The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1811-06-15 00:00:00

Att. of the 3 Ist a His present Majesty, ingotnuch
as recouret to the See of Rome, i% in certain cases,
essential to the practice tit the Roman Catholic re-
ligion. (Ti, be eentinued.J
SPAIN.

THE COUNCIL COUNCIL OF REGENCY TO THE SPANISH
NATION, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OP MAY It.
That memorable day, Spaniards, on which the nation
rose to the Majesty of Independence, from the depth ef ser-
vitude and dismay, has now come round fur the th ird time.
What grand, but, at the same time, mournful recollections
does not Its return eicite ! !
When Napoleon was boning from Bayonne his Decrees of
btood,-when, madly Impatient, he was accusing Mont of
rerniasoess fur not precipitating the means td terror—he did
not perceive that these ',forums counsels, recoiliug upon
the very iniquity which planned them, would he destructive
Jenard—die
tptoirihti_;hiralintarescithhher:sedpeonseps rowel goefli'lmt Pfa.oarrTeidoh,elf
ipnidl,llitgilfig.Motahayeti rib:l:rut:err:zits, s
which they suffered, rose at once to res.:life them, or to die,
11l armed, without plan, without chiefs. they dot not hesitate
a mumeut to attack those veteran biltalious, formidable
by their arms, their victories, sad their union. The patriwhile
ots
dded fighting nobly; or they perished by treachery,
thinking themselves protected by the truce which disarmed
them. lint the blood which was shed routs not be coatised
to she Prado of the Capital ; it spread itself ogre the soil of
the Peninsula ; it every-where excited enthusiasm ; tail at
one anti the sante time and with our voice, the signal was
ercry.where given fore Ibis rancorous, sanguinary, and deco-
listing war, aiindar to all respects to the execrable aggression
which gave it birth.
It was 'demo said by our trearlieroos estates, and their tin.
worthy partizans, " How rash and unavailing your attempt!
Yon have neither seam amen:toes, nut soldiery—your Gene-
rale and (Akers want experience and military knowledge—
your poverty is meat, your ignorance greater: you must lose
every battle which you hazard ag - the must practised
troops in the world—the war will disorganise, will ruin every
thing; sad men impotent efforts, instead of saving that
shadow of a country which you mime, will plunge it in misery
and desolation, and load it with much heavier chains than
those yua now wish to escape."
Spaniards you rejected with horror these vile euggestions,
and devoted' yourselves to adversity, fantail' of shaking oil
ignuniiity by resistance, mot of finally establielong, though
at the expetire of immense labours and numlicrleita cautions,
that independence and happiness to which you aspired.—
True it is, that the stupid tyranny to winch you were pre-
viously subjett, had lett you is ithout moon& to oppose to the
inundation. A furious sea broke in, and covered with its
waves an unprotected country t but it must one day abandon
it again ; and the immolation, though now destructive (iu like
manner as the earth is fertilised by the conflagration of tit-
teem or the ashes of volcanoes), wilt deposit in our soil all
the germs of peosperity and abundance.
Shat combats, what vicissitudes, what contrariety of
events, have you not experienced, during thew three tenable
years! Conquerors at first—diem conquered; furnsidable
again by the Cure which you opposed to your enemies;
favoured by the war of Austria against the 'tyrant, Ind too
soon depr.vett of that pawed''i assistance; coutleinned again
to experience all the rigour of di 'tiny, and reilut eat to ex-
tremity ; threatened with the dissolution of empire, by the
separation of sonic distant provincea; yet always firm, always
sungtionirautit3 enconalcrisiS adversity willtioit twilit: emir-
I
Cl.rtii.rersebylviets;
ifisirnithi"aionet wt.eMtheabliverrshinciertiotsiaiopnidi..srret yi.,ita,ar very.
ruins. nine, and dismaying the enemy by your ceaseless efforts
•• If front this stormy nod uncertain spectacle, impartial En-
rope and posterity to. si their eyes to your polo ica I sad civil
march, Low much will tiny me its compessate for your mili-
tary sniaLotasie,! glare were you before the gJ of May?
Graft to rreu:lett it, and shame to sffirr it !-Y.sl•Yes,beurlit.g
under the yoke of teritay : %doling, like a worthlna herd,
the expire of despotism and caprice. What ate mi. now !
At the solemn "tore of your Remesentatives, is Curti al.
semhkd, the iteperishehle rights of the pe 'pie Me relistd,
winch Jamputims hail tamped, at bitrary Government has
disappeared, by the dna pacers bring nit longer cool tooted
in .ote : the political h•latare is re-eetahlsrhor 4 the liberty of
thought is secured Iy that of the press; the retention tit jut.
tire mat this moment Cumbrian tiu the etariail basis ~.c. natural
egoisy • anti the Constitution whorls is prepart lit for y1.C.1 Will
to the 'key-moue of that grind arch, no ohr.li the %Inoue of
the remeginosed inowarrhy srill be eit fled.
