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London, England, 1808-12-31 00:00:00

FRENCH BULLETINS.

(We are now enabled to lay before our Read, rs such of the French
Bulletins, at length, awe were obliged to .diiiLlge ea Thurs-
day :)

IrOVRTEENTH BULLZTIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
•Madrid, December 5.
The id, at noon,his Majesty arrived in person on
the heights which impend over Madrid, on which
Were already placed the divisions of dragoons of Ge-
ier:J.ls Latour, Mauhourg, and Lahousaye, and the
Iniperial horse guards. The anniversary of the Co-
rrelation, that epoch which has signalized so many•
days for ever fortunate for France, awakened in all
hearts the most agreeable 'recollections, and inspired
all the troops with an enthusiasm which manifested
itself in a thousand exclamations. The weather was

beautiful, and like that ei.joyed in France is the finest
days in the month of May. The Marshal Duke of
Istria sent to summon :he town, where a military
Jurta WAS formed, under the presidency of the Mar-
quis Castelar, who had under his orders General
Morla, Captain General of Andalusia, and Inspector
General of Artillery. The town contained a number
of armed peasants, assembled from all quarters, six
thousand troops of the :ine, and one hundred pieces
of cannon. Sixty thousand men were in arms :
their cries were heard cu every side ; the bells of two
hundred -churches rung alto ; and every thing
presented the appearanceof srster and madness.—
'The General of the troops of the line .appeared at the
advanced posts, to answer the summons of the Duke
of Istria. He was accompanied-by thirty men of the
people, whose dress, looks, and ferocious language,
recalled the recollection of the assassins of Septem-
ber. When the Spanish General was asked whether
he meant to expose women, children, and old men to
the horrors of an assault ? be manifested secretly the
grief with which he was penetrated ; he made known,
by signs, that he, as well as all the honest men in
Madrid, groaned under oppression ; and when he'
raised his yoke, his words were by the
wretches who watched over him. hri-, doubt could be
entertained of .the excesses to which the tyranny of'
the mu:tittide was carried, when they saw him mi-
vute down all his words, and cause the record to be
verified by the assassins who surrounded him. The
Aide-de-Camp of the Duke of Istria, who had been
sent into the town, was seized by men of the lowest
class of people, and was about to be massacred, when
the troops of the line, indignant at the outrage, took
him under their protection, and caused him to be re-
stored tp his General.
A butcher's boy from Estremadura, who comman-
Ad one of the gates, had the audacity to require that
the Duke of Istria should go himself into the town,
With his eyes blindfolded. General Montbrun rejec-
tedthis presumptuous demand with indignation. He
Issas immediately surrounded, and effected his escape
only by drawing his sword. He narrowly escaped
falling a victim to the imprudence with which he had
forgot that he had not to make war with civilized
enemies. A little time after, some deserters from the
Wolk= Guards came to the camp. Their deposi-
tions convinced us that the'people of property, and.
honest men,, were without influence ; and it was to
be concluded, that- conciliation vnis altogether im-
possible.

Tiv! Marquis of Peraler, a respectable man, who
had hitherto appeared' to enjoy the confidence of the
people, had been, on the day before this, accused of
putting sand in the cartridges. He *-as immediately
strangled. It was detetmined that ail the cartridges
should be re-made ; three or four thousand monks
were employed upon this work at.the Retiro. All
the palaces and houses were ordered to be open to
furnish provisions at Jiscret ion. The French infan-
try was still three le.tgues from Madrid. The Em.
peroremployed the evening in reconnoitring the town,
and deciding a plan of attack consistent with We con.
sideration due to the great number of honest people
always to be found in ir.7gveat capital.
. To take Madrid by assault might be a military
operation of little difficulty ; but to engage that great
city to surrender, by employing alternately force and
persuasion, 2nd by resetting the
,people of property
and real good men, from the oppression under which
they groaned : this was wrh.at was really difficult,'
the exertiitas of the En peror, during these two
had no other end. l'hey have been crowned
the greatest sqcces.
sevon o'clock the division Lapisse, of the corps"'
Duke of &lion°, arrived. The moon shone
brightness that seemed to 'prolong the day,
Emperor ordered the General of Brigade Mai-
m take posscssi:n of the suburbs, told charged
i'-eneral of Brigade, La•uriston, to support him in
nterpriv with four pieces of artillery belonging
guards..
-
le sharp shooters ofthe l6th regiment took pos.
in of some buildings, and in particular of the
' cemetery. At the first fire, the enemy theived
Ach cowardice as he did of arrogance all the day.
Duke of Dentin
.employed all the nigl4 in
ig his artillery .posts nulled out for the at.
At midnight. the 'Prince tf Neufchatel sent to
i 4 a Spanish Lieutenant Colonel of ittillerys*
bad been taken at Somosierra, and wiih =saw
tfFright the obstinacy of his fellow eitizetis,
gi4ws cd-14c'anurse4 letter, No: 1,1- Og

.... - . .

