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, This day was published, ACATALOGUE of BOOKS for 1812. Part the First. Containing upwards of 12,000 Volumes, in various Classes of Learning, which are now on Sale at the prices affixed at C. FROST'S, 12, Broad—treer, Britiol, who gives the fall value fir Libraries or Parcels of Books. Catalogues, price One Shilling, (allowed in purchase).- to be bpi at the place of sale; and of Messrs. Longman, Hurst, and Co. Pater t , ,eter-row, London. SPA.V 1S H PAPERS. • REPORT . AN nit STATE or THE SPANISH DOMINIONS, PRESENTED TO THE CoitTEs IN THE SITTING OF NOV. 23, BY TILE MINISTER OF GRACE AND JUSTICE. SENOR—The interior state of the Peninsula offers nothing worthy of particular considciation, with re gard to the office with which I am intrusted, in ad siiti at to. what I formerly mentioned. Perhaps it might be of advantage to put in execution what I then stated, concerning the utility of certain magi strates travelling through the provinces. Perhaps it might be of advantage that such of the provinces as are in a state of freedem, should have si me more de pendence ueon the Govtrnment, respecting the elec tion of the Members if their Juntas, since, though the regulations for preserving a good agreement be- Ween them and the Military Authorities are wisely laid down, something if that spirit is always felt, which the interests of their respective orders, fami lies, tsr friends, have a tendency to inspire ; interests Which are a motive with some, to avail themselves of the.influence they possess in their respective districts, in order to be nominated. As to other subjects, what Can I say that must not, on the one hand, excite the deepest concern, on account of the dreadful evils which the national firmness has to undergo, and, on the other, the terrible in.iign ition which ought to be roused in the breast, not only of every Spaniard, but Even of every f , reigner who is not dead to all the feelings if - humanity, by the conduct, every day more barbarous and more atrocious, of the inhuman satel lites of the greatest miscreant existing upon earth ? What disgrace fer a nation that was wt nt to boast of its pretended tights, enl to make such an ostentatious display of its far-famed humanity, cow tesy, and ge nerosil, to have vomited from its bus lint swarms of ferocious iobbcrc, who plunder every thing, who re spect nothing, with whom neither sex, nor age, nor misfortune, have the smallest consideration ; who join insult to inhumanity, and calculate how they can be must cruel ? Perhaps the world now secs, for the first time, that counterfeit civilization is worse than the greatest barb .rism. The barbarians of the North, svho assailed the IZomasi Empire, in the sth century, were tormidable in the hour f battle, or in the at tack of a city ; but their wants being few, were easily supplied, and they neither desolated the country, nor, when they abandoned it, carried off its resources to their own. The infamous slaves of Nepol on, some with the titles of P. inces, Dukes, Counts, Barons, and many otlicts who war his livery witht tit. any title, feel all the wants of the most t xtravagant and dis- Fraceul luxury. All of them sre deshotis of possess jug magnificent houses in the cepital, elegant furni nue, equipages, splendid tables, good cooks, country houses, are addicted to gaming and keep mistresses. They.are not contented consequently with what they can devour and destroy, but impose conthuntily con tributinn upon c.intribution, and they demancl four, fie, ten, and twenty times the quantity .of what is necessary fir their troops ; they sell and re-sell in proportii n, and, in shout, exh itist all their iagenuity and all their invention, that nothing, however incon siderable, should remain in Spain, either of money or cattle, or of the products of agriculture and corn mince. Thus they :accomplish the phut of the am dein Attila, much mere deserving than he of the fifth eentury of the appellation of the scourge of the human race, a plan to dispcople Spain, that it might *to longer be, as Was the case t:11 the last century, the true bridle on the turbultnt ambition of France. '• To the internal pro jsct i.f this monster, the incen diasies of another hemisphere have unhappily contri bsseed their aid. A society is established at the Ca raccas under the name of Patriotic, composed of about SO individuals, among whom are many Frenchmen by brth; men of b :d character, raised to ntutice by a revolution, and infamous far their iotmorality. It consists also of several idle persons of obscure origin, and of men easy to be imposed upon from their ge neral ig .orance, or superfisially initiated in some branches of science, or known by their pretended pa triotism, without any merit but that M e in unbridled ambition, stained by atrocious crimes whose impunity has inspired them with asisliticmal boldness. This was the association which, on tht, 19th of April, exhibited in ti:e streets and public pl ices of the Caraccas, a spectacle the most it:famous and Uisgrace firl that could take place among cisilized nations.