The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-04 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN-OFFICE.
Tars day Parliament was prorogued by Commis-
Sion, when the Lotto CHANCELLOR delivered the
following Speech to both Houses of Parliament :

" lily Lords and Gentlemen,
" We have it in command from His Majesty to
express to you the great satisfaaion which he de-
tires Worn being enabled, by putting an end to the
Present Session of Parliament, to terminate the la-
borious attendance which the Public Business has
tecluirc`d of you.

" The Measure which you have adopted for the
ItnProvement of the Military Force of the Country,
Promises to by the foundation of a System of'ln-
iftnal Defence eminently useful, and peculiarly
adapted 'to t)e Exigencies of these Times.
" The sanetion which you have giVen to tbOie
Measures of Defensive Retaliation, to which the
tiolent Attacks of the Enemy, upon the Commerce
and Resources of this King,lorn,.comPelled His Ma-
jesty to resort, has been highly satislisaorY to His
Majesty,

" His Majesty doubts, not that in the result the
Enemy will be convinced of the impolicy of perse-
vering in a System which retorts upon himself, in
so much greater proportion, those Evils which he
qndeavours to inflia upon this Country.

. -
" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
" We are commanded hy.His Majesty to return
His most hearty acknowichigments for the cheerful-
ness and liberality with which the necessary Supplies
for the current
year have been provided.
"'His Majesty direas us to assure you, that he
participates in the satisfaiStion with which you must
have contemplated the flourishing situatiop of the
Revenue and Credit
in of the Country,, notwithstand-
g the continued pressure of the War : And he
congratulates
Vide for you upon having been enabled to pro-
,the you
of the Public Service, with
so small an addition to the Public lurthens.
" His Majesty commands us to thank you for
having enabled him to make good his Engagements
With his Allies jar ) and to express to you' the particu-
gratification whiCh he has derived from the man-
tier to which you have provided for the Establish-
'tient of his Sister; Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Brunswick.

" My Lords and Gentle Men,
" His Majesty has great satisfaCtion in informing
you, that, notwithstanding the formidable Confe-
deracy united against His Ally the King of Sweden,
That Sovereign perseveres, with unabated vigdtii. and
constancy, to Maintain the Honour and Independence
c his Crown, and that no effort has been want-
ing on the part of His Majesty' to support hin.l in
the arduous Contest in which he IS engaged.
" The recent transaaions in Spain and Italy have
tthibited new and strilcing Proofs of the unbounded
and unprincipled Ambition which aauates the coin-
inon Enemy of every established and independent
Nation in the World.
" His Majesty views *ith the liveliest interest
the loyal and detehnined spirit maniteited by the
Spaniiti.Nation, in resisting the violence and perfidy
with winds their dearest rights have been assailed.
" Spanish .Natioh, „;thus nobly strbggling
ignivst the Tyranny and.-rasurliation'of France, Cart
no longer be considered
tairl as the Enemy of Great Bri.
; but is redognitcd by •His Majesty as a natural
Flieud and Any.

j" We are commuided to inform you that His Ma...
erty fla: received Communications front . several Of
ihe Provinces of Spain; soliciting the Aid of His
liajesty. The An:Wer of His Ma sty- to these
Communications has been received in ::.?pain, with
every demonstration of those sentiments of Con-
fidence and affection which aTe congettial to the
feelings and true .interests of both -Nations
zed His Majesty: commands. us to
,assure you,
that Ha will continue to make' ever:: xer-
tion in his power for the* support of the Spanish
Cause; guided in the choice and icy the direction of
his exurtions by the wishes of those in whose be-
half they are employed..
Incontribe.ng to the succe
and ss of this great
glorious cause, !-,;(.: Majesty has no other objed
than that .of
.prescrving unimpaired the power
and independenPe of tfie Spanish Monarch. But
tae. Cruets -that th y
A same efforts which are directed
.to that great ohjea, may, under the blessing of
Divine .ProviLlence, leiid in their effect, and by
their example, to the restoration of the Liberties and
,Peactir Eerope."

Coact EXCHANGE, JULY 4.---The supply of
Wheat this day is but inconsiderable,
and the
sales are at an advance in price of 2s. per quar-
ter ; Barley, with Malt, hardly support last prices ;
scarce any White Pease, price nominal ; Grey
and the two kind of beans are ratter lower • the
supplies of Oats are rather consisderable, and
this
tr,toe
.ag-un na ned at a further declension of Is.
Per quarter; Flour nearly at last prices.
Viscount A.lATEltniti Mid the oilier D,,puties from
the Spanish Patriots, ere at Vauxhall OD Friday

•.,•
IMPORTANT SPANISH DOCU.MP,N7I.

PROCLAMATION OF PEACE

WITH ENGLAND AND SWEDEN, HER ALLY.
Published at Oviedo., on the aoth of tune, JBOB. ,

FERDINAND THE'SEVENTII, Nitta. OP SPAiN, AND 'IN

HIS IROYAt NAME ;
The Suprenie Junta of this Principality.declares a
general Peace with _England, 'and at the same time
the closest alliance with that nation, which has with
the greatest generosity offered all the succours and
assistance that have been asked of lief-. They also de-
clie Peace with Sweden ; .and order that all onr
ports should be open to vessels of both Nations, and
that this Royal Resolution be conununicated ti 'all
'the Justices of this Priticipa. lily.