3d, at nine in the morning, the same flag of truce re-1
turned to the haod-tuAttet4 with the letter No. 2.-1
Aix the General ofßrigade Senarmont, an officer of
great merit, had already.plaated thirty piste: of al--
Tillery, and had commenced a very smart Iva, which
made a breach in the walls of the Retiro. The
sharp shooters of the division of Vilette having passed
the breach, their battalion followed them, and in less
than a quarter of an hour, one thousand men, who
'defended the Retiro, were knocked on the head. The
.Palace of the Retiro, the important posts of the Ob-
'iervatory, of the Porcelain Manufactory; of the Grand
Barrack, the Palace of Medina Celi, and all the out-
lets which had beenfortified, were taken byour troops.
On another side, twenty pieces of cannon of theguards,
,accompanied by" light troops,' threw shells, and at-
tracted the attention of the enemy by a false attack.
It would have been difficult to form a concep-
tion of the disorders that reigned in Madrid, if a
'greater number of prisoners, arriving in succession,
had not given an account of the frightful scenes of
',very description of which that capital presented the
spectacle. They have intersected the streets, erected
parapets on the houses ; barricades of bales of wool,
and of cotton, had been formed, and the. 'windows
had been stopped with mattrascs. Those of the in-
habitants who depaired of a successful resistance
were flying into the fields ; others, who had preserv-
ed some share of reason, and who preferred appear-
ing in the midst of their property before a generous
enemy, to aba.ldoning it to the pillage of their fellow
citizens, demanded that they should not expose them-
selves to an assault. Those who were strangers to
the town, or who had notlfing to lose, were for a de-
fence to the last extremity, accused the troops of the
,line of treason, and obliged them to continue their
fire:
The enemy had mote than one hundred pieces of
cannon mounted; a usore considerable number of
two.and three-pounders had been dug up, taken out
of cellars, and tied upon carts, a grotesque train,
and sufficient in itself to prove the madness of a peo-
ple abandoned to itself. But all means of defence
were become useless. The possessors of Retiro are
always masters of Madrid. The Emperor took all
possible care to prevent the troops going from home
to house. The city was ruined if many troops had
been employed. Only some companies of sharp-
shooters advanced, and the Emperor constantly re-
fused to send any to sustain them. At eleven o'clock
the Prince of Neufchatel wrote the annexed letters
No. S. His Majesty at the same time ordered the
fire to cease on 5.11 points.
At five o'clock General Morla, one of the Mem-
bers of the Military Junta, and Don Bernardo
Yriarte, sent froth the town; repaired to the tent of
his Serene Highness the Major-General. They
formed him that the most intelligent persons were o
opinion that the town was destitute of resources, and
that the continuation of .the defence would be the
height of madness ; but that the lowest classes of the
people, and the crowd of men strange,* to Madrid,
wished to defend themselves, and thought they con
do it with effect. They required the day of the 46,1
to make the people listen to reason. The Prince
Major-General presented them to his Majesty the P.m-
perm and King, who addressed them thus You
• make use of the name of the people to no purpose ;
if you cannot restore tranquillitygend appease their
minds, it is because you have yourselves excited them,
yon have led them astray by propagating falsehoods.
Assemble the Clergy, .the heads of the Convents,
the Alcades, the men of property and influence, and
let the town capitulate by six o'clock in the morning,
or it shall ewe to exist. I will not, nor ought Ito
withdraw my troops. You have massacred the un-
fortunate French prisoners who have fallen into your
hands ; only a few days age, you suffered two per-
sons in the suite of the Russian Ambassador to be
dragged along and murdered in the public streets,
because they were Frenchmen born. The incapacity
and cowardice of a General had put into your power
troops who capitulated on the field of battle, and the
capitulation has been violated. You, Mr. -Marla,
what sort of a letter did you write to that General ?
—lt well became you,• Sir, tb talk' of pillage.r-you
who, on entering Roussillon, cat Tied off all die wo-
men, and distributed them as booty among your sol-
diers !—Besides, what right has you to hold such
language ?—The capiollation precluded you from it.
See what has been the conduct of the English, who
are far from piquing themselves on being rigid obser-
vers of the Law of Nations, They have complained
of the Convention of Portugal, but they have earr7c.-1
it into effect. To violate military treaties, i,To re.
nounce all clirilization ;it is' placing Genera's en a'
footing with the Bedouins of the desert. How dare
you, then, Presume to solicit a capitulation, you who
violated that of Baylen ? See how injustice and bad
faith always recoil upon. the guilty, and operate to
their prejudice. I had a fleet at Cadiz ; it was in
alliance with Spain,'yet you directed against it the
mortars of the town where you commad. I had
a Spanish army in my ranks; I would have prefer-
red seeing, it embark on board the English ships, and
being obliged to precipitate it from the rocks of Es-
pinosa, than to disarm it ? I preferred having 7000
more enemies to fight, rather than to be deficient in
honour 4nd good ttith. Return to Madrid---I give
you 'till six o'clock to-morrow morning—return at
that hour, if you have to inform me only that they
have surrendered--if not, you and you,r troops shall
all be put to the sword." -
On the 4th, at six in the tnorn.7, General Morla
and. General Don Fernando de 'Vii, Governor of
the town, presented themselves at the tent of the
Prince Major-General; the discourses of the Emperor,
repeated in the midst of the persons of distinction, the
certainty that he commanded in person, the losses
sustained during the foregoing day, had carried ter-
ror andrepentance into all muds. During the night
the most mutinous withdrew themselves from the
danger by flight, and a part of. 'the troops was dis-
banded. At ten o'clock, General Belliard took the
command of Madrid ; all the posts were put into the
hands of-the French, and a general pardon was pro-
claimed.

