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the rest of mankind. Let os leave their lEns perm to
remorse and affliction, which are the let of the
wiclied, and beseech the Most High that he may
vouchsafe to bless again our arms, that thu
two anuieu which are in pursuit ..of the fugitive
robbers, may complete their di_struction. The
fields of Saragossa, its gates, and even some of its
stre«ts, are stained with the blond of upwards of
/1,040 Frenchmen, who have paid with their lives
for the temerity of their Chief. This is the fruit

which they have reaped from their entrance into
Arragon. All Europe, nay, thefriieerse, will hear
with horror, the detestable names of their General.,
Le Febvre and Verifier, who, tomninilftol of the
good Ireatinent * hich the French prisoners, and all
the natives of France experiences] in Arragon, have
committed the utinostatmeities. They justly ap-
preciated the difference between the system of an
ambitious and treacherous 1111 l eat, and that of
a nation which cements it. felicity by the purrs
principles of justice, and considers not as real este-
. mit*, those who took tso share in the infamous con-
duct or their Government. France will long de-
plore the calamities *loch the war with Spain has
prepared fur ; and ct, *idiom tlic
deepest sense of shame, the mean. employed to
curry it on.

ilti,b.indmers, orpliatis, ug•d and religious

persous--ye who hare been reduced to indigence
liad misery, in consequence of your fields being
tired, your houses destroyed, and your property,
which, however buna 1 1, comktituted your whole
fortune, anti all your comfort, robbed by the
French, be missy ; have the good fortune of
living in Spoilt, mid yours is the glpry of having de-
fended the capital of Arragon, u hereby our enemy
was prevented from desolating the rest of this
beautiful province. You bore up with resignation
under your sufferings, and disregarded your private
interest, in order to pr ((((( ote the general good. I
eunnot lonic hack on deeds of heroism like yours
sr:th in4ifference,, unr unit any opportunity of pro.
ening you relief. 1 have very particularly charged
the lutendant-General of the kingdom, D. Lorenzo
Callao, as soon us the most pressiag occupations
of the present period shall permit, to relieve your
wants hn every means it: his power; and I depend
on the gent runs feelings of all Spaniards, and the
liberal lanitiments of our beloved King, that all
passible a xertion will be made to indemnify you for
your sufferings and losses.
" PALA MI.
.4 Head-qc :arra, Saragossa, Into August."

lIIAACCLONA, S.
To supp'y the present iseee.eitieN, and provida
• for the army, which has been raised and organised
In this i.roriucc, the Supreme Junta has ordered,
Ilia the estates situated in it, lately appertaining to
Don Manuel Godoy, shall be sold by public auc-
tion, or let out at a rent. Thus the immense pro.
pert• sad riches, uequired wt the exvense and by
the saeritiee of the nation, by the hiubt foolish *
au•.bitious of limn, will ultimately be reutlercd
ful to it.

SIAN/. (enireGa AVG. 8.
The English who have .figutra, loge.
ther with the Spanish mid l'oitupuese,
anny of ino.roo men, which, on the 15th rav fatb
lost. will attack Lisbon.
ovttmo, ate. 22. '
The (7aptain of a merchant vessel, winch arrives)
Gijon, from Plencia, the day before yesten4,
has averted on oath, that the French. to thenum-
ber of from 7to 8,000 men, entered Billma on the
15:11, with the loss of about 2,000 men, from
the resistance they met with. The people of llilboa
steno;; themselves without auccoor, mid almost
without arms, capitulated, in. coosideration that
they should receive no injury, either in their per-
sons or property ! hut the French troops, habitu-
Med to ferocity and licentiousness, when they en-
tered the town, plundered and set fire to it, and
killed several persons. They bad not left Use place on
the ifith, sun we do nut yet know all the evcesses
kite 111 l 'sited ; %Mee these• armies, which we
treatedwith so much kindness, have every warm left
drilivilftal proofs that they are the cneiiii" of the
human race, awl have substituted every crime Cyr
the laws of nations, and the senti,...ents of Immu-
nity. If Frunee ran buy longer tol.mate such ru.m-
Ae ou.:iit to lye blotted out tort the list of
trussed neon'. We cannot sua with indifference a.
paper which has been publicly circulated within
these few days. It puivorts to be printed is Madrid.
and contains a letter from a person sup:in-All to be
tell:dent in Paris, to his friend in Slain, in. which
he amens that IF enlinnad % 11. has hems proclaimed
there, fse, We are, ho...ever, fir from giving the
least credit to this assertion, but believe it to be
utterly. Ikiec : lend we can have no doubt thnt such
papers are introduced iota and dispersed in Spain
by our eiirmits only to disarm the nation and estm-
gnisli tier glormus spirit by which it is by
making et ru?ptisr• that its wishes are fulfilled. In
like asamier, the Gazettes of Slatirid,whe.i under the
French control, disfigured facts. and published
the most napudent falsilloods; and in like manner
the Cabinot of St. Cloud eudeuvours to lemonade
• the rest of Europe, and the Freuch themselves, that
.lo;eph Napoleon tad his army left Madrid from fear
of a rentegiceio lever, and r-tireil to Birrgos.
OS a awry healthy country ; wherens.it was the
burning fewer or the invintahle :armies of Arrugon,
Andalusia, Valencia, and all Spate. which Walk
theist fly from the Capital, and which sill fox.,
them to fly from liiirgos, and beyond the Pyrenees.
—No, Somalian's will hot suffer li,otnwlyes lobe
deceived by fielse intelligeace, or the triavherous
. promises of the Cabinet of Pans.