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t , 1 ..4.. - ft' ;.,• " .' ~. ~A, • - :iir .. CORUNNA M4fIL: ~.~--~ . . • CORUNNA, SEPTEMBER 24. On the 22d Genera Porlier left this place to go to Santiago, in order, as we heard, to quell the troops and peasantry who were disposed to oppOse his views. Yesterday it WAS reported that he and twenty-two Officers had been made prisoners. In consequence of this report, a countcr•revolntion took place here, in which the Captain-General and the Governor reco ♦ered their liberty. The town has been put in as good . a state of defence as circumstances wilt allow. MANIFESTO Ae.drerked to the Span!sh lia.Wo, by the Provincial Junta of the Ktogdont of Gallicia, of which is President the Marshal de Campo, Uon Juan Dice Perlier, General Commandant of the interior of the Kingeem. " SPANIARDS !—i-fter six years of a glorious and obstinate struggle to support the independence of the nation and its honour, which were outraged in the person of its Chief; after immense sacrifices, loss of property, and the shedding of so much Spanish blood, we have chased the enemy who sought to subjugate us; we here driven him from our soil, and obtained the re-establishment of the Throne of our Monarch ; We have recovered and maintained die splendour of the Nation; we have made our name respected, and secured our independence—the first object. of every people that values its dignity, and desires to transmit it unsullied to posterity. " No; contended with defending at the hazard of • our lives the land of our birth, Lye sought to secure its prosperity for the future, by solid institutions, re establish our ancient rights, remove the obstacles which impede and obstruct the fountains of public Wealth. and secure to all . classes of the state the secu rity of their persons and property, and the free exer cise of their industry and their talents. 64 While our, valiant warriors were giving to the world bright examples of courage and constancy, our Legis4tors, assembled in the Cortes, with full powers delegated by ourselves, deliberating on the reforms which the situation of the-State required, had wisely laid the foundations of our felicity, by uniting, in one Constitution, our ancient rights and liberties, forgot ten and trodden under foot in the lapse of time ; and seeking, by other wise decrees, to relieve from the heavy yoke of odious and unjust privileges, the un happy labourer;the honest mechanic, the industrious manufacturer, and ,to :give life and motion to the, Nation, by increasing its commerce and .its. prospe rity. Warned by the lessons of experience, per suaded that the good will and the most excellent in stitutions of the best Kings are insufficient, since, v; lien alone and without support, they are wont to be the sport of perverse 'Counsellors and wicked fa vourites, they would not have the Monarchy again become the prey,ol new Olivarez and Gudoys—but that, founded upon stable laws, confOrmable to our ancient usages, and to the progress which the science . of Government has made in Europe, the security and felicity of die State might be reconciled with those of individuals, and the rights of individuals with the prerogatives attached to the person of the King. og Such, Spaniards, are our desires. Our Depu ties, the faithful organs of them, secured them by Means of wise decrees, which we have all of us sworn before Goo and men to tidal and to obey ; thus con & ming our rights, giving new .itrength to the throne of the Monarch, and recognizing the holy religion of the State. , 4 In the midst of the disgusts which the misfortunes I of a desolating war must occasion—in the midst of the opposition which the reform of abuses must pro duce—we have enjoyed internal tranquillity ; no par ties have arisen to revolutionise the State ; no pros criptions to alarm and afflict families; calm and composed, we began to enjoy the fruits of rational liberty, and we felt • only that gentle and agreeable motion which is the life of nations ; `so that our inde . pendence being secured by the valour and the efforts I of our brave soldiers, and civil liberty confirmed by the regulations and decrees of our Cortes, nothing was now wanting to oar wishes and our. hopes. but the return of our captive Monarch—by that the na tion avenged the insult it received from a foreign Power-.with that our-illustrious warriors hoped . for , the recompence of their services, rod the execution of so many decrees of the Cortes in their favour. and to which their exploits gave them **just a tide—with that return the good hoped that the Executive cower -acquiring the energy which it ought to possess, . and which only a King can give it, every deviation might be avoided, which the Spanish revolution might have suffered. in time, by consolidating the reforms ad , pted, and making those variations which ex perience, and the situation of Spain and of other nations, might show to be necessary.