Froth
this moment, men, women, and children,
spread themselves about the streets in perfect securi-
ty. The shops were open till eleven o'clock. All'
the citizens set themselves to destroy the barricades
aid repave the greets, the monks rettuned into their
4on7entst and in a.few hours Madrid presented the
erreuedipF.ll contras!, a contrast inexplicaltlg
49 itlose ltiAtcujt94l4 1p the manners of
.great
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towns. So many men, who cannot conceal frovo them-
selves what they would haVe done in, sintilar circuits-1
stances, express their astonishment at the generosity
of the French. Fifty thousand st,nid of sans have
been given up, and 100 pieces cif cannon are collect
ed at the Retiro.. The anguish in which the inhabil
tants of this wretched city have lived' for thesi•fouak
months cannot be described. The. Junta was without
influence ; the most ignorant and • the maddesVeir
mcn had all the power in their hands, and the people
at every instant massacre& or threatened tvifh the
gallows, their Magistrates anti their Generals. •
The General of Brigade, Maison, has been wousts..
ded. General Bruyere, who advanced ,insprudenAy
the moment the firing ceased, has beeoAtilled..Twejve
soldiers have been'killed and fifty whanded. Th4Mieis:
so trifling for an event of so much inipOsiance, *is
owing to the smallness of the number of troopt suf•
feral to engage—it isowing, beside* 'wie must say,
to the extreme cowardice of all,shose who 1ia.41 arms
in their hands against us. •
•.-
The artillery, according to its usual castpm,'has
done great services. Ten thousand fugitives, wino had
escaped from Burgos and Somo sierra, aid the second
division of the Army of Reserve, were on the 3d wias=
in three leagues of Madrid ; but being charged by a
picquet of dragoons, they fled, abandoning 40 pieces
of cannon, and 60 caissons.

