The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-22 00:00:00

ANSWER.

tt.---•Without loss of time I presented to the Council of Re•
gency the Note which your Excellency was pleased to transmit
to me on the sth inst. as well as a Cupy of the Paper lately
printed and published in this city. His Excellency, fully im-
pressed with what your Excellency has been pleased to state con-
cerning the malicious rumours which have been for some lime
so industriously circulated in these parts, has ordered me, above
all things, to declare, that believing himself as much as your Ex-
cellency in discrediting; reports and writings which can is the
least degree offend the respect and decorum due to his Britannic
Majesty, his Government, and the English nation, will most
willingly hasten to publish the Note of your Excellency, with his
Reply, well persuaded that their publication cannot fail to unde-
ceive the incautious, who have allowed themselves to be se-
duced by people who intend to destroy the friendship and amity
which happily, and without the least interruption, subsists be-
tween the two Allied Nations, and without which neither
union nor concord can subsist between their respective govern-
ments. In regard to the imputations to which your Excellency
refers in your Note, considei ing them as injurious to the august
Sovereign as too the Government of the British Nation, they
cannot certainly be attributed to the generality of the inhabit-
ants of Cadiz, of this balwark of Spanish independence,• much
less to the nation in general, who has given us so many proofs
of its gratitude for the generous assistance of Great Britain.
•'fhey can, therefore, only have their origin in the imagination
of some individuals, whon influenced by the euelny, or carried
away by the desire of being siogular in their opinions and
wi itings, aspire at an ephemeral celebrity, to which they sacri-
fice the most sacred interests of their country, which they do
not know, or prefer to their own. Fortnnattly, the number of
persons engaged in introducing mistrust between the two Allied
Nations is very limited, and 60 very,inferior to those who pro-
perly appreciate the generous efforts of Gr. at Eritnin in the pre-
sent contest, that they can'never the end which they have
proposed ; 'out rather, on the contrary, the artifice empb.yed
by the enemy being once known, as well as the instruments
made use of, both will be included in the execration of ail good
Spaniards, who, without dispute, constitute the greater part of
those who compose the vast monarchy. Nothing proves so
touch what I have stated as the injurious suspicion,: which ac••
-company the reports and rumours spresd respecting the pre.
tended occupation of Cadiz by the trolls of his Britannic Ma-
jesty, to which the French have contributed from the first day
they presented themselves before this place, for the purnose of
pun tieing discord and exciting mistrust in the minds of its
inhabitants. The object of this imposture being known, it will
not be difficult to comprehend the views of those who are so
eager in circulating and. giving credit to them ; but the. Public
in i eading the coin ludic.}; expressions of your Excellency on this
point, and well persuaded that the two Governments cannot du
less than agree in respect to the number of troops nec..ssray fur
the defence of so important a position, will remain tranqu.i iii
the confidence with which the t.;oyernment waist inspire them,
and in the good fait of the British Cabinet. 'I he same Council
of Regency has more th.m once been the mart of calumnies
more or less injurious, bi•th in words and writings; bun :ertaia
of it. rectitude t. conduct, and that nothing could be attached,
with the least fout da ion, contrary to the decorum and dignity
of its Representation, is thoroughly satisfied that it has its sup •
port in the opinion of the good.
_Consequently, his Fn.:erne my
has charged .-re to inform your Excellency, that the tip‘nnsh
nation, as well as its Government, tar from p••ying attention to
the insidious remarks which the encore has succeeded in conti-
nually scattering, to dissolve the Min bonds whica or:lte the
two Powers, are eomplettly convineen that nothing hips the
combined tir ins of norh, can bring to a glorious conclusion the
arduous enter prise tot which they have fought ; and they are,
therefore, penetrated whit the just gratitud• thty owe
Britain, for the lively interest with which, Iron; the commence-
ment or the war, it has protected anti assisted .paint, in detsnce
of its King, and political inoependence.---The expressions con-
tained in this reply, an • the sinceie protestasinns that ,the
Council of Regency ardently desires, as your ditettlePCY townknow,
know: to every day draw closer tiaretaiipta *jct &bap mild
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