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ed to diminish this debt, have another destination .
given them. Lastly, in the penury of its means,
Spain, abandoning totally her marine, occupies her-
self with the augmentation of her land force. Great
evils can only be aired bygreat changes.
• ".The Most pres Sing object of solicitUde ,with your,
Majesty is. the war against England.'" England an-
nounces that she will not come to any accommoda-
tion. All. the overtures of your Majesty have been
rejected or neglected. The inability to continue the
war will alone induce England to make pea Ce. The
war against her, therefore, cannot be carried on
with too much vigour. Spain possesses maritime
resources which are lost to her and to France. It is
necessary that a good Government should give them
adivity, improve them by a judicious organization,
and that your majesty should direct them apanst the
common enemy, to arrive at length at peace, which
humanity calls for, and of which all Europe stands
so anuch in need. Every thing that leads
,to this
end is legitimate. The interests of. France and those
of. Continental Europe will not allow your Majesty
to negled the only means by which the war against •
England can be carried on with success.
s" The present situation of Spain compromises the
security of France, and the fate of the war against
England. Thai country, which possesses the greatest
maritime means in
,Europe uses them the least.
" will not be to France a sincere
and faithful friend, nor can the war against England
be continued with the hope of arriving at peace,aln-
,
tit a common interest shall unite the two Houses
reigning in France and Spain. The dynasty Which
govern Spain, thi-ough its affections, its recollections,
its fears, will be always the secret enemy of France;
an enemy the more perfidious, because pretending to
be friendly, and yielding every thing to FranCe whilst
viaorious, it. will be ready to overwhelmather the
moment her viaory becomes uncertain.
" It will be for the interest of Spain as well as of
France, that a firm hand should re-establish order in
her Administration, the disorder of which has crip-
pled her:Government, and leads to that ruin towards
which she is hastening with rapid strides. A Prince,
the friend of France by sentiment, by interest, hav-
ing nothing to fear from her, and not being an ob-
ka of distrust to her, will appropriate, all the re-
sources of Spain to her interest, prosperity, to the re-
establishment of her marine, and to the success of
the cause which unites Spain to France and the Con-
tinent. Thus the wurk of Louts X IV. will be re-
established.
" What policy suggests, justice authorises—Spain
Is rtaiiy in a state of war with your Majesty, her
communication with England was an hostile aa,.
her Proclamation of the 15th of Oaober, was really
a declaration. of War, which would have been follow-
ed by an act of- aggression if your Majesty had not
conquered at Jena. In that case, the Departments
en the left of the Loire, which your Majesty had
left without troops; would have been obliged to fly

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to repel this nets enemy.
" The French Merchants in Spain have lost their
ancient privileges, the laws of the customs were di-
re Bed chiefly, against French commerce, and were

Tel-NO.:able for their arbitrary and perpetual varia-
, lion. These variations could not be known, no pub-
licity was given to them. It was only at the Cus-

torn-house That it was learnt that the law of one

clay : was not the law of the. next. Merchandise

confiscated often without any pretext, was never re-
stored. All. the applications made by, or on behalf
of the French, were Tejeaed. Whilst Spain was
thus making war in detail upon the French and their
commerce, all her purrs, and chiefly those of the
Golph Gascony, were open to English commerce.
The law 'of blockade proclaimed in Spain similar to
that of France, was only rendered the means of fa-
vouring still more the contraband trade of England,
the m&rchandize, of which was spread through Spain

into the rest of Europe,
" Exclthive, however, of the considerations which

I have stated, existing circumstances do not per-
mit your Majesty to refrain from interfering in the
affairs of that kingdom. Tile King of Spain has
been precipitated from his Throne, your Majesty is.
called upon to judge between the father and the son.
What part will yOu take ? Will ybu sacrifice the
cause of Sovereigns, and sanction an outrage corn-
. milted Against the Majesty of the Throne ? Will
yOu leave on the Throne a Prince who cannot with-
draw himself from the yoke of England, in conse-
(pence of which your Majesty must constantly keep
on foot a powerful army in Spain. 11, on. the con-
trary, your Majesty determines to replace.CH.AgLs
W. on the Throne, it is known that it cannot be
done without overcoming a great resistance, and
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:bedding French blood.