BRIEF: NARRATIVE OF. VIE TRANSACTIONS AT MA-
DRID, ON MONDAY, THE SECOND OF MAY, 1808,
BY AN ENGLISH c&izTronlAs WHO WAS 'IIIERE

ON THAT DAY.

, •
The public mind'had never: seen in a state of per-
feet tranquillity since the middle of March, when
the intention of King 'CHARLES the 14.17t1i to reinove
to Seville with the Royal Family was first
• tieeted.
• The .deposition of the pripce of pE4 -c2 on "the
18th, his imprisonment on the tgth, with the ab-
dication dieing CHARLES, and accession of Ilia son,
PrinCe FERDINAND, which took place on the satpe
day,-were events that gAVe great satiSfaclion, and
might' in time have prOdtieed the happiest effetis•;
but the arrival' of the French troops in Madrid, the
delivery of the sword of FRANCIS. the First to Mu-
a“, which had remained in the Royal Armory as a
trophy ever since the Battle of Pavia, the departufe
of ling FERDIti4ND for Burgos, the deli Very of the
Prince of PEACE to the French, and finally the
King's determination to pass' the frontier and pat
himself in the hands of the French at Bayonne,
were circumstance's which revived the ferment, and
gradually increased it to such a violent degree, that
some formidable explosion was hourly dreaded by
the -Junta de Gobriona (of which the infant Dow
ANTONIO was left President), and every possible
Means was used by the Junta to quiet the alarais
of the people, and prevent them from proCeedifig
to open ads of violence against the French.
A Porte
,or Extraordinary Courier used to arrive
everrevening from Rayoane, with apt:gums of the,
transactions there; those accnuilts were never pub-
lished in the Gaiette, but circulated in the form of
extraets from private letters Of the King's attendants,
and the first of them atfeided a momentary satisfac-
tion, as they consisted solely Of details of the ho-
nours paid to Prince FERDINAN ri on his arrival,
and the cordial reception he had from BUONAPARTE.
The subsequent accounts became daily lets satisfac-
tory ; first, obscure hints weregiven that all was not
well, and then it was explained more clearly, that
the intention of the Ruler of France was to pre'vail
upon FERDI NAND to resign his Crown.
The Porte due on Saturday, the 30th of April,
did not arrive. • it was still due on Sunday evening,
the first of May, and many thousand people were
assembled at the Puerta del Sol, and other- streets
near the Post Office, in anxious expectation of the
Messenger.

The French garrison of Madrid remtined Ftft night
Under arms; and the sun of Monday, the second of
May, arose on many an unfortunate inhabitant, who
was destined never to see another morning,
This day was fixed on for the departure of the
Queen of ETRURIA, and her brother, the Infante
DON FRANCISCO t PA1.1411, for liiiyuhhe. The cu-
riosity
_of Many people led them to the square be-
fore the Palace to witness the scene, and many
wives and families went there to take leave of
their husbands and parents, and to lament tueir own
hardfate, in being left without any certain pr,vition.
When the first carriage appeared at the gate, many
Of the ;nob expressed a. suspicion that the Infanta
dirr:Af,tiogto,-President of tile Junta, or Provisional,
G(nertnnent, .was also to leave diet-hi and under
this misconception the riot began.
They cut the traces of this carriage, and forced it
hack into the Palace Yard, but on bang assured that
Dog Aginiro was not to leave Madrid, they per•
witted it to he again yoked and brought out. An
Aid-de-Camp of General Murikr was sent by him
toenquiro into the business ; the mob seemed dis-
posed to treat him very roughly, but by the inter-
ference of some Spanish Officers, he was rescued,
and permitted to return to his Commander.•

The carriages were then allowed to proceed with
the Quern of ETEURIA and her brother; the latter
was observed to skew great relaCtance, and even to
cry-bitterly, which both atfeCted and irritated the
pedple. At this moment the same Aid,de-Camp
returned with a party of French soldiers; and then
the scene, of horror and bloodshed began.
It is not easy to ascertain with certainty whether
the mob tdr the French soldiery were the first, aggres-
sors ; but the French soon began to fire vollies of-
musketry among their Opponents, and many inno-
cent spectators fell ; one. tine boy of eight years old
was shot dead in a window by the first discharge;
this was about eleven in the morning. The news
spread like wild-fire Ail over the town, and in less
than an hour every individual of the lower classes
who had the means, was armed and in the streets.
At Lira the Spaniards had in most parts of the
town the advantage, even though the Spanish troops
were not' allowed to take any concern in the affair,
having been all locked up in their Barracks by their
Officers; and a great number of French troops tell,
whose arms were afterwards made use of by those
of the Spanish ir4l), who had none; 'but as soon as
the dispositions given by General MV RAT began to.
take etteet, the preponderance was decidedly op the
side of the French ; all the troops of that nation in
town were called out, and columns from all the
camps ita the neighbourhood entered by different
gates, each ar..companied by one or more pieces' of
dying artillery, which raked the streets as they ad-
vanced, and were afterwards Stationed in such places
as they were likely to aft with most effea.. Be-
sides this, the infantry fired vollies into every cross
street by,which they passed, and aimed particularly
at every window or balcony where any person was
to be seen.
The most glorious defence made by the Spa-
,
niards was at the Depot of Artillery in Casa de Min..*
teleone, formerly the Hotel of S r BENJAMIN KING`;'
when Ambassador at this Cowl, and where the
remains of that mo t respc4t4e Minister are in-
terred.

