The National Register.
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does so much honour to his robe, vs in satisfy the curiosity ot
the public as to this particular.
" I ought not to speak of what I have suffered for my Kiug
and Country: the truth is, I have not suffered, for all I have
done has been required by my into sacred duties. It was to me
the highest satisfaction to see my lodging in Bayonne surrounded
by the satellites of Government: to these spies, succeeded,
who abound always where those are in authority who io his
tory usurp the characters of heroes. My steps were reckmo
ed; my visits observed ; espionage, tinder the mask of compas •
sion, approached to examine the secrets of my soul t hut nothing
disturbed the tranquillity of my mind. What I could not be
hold with patience, was to see myself condemned to a confinf•
ment within the frontier of France, until the Emperor should
consider that my narration of the scandalous proceedings could
not destroy the lofty fabric of the new Spanish Monarchy. In
vain, for two months, 1 applied to the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs H ith the utmost importunity to be permitted to return to
my beloved country ; the determined resistance I made to the at-
tempt of usurpation made the French 6overnmcut deaf to my
entreaties, belie% ing, not without good reason, that I should
endeavour to inflame heroism in my country, deuoinivated insur-
rection in the Jouraals of Bayonne.
" In such tmfavourble circumstances, a mode presented ibrlf
to me of avoiding a state of indefinite banishment. Such were
the repeated entreaties of Joseph Napoleon that I should eon
tinue with him in the situation Of Minister, to which I acceded
with repugnance and from constraint, but without prejudice of
my right to abandon it at a convenient opportunity.

" This opportunity occurred the moment I set foot in Madrid.
From that instant I only thought of availing inyuelf of the moyi
early means of resigning my new character.

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" Joseph Napoleon could not he grieved at the disappearance
of a Minister who so frequently opposed his wishes, and who,
in the opinion of some of those SI ho immediately surrounded him,
was a Quixote in his maxims, who could nut comprehend the
sublime intentions of the greatest of heroes in favour of the regr•
Iteration of Spain.
"-Valour and patriotism have successfully armed the whole
nation in its own defence, and for the protection of their legiti-
mate Sovereign. although the people had no knowledge of the
will of their beloved Ferdinand as to this movement. That pa-
triotism, united to wisdom, will now impel them irresistibly to
perform with promptitude the most important work of the Cen.
tral Government or Regency, which may administer the affain
of the kingdom in the name of his Majesty.

" Thus will be completed for the advantage of all, the last
expression of the will of the King, which he condescended to
use the moment before be was forced to renounce the Crown;
thus will the nation he preserved fro►p this dreadful tempest ; it
will have exhibited before Eampe an example of loyalty,
honour, and generous energy, which will be the subject of admi-
ration in every age, and in every country.
" Madrid, Soft. 1, 1b08." Pula° Cir. 0.4.05."

AMERICA.

110510 N ?MILK MEETING, sop. 9.
Agreeahly to notification, a %cry numerous meeting was held
in Fanniol Hall, at ten o'clock, when Stephen Cotboon, Esq.
ts as chosen Moderator. The notification was then read, when
the lion. Jonathan Mason, after a number of very pertinent-rs-
marks on the subject, offered the following osetiOn,' in the furor
of 4 Tote ;
Vor ao, " That it is expedient for the town Or Boston re-
spectfully to petition the President of the United States to ill,-
pend the laws, either wholly or in part, aceOrding to the power
vested in him, by the Congress of the United States i and Af any
doubt should exist, as to the sufficiency of thoie powers, that lw
he requested to cull the Congress together as SOOO as may he
and that a Committee of eight persons be appointed tei prepare
and submit to the town a petition in conformity.
The debate was protracted until two &chick? when the ques-
tion til'adopt -the inotion of Mr. Mason pumped by it, itiname
majority (not more than WI or 30 agaitatt
At fosw o'clock the town assembled accotdbig to adjmaxement,
when the Committee reported the Memorial, which was read
from the Chair, and passed nearly aiaalatesafp. Wc believe
there were not half a dozen bands against it Id the, bplls
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