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the ge:rlti s,f Frete ellaa bees yew ptineipal ease, the niters:se of Spaiu hiesell has, however, hers dear. and in uniting the thiro States, by the most to innate illative, the prosy krity and the glory of both were equally the objects proposed. The troubles which have manifested themselves have particularly asscited the 'dice/ode of your Majesty, in deprecat ing their progress, in foreseeing their and canoe spienets, in hoping to'prevent them by persuasive •neaus„and by measures of wise and humane policy. Your Niajwity interfered as a mediator iu the midst of the divided Spanianla, sheering them on one side t!ie anarchy which threatened them, and on the other England reedy to iirolt by their divisions, end to snake use of thew to suit her convenience,und paint ing out to them the way by which they might be ii•ir.s.l from tins doa b le danger, by a constitution,' ever provideut, proper to provide :ill of which they stood in need, and iii whidi Own, ideas intermixed themselves with those micieut institutions which Sp uin wished to lie prey. reed. Toe expectations of your Majesty hare been de 'reived. interests, foreign intrigues, and un influeuces of iiineign corruption have prevailed. Why is it so easy to lead nations to their ruin by letting loose their pas.viens ? Ia a former Report, I have made your Majesty aoquaiuted with the in /locum which the English were acquiring in Spain, the numerous party that they had formed, the friewids whom they had acquired in the commercial towns, by holding out to them the prospect of a revival of their trade; 1 had pointed theta out to you as authors of the sedition which overturned the Throat of Charles IV. and the favourers of the psi. pillar disorders which arose at that °pod'. They hart burst through that salutary restraint which keeps the people in submission, by operating upon their Interest. The populace of Spaiu having shaken off the yoke of authority, aspersed at governing.— guld, the intrigues of the agents of the In eluisation, who were afraid of losing their authority, Lee influeuce of the numerous tribe of Monks in :Spain, who dreaded a reform, have, in this critical minneut, occasioned the insurrectiou of several Spanish provinces, in which the voice of the more priideut class has been either mistaken or stifled, of whom net a few have fallen victims to their count wow, opposition to popular tumult, and a dreadful unamliy has been seen to diffuse itself over the greatest part of Spain. Will your Majesty permit England to be able to say, " Spain is one of my prerinees, my flag, drivel' from the Baltic, the North Sea, the Levant, and even from the shores of Persia, rules in the ports of France ?" No, never, Fore :—To prevent so much shame and misfortune, two millions of brave men are ready to scale the Pyrenees, end the English wi'l be chased from the peninsula. If the French fight for the liberty of the seas, they must, to conquer, begin by wresting Spain from the influence of the trains of the ocean. If they combat for peace, they cannot obtain it until they have chased from Spain the enemies of peace. If your Majesty, embracing the future as well as the present, aspires to the noble object of leaviug After von your empire calm, tranquil, and stir. r Jed by powerful friends, you must begin by sccuring its influence in Spain. Lastly, If honour is the first sentiment, as well as the fhrst object of Frenchmen. your Majesty must promptly inflict vengeance for the outrages emninitted spoon the French name, and the atro cities to which so great a number of our country snmi here fallen victims. Frenchmen, establishes' in Spain for more than twenty years, exercising in , tome their useful industry, and almost regarding Spain es their country, have been massacred.