The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-27 00:00:00

Madrid, 4pril 20, 1808.'

" He added, verbally, such atrocious and un-
heard-of threats, that the Junta, not doubting that
he would 'early thern into execution, and thus com-
promise the repose of Madrid, had the weakness to
accede to the demand, and ordered the Marquis De
Castelar, in the name of.the King, to deliver up the
prisoner that night, which, in fad, was done, not
without much repugnance on the part of the Mar-
quis, and that of the other Officers who had the
custody of

" Truth requires that it should be stated, that D.
Francisco Gill, Secretary of State for, the Marine,
and therefore Member of the Junta, opposed the de-
livery of the prisoner, as' not being authorised by
the‘Kitig.
‘, It is npt eaqv to conceive how, in the eke of
fa e.-. 1 like thee, the Junta Of the GOverntifent
represent to the• Council and the'public;by nieans of
two Extraordinary Gazettes, that, the Prince of the
Peiiee find. been delivered tip by order of the King,
or how they toilld attempt' to cloak .their weakness
by publihing- garblekt paiisNsei tiN., the pima!,

c'or'respondence, inserting, for inttanee,, the fol•
• With respea i o the prisoner, Don Manuel.Godok,
,the King commands me .to inform the Junta; in or-
.der that they may make &prover use of th.intime-
tiou, that his Majesty yalues too highly the dvs,re
which the Emperor of the French. had manifested,
not to comply with it. At the.same tint., he per-
forms an aat of generosity towards a criminal who
has Offended ,his.. Royal person.'
" h is evident,* on a little refleelion, that this
could not refer to tho:lilleration of, the prispiter,:Unt
that the King was dispOsed to at With generosity
towards him from respea for the Emperor and
what .kind.
&.of generosity
,was meant may be ascer-
tained by reference to the order given on the t ath
of April to the Marquis De Castelar, concerning the
health of the prisoner, which the king issued,
though he well knew the mistake under which, his
Royal Parents lay, which Order would have been
ridiculous, if at the Same time the King;had ordered
the Junta to set him at liberty. Besides, after the
Junta had transmitted to the. King an account of the
reasons which
.induced theM to release the. prisoner,
by those above statek his Majesty ordered me tore,
ply in the following terms The King is inform
ed of the motives Which induced the Junta of the
Government to deliver up the prisoner without his
order.'

I have deemed it incumbent upon me to pub-
lish these fa&s, that all the nation may be informed
Of what occasioned the release of Don Manuel Go-
doy, falsely attributed to an order of his Majesty,
that no one may deem it possible that his Majesty
Can fail in his solemn- word gisien _to his people, to
judge them according to the laws; and that every
one may find, on this occasion, reason to feel more
strongly that ardent love with which we are tilled
towards our beloved King Ferdinand VII. whom
we implore God to restore to us, to fill the measure
of our felicity.

" PEDRO CEVALLOS."
[Then follows a Certificate under the hands of
D. liusebio De-Bardani and Azara, and D. Luis De
Onis, Secretaries of the King, testifying to, the au-
thenticity of the instruments cited.—Signed Madrid,
Sept. 3.]
The same Gazette contains other articles which
admit of abridgment.._ On the 17th ult.'the Magis-
trates of Torquernada announced to the Council at
Madrid the passage of the enemy through that town
in several divisions, in the course of which they com-
mitted 'the most wanton cruelties and depredations.
They burned down '287 houses, robbing houses and
churches with equal .avidity.
A like report from the Alcade, Mayor of the City
of Cuenca, relating the excesses committed on the
retreat of Marshal ?Vioncey throdgh that city, on the
17th of June last.

