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

SEPTEMBER 19.

,‘ Had General Dupont kept his troops united in a body, he
vould, without much difficulty, have dispersed the insurgents,
:heir army haying consisted only of three divisions, scarcely
forming a total of '20,000 men.
_

" The bodies of insurgents scarcely deserve to be mentioned
in this war. They defended themselves behind a wall or a house,
but could not maintain themselves in the open fields ; and a
Single squadron of cavalry, or a battalion of infantry, is sulli-
cicut to put many thousands of them to the rout.
" All that the English Papers have published, respecting the
affairs of Spain, is unfounded and false. England knows well
flit. part she is acting on this occasion. She also knows well
what she is to expect from all her efforts. Her only object is
to involve Spain in confusion, that she may thereby make her-
self tni,tress of such of her possessions as best suit her purposes."

REPORT OF TILE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO

HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY.

" Ssnr,

Paris, Sept. 1.

" I hare the honour to propose to your Majesty to communi-
cate to the Scuttle the two Treaties which have placed the Crown
of Spain in your hands, and the constitution which under your
auspice•, and enlightened by your advice, the Junta assembled
at Balonne, after free and mature deliberation, have adopted
for the glory of the Spanish name and the prosperity of that
kingdom and its colonies.
" if in the arrangements made by your Majesty the security
of France has been your principal care, the interest of Spain
herself has however been dear, and in uniting the two states by
the most intimate alliance; the prosperity and the glory of both
were equally the of proposed. The troubles which have
manifested themselves have particularly excited the solicitude of
your Majesty in deprecating their progress, in foreseeing their
sad consequences, in hoping to present them by persuasive
means, and by measures of wise and humane policy. Your
Majesty interfered as a mediator in the midst of the divided Spa-
niards, sheaving them on one side tile anarchy which threatened
them, and on the other England ready to profit by their divi-
sions, and to make use of them to suit her convenience, and
'miming out to them the way by which they might be saved from
this doable danger, by a constitution K ise, provident, proper to
provide, all of which they stood in need, and is which liberal
ideas intermixed themselves with these ancient institutions which
Spain n ished to be preserved.
" The expectations of sots• Majesty have been deceived. In-
dividual interests, foreign intrigues, and the influences of foreign
corruption have prevail.•cl. 't by is it so easy to lead nations to
tlesir ruin ky letting loose their passions? to a former report, II
have made your Atajesty acquainted with the influence which
the English were acquiring in Spain, the numerous party that
they had formed, the friends whom they had acquired in the
commercial town=, by holding out to Iliem the prospect of a re-
vival of their trade : I had pointed them out to son as ant hors
of the sedition which overturned the '!'grata• of ('harks 11 . mud
the favourers of tin• popular disorder.: w. hie!, arose at that epoch.
Tiiev had horst through that salutary restraint which keeps the
people in ,ithinis,ion, by operating upon their interests. The
populace of Sp:1;o having shaken otr the yoke of authority as-
}wed at governing. English the intrigues or the agents of
the Inquisition, who were afraid of losing their authority, the
infue•nce of the numerous tribe of Monks in Spain, who dread:
a reform, have in this critical moment occasioned the insurrec-
tion of several Spanish provinces, in to hid* the voice of the
more prudent class has been either mistake-it or stifled, of whom
nut a new have fallen victims to their courageous opposition to
popular tumults, ant! a dreadful anarchy has been seen to diffuse
itselt over the greatest part of spain. Will your Majesty per-
not England to be able to say " Spain is one of my provinces,
my flag driven from the Baltic, the North Sea, the Levant, and
even from the shores of Persia, rules in the ports of France ?"
" No, never Sire !—To prevent so much shame and misfor-
tune, two millions of brave men are ready to scale the Pyrenees,
and the English will be chased from the Peninsula.
" If the French light for the liberty of the sen, they must,
to conquer, begin by wresting Spain from the influence of the
t 3 rants of the ocean.

" If they combat for pence, they cannot obtain it until they
have ehasel from Spain the eneu►ir: of peace.
" If your Majesty, embracing the future nc well as the pre-
sent, aspires to the noble object of leaving after you your Em-
pire calm, tranquil, and surrounded by powerful friends, you
Intiq begin by securing its influence. in `4patii.
" Lastly, if honour is the brat teniiineut, as wril at cue tirts

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