— Every where Fieurb property has bean seized. The Coosular Age n ts of your Majesty have expe rieucod a treatment which would not have been sal erred vireo in the most barbarous countries. What "ItillaUtiOn• whet consideration, will the French name enjoy in Europe, if, in it country so near to us, atrocities so infamous and so public remain nitpunislied ? Reparation ought to he had for them—hat u reparation consonant to Frenchmen, by victory. It is no small advantage the probability of at length ineetiug the English, of fighting them man to 111411, Or making them also feel the evils of war— of a war, of the dangers of which they are igno rant, having only caused it by their gold. The Eii4lish will he beaten, destroyed, dispersed, or :it le.tst they will make haste to fly, as they did at Toulon, at the IlAder, at Dunkirk, in Sweden, road emery where the French armies have been able to ind them; bin their expulsion from Spain will be the min of their cause. This last cl-eck will exhaust their means, anisihilatiug ;it the same time their last hope.', and peace will become more Fro "table. The ishcs of all Europe will in this con test he with France. France and Russia make 1111 l mon cause agaiiist England. Demnark sup ports with honour a contest which she did not pro v.ike. Socilen, lotrayed and abandoned by the ally to whom au insane Cabinet has sacrificial her, has already lost her most important provinces, and is haste • g to that ruin which is the iuevitable effect of alliance and friendship with England. Such sill be die fate of the insurgents in Spain. the contest becomes serious, the English will almeidon Spain, after making them the sad bequest «r a civil war—of a war for foreign interests, and fur onsirehy, the most cruel of scourges. It will he for the wisdom and beneficence of your Majesty to repair the reds of ulna' they will be the cause. The Court of Vll'llll3 has constantly testified to your Majesty the must amicable intentions; indig nant at the policy of England, she has recalled her Minhiter from London. scut hack the Minister who was at Vicima, shut her ports against Euglainl, and placid herself in a state of hostility with that Power. 51w has added to these measures an inter dict iu her ports ugniust the admission of vessels %%Midi, look; a neutral Sag, am only tile earners of English Kralove and nierchandies. Your Majesty has coltivated this favouralile disposition ; has tes tiiel to the Court of Vieuna friendship and confi deoce; and has several times intimated to her, that Fraure takes a real interest in her prosperity. Lit terly, however, this Power has carried its armament inevisiire—its military force is out of all pr - tau hen to its population and finances. Your Mlis ni..ters. Sire. only wish to remark this, in order that your :.lajesty may perceive the necessity of aug menting your force, for the piinue,e of still pre the relative superiority which exists liettvena die power mid the population of the two empires. A new revolution has broken out at Coustanti -triple. Sultan Mustapha has been deposed. The Americans, a people who involve their for tune, their prosperity, and almost their existert*, in cosumeice, have e,trea the example IN a great and courageous sacrifice. They bare inhibited, by a general embargo, all commerce isud all naviga tion, rather than shamefully submit to that tribute winch the Euglish impose on the navigation of al , nations. Germany, Maly. Switzerland, and Hol land, are peaceable, and 'wait only for a maritime peace to exert all their industry: That peace is the wwh or the world, but Eng land opposes it ; and England is the enemy of the world, The French nation, all Europe, knows the efforts made by your Majesty to obtain peace ; they know that your enterprians are the immediate rc%ult of the ill success of the attempts which you have made to obtain it. The devotion of the French people' is without hounds ! and it is mare especially wider circum stances which are so essentially connected with their liononr and its pecurity, that their sentiments will be evinced, and that they will shew themselves worthy of reaping OW harvest of glory and honour, which your Majesty has prepared for theta. I ant, with respect, &c. MESSAGE OF THE EMPEROR AND KING NAPO LEON, TO THE SENATE. • SENATORS -My Minim er for Foreign Affairs will lay before vim the different treaties relative to Spain, and the constitutions agreed to by the Spunish Junta. My War Minister will acquaint you with the wants and the situation of any armies in the different parts of the world. I am determined to carry on the war with Spain with the utmost actisity, and destroy the arm( s which Erigleld has disembarked in that country. The future security of my subjects, the prosperity of commerce, and a maritime peace, must alike depend on these important operations. My alliance with the Emperor of Russia extin guishes every hope which England can entertain from her