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. Oren* which indignation also gave us. likewise be came debilitated. Misfortunes succeeded ' • the Van dal's pride increased, and notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the free people, and that spirit . which pa triots. by their words and example, succeeded in in spiring, almost the Whole Peninsula. groaned under • oppression, and prevented no other point of safety than the faithful and opulent Cadiz, whose decided love, respect and adhesion to the National Congress, and to its decisions, rendered it always entitled to the I gratitude of the Representatives of the Nation, and of the Nation itself. But why should we conceal that at that time there was no longer a safe asylum than this enclosure, from whence was to issue, as in other times issued from the Asturian Mountains, the liberty of g pain. Then the Cones presented the grandest spectacle ever seen in the world, of assembling, amid so many dangers, to save the country, when they bad scarcely more country than the ground on which they assem bled. 0 24th of September !—day for ever memo rable I Thou and the other, the first of our revolu tion, would alone .he sufficient to render our annals immortal, and our latest posterity will read with equal admiration and gratitude the bloody exploits of the 24 May, and the first pacific Session's of the Congress. By the one we threw off a foreign yoke; by the other a domestic yoke ; by the one we wrote with blood the determination of revenging ourselves, or dying, and already has this fruitful blood of the first martyrs pro duced those valiant men, who, crowned at the begin ning with Andalusian laurels, have just crowned them selves with other unfading ones in the Pyrennees, and the banks of the llidassoa ; in the other, have been made those laws which have reinstated us in due tights which belong to us as free men and as Spaniards,, To raise the nation from slavery to sovereignty to distinguish,, divide the powers hitherto mixed and confounded ; to acknowledge solemnly and cordially the Apostolic and Catholic Religion as the only true one, and that of the State ; to preserve to the Kings all their dignity, giving to them unlimited powers to do good ; to give to the press all the natural liberty which the celestial gifts Of thought and speech should • have ; to abolish the ancient gothic remains of the feudal system ; to equal the rights and duties of Spa iniards of both worlds s those were the first steps of the Cortes in their arduous and glorious career. and those were the solid basis upon which were afterwards raised the edifice of the Constitution, *the formes of liberty. 0 Constitution ! 0 sweet name of liberty ! 0 grandeur of the Spanish nation After the Cortes bad bestowed upon us so many benefits, their in satiable thirst of doing good was not satisfied.— They gave a new and moreconvenient form to the trillunals of justice.—they settled the economical Government of the. Provinces—they succeeded in forming a military Constitution, and a plan of edu cation and instruction truly national for youth— they organized the labyrinth of the finances--they simplified the system of contributions, and what cannot, nor ever will be heard without admiration, is, that, in a period of the greatest poverty and dis tress, they maintained, or rather created public faith. Allow me, while stating so memorable 'benefits, to forget that I am a Deputy upon whom this glory in part reflects. At this moment, I only recollect that I am a citizen—that in whatever state or condition, in whatever corner of the monarchy, under the sha dow of those laws I shall be free, and shall see my fellovi-citizens free and happy. The individuals of the Congress have proved themselves worthy of their high post, not only by the cause which they have directed to the national good, but likewise by the' grave and circumspect conduct which they have ob seryed. The generous and unexampled disinteres tedness which they have evinced since that 'fortunate SepteMber, with the most rigorous austerity, notwith standing the trials to which they were exposed, will always make them be esteemed by good men. Male, volence calls this virtue hypocrisy, or Affectation of ge r :affinity. Oh! would to 1-i - salves' that all, and especi. ally those ingrates embracing the same system, might contribute, Orrin gh rtffectation of generosity, or hypo crisy, a putt Coeir wealth towards the urgencies of the country, or enlist themselves among its defender's. This Corgress, the first which has been seen ainong men, composed of individuals from the four parts of the world, offers another point of view equally grand and majestic. The venerable successors of the Apos tles, the Ministers of the Lord, the members of the first class of the state, military men, magistrates, sim• ple citizens, respectable and tranquil old age add roLust youth, assembled day and night for the space of three years, now give a singular example of all se parating in peace, all as friends. He who consider" that so many questions, capable of exciting all the great passions, have been agitated here; he who en , ,ws that by our anterior system they were obliged to