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London, England, 1808-09-16 00:00:00

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FRENCH PAPERS,

BOONAPARTE's. EXPOSE.

IN RESPECT- TO SPAIN, AND HIS RELATIONS WITS

OTHER POWERS.

PARti; SEPT. B.—On the sth instant, the Senate
assembled, under the Presidency of his Serene High-
ness the Prince Arch. Chancellor. The Prince Arch
Treasurer, the Prince" Vice Grand Elea-tor, and the-
Prince. Vice High Constable, assisted '►t the Sitting •
The Ministers for Foreign Affairs and of War coma
manicated the following Reports. A Message from
his Majesty was also ordered to the Senate.

REPORT OF THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS "TO
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY.
" Bayonne, 'April 24, AA:
" SIRE—The security of j• Jar Empire; the cond.
solidation of its power, and the necessity of employ-
ing every means to compel to make peace a Govern-
ment which, making a sanguinary sport of mankind,
andin violation ofevery thing held most sacred amorigst
men, has adopted the principle of perpetual war,
imposes on your Majesty the obligation of ,putting
an end to the anarchy which menaces Spain, and to
the dissentions which agitate it. These important-
circumstati6es rendered the choice of a line of cone
dud extretely impsrtant, they involve considera-
tioriS I;sPhieli interest in the highest degree both
France and Europe.
" Of all the States of Europe there are none
whose fate is more necessarily conne&ed with that.
of France than Spain. Spain is to France either a
useful friend or a dangerous enemy. An intimate.
alliance must unite the two nations; or an implacable
enmity separate them. Unfortunately that jealousy
and distrti-4t24hich exist between two neighbourin!..;
States have 'rendered enniity _habitual. It is thus
-that the ensangeioed page of history atfeds the rival-
ship of CHARLES. V. and FRANCIS I. which was not%
less the rival;hiP of the two nations than ~of their
Sovereigns, and which Continued under their suc-
cessors. The trouble of the League were ex-
cited and fomented by Spain, who was no stranger
to the disorder of La 'Fronde, -and the power of
Lot is XIV. did not begin to rise until after having
courjuerecl.Spoin, -he formed with the then reigning
House in that kingdom an alliance, which, in Its
co.h:equences,,pl4ced the Crown of that kingdom on
the head of his grandson. That att ot proviyient
policy gave to the two countries an age of peace,
alter three ages of war.
" This state of things, however, ceased with the
,cause which gave birth to it. The French Revolu-
tion broke the permanent connedion which existed
between the two nations. Thea came the third
Coalition,- in which Spain, prodigal to France of _
protestations of frieniship, secretly promised her
aid to the coalesced Powers, -as was discovered by
the Papers communicated to the English Parlianient.
The English Ministry determined from this moment
to undertake nothing against Spanish Ainerica, al-
ready considering Spain as an Ally, and Spain, as
well as England, looked forward to the defeat of
your armies. Events set aside that expealation, and
Spain remained friendly,
"At the epoch of he Fourth Cbalition,Spain spew-
ed more openly, her hostile disposition, and bettayed
by a public ad, the secret of her engagements with
• England. That famous Proclamation cannot be for-
gotten which,preceded by nine days the battle of
Jen,,, by which all Spain was called to arms when no
enemy threateneA her, and which .was followed by
measures promptly effedive, since the military este-
blistimentof that kingdom was-raised from 1 t B,OQO

men tot 40,000. A report was spread that the army
of your Majesty was beaten, and that Austria was
about to declare against you; and Spain imagined she
might declare herself with impunity. The victory of
Jena confounded her proje&s. Ile moment is arriv-
ed to'give to France on the side of the Pyrenees • a
permanent security, so that if ever she is exposed to
dangers,.she may, instead of.having any thing to fear
from Spain, exped from her aid, and have recourse
to the Spanish armies to march to defend her.
In its present State, Spain is ill-governed, badly
united, or rather, not united at all, in a common
cause against England. Her marine .is negleeted,
scarcely are any ships to be seen in her ports, and
those in the worst state; the magazines are badly

supplied, the workmen an 4 sailors not paid, whilst
iu her ports there are neither redoubts, nor batteries,
uor armaments, all the branches of administration
the most horrible disorder prevails ; all the resources
cif the Monarchy are dilapidated, the State loaded
-with amenormous debt, is without credit: 'The pro-
duce of the customs, and estates of the clergy destin-