—We were -in daily hopes of this happy event : at length King Ferdinand entered our territory, directing his • steps to Madrid. amidst the benedictions of the good, who hoped every moment to hear of his en trance into this capital, where. in union with - our Deputies, they thought they already sew him em pfqed in die felicity of his subjects, confirming some d i pee,, giving other new ones, and altering time wbi*h, by common. content, it should be thought sseci %vary to change or modify; they despised the ,reps tts that were soon circulated, that the Kiog did not swear to • the constitution, nor approve of any thing that had been done during his absence; they isttributed this to the bad intentions of interested per sons, and• thought they saw the King surrounded by tho s e whose folly or treason had drawn them to Dayoune, placed him in the hands of his enemies, end delivered up the nation to all the evils of anarchy; they believed that, hist: =ed by the severe lesson which experiesice bad givan hits!, he Would not suffer hittiself to be misled by his mistakeu and pernicious courisell..rs ; but the habitual influence which they , exei cited over-his Mind from his infancy, having more power over him, he listened to them anew, again t . ,dowed their counsels, and with diem again plunged tile nation and himself its au abyss of misfortunes, inch as we have, so greatly at our tamer, felt for above a year. o From those wretched counsellors proce.:ded the do at es for the destruction of the Curtes ; from those the se....ht'.hlkliment of all kinds of abuses; from theta* e.inie the persecution of our Deputies, of so so many w o rthy S pan i ar d s; miny brave soldiers, of from them the disorder of our ioinces, the neglect and the misery of our soldiers, the public sale of employments; and horn them, in short, the debase. won o f the oation, which, instead of being respected ' . 7" - : - - • * 'sea esteemed, as its satriftees deserved, is degraded, despised by all Europe. 44. These few, but degenerate Spaniards, xieleets 'ago, prostituted themselves to the oppressor of their I counttl, abandoned their King, and trampled under their ..het their most sacred duties. Anxious fop wealth and honours, they recognized him who offered or secured him to them; and looked down with con tempt upon those Spaniards who at Madrid, and in. Al the provinces, raised the cry of independence...- They made inveterate war upon them in. the begin ning, and did not join their banners, till despairing of the cause they had embraced, they believed it was a means to reclaim their salaries and their employ. menus : faithless to all, they retained their enmity and opposition only to those who, from the , begin-1 ning, had sought to defend the national cause. Al: most all those who surrounded and counselled the King at Valencia, almost all those who surround and guide him now, are of this class; they possess the chief offices of the State ; and those very persons, who, in 1808, were named by the intrusive govern ment to calm the insurrection in the provinces. c0m. , 1 pose a part of the tribunals appointed to judge the, Patriots, that is, many of those who, at that time„l nourished in the provinces the, sacred lame of pa triotism. Alas 1 history does not present us any patella. 14 Against such intuits, such crimes as have been committed in this year, the Spaniards would long since have raised a dreadful cry, such as they did to defend their independence, had they not, prudent and - composed, and lovers of their country, preferred,' before they exposed it to new convulsions, seeking every method of conciliation, hoping that their King, undeceiving himself, would be the first to change his conduct, to chastise his perverse counsellors, and preserve entire and without stain the opinion of SO many good Spaniards so unjustly persecuted. 64 In vain we have hoped for a whole year ; in vain has all Europe disapproved the conduct of the Ca binet of Madrid; in vain have several Princes remon strated against the impolicy of its proceedings, and the injustice of persecuting so many illustrious pa triots ; in vain have many Spaniards ventured to speak truth to the King—the tint have not been at tended to, notwithstanding the respect due to such respectable allies, and the others have been persecuted. 