Star.
London, England, 1808-12-17 00:00:00

BULLETIN.

" ship f war has arrived with 'dispatches from Coruna,
which she left on the 9th instant. Accounts are brought by it that
the greatest enthusiasm had burst forth at Madrid, and that the
people were determined to make every effort to defend the capital
General Hors had joined Sir Joss Moots, at Salamanca, and
Sir DAVID BAIRD Wag at Villa Franca on the 7th, and had sus-
pended his retreat.
" BONAPARTE was at Aranda de Douro: his advanced corps
bad made itself master of Soma Sierra, and a French corps had
reached Segovia."

ANOTHER BULLETIN.
" It appears by letters received from Salamanca, dated Deeeaa►
her sth, that Sir Jou N MOORZ Was still at that place, and deter-
mined not to proceed in his retreat till he should have ascertained
whether there was not still a hope of that general enthusiastic

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opposition to the invaders, from which alone a succeuful issue of
the contest could be expected; and in which the British COM.
wanders and soldiers, in conformity with the wishes of their So-
vereign and their Government, had the most ardent desire to
co-operate. Of this spirit, the want of which had been made
the subject of great complaints by the British Commanders

before, strong and general symptoms have now begun to ap-
pear. The most vigorous measum were adopted by the Go-
vernment to arm the people en masse, and to occupy and defend

all the strong posts. The inhabitants of Madrid bad all taken
arms, and were incessantly employed in barricading their streets,
and in making every preparation for a desperate defence.
" Saragossa, provided with a garrison of fifteen thousand men,
would oppose an obstacle to the enemy's progress much more
formidable than any he had yet encountered. The Armies of An-
dalusia and Arragon, which are composed of the prime troops of
Spain, had suffered very little in the late engagements, the loss
falling principally on the corps of Valencia and Marcia, which
consisted of new levies. The general aspect of affairs was much
more favourable; and the result was, a determination in both
the British Commanders, to remain in their positions, in order
to take an active part, if the resistance about to be made should
prove as firm as it appeared animated. The retreat of Sir DAVID
BAIRD, is of course suspended, as well as that of Sir lone
Moo's. General Hors has lately joined Sir Joan Moons at
Salamanca with his whole brigade.
" Letters of various dates, from the 13th to the 30th ult. in-
clusiveAwith details of the various engagements of Gen. BLAKE'S
army, have been received from that meritorious Officer Colonel
CAIIIOI, for whose safety apprehensions were entertained, from
the long interruption of his communications, from that known ar-
dour, so honourably mentioned in the &patches of Gen. BLAZI
to the Central Junta, which always led him to the post of danger.
The last letters from this gallant Officer are dated from Reynosa."
ANOTHER BULLrlitl.

" Dispatches have been received at the Admiralty, from Ad-
miral Lord CottiNcwoon, which contain accounts if the com-
plete failure of the attempt of the French upon Rosas.
" The exertions of the gallant garrison were materially aided
by his Majesty's ship Excellent, which was fortunately enabled
to approach near enough to the shore to bring her grape shot to
bear upon the enemy, with which she did great execntien. A
party of Marines was also landed, and contributed very Mal..
daily to the defence of the place.
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" The precise lost of the French is not stated, but it must have
been very great."
Such were the accounts suffered to transpire froth
the Public Offices, and it must be allowed that they
were of a complexion calculated to cheer the public
mind, and to inspire no small degree of hope, that at
length an effectual barrier would be opposed to the
farther advances of the enemy in Spain.
On enquiry we find that the dispatches from Lord
Comaucwooi), mentioned in the last of the above
Bulletins, are of a date anterior to that of the regu-
lar siege announced in the French Bulletins.—As to
the other accounts, it is with no small degree of pains
we have now to announce, that the grounds on which
they were founded appear to have been so highly
illusory, as to make it difficult to be conceived through
what medium the facts respecting the relative cir-'
cumstances of the contending parties could have
been viewed by those who transmitted the details