" Cain that blood, of which the nation is prodigal
'for the defence of its own interests, be shed -for the
intcre)t of a foreign King, whose fate is of no con-
sequence to France.—Lastly, Can your Majesty,
taking no interest in these important differences,

abandon the Spanish Nation to its fate, while alrea-
dy it is..agita'ted by an extreme fermentation ; and
whe❑ EDgland is sowing the seeds of trouble and of

anarchy, ought your Majefity to leave this new prey
,to England to devour'? No; certainly not Tour
Majeity, therefore, occupied of necessity' with the
regeneration of Spain, in a manner 9seful to that
kingdom, and useful to France, ought neither to
re-establish, at the price of much bloodshed, a 'de-
throned King, nor abandon Spain to herself; for in
both cases it would be delivering her to the English,
whose money and intrigues have produced the dis,
sentions in that country.
" I have stated to your Majesty the circumstances
which demand a great determination. Policy advises,
justice'a.uthorizes, the troubles in Spain inforce the
necesSity—yours Majesty ought to provide for the
security of the Empire, and•save Spain from the in-.
fluence of England.
" I am, with respe&, &c."

REPORT OF THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Paris, Sept. a, 1808.

" SIRE—I have the honour to propose to your
Majesty to communicate to the Senate the two
Treaties which have placed the Crown of Spain in
your hands, and the Constitution which 'under your
auspices, and enlightened by your advice, the Junta
assembled at Bayonne, after free and mature delibera-
tion,
.have adopted. for the glory of
.the Spanish
name and the prosperity of that Kingdom and its
Colonies.
" If in the arrangements made by- your Majesty
the security of France has been' your principal care,
the interest of Spain herself has, however, been
dear, and in uniting the two States, by the most
intimate alliance, the 'prosperity and the glory of
both were equally the objects proposed. The troubles
which 'have-manifested themselves have particularly
excited the solicitude of. your Majesty, in depre-
cating their pregress, in foreseeing their sad con-
sequences, in hoping to prevent them by persua-
sive means, and by measures of wise and humane
policy. Your Majesty interfered as a mediator in the
midst of the divided Spaniards, Shewing them on one
side the anarchy which threatened them, and'on the
other, England ready to profit by their divisions, and
to make use of them to suit her convenience, and
pointing out to them the way by which they might
be Saved from thi's double danger, by a constitution
even provident, proper to provide ail of what they
stood in need, and in which,ii,beral ideas intermixed
themselves with those ancient institutions which
Spain wished to be preserved.
" The expectations of your Majesty have been
deceived. Individual interests, foreign io'rives, and
the influences of 16reign corruption, have prevailed.
Why is it so easy to lead nations to their ru by
letting loose thic passions ? In a former report, I
have made your Majesty acquainted with the influ-
ence which the English were acquiring in Spain, the
numerous parly that they had formed, the friends
wnotn they had aacquired in 'the commercial towns,
by holding out to them the prospect of a revival of
their trade; I had pointed them out to you as au-
thors of the sedition which overturned the Throne of
CHARLES IV. and the favourers of the popular dis-
orders which arose at that epirh. They had burst
through that salutary restraint which keeps the
people in submission, by operating upon. their in-
terest.

