The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE FRENCH, DVTCH, AND GOTTENWIGH PAPERS.

F R.% N C
PARIS, MAY I'?.—The Moniteur of yesterday contains the
:illowing articles :
Letter from hie Majesty the Emperor to the Prince of "Muriel.
" Mr BROTii ER !—I have received the letter of your R►,sal
etigbness : in the papers which you have received from the
King, your Highness's father, you must have found a proof of the
.oterest which I have always felt for you. You will permit me,
under the present circumstances, to speak to You with truth and
frankness. I wished by my journey to Madrid, to draw oser
my illustrious friend to some necessary ameliorations of his
States, and also to give a certain satisfaction to the public feelings.
The removal of the Prince of Peace appeared to me to he necessa-
ry for the prosperity of his Majesty and that of his subjects. The
itfairs of the North retarded my journey. The events of Aran-
uez took place. I pass no decision on what had previously fal-
len out, nor upon the conduct of the Prince of Peace ; but I
know well that it is dangerous for Kings to accustom their peo-
ple to shed blood, or to seek to redress themselves. I pray God,
that your Royal Highness may never feel this by your own ex-
perience. It is not the interest of Spain to bijou. a Prince who
has married a Princess of the Blood Royal, and who for a long
time directed the affairs of the kingdom. Ile no longer has any
friends ; your Royal Highness will possess them no longer than
while you shall be fortuaate. The people willingly revenge them-
selves for that homage which they pa) us. How call the process
be drawn up against the Prince of Peace, without involving in
it the Queen and the King your father ? This process would give
nourishment to hatred and factious passions, the issue of which
would he fatal to your Crown. Your Royal highness has no
"Aber riVit thereto than that which you derive from your mother.
If thi. process degrade your Royal Ilig-hness destroys your
own rigat. Ile who has leant an ear to weak and disloyal coun-
sels, has no right to pass sentence on the Prince of Peace. His
aiisdeeds, if he can be reproached ss itis them, go to destroy
the rights of the Crown. I have frequently expressed a desire
hat tae Prince of Peace should be removed from atLirs; the
friendship of King Charles ofuen induced me to remain silent,
and to turn away mine eyes from the weakness of his conduct.
Unhappy mortals that we were weakness and error, these :ire
our mottos ! Butt all may be arrin;ed : namely, that the Prince
of Peace should be banished trout Spain, and I should invite
him to a place of retirement in France. As to the abdication
of King Charles the Fourth, that has taken place at a period
when my troops were traversing Spain ; and in the eyes of 1;u-
-rope, and posterity, 1 shok.:(l scoqi t. have sent so many troops
solely far the purpose of padnag from his throne my Ally and
Friend. Ai a neighboar S.lyi-reign, it IA fit that I sheeld know
this abdication, before :wino) islt.dle it. I say it to N.o6r Royal
ligmess, to the Spaniard:, an: to the whole world if the ab-
dication of King Coarles na. pro( urdA from his own will, if I7e
was not driven to it by the insorrcctiou and uproar at Aranjucz,
make no scruple to accede to it, and to acknowledge your
Royal Highness as King of Spain. 'lle circumspection which
I have observed for this month pa't, must be aseetairy to you

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far the support which you shall find in me, should ever party
differentes disturb you, in your turn, upon the Throne.
W leen Me.; ('hark; made me acquainted with the events of
last October, I was very much affected by them ; and 1 think
that be my efforts the affair of the Escurial received a happy
issue, Your Rosa! Highness was much to blame; I have no
need of any other proof of this than the letter which you wrote
to me, an,l which I shall always desire to consider as not having
cense to eat'. Your Royal Highness must distrust all popular
commotiens and insurrections. A few of my soldiers may be
murdered, but the subjugation of Spain shall be the consequence of
it. Y see with pain that some persons at Madrid have dissemi-
nated certain letters of the Captain-General of Catalonia, and
have dnia, reery thing to excite disturbances among the people.
Your 'Ova! Eiehness perfectly comprehends my meaning. You
perceive this, I have touched slightly upon my points, which it
would not be proper to enlarge upon.
You may be assured that I will conduct myself in every
thing towhtds you, In the same way as to your Royal Father.
You may rely upon my desire to arrange every thing, and of
finding an opportunity of giving you proof of my perfect regard
and esteem, Herewith accept, &c.
Bayonne) April 16, 1808.
Tr«tiviation ef a letter written in Spanish by the Sing CharleslV.
to his Son, the Prince of Asturias.
Mr 50:4 I—The faithless councils of men who surround
ybd, linVe tiroaght Spain into a most distressing situation. The
country now cannot be saved but by the Emperor.—Since the
Peace of Basle, I have been always convinced, that it was the
titst internist of my people to preserve a good understanding with
France, and I have considered no sacrifice ton great to attain
that °birth Even when France was the prey of temporary
Governments, I determined to repress my own inclinations, and
be guided only by a regard to sound policy and the welfare of
my subjects s .but when the French Emperor had restored order
in France, then my apprehension was in a great degree removed,
to that I had then new reason fur remaining faithful to my
esteem of alliance. When England declared war against France,
I had the good fortune to remain neutral, and thereby to afilird
to my people the advantages of Peace. England, soon after,
captured four of my frigates, and made war upon me before
War was declared. Thus was I compelled to repel force by
force, And the evils of war were extended to my subjects.—Spain
being surrounded by coasts, and being indebted for her greatest
prosperity to her trans-marine possessions, suffered more than
ally other country by the war. The interruption of trade, and
nil the evils eonnected with that state of affairs were ex-
perienced by My subjects, some of whom were uncandid enough
to throw all the blame on me and my Ministers. I had, how-
cam-, at least the consolation that the country was safe, and had
;Jo reason to be alarmed for the preservation of my provinces.
At the !male time, I was the only King of Europe who lived in
this security, amidst the convulsions of these latter times; and
I should still have enjoyed tranquillity, had it not been for the
advice which has turned you aside from the path of duty.. You
have been too easily led away by the hatred which your first
wife cherished against France, and you have participated in her
obstinate dislike to my Minister, your mother, and myself.
I resorted to the rights of a Father and a King, and arrested
you when I Nand among your papers proofs of your guilt. But
at the end oe my career, about to become the prey of grief, I
felt for the tears of your mother, and forgave you.
Meanwhile. My subjects were agitated by the false represen-
tations of wfaction. From that moment the peace of my life
was gone, and to the evils which had befallen my people, I had
still to add, that distress which the disunion of my family had
occasioned. Even my Ministers were slandered to the Em-
peror of the Freuch, who, thinking he, perceived that Spain
wished to depart from her alliance, nud seeing the disposition to
disorcler, even in my family, occupied, under various pretexts,
toy States with his troops: but so long as they•remained on the
tight side of tne.Eoro, and appeared destined to maintain a com-
sounication witb Portugal, I still hoped that he would return to
those feelings of respect and friendship which lie had always
testified towards me. IVhen l learned that his troops advanced
towards my capital, I felt it necessary to assemble my army
around me, in order to exhibit myself to my illustrious Ally in
that sta,“ u hich became the King of Spain. Thus I expected
his doubts o mild be removed, and my own iincrests adjusted.
/ recalled my troops from PortuAal, and ordered those of Ma•
drill to evacuate that capital, and directed them to assemble on
several points of the:Monarchy. This was nut done for the
purpose of abandoning my subjects, butt on the contrary, iu

