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trir-291 tioamtamt ae•surenca arvatilles LAIR
110/ITZ SIG IV& 110PILialt PUNTA.
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"%DWI •NII LOYAL' MINORQUII•IrIitie Cetus flee
hundred seventy and nine years since Spain liberated yen ,
from a barbarous yoke, and twinging to on the light aides_
faith add liberty, you became the chetished chitamaht the
most hied and benevolent mother. The eiteatimaserillie
precious island, and othee eircurustaisers,wiieb Advil**
tads of time prodam, occasioned you to .41114•110 Pk
Governors; but they were temporary changes, aid yes Nue_ .
always preserved your lid: religion and your lives have bee'
administered with justice. Now there appears in Estop* a
malignant phenomenon, a tyrssniesl mossier its homnaity,
thirsting for blood and ilesteaction, and determined MOON ,
Spain amongst its victims; but ahe'will never lose her iis-
rote valour, though needy extinguished by the insidionsness
and apathy of • languid and depraved Govirnment i* she will
mite her head, and display her ancient golden crown, he
defiance of the ferocious attack of the Tyrant, and divest
hersellof the indolieme to which the most infamous artific a
had reduced her' through the cloak of a strict amity and al-
liance ; but the iydra will lose its head., and the enincioted
body will soon be consumed. Minurquians you have
risen at the call of patriotism, which was Man, from the
mod remote pates of the pajamas, and of Europe. You
swore allegiance to and proclaimed the meat Ferdinand VII.
Yos have ofli.red to make the utmost sacrifice fur the coun-
try, and for your legitimate, Sovereign, and by an admirable
uoimi, obedience, and &street tranquillity, you tome forined
wskietd which will protect your islaud from the chains which
have crippled the exertions of Spain against those men, who
are transformed into furies for their iniquitous despot. owl,
have notion: to do bait to direct your t Worts, since 1 war ise
vested with the honour of being your chief, or rather yentemdda-
passion and friend. Fill year hearts with loyalty and frbddes
and you will become invincible. I ism happy to be WM/
you, aad I shall only hiut, that deny disgrace- fialindividonl MR'
this land shalt suffer himself to calculate %mod his own pea'
• mind situation, soil believe the illusive stories attic senses
less and besotted Frenchmen, let him go as a epUriUtle Child.
and And his disgrace and ruin onion‘ the slaves ; but if he
remain among us, he fid' suffer all the infamy and punish-
ment which his heinous of deserves. But Ido out be-
lieve that there is a single iudioidgiji anises the forty thou-
sand who inhabit this island, ebonies commit such an of.
fence. We are all Spaniards. Mil Immeet sabjecto of Ferdi-
need, and will be so till see lost breath.
" elittoresims, Muse sad espekt form my character;
harmony and ebeciletice towards the qmerualent am what I
-aspect, without your' gients ear to the papers, or discussions
Ms what ambition orla seditious spirit would call rights and
polities. To protect you by the most Miters friesdshap gill
lite my priseipal object. Eternal hatred to thehtyrailly of
,france ; war and Christian cumpassim to his unhappy
Chives; honour and %rallthde he one grammes allies, the
tiaglish; love sod coast/int loyal* to our country !
(Signed) " LUIS (110141.WS tie ViLLAVA 1r MBAR."
"31 shalt. Dre.sai." .
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A itr,4 L I NV't ielelG ENC'E.
--...men....
FoRTSMOUTIIs DEC. 22.
Arrived the Dextrows gnu-brig; Lieut. Tombs.'
eon. with convoy from the Desna ; also, frotmt
(;nerusey, the riokt lugger, and sailed again for
the same place.
flits Etrryahrs, 3t guns, Flom Capt. Diindas, is
come up to Spithesd. from Se. Helen's.
The Victory, 100 guns, Capt. Dumareaq, is
come into harbour to refit.
Sailed tile 'fretted*, with a convoy, for the Downs.