— 'he people, on the contrary, screwed Themselves far superior, viev ing with indifference themadness, folly, and excesses of those frantic preachers cf Jacobinism, who could not on that day proclaim the independence .1 Venezuela. This was at length done on the sth .IJuly, by establishing a confederation, sovereign, ' nd independent, not founded upon generosity, Asir ; ue, and ialour, as was the case with the Swiss con • ederaCon and others, but . upon the vices, the law ess Passions, the cruelty and terror of the founders t that furious democracy known by the name of the rench Republic, whose dirsfal memory sill c's all e friends of humanity, when they isse that all the lamities which it at this day suffers arc the fatal • onsequences of that execrable system. In the Caraccas, as in France, those unprincipled retches are alone termed patriots, who, in the traffic i or power, scruple to employ neither calumny nor ssassination, nor any means whatever to becOme asters of the public fortune. Then, as formerly in ranee, they ate exclusively styled patriots who re- Ile most and accuse as traitors such prudent men as r sotached to the cause of order and justice : those o are occupied in misleading the people, in paying Ittln servile adulation, in reviling Ferdinand of .stelsaa, and every crowned head. But ultimately ey will clash 'among themselves, form themselves to parties, charge each other with conspiracy, and e evil of discord once set on fire will not be extin- - uished till both are reduced to ashes. The act by which they declare themselves for ever P • al ted irons the Spanish Crown, and by which s ty a nnoOliteibemselves as the representatives of I.e nation, is founded upon reasons which could - ' GIBRALTAR, DECEMBSR 18. • • only have been conceived by similar heads.— 1 assistrutere than she has given to Martinique, Cua.la- The articles of Bayonne, the e v ents t h at ,took place 1 loupe. and the other ulinunarine possessions wrested at the Escurial and Aranjuez, the B. urbons leaving l from her dominions ? France, which, under the heavy ' di Accounts from Valencia up t o the Bth of d, ig the Spanish territory against the will of the people, yoke of a foreign tyrant, has sacrificed to the ambition month say, that the City was then safe. The sieve are the reasons which, joined t o the hacknied topic of him and his plundering satellites her commerce, of it was continued by Sucirct's army, but with littly of 300 years oppression, seem to them glorious mo- her agriculture, her money, her soldiers. her liberty, activity. BLAKE'S forces exceed 25,000 men, and the Lives for erecting themselves into free, sovereign, and her existence, and the heroic blood of your fathers and only fear now is, whether be will be able to maintain independent stares. That the people may take this j your brothers ? From whom then should you expect them : numbers of volunteers are turned away, a; innovation in good part they have caused to be printed sincerity and assistance but from that nation which there are no arms for them. lin their Gazettes, and circulated in all quarters, dif- has accompanied you in adversity, who has sighed frr 46 The Valencians hare thrown np two new re. ferent writings, filled with pompous offers of happi. you in oppression, which has been your inseparable doubts on the Murviedro road, which must annoy tress, (hit artifice which never escapes the ambitious) companion in your distresses, to whom the ALMICIIITY the French, who, however, still kept the Grao. Th e and with atrocious invectives against the Spaniards, HAND has so closely united you, that it world over- enemy is diminished by sickness more than by deter. whom they term the trus'y agents of Ferdinand, with whelm you in darkness and mourning to break 'he tion, and more still by the bravery and energy of Ilst a view of making that nitne odious, which hitherto ties of your creation and consanguinity ? With what Patriots. they have pretended to respect. predeliction ought you to embrace your mother coon- Nothing can be more r idi cu l ous t h an t h e p o mp w i t h try, to whom you are indebted in so many sacrifices. 