The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-16 00:00:00

, THE NATIONAL REGISTER

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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METIR Gll, JUNE l.—On the te.7th ult. the garrison 'of this
place marched off in the direction of Wesenburg for Stettin,
where they will be stationed until they have further orders for
advancing to the shores of the Baltic.
We are surprised to hear rumours still abroad of approaching
hostility between the Emperors of France and Russia. Theyhave
no doubt arisen from the movement of French troops to various
parts of the coast—and those who have given credence to them,
have forgotten the hostile measures which it is necessary to take
to disappoint the purposes of England, who is sending a fleet of
thirty sail through the Sound, to force a trade where her efforts
have hitherto been ineffectual. We are convinced that the re-
port does not deserve the least credit.

HELICIOLAND, JUNE 2.—This day, after a forenoon of re-
markably fine weather, some darkand gloomy clouds were per-
ceived, about four o'clock, to arise from the South, at the ex-
tremity of the horizon, and cohtinued to collect till about half
past four, when the gloom was so great as almost to equal noc-
turnal darhness. On a sudden, a white foam was perceived on
the surface of the sea, drifting along with astonishing rapidity,
and on its approach it blew such a hurricane of wind, as has
scarcely been witnessed by the oldest inlu.bitinits in this island.
In a moment, every light article on the ground was carried into
the air, and fur about half an hour the sea appeared one mass of
foam, when a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning en-
sued, followed by a heavy pouring of rain. This calmed the
wind, but we much fcar that any vessel that came withia the
sweep of this violent whirlwind must have suffered greatly..

SPAIN.

THE COUNCIL OF REGENCY TO THE SPANISH NATION.

That mentor Ale day, Spaniards, on which the nation rose to
the Mhajoity of Independence, from the depth of servitude and
dismay, Iris now come round for the third time. What grand,
but, at the same time, mournful recollections does nut its re-
turn excite !

When Napo'con was issuing from Bayonne Us Decrees of
blood—when, madly impatient, he was accusing Murat of re-
missness fur nut precipitating the means of terror, lie did not
perceive that throe atrocious colitis( Is, recoiling upon the very
iniquity which planned them, would be df sti uctive to their
treacherous agents. The second of May dawned : the French
had fixed upon it for completing their murderosis plots; and
the people of Madrid, indignant at the outrages which they
suffered, rose at once to revenge them, or to die. 11l arrtied,
without plan, without chiefs, they did not hesitate a moment
to attack those veteran battalioos, formidable by their arms,
their victories, and theiximion. The patriots tied fighting nobly ;
or they perished by treachery, while thinking themselves pro-
tected by the triooi which disarmed them. But the blood
which was shed could nut be confined t^-the Prado of the ca-
pital ; it tiprtiVi iticif over the soil of the Peninstd t ; it every
where excited erthushism ; and at one and the same time, and
with c,ne voice, the signal was every where given fer this lan-
e:mots, sanguinary, and desolating war, rintilar in all respects
to the execrable aggrtosion which gave it birth.
It was then said by our treacherous etiemies, atol their un-
worthy partisans, " I-low rash and unavailing your attempt !
You have neither arms, ninga-ioes, nor soldiers ; your. 4 ;el:e-
-rats and Officers want experience and military knowledge; your
poverty is great, your iginorancegreatur ; you must lose every
battle which you hazard against the most practised troops in
the world ; the war will disorganise-, will ruin ey, ry thing; and
your Worti, instead of sieving that shadow of a
y wr)kb you adore, will plunge it in misery and desolation,
and loatl it with much heavier chains than tlwse you now wish
to escare."
Span.ards you rejected with horror these vile suggestions,
and devoted yourselves to adversity, certain of .shaliiir, off ig-
nominy by resistance, and of finally establishing, though at the
it;enset of immeuse labours and numberless exertions, tloit isn-
i,kpmidence and happiness to which you aspired. True it isf
that the stupid tvrauny to which you were previowiv subject,
had left you without mounds to oppose to the inunefatioto A
1i.4".";0US sea broke in, and covtred with its waves an unprotected
c,iontry; but it must one day ahandon it again ; and the inunda-
tion, though now destructive (in like manner as the earth is
fertilized by the conflagration of forests or the ashes of volea-
tros), will deposit on •our soil aH the germs of prosperity and

\Vliat combats, what vicissitutles, what contrariety of everts
• have yin nut expericnced during these. three tertible years !
conquerors at first, then
.conquered; formidable by the
I fore.... whicb yrni opposed tl your enemies; hivonrecf by the wis
of Austria ag,,inst the Tyrtlt, but tc.. 3t)vii d ut that