44 To such a degree have they got possession of the person of the King, that they do not permit him to listen to remonstrances of so much weight, that they do not allow him time to reflect on the falsehood of their assertions ; they tell him that the Cortes and the Regency sought to remove him from the throne; they try to corrupt public opinion by spreading a perfidious report, that there was a secret plan to spread irreligion, and persecute the clergy ; in short, they publish all kinds of calumnies, which none but men so perverse as themselves could possibly con ceive. A year has passed ; the Government has been in their hands; the Deputies, the Members of the Regency, the persons whom they wish to calumniate, have been surprised in the night; they have been, able to discover their secrets, to unfold their machi nations, and yet nothing has been found but proofs of their probity and their virtues. All Spain is con vinced of this truth. What seater proof can there be than their own judgments and sentences!—and ii respect of public and pirate rights, ,how illegal and monstrous are all their proceedings; in which the very laws of the party they pretend to follow are trodden under foot ; in which the accused are per. mined to defend themselves personally ; in which all judgments are summarily decided, many of the judges being at the same time accusers and witnesses. who, forming impeachments for what they themselves ordered to be executed in the disk of the Cortes, have given to the world a new and unheard.of ez ample of injustice and atrocity. 64 So many deservingand respectable men; so may priests, venerable for their virtues and dignities s. so many officers of rank covered with wounds, and il lustrious by their services, now loaded with chains and thrown into dungeons, serve to satiate the rage of their infamous persecutors, whb delight in their misery, and hope to destroy them by torments aodi affliction—and foe what Spaniards ! what are their crimes ? Their having sought to snake us happy If they are criminals, we are also ; we have given our full powers; we have acknowledged and approved all that the Cortes have done. Their Deputies have no object but the prosperity of Spain; their Decrees prove it. The .'Catholic -religion was declared the only religion of the State ; the privileges of its, Ml. nisters were 'preserved; care was taken if the sole deers ; distinctions were given them ; decrees were passed to divide lands among them, as soon as peace shobld be established; institutions for inv.ilids wens formed; and notwithstanding the Isoverty of the State, from its territory, for the most part, being oc• cupied by the enemy during the most of the time, the soldier was much less neglected than be has 'since been, notwithstanding the peace and the deliverance of the Peninsula. The peasant was relieved from many burdens and gabeller which oppressed him ; the manufacturer was heed from many ridiculous regu lations, and the merchant could traffic and make his sreculations at liberty, and without thook injurious formalities which the fiscal system had introduced ; the creditor of the State hoped to see himself covered for the advances he had made. In sheet, 11l was ace t a tiiiing a new life, and the nation would have bees recompensed for its sufferings, and its losses. if the road pointed out by the Cortes bad been followed. But holy different is that which has been taken, and how different also are the results. " Notwithstanding a year's peace and tranquillity, our finances are in a worse state than ever ; public credit is annihilated ; the brave defenders of the coun try are naked, without shoes,. without pay, despised and persecuted; the labourer with his oldgaidler, the manufacturer with his former fetters, and the mer chant without circulation ; our American colonies, .continually more irritated at seeing their deputies im prisoned, and the promises made to them broken ; op the one hand the prison on the other revenge.—every where disorder and i»jklltice. Such is the situation of tmfortunate Spain. 4 , Spaniards, either the country must perish, ter we must find a remedy for such great And dangerous evils. Au Europe is interested in seeing our notion well governed; it is the sincerest pledge of its tran quillity; experience must have taught it that when Spain is governed by feeble handsat necessarily sub nots to any who can impose conditions *pen it, All Europe cannot but belleamd to see to Government ;~ ~. feriae: is Spain which . a Inch centrilented is the liberty aid independence of all States, which has been recognlzed and treated with by the Kings of Prussia and Sweden, and the magnanimous Emperor of Rua sia ; England, our first ally and companion, that na• tion rich and happy in its constitution, which has seen with honor the destruction of the Cortes, and the persecution of its members, will be the first to I applaud us, as it was the first to assist us in cur in surrection, to acknowledge the Cones, and to praise the patriotism and the virtues of the people. 