" The populace of Spain having shaken off the
yoke of authority, aspired -at governing. English
gold, the intrigues of the agents of the Inquisition,
who were afraid of losing their authority,.ihe in-
fluence of the numerous tribe-of Monks in Srain,
who dreaded a reform, have in this dritical moment
occasioned the insurredion of several Spanish pro-
vinces, in which the voice of the more prudent class
has been either mistaken- or stifled, of whom not a
few have fallen victims to their courageous Opposi-
tion to popular tumult, and a dreadful anarchy
has been seen to diffuse itself over the, greates.t-
part of Spain. Will your Majesty permit 'Eng-
land to be able to say, " Spain is one of my pro-_
vinces, my flag, driven from. the Baltic, the North
Sea, the Levan!, and even from the chores of Persia,
rules in the ports of France ?" No, never, Sire !
Tu prevent so much shame and misfortune, two
millions of brave men are ready to scale the Pyre-
nees, and the English will be chased from the Pe-
nin,ula. If the French fight for the liberty of the
seas, they must,' to conquer, begin by wresting
Spain from the influence of the tyrants'of the ocean.
If they comb.n fur peace, they .cannot obtain it
until they have chased from Spain the enemies of
peace.

" If sour Majesty, embracing the future as well as
the present, aspires to the noble object of leaving
after you your Empire calm, tranquil, :and Surround-
ed by poweritil friends, ybu must begin by securing
its influence in Spain.

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" Lastly, If honour is the first sentiment, as well
as the first objet of Frenchmen, your Majesty must
promptly inflict vengeance for the outrages com-
mitted against the French name, and the atrocities to
which so great a number of our countrymen have
fallen vidims. Frenchmen established- in Spain for
More than twenty years, exercising in peace their
useful industry, and almost regarding Spain as thair•
country, have been massacred. Every where French
property has been seiLed. The Consular Agents
of your Majesty have experienced a treatment which
would not have been sdiered even in the most bar-
barous countries. Wirat estimation, what consi-
deration, will the French name 'enjoy in Europe, if,
Ina country so near us, atrocities so infamous and so
public remain _unpunished. Reparation ought to be
had for them—but a reparation consbnant tirfrench,
men—by victory.
" It is no small advantage the, probability of at
length meeting the English, of fighting them man
to man, of making them also feel theevils of war
—of a war of the dangers of which they are igno-
rant, having only caused it by their gold. The Eng-
lish will be beateri,
.destroyed, dispersed, or at least
they will make haste to fly, as they did at Toulon,
at the Helder, at Dunkirk, in Sweden, and every
where where the French armies have been able to
kind them ; but their,expulsion from Spain will be the
ruin of their cause. This last check will exhaiist
their means, annihilating at the same time their
last hopes, and peace will become more probable.—
The wishes of,all Europe will in this contest be with
France. France and Russia make common cause
against England. Denmark supports with honour a

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contest which she 4id not priwbke. -Sweden, be-
trayed and abandoned by the ally to whom an in-
.sane Cabinet has sacrificed her, has already lo3t her
most :important provinces, and is hastening to that
ruin which is the inevitable effect of alliance and •
friendship with England.
:such will be the tate of the insurgents in Spain.
When the contest becomes serious, the English will i•
abandon Spain, after making them the sad bequest
of a civil war—of a war for foreign-interests, and
for anarchy, the most cruel of scourges. It will be
for the wisdom and beneficence of. your Majesty to
repair the evils of which they will be the cause.
The Court of Vienna has constantly testified to
your Majesty the most amicable intentions.; • indig-
nant at the policy of England, she has recalled her.
Minister from London, sent back the Minister who
was at Vienna, shut her ports against England,' and
placed herself in a 'state of hostility with that Power.
She has added to these measures an intardia in her
ports against the admission of vessels, which; tinder
a neutral flag, are only the carriers of • English pro-
duce and inerchandize.

".Your iVJajesty has cultivated this favourable dis-
position ; has testified to the Court of Vienna friend-
ship and confidence; and has several ,times intimated
to her, that France takes a real interest in her pro-
sperity. Lattctly, however, this Power has carried
'its armaments beyond measure—its military force is
out of all proportion to its population and finances.
Your Ministers,, Sire, only wish to remark this in
order that your Majesty may perceive the necessity
of augmenting your force,' for the purpose of still
preserving the relative superiority which exists be-
tween the power and the population of the two
Empires.

