The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-31 00:00:00

• L RF,GISTER. mitred in a city taken by storm, we do not pretend to deny. But this is a calamity which, in such cases, it is impo nssiblon e entirely to prevent , n otwithstandin g the strictest atteti on the part of the Officers; and the writer• ought not to for get, that there were Spaniards who entered the town with out troops, and that on all occasions they have not only with difficulty submitted to the laws of discipline, but have also displayed no small degree of cruelty towatds those of their own countrymen, whom they suppose attached to the enemy, a belief which the cord oct of the inhabitants of St. Sebastian during five years' subjection to the I'i eeeli yoke, may have ren dered prevalent: Having been able to adduce ottiv these five instances of loss of life,. the write: proceeds to other crimes, which, if really perpetrated, are, no doubt, greatly exaggerated, and which are desci ibed in a manner most calculated to blind rea son and extinguLk every friendly feeling towards us. 44 With regard to the examples of personal violation, I am un willing to be partienlar ; but to impart some idea of it, I will notice what happened to an intimate fr iend of om's. He was in his own house, endeavouring to protect an innocent daughter, only 1 years old, and, in order to rescue himself from being the witness of her infamy.he gave It! hard dollar , , with which he purchased tier rescue. It is impossible to ascertain the member of martyrs to purity who paid the forfeit of life on that day ; they are - burn., and buried beneath the ruins of their dwellings. What must have been the situation of the fathers, when in the excess of their terror they en deavourett to protect their oth-prieg from such lawny ! A multi tude of sentinels letrred up all and eeTess with respect to those houses where such cruelties were eaumnitted ; while in the open streets the French pi limier, who was the only enemy ; was treated with kindness and respect. " Nor was our holy religion regarded. The churches were pil laged, and the sacred chalice not belie; found in one of them, and it being discovered that the parish-pi jest had taken it home, he was followed thither, forced to surrender it, and its contents were thrown upon the growl. The clergyman, urgtal by religions zeal, endeavoured to regain the chalice, hut in his pious endeavour he was opposed, his clothes torn from his person, and he was cast into the street naked. A woman ran to throw a shirt over him, but this also was snatched away by the barbarians. What I have stated is sufficient to satisfy you, that the imagination of man is incompetent to emteeive the acts of profligacy that were com mitted on that day, and which will be engraven on the memory of eveiy good Spaniard. " It was in the morning of the Ist instant, that the conflagration began in one of the corners of the principal street. In the evening they set tire to the street of Escottilla, and on the next morning to that of Payueto ; in the same evening to Juan d e Bilboa, and to the new square ; to truth, the city was methodically and progre— sively set on fire, in the situations where the pillage was completed. The enemy had not molested at all the Owe during the whole time, I mean front his flight to the Castle, until the city was laid in ashes I ought to except a row of houses freed from the flames in Trinity street, which have been converted into (punters for the troops, " Buj let us turn our eyes from these atrocities, which. are suffi cient to deprive us of our senses, and let us nut forget the trade which, In time of peace, was conducted from St. Sebastian with Trance,. and which was so injurious to the interest of Great Britain. Let us also remember that it was a maritime port, and that under a wise Government. at little expence, it might have been converted into an useful station. It should also be noticed that Oen. Graham, when he withdrew to Oyargun, did not reeommend to the neigh bouring people to extinguish the conflaeration until the fifth day, when the whole was ennobled with the dust. " Such has been the_tvretched fate of a patriotic city, which has known how to preserve ita adherence to the good cause, surrounded by French bnyonets . tor a period of six years, during which it has separated fruit's the Government to which it belongs. Let Ipassionate the - lot of. Pamplona, Tortola, Barcelona, &c. if a. to experience the same catastrophe as St. Sebastian's; and fjustly tear that the inhabitants of these places will take arms the besiegers, if some mean' be not adopted to restore con- It ought to be known that the Spaniard who would defend fire-side, is an enemy to him, be he who he may, that can sport of his character. " I kiss your hands. Ac. " MIithINGUI VELAVERDE." TREATY OF AM!' Between the COURTS at Tceplitz, We, Francis T. by of Jerusalem, Hun*. Gallicia, and Lodomiria NVnrtal►nrg, and Frank grave of Moravia ; Silesia ; Count of Hai Make known to at these presents : That since nothin most Serene and Po+ mote by a stable pea,* by the calamities of joined our councils which, we firmly true tarn this end ; a Trea. been entered into by In the name of His Majesty the Ern mia, and his Majest mated by a desire ti to secure its foto equilibrium between war in which they whole of the forces Wishing, at the say beneficial, to the *pc' full success, their maintenance of the thereof, they have I amity awl defensiv( nished with their MI His Majesty the hernia, the Sicur Clement nick Winucbourg Ochsenhausen, Knight of rho .• Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Grand Crass of the Order of St. Joseph of Wurtzburg, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, Chancellor of the - Military Order of Maria Theresa, Curator of the Imperial Academy or Fine Arts, Chamberlain, Privy Counseller, Minister of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign Affairs, of his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty ; And his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sicur Charles Robert Count de Nesselrode, Privy Counsellor. Secretary of State, Chamberlain, aid Knight of the Order of St. Woledimir of the 'fluid Class ; who having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles : Article I. There shall be amity, sincere and constant union, be tween his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, their Heirs an d ' Successors. The High Contracting Parties shall, in consequence, pay the greatest attention to the maintaining between them reciprocal amity and correspondence, by avoiding every thin; that might subvert the union and good understanding happily subsisting between them. Art. H. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria guarantees to his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias the possession of the States, provinces, awl dominions. On the other hand, his Imperial Majesty of all the Russia& guarantees to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the possession of the states, provinces, and dominions, belonging to the Crown of his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty. Art. 111. As a consequence of this reciprocal guarantee, the Art. High Contracting Parties. will constantly labour in concert on the measures which shall appear to them most proper for the mainte nance of peace in Europe ; and in case the States of eith er of them shall be menanced by an invasion, they will employ their most effectual good offices for the prevention thereof. Art. IV. As the good offices, however, which (hey promie each other, may not have the desired effect, their Imperial Majesties bind themselves henceforward to assist each other with a corps of 60,000 men, in the event of either of them being attacked. . Art. V. This army shall be composed of 50,000 infantry, and 10,000 cavalry. It shall be provided with a corps of fiektartillery.• with ammunition, and every other necessary tios whgte .ProPorti. been Kep us comps r they are itwe may j againwt t 6dence. bis own unite spy hi di ,' 690 VIE NAT , • yll"vsv-,,,, • _ . OCt ammomminimi"'N'im STATE PAPER. -+•111111110.... ITV AND OF DEt'ENSIVE ALLIANCE. g of VIENNA and ST.PETERsBURGH, concluded !, the 9th of Sept. (August 28), 1813. Divine Clemency, Emperor of Austria ; King :ary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, &Livonia siria ; Archduke of Austria ; Duke of Lorraine , nconia ; Ore•it Prince of Transylvania ; Mar. Duke of Styria, Carinthia, Upper and Lower apshurg, &e. 11 and singular who are interested therein, by ng is more anxiously desired by 115, and the gent Emperor of all the Russias, than to pro- ice the welfare of Europe, so long overwhelmed war, and towards that object having mutually to provide fur that wished-for order of things, ust, will arise from our reciprocal efforts to at- eaty, of which the following is the tenottr, ha s y each of the Contracting Parties : f the most Holy and undivided Trinity : Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and n o . sty the Empetor of all the Russias, equally :mi• to put an end to the calamities of Europe, and ore repose by the establishment of a just en the Powers, have resolved to prosecute the are engaged for that salutary object, with the which Providence has placed at their disposal. one time, to extend the effects of a concert so criod when the present war, having obtained its mutual interest shall imperiously require the order of things which shall be the happy result appointed to draw up the articles of a treaty re alliance, the following Plenipotentiaries fur. nstrnetions : Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and 80. Clement Wenceslas Lothaire, Count de Metter. I