44 All will applaud us, if "we continue to sheer in our conduct that prudence and circumspection which have always guith3l us; and if, taught by experience, we improve our institutions by assamilating them to theirs. , • 14 Yes Spaniards, prudence will never abandon u s ; the good of the counts y must be our sole object; our opinions, our rivalships, our private interests must be silent before such a great and important object.— Compelled by necessity, seeing that truth cannot pe netrate to the ears of the King, who is, as it were, besieged by his Counsellors, unless it is supported in a manner to make itself respected, we have taken the terrible, but necessary resolution, to demand, by arms, what has been r fused to !more gentle means. 41 Our object, like that of all Spaniards, is no other than the establishment of the Monarchy under wise laws, which at the same that they secure the prero gatives of the King, slay likewise ensure to us our rights. We require the convocation of the Cones named by the people, who may make in the Consti tution proclaimed by the Extraordinary Cortes, those changes which our situation demands, which expe rience has taught us, and which the constitutions of the limited Monarchies of Europe require. The Cortes, by introducing order into our finances, ail! take care of the soldier; will reward the deserving warrior, will insure his subsistence in old age, and place the nation in a situation to be respect ed and feared. 44 The nobility, W they lose any trifling part of their privileges, may be indemnified by the changes whiCh the Cortes make in the Constitution, by giving them a political existence. The condition will, in general, be improved; the parochial priests, who so imme diately contribute to the spiritual salvation of the faithful, bring better endowed; the merchant, the labourer, the artsan, the manufacturer, will again enjoy the behefits which they had begun to derive from the changes made by the Cones in their favour; the public creditor, with a god administration of the fonds of the public credit, will again hope to he in demnified for the advances and the losses which have 'becn brought upon him by his . services, or by his faith in the promises of the State. 11 These, Spaniards, are the wishes of the Cortes : they are ours, and they will doubtless be again the wishes of the Cones when they meet. for such holy purposes we invite all our . sister provinces to unite with us, with 'the brave defenders of the country, with their worthy Officers and their illustrious Generals : in short, with the Spaniards of all classes. 44 Firm in our purposes, we will not lay down our arms (if we should be obliged to employ, them) till we have obtained it; and as. we shall embrace every Spaniard who shall offer to join the banners of the country, we shall persecute without mercy those who, without love for their country, and enemies to the King, would rather leave him in the hands of vile counsellors than try to rescue him from their power, and open his eyes to their pernicious counsels. Our conduct shall be a model to our enemies. Property shall be respected, and personal liberty not disturbed. But woe to those who, availing themselves of the august name of the King, shall venture to insult or to persecute any individual ; they shall be responsi ble, and if they cannot be taken, those perhons shall 'be so, whom we consider as hostages.- Secure in the justice of the cause which we defend, the world shall see that Spain, valiant and persevering in defending her independence, is no less illustrious and courageous when she has to defend her rights and liberties. 64 By the Members of the Junta (Signed) 11 JUAN NU poatarh." (The above is stated in the title to be printed at Corunni, but has no date whatever.) PRIVATE LETTER. " CORVIINA, " The sigkest-for cry of Liberty has at length burst forth. The valiant Portia- is the sun who first broke silence. To his call every thing has yielded, so well were the minds of every. one urepared. For some time back, this well deserving patriot has been revolving in has mind this noble and generous project, and shut up in a castle, and in the midst of the agents of terror, he has been planning the future liberty of his country. • The magic appearance ot.Bonapartein Francs atom* his intentions, already on the eve of below realized, la order to deprive t!?..-.• malevolent of all pretest of strgmadzing the purity of has clew+, by connect ing them with those of the farmer tyrant of Spain. New the theatre has changed: he has attempted tbe entercrize, and suc ceeded in it with all the fealty with which that k obtained which all desire, nines especially, when a leader of sucti pure in tentions pats MOW' at tbe head. Porker has no more tido-awn to open his thoughts to a few brave oMcors, be merely presented bleu:elfin the strong and commanding position of St. Lucia, which yielded so him wu homy resistance. 