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

JULY 10. King or the Prince. " The moment they were gone, the • people appear to have felt a return of their ancient " character. Dreadfully hazardous would he the profes sion of politics, if the profits of a writer depended in any degree on the sagacity of his predictions. Scarcely bad the author of the P..litical Negligee taught his clients how to account for the unexpected opposition Of the Spaniards, ere it was weertainel that, perfectly regarlless of his present opinions, they were activated by similar sentiments and feelings to those he profes,ed to entertain soMe half dozen years ago. That instead of being indifferent to !he treatment anti captivity of their rulers, three or four thaw and of them were slain in a fruitless attempt to prevent the departure of the last of the family who remained at Madrid. It also appears from all accounts that the standara of Ferdinand is that of the People, who seem by no means de lighted at the prospect of being delivered from their native go vernors and ancient laws. Nav, their very enslaver, to induce them to acquiese in the loss ..f the first, thinks it necessary t necotapany ors promise of a o ater administration with a solemn pledge to U :'as l'itter shall be inviolably preserved. Men;est Inca ,night imaline that a writer, whose positions tin a .abiect sa nuch importance had proved uniformly erroneous, oula 'rd taro so tv explanation or acknowledgment of his errors ; very ditrereeit is the conduct of Mr. Cobbett, he knows his renders and the better. Fortunate!. far him, a ru mour ; Queeo of Spain had ter eldest • a, e; ss oat an excellent tub for tae a hale Riags, queens, and ii ,stards, male and female, ovens helm the poor S i nali:di Patriots, who appear to great disadvantage a: th. tatter tont of an article so interesting. By the bye Mr. Cob bei Aker here upon which comment would I.e • ; and mire of place Indignation and contempt ale nee. , to Is man, who, to gratify the vulgar and indis• • F.' .101) i e for scandal, which be finds so profitable, e—e-sat lv .end causelessly to alarm the fears and ho ---; • shock the moral feelings anal honest pre jut:— o' • • ,cation. • ~ •ave ;Of! more to say of Mr. Cobbett and hi• Coto . • op. ..iotives of National Resistance, were we not •• ; -it so nayie of his opinion as tended to under raleare , !... •s of toe Spanish people has been very general. It attest tll.t %el that the British are too much inclined to think the a* of what is valuable efaifi ae:l to theme re The Spolia:-.1- cannot boast eitaer of tat. !..sreedin of tie' Fire , the 'Fria! by Jury, the habeas Corpus Act, or of I the Wc , :kt: are also (and r vcee,iv ei:, iaoe le • able it is to 'Or. Perceyall super, titiave Catheli: :low is i. F or „ e e l a N at i f ,.. \.„;,;,• c i t h er (ioveroment or Cootury. Shallow airl qiere as if a people who had existed iii t 11. '!,, ;:: `l) centuries,' who has. become 'miser); • .....ntiment. and Mtn , ie • tegrity of • wholly ale of that , . lti;.h motile feel..;,:. ~ 4.ittle at the ; !ea of foreign •interfereoc, . .taloaottr. • popalation might iniecd b: dupe.i into an incapabire .•••Oitante ; but to suppose it covt!, -. . rerlly feel degn:.le human nature much more than it deser.•• '.••., trisera'ile would he eve state of aine tenths of I.e , cal earth, if ee ;els , were so looe•l7 Uilbett, ail.l vs riter• Cobacat, ha ' •• Happy is it for -•..takind that they ;ire I tog.- • . ..,es s intianst; and .-0 •rotitt by an associating pries ciale rresistible aid fer;sete, tl!at neither faults in governors nor elelets in tiovernment eau lessen their hatred of foreiee domination, or estinguish "1 , - earls habit-, ympathies, and pre judices vshielt form theit tro tonal i dent —and give colouring and significance to the p'll•i , e Our n•!'ii , e land.' FOREitiN INTIA.LIGENCE. FROM THE FRENCH 4yr.. GuTTENBURGH RJPERS. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 21.---The following official documents, Con tenting the Spanish Junta, have yr. 'wen pnhlist,ed GENERAL JUNTA. —! IRST SITTING. On the 15th of June, in the current year, ISOS, at nnant the first A.Rembly of the Spanish Junta was held in the City of Bayonne, in the Bishop's Palace, where a hall had been pre pared fur that purpose, under the presidency of his Excelleuc Dim Miguel Josse d'A7anze, Councillor of State, Minister o: the finances, and Secretary of the Junta; 141 Excellency the Chevalier d'Uurgujo, Honorary Councillor of ileac ; and Don Antonio Romanillos, Member of the Council of Finances ) and Secretary of the King. .THE NATIONAL REGISTER. iati " This day, the following Royal Order and Decree was rasa in full Co4acil, addressed to the Dean of the Council " Moll AND WORTHY SIR, " By the following