The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-22 00:00:00

claimed the Messiah And is it from such a' man
that Spain is to hope for liberty, regeneration, laws,
and the sure enjoyment of her Catholic faith ?
" Spaniards, be resolute! Your cause is that of
all nations and all men. From the frozen shores of
• the Baltic to the btirning•coast of Guinea, vews are
offered up to GOD for your prosperity end -,the suc-
cess of your armies. The eyes of thei.taiveie are
turned tOwards'the West of
,Etkrope. All nations,
all the individuals of the lumen species, who either
are in chains, or are threatened by the universal op-
pressor, await their deliverance from the happy ter-
mination of the majestic confliet which a magnani-
mous people is carrying on 'against the Moil- detest--
able of tytants,,for its glory, its religion, its security,
and its good King.
"Do not n.fear his strength. His armies,. are
composed of a thousand different nations, all impa-
tient of his yoke, all longing for their ancient Con-
Stitution and the GovernmentS he' has destroyed.
Do •you, perhaps, fancy that the French people
• themselves are really -satisfied with their political
situation ? No, Spaniards. All honourable' French:
men groan in secret, and blush on reficaling that
the fruit of a bloody revolution, the result of so many
changes of government, of the dethronement of the
Bounaort dyna3ty, of the destruEtion of the Nobility
and Priesthood, has only been to ere& thrones for
five. obscure' strangers, and raise the satellities of
despotism from insignificence and wretchedness to
the rank of Princes and Dukes; to substitute in the
place of the respeelable -Ministers of the' ancient
Gaiiician Church, Bishops and Curates who are
salaried by the Usurper, and who in return preach
blind and implicit. obedience to his will, singing
hymns of praise in the Temple of Gob when his-
inieuitis prosper ; and finally to change a culti-
vated, gentle, generous, and sociable people 'into
bandati and pitmderers, who fulfil the es.eCrahle
tommands of BUONAPARTE by acts of robbery, ra-
vage, and extermination.
" If he has hitherto been almost every where
prosperous—if fortune and victory have always ac-
companied his enterprises, it is because he has known
how to sow distrust and dissatistaCtion bet wo.'eti go-
- vernments acd nations—becauSe 'he la.-I,;.fought
• against „Icings, and never agaiivt a people;,; Our si-
tuation Is very ditferent : 'he does not :now eresent
himself as a faithful ally, who conies to reform the
weak and fatal aclniinistiatiOn of CHAKI,E IV. and
to drive from the Ministry a detested individual ; but
he comes as a perfidious enemy, who, violating the
sacred laws of hospitality, robs us of our' beloved
Monarch,-and seeks to subjugate us by violence and
frzyd, who pretends to restore youth to an ancient
and feeble nation by the singular aid of an army of
assassins, commanded by a barbarous chiefaEalled a
Prince, and of a King whoni• lie offers it:so:A:the Na-
poleon race.
" Spaniards, recoile& what he said lately to. the
Poles--,-‘,4 nation If 8,000,000 inhatitanls,whicli re-
sakes to he free, is in no dan4;er of being enslaved.'
Profit, tor once, by his instrunion: Let us spew the
world that the power of iyranny is nothing opposed
to a million of men in defence Dfrtheit liberty and
honour.

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" 'But that our exertions should be 'crowned with
success, it is of the, first importance, next to the as-
sistance of the Almighty, that the ptovinces'shoutd
unite, that their plans should be concreted together,
and all their measures in harmony with each other.
No one province is able alone to deltver itself from
the yoke which the tyrant is on all sid.s en(ileavour-
jog to impose upon it. All united, with constancy
in adversity,- should adverse events occur, zeal and
good order in prosperity, must, in the end, confiner,
and their glory will remain eternally with the me-
mory of their triumphs. We are all Spaniards. The
sacred name of Spain ought to be the signal for
uniting the wishes Of us all. When the common
welfare of our country i 3 at issue, let there. be no
difference between Galician ant! Valencian, Canta-
brian and Andalusian. We .are all merqiie, of
.one
great family : let us all take up arms fori4ar,King
FERDINAND, our religion, laws, and honour. Our
cause is one; let our minds be one; one plan, atid
one defence, and common our dangers and our
sidories.