projects. I have no doubt respecting the, peace of the Continent, hut I neither will, nor ought to rely upon the false calculations and flu. errors of other Courts, and since my neighbours increase their armies, it is a duty incumbent on me to increase mine. The Empire of Constantinople is struggling with the most Violent convulsions; Sultan Schuh the best Emperor the Ottomans have had for a length of time, has just fallen by the hands of his owe nephews. This catastrophe has deeply affected ine. I impose fresh sacrifices on my people, confident of their support ; they are necessary, in order to se cure them from heavier sacrifices, and to lead them to the grand result of a general peace, which ought also to be considered as the moment of repose. Frenchmen, my projects have but one object in view, your happiness and the permanent well-being of your children ; and, if I know you right, you will hasten to comply with this new call, rendered necessary by the interests of the country. You have so often assured me of your affection, I will behold the sincerity of your sentiments in the ala crity with which you will second projects that are so iutimuttly connected with your dearest interests, with the honour of the Empire, and with my glory. Given at the Imperial Palace of St. ('loud, this ath Sept. 1808. (Signed) NAPOLEON. REPORT OF THE WAR MINISTER TO HIS MA- JESTY, THE EMPEROR AND, KING. - - SIRE—I have the honour of laying before your Majesty the state and situation af your Majesty's armies in Poland, in Prussia, and in Silesia, in Denmark, in Dalmatia, in Albania, in Italy, Na- P • te. and in Spain. I annex to it th a t o f y our Ma jesty's armies of reserve, at Boulogne, on the coasts, on the Rhine, and in the interior. Your Majesty will perceive that France never before possessed more numerous or better appointed armies, and that they sere never better kept up, or better provi sioned. Notwithstanding, however, the different events which have taken place in Spain, have occasioned a pretty considerable loss, in consequence of an operation as inconceivable as it is painful, of the division under General Dupont; your Majesty has notified the resolution you have taken, of aiwiem Wing more than two hundred thousand men beyond the Pyrennees, without, however, weakening either the armies in lierinany, or that of Dalmatia. For the attainment of this end, • levy of eighty thousand men' appears to be indispensable. Your Majesty can only take these eighty thousand from the four classes of the conscription of the years leo6, 1807, 1808, and lao9. It is ascertained by the registers kept in my office, that independently of the men who have married within these four years, the conscription for these years might furnish six hundred thousand. In taking from that number a levy of eighty thousand men, your Majesty will have culled out only one conscript nut of seven, and the vacancies in the ar mies will he tilled up with soldiers of 21, 22, and 23 years of age ; that,is, with men fit sail pLepoow4 to undergo this fatigue.. of war. Nor hos it escaped your Majesty's foresight, that such an augmentation of force would necessarily involve an increase of expense of several millions in the Vier Department. It is not your Majesty's wish that I should detain your attention with that object in this report ; your Finance Minister has taken upon him to make good that charge, without, in anywise, increasing the taxes established by the lost law. It is true, Sire, that the custom observed of late years, might, to a certain degree, induce u part of lour subjects to consider themselves as released train the duty of the conscription, from the mo ment, that, upon the total mass, they had furnished the contingent required for the year; and wider this point of view, what I propose to your Majesty might appear to require from your subjects a sa crifice ; hut,Sire, there is no one but knows, that, by the words of the law, your Majesty would he authorised to call to yo u r standard the whole of the eonscription, not only of the last four y ears, but eien of the antecedent years ; and even were there questions of a real sacrifice, what sacrifice is it that your Majesty has not a right to expect from the love of your subjects ? Who among us is igno rant that Tom- Majesty wholly sacrifices yourself for the happiness ed France, and that upon the speedy