which furnished the materials of the above Bulletins.
From accounts that have reached us this day, by
different channels, it appears plain to us that there
could have been no reasonable ground whatever for
the accounts which inspired so much hope respecting
the determined resolution of the population of MaJrid
to devote themselves entirely for • the success of the
cause in which they were embarked—the salvation of
their country I—Nor ought we now to pass in silence
the accounts transmitted some days ago from General
MOORE, through the medium of Sir DAVID BAIRD,
the publication of which gave so much offence to those
who never wish to be informed of any thing but good
news. It is plain, from the facts which we shall im-
mediately lay before our Readers, that that able
General had taken a correct view of the affairs of the
Spaniards, and fortied a proper estimate of the sum
of resistance likely to be opposed by the Patriots, to
the armies that were pouring into Spain; and for op.
posing which, it is now proved, no adequate pre-
paration had been made by the Spaniards, though
they had to many months previous warning. On
this we we shall only add; that Minhters, though cen-

sured for making public the accounts to which we
have last alluded, would have been mote highly and
justly censured, now that the truth is better known.
had they withheld them from the public.
THE FRENCH ARE NOW IN MADRID.

This intelligence hae been received by the Ihion,
Capt. GIRDOSI, which arrived at Plymouth on 'nun.
day afternoon. from. L'Orient. She left L'Orient
Monday last,.in ballast, charged with dispatches fa,
the American Minister in London•; and brings at.
counts that NAPOLEON, accompanied with his bin:4er
JOSEPH, entered Madrid on the 2d instant!

The day named for the entrance of the French into
Madrid in the accounts brought by the Union is is.
correct ; but in every other respect this unpleust
intelligence is confirmed by Mr. SHAW, the Mts.
senger, who was landed yesterday at Dover, by a
Flag of Truce from Boulogne, and reached tow
a late hour last night,—According to the accounts
brought over by Mr. SHAW, it was tot on the 24,bnt
on the 4th instant, that. Madrid, which surrendered
by capitulation, was occupied by the French troops.
By the Flag of Truce that brought over Mt.
SUAW, and,which terminates entirely, for the present,
the delusive' intercourse between the two countries,
we have received

FRENCH JOURNALS,
to the date of the 15th instant, which, we are grieved
to state, confirm the disastrous intelligence brought
by the Union. We shall not detain our Readers with
comments. The following are their principal contents:
PARIS, DECEMBER 13.
Camp at Madrid, Dec. 4, 1806.
The town of Madrid has capitulated. Our troops
entered it so-day at noon :—this intelligence is con•
,tained in the Masiteurs of the 13th and 14th instant.

'THIRTEENTH BULLETIN.
" St. Martin, near Madrid, Dec, r,

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46 On the 29th ult. the head-quarters of the Em.
peror wore removed to the village of Bouzeallas. pa
the SOth, at break of day, the Duke of Bellune pm.
sented himself at the foot of the Samo Sierra. A
division of thirteen thousand men, of the Spanish
army of reserve, defended the passage of the moan.
tains. The enemy thought themselves unaitactable
in that position. They had entrenched the narrow
passage called Puerto with 16 pieces of cannon._
The 9th light infantry marched upon the right, the
96th upon the causeway, and the 24th followed by
the side of the heights. On the left, General Senar-
mont, with six pieces of artillery, advanced by the
causeway : the action commenced by the firing of
musquetry and cannon.
" A charge made by the Ceneral Montbrun at the
head of the Polish light horse, decided the affair; it
was a most brilliant one, and the regiment covered
itself with glory, and proved it was worthy wtotm
a part of the Imperial guard. Cannons, flags, min-
quets, soldiers, all were taken or cut to pieces.
Eight Polish light horse were killed upon the cannon,
and 16 have been wounded. Among the last is
Captain Dzievanoski, who was dangerously wound•
ed, and lies almost without hopes of recovery.—
Major Segur, marshal of the Emperor's household,
charged among the Polish troops, and received many
wounds, one of which is very severe. Sixteen pieces
of cannon, ten flags, twenty covered chests, no
hundred waggons laden with all kinds of baggage,
military chests of the regiments, are the fruits of this
brilliant affair. Among the prisoners, who are my
numerous, are all the Colonels, Lieutenant.Colonel4
of the corps of the Spanish division.
" All the soldiers would have been taken, if they
had not thrown away their arms, and dispersed is
the mountains.

