The National Register. — London, England, 1811-06-16 00:00:00

p , ,werfiel assistance ; condemned again to experience all the ri gour of d••stiny, and reduced to extremity; - threatened with the • dissoltiCon of empire• by the separation of some distant pro vinces ; yet always firm, always magnanimous; encountering adversit; without being overcome by it ; forming new establish mews amidst your very ruins, and dismaying the enemy by your ceaseless efforts. If from this stormy and uncertain spectacle itrpartial Europe and lio , terity turn their eyes to your political and civil march, how much will they see to compensate fbr your iniatary fortunes What were you before the SECOND or MAY ? Grief to recollect it, and shame to utter it !—Slaves, bending trader the yoke of tyranny ; obeying, like a worthless herd, the em pire -ot despotism and caprice. What are you now ? At the solemn voice of your Representatives, in Cortes assembled, the imperishable rights of the people are revived, which des potism had_usurped ; arbitrary government has disappeared, by the three powers being no loner confounded in one; the poli tical balance is re-established; the liberty of thought is se! ured by that of the press; the t ze'cution of juitice is at this moment founding on the eternal basis of natural. equity; and the Con stitution which is preparing for you, will be the key-stone of the gland arch, on which the Throne of the re-organised Momrchy will be erected. Thus, the Spaniard of the present day, dependent upon the law alone, inviolable in his .person, his property, and the just freedom of his opinions; contributing to such taxes only as are imposed by the National Congress ; interposing by himself, or by persons enjoying his confidence, in the collectka and ai pli cation of such sacrifices ; having all the paths of knowledge, of glory, and of fortune, opened to his activity and industry— marches proudly on the face of the earth, in no respect inferior to its potentates in social dignity. In vain will you search for his equal on the Continent, where the iron rod of oppre , sion holds men degraded, and where all arc his inferiors. You must search for his equals in that island alone, his generous Ally and heroic conmeer in this great contest ; in that island, the happy sanctuary of liberty, the grand seat o laws, and the eternai model of human civilization! • Such is, • such ought to be, the Spaniard under the reign of law. 0 you who Lye under its benign influence, convey your selves thought to the provinces oppressed hy the enemy, and compare your shoat ion with that of those who are there gr,an ing sorrow! BehoM them tyranoised over by the chiefs, insultod by the subelterns, pillagefl by the tax gatherers ; bt hold them horrassed by shies, assailed by suspicions, ruined by, accu satio-•s ; without security, wi; bout confidence, without civil or political consideration. Thin will you fee! how much more the rapacity of tyrants costs than the defence of your country, and the preservation of;:( - )td laws. Wba:ever blessings Focial order confers upon man, these the Spanish citizen has either in prose; ;,t or in possession. Ooe impediment alone preven'ts us from enkiyhtg them in all their extent. and that hohedin ei tis war—a war just, n-cessary, un avoidable. Has it been declared b; the hticle or the'private intereqs of a despot, by the caprice of a favoorite, or throohli the ex ahherated declamations of an amhiticus demanonue ? No : all Spaoiords hay: vthLd it iu a runner the rso ;t unanimous and solemn ; all have ilasrt nod to revenge .he grt atest outrshes which ever were oflh:eti :try nation ; and t.) defent! the first blessing of a great people—ik-I; ht.:h. - h en:knee. Ali tit: too le.:- rities s• hick have been hither , o estehlished—all the syst.ms of Government which have succeth.fed each other—have they not all 1i,2c0 f4ir maintaining the struggle? Has orh ooe of them talked of peace ? Spaniards ! y•ttt have demanded war : aril the war is, in the mean time, a C4.:ltillt:C•lat:.l painful series of dangers, of ;darns, of fatigues, and hrivatioos. But if individuals sink Header the rihours of adversit), powerful nations never pert-h; and our'. will know how tU ins:tote the inognifieent example us tin: 2d of May, as it has fauWed hi. beriu without tut tong aside ft.. a 1:10:11‘r.t. Yes, Spaniards! since the of May has again (L;wocd upon our eyes. and tines us s:ruogling with the same iiifloxioility as tn. first, let us, on it, prouaiy rchcat to the slavtos of Boonapa: to, that the tyrant was niost bitteth deceived in has ealculinians at Bayonne. The innocents sacrificed at Madrid could not p urge us into the stupor of terror. By them began a war which, perhaps., shall last for ages. Thousands upon thou sauds of warriors shall.be inino!ated to our vengeance. What, fonhoh discipline aod military skill may give them victories!.