o this deppt 141t7EAi sent a detchment ,to take
possession of the artillery and stores, but they found
it already;,•oecu,pied . by, a handful of Spanish artil-
flerymen and. inlialiitants, under the command of
wo brave ArtilleryOtticert; named Dor.tz and
VELAynE. ,
. .
Those two Gentlemen took the command of a
few artillergmen, and some of :the populace, who
volunteeredtheir services, and, having pointed a
werity-foor. pouncter,. loaded with grape shot; at
the gate of the.;iepot, fronting a long 'narrowstreet,
by which the., French colutimmnst necessarily ad-
vance, they gave them such, a warm reception, ariamade such considerable slaughter,,that the French
'commander could make no Impression, and was
obliged to apply to ;Ifit.taAT for a reinforcement:
two other columns were dispateliediO their-assist--
;nee, which attacked the little
,garrison on, both
'flanks from the windows and roofs of houses in the.
tir.retider ; but the
neighbourhood,
ti 4
*summoned them, repeatedly_ to
Ofeeis rejedked every propo.4
of. terms, and gallantly held out to the last moment
of their existence. One of ,theM was shot dead hy
a musket ball, and Mr. Doitz, having hit thigh
broken by another:, continued to give his orderst7
ting OA the ground, until be received tf .si
iree. other
wounds, the last
.44 which put ati.,end,to his gloriOns
career. A Corporal of Artillery remained with the
command, ‘ivlio Seeing &prospeti ttirther suc-
cessful opposition, offered to capitulate with the
French Oeneral, who agreed ,to grant them terms ;
but while the Articles were :arranczing, the. TOwn
Major `ot- attiredonhp-rseback, wavi9g
•
a handkerchief and p?dnlaiming Peace—on wlitch
the French were allowed to take possession cif, ihe
Their last, at this point .has never been cerre&ly
ascertained; hut must have been very considerable,
26 rounds of grape and canister shot had been
discharged among the 6rst column, as it adi-anced
by the long narrow street already mentioned.. About
two o'clock the firing teased all over the town, in
consennence of the personal interference of the
Council of Castile, and other Tribunals, who pa,- .
raded the streets on horseback, attended by many
of the Spanish Nobility, and some of the French
Generals, and escorted by bodies Of horse; con-
sisting of Spanish Gardes de Corpt and French Itn;.
perial Guards intermixed.. 'Die inhabitant's then
fondly flattered themselves that the scene of carnage
was at'an end ' • but they soon fonrid'tbat one of a
more cool Anotdeliberatp nature was determined on,.
In the afternooliMvaigT issued ageneral order to the
troops, desiring a Military Tribunal to be #nml-
diately formed under the Presidency of General
GROUCR Y.

Before this Ttibtinal all persons 'were brought who
had been made prisoners in the morning, or were
found in the streets in cite evening, any sort
of weapun, however trifling, -ab Out them. The
bearer of musket, a sabre, a pe,4-knife, or even a
pair of SCiiS3l5, was held equally cuipable and all
Och persons were ienttr,,diately 'condemned to be
Shot, and the sentence was cy.ectred without delay.
Three groups of torty each were successively shot in
the Prado-u-a great many, but the number unknown,
were shut in the church of the Solida:l, near the
Fuerta del Sol; and several other groups of thirty or
forty met a situilar fate, neat' the gate of San
Vivant*, -

Several more persons \vete tried and shot on the
following day, but their number i 9 not thought to
have been considerable.

ritie numbers that *ll on rather nide have never
been correctly french carelnlly
concealed their lvs., bill it is known that one Gene-
Tat and many ot.'er Officers were killed, and as
cons)deriole &Nation took place-among mein Per-
mit') and Italian soldiers, it has betm tissared -that
the diminution pt their numbers from all cause's nn
the second of May exceeded 4000 men. •

The total number employed in MAdrid on this day;
is saki to have' been about twelve thousand; and !lad
the Spanish troops been permitted to at with the
populace, it is probable • tint nut one of the first
twelve thousand would have escapee. But it was
more fortunate for the capital that this did not hap-
pen, as there were • above .5Q,000 more French, en-
camped and-quartered; in the environs, the whole of
whom would have been immediately put in motion,
nod the consequences must have been the sacking
and destruction of Madrid.