The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-19 00:00:00

of object, of Frenchmen, your Majesty must promptly inflict
vengeance fur the outrages conttni tied against the French name,,
and the atrocities to which so great a number of our countrymen
have fallen victims. Frenchmen established iu Spain for more
than twenty years, exercising in peace their useful industry, and
almost regarding Spain as their country, have been massacred.
Every where French property has been seized. The- Consular
Agents of your Majesty have experienced a treatment which
would not have been suffered even in the most barbarous coun-
tries. What estimation, rhat consideration will the French
name enjoy in Europe, if, in a country so near to us, Utrocities
so infamous and so public remain unpunished. Reparation
ought to be had for them—but a reparation consonant to French-
men by victory.
" It is no small advantage, the probability of at length meet•
ing the English, of fighting them man to man, of making them
also feel, the evils of war—of a war, of the dangers of which
they are ignorant, having only caused it by their gold. The
English will be beaten, destroyed, dispersed, or at least they
will make haste to fly, as they did at Toulon, at the Helder, at
Dunkirk, in Sweden, and every where where the French armies
have been able to find them ; but their expulsion from Spain
will be the ruin of their cause. This last check IA ill exhaust
their wean:. annihilating at the same time their last hopes, and
peace will become more probable.
" The wishes of all Europe will in this contest be with
France.

" France and Russia make common cause against England.
" Denmark supports with honour a contest which she did not
provoke.
" Sweden, betrayed and abandoned by the ally to whom an
insane Cabinet has sacrificed her, has already lost her most
important provinces, mid is hastening- to that ruin which is the
inevitable etfect of alliance and friendship w ith England.
" Such will be the fate of the insurgents in Spain. When the
contest becomes serious the English will atiantlon Spain, after
making them the sad bequest of a civil war—of a war for
foreign interests, and for anarchy, the most cruel or scourges.
It will be for the wisdom mid beneficence of your Majestv to
repair the evils of which they w ill he the cause.
" The Court of Vienna has constantly testified to your Ma-
josty the most amicable iutentions : indignant at the policy of
England, she has recalled her Minister from London ; sent back
the litiglish Minister who was at Vienna; shut her ports against
England; and placed herself in a state of hostility with that
power. 'She has added to these measures an interdict in her
ports against the admission of vessels, w hicb, under a neutral
;lag, are only the carriers of English pi-wince and merchandize.
Vonr Majesty has cultivated this favourable disposition; has
testified to the Court of V koala friemlship mkt eoutidenre ; and
has several times intimated t.'t her, that France takes a real in-
terest in her prosperity. Latterly, however, this power has
carried its armaments beyond ineaAtre --its military force is out
of ail proportion to its population and finances. Your Mini-
sters, Sire, only wish to remark this in order that your Majesty
may perceive the necessity of augmenting your force for the
purpose of still preset-% hug the relative superiority w Iticit exists
between the power and the population of the two empires.
" A new revolution ha broken out at Constantinople, Sultan
Mustapha has been d Tot ezl.
" The Americans, a people who involve their fortune, their
prosperity., :Jl almost their evistence in commerce, have gi vett
the example of a great and courageous sacrifice. They have
interdicted, by a general embargo, all commerce and all navi- •
station, rather than shamefully submit to that tribute which the
English impose on Cie navigation of :ell nations.
" Germany, Italy, Sss itzerlanit, and Holland, are peace- •
able, mud wait only fur a maritime peace to exert all their in-
dustry.

" That peace is thew ish of the world, but England oppo.cs
it ; and Fagland is the enemy of the world. .
" The French nation, all Europe knows the efrirts, tnade by
your .Nlujesty to obtain peace ; they know th your emerprizcs
are the immediate resnit of the ill success of tie atteniiits is hick
you have made to obtain it.
" The devotion of the French people is without hounds ; and
it is more especially under circum•ta tires which are so e-Lenttally
emutected with their homme and its security, tied their sei.ti-
ments will lie eyhwed. awl OA they w she w Cirin.elv4l
worthy of reapiiig thatlarvest of glory and of honour, which
you hue prepared fur them.
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