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London, England, 1808-07-14 00:00:00

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Lajrala.:ll‘7' SPANISH DOCELWENTS.

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FRENCH DECREE AT ST.. ANDER°. .'"
- • AndeFo, the zsth fune,4Bl66l', i
Stit--I have the honour to inclose. to
,Fu the
becree which I have just issuedon your, account,...-r-'
You are appointed Chief Magistrate (Corregidor) of!
the City and Province of St. Andero.; you,rare,i
therefore, authorised to circulate all the- orders.. ofl
Government, as well as those which I may.issue,
through all the towns, borOughs, and other places
of this 'Province; you will have the goodness to
Paint out to me the Justices (A4caldvs) :ydio shall
refuse to obey the dictates of my authority.
Please to give notice to all the Justice.; (4.loaldes)
Within your jurisdietiOn, that they are immediately
to cause the peasants of their different distitiCtg-to be
disarmed,- and to_transtnit without delay to St.
,An,-
dero all the muskets, sabres, pistols, &c, which shall
have been taken from the peasants.
I request the Chief Magistrate to accept the asstit- ,
once of my consideration.

. .
MERLE::
Head-quarters, St. Ande'ro, June is, ittosi3. '
The General of Division,.commanding the French
troops in St. Andero, considering, that the insurrec-
',‘ lion which has taken place in this city and province,
has entirely destroyed that civil authority, Without
which public .tranquillity and order cannot be main-
-1 tained ; taking Waller into consideration, that Cell.
tral authorities are indispensably. requisite for com-
munieating the laws; orders, and decrees of Govern. Inent; to the different .towns, boroughs, -and otter
places of the Province, decrees`as follows:
Aar. I. Don, Bonifacio Rodriguez de la Guerra is ap-
••
pointed Chief Magistrate (Corregidor) of the City and Pro-
vince of St Anders.
i -
ART. IL His authority is to extend over the whole pro-
vince. The General of Division therefore direas a;1 )us-
` lice. (Alealdes) and Constituent Authorities of the dale-
;
rent Communes to obey his
tratordeise , on pain of milttary eye-
.
act under him.
cution. The Chief Magis Will appoint a Secretary to
ART. Ni. The present dee ee shall be printed, pubshed.,
and pasted in all .places where it may he
required. in order
that no person may be able to 'plead ignornce in his defence.
. NI E K L E, General of 1)i vit;ioti,
Commanding the French Troops in St. Andero.
',. 13jr virtue of the powers granted me by the Ge:
renal in Chief of the French Army in this province,
to appoint a Secretary of Government for this city
antrprovince, I herewith nominate Don PETER FRE-
UONDEZ NICTO, an aaive and trusty person, who
fornae'rly filled the See retary's place.
Qr
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Ander°, 13ONI kODR/GUEZ DE, QUERRA.
the FACIO
zstil June zSeit.

adveliture, does not pfoduce half a dozen individuiilS
L.capable of giving this political machine the requisite
movement, clireCtion, and regularity ? It does not
-fattish half a dozen'men sufficiently distinguished
,:for rank, talents, and-information ! No, Sir ! they
are not to be found among us ! Not even one such
'titlark:ter do tve possess !—So says the Pamphlet, to
"Ct'4l:l6l.i you are rennired to give Creclit, Surely ours
must be a sadc,ondition. Ent you -naturally inquire
who is the.author of this production? Heti-lust cer-
tainly be a person enlightened and well int‘o'rmed !
NO! be is an infamous wretch; whoilas'ilegenerat-.
ed alike froM the chataCter of a man and a SpatCrard,
who has sold-bittselfto the government of Dvitut AT,
because the existence of that of FELIDINAND did
riot suit his purpose. I know who, and what he is;
and he shall, one day, beCoineknowtto the public,
-shatte, diSgrace, and-merited punishment.
-.4t. this very man knows, as well :Is you. and I,
ttla,t :ere are many persons in Spain who are capa-
'bib of laising the nation to the Same degree of pros-
Tertir, and glory which it attained in the times. of
~HaaILEs V. and :PHILIP H. • He knows, as well
h'swe do, the luminous'Writings, the extensive in-
-1 formation, I'6i-illation, the sublime and august views which our
literati for the last two centuries have published npOn
this subject It is beyond a doubt, that were we
aeluated by ambition, we possess the means of giv-
ing the tone to Europe, and.bringing her into a
state of depet&nce upon us, Even this man ad-
mits that our c inntry IS superior in natural appearance
to France; that our coasts .preient a greater-warn-
ber of ports; and that the inhabitants possess, at
least, as much genius and energy as. those of that
nation.