ie not only in contradiction to the interests of some provinces, but also tb those of some classes ; he who reflects on the multitude of ideas and 'projects uhich some favour, because they believe them conducive to that liberty for which we all eagerly pant, and others oppose, because they fear they will lead us into tbatsla.. wpry which we all detest ; he who recollects with what . •warmth zeal has been expressed in those august assem blies, presided over by the spirit of charity and meek ness, and. composed solely of persons in whom, f m en their age, dignity, and ministry, virtue had become a habit, and the force of the passions was mortified ; he whoconsiders all the obstacles and events which have preceded and hitherto accompanied the national Con :.ess, and observes how many are the acts of the tortes which have been oppressive since they have been assembled, must either be unable to acknow ledge and appreciate virtues,,or must pay that tribute of praise which is deserved, not only by those of the Deputies, but by those of the whole Spanish Nation, which cannot neglect those who have placed all their glory in labouring to represent it, worthily deserving fellow-citizens, who, invested with the national repre sentation, are destined to succeed us, hasten to com plete and bring to petit:atoll the great work which we leave ill your bands. Our's. was the honour to prepare the way for you ; your's be the glory to bring the whole to a canciusion. Every thing announces that the day of the salvation and liberty of our coon. try is hastily approaching, and you, perhaps, are those whom HiSAVEN has pointed out to tilt its destiny yowt will bit it without more laboer than merely not impeding or disttirbing the course of things, and pro titiug by the advantages now offered by the political anti military situation of Europe, and especially of Spain, so different, ah I so different from that in which the present Cortes were installed. Thell shaken and Those persons who intend adventuring in the Lottery, which begins drawing on IVeduesday next, are recommended to try their luck at Wasn's Office, 17, Ludgate-street, where a very large proportion of the Capital Prices in every Lottery since its establish ment, have been sold in Shares. A Gentleman wiio was ahput to purchase a Dumb Waiter, was.advised not,- on the principle that it would not answer, now if the probability of what is most likely to answer is to be the question—the reply must certainly be, purchase 4 Ticket in the Lottery, to be drawn on Wcrixtsunx next, where, out of °ply 8000 Tickets, there are two Pries of Twenty Thousand Founds can motif ctliie, • . - "RING!! ?inn. I tottering were all the pillars of the social edillict, e 4 ' the State as if it were almost dissolved. You thee, , -- planed on a solid and firm basis, ardent • welt then BAYONNE, OCTOBER te. - the Spanish enthusiasm;—but this flame 'Pardee& , Tk e Frenc h Army, under the orders of Marshal sued when the people perceived that the ancient laws the Duke of Dalm • ass, has just gained a considerable and ancient abuses of power, still subsisting, the w ioes — timable sacrifice of their lives as lavished for the advantage over'the Anglo-Spanish troops, Four vain idea of not changing the name of their op, 'hundred English, and a still greater nuneser of Spa pressors ; at present this patriotic flame shall remain nish prisoners, have arrived within our walls, inextinguishable, because the people fight, and con- PAM, OCTOBER se. quer or die, for beneficent institutions, for a real The last accounts received from Leipsic speak of country, and for the real good of their independence. Then almost all Europe was enslaved and oppressed. several advantages gained by the French. They as- There was scarcely any country but in the hearts n sure us, that on the 19th the Emperor's head-quar the Spaniards, and our enemies threatened us at the 'tern were at Weissenfels, a short distance from the very gates of Cadiz. Now, almost all is free, and we celebrated field of battle of Lutzen. At thit time threaten the enemy on their frontiers, We now have ., his majesty was extremely well, and the health of his concluded alliances with great Powers, which we formerly wanted, and our ancient • friends finding Highness the Prince of Neitfchatel was re-established. themselves by our constancy in a better situation. A dispatch from General Bertrand, commanding contribute more efficaciously to our liberty. Ger- the 4th corps of the Grand Army, arrived at Erfurt, man and Sicilian troops combat with our's ; the nu- b Estafette, on the 20th instant. It was dated the merous and valiant Portuguese army has covered . y preceding evening, and announced, that the Emperor itself With glory on our plains. Great and generous England sees her sons crowned with Spanish laurels had again just completely beaten the enemy, and that which shall never fade ; and, besides, the assisunce his Majesty was in extelleut health. ' • which she has lent to the common cause, has the] NUREMBERG, OCTOBER 18. fortune and glory - of having sent the ever-orientsl According triaccounts from Saxony of the 16th of quered Wellington, the immortal Captain of the Al. ' lied Armies, ever triumphant. Then the whole North October, there have been several bloody battles be was sunk in a lethargic slumber, now the magnani- tween the French and coalesced corps, in which the motif Successor of Catharine, has beat down and first have constantly had the advantage; but there destroyed, more than once, the haughty French eagles, has been no general affair. 