa Gazette,. gstraurditia.-7 pr dif.s otfii.46ixi, i 4 s
Excellency the Captain-General of Arragup 4;04 the, aro f
reserve . 4 -too le, • ,st
" Most excellent Seignor-1 return yon luft.nlite.thankis r
•the intelligence which you communicate to me,'.and eanaotiet
observe to sour 'Excellency, that it would b.., very, properjo
order for this city the regiment of Grenadiers of Ciattadtks .watlh
it has been resolved to detain io this quarter for the tiekneupf
Arragon ; for never can they be of greater use, than in thweir-
cumstances which this city finds itself, of being threatened-wilth
a speedy attack, and a second siege.; —: ~,..I,li ~, i i :n not. orris
" I had no apprehension of this wort whetiat tanhrbsa,sstltere
. I was posted with a divi,ion of my artni., far from thinlettig•
that I should so soon find m., self in the tftmentabletittiation'in
which lam now placed, for never could any comtiination of
,nine have brought me into it. rho events of war are Iv vati-
nus as the infinitely varied opiiiious of mankin,i, and the RUA
' of fixing them is more difficult than that of regulating. the three-
Min of the aerostatic globe. In a word, in consequente ofrie
Orders for our retreat, we got into a dreadful er,?:ftloicritt, :it
rudcla on the 23d, in •which the ground was strusved 4v4thr a
iinmence number of dead bodies on both 6 i lie`Q ; iVIt! ,101,:iket* e
4nldiers never forgot that. they were the coil,:red,of lilileptiti ~
Mereia, and Arragon, nod the enetnyitild, Iv eil;
.4 miea•easte...,
from 7to 800 killed. We have lost ses eral• es:rearm, titificier..,
but those who survive are resolved to atienge. Weir loss; 80 I
have reason to call. myself happy, havitt!, the, Aloo4 fot,tone tribe
' at the head of the bravest of. the troops that encouptered tltesfAry
of the eagles of Napoleon. fill* enemy, after -Ow dlespetuiled of
our army, continued the pursuit, and ace now in the enuircuul of
this city, the sight of whir* motto( but sremiod.,tiwrn,of mots
I ff Ito thy- than glorious for us. Yesterday 01110eid-

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betty so to no. ' not less fatal to them than glorious for us. x esters oy Ofiligicl-
-Granted : they shall remain in their station, al- , 'mired partie*exch..lngpd.Wfile,shvi with them; tp,e, result being
. pay can only continue till the kingdom receives its some loss on tivir si ' f ingli and hooty,/,„AWfiticim..44c.4,6nd
anization. . . a ;‘) , ~'iii. 410.:• i . •. , . . . ~.
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IDITIONAL ELEVENTH Artirtett. unction of persons,.kei,,l,r rAyli, are at, u ty ,7, pni a-
nent of Guards shall this day, at four o 'Clock, take tions, and in thregilt,M. I?AY,S!,.d,(rli w‘iiii .rs.,l ,
~5x pc; to,:gi ve
F the Palace gates. The different gates' of the city, oriother proof., equeli orffrorior4,tibe. trlvin
,ch,Qc 711(1,r1.t.t..,►h_
'twiny.° toy
_k_mg,aild cout3/4 ry, 4.141) 1 11,5Assik,l, • t‘cx .o lo. ~ind
the same time, be delivered up to the French army.
d-house of the Body Guards, and the General Hos- oursisk-tiai Putfiii!ess, sho,l4,tWa attpippioad ifiaid4OP))e-
be surrendered to the French army at the same time. siegnas: ..May.tiody !!‘c•....4,.4. 44;1...._,...*- :'l' - •.: ii. ,q•ft 41.11440%214 ~i,
ne hour, the Park of Artillery, and the Arsenals, •: i. • • ~i ..1, :... •:.. J 14 . Ottit°ifirt t• 1'4.401°141r i.. . Ike
th the Engineers, shall be surrendered to the French " 4 Head-Quarters at Saragossa, Nov. 30, 1808." .Lttl
d Engineers. . . it. 1 *WO blita 0rn0v..1.1- 444t0 tdoilss44-4...4 61 .4.4 tartivsmis ~a) -
;s and eutreuchments shall be levelled, and thestret s • sibss sqmsoss• *atm
-,. '''i" --7 /e fitcietitifjeftt tit/444a !t,• ;
_.,' 1 - -ti t•rep, :1:71‘.;-, tn oT e, .7.77-s- .frti- ir ' , vas* 11t 6, 27 .
16 Officer about to take the command of Madrl s- .'#.144 inhdlituts.of ,Isteatieft4l,:off,ail clasnetand•essmaktions.—Ne.
t mid-day repair, under a military guard, to Ole cessity /irinot tats/4eictio.consmens Issas.. The sky Ateutilized the
: Principal (Governor), in order to concert with ao- !person lof ibin Elticellenertbe.Viceroy. . lifift•ncinevkit has been
egulations of Police, and measures for the re-itistik- insperintiliy,derstaisdeat If!, rearms of still t.v. 'and general/ con.
f good order, and public secutliy in all parts bf' she vonienee..44 I it.theltelurse..dit last nights ihe key** Arner4ll.4 • the
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most Meadow! tilsbosne tie Arcitivi sho p , and tote other.duthor i •
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ndersigned Commissioners, 4bthotsed by full'pawvirs, tietscr were cosismatiked... Piny have submitted ,tp Ole, urgracy o
tling and signing the present Capitulation, hOe „ agisigblf,ao :4e, said Viceroy being divested of his'Ankbyrqr. i
upon the faithful and entire eecution of theabaVe hatolev9eved, coarnitroatily Ao.ihe Royal. Ordef OTOf pth 41
es. 't • OctoPer 1308, upon Field-Marshal D. Pedro Garibay, via th,
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Camp at Madrid, s q 4 the 4th of DecD!et iNsa, , :
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