A reclamation on
.behalf of the King's Regiment
of Infantry, who had been praised in the Gazette of
the 15th of July, for having performed the service of
Guard to Joseph Buonaparte at Tolosa, and accom-
panied him to Vittoria, &c. It is said in this Paper,
that the Ist King's battalion, and the 2d African
battalion, had stood garrison. at St. Sebastian since
last February, where they felt the -same disgust and
detestation at the conduct of the French which the
whole nation felt, till the detention of the King at
Bayonne made them resolve to avenge the perfidy
prataised upon him. A few individuals passed over.
to Arragon, where the Patriot army was then, form-
ing'; .while the greater number, in order to find the,
meana of escaping, were reduced to the nacessity of
offering to compliment Joseph BLionaparte at Tolosa,
where the pretender arrived,on the foth of July. He
was received with acclamations from 2000 French-
men, but not from the inhabitants or the King's bat-
, talk-in, which consisted of 120 men. The King of
Naples, thouh he could not fail to perceive the dis-
position of the Officers, nevertheless-afreded to re-
ceive Ahem with great
.favour. They accompanied'
the King to Vittoria, where be honoured them .by
wearing their uniform : but, notwithstanding the es-
pecial favour,thus displayed, and the flattering offers
made by some of the Members oi.the Deputation to
Bayonne, early on the morning of then, 7th they set •
out froM Santa Maria del Cubo; leaving the road.
to Burgos, they marched to Poza, where they rest-
ed. Early the next 'morning they (mind themselves
near Villa Diego. They were obliged to go out of
their course in order to avoid the parties of the
French in that neighbourhood, till,. on The 25th of
the same month, they reached the Galician army, 1
where they were joined by. the Other two battalion,
of the first division, They afterwards learned that j
they were pursued by 80 cavalry, who could not
reach them, but whoa) they should have received
with great pleasure, . •
MADRID, SEPT. 7.—There were at Tudela 6000
of our troops, and 10,000 armed peasantry, when
the Arragonese Corntnanders received advice from
the Chief Alcade of Soria, that 20,000 French were
advancing under the cotnniand of General Moncey;
to enter the kingdom of Arragon. It therefore be-
came necessary that our troops should retreat to Sa-
. ragosga, where, according to the letters from that
place, every preparation was made for sustaining a
second siege. The gate of Santa Engracia was the'
only point which excited any degree of apprehension;
as it . was in ruins; but the utmost exertions were
making to place both it and Monte Torrero in a slate
oe defence. The advanced guard of the Arragonese
was within three leagues of S.iragossa;. that of the
French was at Gallur, seven leagues from the city.
We were under sown apprehensions' for that Me•
brated bulwark of heroism, when at one o'clock
yesterday M. Butron, Aide-de-Camp to General Pa-
lafox, arrived here with intelligence that the French
bad retreated to Tudela. He further states, that the
people of Saragossa entertain no' alarm, should the
enemy return with double their former force.
In consequence of the advices froth.Arrag6n; a
Council of General Officers was held here; and in
order to protest that kingdom, it was determined to.
send off a Courier extraordinary, with ordertr to Ge-
neral Blake to take an advantageous position ; but
that skilful Officer anticipated' the necessity of the,
intended movement, and before the express ruched''
him, he bad already posted his army
,on, the spot
fixed on by the Council of War-=a Circumstance
Which has forwarded the system of operations,' and
given general satistatiktt.
„ .
CAote,"Auo. 30.,—,Yesterday arrived here a Ves-
sel froin Monte Video, in eighty days, to procure
supply of arms to be employed against'-the Court of
Brazil, the Prince of that country having summoned
mbhte Video,' aild`The wlivla of tiiii"diaf4l,"fojiUr. ;

• •
rerioer to the Portuguese MTils. Nato*, vt'.2t, the
:bearer of the.,summons put 'Under ,atrt4st, .but: his
master was :given ttr blidvrstr.nd that, his surnmunt
wouhf.he ;inswered by
.17,000 ,wartiom
Note. unntt :Editor. This is One or
theadvantages.i6roferred :;upon us .by our alliance
with Fratice., .But this Affair ,wouldinstantly be at
an end,
,upon receiA nig intelligence of• the events
wbidh hate taken place dick. kingdoms'
,
CARRION. DE Loi' CoNDEI, SEPT. 4.,--Z,4llle.whOle
of the Galician army,is concentrated in.this place. It
marches off at tour intlie.afternotin, ,and will :con•
tinue its route the whOld night, in order to come up
with the enemy. It is imagined that this,operatiod
is taken
.in concert with the armies of the other pro.
vinces,,,and that all of them were to be in motion at
,MANRES'A, 41IJG. t I,—By different letters from
Ampurdan,., dated the 7th , and .et 14• inst. we learn,
that. on the Gth..,theCornmandant of that place,.ain
Juan Claros, took post.iii the plain of Cain, is con-
sequence of inif,orniation that,a column of from, lop
to 1000 Fr•tich „were Ittpos.that way, ,having
,ut4ler_
their escort twenty, Wat.;•gons 611 ed with ,woundvd
men, apd .proceeding,.norrrSorili near Gerona, to
Perpignan, , He,attacked and defeated them with
the utmost intrepidity, and. pursued them, without
giving them a motnent!sr,titne to. rally, as far asJunt
quera.. They tied thither, with all speed, expeding
to fins! an asylum, but they met only with deStruc.
Lion; and not more than tact of them erected their
escape to Bel"agarde. The General's Ai-d-de;Citup
enterer! a house in that place, and, frantic. with
vexation •at his deleAt, he attempted, to Stab himself
with a sword ; and the weapon being wrested front
hiai, he threw' himself from a balcony, e`Aclairning.
that he must inevitably be Shot. Some of our
.hiave
champions who observedhim skit. him dejd 6,10 re
he carnt- to the ground.
,
CADIZ, AUG: 14.---By a leyerrecer:7elin Murcia,
. dated at Cumyro Mayor, July the it.is s‘ated,-
that Getierl,ltiNor sent a friendly me•sage to tit
Russian AdMiral in the of LiSban, inviting him
to dine with him at his Palace, and spend tile even-
ing, in order to confer withhint oti bbsines4 Of (no.!
went; to which ire answered, that %.‘14.:!, on service
he was wont tolake his meals in his own'cabin, and
to Walk his own deck only. On the folloWing day,
he addressed him .;gain, requesting ulut lie ‘votilcl
spare him 1000 men from his squadron, in oider
to his uniting them with his troops. The .a.fis wer
was, that without orders from his Soyereigfi he Cobld.
:not part with one man. it/N sent a third mes-
sage; intimating that he would pass on board to visit
the Admiral, and have the pleasure of viewing his
Squadron ; to which the Admiral replied, that *lc.
ever.shall set foot on board hiSShip most rethaia
there. This third repulse dispidased Jutityr highly
his vexation was increased to the highest pitch, when
he, on the following. morning, saw the Russian
Squadron formed, in battle array, with guns
pointed against the city, and in an attitude of attack-
ing it, or defending themselves in case an attempt
against them were made; front which it way be ar-,
gued that Russia and France are no longer Cu terms
of amity .—(Courier rf &S;alumanca.)

