The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-31 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. 48 1• . . and under the renovated sway of your ancient chieftains, your hurtheni have undoubtedly been removed, aid every t rac e of oppression erased.- - "• Stop, eielaims the Ger man Vassal, " enthusiastic was our joy, and unceasing our exertions, when thelnosened grasp of tyranny was felt departing from our land. But when we heard of the Despot's downfall, our exultation p assed all bounds, and, timid:4 the blaze of public rejoicings were our long-ba nished Pririces welcomed to our bosoms, as fathers who would dry our tears and heal our wounds. But unfor-. tnoately horrible E v stem with which the enemy had so long eieshed us, was productive. War contributions aod forced loans had filled his coffees, and theconscription . his armies. Our political fathers thought us too closely acquainted with ruin to repine at the continuance of our 'misery. They consented to resume their ancient au thority, but not to rastore our ancient prixileges. The French System was not only maintained, but carried into execution with encreased severity. Forced loans nod ronscripts were raised, and the latter not only quartet 4 .1 on the inhnbitants, but clothed and equipped at their expence. When the people complained, the government only answered, that the coffers of the state were empty, and must be filled ; and that the present circumstances of Europe reouired tha levy of an additional force. Such has been the result of so mach suffering', the crown of so many sanguine hopes. But yoe are hapoy, ye sons of France, so long the ter ror and the pity of Europe, the tools and the victims of oppression. The giant arm is broken which kept you so long immersed in guilt and splendid misery. Your dreams of universal empire are lied, and your vain struggles of er liberty have been succeeded by the enjoyment of ra tional freedom, granted by the condescension of a pater nal monarch.—" Yes, after a tremendous contest of twenty-four years, now amongst ourselves, and now with all the nations of Europe ; after experiencing the wildest rage of aoarchy, and the deepest curse of despotism, we thought ourselves, able to know and to enjoy rational freedom. Protitieg by the magnanimous protection of mir conquerors, and the example of your ancestors, framed and established a constihtion, embodying all the wise. rineiples of British liberty. We proffered the ta;k of guarding, this• pillar of our rights and orr I“ , pniness to the brother of our murdered King. Rerar.ad from his banishment, we placed him on the threee. :old have since beheld the work of our Legislative . - patriotism and wisdom, moulded' by his. hands into a )toyal t 4 rant destructive of all real liberty, and establishing to their fillicq extent, the principles of absolute authority. Disappointed in the quarter, where adversity should hare taught wisdom, !mil from whence we exooeted disinterest edness and public spirit, the unanimity of the land is de stroyed ; party, momentarily overawed, revives ; ►iisatfec tien recovers .its audacity, and the tumultuous agitation of men's minds threatens to renew those sceees of conten . tiori avid bloodshed that have formed so long and so dark tt page in our annals." Were we to ill terrogatethe inhabitants of other liberated countries, we should receive answers of a similar nat ere. that we haye done every of Europe, because we .ficient Sovereigns. We all her calamities, but, as his suceessors, we hive ,sue to toil in vain. JULY 31. £OREI6 1% LLIGENCE. FREE PA VERS. The Chevalier Gomez Lat.rad.r. Conti4e:lor of State. to his. Catholic M•lesiv. a:A h., A-..,1;,..5ad,,r Esti.iorei•.ary and Plenipoteoti4 V i n Fr;tor., and to the Co. grey: , of Vienna, to the Editors of the „Journal de Pis : " POttS, JVTY ti. Gt ferttuFsr—N.'ou lia-e inserted in your :fennel of %es er d„ y an arlicle from Nlttuteb, dr ed he filth of this month, according to which the preaching!' of the rainish ' large ha: e occasnineo the greatest di s . orders in Leon and Cornia.stella. Y. 4.1 reaaily bulieve t h at I have received at Paris Spanish neses. , f 4 more recent date, and. above all, more trite than th , t 0' tl!