The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-09-16 00:00:00

IMPORTANT srA rE PAPER.

MANIFESTO OF THE JUNTA OF SEVILLE.

The defence of our Country and of our
that of env laws, our religioo, and of all the thieve,
of man. tro.tileti dbwn and violated in a manner
w:ath is without 'wimple, by the Emperor of the
(mach, Napoleon 1. and by his troops iu Spina,
com:selled the whole nation to take up arms, mid
to choose heelt a form of (Joverninent; aild, to the
diemuities and daagers intcritshich the ig.reinelt bad
plunged it, Al, or nearly oil, the provinces, as Be
were, by the inspiration of Heaven, and in a faw-
ner lithe 'boil of miraculous'. created Supreme
%tato, sictivred themselves op to their guidance,
isifirgaitel to their (14045 the rights and the WU,
.1014;fstit detain.
'• The efoots have hitherto isn't happily corre-
sponded with the designs of those who formed
these. The provinces have armed themselves;
' some have rimmed large armies of veteran troope,
and have united to them the enlisted peasants;
or nearly a I, have fought, and are lightiog against
the newel) in behalf of their King, Irerdiound VII.
with u velour and a constancy, of winch neither
Vegeta, *or Rome, nor any other nation of the
wend, had any idea. The French are really
emoted .4 terrified, and the hopes of cost-
tittering diem are as sure as human certainty
can reach.
The o.tly thing which con ininair or frustrate
them, is iliseord, end the want of union among the
pnreinces themselves. Hence the Supreme Jeans
paid its first attention to remove that danger, with
whit h view, it priuted and published the Official
(apvr. entitled I' f,ostaiitusi, wl•icts it comnsuoitsit-
io eve)possible manner to ail the provinces of
Spam. The briiegiug this OW to and
carrying it. into complete exeitlitinii, is nut more
thee ever isecteisary. Our enemies are noxious to
foineat oar divi,ibits. Ilulootol,e--.ors, personal
inteTVslllll nnalerstool, the the w. sk-
nei% tae bliodoess of melt, may, vortior, without
their knowing it, moist the evil deligtot of our t:,e-
Milli, and thus destroy a bessissiting wi itiuriatis, end
facilitate 404 eoiritini mite the toti,i ruin of Spam.
—Thin it is that we are atodeavouring to guard
again.t. urged only bs the most sacred motives, by
i our honours by our loyalty, us adirctionate subjects,
I by star duty a Spamards, Ly our faith as Chris-
lions ; and here ne protest, before God and man,
whose aid we invoke with all fervency, that we will
write iseelsins,but what is dictated to us by the loos
of our cosiatry, the prvis-rvation of our king, and
of oar rigbea, ant tringl,rig with it any thing that
appears tn.;,artake of passion, of interest, or of any
doer perionsl monies; but being always reedy to
livu: the 00,11,0111 of the other provinces, and to
amend our 0411 VT9II, wherever it shall U. *hewn
that we NUM committed any.
Be it the i.iiielasre aiiid every thing which
is net alssolutely necessary, and which may serve to
sew the seeds of disunion in the provinces, and to
ezeiteilivismus arno.,g them ; and of this nature we
esteem ail conversanons about the Royal House,
and of the order of succession in &detest families
,which deeivc a nght from it. There is no person
so ignorant of the history of Stew, and of the men-
mg in which the Thome has been occupied, as not
to bow the changes which have taken piece id the
I satccetioui It t-t siso known what are the Legisle-