The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-13 00:00:00

4' Spain, ebvironed .by. coasts-, inch indebteti for
a great portion of._ her prosperity to het ultra-ma-
rine poes!,!..ans, suffered by the war more than
any other State. , The interroptitin to her coin-
Inerce,,and all the destru&ion incident „to such a
stfamion, affeded my S!lbjeets, and some of them

ba,l the Mju,tiee, to attribute these events to my

inisrers

" At last, • I had the happiness to see my, king-
dom tranquil within, -and• flee front inquietude, so
ftt asresp*_:ted time inwgrity of my dominions, I
being the only one among- the. Kings of Europe
who sustained himself inlaid the storms of tbese

later times. Spain yet-enjoyed this tranquillity, not
then obstrutaed by those Councils which have mis-
led you from the right path. Y9O have too easily
permitted yourself to belmis!ed by the aversion of
your first wife towards Fr,:nce ; and you have
thoughtlessly participated _in the injurious 'senti-
ments indulAed agniust my Ministeis, against your
mother, and against myself. •
It was, now. necessary to , recoliea my own
rights as a Father and a Iciltg. With this view, I
caused,you to be arrested, and I' found among your
papers the proof of your crime: But at the com-
mencement of this career, I tßelted at 'seeing my
son en the scaffold of destrutlion,- and -I admitted

my sensibility to be excited-by the tears of your
pother. - I forgave you, notwithstanding my Sub-
jects were agitated by the deceitful expedients of a
laaion, of which you have yOurself been declared
the Leader. -"nrm that instant I resigned, all the
trauquillfty of my life, and was compelled _to add to
the distresses Ifelefor the calamities of my Subjects,
the afflictions occasioned by the dissentious in my
own wilily. •
" My Ministers were calumniated to the reopee
roc of the French, who believing that -the Spaniards
were disposed to renounce` his ciliancee and seeing
the discord that TreVailed even hi me bosom of my
own family, under various pretences inundated my
provinces with his troops. While these occupitd
the right bank ache Ebto, and appeared to have for
their object the mainteining• the eommutaLation
with Portugal, I entertained the hope that he Would
. not abandon the sentiments of esteem and friendship
w.hiclit he had always manifested towards me. But
when I perceived tliat his troops advanced towards
my capital, I felt the urgency there was for collect-
ing My army round
.my person, to present myself
before, my august Ally to a maquer worthy ot the
King- of. Spain. I should hate renreVed all his
doubts, and have secured my le st interests. I gave
orders to my troops to leave yortugal,and Medrid,
and I united them in various parts of my monarchy,
not to abandon my subjects, out honourably to sup-
port the glory of my throne. I3esides,•my extensive
experience convinced me that. the Emperor of the
French might very, well entertain wishes conform-
able to his particular interest, and to the policy or
the vast system of the Continent, but whit h might
inconsistent with the interests of my house.—
IN kat. was in such .circumstances your conduct
You introduced disorder into my Palace, and infused
a spirit of. mutiny into my Body Guard against my
person. Your lather was your prisoner; my Prime
Minister, whom I had appointed and adopted into
my family, covered with blood, was driven from one
danger to another. You dishonoured' my grey
hairs—you de-polled me of the Crown, possessed
with gloey by My ancestors, which they had pre-
served without a stain. You seated yourself upon
my throne, and placed yourself at the disposal of the
people of Madrid, and of foreign troops who were
then entering the Capital.
" The conspiracy of the Escurial had already ac-
complished its purposes. The acts of my Admini-
stration were brought into public contempt. Old,
and oppressed by infirmity, I was not able to sur-
mount this new misfortune. I resorted to the Em-
peroPof the French, not as a King at, the head of my
troops, surrounded by the pomp of royalty, but as
an unhappy and abandoned lrince. I have'tound
refuge and prote6tion in the midst of his camp.
owe to him my own li'e, that of the Queen, and
that of the Prime Minister.: I have arrived at IJay-
-onne, and you have so condu4ted this negociat
that every tilting depeuds, upon the mediation and
proteetion .of this great Prince.
"'Tie idea. of resorting to populaAgitatiou would
tend to the ruin of S 1 cart, and, expose yourielf, my
kingdom, my subjects, and my 'family, to the most
'horrible catastrophes. My heart has been fully Liu-
folded to the Emperor ; he knows all the injuries I
have received, and the violence that has been done
to me : he has declared to me, that you shall never
be acknowledged as King, and that theeenetny of his
fatiser can never acquire the confidence of Foreign
States. He has, in addition to this, shewn Me let-
ters written with your own hand, which clearly
chew your aversion to France.
Things being thus situated, my right's are clear,
and my duties are much more so. It is • incumbent
upon 'me to prevent the shedding of the blood of my
subjects, to do nothing at the douclusion of my ca-
reer which shall carry fire and sword into every part
of Spain, and reduce it to the most horrible misery.
Certainly, if faithful to your primary obligation, and
to the feelings of nature, you had rejected those per-
fidious Councils, and placed yourself constantly at
my side, for the defence of your father; if you had
waited the regular course of nature, which would
have elevated yeti in a tew years to the rank of Roy-
alty; I ,should have been able to conciliate the
policy -and interests of Spain with that of all. For
six months, no doubt, matters have been in a criti-
calsituatien ; but notwithstanding such difficulties,
I should have obtained the support of my subjects.
I should have availed myself ot the weak means
which yet remained to me, of the moral aid which
I should 'have acquired, ',”ectting always my ally
with suitable dignity, to whom I never gave cause
of complaint ; and an arrangement would have been
-made which would have accommodated the interests
of my stthjecis to those of my family. But iu tearing
from my head the Crown, you have not preserved it
for yourself; you have taken from it all that is august
and sacred in the eyes of mankind.
" Your behaviour with respe6t to me—your in-
tercepted letters—have put a brazen barrier between
yourself and the throne of Spain : and it is neither
y our own-interest nor that of the country 'that you
should reign in it. Avoid lighting 'a fire which will
miavoidablycause your coMplete ruin, and the de-
gradation of Spain.