The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-22 00:00:00

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Geaeial Franceschi overthrew them Witt a single charge—
killed many ; they lost one Coloneli Y Lieatenatit.Colonels, 50
• Officers and 1500 men.

On the 31st, Marshal Soull bntereA Leon;

Marshal Bessieres, with 900 cavalry, is parsuing the English
hive taken 200 waggons of baggage left on the road td
Astorga--:-Itoinana's remains have thrown tlieinbelves into As-
torga.
General St. Cyr has joined General .Dtihesm. That junction
has raised his army to 40,000. The King of S I pa.ii bas gone to
Aranjuez, in order to retie* the tirstcorpsi commanded by the
Duke of Belluno.

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must exercise uo temporal or corpor,iljurisdictiuti uver cue cal-

MTS.

" I hare accontpli§heil what I owed to Myself and ray nation.
Vengilince has but its due.- It has fittleo upon t;11 of the pi awl-
pal culprits ; the rest have entire and absolute corglziwitttl.
" I have abolished thUse ptivilegeS. which toe gr.tildoes
usurped during tithei of civil war, when but tau frequente
I. are neee,,sitated to surrender their rigiits, tu,p4twuttse Oc• tru%
tranquillity, and that o 1 their people. aboltsite4 the
fetidal rig-tt.-, and hetteettirili every one tnai,s et, up jugs* oven.,
cinploy himself in ftshibg *arid ittlibit and give
flee ,cope to his. industry, provided he f. spdlretv the lava. d re-
til..ttion.; of the police. Theselffihnesii tketli,4tid.pitiioerity
of a sntall ttitittlfei of indivithinl4, Were 'snore injurious to )use
:Igrietilture th,in the /teat of the dog-da3s..
" As tht4e is but one (kid, so should tliere be ih -it state but
one judicial power. All peculiar jurlsdietiotts uekrestssurpationi,
and at variance w ith the rights of the uation—l have itch/Wilted

them. .
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" I have Mao made known tti every title *line he rimy have to
fear, aud w hat tie may haste tii hope. I stlall evpel tae En 4-
fish army frinn the Peninsula. Sartigos,n, • Valencia, Sevill?6,
hall be redtleed to stitebisqon, either by pertuasiori or Vie
power of My arms. • There Is no obstacle Willett can lung resist
the execution at' my resolutions.
:_,T•AI -1? •
" BLit What tran:xends my powci is thit—to..consolidnte the
Spaiiiartif.z as one nation, und,l- the sway df the. King, should
they cuntintie to be infected with these principles of aversion
and hatred to Franco.-, which the partisans of the English nod
the eneiniei of the Contiuent have ieused into the huatint of
Spain. I can establiili no patio°, iio King, no independence of
the Spaniards, if the king be not assured of their attachMent
and fidelity. .
" The Bourbons can no longer reign in Etirope: THe 410-
.sions in the [Loyal Family were contrived by the English... It
was not the dethronement of King Charles; and the favourite
(the Priem of Vence), that the Duke df that tool 4if
England, as is proved by the papers fottnd.iiilits. Wise, hid tit-
view. The intention was to establish the'predotfitnant intluenee
of England iu Spain; a senseless pfojeit, the 'Wink of which
would have peen a perpetual Continental Sate, thist w titatl hasp
caused the shedding of torrknts of Mood: No Ow er ti•eler the
iniitittre of England can exist on the 6nitinent. there he
any that entertain such a wish, their wish is absurd, and *ill
sootier or later Occasion their fall. . .
" It would he easy for me, shthild I he compelled to adept
that measure, to govern .Spain, by establishing as runny Vice-
roys in it 115 there are proellices. N evertneless, I do not
to abdicate my rights in favour of conquest in favour of the
King, and to establish hiin in Madrid, as soon as the so,dociciti-
zens Which this tapital contains, the Clergy, Nobility, Mer.;.
chants, and I.Ttwjter., shall have declared their teatintents null
their fidelity, set an example to the provinces, enlightened the
people, and 'nude the nation sensible that their existence and
prosperity essentially depend upon a King and a free Cow'.
stitutidn, favintrable to the people, ana hotitile ultly to the
egotisrh and the haughty passions of the Grandees.
64 If such be the sentiments of the inhabitants of the city of
Madrid, let the 30,000 citizens assienitole in the churches ; let
them, in the presence of the holy Sacrament, take an oath, not
only -With their mouths, but also with their hearts, anti without
any jesuitical equivocation; that they promise support, attach;
went, and fidelity to their King; let the priests lu their confess
sional and the pulpit, the mercantile class in thvir cm-Le:Ton:
deuce, the men of the law in their writiegs and speeches, ;iifeec
these sentiments into the people :---.then shall I surrender my
right of conquest, place the K tug upon the throne, and make it
my pleasing task to conduct myself as a true friend of the Spa-
niards. The present generation may differ In their opinions ;
the pa.itions have been too much brought into action'; but your
grand-children will bless me as your renovator; they will
reckon the day when t appeared hoping lion anionp-, their tnerno
rattle festivals ; mid from that will tire happiness of Spain date
its commencement."
" Yon are thus, Monsieur le Cotrt.gidor," adfird the Doi
peror, Informed of the whole of my determination. Consult
with your felloweeitizens, and consider sit hat 'patt you will
choose; bat whatever it be, make your choice *.fah sincerity;
and tell itic only your sediments:"