The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-31 00:00:00

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mitred in a city taken by storm, we do not pretend to deny.
But this is a calamity which, in such cases, it is impo
nssiblon
e
entirely to prevent, notwithstanding the strictest atteti
on the part of the Officers; and the writer• ought not to for-
get, that there were Spaniards who entered the town with
out troops, and that on all occasions they have not only with
difficulty submitted to the laws of discipline, but have also
displayed no small degree of cruelty towatds those of their
own countrymen, whom they suppose attached to the enemy,
a belief which the cord oct of the inhabitants of St. Sebastian
during five years' subjection to the I'i eeeli yoke, may have ren-
dered prevalent:
Having been able to adduce ottiv these five instances of
loss of life,. the write: proceeds to other crimes, which, if
really perpetrated, are, no doubt, greatly exaggerated, and
which are desci ibed in a manner most calculated to blind rea-
son and extinguLk every friendly feeling towards us.
44 With regard to the examples of personal violation, I am un-
willing to be partienlar ; but to impart some idea of it, I will notice
what happened to an intimate friend of om's. He was in his own
house, endeavouring to protect an innocent daughter, only 1 years
old, and, in order to rescue himself from being the witness of her
infamy.he gave It! hard dollar,, with which he purchased tier rescue.
It is impossible to ascertain the member of martyrs to purity who
paid the forfeit of life on that day ; they are -burn., and buried
beneath the ruins of their dwellings. What must have been the
situation of the fathers, when in the excess of their terror they en-
deavourett to protect their oth-prieg from such lawny ! A multi-
tude of sentinels letrred up all and eeTess with respect to
those houses where such cruelties were eaumnitted ; while in the
open streets the French pi limier, who was the only enemy ; was
treated with kindness and respect.
" Nor was our holy religion regarded. The churches were pil-
laged, and the sacred chalice not belie; found in one of them, and
it being discovered that the parish-pi jest had taken it home, he was
followed thither, forced to surrender it, and its contents were
thrown upon the growl. The clergyman, urgtal by religions zeal,
endeavoured to regain the chalice, hut in his pious endeavour he
was opposed, his clothes torn from his person, and he was cast
into the street naked. A woman ran to throw a shirt over him,
but this also was snatched away by the barbarians. What I have
stated is sufficient to satisfy you, that the imagination of man
is incompetent to emteeive the acts of profligacy that were com-
mitted on that day, and which will be engraven on the memory of
eveiy good Spaniard.
" It was in the morning of the Ist instant, that the conflagration
began in one of the corners of the principal street. In the evening
they set tire to the street of Escottilla, and on the next morning to
that of Payueto ; in the same evening to Juan de Bilboa, and to
the new square ; to truth, the city was methodically and progre—
sively set on fire, in the situations where the pillage was completed.
The enemy had not molested at all the Owe during the whole time,
I mean front his flight to the Castle, until the city was laid in ashes
I ought to except a row of houses freed from the flames in Trinity-
street, which have been converted into (punters for the troops,
" Buj let us turn our eyes from these atrocities, which. are suffi-
cient to deprive us of our senses, and let us nut forget the trade
which, In time of peace, was conducted from St. Sebastian with
Trance,. and which was so injurious to the interest of Great Britain.
Let us also remember that it was a maritime port, and that under a
wise Government. at little expence, it might have been converted
into an useful station. It should also be noticed that Oen. Graham,
when he withdrew to Oyargun, did not reeommend to the neigh-
bouring people to extinguish the conflaeration until the fifth day,
when the whole was ennobled with the dust.
" Such has been the_tvretched fate of a patriotic city, which has
known how to preserve ita adherence to the good cause, surrounded
by French bnyonets.tor a period of six years, during which it has
separated fruit's the Government to which it belongs. Let
Ipassionate the-lot of. Pamplona, Tortola, Barcelona, &c. if
a. to experience the same catastrophe as St. Sebastian's; and
fjustly tear that the inhabitants of these places will take arms
the besiegers, if some mean' be not adopted to restore con-
It ought to be known that the Spaniard who would defend
fire-side, is an enemy to him, be he who he may, that can
sport of his character.
" I kiss your hands. Ac.
" MIithINGUI VELAVERDE."

TREATY OF AM!'
Between the COURTS
at Tceplitz,

We, Francis T. by
of Jerusalem, Hun*.
Gallicia, and Lodomiria
NVnrtal►nrg, and Frank
grave of Moravia ;
Silesia ; Count of Hai
Make known to at

these presents :
That since nothin
most Serene and Po+
mote by a stable pea,*
by the calamities of
joined our councils
which, we firmly true
tarn this end ; a Trea.
been entered into by
In the name of
His Majesty the Ern
mia, and his Majest
mated by a desire ti
to secure its foto
equilibrium between
war in which they
whole of the forces
Wishing, at the say
beneficial, to the *pc'
full success, their
maintenance of the
thereof, they have I
amity awl defensiv(
nished with their MI
His Majesty the
hernia, the Sicur Clement
nick Winucbourg Ochsenhausen, Knight of rho .• Golden Fleece,
Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, Grand Eagle of
the Legion of Honour, Grand Crass of the Order of St. Joseph-
of Wurtzburg, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, Chancellor of
the-Military Order of Maria Theresa, Curator of the Imperial
Academy or Fine Arts, Chamberlain, Privy Counseller, Minister
of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign Affairs, of his Imperial,
Royal, and Apostolic Majesty ;
And his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sicur
Charles Robert Count de Nesselrode, Privy Counsellor.
Secretary of State, Chamberlain, aid Knight of the Order of
St. Woledimir of the 'fluid Class ; who having exchanged their
full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon
the following articles :
Article I. There shall be amity, sincere and constant union, be-
tween his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and
Bohemia, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, their
Heirs and' Successors. The High Contracting Parties shall, in
consequence, pay the greatest attention to the maintaining between
them reciprocal amity and correspondence, by avoiding every thin;
that might subvert the union and good understanding happily
subsisting between them.
Art. H. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria guarantees to his
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias the possession of the States,
provinces, awl dominions.
On the other hand, his Imperial Majesty of all the Russia&
guarantees to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the possession of
the states, provinces, and dominions, belonging to the Crown of his
Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty.
Art. 111. As a consequence of this reciprocal guarantee, the Art.
High Contracting Parties. will constantly labour in concert on the
measures which shall appear to them most proper for the mainte-
nance of peace in Europe ; and in case the States of either of them
shall be menanced by an invasion, they will employ their most
effectual good offices for the prevention thereof.
Art. IV. As the good offices, however, which (hey promie
each other, may not have the desired effect, their Imperial
Majesties bind themselves henceforward to assist each other
with a corps of 60,000 men, in the event of either of them being
attacked. .
Art. V. This army shall be composed of 50,000 infantry, and
10,000 cavalry. It shall be provided with a corps of fiektartillery.•
with ammunition, and every other necessary tios whgte .ProPorti.

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