The National Register. — London, England, 1808-07-10 00:00:00

ADHRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF PORTUGAL. Po R 1 UGU ESE—Your lot is perhaps the hardest ever endured by any people on the earth. Your Princes were compelled to fly from you. and the events of Spain have furnished au irrefra gable proof of the absolute necessity of that !ilea" ure. Yon were ordered not to defend yourselves, and you did nut defend yourselves. Junot offered to make you happy, and your hap piness has consisted in being treated with greater cruelty than the most ferocious conquerors inflict on the people whom the 3 have subdued by force of arms, and after the most obstinate re sistance. You. have been despoiled of your Prince, 3 our laws, your usuages, your customs, your property, your liberty, even your lives, and your holy religion, which your enemies never have respected, however they may, according to their custom, have promised to protect it, and however they may affect and pretend to have any sense of it themselves. Your nobility has been annihilated, Its property confiscated in punishment of its fidelity and loyalty.. You have been basely dragged to foreign countries, and compelled to prostrate yourselves at the feet of the man who is the author of all your calamities, and who, by the must horrible perfidy, has usurped your Government, and rules you with a sceptre of iron. Even now your troops have left your borders, and are travelling in chains to die in the de fence of him who has oppressed you, by which means his deep malignity may accomplish his purpose, by destroying those who should constitute your strength, and by rendering their lives Mih scrvient to his triumphs, and to the savage glory to which he aspires. - tipain beheld your slavery, and the horrible evils which fol low•ed it with mingled sensations of grief and despair. You are her brethren, and she panted to fly to your assistance. But cer tain Chiefs, and a Government either weak or corrupt, kept her iu chains, and were preparing the means by 4% hich the ruin of Our Kie la - 3 our laws, our independence, our libetly, our livcF, ...AM., ^nip-, ._ . , ... i to P- JULY 10. !a is- he FOE Er. all all r ub blic ad If kb* bed din I IT feral ;11,'e Bled rticy p)rt thit ood n the Cts THE NATION bas arrested her Monarchs—obliged them to a forced and mani festly void abdication and renunciation; has behaved with the same violence towards the Spanish Nobles whom he keeps in his power—has declared that he will elect a King of Spain, the most horrible attempt tints is recorded in history—has sent his troops into Spain, seized her fortresses and her capital, and scat tered his troops throughout the country—has committed against Spain all sorts of assassinations, robberies, and unheard-of cruel ties; and this has been done will) the most enormous ingratitude to the :wry tees which the Spanisd Nation has rendered France, to the friendship it has Baum' her, thus treating it with the most dread ful perfidy, fraud and treachery, such as was never committed against any Nation or Moisarch, by the most barbarous or ambi tious King or People. RE has in fine declared, that he will tram ple down our Monarchy, our fundamental Laws, and bring alma the raid .if our Holy Catholic Religion.—The only re nted," therefore fur such grievous ills, which are so nian;fest to all Es rope, is iu war, which we declare against him. In the name, therefore, of our King, Ferdinand the Seventh, and of all the Spanish Nation, we declare War by Land and Sea against the Emperor Napoleon the First, and against France; we are deteratiLed to throw off her domination and tyranny, and command all Spaniards to act hostilely against her, to do her all possible damage according to the laws of war, or place an em hare,o upon all French ships in our ports, and all property, and effects, in IT hatever part of Spain the) may be, whether belong ing to the government, or to the individuals of that Nation. In the same manner we command, that no embarrassment, nor mo lestation, be done to the English Nation, nor its Government, nor its ships, property, or effects, nor any individual of that Nation. We declare that there shall be open and free commu nication with England; that we have contracted, and will keep au armistice with her; and that we hope to conclude a durable and lasting peace. Moreover, we protest, we will not lay down our arms till the Emperor Napoleon the First has restored to Spain our King. Ferdinand the Seventh, and the rest of the Royal Family ; has respected the sacred rights of the nation, which he has violated, and her liberty, integrity, and halt pendence. With the same %ntis!estanding and accordance with the Spanish Nation. We t amniand that the present solemn Declaration he printed, posted, and circulated among all the people and provinces of Spain and America, that it may he known in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Given In the Royal Palace of Alcazar at Seville, this etb of June, By Order of the Supreme Junta of Government, MANUEL MARIA AGUILAR, Sec. JUAN BAUTISTA PARDO, Sec. .11, REGISTER. 