The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-02 00:00:00

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To conclude, we venture to express the wish, that our be-
loVed countrymen, and fellow citizens of every rairk-and descrip- •
tioo, mar suspend their. judgment .on allfarther proceedings un-
til
the qecisiou of the States of the realm shall he known.
• COMMAN DER
Of the troops stationed in
.Worenland.
STOCKHOLM. MA RUH 17.—" Yon: will probably have
heard before now of tile Revolution here.—The King aftived
in the city from his Country seat' at Hoga, at seven o'clock
in the evening of the 12th—he slept in town. in the morning
of the Uth, the guards marched out or town, and the King
and the Royal Family were to join them on the 1304, in
order to proceed towards the insurnrents. On the 13th, at
twelve o'clock, the time an pointed fir the carrine.es to be at the
Palace, Major-General Adlercreutz, Colonel .lagerhorn, and
others, went up to the Kinrrb's apartment. and Adlercreutz told
the King that he must not deeart. The King drew his sword,
and on their laying hold of ill: person he derended himself brave-
ly, and was on the point of killing Adlercreutz. No soldiers
were in the Palace, because it was reported that the King bad
in the night returned to flag t. In the :text room to that where
the King was, was a servant called a Chamber 'Hazard of the
King, whose name is Selleno. On hearing tite noise in the room
be wished to open the dOor, but' it was locked; he then broke
even the door, nod with his sabre in hand was going to cut Adler-
ereutz down, but the sabre was wrested from his, hand. In the
mean time, the unfortunate Monarch, without hat or sword, ran
• down the so called Queen's Stairs; there they followed him, and
' he took away the sword from Colonel Mello, and cut the hand
of one Count Snoilsky. Ile defended himself a long time; but
at last, almost fainting, they carried him up to his room.- Ilet•
expressed, at first, his astonishment at their conduct, and still
kept saying that his principles are and will ever remain fire
sante. In the night he •was carried out to Dromengholm. On
the 13th a great force of the cuirassiers and artillery was sent to
gaga, where the Queen ?n,nd her children were and still are.
• Adlercreutz was immediately appointed the Commander, Adju-
tant-General, and 4;44(1-Marshal—Count Klingspor, Lord Go-
' vernor of Stockholm—Baron Lagerbjelke, Chancellor of the
Court. The former Lord Governor of Stockholm, Count Uglas,
has lost his' place—every thing is quiet here. A publication
was issued on the 13th, that n.ll taverns and public-houses should
•..he shut up precisely at nine o'clock in the evening ; and the duty
laid on by the King for carrying on the war, was taken off. The
regiment of the King's body guard, which. was disgraced ip:
laud, iras received 'their colours, and are reinstated in theircrank.
The Queen and her children are not allowed to see the %ing;
add, in a word, no one is allowed to come near the castle, iti here
• a great number of guns are placed, A Diet is appointed for the
lst of May. The Duke of Siidermania, it is said,' will keep con
friendly. terms with England ; but I hardly think Bonaparte
will suffer it. Major Delagrange is sent to Denmark, and from
thence to Paris; Major Arfvedson to St. Petersburgh,• and a
messenger from the Secretary of State's Office to England. I
have spokeu to one of the persons who attended one day -on the
King at Drotnengholm; he told me that the King 'ate but little,
. and that he often went back ward and forward, and clasped his
•• hands together, and lifted up his eyes, as if he were praying.—
Thus, this Monarch, adored in prosperity, is abandoned by all
--;bud help him!"
IL: CT OF A LATTER FROM STOCRUOLM, MARCH 20.—
:Valor Advidson, whO went as a Courier to St. Petersburgh, in
order to announce the change of Government in Sweden, passed
from Stockholm to Aland, and on his way to Russia, he met the
Russian army Marching towards oat place (Aland). Th"y
hiunediately seized on his person; hut finding that he broanht a
a message for St. Petersburgh, and the King was deposed,
they suit: red him to proceed ; but in: hi• representing. that(-very:
thing woold be settled amicably, the I:ie.:shin General answered
him, that being on his way to Aland, lie could not stop ; and in-
formation has since been received OA Aloud was taken pos-es-
sion of without any resistance whatever.—On the 18th, there
was a report at Stockholm, that Bonaparte had promised Ge-
neral Armfelt, in a letter written to him, that he should be one
of those who were to he Members in the King's Privy Council,
and that Russia has had its hands in the Revolution.

It is said that Sir Joseph Banks will proceed with the
next fleet to the Brazils. A frigate is appointed to take
him out. lie is to be accompanied by several naturalists
and artists of fwknowiedged talents. That country will af-
ford to his researches a rich fund of valuable curiosities,
both iu the vog►etable and mineral world.

