Star. — 1811-04-24 (London, England)

MADRID, MARCH 6. post had been stopped, in eonse.quence of a senora The day before yesterday this government received insurrection in that City and in Dort. official intelligence that the escort which was conduct. Other accounts, brought to Deal and Dover by ing the prisoners ftom Olivenza to France, was attack- some smugglers from the Dutch' oast, state, that not ed at Cora, and the whole of the prisoners set at liberty. only at Dort and Rotterdam, but at Amsterdam, the Bessieres has imposed a contribution of 2+ millions people bad risen upon the French and massacred a of rials on the province of Burgos, and enlisted all the great number of them. These accounts also state that men in that city capable of bearing arms, whether all communication between Holland and Walcheren bachelors or married. To rob the provinces which had been cut off for thtce days, and it is inferred by have submitted of their money, is the system of France. the people at the latter place that the Dutch people According to the last intelligence there are not more • than 3000 of the enemi'e troops in Burgos. • F ce have overpowered the military. It is also said that insurrectionary movements have appeared in ran , Letters arrived by the mail of to-day state, that up- and that for -Some time past there have been intar,,ars wards of 4000 prisoners taken at Tortosa, which had among the higher ranks, as well as the people 10 gc• already entered France, made their escape, after hay- neral. ing murdered the whole of the soldiers who escorted A letter from Dover states that* French military them. 'According to reports this was occasioned by had been disarmed at Rotterdam and other places, a French soldier having run through the body with and that the insurrection was spreading rapidly. a bayonet, an unfontutate Spanish iiispner w4o could We have also seen a communication from the not walk. _ putolt coasts describing the insurrection as Navin;  HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRILtS.  At four o'clock the SPEAKER took the Chair, sixty. eight Members being present. Strangers were how. ever excluded, as the Ballot for a Committee to take into considc- cion the Petition complaining of an tan. Sue return for the county of Limerick, which required the presence of 100 Members, stood Gra on the orders of the day. During our absence, we understand. the following Members took the oaths and their seats:— Cecil Bisshopp, Esq. for Newport, Isle of Wight, the room of Lord Palmerston; who has been ret.trned lo_ serve for the University of Cambridge ; Lori pestilev, for the Borough of Luggersh4ll,inthe rorin of T. Everett, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; and Colonel O'Dell, for the county sf Limerick. A new writ was ordered to be issued for a Memlfer to serve for Taunton, in Somersetshire. in the room of Jahn Hammett, Esq. deceased. The SPEAKER thee proceeded, in conformity with an order made yesterday, to call over thellou; and at live o'clock the gallery was opened.—On our admission, we found the Sesasizt on his legs, id. dressing the House on the subject of the defaulters. It was, he observed. in the power of the House to make any older they might think it, in regard to those Honourable Members• who had not attended. The words of the Act of Parliamea on the subject fully empowered then'. He was convinced than great number of Members who were in town my, have been aware of the necessity for their attendance. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUtIt, after a few prefatory observations, moved, " that the names of the defaulters be called over to-morrow," The SPEAKER hoped the Members then present would apprise their friends of the proceedings of the House. It was notorious that a great number of Private Committees had been sitting that day—Clentlemen should give their attendance In the evening as well as in the morning. Mr. W. WYNNE, as we understood, expressed an opinion that those Members who were in town, should be taken into custody. The motlonwas then put and carried, and the House then adjourned till to-morrow (this day.)