• I;ac a n Gazetteer, %toe has famished vim with the article to rpn.s.:on Prr it m. dots to into' ITI on, that t h e divtrderS in Leon tied Compostel.a have no inure realit‘ than the di,. turimpres eaustd by the e• diet and the sentiments l't General Mi na , and the felliti us noo•ements •on 'oared some time past in different parts of S:taitt. %did:: Getter .1 Mira iv not less estimable on account of his former loyalty and frankness, than woolly of admiration* 1( 4 hi s ffreat achievements in arms, mod n :withstand' •he inventor, ,f f i d,c arcs , :11 , !te is rot titrouehout FArope a conntry more mcquil t h an S pa i n . y es , Gcntle:‘_en, the ;win ',effect tranquillity reigns in toy country, thc it habitant, et•"" enjoy a 611Pcrior .happiness to those of ally other nation; tor nom ever regained it• independei.ce a•A its sovereign by inch great a Worts et routoge. idelity, and constancV. Persuaded of this happy situ ati.at of toy v, I ha, e hith er t o h em silent respecting the repents or distatenr which idle or malevolent persons take a pleasure in prop:writing, And Ish eld act in .the same way with regard to your Brother Ktitor at Mit.-ieh, after baying eir.. ciliated a false report, he had not added an atrocious eal. .•ny utmost my august Soverei7n, ary' his Bova! 11,ehness the twat , ' D m A;itotne. " I fl ttter niyit If, Gentlemen, 1 1 .1 t those unior!twat. li m es are past, in which Journalists took up ,ti themselves to in-tat Islatnas and Soye. reigns ; and what instill more h trrible than that• of imputing to the uncle of the King of S.•ain 'a declaration, which would I , e nn ant o f rebellion. end to hit Majesty a melady which would veneer h m Mex. paLle of reigning? On what foundation Was Otis n.i eraine...loart:ahst built imposture? And, Gentlemen, how you determine npua inserting in your Paper such an itnrcutation? The saguktity of ex. tracting news relative to Spain from a Getman Paper, sle uld have made yon hesitate, even 01E11)01 you had not reflec.rd on the disagree able consecpiences which your iiolisctetion might pr,•duce. All the Frenchmen have deplored the perfidious and atrocro . tss Wdr whiLi. fteir T . ) rant carried on for six years -gains( Spain. They have deplor-u war not on'y as unjust, but as exciting to Ilia hid est point animosities and till hateful passions between two neighbouring nations, wit. have, on account el their neighbo:.rhp;,d, a c unsuon interest in living I n friendship. Every thing calculated to perpetuate that disposition of the mind ought to he carefully avoided, and nothing, in try op r n o n, can inure contribute to exasperate my coutitry men than the c' tion of the system which' taost of the jouroulisti and other ar ters of your nation have fir a tong time coastantly folloWed. Every article of false news published it •; , tetii , g Spain-- every invective, is an ill . Service done bv suit to your rr , ::Ory melt. 66 I hope that you wili readily publish thief letter in your Paper. " P. GOMEZ LABRADOR. [ln a Note, of Apolocy subjoined to the above Letter, the Paris Editor tt7tv•i.., the article complained of was not only yet:averi firm the Munich CiazAte, brit horn Jr.tornals in London, svhich furnish the French Papers with very intesesting articles, and titut it even oppea.ed in the Aluniteur el the z4tlij . ie.t us n. . herefora imagine ti jti cation hav her a lia n : • . N r oll+ , • - ; . , crier -..1/ ej 4Di 'Rt caw NO IZTV A Y. :farm from the Tieprrsentotie. of the Aror-Pymil n People, respecting, the Traftsference if the Croz:n to the Prince 11.. gent qt . Norway. " We, the midersigned, representing Vie Kingdom of Norway, do hereby publicly make known, 66 Tii,t arcording to the wish of the Peole, and appreriating the sacrifices made by hie Rf.yal Highness (of the Crown tX Der.mark, Onehies of Holstieu, &c.) we have been employing the power will; whieli we are entrusted, agreed to frame a law fur the Kingdom 4:ot . Norway, in such a marmor as to the best of our lodgment Kill be thought lit and proper for the Kingdom. Ntic have, to that end, endeavoured •to separate the Sovereign power in -nett a way, that the Legislative authority may be plaeetkinithe hands of the people, I