The National Register.
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his Majesty also informs me that he has appointed the Duc
d'lnfantadu Colonel of his Spanish Guards, conferring on hint
at the sante time the Presidency of Castile. The King my
'Master, wishes that those persons who have been confined In
• ernsequenre of the events at St. Laurent, will return to his Ma-
' iesty's presence. In order that this may be known to all, and
that the loyal people of Madrid may know how into It the K ing,
our Master, labours for his happiness and their welfare, he has
ordered me to communicate it to you, which 1 do by these pre-
sents.
Madrid, the '2oth March, 1808. Do.v Awls .11ua.
No. IV.—THE COUNCIL TO TILE PEOPLE OF
MADRID.
Nothing. ought to disturb the public tranquillity in the happy
moment of the elevation to the Throne of Spain of the K
'Ferdinand V 1 Ith. His faithful solders,: have given in• that •
happy hour to his Majesty proofs of their devotion and their
affection. They ought not to doubt the affection whieli his Ma-
jesty has for them, and that he will employ himself in arts for
the public happiness and for the accomplis!nnent of the desires
of the people of Madrid.
But what is most important to the suceess of the elevated
views of his Majesty is public order, and that this should lie cc-
sureil, the Council flatters itself that all the iehahitants of this
faithful City will retire to their homes, and that they will re.
main in the most perf.ct tranquillity, persuaded that they w ill
then rive to his Majesty, in the first moments of his rekm, the
best testimony of the sincerity of their sentiments, and of those
acclamations of fidelity which have been recently heard.
( A true. Copy.)
Certified by 11A wrno Lost cw MeNOZ D r. To Ult us,
Secretary to his Majesty's Council, &e.
itluxuz nt: TounEs


PROCLAMATION
11V DON DA ItTO 1.0 ME 31117GN01 DE TOUR ST.CP.ETA it Y TO
It IS 31.4-lEiTli, L:04." Vcl 1., &e.
"I certify that his Excellency Don Pedro Ccyallos, First Se-
cretary of State and of Dispatchec, has commnuicated to the •
I)ean, Coy ernor, ad interim, oftlke Council, the following Royal
Order :
Illustrious Signor, one of the first cares of the K big our Mass
fer, on ascending the throne, was to etnify that happy event to
the Emperor of the French and K ing of Italy. and at the same
time to assure his Imperial tend Royal Majesty, that, animated
by the same sentiments as his august father, far from changing,
in the slightest degree, his political sy stein with respect to • ranee,
he will endeavour, by all possilbe means, to draw closer the
hands of fr'etalshi,) and strict alliance which fortunately subsist
between Spain and the French Empire.
Ills Niajes' y has commanded me to make thi4 communica-
' lion to you, in ord.r that, upon its publication in Council,
the Tribunal may act conformably thereto, in ail the measures
taken fur re-establishing public tranquillity in Madrid, as well
a' for receiving the French troops, about to enter that city, and
adt»ioi.teriog to them Incl.,- requilite assistance ; endcarcurior,,
al the same time, to convince the people that they come as friends,
411(1 for purposes athantugeOtts to the King and the Nation.
" His Majesty flatters himself that the Council, being inform-
e of his earnest desire for more firmly consolidating the con-
nection that exi,its between him and the Emperor of the Frew h
and King of Italy, win sladil, by the means in their poirtr, to
inspire inhatillants of Madrid 'with similar
" May God preserve your Excellency many years..
1i DUO GEV ALLOS,
64 To the Governor of the Council, ad inltsrlits.
" Araiduez, March 521, 180 S."

l'.e Madrid Court Gazette of the 31st of March, contains the
611(tring articfc:—
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As the result of the proceedings iu the Escurial is not made
public, the King has commanded that a slv,rt,statemeitt should
be drawn up relative to this subject, which omen betwr
kuovve since the discoveries made Irmo the Papers of the Prince
of Peace, whereof the following are the particulars :
Ca the tltttb of October last, the law King sent to the Marquis
Caballero, Secretary of General Dispatches, several papers,
which, it is said, were found among those of the Prince of
Asturias, and consist of the following pieces :-
1. A small port-folio of twelve leases, containing a memorial
from the Prince of Asturias, the purport of tv hick is to lay.open
to the king the lire and misconduct of the Prince of Peace, autl
to rattiest tm& &lux to banish him and all his family.

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