66 it seems to be supposed, that Sucturr is Waiting for reinforcements, behare he begins any decisive ope. sshich they publish in a writino, tinder the title of Who has a greater right than the Spanish people to Political and Philosophical Rejections upon the Indepen- your confiderre ? Or who can be c, mpared to those rations against the place. Another attempt to raise the siege was talked of, hut the Spanish o.licers we flame of Venezuela, t'-e trite a nd h ac k n i e d p r in c ipl es great and valourous people who, without stealth, divide d which they have gat:iered from some acquaintance ;without arms, without soldiers, without m w oney, ,tii- . as to the policy of such a plan of operations." --- with moral and political science ; ..t the same time out fortified places, has, for more than three 3:ears, blending them with steak mistakes, and deducing, . surrounded with miseries, calamities, enemies, traitors, i --____ teem t; e whole, absurd conclusions. After innume- intrigues, and machination, is the only power in Eu- • MESSINA, DECEMBER & able remarks upon Ki ngs b e i ng subject, like other rope whi,ll has maintained its character and indepen. The English whose dornnation in Sicily occasions men, to the miseries, vices, and imperfections r f hu- dente without stooping the neck to the disgraceful a fricat deal of discontent there, have lately caused a man nature (the same idea is repeated under different -chains of the tyrant ? Extend your view over the number of arrests to take place ; which they have names)—after stating that vassals have frequently t whole Continent, and you may see the result of French torn the crown from the brow of the Monarch, placed alliance and protection:—Germany degraded, Hol- endeavoured to gloss over with the following Pro. clatnati3n : it upon their own, and transmitted it in their family land deserted, Poland enslaved, Denmark ch-stroycd, g , Stc•tetaNs—The Commandant of the British to the most distant generations—that Kings have been t Sweden despise:l, Italy, and other continental natios,s, forces in Sicily has felt himself under the severe.ne. assassinated, imprisoned, and at last brought to the without a name, dignity, or representation, w:!de their cessity of causing a certain number of persons to he ,block ; they tell us that .ill this proves that Kings are sons are transplanted to stain with their blood the arrested. They were in correspndetice with the made of the s ime stuff with other men, and tinit, in banks of the Ebro and the Tagus, and ignominiously the social state, GOD has left men th.! san ete liberty ch tined to the bloody chariot of the Usrper of the enemy ; and their object was to deliver up Sicily, a' w°ll as the Fne,lish army, her faithful arty, into th v which he granted to the first man when be formed sceptres of their disgraced Monarch ; tor: Spain, still bands of those isho wish the destruction of both; but him from noilino ; as if this principle; which they unconquerable, unfurls the glorious Standard of her call , mprescriptib . e, eternal, and the rule of govern- Liberty and Independence, supported by the magna- their intrigues, ve hich . were long watched, hare at last been unveiled. ment, had any cc noection with the usurpation of nimous efforts of her sons, who are your brothers, and " Sicilians—Alf who were accessary to th7s plot crowns, with assassinations, prisons and blocks ; or in whose immortal renown you participate, whi:e they have not been arrested, but all of them are known as if these horrors could serve to prove any principles rejoice in your union and fraternity." Thus that worthy American explains himself, who, secure those who had taken the most active part. ', and it has been deemed su ffi cient for the present to or maxims whateve:-. But not content with so incon gruous a medley, they goon to infer, that society is speaking afterwards to his compatriots of the South, 1 who have declared themselves against their mother-46 An interval of three days is granted to such an invention of men, to deliver themselv e s flour the miseries of a solitary and savage life ; extravagant country, assures them that he has not taken the pen persons as were engaged in this plot, and are not under arrest, in order to