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p,,werfiel assistance ; condemned again to experience all the ri-
gour of d••stiny, and reduced to extremity; -threatened with the •
dissoltiCon of empire• by the separation of some distant pro-
vinces ; yet always firm, always magnanimous; encountering
adversit; without being overcome by it ; forming new establish-
mews amidst your very ruins, and dismaying the enemy by
your ceaseless efforts.
If from this stormy and uncertain spectacle itrpartial Europe
and lio,terity turn their eyes to your political and civil march,
how much will they see to compensate fbr your iniatary
fortunes What were you before the SECOND or MAY ? Grief
to recollect it, and shame to utter it !—Slaves, bending trader
the yoke of tyranny ; obeying, like a worthless herd, the em-
pire -ot despotism and caprice. What are you now ? At the
solemn voice of your Representatives, in Cortes assembled, the
imperishable rights of the people are revived, which des-
potism had_usurped ; arbitrary government has disappeared, by
the three powers being no loner confounded in one; the poli-
tical balance is re-established; the liberty of thought is se! ured

by that of the press; the t ze'cution of juitice is at this moment
founding on the eternal basis of natural. equity; and the Con-
stitution which is preparing for you, will be the key-stone of the
gland arch, on which the Throne of the re-organised Momrchy
will be erected.

Thus, the Spaniard of the present day, dependent upon the
law alone, inviolable in his .person, his property, and the just
freedom of his opinions; contributing to such taxes only as are
imposed by the National Congress ; interposing by himself, or
by persons enjoying his confidence, in the collectka and ai pli-
cation of such sacrifices ; having all the paths of knowledge, of
glory, and of fortune, opened to his activity and industry—
marches proudly on the face of the earth, in no respect inferior
to its potentates in social dignity. In vain will you search for
his equal on the Continent, where the iron rod of oppre, sion
holds men degraded, and where all arc his inferiors. You
must search for his equals in that island alone, his generous
Ally and heroic conmeer in this great contest ; in that island,
the happy sanctuary of liberty, the grand seat o laws, and the
eternai model of human civilization! •
Such is, • such ought to be, the Spaniard under the reign of
law. 0 you who Lye under its benign influence, convey your-
selves thought to the provinces oppressed hy the enemy, and
compare your shoat ion with that of those who are there gr,an-
ing sorrow! BehoM them tyranoised over by the chiefs,
insultod by the subelterns, pillagefl by the tax gatherers ; bt hold
them horrassed by shies, assailed by suspicions, ruined by, accu-
satio-•s ; without security, wi; bout confidence, without civil or
political consideration. Thin will you fee! how much more the
rapacity of tyrants costs than the defence of your country, and
the preservation of;:(-)td laws.
Wba:ever blessings Focial order confers upon man, these the
Spanish citizen has either in prose; ;,t or in possession. Ooe
impediment alone preven'ts us from enkiyhtg them in all their
extent. and that hohedin ei tis war—a war just, n-cessary, un-
avoidable. Has it been declared b; the hticle or the'private
intereqs of a despot, by the caprice of a favoorite, or throohli
the ex ahherated declamations of an amhiticus demanonue ? No :
all Spaoiords hay: vthLd it iu a runner the rso ;t unanimous and
solemn ; all have ilasrt nod to revenge .he grt atest outrshes
which ever were oflh:eti :try nation ; and t.) defent! the first
blessing of a great people—ik-I; ht.:h.-hen:knee. Ali tit: too le.:-
rities s• hick have been hither, o estehlished—all the syst.ms of
Government which have succeth.fed each other—have they not
all 1i,2c0 f4ir maintaining the struggle? Has orh ooe of them
talked of peace ?
Spaniards ! y•ttt have demanded war : aril the war is, in the
mean time, a C4.:ltillt:C•lat:.l painful series of dangers, of ;darns,
of fatigues, and hrivatioos. But if individuals sink Header the
rihours of adversit), powerful nations never pert-h; and our'.
will know how tU ins:tote the inognifieent example us tin: 2d of
May, as it has fauWed hi. beriu without tut tong aside ft.. a
1:10:11‘r.t. Yes, Spaniards! since the of May has again
(L;wocd upon our eyes. and tines us s:ruogling with the same
iiifloxioility as tn. first, let us, on it, prouaiy rchcat to the slavtos
of Boonapa: to, that the tyrant was niost bitteth deceived in has
ealculinians at Bayonne. The innocents sacrificed at Madrid
could not p urge us into the stupor of terror. By them began a
war which, perhaps., shall last for ages. Thousands upon thou-
sauds of warriors shall.be inino!ated to our vengeance. What,
fonhoh discipline aod military skill may give them victories!.--
their fate shalt not on that account be better in this terrible coun-
try. Conquerors, or conquered—to-day in stio,ll numbers, to-
morrow in greater—as many as pass the Pyrenees shall, sooner
or :Ater, accompany the three hundred thousand victims whom
we have already offered as a holocaust to the manes of these
who fctt on the 2.1 of May ; and Spain, like the gulph of eter-
nity, shall receive the French en her bosom, and shall not per-
mit one of them to escape from it.
.PEDRO DE AGAR, President.
Cadiz, May 2., MA.NUE.i. JO sr.F QUINTANA, Sec.