The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-01 00:00:00

MAY 1.

was defended by his Guards, w ho had a particular watch-word;
those at the Castle had another. At four in the morning the
p..ople rushed in crowds to the Palace of the Prince of the
Peace, but were repulsed by his Guards. The Life Guards took
part with the people, and fell upon the Priuce's Guards. The
?ales were ff treed, the furniture broken, and the aparttnents
desolated. The Princess of the Peace ran to the staircase, she
wtr conducted to the King's Palace, w ith all the respect due to
her birth and rank. The Prince of the Peace disappeared.
Don Diego ( iodoy, his brother, Commandant of the Life Guards,
was arrested by his own soldiers. The King and Queen sat up
iii
the whole night between the 17th and 18 . The French Am-
bassador arrived from Madrid, at five i re morning, and im-
mediately waited on their Majesties. t. the 18th. a Procla-
mation by the King dismissed the Prince of the Peace from his
employments, and declared that he would take upon himself the
command of his armies. This was publi-hed at Araajuez, :tad
at Madrid. On the receipt of this intelligence, the people of
Madrid rushed ii: crow ds to the house of the Prince of the Peace,
and to those of several of the Ministers. In all of them the fur-
niture and the windows were broken. There was no one to
oppose this disorder. the Captain-General hind lost the com-
mand. The Swiss regiments remained cantoned in their quarters.
Art A NJUEZ, M. ItCn 21.—From the 16th to the 21st Madrid
and Aranjoez have been the theatre of several insurrections, in
which the houses of the Prince of the Peace, the Minister of
Finance, Soler, the Director of Consolidation, Espicossa, of
other Ministers, and of several relations of the Prince of the
Peace, have been pillaged, and the furniture burnt in the pub-
lic streets. The Prince of the Peace has been arrested in a loft
in his own house, w here he had concealed himself for 36 hours.
Oo the 16th the King issued a Proclamation, No. I.—(lice the
.National Register, April 17.) On the 17th the King made
known, by another Proclamation, that he had dismissed the
Prince of the Peace *ton his employments, and bad taken upon
him-.-elf the command of his army. The tumult, however, still
increasing, the King thought fit on the 19th in the evening', to
publish the subjoined Decree, No. 2. On the 20th were issued
the subjoined publications, Nos. 3. and 3. The head-quarters
of the Grand Duke of 13erg were at Aranda. .0a the 19th the%
were at Somosierra, on•the 20th at Brabajo, and on the 21st at
A ldevanda. lle has with him the divisions of Marshal Mime%
and of Geurral Dupont. Ills arrival appears to generallybe .
desired. The mass of the people of Madrid are calm rind tran-
quil ; and,
.as it happens in similar cases, disorders have only
been committed by a small number of individuals.
No. IL—ROY AL D EC!? EE.

My habitual infirmities not permitting me to support nn)'
longer the important burden of the Goverment of my K ingdom,
awl it being requisite for the re-establishment of my health,
that I should muoy in a more temperate climate a private life,
have determined, after mature deliberation, to. abdicate my
Crown, in favour of my heir, my dearly beloved son the Prince
or Asturias.
My Royal will therefore k, that he %hould he recognised and
obeyed, as King and natural Lord of all my Kingdoms and So-
vereignties, and in order that this Royal Decree of my free and
•liiiatatieous abdication, may be exactly and duly fulfilled, you
i; ill communicate it to the Council and to all others whom it
may coueern.

I, 7'n E KISG.

Done at Aranjuez, the 19th March, 1808.
DON PEDIIO CF:r4LLOS.

No. lII.—EDICT.
DoN ARIAS ANTONIO MOIART VNLAILDT: Dc IN CO% I it NOR

PIK INTERIM oF TUE COUNCIL.
The King, our Master Ferdinand VI I th, has communicated to
me by divers order', Which i have received, that his Maiest
has come to the determination of immediately confiscating all the
!notis, effects, actions, and estates of Don Emanuel (unto. ,
uherever they softy be found, and that for this purpose his Nla-
Jest', has taken every suitable measure, the said eti'ects
imme,liately to him ; that he has also come to the determination
shortly coming to this city to be proclaimed; but, he wishe'•
liras previously the people of Madrid, so tkvoted and detached
to his Royal Person, will give him proofs of eahniiess and
tranquillity; assuring them, that he has given orders atrainsi
Don Emanuel Godov, his goods awl revenues, which no longer
belong to, him t that h.: will think very, seriously of repairing the
rungs done to his loving subjects who have suffered in his
ratio; and lastly, that he will constantly keep in view the
Poinittion of cll those usettzttres which Ihre calcaliited to ensure ,1
Lxiaptccal.