The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-13 00:00:00

EPRTCE Si; pr.--

SPANISH PAPERS..

CORUNNA, Ava. 1.----Bet,c-en yesterday a•hi
day.h4ore jesterday, some En,2,115;1 ships o' .v
transports have entered this Imb..tir, d
them a trip .ate, which we tityerstand :eit
some miliions of dais, ,and brin:;s here three In
millions and a ft:a6tion, which were deficient or t.
twentv t

VALENCIA Du, ALCANTARA, J-PLY 10.--RIOH 5
Campo Mayor a;.d M;uban, we have taken p0,;,,,--
.sion of Cast:A 'Da,. id Puerto Alegre. InizneLli-
ately after this, we organized with • our own "tit,.
Portuguese truopS, who rejoice -so =eh on the, oc-
casion, that they seem aliiinst to lose Oeir
As soon as .we arrive in the districts, they form a
temporary council, and they appoint our military
officers to posts of honour, delivering- into their
hands money and other resources, wit)out being
asked f(rr it. They have performed mass in honour_
of ..FItarIINAND the With, arid. of their PBINVE, E-
GENT. They frailkst as Much zeal as our country.
rnep can do, and their troops c044;:p0. all
Wd shall soon take Yelbos.

•18.---We have here a
- CIUDAD P.Grution, JULY
small artuy of peasantry, peiliaps consisting of about
4000 men, but full of life and ardour; and in con-
jumlion with the Portuguese, they talk of taking
Almeyda.
BILBoA, JULY 23,—The Asturians advanee to.
wardi Pancorbo. The Frendt took a ,Ay
trianuflaurers of armS at Plifcentia more than four
thousand muskets quite lini4ied, Which were sent
Bayonne, 'and the industrious labourers were left
without cOmpensation Likewise they-have taken
away all the zirins that were to be found in Alav3.—
The terror they have diffused every iv here :is pro-
digious. Our' Gelieral EGUZA has given orders at
Viatoria for "quarters for 14,000 men. These are
preparing, and we hope to part for ever with our late.
visitors:

[FROM ri CORUNNA PAPERS of Ace. r AN Z.]
" Uttd sahis viCtis, riullam sperare salmon."
" To-denonnoate a conquering tyrant the regenef
rator,6l the World and the protector of the arts and
'Sciences, can only 5e done by a nation which is lost
to all thought and refletc.lion, and which has abandon-
ed the sentiments of tenSCLI, truth, and ',orlon'
This tyrant, cc hose aCtiotis have been so
,misaopre4
liended, has hurried onward the desolation of war:
from di,arial r.O distrait, from province to province,
from .kingdorn,to kingdom, without being impelled
by any nsties,but those /.)f anmition,•to...surAcrt alt
civil utLicr, to teas asunder the sacred bond's, of. reli-
gion and friendship, to deprive children of
parents, t/bAth3 fields in human gore, and to fill
,
the. worm' with attielion and terror, in. every form.
that wis3l)plied ingenuity can devise. To suety an
tr stupidity and degradation ha!! the
renectnit-; • of
1-1 natioti arrived, and to such an excess of im-
ex
Podence-and ferocity under the demOn by which it
is gevertle•d, although not.-more than 20 years ago it
"I" esteemed the most civilized and polk.hed nation
of Eur)
The Gauls,-urged. by the earnest desire
of libcny, mistook their course, and sunk into the
most.•
4:y1o:111-mous slaery. .A.‘ubitious of glory, they
;relit conquest to conquest; but mistaki-
trti the araise for the use of po'.,:'er, they degenerated
1 rational beings info wild beasts, from valiant
.and generous Aoldiers into base' plunderers and cor:.
trupt assassins at lasf, they•deseende(l so low -
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by their perfMy and ferocity, as to become a public
opprobrium-, :and to be dreaded more than the o, asks .
.of the fOrests., They became more contemptible.
and'Odious than the Catirees and Hottentots, who at
.It;at'ietitin reped for the idols of their country.--
Age, sex, innocence, and even the, sacred altars of
`llov-en, all, all have .been prophaned, dishonour-
ed, vilifi d, deSttoyed by the devastating armies
Of him 'who calls .himself the liberator of Europe,
the refOrmer bt mankind, the universal
.legislai-
tor and the prote6tor of the arts and
.sciences.—
Naplc, Weiiiikalia, and Spain, are the melancti..ly
theatres ofifi'ese tragic scenes ;'-and our own ba-
thers, the unfortunate inhabitants of the..extensi. cr
,district's of this peninsula, are the eye-vvinieis,..s .
such atrocities. Yet he presumes to proclaiM
self our Sovereign and Benefa&or ; and he assures us,
that our happiness is the sole objed of the exercise
of his authority. Does be believe, in the extrava-
gance of his self-conceit, that the name of his fini;--
ly alone is sufficient to the prosperity of the nations
submitted to his. power ? Does he thitlic that we
Spaniards are so ignorant as not to be conviuced chat
the glory and happiness of our county must dep.'n I
upon the preservaiton of our liberty, our relieien,
and our laws What beneWs can we expect trout
him who regards neither the rights of oalion.;,
n9l.the 'Sfacrecr privileges of tale altar ? Tocotrunie)ie
by ...dilfosipg'destruaion, is not to reform abuses,
or to proted'prOperty: Conntrymen, our .law are
.the same which prevailed in the monarchy derieg.
the 16th century, when Spain took the precejoiree
of every, other nation
.pf Europe in arms and
literature. Then 'it was that other kingdoms ac-
khoWledged het as' their model, and every kingdom
admitte;cl wiedom and discretion: -Wh3t necus-
sity havd*ktlien for the Napoi.EoN Code ? Can
we iSels:l‘"A"from destrudion by none but. a foreigo
hand, and stall we look to France Tallier than to
r•otmlylis'fbr our own emancipation Perhaps under
the.:74sw' intruders, France will not 'adopt the same.
sage policy which preVailed under the celebrated
- Richelieu. It is too clear, that in order to esta--
blish: induitry and wealth in France, it.is necessary
that-Spain should deliver herself up io indo'ience.
Whal'fitcrarnage would arise_ to the French mann-
faEturers,;:if Spain, deprived of her regions in Awe-
'rica, should: exercise her brawny sons in prodative
and' labotjons employments ? What .would the soil
ofTrance yield to her children, if the agricui•ture of
out Southe.rnprovinCes should be extensively proinot-

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