1 and, after his example, the successors of Gustavus and Frederick have also raised their heads. We have 1 FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, OCTOBER 13. now a million of enemies less than then, and those i The corps d'armee of the Dtike of CutigliOne is which remain are less formidable to us, from the moral still posted at Jena. A report bas been in circulation; , force which we have gained and which they have lost. of a battle having taken place on that side..but no- ' i We had then a Government, which, from its unstea- thing authentic or official is known in that respect. diness and ill-acknowledged authority, was not what , circumstances required ; but you will find one corn- j FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 9t. posed of perms, who, by their moderation, their 1 We are assured, that it was the corps of Prince virtue, and their love to the system which the Cortes Lichtenstein, joined to that of Madman's, which have establ:sheel for the good of the peopje, must' was compleatly defeated on the 12th by the Duke of produce the happiness of that people. Beware, __ artiglione. then, 0 deserving successors to our honour and our v : labours, that nothing disappoint circumstances so i - The head-quarters of the Emperor have been sac.. favourable. In you are founded all the hopes of the cessively at Worthen, Jknbourg, and Puben.a.- ' Spanish people, and the hopes of that people, so great,' They were on the lOth inst. in the latter place, and virtuous, and so worthy to be happy, she not be dis. he vidts still there on the 13th. appointed. Preserve inviolate the sacred and beloved • Oer, 22.—Letters front Erfurt annoonce, that on deposit of the Constitution which we deliver to you, , the 19th, the Emperor again beat the enemy.. Fresh and recommend to your care with the greatest affec tion. It is the delight of the Spaniards, who have letters from Erfurt, which we have just receiyet, received it with the most voluntary and most solemn state, that the affairs of the 11th and 12th, in which vows ; watch 'carefully over its observance, since it 4000 prisoners were made, to place against General alone can maintain always alive the patriotic fire ;it , , Botcher and the Prince Royal of Sweden. . :, • alone can be the Iris of peace in the wild storms which agitate unfortunate America, and it alone must be A new battle, fought on ,the 14th, near Dessau the bond which strictly and cordially unites all the in which the Prussians 'were completsly clefea9nl, is brethren of this immense and virtuous family : But talked of. .. . , . . these wishes which the nation forms for its prospe- i VIENNA, OCTOBER H. • rity are intimately mingled •with others no less ardent, Field Marshal Prince Schwartzenberg, in order ell. and sincere, for the most beloved of its Kings, for maintain order and repress excesses, which isolated the innocent and unfortonate youth, Ferdinand of Bourbon; and if, even in his slavery, this amiable columns, and - especially streaks* freatAlseeembined Prince was the idol of the people, and all hoped that army, might commit, 'as well in his rear, as in the' he would break his chains with a strong hand in the country where they are, published on the 28th of 1 day of his power, what must be now our wishes to September, at Toeplitz, an order of the day, which, see him tree in the midst of us ! what our hopes that 1 • be will close the happiness of his people, when he' among other dispositions, notes the following : was heard to call for the meeting of the Cortes, which I "The Austrian Major General Baron Herzagen are the bulwark of Spanish liberty I when he has felt berg will command in common with the Russian the weight of persecution and misfortune; and when,, be• ut•General de Herries, the moveable columns of in doing good, he would not have to encounter the the I coinbi • ne(' army, destined to repress excesses.— obstacles which would have been opposed to him, by They will judge the guilty, and the sentence shall be the interest of those who live by disorder, the force I of custom, and the respectable example of his prede.! immediately carried into execution. To form these, cessors. Oh ! that Heaven would fulfil these just i moveable columns, the Russilin, Austrian, and Prus hopes, and, accepting the profuse sacrifice of our • sian armies shall each furnish a battalion of infantry, blood, listen propitiously to the vows which resound 1 . and tnree squadrons of cavalry. There shall be esta night and day through our public places, our domes- ! tic walls, and the august roof of the National Congress. : blished, in the most considerable places upon the Oh ! may we see him with our own eyes, in the bosom I principal roads of communication in the rear of the of his great family, and may we hear him with our own i army, military