El? 031 271 E SP.! AV 1.511 l'.l ItS.

NI.ANWESTP,..OF 1:111: SPANISH JUNTK".

The Supreme ;junta of Spain have issued a iztnifesto, deccrib-
ing-, in the most forcible langnage, the present situation of tai ii
Country, and the cause; that have led to the ellamiti.•4 wita
R Weil it is now assailed. The Minifesto retraces t!te history
of the' connection between France nail Spain fee t century t;ack,
and enumerates the uniform advantages which Fmnce unifornd
derived from that connection, down to the French Revolution,
and even subsequent to that period. now this faithful ;Venn-
ship and useful alliance has since ilcen rep:tl,l by the most cruel
perfidy, the blackt!st ingratitude, is btat too notorious; and the
fate of Spain is held up as an awful lesson to every other latieuv,
to guard against that profligate a:nbi t ion that would enslave them
all„ The .Manifesto eonclodes with the following energetic Ad-
dress to the dill; rent Continental Pam ers

" Yes, PCIIICCS and Nations of the Cootinent, your preser-
vation is identitiM with ours. The ?:ratal syl,tem of continental
stilljugation, which is incessantly lssuing from the lips of French-
men, comprises in their Own ags,,,randi-eiltent your ruin. Do
not deceive yoarselves; ambition of Bowl parte has elread y
triumphed over 'ltaly, Holland, and Switi.erland, and has con-
verted the states of tit, Confederatitm of the :thine into the pro-
vinces of his own Empire. NN itlt the forces of spain and Por-
tugal he intends to eifect the destruction of Austria, and aftt.r-
wards to assemble the collective strength-of Et:rept: to drive the
unCortunate Alexander into the desarts of Tartar .% Then, and
not nntil all this is consummated, will the projects of his w lid
ambition be. accomplished. The ancient tl)nasties of the earth
will disappear, he anti his fatally will reign uneontrouled over
the nations; another feudal system, into e teougnain thaa the
former will be established, to the exclusion of tit :. light, and to
the destruction of the industry and civilization• to' three complete
centuries.
" Rut the time has not vet arrived when the tyrant can enjoy
the fruits of his labours. England, possessing great natural ad-
vantages from her insular situation, from her power, and from
her laws, has cast the smile of contempt at the mad convulsions
of French audacity.
" What then, sovereigns of Europe, have you to perform ?
You are invited to action by fair opportunity , by obvious
interest, and the urgent danger. if you wish to. exist, arm your-
selves. From the Scheid to the Tyber, and front the Neva to
the Guadalquiver, may there be but one object, and may that
he, war against Frenchmen. Perhaps yon doubt of a stiCresFfit;
result from your elforts.—Be not deceived, Frenchmen are
neither invulnerable nor invincible; the Val'entia and
Saragossa, and the mountains of Palen, exposed to Heaven
and Earth, their shame and degradation. Oh I ye Monarele-
and Inhabitants of the Continent imitate our firmness, and
our perseverance, and the world, threatened with destruction
by a brutal monster, will at length recover its independence and
repose.

MARTIN DE GARAY,
Secretary to Oe Supreme Junta."
" Palace of Alcazar, Sec ills, Jan. 1, MI"

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DECREE OF THE SPANISH :JUNTA.
" His Majesty, consicleitilog that the French, in the unjustan
barbarous war whio
„theyi wago against Spain, pay no regar'
to any principle of the .10,14' Pi Ilti Mai MlS—that they shamelessl.
violate the most solemn treaties, as has been Yerified with re.
spect to the capitulation of,Alattrid, since, cnntrary to the stipo
lations therein made, thei4.liiprison, persecute, and bauisl
peaceable citizens and respectirble Magistrates, imposing, at th.
same time, the most disgrace All punishments on other unfortunat
persons on the slightest suspicious.and most frivolous pretexts.—
Seeing that they continue every v.liere to defile the sanctity
temples, the purity of domestic honour, and to trample on t
rights of humanity—that acts of the most atrocious kind, a
which make human nature shudder, are daily heard of, such
the death of a nun, who threw herself into a %yell, to avoid t
brutality of a Frenchman; the cruel murder of a mother, who
breasts were cut off in the act of giving suck to her son, by the
monsters, who afterwards sabred her infant ; and a number .
other cases equally horrible; atrocities painful to %%rite, dread.
Int to read,:and degrading to endure ;—tivatly, his Majesty bei'
convinced, that still to observe the laws of natural equity s'
those who respect no law whatever, would not be moderat,
and justice, but the most culpithle indillerence and the base.
meanness, has resolved to repress and punish those (-rim(
Calling therefore all Europe w i loess the awful necessity w li'