'lleums was also instantly done by the Captain General, and the other Civil and Military Autlionties here. "• From this moment, the Most lively enthusiasm lamed on every countenance. "i he sanitary and Inhabitants, overcome with joy, 'embraced each other-in thweute:4l, crying out, • Now we return to be Spaniarda, now we are &lame .".• The number of soldiers, inhabitants, and peasants, pouring in to enrol mid. volunteer themselves under the banners of liberty, is great, and what Is most admit:able is, the order and harmony with which all has been done.. Not a misfortune has happeied, not an insult, not even &disagreeable word. •• General Fortier has published a Proclantadon ha Ariven in the STAR of Saturday), which he himself wrote off and from its contents you may gather the noble sentiments by which ho is animated. The General himself also, it appears, by this same conveyance, writes to his asuntrymien ha England, as well as to some illustrious Englishmen from whom you yourself are not far For my own part, what I can were you, ii, that this blow Is not solitary, or in the air, but that it is concerted with great heads, and persons of known honour and character, mattered about the several Provinces of Spain, and even otaeolk. 64 Ferdinand has no one who loves him, no one urdefend him; his gloomy and monistical despotbmn, as well as his black higra. Stade, have alienated the hearts of every one 4 The military, more especially; are extremely resentful, owing to the Desist:mai manner in which be milers them to want, sacriSeing his treasures on objects of sterile piety and petite superstition, as Iva as on the gond living and ease of the clergy and Mars, to whose prayers and disciplines he says he owes his throne. Consequent to this, disetnit is general anions the troops "a General Abliinal (O'Donnell) on his late return front Prance, harangued his troops, In order to dispose them to bear their waists with resignation, and to aerauge some plan to canton them, as a means of subsistence. The answer to his harangue, genetal through the ranks, was ta tell him in a most energetic manner, that it would be much better for his master, ferdinand, to employ th*t money which he eras lavishing its his Guards and surrounding Clergy, who advised and upheld him in his twang, to provide iiga:iist the hunger of thom soldiers who had r Ai' than% Sissy 1140 time s tea When( his trefire4r p a rt e d, rot stye isvering St whim. go*, d i e ol d en O'Donnell; G enera l castanet, alio, boa addressed soother kind o f , awn to ls user, Indeuating to them that they Illay rr-P .. theillOVl4 to fight, in unison with the French, agai nst anot : maw efory. " In addition to ail this, Ferdinand lately ordered for t is e , t w os to h e e rected is Sierra Morena, and recruits to be 4 ,,,,, Media La Mancha, all which menu to say that 44.-4.4-- In short, It indicates that all Spain, which rote io ntats a ga i nst foreign tyrant, vi pow-triad as Napoleon, is new ready to splint so contemptible* dorneftle one, as FRRNCN PAPERS. PARTS, SEPTEMBER U. Yesterday, at half-past one o'clock, the E mpeu; of Austria and Russia, .the King of Prussia, 1 , Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, and than Prim., of Prussia, went to the Thuil'cries to pay, a s , t thought, their visit of taking leave of the Kin ; .. 1 , following cirentnstances, which wescan authenticie. 'support thi% conjecture. The three Sovereigns w t ., out together. and unaccompanied with the Pi ii.e c; , their family, after half an hour, and embraced her o , entering their respective carriages. The Emperor I Austria was heard saying to the Emperor of R uss i : 68 Adieu, Sire, till we meet at Dijon ;" a n d t i Emperor Alexander, in parting from the King , Prussia, said, " at Brussels." It is conjectured from this, that the three Seer reigns have fired their departure, and that the En peror of Austria will set ore to-day for Dijon, wp m he will be followed by the Emperor of Rusbia, c va will then direct his route to Brussels to meet with th King of Prussia. The latter, it is said, will i fee t ,. his troops, and then depart for that city. Tile Princes of Russia and Prussia left the Ki an hour after their Majesties. The Duke of Otranto departe , l yesterday i, Dresden. To-morrow the Austrians quit Paris. The all. troops of this nation will direct their march with.. delay to Italy. The Chancelleries; the Commissiri A and the Authorities, establishes! by Austria in .1 rent departibents, are dissolved, aad tot: Mutate will depart likewise for liaty. A traveller who has arrived from St. Quentin ri. ports, that