An old General, retired from the service, and aged
eighty years, was in his house at Madrid, near the I
street of Alcala—a, French Officer entered and took
up his quarters there, with his party. This respectable
old man appeared befcrs: him, holding a young girl
by the hand, and said, "lam an old soldier—l know
the rights and the licentiousness of war—there is my
daughter-;4 give her 900,000 livrei for her portion—'
save her honour, and be her husband." The young
Officer took the old man, his family and his house,
under his protection. How culpable are they who ex-
pose so many peaceful citizens, so many unfortunate
inhabitants of a great capital, to so many misfortunes !
The Duke of Dantzick arrived at Segovia on the
Sd.—The Duke of Istria is gone in pursuit of t'.e,
division of Pena, which having escaped 'from the
battle of Tudela, took the route of Guadalaxara.
Florida Blanca, and the Junta, had fled to Toledo.
—They did not think themselves in safety in that
town neither, and have gone to take refuge with the
English.
The conduct of the English is shameful.' On the
20th November they were :ft the Escurial, to the num-
ber of 6000. They passed some days there, They
Pretended they would do nothing less than.pass the.
yrenees, and come to the Garonne. Their troops are
very fine, and well disciplined. The confidence with
which they had inspired the *Spaniards 'is lnanceil
vable. SoMe hoped that 'this division would. go to
Somosierra ; others, that it would come to .defend
the capital of so dear an ally. Scarcely were- they
informed that the Emperor was at Somosierra, when,
the English troops heat a retreat at the Escurial.—
From thence, combining their march withthe division
which was at Salamanca, they have taken their ccairse
towards -the sea. s. Arms, powder, and Clothing, they
havegiven us," said a Spaniard, " but their soldiers
Game only to excite us, to lead us astray,And to aban-
don us in the critical moment." 4‘ But are you igno-
rant (answered a French OffiCe) of the most recent
facts a our history ? What have they done for
the Sradtholder, for Sardinia, for Austria ? What
have they done recently for Russia ? What have they
done still more recently for Sweden ? They every
where foment war; they distribute arms like poison;
but they shed their blood only for their direct and
personal interests. Expect nothing else from their
selfishness." " Still, (replied the Spaniard), their
cause was ours. Forty thousand English, added to
our forces at Tudela, and at Espinosa, might have
balanced the fortune of the war, and saved Portugal.
But at present, that our army of Blake on the left,
that of the centre, and tlfat of Arragon on the right,,
are destroyed ; that Spain is almost entirely conquered,
and that reason is about to complete**, submission,
what it to become of Portugal ? U• is not at Lisbon
that the English ought to defend themselies : they
ought •to have dotw so =Espinosa, at Burgos, at
Tudela, at Sosnosierrra, and, before Madrid.'

FIFTEENTH SULLITTIN.

. Madrid, Decanber 7.-

His Majesty has named the General. of, Artillery,
Senarmont, General of Division. The Major Segur
has been named Adjutant COmmandant. The' life
of this officer had been despaired of; but he is now
tof d Inger. The Count Krazinski, Colonel of the
Polish light horse, though ill, has always wished to
• ,hare at the head of his corps. The Sieurs Bahecki
and Volygurski, Quarter-Masters, and Surzeyski, a
soldier of the Polish • light horse, who have yen
standards from the •enemy, have een named Mem-
bers of the .Legion of Honour. His Majesty lios
moreover granted to theßolish light horse eight.de-
corations for the officert, and as many for the sol-
diers. The Chief of Squadron, Lubienski, reconnoi-
tred on the 2d the remains of the army of Castanci‘A
near.Guadalaxara. They were under the command
of Generil Pena. Castanos was said to have been
deposed by the General Junta. The Duke of infan-
tado has been one of the principal causes of the mis-
fortunes his country has suffered ; he was the princi-
pal instrument of England, in its lamentable progress
against Spain; it was he who was employed by that
country to cause dissentions between the father and
the son—to overturn the throne of Charles, whose
attachment to France was known—to excite outrages
against the first Minister of that Sovereign—to elevate
to the Supreme Power that young Prince, who, by
his marriage with a Princess of the ancient House of
Naples, had imbibed that hatred against the French,
from which that House had never departed. It was
the Duke of Infantado who played the principal part •
in the conspiracy of the Escurial ; and it was to'hiM
that the power of Generalissimo of the Armies of
Spain was confided at that time. He was after wards,
seen taking the oath of allegiance at Bayonne between
the hands of King Joseph, as Colonel of the Spanish
guards. On his return to Madrid, we saw him thread'
off the mask; and shew himself openly the man. ofthe
English. It was in his house that the Ministers of
England were lodged; it was in his society.that the
agents accredited and secret of that power. lived.
After having exhorted hii fellow-citizens to a mad
resistance, he was seen, witta a cowardice equal to'
his treason, flying from Madrid to Guadalasara, under
the pretext of going to king reinforcements, with.,

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