-- their fate shalt not on that account be better in this terrible coun try. Conquerors, or conquered—to-day in stio,ll numbers, to morrow in greater—as many as pass the Pyrenees shall, sooner or :Ater, accompany the three hundred thousand victims whom we have already offered as a holocaust to the manes of these who fctt on the 2.1 of May ; and Spain, like the gulph of eter nity, shall receive the French en her bosom, and shall not per mit one of them to escape from it. .PEDRO DE AGAR, President. Cadiz, May 2., MA.NUE.i. JO sr.F QUINTANA, Sec. TILE. NATIONAL RFCISTER. IMPERIAL . PARLIAMENT. lOUSF OF LORDS. MONDAY, JUNE 10. The Royal Assent was declixed by Commission to 38 Ellis, chl( fly of a oriviste or local description. Anion the public 1.31:;s , 3r..re the IriAl Be..f and Pork Exportation, Wash and Spirit Dt.ty, Hat Duty her.al, East !,ulia Isonds, Printers' Relief, Home-made Choc(Zate, Officers' Superan• Fuation The Bill for erecting a BrUge over the Thames at Three Cranes Stairs, was read a third tir.ic and passed. TI:::SDAY, JUN:: IL IRISH DUTIES AND DRAWBACKS' BILL. Lord BATHURST roved die second readirr of the Irish Du ties and Drawbacks' Bill. Lord LA u I.:RUA Li: objected, on the groun3 that the Bill was acknowledged by Ministers themselves to he erroneous, as was evident from the measures set on foot by them in the other House, for correcting it. He therefore moved, that the second reading be deferred to this day se'nnight. Lord Rosslyn and Lord Spencer supported the motion for pot.tpottement, which was opposed by Lord Liverpool, when, after so►ne further observations from Lords Bathurst and Lau derdale, the question was put 1..0m the Woolsack, and a division tovk place. Oil our return we found that Lord Bathurst's original motion had been carried by a majority (including proxies) of 54 to 41, and that the Bill was ordered to be committed on Thursday nest. Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. The Berkeley Peerage was resumed this day at two o'clock, and the examination of witnesses continued till past eight o'clock at night, when the further hearing was postponed.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, JUNE 13. The Earl of RADNOR gave notice that he should, on Tuesday next, move for a copy of an indictment which had been preferred against a Noble Peer (Earl C.) and a Commoner. The Grand Junction Canal Waterwotks Bill, after some opposition from Lord Redesdale, was read a third time ant passed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. On bringing up the Report of the Insolvent Debtor's Tempo rary (.1.1 Eill, it was opposed by Lord Ellenborough, who mov ed. that instead of 3C,00/. the extent of the sum should be con fined to :200•3. as in the old Bill. After some further observations between the Lord Chancellor, nd I.(;rds Moira and Ellent)orough, the report was agreed to; and the motion of Lord LllenboronAli for limiting the discharge able sum to :Incoi. instead of 3'. o' was negatived ou a division of 6 to 4.—Adjuunled. TRIDAY; )I:FE 14. Tlii;. C.VII - 101.iCS. Earl OREY str.tecl, a Noble frit:ral Of ills who bad given no tice of a Motion for that n4;ht, :especting the Catholics of Ire land, bt.t being aLsent In consc:; !once or severe indispo-irion, fir that Friend I%;noughnlon!) he wot.id, with the plea .lure of Cle Hone:, its (11...cussutt for "Utiet.day next, wtaeh, a!t'r a few t b-ervation, from he karl of Liverpiol, was so ap pointed accordingly Th.: other lnisin , .!sm Jf the Pouse bei , -1 finished, their Lrcl• ships aujtiurned till two o'clock to ~-,:rrotv. HOUSE OF COI.IIMONS. MONDAY, JUNZ 10. On the Motion of Mr. H. Mna - rrx it was ordered that the Fweaker do issue his warrant for a Member to serve in Parlia incr.t for Cricklade, in Wilts!iire, in the room of Lord Por k Chester, now Earl of Carnarvon. Mr. WARD gave 119tiCe that he would to-morrow MAC a mo tion relative to Mai inson's Petition. i‘lr. W. SMIT a expressed his surpr;ze, th;t out of 12001. voted by the House for this meritJrious invention, 5501. should have been deducted for official .ees. Mr. Witna - ropt brought up a Bill for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of 3.000,0001. in Exchtquer Bilis, also a Bill to raise 900,0001. in Ireland. On the motioti for the second reading of the Charitable insti tution Bill, Mr. H. Smith made several obi- ctions, to which Mr. Lockhart replied. Read a seccnd