having occasion to go to Ham, he met .it M. Moncey, Duc de Cuttegliano, at the inn. Hen. fates that the Duke, on his arrival at the ca.tle w:iit the orders of the King had appointed for his re, dente, could not enter it, because the Prussians, w at present occupy it, refused to admit lim, and t 1.,. he was thus obliged to remain at the inn, from whei he never goes out. Yesterday being the anniversary of the Coronatic of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, the Dept: of the Jewish Nation, in the Kingdom' of Polo Messrs. Michel Etenger, Volt' Cohen, and Sicta. Neiding, were admitted to an aedisnre of the EAT roe, for the purpose of congratulating lam on his a. cession to the Throne of Poland, and assuring him their attachment to his august person. It is , said, that the opening of du! Scisino of tit Chambers will be still further delayed, and that will not take place till the 9th inst. The clese. this may be to allow time for the complete assemblii _of the Ministry. Orders have been transmitted i telegvaph to M. Vaiiisianc, who Ili at present a: ,447. seilles, where he exercises the to,ctions of Pitect, : COme to Paris as speedy as pos,ible. According ti' news from I,:iiy, Madame Paul!! Borgilese is still at the baths nt Lucca, tor the i establishment of her health. It is said that shell,: poses, when she has reelected, to go to Rome, I make arrangements with her huaband (Hem woo, she has separated, as eve; y one knows) cohceriii her dowry. It remains to be ascertaint:d it she W. thus be allowed to traverse the country at piedstir. We have received 11:tters hem Saint AfTrip which diminish very much the force of the r... 1 which we mentioned concerning the trouble: U. prevailed there. ‘Ve are inured that it is false u. I the church was Lurnt, and that the Piorestants the objects of the persecution. Religious lanativs• was quite foreign to the. commotion* which tor a in menu agitated that city. In several Prussian journals it is asked, linty itn't4 possible to suppose, that the publication of the R/uni Mereary and the flee circulation of its opinions can be restrained by a Government so liberal as t!ut t Prussia, and in a country where the unlimited fie dom of the press is a right religiously respected NANTES, SEPTEMBER 24. Yesterday and to-day the Prussian Stair, and th troops of the same nation, who formed the F arris of this city have quitted it. A similar arro' has taken Place in all the parts of the department tta. were occupied; these corps have directed their maid to Calvados and the banks of the Seine. The necessity of providing for the support of 4' or 12,000 men, in a country so exhausted as (0 4 . Was •doubtless a heavy burden. Nevertheless, must do Messieurs site Commandants of the Prosy" troops, the justice to say, that they have ende.ivoui... to alleviate it as much as possible, in maintan,i.: among their soldiers a rigid discipline, and in fon; ing with the inhabitants the most friendly conn tst in, s . l'hey appear like Wise to have appreciated th , . oibti cies which the difficult circumstances i&t which N c it placed presented to the local Antlv+ncic:. STRASBOURG, SEPTEMBER 33. The Court of Enquiry formzd .it ntrasbntirr, 4 " the 14th instant, in consequence of oiders Excellency the Minister .t War, to enquire inta conduct of the Mareshal de Camp 13aris‘oenr4re , x'' the Members of the Council of Defeoce, r.I wog t' the siege of Himinguen, has unanimously &do:. that the 'conduct of the Genet al, and his Council, 14 without reproach. MADRID, SEPTEMBER It. .. His Majesty has issued a circular, in i e a n id -- which the ancient relations of commerce and fie"' neighbourhood appear to be established upon Oa termer footing with France. The merchants. artio! dud travellers of the French nation are allowed to enter Spain to superintend their concerns, or to tify their curiosity. It is only enjoined them CO Pr''' sent passports recognised by the proper atithoric>. From the enjoyment of these A rt .• cepted all those Frenchmen or other ra re ligners Ir have been 'urged in the wars in Span, or h' e accepted of civil employments in the train of 6 _ l „' pane's army, or during the period of the rein Invasion. This measure depraves a w and b thug rifte of entering this country, and 1 11 . at number he elder. 1' Mod of re. ataY rrepa arm amnia red rorri6 e , "' be aaltr Lin against wady to ri, P Empeu ; o nus, - a, I I thy Prim.. r, as ,t Kinz. uthenticio reigns wt., e firit.ce; r raced hero ! Emperor r of Rossi: ;" and tl be King three Sor hat the En ijori, Wog %e a ket with th Will revir,, eft the K esterday The wh. itch with.. , rnmissir u ,iris in .1 Ore briellibt . Quentin n. , ht met stit inn. Hen• ca.tle writ for hi, re,, •ussians, uth . m, and it.. from whet e Coronatie a.-