" Where then is the necessity of resorting to NA-
IVILEON ? Let him stay at home, or occupy himself
with his foreign domains ; and, indeed, all that he
or his brothers and relatives possess, is of. this de-
scription. We know well enough of ourselves how
to remove the obstacles which have obAruCted our
aggrandizement, and to rescue ourselves from that
dependance upon France 'which has
,been the chief
cause of our ruin. With this view, it was in con-
templation to overthrow that Colossus which op-
pressed • this nation, and CHARLES IV. was privy to
this purpose when he abdicated hips crown in favour of
his son FERDINAND—an abdication which, to his
people and to 'the Foreign Ambassadors, he declared
to have been voluntary. Accordingly, in the very
commencement of FERDI.NAND'S reign, we'began tb
feel the benefieent ettea of .his paternal intentions:
every thing announced that we were to be a great
and happy people. Already had been adopted
some'
of those plans of reform which our literati had long
stidested, in order to • rid The Government of the,
vices andffollies of a tyrannical and faCtinous Admi-
nistration.. It was intended to pluck up the tree by
the roots ; to attack both the system, and the prin.-
'ciples on which it rested: , Already there was in
train a Revolution pacific and consolatory, which
.would have'beyend all doubt rescued us from that
state of wretchedness, opprobrium, and degradation,
into which wehad sunk. It was intended that the
real interests of the State should be regulated, and
its destiny fixed, as in more flourishing periods; by a
General Assembly of the Cortes.
" Amidst such ,happy auspices, could we enter-
tain a doubt of our reuaenerai to ? Should we not
have awaked "from that lethargy and-torpor in
which we were held by NaroLaoN, and upon an
expeded continuance in which his principal proje6ts
were. formed ? Were those who thought in this
strain, not entitled to the character of true Spaniards ?
And could FERDINAND have a moment's hesitation
i'n his choice, when he called such men around his
throne, and placed them in the list of his Conned-
lots ? Under these circumstances, did we ii2ormnit
an error, forsooth, in .tala being duly sensible of the
light's, the experience, and the information of the
.thtiter'and Aider,qf the Destinies! Let us ,hank
him for the interest which he took in our welfare
and happiness ; iet us, at the same time; tell' him,
that he may "dire& the affairs of his own family as
he thinks proper, but that we are already provid-
ed with those who can govern ours ; that we are ,sa-
tisfied with our lot, such as it is ; and that, in order io
become again what we have once. been, we stand in.
AO need of his friendship anti ainatice: that without
them, we most_assuredly 'can, at the same time,
preserve our colonies-, restore our marine in order
o defend them, maintain numerous armies 'in the
Pyretinres, and even penetrate to St. Quintin and
Pavia, without the guarantee of the vast,possessions
of the; House of Austria." Let us make him sen-
sible that we are Spaniards, the same now as in the
16th Century ; that we still have among us those
hardy Conquerors who spread terror over the world;
'that we retain the same punctilious honour •and
firmness of character; that we prefer death to his
. dominion, of which he may find a proof in the fat.St
that a single Province had declared War against him,
without calculating upon what the rest might do;
and, in fine, that he deceived himself in thinking
that we were to be conquered by means so perfidious
and detestable as to merit even the public execration
of every Frenchman."

The following Letter from a Naval Officer was
received in Gloucester 1;-Ist Saturday :