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" On the Ist of December the head quarters of&
Emperor were at Saint Augustin, and on the 24 thel
Duke of Istria, with the cavalry -
heights of Madrid.
The infantry could not arrive
The intelligence which we hitherto
to think that this town is suffering
disorders, and that the doors
weather is very fine."

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Every thing that relates
highly important at the present
duty to lay before our readers
suffered to transpire respectini
dium of the French Papers.
of this deicription ; and thou]
burgh, must be considered as
PRESBURGH, NOVEMBER
They write from Constantinople '
racies successively formed against
Vizier by the partizans of the
Janissaries, has induced Mustapha
with greater severity than he
against his enemies.
Executions have greatly increased
six or eight weeks at Constant
justice is very expeditious, no
these arrests : it is impossible
facts which serve as the basis
Besides, they abstain at the present,
care, from speaking at Constantinople
rent events, so that•they remain
most profound secrecy. W
the confidence which Mustapha
in several persons, has been

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)VEMBER 26. riP
still* that the co. ekt
gainst the actual tho
the late Sultan and filo
[ustapha Bairacter to
he has heretofore ..
increased during the • c
antinople, but as crimin
no publicity is given '
le to learn the details an'
basis for condemns:"
present, with the grea'-'
stantinople of these
remain enveloped to '
Ve are only assured, •
,pha Bairactar had .
cruelly abused, wbi'

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has rendered him very distrustful. Tn tact, wring
the persons put to death or banished, there are many
individnals who are thought zealous partizans of the
revolution which has placed Sultan Mahomet on the
throne of the Osmanhs. We are assured that Bache
Aga, a restless man, who had always about him a
troop of people without occupation,
,and who has
been beheaded in one of the public places, had taken
the resolution of killing the Grand Vizier, but the
project was discovered by one of his accomplices, and
an the conspirators, with their chief, were arrested.
We no longer have any talking at Constantino-
ple of any new attempts of the English Envoy, Mr.
Adair, to enter into negotiations with the Porte.—
It appears that the categorical answers which the
Turkish government has made at different times to
the applications which this Minister has made to the
Divan, has induced him to renounce his projects.
We are assured that he will himself immediately re-
turn to England, to inform his cabinet of the bad
success of his negociation.
The public report at Constantinople is, that the
British
.Cabinet had made some overtures to the
Forte, before it had received the news of the deposi-
tion of Sultan Mustapha ; and that it the more flat-
tered itself with the hope of succeeding, as it had
corrupted some of the principal Members of the Divan.
Ir was upon the intrigues of these personages that
England depended for detaching the Porte from its
alliance with France.

To detach more easily Sultan Mustapha from
France, the partizans of England endeavoured to
persuade Sultan Mustapha, that it was France who
bad counselled Sultan Selim to annihilate, by degrees,
the Janissaries, and to create an European army ;
but the revolution at Constantinople, and the elevz-
tion of Mustapha Bairactar to the place of Grand
Vizier, deranged all these plans.
Mr. Adair having heard of this revolution when at
Malta, informed his Government of it, and waited new
instructions. The British Cabinet employed means to
gain the new Grand Vizier, and his principal parti-
zans; he then set out for the Archipelago, furnished
with very large sums of money, but the means of
corruption were destroyed, as he has retired : it has
greatly suprised that his offers would not even be lis-
tened to. They add, that the Turkish Government
is very well informed of all that England has done
for the last year to sow discord on the Continent, and
that the Grand Vizier Bairactar has declared, that he
censiders every power who makes a common cause
with England, as a lost power.
It appears determined that the Turkish fleet shall
Opus the Dardanelles. Many ships have already
retuned to port and been laid up fot, the winter.
The others will lose no time in following them. It
is said that two English frigates, which were cruizing
'vale Archipelago, have returned to Malta. Smyrna
and Alexandria are as little blockaded as Salonica,
and it is not thought our enemies intend to renew the
blockade during the winter—but the commerce and'
negotiation of these seas are still disturbed by the
treat number of privateers which infest them.

HAMBURGH PAPERS.

This morning we received a series of the 'Tam-
burgh Correspondent to the 30th ult. The statements
of this paper, though often correct, we need hardly
remark, should now be received cum grano calls. The
subjoined are the only articles in these papo-1 s that de-
serve any attention :