The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIST ....~. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. conclusion, most Excellent Sir, I earnestly eutleat your Excel lency will ILI pleased to present, with the least possible delay, this note to the Council of Regency, and I think myself obliged to demand from the Spanish Govtroment that proper publi city may he given to it in order to prevent the serious conse quences which must inevitably result, should the Spanish nation once conceive the interests of the English nation to be such as the juju' ious suspicions which the rumours and ;vritings circu lated through thi, city are calculated to inspire. I have the Ito. niur t reiterate to your Excellency the assurances of my dis. tinguishtd consideration. (Signed) H. WELLESLEY. " To lib Excellency, Sen. Dun Eusebio Bardaxa Azara." OFFICIAL ARTICLE. NOTE TRANSMITTED BY 111 F. HON. H• wrt.tr.stnr, THE ENCI LISII MINIS rElt, TO DON EUSEBIO DE BARDAX A AZARA, FIR S SECRE t ART OF S FATE. " 4 MOST EXCELLENT SIR—I have hitherto abstained from ealleig tee attention of the Spanish f :overnment to the rumours and writings which have for some time been circulated in Cadiz, In the belief that my forbearance and moderation misfit diserin those who have endeavoured to weaken the bonds of friendship and confidence which so happils, and with so many advantages to the cause, have hitherto subsisted h tween Great Britain and Spain. But the Papers that have been publi,hed, as well as the reports that have been circulated, have at length become so in jurious to the British good name and character, and so adapted to promote the interests of the enemy, and sow dissentions be tween the Allied tedious, that I should be wanting to the duties of my charge, and to all the 'sentiments of an Englishman, anxious fur the happy issue i of this glorious and interesting cause, if I could look with indifference on the unjust and unfounded calumnies which are daily accumulated against my country. To give a specimen of the terms in which these assertions are con veyed, and which originate, as it appears to me, front a certain class of persons, I think it will be sufficient to request your Ex cellency to read the subjoined paper, in which are im uted to my Sovereign, to his Government, and the British nation, intentions destitute of honour, of justice, and of good faith, and entirely subversive of all the principles with which Great Britain has come forward to aid the cause of the Spanish nation. The ru mours noticed in the month of March last, are again revived, that the Spanish provinces, bordering on Portugal were placed under the military command of Lord Wellington, that the Spanish army was to be placed milder English officers, and, in a word, withdrawn from subordination to the Spanish military authori ties, in order to form an army truly British To the British Go vernment is also attributed the design of sending to Cadiz a re • enforcement of troops \sufficrent to take possession of that city and island, and retain it in the name and possession of his Britannic Alejesty. " Considering the sacrifices which Great Britain has made In support of the Spanish cause; considering her repeated decla rations of the conduct which she has resolved to observe with respect to the Spanish colonies, some of which have been pub lished fn The Garette of the Regency; considering the decisive proet which she lets just given of her disinterested views, by offering her mediation bet weed Spain and the Colonies which have refused to acknowledge the authority of the Mother Country, I ought to be far from being under .the necessity to re fute the charges such as those contained in this Pape:. In fact, It was necessary that we should find ourselves so critical as that in which we are, reduced to the narrow limits of this place, the salvation of which depends on harmony and good understanding, bo indispensible at all times, but especially at this critieel mo ment, to consent to suffer the humiliation of vindicating the ho nour of my country, attacked, as it has been, by puitlicetions, the malignant tendency of which are apparent. Desirou;, how ever, to preserve, without the least alteration, the sentiments of mutual respect and esteem, with which the two nations are mu tually animated, I consider myself as under an obligetion to deny, in the most positive and solemn manner, in tile name of his Bri tannic Majesty, and that of his Goers, 'lntent, and that Of the whole British nation, all imputation of views of n3erandizement or terrestrial acquisition, either in Europe or America, at the expense of the Spanish nation. With the same positiveness, I deny that there is any found:viol , for the intet psetation given to the notes which I presented in the month of March last, suggesting that the Spanish provinces on the birders of Portugal should be plated under the tempos ary authority of Lord We!lieg ton, as by this no more was intended, than to authotl•a-t him to derive from them the teilitary supplies which they were capaile of furnishing. I, in the like manner, solemnly affirm, that neither my Sovereign, nor his Government had any intention to render themselves masters of Cadiz, and that if any reinl-orce anent, were sent to this city, it was soleiy and exclusively in or der to contribute to ,the d fence of this importeet position, and preserve it to the Crown of Spain ; lastly, I repeat, what on meny occasions I have deciared to your Excellen , y that Great Britain in tekina part in this contest, h d no other vi..v than to assist the glorious iffot is o the Spanish nation to recov•. r i:s li berty ate; aulepentlatice ; and that she perseveres in it without any idea of her own aegrandizernent, or any exclusive ae ventage winch she neght de rise r on the unfortunate circtenstances to which the flush natiou has Beal reduced, hot 'solely to eon triuute to the expulsion of the enemy and the .'e-establishme-t of the integrity isnd independence of the Spanish Monarchy. . In ANSWER. tt.