Oecree which has been presented to th 4 4uprente Junta of tne Government, by his 1 _mperiat ind Royai HighneA the Crawl Duke of Berg, Lieutenant-General of the ingdom, his Majesty the Emperor of the French. tic. has (teemed it good to proclaim his Serene Brower Joseph Napa ott, now King of Naples and Sicily. King of Spain and the Indies. I, by the command of his Highness, and stinsetu.erst resolution of the Junta, do present it to your Worship ? to ut der that the same may without delay he put into circulationawl exe& cuted. " The Council will see in this Resolution of his Imperial Ma jesty, the nimloin of his fore.ight, and the most vas ions proof of his beneficent intentions towar.ls the Sp mists nation. " fo proclaim him Kin is to say what i• expected from his paternal rare,'; and to plyce his illuytci<mis Brother of tho torone of Spain is to unify for ever interest and bi 0 1 ../ ut France with toe inter, st and dors of Spain. " His Imperial Iliattess, together whit the Junta, who se %%ell knew that among the qualitie• which especiall . ovensionci 'ir election of this Soverei A t,, his love ofjostice and oetteticence are to be enarnera ell. awl tt it hope loot all 'Mae benefits lie has in ois i'roelomation promised will soon take ef '-ct, together with too-e others which his .i1,./j..sty has •eitlevs reserved in n► us. If, to announce to his people when i• iippi..irs io hi; toetrop " • a Palace, low, ISO% ( sigma ) " SEILISTIAINO DX PINVELLde " To the Than of the Council" [:lyre follows ne Imperial Decree, proclaiming Joseph Kist of swan awl :he Indies.] 11 s Excellency M. d' A zanza, President a the Junta, dent , yg‘red the following , precil " ‘r.svr tea esi— It is winost pleasing and honour/ibis' task lb coot rihute to the fel . ei;yr of one's country, and to labour for thb .% elf ilf the present race, and of posterity. Such in fact t •Is gre;it object which unites us in this venerable assembly', c t iled together .;,. , 41.•17 , 171 ii.oir•r the eve, of the herd o! r ; t!!•• ti, i•lo• *. •:;4iiivoth t•ti)vror •01 . the French, a...i Kivg of i; • tune - nur the eftraor k'inar.:• man tt ho gives us again a :outtity $1 lind 10 , 41 're ccutu. ics we have been altogether removed trust the z •-criiment, which has been entrusted at one time to artful men, who had no other object than with dexterity to oppress the pen pie ; at another .time to weak sovereigns without character, . tlevotite; thenscl , to their pleasures, abandoned the goo • ci,ineut to their favourites. See 1 it is thus that the Spanish n:tion has been sinking from the summit of its glory, to which had raised itself in the 15th and 18th centuries, to the abyss in which it was plunged, when the last of our Kings resigned lie right of Government to a Prince, who, for oar happiness, !elite.: in himself all the qualities requisite to give life to the me ion, in the critical state in which it wasentrusted to him. The ziez4 use which he made of his new power was to impart it to his Illustrious Brother Joseph Napoleon, a just and Iteoefieent ilrince, who, raised before to the throne of Naples, had already proved indisputably, that his Government was paternal, and Sail no ot!l.^r :'lna the welfare of those who were happy enougli to live molt'. his laws. He has resolved, that in the place when: lie reside:. and even in his presence, the Deputies of the principal town', and the other authorities of oar u country,' should ass , ntile, in order to confer on the evils under whic h we haw. li amt 19 confitin the constitution which our re storer himself will prcielit to us, its r , •der that it may be the in• violabLe rule of ottr government. This is the noble and glorie.us end for which we are assembled here. It is therefore neetssury that ne should apply our whole attention, and, laying aside ail party spirit, and all the prejudices of proviaLes, classes, and ranks, devote all our energies to the common welfare of Spoil). No one can now have an interest distinct from that of his coun try. The menibers of the same family must alike enjoy the common benefit, and alike contribute to the reipective charge of s.ipport hr.; the cotumbn splendour. In the eye of the law, they ho are less favoured by fortune lose none of the respect they merit, nor of their right to be protected. Let every one of us, :is far as himself is concerned, sacrifice the benefit we exclusively enjoy, and of which many are imaginary. .Let as offer them Jpon the altar of our country, in order to raise a staple and great monument, in the place of the Gothic and tottering strip; cure of our former Government. Let us examine it .sselli mid we shall find that it is the constitution which best4o VOIL whAl/ of our nottntry, upon *lila our attention atust bafita4 ,aptkisip S ~ "I r I 1