repair their fault by a full error, a thousand times triumphantly refuted—as from any personal interest, but for the 1 purpose of 1 and sincere confession. There are proofs against men have no need to invent what is a necessary con- sincerely pointing out to them the errors and dangers of the system they have adopted, and the dreadful them not less char than those which caused the at. sequence of their physical and moral wants, whi c h cannot be supplied out of society. evils it has produced. rest of their principal accomplices; and it is well known, that English Generals are not in the habit of But the incendiaries of the Caraccai are of opi nion, ilea, without gong so far back, it is impossible to fix the commencement cf regal, of republican, or of any form of government. They pr. cad to speak of the compacts betw xt icings and their people ; of the nature of those compacts, which c innot be eternal, as the men who formed them are not so ; and that it is not just that posterity should be obi ged to pre serve that ferm of government !tended down to them by their ancestors. To what purpose all this ?—to censure the conquest which the Spaniards made 01 those countries ; to tell us that the authority of right belonged to elle natives ; that the Spanish Monarchs were usurpers ; that those countries were happy • in their obscurity ; and that none had a right to draw them out t f that t b,curity, in order to make them slaves ; and the, if the constiterors had sn singular a mission, they might leave fulfilled it on the inhabi tants of Algiers and the coasts of Barbary, so near-to their own, without the necessity of repairing to the west, re hemisphere to accomplish its ohject. Such are the deceits of those worthless men, contrived to mislead the unhappy people, forgetting, or affecting to forget, what were the manners and opinions of the' age, which is essential to form a proper estimate of the merit or demerit of the conquest. Wien could hear those things without believing that they issued frogi the mouths of the de icendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of the .provinces of Venezuela, who were conquered by the Spaniard> ? But those are not the person; who complain. Were they to be asked, in the presence of their actual oppressors, By whom would they be governed, by the Spaniards, or by that I factious Junta ? It is pretty certain, that the answer would not be favourable to those who compose the patriotic society of the Caraccas. They say, thet Venezuela is already sufficiently great and respec table to govern iteell, and, therefore, the Spaniards should emancipate the people. But what do they mean by Venezuela? the mass of inhabitants of these provinces. Nobody will beteve them, especi illy es those who assume the name of Venezuele, are men without honour, and morals inflated by wicked pas sions, are those who wish to govern. They con stantly return to the old decimation, about three centuries of oppression, but certainly it is neither they I nor their fimilies who hive sustained any injury from I the prctt nied severities of this imagined despotism of tie Spanish au , horit'es. Unfortunately the loyal inhabitants of the city of Valencia, who J'd ren desire to break their ties with the mother comory, were at lest overcome by num bers, after hiving gloriously defeated the army of the facli.‘n, killing and wounding m my of the leaders. Without exaggeration it may be said, that if SW cf our solders bad been there, they would in one day have reduced to dust the edifice which was raised by the revelers of Carecces. It h impossible to give a better picture of that city, or of the vigilance with which its inhabitants ought to exercise in guarding themselves against the machinations of French emis saries, than has been done by D. Pedro Urgumeona, a native of Santa Fe, and Bogda, then res:dcnt in the Caraccas, in a Manifesto, winch commands the ad. min a ion of every good and impartial man. He says, " The immense territory they possess, and the thin ness of population which you experienced ; the dif ference between the classes and casts which surround you ; the variety of opinions which operate against your security ; the weak resources you have to op pose the invasion of an insulting enemy; all, all de mand your union, and that you become warriors ca pable of assisting in defending your property, your legion, your customs, and your manners. And who can best secure to you those sacred objects ? France, which has shewn herself