Thus, the Sprossell al the priest day, dependent upon
the law slime, niviolalde in his pennon, his property, sod the
jest beertion of his Of 11610111. eentriliutimr lii such tuxes
only as are imposeit by the national Ctsnes‘ra a interposing
by himself, or by person" imisteing his rossitlence, is the
cull+ diem and naylicat.on of 11111.111111(118ces ; Itairisy all the
sails of kreowledgr, of glory, used of fortune, spewed Is his
10[11v11, 111111 Illtilllin—warthts proudly es Ilse face of the
ea. th, in no raped isferiue to its potentates is social die-
on,. Is vain will you swirls fee his equal so the Continent,
where the Iron rod of impressers, hold* uses degraded, and
whirr all are his infetices. TOO mad search for his equals
in that island atone, his Fatness ally. and heroic compeer
to this great cosiest : in that Woad, the happy sanctuary of
IsluTty, the growl seat of laws, soil the al.:cool model of
human civilisation!
such is, our h might tube, the Pipaniard, owl, r the reign of
law. 0 you elm ha ender Its benign intl./ma convey
enemy, and tompare your Miamian with that of thew who
are there C,01111114 111 I/MOW ! Behold them tyrannised wet
by the elsorfs, insulted by the mthallernit, pillaged by the 14x-
(Aild-..te : behold them hummed by sates, assailed by ass
forums, ruined by accusatiu. • ; without Records, without
asosiblenr e. without "all 01 political cuesiderattim. Thee
w.ll you reel how tooth moss the rapacity of tyrant@ mot*
than she Arleace tit your s °urn y, owl the preservation of
. good laws.
VI hatever blee.soics racial orslry roofers upon mart, dame
the SpU0•11 nun. .t 6.1.1 ether 111 prosy... ill i.e 111 11,11111.1141111.
Irot. 101111,110,111 BIOUt Int 1101• us 11010 1:14.11111( 1111411 Mall
Ila'r estrat, and that imprdoneut Is 11111-4 ear just, area.
sea, Oaaroolstria. Ilea it IS, 11 4111.iiiled hy the pestle On the
private interest* of • ot. spot, by the rapine ot • favourite, or
lirs.lit:r.:l:athuNeZars4gimetall".".4l,l3:4ii-Ohilisa'alrillEs::"l.limistatin iiise:ulabileiltuao:re"vreal ice;
the Itecole.lonfteerr which ever war off. ri..l to any swim, ;
owl to Jerald She hist bieseings of a great people-oiliest its
dependeoce. Alt the authorities which have Mess hsthert4
mrablr•lnol--•11 the sy•Omm• a gweecoissat which have ger.
corded verb sriber-whare they sat all were fire mesatmoing the
eirezole ' His any owe of thew talked id peace'
)
Slammed* ! yea have dessarmiled•or ; sad the wail is the
sorsa time &cooties-4 and pasta ewe es aUsilyers,ef aloes,
of fatten u, and a priests.** But if owleirtalsal* sok seder
the rugows of adireissy„ powerful ashen, Warr pew% ; sad
nun's will home bow Is motels the inallitallerill ra•sopir Of
the 2.1 of May, as it his followed it hots. me •sthossi lan
log mole foe • mnearsa lieu, frponsmsb, so is e the eat of
LI .y her seam slawstml •psan am eye., asol (roils as arse
g:oi,r with the same isdlesstoldv as at flirt, let ws, es it,
pe...siby repeat to the 1•141111. if Ilosepoite, that the grant
• a *ea lotterly dest.eed is Ise calrstatiess al Mysore,.
The tenearesta sem I shred as Modred roll sal Flossy as eats
stshehalis;ll:4l::Prt...4.f...4rogeshi.4":l.lboLlasoll:ortotibeastr.....:statio"e'eseusiswhwah twn.nh......"
hots, iliesali 4.wipluee sad military rL.1.1 may Ow thew
virisow• '-sIMw They obeli n. 4, .... that aresesit, Le WIN*, is
oh.• teeidete rowary. t arreasses, ea issepworel-eto day in
.n.. 11 oseaters, Se werovw ill greaseevos west a pew the
Pan me. c1.,1t, scours as beer, sassipasy Ow three La lead
ilioviseset •wirsis show se have sire* veered as a Awls.
rasa hi the saws a slime *lan MI wo Her 94 of Nay ' slid
y..., late the 4.10 of ateesity, awn resew . the frelahalla
M, WWI% sod ghat sat posts ass al them u• aings hos
it PEDRO Da MIMI, Persekst
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