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anOn; to the Migity Island of the Ocean. The latter came
up m it b, attacked, and defeated them ; two of their frigates and
all their tran.ports were sunk, mid two ships of the line which
remained were hoarded, and their crews put to the sword. The
English lost two fripttes, and received some damage in the other
ships. The engnge.aent took place between Alicant and Car-
thageol, on the 24th of lmt month, nod lasted two days.
" A French ship, having on hoard arms; stores, and money,
• for l'arthr.genn, hc•lieving that port still in possession of the
Fren.•o party, entered it on the 28th, and was immediately
compelled to strike..
" The Audalusians have fortified the Sierra Moren with
artillery."

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JULY. 3.

Which
In
PROCLAMATION OF THE SUPREME JUNTA OF GOVERN,
81'41'4'14RM !—The Supreme Junta of Ciovernmem which at
present consists of persons of the highest authority in the
addresses you, to dispel the errors, which malevolence. and 'z'
norance ate endra*ouring to insinuate. and to propagate ow%
von—fatal errors, which might draw after incalculable misery,
did not the Supreme Government hasten to annihilate themthal
I iviyeilelhteeviipti,e,eu.eri
the moment of their birth._ The Junta dares flatter itself,
those who at all tittles, and on all occasions, have hearket;dt
with reverence to the voice of their superui.oitrsh,
less submission at a moment when it depends on them, either afT•itor
ever to insure their happiness, by uniting
of the State ; or to plot the downfal of their own country. by
yielding to clamours and commit:ions, into whieh it • eterhal
enemies of the fame and prosperity of the Spanish nation are
endeavouring te plunge them. At the eery moment wt • ten.span,
a country so greatly favoured by nature, but impoverished, ex.
',misted, and debased, before the eyes of all Europe, by the de.
frets and misrule of its own Government, had arrivtii at the
point of a complete annihilation—when the very elt'l tiong
which might have been employed to revive her cy leowed
strength would only have served to increase her Stifferill;.l, and to
plunge her into fresh calamities—when, in fine, all hope uas
extinguished, Providence has granted u, the means nut only of
rescuing our country from certain ruin, hut also of raising Ler
to an height of happiness and splendour, hich she has.itestr
Yet attained even in the most glorious periods of her history,
By one of those political revolutions, which astonish oily the e
who disregard tile events by which they have been prepared, the
House of Bourbon, after having lost the other thrones mhieh
it porsesed in Europe, resigned that of Spain. the only one on
which it retained a sent. After having brought the nation io the
brink of ruin, deprived of the support hitherto granted by the re-
maining branches of their family, mid unable to preserve the coun-
tries which had formerly united them with France ; the liouthous
found it impossible to keep a seat which all the changes that
have occurred in the system of polities, compelled them to quit.
the most powerful Prince in Eutope has accepted the resigna-
tion of the Bourbon., tint to incorporate your territory in his
already so extemise imperial dominions, but to et.tOilish the
Spanish Monarchy on renovated principles, to be subsers km to
his irresistible power, to the end that he may introduce all the
salutary reforms which sae have so long fruitlessly pined for.
It is with this purpose that he has summoned around his Serene
Person the Deputies tite Towns and Provinces, %nil Municipal
Corporations of the State, in order to consult on the fundamental
laws which stay serve to secure the Suprenre Power and the
7Lllegiance of the subjects. Mc will place the crown of Spain
upon the head of a noble-minded Prince, who, by the gentle.
ne,is of his disposition, will succeed in winning all hearts. lie
wilt display resources which no other will have in his power,
and will soon replace Spain in that station from which she Las
only stink through the weakness of the Princes who have
them) governed her. Is it not possible, that now the ken :41
felicity is arising, there should be found person=, who, unable
t ► appreciate the lofty destiny which awaits us, and utmortlzy
of the honoured name of true Spaniards and upright fricads of
h sir country, should labour to mislead you, and abandon you
to all the horrors of civil war, al the very moment when the
heir), who must he the object of our daily blessing and the admi-
ration of following aces, is altogether bl.ted in carrying into
etbct the projects he has forged for the felicity of Spain? It
certainly did not become the Juuta to apprehend so
great a
crime from Spaniards, so estimable for totheire love of coum
try : and vet they are grieved to he informed, that Some have
been carried away by an ill-understood zeal, and a mistaken
eonsti..ace and allegiance: that others have been brought to
:huibt conceroing the real interes:- of their country ; and more
than all these, that the secret machinations of a people, by sys-.
ten the enemies of the Continent, Ile :ye been employed to seduce
a par; of the good people of some of the pros and son the
seeds of sedition and rebellion. Brave Spani:ads ! will sou
s.:ffer yourselves to he deceived by their fraudu‘ent !mowers .
ill you be the victims of their destructive errors ? Shall the
generosity of sour feerngs be :.bused, to drive ou, our for-
tunes, and your families to perdition ? What end do the inciters
to disorder and desolatiou promise to themselves ? it the re-
storation of you, ancieut Princes ? They are beyond the fron-
tiers of Spain. What have they to expect from your pot% erie.s
efforts? Will you defend the laws on which your happiness
depends ? Why then do you labour to :modulate the la. 5%,5
On the other hand, are not measures now taking to restore
to the nation the pasossioa of its ancicut liberties. :aid its