The National Register.
London, England, 1808-06-06 00:00:00

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THE SUPREME JUNTA TO THE INHABITANTS OP MADRID.
"INHABITANTS OF MADRID.
"Your tranquillity will he from henceforth unalterable Yon
will owe it to the loyalty of your own character; hilt it Will he
still more assured to you by the confidence, which is inspired by;
the laWs, and by the prudence of zealous Magistrates, to %horn
their execution is committed. It is in this conviction that the'
Supreme Junta of Government proclaims, that in obedience to
the dictate of humanity, the allied army has guppres ed the Mi.
litary Commission, established only for one day, as a necessary,
though severe measure, which would not have been estahled,
but for the perverseness Of some individuals ; that, from
henceforth, every inhabitant, whatsoever may he his rank,
who shall have given cause for being seized by the French'
troops, provided he has not horue arms against them, shall he
immediately given over to his proper Judges, and tried by
them. And even in the only excepted case, viz. that of having
borne arms against the French troops. a Judge nominated by
the competent-Tribunal of the Nation, shall always assist in re-
gulating the whole of the process against the accused, till sen-
tence is pronounced. No COUntryMandomirilitated in the town,
nor strangers shall he molested on arroMit of the peculiarity of
his dress; and still less the Ecclesiastics. The carriers employ.
ed in bringing provisions to the town, shall henceforward be sub-
ject to no vexation, or detention of their carriages or mules.
Every individual who shall have just complaiets to make, on
addressing himself to the Judge of Police, may rest assured,
that hew ill oil the same day obtain full justice and reparation,
for whatever damage he may have sustained As to the Mule-
teers, who are likewise employed in bringing provisinns to
town, and who generally stay there a few days, only one half of
their cattle shall in future he put in requisition. even under the
most urgent necessity; and in no case shall they be detained
longer than three or four days, for which they shall be paid at
the prices already given out. Orders shall be given at those
gates of the town, where carriers have suffered arbitrary deten-
tions, in order to be searched and stripped of their arms, that
this abuse be in future prevented. But it is also necessary to
repeat the order against introducing fire-arms, or other prohi-
bited weapons into the city ; they ought always to be deposited
at the gate.

Given at the Palace, by order of the Supreme Junta of Govern.
" moat, May
The Comple CASA VALENCIA, Secretary."
PARIS. MAY I9.—The Prince pf Asturias and the Infonli.
Don Carlos and Don Antonio, have repeated their rennet iatifin
of all their rights to the Spanish throne (already expressed hy
their assent to the treaty previously known to have been con•
eluded), by a solemn Proclamation addressed to the Spaniards
from Bourdeaux, on the 12th inst. and which is published is
this day's Maniteur. Thisdocunient is to the following effect :•-•
" The Prince of Asturias, and the Infants Don Carlos and Don
Antonio, deeply sensible of the attachment' mid fidelity di:pla~eA'
towards them by all the Spaniards,' with The 'utmost grief behold
them on the point of being plunged into *anarchy, and threatened
with all the dreadful calamities consequent thereupon ; and be-
ing aware that these might, in a great measure, Proceed from
the state of ignorance in which they now are,' bOth :is to the
principles of the conduct hitherto pursued by their Itighne,
and the plans already formed for the benefit 'of their country,
their Highnesses find themselves under the necessity of making
an effort to open their eyes, bv that salutary counsel whiCh they
require, in order to prevent any obstrtiction to the execution of
those plans; and thus to give them the deafest proof of the affec-
tion Which they cherish-for them

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4' Their Highnesses cannot, therefore; abstain from informing
them, that the 'circumstancesOrider which the Prince, upon the
abdication of the King, assumed 'the reins' of gisvernment ; the
occupation of several prOvincei'tif the kingdom, and of all the
frontier fortresses, by a nOnierOus body of f renelt troops; the
'actual presence of more thab 00,000 of that nation in the capital
:and the environs; in short, the khowledge of many other ei rcion-
-stance known only to themselvei, 'eiiiivinced then.' that, Sllr.
rounded by difficulties, they had biiiy-chosen, among various
etpedtents, that which wns likely lolrroduce the least evil :
;and that, as sod], theeresitived upon it)ourney to Baynniw.
On the arrival of their Royal HigtinesseS 'at Bayonne, the
['Ante,. then King, wits unexpectedly apprised that hkfather
had protested agaitist his act of abditation, deciatio
g that it um
not voluntary. The Plifff*, who accepted the'crownOttly viler
the impression That the'ittulleatinn *as vtiluntaiy; Was no sooner
informed of the existence of such 4 Protest, than hissense at
filial duty instantly determined him to give back the throne,