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AIDIESSEUr BY TUE 41.!Tur.iii: OW/MINIM, JUNTA
or THE kIN.U.I). E.) ALL Till: caIuNCII.S.
a Ever since Spain, io the 'year 1795, laid down
the arms which sit:! hail taken up against the Revo-
lutionary and Regicide party in France, and drew
closer her relation, at h that Power, by the treaty
of alliance of 17LiG, been no less reliv,iously
observant of the stipulations of that alliance, than
patient in the endurance (dell the numberless evils
which have therefrom resulted. Under all the
'Literati tttt s of the French Government, which
changed its swine without altering the cie-enee of
its 41.11// tions and de,tructive system, as well under
the Directory as dnring the Ctnisulate and Empire,
Spain has respected and recognised the rights of an
independent nation ; and her alliance contributcd
to the glory of France, always in the expectation
of overcoming, by so i4eileimus a proceeding, the
boundlcss ambition of the French' Cabinet, or of

the arrival of the !moment tiO much longed for by
humanity at large, when a less turbulent Govern-
ment should be establiiihc,l iii that country. None
of the posterior event, cau,ed any change in the
determination of Spain ; neither the tisurpatioub of
tie Emperor of the French in Europe, nor the
total neglect with which the interest,. of Spuia were
treated by France in her conventions with other
Power..; nor the personal indignities otfered to
Princes in. allianoe with or related to her 'loyal
Family; nor, finally, the preponderance and want
of lion reciprocity which were toitinfetell iii return
for ttee ittecabant coutles,:ension of the Spanish Go-

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ti. would he a task too laborious rind prolix to
enumerate all tae grieranees of which Sil3lll has to
complain. In the course of a few yeari, she has
seen the King of the Two Sicilies, the broi her of
her Sovereign. dethroned ; has seen tier own intr.
re.t aliandusted at Amiens, the Cabi:,u of Paris
consenting tine she should lose the island of 'Frn-
dad, though it,hitil ',mortised the contrary, in re-
compense for her faithful cu-operation in a ruillollA
war, solely undertaken for the cause of France :
she has repeatedly seen the independence of Porto-
gal threatened, in order to furnish an occasion far
mottling subedier, involving in her differ-
eocea with that power, Spain, who, with extreme.
regret, resolved to pursue a line of conduct
contrary to the real sentiments of her Sove-
reign, in order to avert the total ruin of that king-
dom. .She him seen the French Government im-
periously esmet the recession of the importaint
eulogy of Louisiana, with the intention, as it has
inure iipoeared, of traiimforring it, for a pecuniary
consideration, to a tided Power, without the know-
ledge or contest of SpaM. She has seen given, as
the only. moompence for this Hod other expensive
anridoes, and tor the States of Parma, of which an
Infant of Spain wits deg:oiled, the precarious pus=
session of Tuscany to the Pumice of Farina, wit%
the intention of depriving him also of that in the
sequel, under the pretence of ussizning him a new
compensation in the north of Portugal, which
France neither had the power nor intention to
nerlise. Finally, at a more recent
.peried, when an
'direr Favourite despotically ruled- the Monarchy,
dialer seen his mutt ambition flattered with illusive
and plausible promises, in order to her own dn.
etenilwrinent or subiugreion.
4‘ On the other hand, the duties imposed on
Spanish coininteLe in the ports of France, have
been augmented beyond all bounds, whilst the in-
demnities due to the Crowe have Leen coustently.
refused, and every remonstrance upon the subject
totully neglected. In the mean time, Spain qui-
etly .delivered up her squadrons, and placed her
troop at the disimsal of France, opened her trea-
sures, mid consented to the payinmit of subsidies.
to prevent a rupture with England, which, never-
theless, she has since been nimble to avert ; and
notwitlistandiug the ridiculous ostentation with
win, I, the French Government vaunts, that one 4.r
its vriiiiiiry oNects me to aggrandize and recoups
pe:ise its Allies, Spain, the must powerful, the
ni.nt faithful of all, has tutu sacrificed, impoverish-
....

ed, au.l treated worse than !• perfidious neutral. •
" So many and no great outrages amid injuries
must have long -titre opened time eyes of the Go-
vericrierit. hail it not unfortunately been in 'the
bawl, atilt infamous author of the treaty of i79fi',
Dun Manuel Cedni. The wicked policy, the de-
• Isructire,ood insatial,lc ambition of the Emperor
Napoleou, beheld with pleasure the depression of
Spain, *kit was thic work bf his howls, and of the
absurd conduct of the despotic fovt urite. He at
length drew aside the veil which thinly covered his
designs, .amid boldly resolved upon the destruction
of the reigniog family, and the desolation of a ge-
nerous notion, that had sacrificed herself for France.
Ile deterutined, within his own breast, that Spain
should not remain independent; and he set to
wcrk, withont, however, clearly seeing his way to
the attainumot of the end proposed. Here coin-
viewed the ,scene of iniquity ; the plots, the atro-
cioos peddles, which it become recessarj to put in
proctiee, to burst • usunder the ties of peace end
alliance, had to violate the respect due to So.%e-
reigns and States)• nod the considerations of „ra-
tihule frequently avowed.
The Emperor of the French studiously fanned
the flame of di,olosion, which the treacherotot in-
trigues of the favolorite hod succeeded in introduc-
ing into the boson' of the Royal Family. Ile
watched the Asvourable moment, •and caused au-
microns armies' to enter the Peninsula, contrary to
the moot solemn conventions, tinder the pretence
of their proceeding to the in igbhouring coasts of
Africa, to execute plans of attack against another
enemy. Ills troops, by the most notorious breach
afoul), occupied the frontier fortresses, under the
pretext of precautions sod measures of policy,
purely of a military nature; and, whilst a treaty
was going on at Paris, with a Plenipotentiary in
the coutiSeace of the favourite, for the dismember-

nieut of SpoSu, the troops of the Usurper advanced
townrd7 the capital, in order to intunidate our
misled fiovarriFits, and compel them to follow
the example at the House of Braganca. Theee
wicked deign wort rendered abortive by the
unexpected revolution Of Aranjuez. on the 17th
and 19th of March. and no sooner did the spantn-
n.n►n+ abdication of Don Carlos IV. elevate to the
ti►mue of his ancestor.; his eldest son, the Heredi-
tary Prince. beloved I.v his people for hiv virtues
and misfortunes, and tie object of their sworn albs-