4 - 34' • _ and even the holy religion in which we ar: ;mice& might ac eomp;vtty y ours, by which a barbarous people ro.igiit consummate their own triumph, and accomplish the slavery of every nation nn Europe—.our loyalty, our honour, our justice, could snot sub mit to such flagrant atrocity. We have broken our chains—let us then to action—vs e have armies, he have chiefs, and tire uni versal cry of Spain is, ice will die ire defence of cur eustrat, but ere will take care that these infamous enemies shall die with, us.— Come, then, ye generous Portuguese, unite with Spain to die is &timer of your country—her banners expert you, they will re ceive you as brethren infamously oppressed. The cause of Spain and of Portugal is the same—distrust not our troops—their wishes are the same as your own, and you may reckon upon their courage and their strength as part of your security. You have among yourselves the object of y our vengeance— obey not the authors of your misfortune—attack them —lnev are out a handful of miserable panic-: truck men, humiliated and conquered already by the perfidy and cruelties which they have committed, and which have covered then) with disgrat e in the eyes of Europe and the World ! Rise then in a hotly. hut avoid staining your honourable hands with crimes, for sour de igrn is to resist them and to de - surly theut—our united of will do for this perfidious nation ; and Portugal, Spain, nay all Europe. shall breathe or die free and like men. Portuguese--Y our country is not in danger—it is already gone—unite, unite, and fly to restore and to save it. • Sevi:le, May JO, 1808. By directinu of the Supreme Junta of Government, DUN o AN MUTIST A Esret.t.gu, Sre. I ° . DUN J e. 411 B 4 u cost., r.oturno, Ser. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE Of LORDS. MONDA II Y 4. ritonoG trioN. The Lann rirAscELLon addressed the following Speech to the Alembers of both Houses t f Pal liano:nt " Lona; AND GENTLEMEN, " We have it in command from his Majesty to evp7 . ess to von " the great satisfaction w Welt he derives from being eatable& by " puttiv , an end to the present Session of Parliament, to tevini " nate the laborious attendance which the public business has required of you. "•The measure which you have adopted for the improvement " of the military force of the country, promises to key the fowl " dation of a system of internal defence cmisienily useful, and " peculiarly adapted to the exigencies of these times. " Thr sanction which you have given to those measures of " defensive retaliation, to which the violent nitacks of the cue- my, upon the commerce and resources of this kingdom tom " pelted his Majesty to resort, has becu highly satisfactory to " his Majesty. " His Alkiesty.doubts not that in the result the enemy will be " convinced of the impolicy of persevering in a systvm which " retorts upon himself, in ' o much greater proportion, those es its " which he endeavours to indict upon this country, et Ot,iTLEMES OF THE HOI • sE OP COMMONS, " Me are commanded by his Mtkiesty to return his most hearty " acknowledgments for 'the cheerfulness and liberillity with " which the necessary Supplies for the current year have been " provided. " His Majesty directs us to assure you, that he participates in the satisfaction with which you must have contemplated " the flourishing situation of the revenue and credit of the coon " try, notwithstandingg the continued pressure of the and " he einigrasulates you upon having been enabled to provide fur " the exigencies of the public service, with so small an addition "to the public burdens. . " His Majesty commands us to thank you for has in„ enabled " lota to snake goOd his engagements with his Allies; and to ex " press to ytni the particular gratification it hien he liv.s derived " from the manner in which you have provided for the I.stab " lishinent of his Sister, her Royal ifighuess the Ducheas of " Brunswick. " MY lAIRD4 AND GENII cm ff, " MAjesly has great satisfaction in infairstlm you. that, " notwithstanding the forion4able Coufetieracl united Pgalust " his Ally the King of Sweden, that Sovereign piqw% eise . :. ith " imitated vigour amt constancy, to or-tint:On the hora:m. a n d " independeme of Is Crown, and that Ito eft'uft has hat.% want- wW. • 4 a I 1 .! A'y► I --- 7. fli ~.