The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-16 00:00:00

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view between the two Sovereigns, in the Imperial Palace of
Marne; that when his Majesty expected to witness the realiza-
thin of this promised recognition, he was surprised with the
propositions above alluded to; and that his Majesty had autho-
rized me to protest against the•violence dune to his person, in
not permitting him to return to Spain; and as a categorical and
final ansoer to the solicitation of time Emperor, that the King
neither would nor could renounce his Crown in favour of another
dynasty, without being wanting in the duties which he owed to
his subjects and to his own character ; that he could not do SO in
prejudice to the individuals of his (ion family, who were called
to the succession by the fundamental laws of the kingdom; and
much less could he consent to. the rstablisionent of another
dynasty, which ought alone to be called to the throne by the
Spanish nation, in virtue of their original right to elect another
family upon the termination of the present dynasty.
" What confidence, ir added, can Europe place in her treaties
with France, when she look to the perfidy oith hich that of
the 27th of October iris been s jointed ? :CO %% hat must he her
terror when she sees the captious means, the seductive artifice,,
and the false promises by o Inch his Imperial Majesty has con-
fined the king in the city of Bayonne, in order to despoil him of
the Crown to which, with the ieeim, pressible joy of his people,
he has been called by the fundamental loos of the kingdom, and
the spontaneous abdication of his august lather. Posterity will
not believe that the I:mperor could have gisen so great a blow
to his own reputation, the loss which kill teats. no other
means of concluding a oar with hint. than that of total destroc- •
thin and exterminatiou.
" This was the state of the discussion, when the Emperor,
who had overheard our conference, ordered to enter his
Cabinet, where, to my great surprize, I was iusiti,ed by his
Imperial Majesty with the iota:nous appellation of traitor, upon
no other ground, than that having been Minister to Charles I V.
I. continued to serve his son Ferdinand VII. 111. also accused
me, in au angry tone, of having maintained, in an official con-
ference with General Alontion, that my Master, in miler to his
being King of Spain, did not stand its need of the recognition of
the Emperor, although that might be necessary, in order to con-
tinue his relations with the fleoch Government.
" His Imperial Mikjesty manifested still greater irritation on
account of my having said to a foreign Minister, accredited to
the Court of Spain, that if the French army oflered any viola-
tion to the integrity and indepeudence of the Spanish Suvereignt),
300,000 men would convince them that a brave and generous
nation was not to be insulted with impunity.

" After this ill-treatment which I met with, which was as sa-
tisfactory to my own feelings, on account of the real cause of it,
as it was painful on account of the Royal Personages whose
interests were in question, his Imperial Majesty, with his natural
asperity, .entered into a conversatiou upon the points which had
already been dismissed. lle was out insensible of the strength
of my re4sons, and the solidity of the arguments by which
supported the right, of the his dynasty, and the whole
nation ; but his Alajesty concluded by telling me, e I have a
system of poliro my men. lOU 1114gla in adopt more liberal
ideas ; lu be less sm:Tplible on the point of honour, and not
sarriafiec the prosperity of Spain to the interest of the Bourbon
" The tricks of diplomacy could not prevail over the firmness
of the l' ing, or the zeal of his repivsentatives, and the indivi-
duals of his It oy-ul Household, who deliberated at a Council
(his Alajesty being present 1, upon the interests of the King and
the nation; so *it the Emperor saw himself under the necessity
of changing his plan, in order to accomplish his purpose, and he
wished that the Royal Parents should depart for Bayonne, in
order to make them the instruments of the oppress' and dis-
grace •of their sun. Fur, this purpose he ordered the Grand
Doke of Berg to employ all hi, arts to accelerate their journey
to Bayonne. ,
" The 'loyal Parents required, that the Favourite should
precede them initteir journey, and the (rand Duke made vari-
ous applications. to the Junta of Government to obtain his
liberty. The Junta had no authority to liberate him, having
in this point been laid under positive restraint by his Nlajesty's
orders from Vittoria, as has been already mentioned; hut the
Coigitil, misled by the suggestions of his Imperial Majesty, and
intimidated by the tbreat that the Grand Doke would obtain by
irresistible foeue•witat would but be coneeded as a favour,. the„
Junta ordered the. release of Don Manuel Gudoi, who was am
meitimel y e 4 to Bayonne, under an adept *eaves