insensible to the misfortunes of her own sons, when they became victims to the fury of the negroes:of Guavico ; or the brutal f-ro. city of sAnguinury troops, who, under the veil of pro tection, has to.. drawn desolation from Europe to the tal extermination of those unhappy provinces ? France, which by inclination and by system, is con tinually engaged in sackings and depredations, in per flay and in crimes, which, basely humbled by the ele vation of one foreigner, has seen with apathy the de. struction of those provinces, and copld give you no snore • ordering arrests without proofs: the long patieuce which they have thought it their duty to czercise. renders this sufficiently manliest. - Let those, then, who are implicated in this conspiracy present them. selves ; and, by Acknowledging the part which they have taken, let them fac hate the ponfsliment of the guilty who would have betrayed their country.— Pat don and protection ate solemnly promised to such as shall manifest their rtpentatice within the period above prescribed.—By order of his Eicellency, (Signed) ‘• W. TAYN TON, Mil: Sec. Head-quaritra, Mesviins, Dee. 1811." • This proclamation, in which the Sicil7an Govern. went is not even t .imcd, sufficiently thesss, that the Inglish must have lit- enera.es in that eountry, both sore whom their tpanry disgusts, atid those in whom an enlidueuccl knowled.c f their true inte• 'rests induces a wish, that ;his tine province 'should enter into the political system of the Europa) Contineitt. In proof of this, he prneeeds: " Turn your attention seriously to the miserable and degrading situation of the city_ in which I write, stirrollnied by misfortune, and the fear of becoming a victim to a consummated frenzy. In Caraccas you will behold the h, ruble picture of terrorism occupying the seat ce preclamed liberty. There you will see the sad effects of a eis:rile ere ineipation, aid the continual and dangerous cert. test of the auarchye' In this manner the article proceeds to describe the st ee of Affairs at the Caraccas. It next notices the transactions at Buenos Ayres, nn which a similar censure is beetnwed, while the conduct of the A yun tamiento of Lima is praised. Many of the inhabi tants of Cuzco are stated to be not less commendable for their zeal and patriotism, and it is observed— " The Government never can forget the greet ser vices of the Colonel Don Mateo Pumaccabua, a noble Indian of that district, and Cacique Proprietor cf il.e town of Chinchero. This officer, worthy of the hghest eulogiums for his constant fidelity, was prompt in I.IADRID, DECEMPER s. defending the true cause of his own native land, as : General D'Ai inagnac, having set out frotfl '' well as that of the mo:her country, with more than i monte, advanced upon 'Carazona, where he defoileti foriyetbousend Indians, in whom be has inspited re- the corps, which ohs.. rved the b<nks of the Jucar spect and confidence, and who will fight by the side watched t:pon 'Mesta, where the i! surreckional Juntas of their chief, if the occasion should arrive to render. ! hod its sittings, and then tLc.k c e direction rf their efforts necess try for the defence of the province. I The in airgeet General Baseecourt attempted to —l t is net preletble any serious inquietude will te- f dispute the passage of the river Cab-iel ; but the cur in New Spain. The frequent conspieleies which' French advanced guard, under the orders of General were plotted in the cap.t il ligaitst the Viceroy and ISt. Gen's, having on the same day made its appear all the persons of respectability who embraced the ! ance at the bridge of Contreras, whist was occupied great national cause, Americans and Europeans, by the enemy, tie troops which defended it, afraid have been discovered through the vigilance of the ! of being turn. d, retired Across the mountains toVella Magistrates; and if a s) stern of indul ge nce has not Gordo, where they joined two battalions and three been sufficient to stop the silence and temerity of squadrons which had arrived from the Valenci.n tyre conspirat irs, sere, riiy, which was at last eb est to army. In spit , . of the obstacles presented by the be employed against twiny of diem, will produce the ete.und, two regimeets cf dregeons advanced against this desired object.corps, and ti.e enemy took advanta g e cf the , But how unfortunate is it that all the inhabitants of d irkness of the night to retire. Some prisoliers were America are not co:winced, as is the wisest part, that