commandants, who shall have under ears called the father and friend of his People. And , their orders sufficient forces, sod who will maintain you, worthy and generous Representatives of the Spa- I force not only in the place where they nish Peo_ple, glory in' your labours and in your exer. : the military e •• • • Lions. The applause of Nations, the congratulations , command, but in t h e i r vicinities, send under escorts of the good ; the murmurs of the ill-disposed, and . stragglers to their regiments, and deliver to the corn the indignation of the envious ; this is your eu- .: mandants of the nearest moveable columns those who logium. The love and gratitude of Spaniards and , Beta r have committed excesses. This order shall be the happiness of the Country, this is your reward.— ; may read three following days to the troops of the corn- Nevertheless I tell you that the moment of our sepa ration having arrived, evils and persecutions are pre. bined army, in their particular language, and after paring for you, because this is the ordinary tate of wards every eight days." - those who, upon earth, rooting out abuses, promote AM'iTERPAM OCTOBER i 9. the public good and virtue : but no, our singular and ' The Municipal Council of our city, assembled ez glorious revolution has restored to Spaniards tlirir an. traordinarily, solicited the favour of sending a Depu cient character and their first virtues, you will receive. the rich harvest of the benediction of your fellow ciii: zillion to Paris, to convey to the foot at the throne, zens. Go then to inform them oi the benefits which the expression of the sentiments of devotion, respect, the Constitution has prepared for them ; tell them that ' and submission, which animate the inhabitants of this the Religion of their forefathers iimains pure, entire,. third city of the Empire, and answer the voice of her unhurt ; fix their opinion, should it be 'Rai, Jering, and , to those i laces who may still be doubtful, beta': . .e. they Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent. do not know the wthhes and real intentions of the Na.. We lean) with lively pleasure that this Deputation tional Corigres, and therefore are unfortunately raided w as permitted to express to her the sentiments of the by an ideal independence ; tell them, convince them, i good city of Amsterdam, and that it will soon pro that the greatt.ht enemies to slavery cannot wish tor; teed to* the place of its destination, more liberty than this memorable code of our rights ;mutes to them ; take such me... - ilres that, well in- ' LEIPSIC, OCTOBER 6. strutted in their duties, and nobly poild of their dig. The Gazette of this City contains the following nity, they may think and act like Spaniards; that by art i c l e • their social and moral virtues they may serve as a • 66 The Prince of Sweden has for some time been model to all nations in the world, and that the Spanish 'citizen may be, what was in former times the Roman, issuing publications, which may literally be denomi an object of ambition even to Kings.' , nated pamphlets. It is inconceivable that this Prince The Journal of the General and Extraordinary should so far forget the rank to which he has been Cortes was then signed by all the Deputies, after raised, as to sign productions issuing from the brains which the Sitting broke up amidst great applause. of a Kotzebue, a Schlegel, a &nazi% or a Gold schmidt. The public asks, with astonishment, is not this Prince the same Prince of Ponte Corvo, whom the French Government deigned to appoint Marshal, and has since loaded with favours and gifts ? Is he not the same Marshal, who, in Hamburgh, Hanover, and Elbing, imposed such heavy contributions merely to fill his private coffers ? Is lie not that Bernadotte, that violent Jacobin, who, during his legation to the Court of Vienna, displayed the tricoloured flag, and occasioned his ezmilsion from that city ? Is he not the same Bernaktte, whose principles France con temns, and who, but for th; indulgence ano protec tion of the Emperor Naeleon, wliii ovuer4usly for. gave his errors, in wnsideratiott of his *Mange ski t his family, must nfvr have been grovelling in the dust " Assuredly this is the very same man—•he who owes his elevation to the throne of Sweden, only to the admiration and regard which the power and suc• cesses of France had excited in Sweden, and wt could not have seated himself in that throne but with the permission and consent of France. 0 ' It shocks us to behold ingratitude, degradati ir, and disregard of every honourable feeling, carried to such an extreme. " According to the opinion of persons who have the best means of information, the reason of this cob duet is, that being paid by England, it has been ini posed upon him as a duty, to degrade himself, an 4 to break for ever with France $ and with this view l‘t -has been led to accept Guadaloupe, a French posses sion, and has promised to sign all the libels th.tt the English may think proper to compose. " Some deem it quite natural, that the Prince of Sweden, like all other renegadoes, should figure the most violent enemy of his country. Others, I-. short, think that this Prince is rather to be pitied, IL asmuch as his mother having been deranged. and some of his brethers and sisters being actually insane, he may have been impelled to his present line of ccr.