It is certain that, at present, the provinces are
perfectly united in the Objett in which their hope's
are concentrated, and that if some of them have not
yet raised the standard, it is because they are under
the power •of France, oppressed, and without the
liberty of either arming' themselveS or expressing a
free sentiment. Yet there is still wanting a centre'
of union, a supreme authority, whose voice, is heark-
ened to and obeyed in all the provinces;to whose
counsels general plans of attack, defence, and lie-
gociation may be decided: A Lieutenant-General
of the kingdom is necessary; who, io the absence of
the -Monarch, may 'exercise a military dictatorship
in Spain, as long as French Soldier, ate in our terri-
tory, and be obeyed by all of Us who bear arms for
the King, and who live •on Spanish greiund, 4 !le
Captain• General of Arragon has already invited the
Cities to send Deputies to 'Teruel, or some other
spot adapted to this most important eleaion. This
concerti becomes more urgent every day, from the
danger of separate attacks from the enemy, which
is his grand project. Let the de6ion of a Lieute-,
Dant-General be the objert of the first deliberation in
alt the towns which declare themselves against the
oppressor of the world.• On this depends the unity.
of Spain, and the maintenance of the necessary rela-
tions of this great whole ; and while the representa-
tives oldie nation assemble, let good Patriots lay be-
fore the public articles of a Constitution, which may
secure to
.the generous Spanish people the independ,
once of their Sovereign, their 'own citgojty,: their
auguit religion, their honour, and their sacted,rights,
which have hitherto brew the sport of despotism, and
the prey of its satellites,"

this systena.might be preserved, let the place be in-
stantly abandoiird.for a time.
In. aid of this plan, the removal of arms, ammu-
nition, and provisions, to new depots, should al-
ways precede every retrograde motion of the armies,
where the bare possibiiity of such an event is con-
templated. This would be effeeted with extraordi-
nary facility, because every individual is devoted to
the common cause. Every aid would be voluntary,
and men, women, horses, and carriages, would take
the burden from the soldiers. At the same time, the
/dismay that usually accompanies such transfers would
no longer exist where the system is known.
Above all, the Spanish Ships of War, and the
French
.Squadion, should be so situated as to be
wholly independent and unshackled, lest the inha-
bitants of the ports where they are stationed should
be taken by surprise, and terrified into the deten-
tion or surrender of them, by being placed in'the
cruel situation of hostages on'the approach of a ra-
pacious and sanguinary foe. •
The importance of obtaining possession of the port
of Cadiz, for instance, would be enhanced ex-
. tremely in the enemy's estimation, by. the proba-
bility of regaining his ships, and tbus.there would
bean additional and powerful motive for occupying,
at all hazards, a place, the loss .of which would be
infinitely more disastrous to Spain, than its posses-
sion would be beneficial to. the enemy.
Upon the same principle it would be expedient
to relieve the nation front the ,incumbrance of its
prisoners when practicable ~which would remove
anxiety in the event of the enemy's approach, re-
lease the guard, and reduce the consumption of;
provisions. •

The temporary occupation of the. Island of Mi-
noica 'by a British gairison, and making it a gene-
ral depot to meet every emergency, would be -a mea-
surei~l,lydesirably and reciprocally advantageous
to troth nations. Here their navies would be per-
, tealy secure, and hence a chain of communication
and a combined system of naval and military opera-
119LIS around the whole coast of the peninsula would
be established; the whole remote and permanent
bearings of which would be the fortress of Gibraltar
and the Island of Minorca. Into these it should be
the business of England to pour store, ammuni-
tion, and provisions, naval and military, and to
establish lio•pitals upon an extensive scale. At
these stations that part of our army which might
happen to be unoccupied, would form corps of re-
serve and observation, prepared to support the Pa-
triots, and to surprise the enemy, with the greatest
promptitude and effeet, along a vast extent of coast,
by which nJeani he would 'be kept in a constant
state of alaym, and be under .the necessity of weak-
ening his main bodies, by making his detachments
much' more numerous than the nature of particular
services' bright require. In short, the desultory me-
naces of a military torte so situated, would produce
'effects far surpassing its numerical importance.—
Add to this, that should a diversion in another quar-
ter `(ltaly tor instance) be expedient, this arrange.
ment is well .calculated to facilitate it, and there
are other events within the bounds of possibility,
which might render the measure still more
itn-
portaut.
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