—....._.
The following article appealed in the Ovieclq.Ga-
;ehf
it
ee
tot the 1, .1- ,
,_,. -.OM. Mt.: it; is an Answer to a-Pam.
he
by some of .BUONAPARTE'S Creatures
in Stpan,, recommending to the People of that Coun-
tryto. to
.submit tb the new Dynasty which he wishes
impose upon them, and to sacrifice, without a
struggle, their independence and their freedom :----
a MY DEAR SIR AND FRIEND,
" I have perused, and that with considerable dis-
gust, ,the pamphlet which you were pleased to'send
me, and which I received on the 4th instant, enti-
tled, ' The Opinion which Posterity will form- upon
the Topics of the Day,'
f It would be impossible
t with which 1 waslaoaed,by the tissue of-;h-
u.rdity, effrontery, and wicliedness which it con-
tains,
Assuredly such a produdion can only give a
Complete idea of the eharaaer of NAPOLEON, and of
the pitch of Perfidy and depravity at which that man
has arrived.. At! a time when CHARLES IV. was
signing, at Bayonne, a renunciation in his favoar,
Could it be believed that he, or his et issaries by his
order, should be employed at Madrid -in insulting
that Monarch with the most wanton audacity 1--;
Could it be believed; that, at this veryjuneture, they.,
Would be describing him as a weak, silly, degenerate
PrinceP that his spouse should be defamed in the
manner which has been made solnanifest ! Nay.
more, that she should be..called ****; but here
resped ought to restrain my petit Could it be sup,
posed that a powerful individual, by whose means
he had acquired so many ntillions of money, and the
best of our troops, and occupied our fortresses with
ntitnerorts forces, who have penetrated even to the
metropolis--could it, 1 say, be supposed that this fa-
vourite would be treated with such epithets, how-
ever correti, as tliat df a man without talents or mo-
ral"? Are you not struck with astonishment at the
gratitude. evinced by NAPOLEON, and the good um-
derstanding which he maintains with his friends ?
442 lid how can there le found a single individual
_7n,ong those whom we call old and true Spaniards,
wo does not feel his heart oppressed, and who shed;
rottl tears of des
'ti pair and revengeP Can there be one
long them who does not prefer death to submis-
sion to the yo.ke of •
del ' an ambitious and perfidious itifie
and tyrant
" The anthof. begins with- describing the glory
and prosperi-i,y-at which Spain arrived in the times
of to C),,,tIoAtItLES V. and PHILIP 11. and thence proceeds
_lel i nut her progressive decay, until the work of
xi ruin of the kingdom wis cOmpleted by the,
weakness of a Sove ' '.
reign, who delivered himself up'.
to, the caprices of a woman, and the viel.vs
vouritei and while these circumstances are aossigne:l
_
as the cause of our melancholy condition, the
Splendour and grandeur of (+rance, in its fulleit ex-
tensioni are attributed to the Administration of the
Great NI
..APOLLON.
the shore,
" Yesterday we got intelligence from .
" -Royal Soverereign, off Minorca, June 2, iS)B.
far, n •
-, , ly Friend, all may be well. The au-
red .. war against Austria,
(nor and I are agreed as to thc.se being the causes of
Spain and
tin lamentable condition ; but had he the least _ that au ilium-et-lion had taken- place in
._
that France had decla
) rc'
.and
Ponngal. The Spaniards in the Islands of A ino
la
IPaure of candour, a uality to which he is h total .
Stranger, he
and Majorca are also exceedingly discontented.i inV
would hate added, that France,' in
French General arrived in .the foemer ast week,
a great n-,
to
—"sure, contribUted to reduce .us to this
lamentable situation; 'by order to ascertain the public feeling withy respectisitex-
constitutessucking rut of us what
the new state of things in Spain 3.,dbut his
he
the hlood‘'of the body politic of a nation,
asperated the people to such
la degree, that
to
and without which it Must decay and perish. You
the
know how many
thought it prudent tof maked a retreatiasty
.2 letter
millions of dollars, and how many
ships and troops they Continent.,l Soonin Captain-General
ttelerrvaairofs.we
received
expressino. a
Year 794, and how they
have drawn from us since the
from thelC. ptah -
two' Islands, Majorca,
arrisons and tbhe
have oppressed us- with
contributions and imposts, until they have sunk us
into the
in
P
wish
to
po'rieteAtlielion* under the protection of Great
: Britain. We immediately dispatched a frigate with
" But posrponing this
subje& to a more convent_ ;
which. was in substance, that- we felt
i our reply ;
eat occasion, without lesincY sight of the main oh-
to enter into an arrangement the Cap-
m.ost ready Y
3e61, let us enquire into the consequences which
- General might make for, patting the islands,
tam Ge
llow from these premises.‘ In order to extricate
'
ourselveS from this deplorable, unsettled, and peril= garrisons, and fleet under sour prote&ion, in the
of the Kin of SP untilgeneral peace.
name g SPAIN., a .
.. ,
ous condition, whither should we have recourse ? To-
We have not yet .had a .further communication.
the great genius ! the arbiter of the fate of Europe r - We. .have
' COL' 'NIGWOOD is just arrived with two sail of
I:,ord. --. i
the ineornpar4ble NAPOLEON ! There is no other -
Lre Ime.
'retrit'dy. He alone N- capable of regenerating us"I:-:--- t
So says the Pamphlet. Btr_ a little softly, I candof' 'Y
.4 "The Bp.anish flea in this port consists of six sail of the
iine, The. garrison,' am very strong.
„run su far and So fiist you Will tell me. ' Spain, Per- ~