accosakilishment of your high designs—the repose of the world, the future safety, and the re establishment of a maritime peace, without which France can never cßjoy calm and tranquillity ? proposing to your Majesty to declare, twat henceforth no retrospective call shall take on au an tecedent conscription, 1 only participate, Sire, your piArnal wiblies. I think it expedient, at the same time, to propose to your Majesty to order out the conscription of the dear fain, and to deteriniut the alumna of it, from the present ia.tant, at eighty thousand men, to tarnish the means, as occasion may require, of forming camps of reserve, and of protecting the coast in the spring time. This conscription would be raised only under the apprehension of a war with other Powers, nor would it be culled out before the month of January next. Sire, it is a misfortune inseparable from the pre sent state of Europe, t.at when one Power exceeds the unwind of the forces prop.ortioned to its popu lation, the other Powers cauuat dispense with in creasiier theirs in the same proportion. Engrand, independent of the immense number of her seamen, has on foot an army of more than two hundred thousand men ; nor is she occu pied, in every Session of her Parliament. with any thing so ranch as with the increase of her land forces. The armies of Austria have been consider ably increased. France, although she has armies more numerous than all the other Powers, has, noi witledantling. fewer men under arms than any of them, compared with her population. four Minister for Foreign Affairs assures me, that a strict alliance subsisted between your Ma jesty and Russia. Thearmanients of Austria have often excited my solicitude. The same Minister assnred me, that the best u.iderstandiug was kept up with Austria, and that her levies should only be considered, either as precautions, or as the effect of apprehensions, which are forcibly impressed on every Court, by the numerous Agents which Eng land continues in pay oil the Continent. But if it does sot belong to the be.msess of my department to dive into the views and interests of States, and explore the tortuous labyrinth of poli tics, it is at least my duty to neglect nothing to make your Majesty's armies maintain, at all points, that just supenority which they ought to possess. The armies of Albania and Dalmatia, of Denmark, and of the Elbe, will not allow of any diminution, under the circumstances of the moment. What I have to propose to your Majesty, will give the army of Spain two hundred thousand men, without weakening the other armies ; so that, not withstanding the augmentation of our force beyond the Pyrenees, when the conscription of 1801 shall be called out, your Majesty will have increased your armies of Germany, of the North, and of Italy, by more than eighty thousand men. And when, iu order to escape the crisis into which she has been drawn by a false as well as an angry policy, the English Government s exerting every where its activity, does not hesitate to com bine, with the resources it draws from its Meichaus tible finances and its formidable fleets, the arts of intrigue, of corruption, and impostnre, would it. be at all extraordinary that the 'muse population of France should hob' out the spectacle of' a million of artned men, ready to punish England and all those whom she sway seduce; KM present every where the same huge mass of force, to protect with the same shield the honour and security of France? What other result, Sire, is there to be expected from armies so numerous, and a position so formi dable, but the speedy re-establishment of the tran quillity of Spain, that of a maritime peace, and of that general tranquillity, the object of your Majes ty's incessant wishes? Much blood will have been spared, because a gteat number of men will have been ready to shed it. A durable happiness, pre pared by the combination of your powerful genius, will be the effect, Sire, of the new proofs of affec tion and attachment which your people will afford you, and of the noble aspect of that nation. which your Majesty has pointed nut to posterity under the name of the Great Nation. War Minister, alai, under this denomivatiorr, the organ of the French soldiers, allow me, Sire s to be the interpreter of their sentiments for you. Your Majesty shall always see us ready to -.edifice our lives for your glory, which