The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-22 00:00:00

MUTINY AT AL

IDRID.

itl ADRID, JULY 7.—When at the conclusion of our
article last night we said that the violent stateof Madrid
could not last long, the battalion of the rebel guards had
already formed a plan for Whining our prophecy. They
asconed to weakness the peace which we left them to
enjoy. The protestations which they made, and the ca-
pitulatiou %filch they proposed, were intended to lu:4
asleep said to inspire us vs ith confidence. They medi-
tated projects of vengeance, and endeavoured to dip, in
she blond of their brothers, the thorns they prepared.for
us. But Heaved disconcerted their wicked plaits, and
the slaves have received the punishment due to their per-
jury. We should wish to relate all the occurrences of
tliii day, and to omit nothiag which has characterisad
toe heroic patriotism of our gallant defenders. But we
&tall wait till time bongs 311 the facts to light, and limit
ourselves to an outline of the transactions of this memo-
able day.
At three o'clock in the morning the battalions of. the
guard who had encamped in the Prado peoetrated into
the capital, throwing down the gate of Conde Duque.—
Tb is plan, as it appears, was to form themselves in three
ti,visions; one of. which was to attack the park of artil-
lery, another to disarm the national militia, which had
coca coup. d in the >goare of the Constitution, and the
third to take possession of the Piterta del Sol, and to
guard the streets which. led to it, Of these projects, the
only oue they, succeed, in executing was the third ; but
the occupation of this post not having rendered them
masters of the two others, was of no service to them,
and rather exposed them to. the defeat which they re-
ceived in a short dine. Tue battalion destined to attack
the park of artillery dispersed without any known mo-
use on hearing the first firing in the street de la Luna,
and the exhortation of their officers was of uo avail to
retain the soldiers, who, retreating as it appears, by the
way they had entered, dispersed in disorder by the wood
ui Moucloa. Many of them have attempted, in the
course of the day, to join their companinus at the Palace,
anil some of them have been killed. without attaining
their object. In this. dispersion the officer D.. Lewis
Non was taken, who seeing himself detained by a pea-
sant, offered 12 pieces of gold and his watch to be re- '
leased, but the disinterested patriot conducted him to
the park of artillery. It most be confessed that the di-
vision which attacked the IKIUSIV showed more firmness,
but it encouraged enemies, worthy, not only of con-
tending with it, but with. the first soldiers in Burope
The rebels paid dearly for their audacity, dying by the
howls of the heroic national militia, at the Into of the
guns. They had no other resource but to retire towards
the Palace, strewing the streets the whole day with their
dead bodies.
The mad presumption of two divisions being thus
punished, notating remained hut to dislodge that which
occupied the Puerto del Sol, the guard of which had
rintiheil itself in the Casa de Correct', when it observed
the el ttttt uous inequality of its force. This enterprize
succeeded as desired, and in a short dune the insurgents
threw. dowse their arms, and fled in frightful disorder by
the stn as del Carmen, des Preciados, and del Arenal,
avoiding the death which threatened them from a Call-
on!) supported by grenadiers and sharpshooters, together
with a party of cavalry uuder the command or General
thilasteros. In the mean time the royal guards, who
were in the park of artillery, posseoel themselves of the
gable!, and fortified themselves iu them, so that the
tiatriouc solders occupied all the approaches to the Pa-
lace.
While things were in this state, a deputation from the
battalions of the guard proceeded to the Ilan of the Cortes,
where the permanent deputation had assembled in com-
pany with certain members of the city corporations,
declaritig that the guards were ready to surrender their
arms, but mat they should be permitted to do so when
they were beyond the precincts oh the Palace. It appears.
the answer was, that at the end of four hours the two
battalions which had remained in the Palace should
retire with their arms—the one to Leganes, anal the other
to Vicalv aro; and that the battalions of the Prado, who
Fwd fled Maw, should form. tents, and retire withou
arms to their destined quarters.
Then it was teen that, although the contagion which
bpd spread among the corps of the guards was great,
there were many who joined on compulsion, and by an
ill-moderatood sense of honour, the party of the seducers;
for manyof them inuttediaiely deserted their cotonanions,
and repaired to their quarters, shouting for the Constitu-
tion. Oihers, distrusting, doubtless, the generosity of
%nen' conquerors, or accused bytheir consciences for past
crimes, throwing away their arms; but some par.
sirs of cavalry, the national militia, and some pieces of
caulk• ry, ratstied the fugitives on the road to Estrema-
(lora, and at present there are :an% ing a great number of
wounded and prootlets.
'Die j•ost complex trariqui:fity now reigns in the ca-
pital, and it appe-rs almost imposolde that the gallant
men, whose ardour Ins been so exceed during the day,
• tewintt the perfidy of their enemies, should have been
able io recover, iu so short a nine ale: their triumph,
that generosity and composeite winch are the distinction
ui these heroes.
Ail se btu have witnessed the attacks of this morning
agree that troops of the hue neeer fought with more
order or more bras cry than the 'whoa. They advanced
boldly Onward at the voice of their chiefs, and without a
discordant sound ; after their triutnuti they shouted atone
(or the Con.titittion, and I even heard a militiaman re.
lirove a prisoner for the repuiaches which he tittered
against his seducers. We have not been able as yet to
useerein how many dead an I wounded there have been
an the different encounters, but the highest estimate does
slot make the tt ttttt ber of militia amount to half a dozen,
a loss extremely sinall, considering the impoitance of the
victory, but deeply to 1.. e deplored, whets we reflect that
this force is campus:A of proprietors of land, merchants,
respectable sonatas, and lathers of families, who mei-
iced themselves to defend our liberties.
)01 A URIC/. JULY E.-. The Council of State continued
►igttug seettal hours to deliberate upon the return they