taken, arid the battaiiiin of Daroce was entirely dis if, by abandoaing the ca•ase of tl.e mother country, persed. The mono eh ch defenried the bridge of the Peeinsula should become extremely deficient in Paxaro, over, esh c 1 it was necessary for the arta resources ter its defence, it won't: not be it alole that lery to pass, seeing themselves turned, took refuge in ' would perish tinder the tyrant's yoke, all Europe ; the mountains. would see him as a pedestal upon which to elevate ! On the 251.11, the whole division was collected at himself to greater designs, and, doubtless, the first Utiel, supposing that the enemy would endeavour to thing he would attempt to put in execution would be defend himself at Itequena ; but, on the approach of the destruction of England, the only asylum of afflic. the advai ced guard of ti.e .French cavalry, Bosse ted humanity, and then what resistance ceuld the court retired to Las Cabrillas, and •bandoned his Spanish Americans oppose, when English America, sick, who were taken.. He was pursued as far as which possessed the two greatest men i-f the age, Siete knas. Franklin and Washington, and which had in its f a - ! This exiedition has very much embarrassed the your a. party in England, would undoubtedly have army of Blake; who was compelled to detach a divi- • been subdued by the small armies sent for that sion to Las Cabrlas. The enemy list 200 prisoners, purpose, had it not been for the assistance of France ? 2010 muskets, Wee/cartridge-boxes, some magazines The tyrant of Europe, persisting in the adven:ement of corn and clothing, KO mules laden with provisios of his interminable projects, would put in motion SU for Valencia, besides 300 horses. • millions of men to obtain the m eans o f i nva di ng G reat The C o m man d ant Mo ra l es , on t h e 31 st ul t Ines Britain, which the squadrons of that power could not surprised some bands of brigands near Avila, and uitimately prevent. And who can doubt that when took 64 prisoners. in all the ports of the Continent no voice should be AMA': RDAM, DECEMBER sm. heard but ther of his atrocious authority, the period A violent gale from Vie N.W. has caused th• loss of the destruction of English liberty, and with it of of a ship of the line, and several vessels coming from every hope of felicity, would not be remote ? and if the Baltic. this should happen, who should be able to prevent the The convoy was under the Hero, of 74 guns. Thi iron sceptre, which has desolated the Old World, ship ran ashore on the North Haaks, off the 'FL:eI. from passing to the New ? If the cause of the English Ail the efforts made during the 24th, to get to her, and Americans be the same as that of the Spaniards, were unavailing. It was only ou the 515th that wt and if the Americans, white they compose, really and c.iuld approach her—but nothing was found but the truly, and in every sense the same nation wth the wrecks. The crew certainly perished. Europeans, should abandon the latter in their glo. A brig called the Gras•hopper went over the North rious struggle, they will soon become the victims Haaks. The pilot of he Furet going on board, of their error, and their posterity will pour forth piloted her into Niew Diep, where the now is. fib, maledictions and opprobrium on their Graves ! carves 18 32-pounders. —Let us hope, however, while we de not lose sight The transport Archimedes ran ashore, but the crew of the insatiable ambition of France, (which, what- were saved. ever may be its Government, undoubtedly aspires to The prisoners from these two ships are just arrived the empire of both worlds,) and the necessity of uni- here—they are 141 in number. ting our efforts to frustrate her iniquitous designs, that Two other brigs are lost to the north of the Texelt a day so unfortunate for the human scies never but we believe the crews are saved. may arrive ; for there is n o thi ng w hi c h wi ll not finally Other shipwrecks took place during the same gale yield to the firm determination of a nation which is on the coasts of the I les of Eyetlanci and Tersctiel superior to all adversities, superior to all its enemies, ling, and we expect positive details relative to them. and. which has resolved gloriously vs bury itself under . PARIS, JANUARY 2. its ruins, rather.than present its neck to the French Their Excellencies Marshals the Dukes of El. yokel chingen and Reggio are arrived at Faris. - TRENCH P4PERS. wit 1 16 ° Aso the hie 8f! WO' thg len thi ,t . 11111 011 W 2 ha by w• 1