is inseparable from the national Klory, to which you have so powerfully add ed, and for the important interests of the country. I am, with respect, &c. [This Paper als► contains the Act of Renuncia tion negociated between the Prince of Peace and Duroc, by which Churls-, IV. end the Prince of As turias, abdicated their right to the Crown of Spain to Napoleon.] GOTTENDU RGII MALL. STOCKHOLM, AVG. 29. No particular accounts have lately ►een reiteived here either from Norway or Finland, nor slu we know any thing of the operations of our fleet, which has been joined Ly some English sail of the line. Our Ca:Mc, of this day and .last tisturday,"ls NW with a translation of the Declaration of the Portuguese Court, relative to its coodoct towards France, front the begi gof the Frauds Revolu tion to the invasion of Portugal, dated Rio Janeiro, May I, tans. •VC. 31. We are in momentary expectation of great news from the fleets. Burtm Major Lbtlryinple. and some others, whose names are not known, arrived yesterday. They left Cronstadt on the 2.5 th of August, and. on the following day, off Port Baltic, fell in a ith the Swedish frigate, Camilla, wind, in formed them that the Russians hail fled thither, with nine sail of the line, besides smaller vessels.— They were blockaded by the Swedes, with ten sail of the line, and Admiral Rood, with two sail ; and were in hourly expectation of Sir J. Saunterer., with four more. It was the intention of the combined fleets to at tack the Russians, in Port Baltic. Admiral Sou mares was off the Gulph on Sunday, and had the needful information ; consequently ere this the business is decided. From Finland we have good news. Near Christianstailt the Swedes have again been victorious in a pitched battle, but they have suffered very severely. G OTTE lIIVRGH SEIPT. 6. The Russian fleet bailed from 'bingo Ronde on the '!sth of dugout, sand wpm punmed by the Swedish vivadrou, which had been joined by Sir stern liooll tel tiootl the name of the trathient Monarch Joseph 1. •PI% happriied that • the day we are ignorant, though the 7th of Septa is named, the greater pert of our arinieb %ill in order to attack-the trench in differcut and surround thena; the army of Spain, which s enter into action in conjunction with our Tin will amount to MOM men; consequently we rs• pea that net a single Frenchman will escape 0a of Spain—(Sautiago Diary, August 314 et, took 41eltrr:ihaurn.1615enteet,Auc.tei:k Samuel flood, with the Centaur and Nast& which, from the superiority of lonitgla 4 t , sterumost of the euenty's ships to action, wh t „, , '.„ . soon struck, but was retcued by the wh o l e K. Sian force standing buck to her assistant*. O et usti l t. eF lul u l t e L l. was afterwards attacked by the Centaur, mid r N vied by boarding, in the moat gallant style; b ot h: . Mg aground, was oidigeti, after taking Boners and wounded, to 1 e set on lire. sh,'„ t ; called the Lewafod, of 74 guns , Th a rmaimitt of the Russia:a tic or what they call Baltic Port. Admiral Sir Saurnarez has akii joined the Sz t ed m i . L•S-14 IJA ItTERS, His Royal Majesty has received the follosi o Iteport from hear -hdrniral ICauckhoff, tat it:, attack which was Wide ou the Romiati flotil:a galleys to Jungfritsiond, iu the ni ght 17th, arid 18th Auguit. Oa the Ifith inst. a savpieions vessel W3II seen anther, lad W. and W by N. of the Rm. 4:n pt. ~ropad o:s ordered, a ith tlte armed hunch of his vh.lt, Or cut- to of the Camilla, to amertate whether she button, and in that case to take her. He tame up with he in the evening, when she proved to he a Satthal t galena, la. longing to Carlserona, probably belouging to the m i ssy., of V ice-Admiral Pule, and freighted with n coop series fur the use of the Soot ; she had twee t.