The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-30 00:00:00

from Madrid, which be bad left on Sunday. He
dined at the house 01 toe M.,rquis DE ALMANZA,
whom he nominated hiS Aid-de-Camp; he confer-
ed varioos .military employments, and dispatched,
.among other expresses, one to the Captain-General
of Galicia, exhorting hint to advance with hi; army
into Castile. At .two o'clock Afternoon on
the same day he left town to opoter. with General
CussTA, who now is at.Roblizq, leagues from
hence. Doringthe few hours
.o.his_ stay, here, no-
ening hut honorary acclamations to him, were heard
throughout the who'd. town., ,
CORUNNA, AVG. 16.—The spirit of the
,people is
wonderfully. eAcellent--:their cause must inetitahly
triumph. The posts from the interior are very irre-.
igulat. We expel Madrid tq be' prroclaitned the
centre of the gmpire, and that laTuties
seruhle from' all the-Provinces, aCcisrdin'eto the old
Constitution. the Cortes" will ero:e.i.' on their func-
tions, and the whole assume unity. At 'present
each So m pree,Junta de Gobiertio; th_(.f*- as it were
tt:ithout concert, and attends to iiitibitt,.appears most
urgent. The wrecks of the French.eYelo-take posi-
tions on the Ebro, at Ordono, and wait reinforce-
Ments from Bayonne ; but should the French dis-
continue the war -during the winter, the Spring.
campaign will set every thing at rest, as the Spani-,
ards become daily better soldiers.. They are dread-
-fully in want of •clothing;" they are in hat nearly
naked. The Muiti6ipalfty at Cot nnna are prepar-
ing quarters for 15,000 infantry, and 5000 cavalry.
I"he army of Galicia have. at present 59t no horses,
but they expect some, .and will then join the army
under Ge4l. 131..AkE, whose head quarters are at
Astorga."— •

La
Prueva, a new Frigate of 44 guns, commanded
by Capt. Sittviozk,-sails in a few days from Ferrol for
England,,and proceeds with t he,New Governor Ruts,
to the 'River Plar, with DON FRANCISCO,XAVIER
\TUNA, and others.
The St. to/ban's with her Transports for Portugal,.
and the Pomona, with those for the Mediterranean,
passed on the 12th in sight of Corurina.
-_CORUNNAi Auq. 11.—At the present moment,
when the' French 'troops -at Madrid;"ll.(id,',those op-
posed to the Galician army, .are dn their retreat;
much is said concerning the attiOi.:Mt of the Enemy's'
force in Spain, with which he' so—perfidiously at-
tempted the conquest of the,coun try ; -and it appears
to us a fit Occasion to make an exla e‘lteulation of
that force as.lar as is possible, considering the divers
statements which have been'ami still are. made. Esti--
mating
.the losses sustained by the Enemy in Arra-
gm,. Valencia, Catalonia, Rio -.Seco, .and in other
parts, with those who have fallen. at Madrid, and
the many sick and wounded still among them, and
also those who have fallen by the'habds of the Por-
tuguese, we may form an idea of tinUe who remain,
with -which' they are endeavouring to retreat to
France.

There w-ere three ALrshals of the French Empire
in the centre of Spain=—'iluttAT, MONCEY, and
" RES SIERES. - They had unuer their command three
troops, consisting of from 70 to 75,000
men ; to which are to be added, the troopN which
foraied. a part 'of the corps t oder Marshal NEY, at
the frontiers of,the Eastern Pyrenees, occupying the
,city of Barcelona and the Castle of Monjuy, to the
number of about' 10,000 men.
I If we add to this masse 20,000 French who were
in Portugal with juNor; there will result a total of
100 or 105,000 men, more or less ; and this amount
will be increased to (20,000, if we add 15,000
Swiss, Hannverian, and Polish auitiliaries. -
• Of these. 120,000 men, there were at the begin-
ning 50,000 Wider MURAT rind MONCEY, at Madrid
or in the environs. It was this great *body which,
after having slaughtered the wretched inhabitants of
the Metropolis, v. as separated into various detach-
Merits, in order to seize Cadiz- and Valencia. One
of these bodies was put under the orders of General
DUPONT : the other under the, command of the
MoNC'EY. The whole ofth a
irst has been
obliged to surrender, after sustaining` number of
partial defeats : and the -,,,econd, _not being ante to
-resist the fOrces iti Valencia,, fled _to Madrid, with
the NCallty 'reintinS of woo or 1500 men.
Mat 01 BESSIERE.S, who 6 principal force was
d at Vittoria and Panipeluna, in order to-guard
the two roads to Madrid, and to maintain -the com-
munication between that capital and Bayonne, re-
ceived, orders to send 'various detachments to the
right and lett, to the provinces of Asttnia' andArra-
goo. One of these detaChments; commanded by
the General of Division MERLE, was that which en-
,tered. Bantanckr : the other, and math larger,' com-
manded by the, Genera) of. Division' Ettititivtte, was
at Saragossa, where it, suffered the defeats and great
10.i$es which are notorious: ,

One French division, which probably set out-from
Burgos, advanced above .Valladolid, 'and received a
Check, nrst. Cabezon,'and then at Rio Seco; and
was then reinforced, by being united to the di-
wer BESSISEZS, which had been at Saw.
tatider. Tins was the corps which was last in our
neighbournood; but, God be praised ! they are now
all flying..
The ;try before yesterday, a vessel arrived here
frdni Figuena, which she: left ,on the 4th instant :
she brings an accduur that 112 men, ca%alry of the
Portuguese troops of the line, hiid arrive) at Cohn-
bra, hating made a precipitate march teem Lisbon;
to solicit succours for that, city. They stated, that
JurSOZ' had projcaed to disarm all. the Portuguese
under: his command, but that they, aware of
his design, had resolved to .resist rather. than suf-
fer it to be done.; and that ion the 30th and 31st,
they killed such of the French as endeavouri,:d to
disarm them. Agreat slaughter toi4.,Oace on both
sides, . •

PROCLAMATION 01 THE COUNCIL OF
' ' •• CAS! ILE,

0 TEE PEOPLE OP MADRID, ON THE DEPARTURE

bF 'Tkri;

" Generous and wprthy pef,iple of the.Capitat of
Spain The CounCil addresses you; and bero;re. it
.
states its ientimehts to ypu, it asks—are you capable
of availing your'selve§of tho nlistprtunes ofyourcoun.;
!ry,..16 'the •ertiical .tale iii whiCh it now is, -to
pert6rb its tranqUillity, 49(il add to the calamities of
its siyuatinn ? Your nOble conduct corresponds, as
might-be.expedVd; with the yilloUr aud.y,irtup which
forur' ,aur characier. Tie Council fejpites that
yvu fe,ll6,ii the advice it formerly gave you, and that
y;u trip! jn its paterual solicitude. Continue,
ftd Sp-tniards, (6 be calm, that the worthychief' j
and . .
The Ala, svates who preside over you,, Inv 1