Pll.lfilettlrti-DUCE, DEC. 19.
Arrived, this morning, the La tibia, 38, Captain
111.ilenItn, from a cruise, last from Falmouth ; the
Meer, let, Capt. Browne; the WAitiag schooner,
from the 11 eatward; and'the Daphne stole ship,
from Falmouth.
Sailed the Reimbe, 74, Capt. Halliday; sod Vie..
toriouv, 74, Capt. Hamond, for the Nlcditertsnean ;
Amazes, 3ili Capt. Parker, for the coast of Spain ;-
1 Conflict gait-brag, Lieu:sin:int bat, fur Rochefort ;
1 Pickle brig, Lieut. Crawford, with a Messenger,
fcr Lisbon; trews, IP, Captuiii Fowler, fur Fel-
niwitli ; 'the Entieenovr hired armed brig, with
the Welsh convoy ; slid the Scylla brig for Ports-
mouth.
11'eut out of flarbaur, the Tonnintt, SO gusty,
after a complete refit.
'the prison ships were plid off this day, previous
to the aew initalalsahment, which is not yet know u.
tatstount, sac. iO.
Arrived. this day. the ling Persian, of IS guise,
with the following transports ulster convoy—via.
Mary Ana, l'rofelger, Margaret, Refine, and
!ferry, front Portsmouth, for Lisbon ; Endrucusir
armed brig, from Wales, with a fleet of colliers ;
the Ann smack, sud Mzabeth, front Liverpool, for
Gibraltar; the 'dimmer Clementine, %Volpe, from
Oporto, with seisms, for Greenock, parted with the
fleet on the 9th mat. iu a gale of wriud—she bits inet
with much damage.
Q-" ' • Reselete • a cruise.

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Sailed the gun-brig, on _
111..%L. DEC. 22.
Put beck several of the outward hound, and re-
main with a large fleet of merchantmen, ace.; alga the
Vamrsord man of war.—Wind S.W. ; fine weather.
COVE or CORE. DEC. Id.
Sailed, the Salteat, of Exeter, Hammond, Porta-
, mouth, oats ; Fanny, of Weymouth, Beale, Lon-
I'doo, ditto; Vahant, of Aherdovey, Evans, ditto,
provisions; Jane, of IS'arktugtris, Griffiths, Liao,
pool, ciao. oat. 17.

Arrived the Fisher. of flarriugton. Dischborn,
'New Brunswick, timber for Greenock.—No ship
sailed —ll'iud S.E. DEC. IS.
No ship arrived or railerl.—Wind West.
By a letter from LitistelsTirlit- OiOnei
of the Pd battalion of 53d Itegimoof, we 'worn that
the Spanish army of La Nlaticha. in the late defeat
of the pull November, our °tem, has lost 5000
men killed, 14,900 token prisoners, and so pieces
of cannon.
We understand. that, by the Treaty between
France and Sweden, Fomenting has been restored
to the latter power. The penntssiou to import
colonial priolunt was indispensable to the Swedes,
with whom sugar 1•4 us tiniversal god esseutial an
article of culinary use as salt.
A brig, laden witheimber, from Southampton
hound to Loudon, was slashed to pieces. near the
'Martell° Tower. Sea:Orii, in the gale of Thursday
se'itilislit, sad the tenter and two of his crew were
unfurtnnately drowned.
A new Banking-Huase, we understood, is about
to be opened on Coriihill.
Au Inquest was take, last Tuesday, at Yattley
Barracks, on view of the body of Jeaa liordislgrag
Took, a French prisoner of war, who, as he was es-
demienring to make his neaps over the paling of
the pima. was tired at by Act:satinet oa duty, and
the boll entering his back caused his death shortly
sfterwurils. From the testimony of Geo. Wt t. t.; ANS
and others, before the Jury, it appears that of late
the behaviour of the prisoners has hers most out-
rageous and insulting, whilst the soldiers have
evinced Are grates& moderatioit and forheasance.