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the day, to the troops of his majesty 

 the emperor and king. 



2. The garrison shall lay down 

 their arras upon the glacis of the 

 place, shall be prisoners of war, and 

 conducted into France. The offi- 

 cers shall keep all that belongs to 

 them. 



3. Immediately after the signa- 

 ture of the present capitulation, one 

 gate of the town of Rosas, and one 

 gate of the castle of the Trinity, 

 shall be given up to two companies 

 of grenadiers. 



(Signed) 



Jean Dombrowski, Adjutant- 

 Commandant, Chief of the 

 Etat Major. 



Pio, Colonel Major. 



Don Pedro O'Daly. 



Manuel Lemaur. 



The present Capitulation is ap- 

 proved of. 



Reille, General of Division 

 commanding the siege. 



Capitulation of Madrid.— 

 From the Madrid Gazette, Dec. 

 7, 1808. — Capitulation proposed 

 hy the Military and Civil Junta 

 of Madrid, to his Imperial and 

 Royal Majesty the Emperor of 

 the French. 



Article 1. The preservation of 

 the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman 

 Religion, without any other being 

 legally tolerated. Ans. — Granted. 



2. The liberty and security of 

 the lives and properties of the citi- 

 zens and other persons residing in 

 Madrid, as well as of those in pub- 

 lic employments: the preservation 

 of their situations, or the option of 

 their retiring from this court, if they 

 should prefer it. Likewise tlic lives, 

 privileges and properties of the se- 

 cular and regular ecclesiastics of 



both sexes, together with the res- 

 pect due to the churches, all in 

 conformity to our laws and customs. 

 Ans. — Granted. 



3. The lives and properties of all 

 military officers of rank, are like- 

 wise to be safe. Ans. — Granted. 



4. No person shall be liable to 

 persecution, on account of their po- 

 litical opinions or writings, anymore 

 than those employed in a public ca- 

 pacity, for what they may have done 

 hitherto in the exercise of their em- 

 ployments, or in obedience to the 

 former government ; nor shall the 

 people suffer for the efforts which 

 they have made for their defence. 

 Ans. — Granted. 



5. No other contributions shall 

 be exacted beyond the ordinary 

 ones that have hitherto been paid. 

 Ans.— Granted, till the realm shall 

 definitively be organized. 



6. Oiir laws, customs, and courts 

 of justice shall be preserved in their 

 present constitution. Ans — Grant- 

 ed until the kingdom undergoes its 

 definitive organization. 



7. The French troops and their 

 officers shall not be quartered in 

 private houses, but in military lodg- 

 ing houses and tents, and by no 

 means in convents or monasteries ; 

 the privileges allowed to the res- 

 pective classes by the laws being 

 preserved. Ans. — Granted; it being 

 well understood that both the offi- 

 cers and privates must have quarters 

 and tents that are furnished con- 

 formably to the military regula- 

 tions, unless the said buildings be 

 insufficient. 



8. The troops shall march out of 

 the town with the honours of war, 

 and be at liberty to retire whither- 

 soevertheychoose. Ans.-Thetroops 

 shall march out with the honours of 

 war ; they shall march off by file* 



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