The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-31 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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and under the renovated sway of your ancient chieftains,
your hurtheni have undoubtedly been removed, aid every
trace of oppression erased.--"• Stop, eielaims the Ger-
man Vassal, " enthusiastic was our joy, and unceasing
our exertions, when thelnosened grasp of tyranny was
felt departing from our land. But when we heard of the
Despot's downfall, our exultation passed all bounds, and,
timid:4 the blaze of public rejoicings were our long-ba-
nished Pririces welcomed to our bosoms, as fathers who
would dry our tears and heal our wounds. But unfor-.
tnoately horrible E v stem with which the enemy had
so long eieshed us, was productive. War contributions
aod forced loans had filled his coffees, and theconscription.
his armies. Our political fathers thought us too closely
acquainted with ruin to repine at the continuance of our
'misery. They consented to resume their ancient au-
thority, but not to rastore our ancient prixileges. The
French System was not only maintained, but carried into
execution with encreased severity. Forced loans nod
ronscripts were raised, and the latter not only quartet 4.1
on the inhnbitants, but clothed and equipped at their
expence. When the people complained, the government
only answered, that the coffers of the state were empty,
and must be filled ; and that the present circumstances of
Europe reouired tha levy of an additional force. Such has
been the result of so mach suffering', the crown of so
many sanguine hopes.
But yoe are hapoy, ye sons of France, so long the ter-
ror and the pity of Europe, the tools and the victims of
oppression. The giant arm is broken which kept you so
long immersed in guilt and splendid misery. Your dreams
of universal empire are lied, and your vain struggles
of er liberty have been succeeded by the enjoyment of ra-
tional freedom, granted by the condescension of a pater-
nal monarch.—" Yes, after a tremendous contest of
twenty-four years, now amongst ourselves, and now with
all the nations of Europe ; after experiencing the wildest
rage of aoarchy, and the deepest curse of despotism, we
thought ourselves, able to know and to enjoy rational
freedom. Protitieg by the magnanimous protection of
mir conquerors, and the example of your ancestors,
framed and established a constihtion, embodying all
the wise. rineiples of British liberty. We proffered
the ta;k of guarding, this• pillar of our rights and
orr I“,pniness to the brother of our murdered King.
Rerar.ad from his banishment, we placed him on the
threee. :old have since beheld the work of our Legislative.
-patriotism and wisdom, moulded' by his. hands into a
)toyal t 4 rant destructive of all real liberty, and establishing
to their fillicq extent, the principles of absolute authority.
Disappointed in the quarter, where adversity should hare
taught wisdom, !mil from whence we exooeted disinterest-
edness and public spirit, the unanimity of the land is de-
stroyed ; party, momentarily overawed, revives ; ►iisatfec-
tien recovers .its audacity, and the tumultuous agitation
of men's minds threatens to renew those sceees of conten-
. tiori avid bloodshed that have formed so long and so dark
tt page in our annals."
Were we to ill terrogatethe inhabitants of other liberated
countries, we should receive answers of a similar nat ere.
that we haye done every
of Europe, because we
.ficient Sovereigns. We
all her calamities, but, as
his suceessors, we hive
,sue to toil in vain.

JULY 31.

£OREI6 1% LLIGENCE.

FREE PA VERS.

The Chevalier Gomez Lat.rad.r. Conti4e:lor of State. to his. Catholic
M•lesiv. a:A h., A-..,1;,..5ad,,r Esti.iorei•.ary and Plenipoteoti4 V in
Fr;tor., and to the Co. grey:, of Vienna, to the Editors of the „Journal

de Pis :

" POttS, JVTY ti.

Gt ferttuFsr—N.'ou lia-e inserted in your :fennel of %es erd„y an
arlicle from Nlttuteb, dr ed he filth of this month, according to which
the preaching!' of the rainish ' large ha: e occasnineo the greatest dis.
orders in Leon and Cornia.stella. Y. 4.1 reaaily bulieve that I have
received at Paris Spanish neses.,f 4 more recent date, and. above all,
more trite than th,t 0' tl!• I;ac a n Gazetteer, %toe has famished vim
with the article to rpn.s.:on Prr it m. dots to into' ITI on, that the
divtrderS in Leon tied Compostel.a have no inure realit‘ than the di,.
turimpres eaustd by the e• diet and the sentiments l't General Mina,
and the felliti us noo•ements •on 'oared some time past in different
parts of S:taitt. %did:: Getter .1 Mira iv not less estimable on account of
his former loyalty and frankness, than woolly of admiration* 1(4 his
ffreat achievements in arms, mod n :withstand' •he inventor, ,f
fid,c arcs, :11,!te is rot titrouehout FArope a conntry more mcquil
than Spain. yes, Gcntle:‘_en, the ;win ',effect tranquillity reigns in
toy country, thc it habitant, et•"" enjoy a 611Pcrior .happiness to those
of ally other nation; tor nom ever regained it• independei.ce a•A its
sovereign by inch great a Worts et routoge. idelity, and constancV.
Persuaded of this happy situ ati.at of toy v, I ha, e hitherto hem
silent respecting the repents or distatenr which idle or malevolent
persons take a pleasure in prop:writing, And Ish eld act in .the same
way with regard to your Brother Ktitor at Mit.-ieh, after baying eir..
ciliated a false report, he had not added an atrocious eal. .•ny utmost
my august Soverei7n, ary' his Bova! 11,ehness the twat,' D m A;itotne.
" I fl ttter niyit If, Gentlemen, 11.1 t those unior!twat. limes are past,
in which Journalists took up ,ti themselves to in-tat Islatnas and Soye.
reigns ; and what instill more h trrible than that• of imputing to the
uncle of the King of S.•ain 'a declaration, which would I,e nn ant of
rebellion. end to hit Majesty a melady which would veneer h m Mex.
paLle of reigning? On what foundation Was Otis n.i eraine...loart:ahst
built imposture? And, Gentlemen, how you determine npua
inserting in your Paper such an itnrcutation? The saguktity of ex.
tracting news relative to Spain from a Getman Paper, sle uld have
made yon hesitate, even 01E11)01 you had not reflec.rd on the disagree-
able consecpiences which your iiolisctetion might pr,•duce. All the
Frenchmen have deplored the perfidious and atrocro. tss Wdr whiLi. fteir
T.) rant carried on for six years -gains( Spain. They have deplor-u
war not on'y as unjust, but as exciting to Ilia hid est point animosities
and till hateful passions between two neighbouring nations, wit. have,
on account el their neighbo:.rhp;,d, a c unsuon interest in living In
friendship. Every thing calculated to perpetuate that disposition of
the mind ought to he carefully avoided, and nothing, in try oprnon,
can inure contribute to exasperate my coutitry men than the c'
tion of the system which' taost of the jouroulisti and other ar ters of
your nation have fir a tong time coastantly folloWed. Every article
of false news published it •;,tetii,g Spain-- every invective, is an ill.
Service done bv suit to your rr,::Ory melt.
66 I hope that you wili readily publish thief letter in your Paper.
" P. GOMEZ LABRADOR.

[ln a Note, of Apolocy subjoined to the above Letter, the Paris
Editor tt7tv•i.., the article complained of was not only yet:averi firm the
Munich CiazAte, brit horn Jr.tornals in London, svhich furnish the
French Papers with very intesesting articles, and titut it even oppea.ed
in the Aluniteur el the z4tlij

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