---•Without loss of time I presented to the Council of Re• gency the Note which your Excellency was pleased to transmit to me on the sth inst. as well as a Cupy of the Paper lately printed and published in this city. His Excellency, fully im pressed with what your Excellency has been pleased to state con cerning the malicious rumours which have been for some lime so industriously circulated in these parts, has ordered me, above all things, to declare, that believing himself as much as your Ex cellency in discrediting; reports and writings which can is the least degree offend the respect and decorum due to his Britannic Majesty, his Government, and the English nation, will most willingly hasten to publish the Note of your Excellency, with his Reply, well persuaded that their publication cannot fail to unde ceive the incautious, who have allowed themselves to be se duced by people who intend to destroy the friendship and amity which happily, and without the least interruption, subsists be tween the two Allied Nations, and without which neither union nor concord can subsist between their respective govern ments. In regard to the imputations to which your Excellency refers in your Note, considei ing them as injurious to the august Sovereign as too the Government of the British Nation, they cannot certainly be attributed to the generality of the inhabit ants of Cadiz, of this balwark of Spanish independence,• much less to the nation in general, who has given us so many proofs of its gratitude for the generous assistance of Great Britain. •'fhey can, therefore, only have their origin in the imagination of some individuals, whon influenced by the euelny, or carried away by the desire of being siogular in their opinions and wi itings, aspire at an ephemeral celebrity, to which they sacri fice the most sacred interests of their country, which they do not know, or prefer to their own. Fortnnattly, the number of persons engaged in introducing mistrust between the two Allied Nations is very limited, and 60 very,inferior to those who pro perly appreciate the generous efforts of Gr. at Eritnin in the pre sent contest, that they can'never the end which they have proposed ; 'out rather, on the contrary, the artifice empb.yed by the enemy being once known, as well as the instruments made use of, both will be included in the execration of ail good Spaniards, who, without dispute, constitute the greater part of those who compose the vast monarchy. Nothing proves so touch what I have stated as the injurious suspicion , : which ac•• - company the reports and rumours spresd respecting the pre. tended occupation of Cadiz by the trolls of his Britannic Ma jesty, to which the French have contributed from the first day they presented themselves before this place, for the pur n ose of pun tieing discord and exciting mistrust in the minds of its inhabitants. The object of this imposture being known, it will not be difficult to comprehend the views of those who are so eager in circulating and. giving credit to them ; but the . Public in i eading the coin ludic.}; expressions of your Excellency on this point, and well persuaded that the two Governments cannot du less than agree in respect to the number of troops nec..ssray fur the defence of so important a position, will remain tranqu.i iii the confidence with which the t.;oyernment waist inspire them, and in the good fait of the British Cabinet. 'I he same Council of Regency has more th.m once been the mart of calumnies more or less injurious, bi•th in words and writings; bun :ertaia of it. rectitude t. conduct, and that nothing could be attached, with the least fout da ion, contrary to the decorum and dignity of its Representation, is thoroughly satisfied that it has its sup • port in the opinion of the good. _Consequently, his Fn.:erne my has charged . - re to inform your Excellency, that the tip‘nnsh nation, as well as its Government, tar from p••ying attention to the insidious remarks which the encore has succeeded in conti nually scattering, to dissolve the Min bonds whica or:lte the two Powers, are eomplettly convineen that nothing hips the combined tir ins of norh, can bring to a glorious conclusion the arduous enter prise tot which they have fought ; and they are, therefore, penetrated whit the just gratitud• thty owe Britain, for the lively interest with which, Iron; the commence ment or the war, it has protected anti assisted .paint, in detsnce of its King, and political inoependence.---The expressions con tained in this reply, an • the sinceie protestasinns that ,the Council of Regency ardently desires , as your ditettlePCY townknow, know : to every day draw closer tiaretaiipta *jct &bap mild • - • •.