CARTHAGENA, AUG. 20.—0 n the 18th arrivec(
here the Spanish Stralron, consisting of ,the
:Ships
Reyna Lkisa, Si. Pallo,Guiiiero, Asia,: and St.
Ramon, under the command of Admiral. boo JUAN.
JOSEPH MARTINEZ, from Mahon ; the St. Fran-
cis-co-De Paula having arrived here a feW days be-
fore. • It would be difficult to give an adequate
idea of the joy of the inhanitantS.M se.!ing- resti,red
to their port so valuable a portion of its inadtilne
force, which the perfidy the Minis'er', the
most infamous that ever-disgraced a Monarch, had
destined fur the In--3atiable cupidity of theFiencn
De.spot The casualties which have concurred iiz the
conservation of t his squadron are so ValiOUS, that we
cannot but attribute its safety to the hnetposittOn ot
Providence. On the loth of Febrtiary frorn
this bay, tinder the command of Adthral: VgcnEz;
in order to form a junction with the:French fleet at
Toulon', in conformity to peretillyth'y 'orders froth
the pelidiouS Gonoy ; and although' the utmost
a6tivity vas exerted, Heaven would not perrnit.
that the monstrous Moloch of the (Inman speCies_
should' get into his poS'sesE.l6ll this additional
means of destrudion. When the expedition arrived
off Cape St. Antonio, they were assailed, by such,
powerful contrary winds, that they were obliged to
put into port in. Majorca to refit.. A feWcitys after
they again set sail for Toultin; but they were °Wig,
ed.to "put back very much shattered. The repair 4,
consuming much time, and being then moreover ex:"
posed to the hazard of falling in with the British
Fleet under Admiral MARTIN, w hick tO our good for-
tune was then crnizing off. that port,- the repeated
orders of MURAT remained unexecnted. An Aid-
de-Camp of MURAT himelf, had, in the mead time,
passed to take the command, hut as our tii4-
cano burst at the same titne; dispatches and instrue,
lions were transmitted hither foe the new Geueral,
which he was nothitiated 'Admiral. The Supreme
Itenta deputed immediately the savy Lientenant
DOn JOSEPH DUELO, with orders to the Spanish:
Admiral not to rendet aniohedienco to. the French.
Governinent. His
,arrival was' so tinier), that the
Squadron was on the point, of sailing, having receiv.;
ed pressing orders from MURAT to proceed to tar-
egtona. and other ports. •
Let uS'render our thanicsgiVing to the proVidene,
hind which has dieeaed these occurrences, in pre-.
serving to u; such a valuable means of defence. Yesterday arrived a Ylerchint Brig from Palermo,
in eight days. Her Captain assures us that the French
were, pfeCipitately quitting Naples, the' w hole Of that
Kingdom having risen against' them and terrified the;
gatriSon, in conseqUeneeof haVing fully ascertained'
the occurrences in 'Spain, and the Victorks
'the Spanish- Patriots- have` obtained. over their vile
guests.

TllE.difficulty of procuring Foreign Works renders:
it a pleasing task for us to announce he
.put?lickii,ion`
in London of a new French. Novel,' by the Author of.
" L,e.tfres ecrites,de Lausanne," which has eAcitecl
considerable interest at Paris;
_it is einitlud "
Tine
.d' therche." Maclaine MONTOLIEU.S,
cesse de -100 we understand, is also shonly.
to wake its appearance. .

.0n Thursday evening,nne of the Soldiers belong.ing :
tO the. Tower. Hamlets Militia,• on relieving a
guard at the Est India Company's Dock‘ at Black...
wall, missed his4ray,'Nialked irate the bash, and wan'