“ea ht ere Russian fleet, off Drignort, and semi now Vie s in awls, under the command of the Russian bent. liatsclrriust, manned with six Russian seamen, who were takes visain g and Ibis day sent to Oland. The &jilt, at six o'clock in the morning, I received an. port frous biesterteldt, stating, that ilia enemy stall tlint night, with several gthi-hoals and a floating battery, li t ship reketernealuudet, on board of which two mini ace. hllry - and one wounded; hat the enemy was compelled, by th fire of our ships, to sheer off. In order to preyed ther m say from continually molesting the ships manumit Jungfrasund, and to make an attempt, if pursible,i, weaken his strength, I determined to auto k it. wits A s armed lauutios and cutters of the feet, and entered weal. ingly the said attack to be made, ender the awasself Lieuteaant-Culonel Kruseustiet, Captain of the Fleet, wis acquitted himself so well that three of the eaeley'swee were taken. The colours of which, the bearer, Umbels Dryer, will have the himoug h ts i ry at year 31ajesty's red . J. DAUCKHOFF, Rear-Ado. and Commander of His Majesty's His Majesty's ship King Gustave. Adolphus 11'. at author in ()rounder, I yth Aug. dims. SP.ANISH PAPERS. LERIDA, AVG. It We learn, that on the Gth and 7th toot. it French made a fresh attack upon ;ennui, but sa t repulsed with inexpressible valour by its inhale. ants, who occasioned the enemy the lots of 140'4 men, carrying towards Perpignan 14 waggorsi wounded ; the miquelets and trom. , :glers folioed in pursuit, maintaining a well-directed tire (Imo quetry, which caused than tUtte/1 Diary, Aug. es.) GRENADA, AVG. 17. They write from Malaga and Madrid that French frigates having arrived at the Hamm with various military and civil Officers on lee who went to take possession of the Government the name of the transient Monarch Joseph I. it fs tunately happened that a Spanish vessel anon Tha lathe day with advice of the insurrection in t provinces, and of the declaration of oar apt France by the Supreme Junta of Seville, en whin account the inhabitants made the French Offices and the whole of the crew pemomeme.--(SerWar Diary, Aug. 17.) LEON. AUG. IL Yesterday orders were given to all the divisor of Gallicia to assemble in that city on the 1 dol . Se, tember, and for the whole army t• march theft lowing day for Burgos; the French are in numbs from 35 to 40,000 men ; the army of Gallicia abet 40,000; awl that of Asturias will amount ton,ua It is to be observed t but on the day of attack, of "hid day we are ignorant, though the 7th of bkYted l6 a. is named, the greater part of our arinies will ion in order to attack-the t rench in different l wmt , and surround them; the army of Suain, which si;,' THOU THE SALAMANCA GAZETTE, ALo ASV/RCA, ALG. I.!. Yesterday arrived here the English time.r., Doyle, commissioned by the British Coseinibea for the conveyance of the Spanish prisonera, number about 3,000, who art coming to pun we army. The same officer has also brought corselet cloibing. muskets, flints, ammunition, belt., shirts stockings, and shoes, for 10,01x0 men, with two hundred thousand monads of cheese ; all of whirl is ready ou the mod for the army. iThere has sr arrived at Comma, a million of dollar', rade equal quantity at Gijon, with 300,000 muskets, me corresponding ammunition. How great the difference in the conduct of sera b)• the mortal enemies of the Continent, and Oil of the Re,4encraturs of Enrol*, the former has repaid our alliance, the immense sacrifices we Lae made to maintain it, and the welcome reeeptea we have given them in our houses, with rcithco. with assitssinatiase of every kind, with the shone nahle privet of overturning our constitution, role gion, our tuantiers and custom*, and lustli, the odious desire of loading us with chains. in Or der to serve their iniquitous ends • w title the lam pour out their treasures and all kinds of /imam% that we may preserve our laws, our independency , mid whine% er we hold most valuable in life. Lee and eternal gratitude to the generons island( rs, 11 ' 6 Saviours of Europe ! Everlasting execration 1 , ) the monsters of the human species ! lIALAMANCA, AVG. O. The same General Doyle and our inestimshie Duke del Infaniado, arri% ed tn yesterday in this c. and here s e t out f or Ak a de tonics. where Genets ' Cuesta has his head-quarters. We may expect the most flattering consequences from the inter• view between these personages. BARCELONA, LUG. 1. Under the specious pretest of harlot; to trot with thew on important matters, the trench G" neral Lechi invited to him the Prior of St... tningo, and St. Augustin. Count Ssnta ChM Marquis tribes* and other Gentlemen: but, their complying with this iutiitntwn. he bent diet to the citadel, where they are still coefimed.- (Ociedo Casette tf Awg. 3 I.) PALE NCIA, AVG. 241.; Tire Frritch army ha* ret u" 1);41;I:urgol. seph Napoleon, B,i.sit.nn, atm.! La Stith, sni in tl tvel rye eito nut p r . Pitt he i 7,lte plei tam t 4 t Co, Lo tot Ass who