- duct, by attacks of the same malady. " The destiny of Sweden, in fact, is truly singu lar. She expels from the throne a Prince of disorder ed intellect, and calls to it a French General, who. born a Catholic, is compelled, as the first act of his government, to abjure his religion ;—and this same General, the twentieth only in rank in the French army, whose principles and morn character are held in such slight estimation in his native country, is the son. and brother of lunatics, and already begins him self to experience the attacks of that malady." OCTOBEft 44. The head-quarters •are still at Gradisca. Our troops occupy the same position. Several deserters from different regimentg, who arrived yesterday at our advanced posts, report that the enemy's army suffers much in the position which it occupies from the bad weather which has continued several days, by the overflowing of the torrents, and by the ex. treme difficulty Of bringing up provisions into the mountains occupied by the enemy. The proclama tion of the Viceroy has produced a great ofecc throughopt all Italy. - . FRENCH FIINDS. 05t0ber 46th, 561 r. w e ,. 27th % . 56 45, 04 • •• Last price qecxe4. .£1 60° Uch, '55 15 • Tim &row prices on the 17th have been given mew Twice of die censidcreille variation which appears pet* chant DREADFUL lAIIND4TIONS liv GERMAT. • • EPROM THZ AtIZTItIAH owsraveit.l We receive from all parts the most distressing ac count of the effects of the late inundations in Hun gary, Austria, Silesia, and Poland. None of these recitals, however, excite more painful feelings than an account transmitted trom Trentschin. Tie river Waag, which runs through that country, was, in the begjnning of September, raised six feet above its usual - height, by the great rains which had fallen some days preceding. The banks immediately gave way, and the lands were inundated. A high moun tain, which was undermined by the good, soddenly tell into the channel of the river, and gave it an inf. pews which nothing could resist. From Zailina to Sacred, upwards of sixty villages, with all their houses, flocks, aid standing crops, were washed away. The calamity having occurred during the day, many of the inhabitants had time to save themselves; but, nevertheless, more than WOO persons perished, be. sides many thousand cattle, s!icep, and horses. All the bridges upon the Waag were destroyed ; so that in particular situations five days elapsed before anis. Lance could be given to the survivors of this dreadful calamity. All the towns in the neihbourhood of the Waag have been damaged, At ?eustadt about thirty houses were overturned. At this time, one,half of the extensive district of Trentschin is laid waste. Letters from Belgrade mention that there had been an inundation of the Danube, in the neighbourhood ot Widdin during the night of the 14th September. A small Turkish corps ot 2000 men bad occupied one of the is!aads, and thrown up tortifications thereon. They formed part of the force which was blockading the Servian tortress. In the middle of the night, while buried in a profound sleep, ttey were surprised by the waters, and ;tut with instant death. Not one person escaped. Even the island itself sunk and disappeared. In the middle of August, the Drave flooded the country in the neighbourhood of Qrsatch. ay the conjoint influence of the rains and a high wind, the waters of the river were raced to a tremendous height. They swept away six tillages, and the sub urbs of ; town. In the latter; the Minister of the church, while intent uponcelebTating divine service, was, with his congregation of about 2+o persons, burred beneath the ruins,of th Stlirding. From Silesia we have accounts equally distressing as the above. The rivers in. that. country,.swelletl by the heavy rains during three lays and nights, be came torrents. They swept away Otiose', cattle, and the standing crops. Nothing escaped. Ot the inhi bitants, above 6000 have perished. Ev s en the opera.. tions of the contending . armies were impeded. But it will be some consolation ta every patriotic Germaa to learn, that the ruin of the French under Maedo.- nald was accelerated by.these floods.; that they at once arrested his progress and cut off his retreat; ao 4 that by presenting the alternative of death orimpri. sonment to his best troops, they paved the way to the entire liberation of Prussian Silesia from the crtiehiei and exactions of the enemy. The travellers who have arrived from Poland de clare that the hopes of the hushandmen.have, in furl titular districts, been blasted, by the Vistula rung ten feet. Houses and cattle nave likewise been de stroyed, and 4000 lives lost. 44 Aver," say theY• d:d the harvest promise io be more abundant, or of better quality, had the divine will permit:ed them to reap it. It has proved therwise. And when we reflect upon the state orthat country during the pre sent year with what it war the preceding, when ex hausted by the march cf numerous armies, have we not abundant cause of consolation ? We have—aeL let vs not fowl