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order to maintain more worthily the glory of the
long experience convinced me that the Emperor of ,
consistently with his own interests, ant the extend,
system of the Continent, could entertain no wish
my House. But in the mean time what was yi
You threw my whole Palace into confusion. Y.
my guards to turn against me. Your father was
My Prime Minister, whom I had reared and adi
family, was dragged bleeding from dungeon to dui
have disgraced my grey hairs; you have bereft the
worn with lustre by my ancestors, and which I ha,
without a stain; you have ascended my throne, •
yourself into the hands of the people of Madrid,
gated by the numbers of your party, and of the
that have entered the city.
The conspiracy at the Escurial was accompli:
acts of my Government were consigned to public co)
and loaded with infirmities, I could not withstand .
fortune, and fled to the French Emperor, no !mar,
at the head of his troops, and suurronded with the
throne, but as an unfortunate and abandoned Pri
found a place of refuge and protection in the midst
I am indebted to hint for my life, for the life of in,
for that of my Prime Minister. I have followed
onne. You have brought affairs to such a state, th;
must depend upon the arrangement and protection
Prince. To have recourse to insurrections of the
plant the standard of faction, would be the ruin
would reduce yourself, my kingdom, my subj.
family, to the greatest wretchedness. I. have opened
heart to the Emperor. Ile is acquainted with all
have received, and the usurpation imposed upon
declared to me that he will never acknowledge yt
and that the enemy of his father can excite no COlll
breast of a stranger. He has besides shewn me
contain proofs of your aversion with France.
Under these circumstances it is evidently my
more evidently my duty, to spare the blood of my
not at the end of toy days to adopt a course which
Spain to tire and sword, and reduce the country
wretched condition. Assuredly you ought, fait
duty, and to the feelings of nature, to have rejecte,
ous councils given you. Had you constantly appear,
side, ready for my defence, and had waited till tbr
of nature had raised you to the Throne, then the
terests of Spain might have been brought to coinci.
interest of all. For these six months circumstances
very critical ; but such as they were, I should nor
to meet them, supported by the good conduct of
and even my own feeble efibrts, but, above all, if
power which I should have possessed in proposing
an arrangement calculated to reconcile the tut
subjects and my family. In depriving me of my
have broken your own in pieces; you have strip,
that was illustrious, of all that rendered it sacred i
men. But your conduct towards me, and your ins
tern, have erected a brazen wall between you and
Spain. lam a King in the right of by ancestors.
lion was a consequence of compulsion. 1 have,
thing to receive from you. I. can consent to no
will consent to nothing that may occasion a civil
rections. Every thing ought to be done for the
nothing by them, and to forget this principle is t
selves guilty of all the consequences which its negli
I have, through my whole life, sacrificed myself
ple, and, at the years at which I am arrived, I sl
any act repugnant to their religion, their tranquill!
prosperity. But all my sacrifices will be forgottei
am informed that the religion of Spain, the in\
my provinces, and their privileges and independi
cured; I shall then lie down in my grave, forgiving
sorrow which in my latter years you have occasioned

Done at Bayonne, in the Imperial Palace,
called the Government, Any 2,180 S.
MAY IS.—Tbe disturbance! which took place
the beginning of this mouth, extended to other
i.ingdom, but h ive, however, been less I.:Hons.
Apt 11, towards evening, the people of Toledo begs
We in great numbers on the plain, crying long liti
the Seventh. The disorder reached such a height
apectahie part of the citizens could not suppress it,
and property belonging to the Corregidorc and utbi

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