" A new revolution has broken out at Constanti
nople. Sultan MUSTAPHA has been deposed.
" The Americans, a people who involve their for-
tune, their prosperity, and almost their existence,
in commerce, have given the example of a great
and courageous sacrifice. They have inhibited, by
a general embargo, all commerce and all navigation,
rather than -shamefully subMit to that tribute which
the English impose on the navigation of all nations.
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland, are
peaceable, and wait only .for a maritime peace to
exert all their industry.
That peace is-the wish of the world, hutartng-
land opposes it; ana England is the enemrof the
world. The French nation, all Europe, knows the
efforts made by your Majesty to obtain kace they
know that your enterprizes are the immediate result
of the ill success of the attempts which you have
made to obtain it.

" The devotion of the French people is without
bounds; and it is more especially under: circum-
stances which are so essentially connecied-Witti-tneir
honour and its security, that their sentimetAs
be evinced, and that they will- shew themselves
worthy of reaping 111.1 t harvest of glory and of hot
nour which your Maje,ty lias‘prepaied for them:
" I ain, 'with Tespcct, &c."

MESSAGE OF THE EMPL:kOR AND KING NAPO-

LEON I'o THE SENATE.

SENATOR,--My Minister for Foreign 'Affairs
will lay before you the different Treaties relative to
Spain, and the Constitutions agreed to by the Spa-
nisi/ Junta. My War Minister will acquaint you
with the wants and the situation of my armies in the
different parts of the world.
" I am determwed to carcy on the war with Spain
with the utmost a,livity, and destroy the armies
which England' has disembarked in that e‘mtry.—
The future security of my subjects, the "Prosperity of
commerce, anal a maritime peace, must alike dopend
on these important operations.
" My alliance. with the Emperor of RosstA extin-
guishes et-el hope which England can entertain from
her po)jects. I have no doubts respe6ting the peace-
°, the Continent, but I neither will or ought to
rely upon the false calculations and the- errors .of
other , Courts, and since my neighbour!: increase
their 'armies, it is a duty incumbent on me to in-
crease mine.

" The Empire of Constantinople. is struggling
with 'the most violent convulsions; Sultan Sitam,
the best Emperor the Ottomans have had -'for
length of time, has just fallen by the hands ot his own
nephewS. This catastrophe has deeply affected me.
I impose 'fresh sacrifices on my people, confident.of
their support ; they are necessary, in order to secure
them from heavier sacrifices, and to lead them to the
grand result of a general peace, which ought also to
be considered as the moment of repose.
." Frenchmen, my projects have but one objeEt in
view, your happiness and the permatlent,,w4-ibeing
of your children ; and it I know you right, yqu will
hasten to, coinly with this new call, rendered neces-
sary by the interests of the 'country. YoU have so
often assured me of your affection, I will behold the
sincerity of yoUr sentiments in the alacrity with
which you will second projects that are so intimately
connected with your dearest interests, With the ho.-
nour•of the Empire, and with..n-1y glory.
" Given at the Imperial Palace of St. Cloud, this
4th Sept. 1808. . (Signed) " NAPOCEON.".

REPORT OF THE WAR MINISTER TO lIIS MA-
IESTY, THE EMPEROR AND KING.,

" SlRE,—l.have the honour of laying before your
Majesty the state and situation of your Majesty's ar-
tnies.in Poland, in Prussia, and in Silesia, in Den-
mark, it Dalmatia, in Albania, in Isaly, Naples,
and in Spain. I annex to it that of your Majesty's
armies of reserve, at Boulogne, on the' coasts on the
Rhine, and in the Interior. Your Majesty will per-
ceive that France never, before possessed more nu-
merous or better appointed armies, and that they
were never better kept up, or better provisioned.
" Notwithstanding, however, the different events
which have taken place in Spain have occasioned
a pretty considerable loss,, in consegtlence of an
operation as inconceivable as it is paintul, of the di-
vision under Genet al DUPONT ; your Majesty has
notified the resolurion you have taken or assestibling
more than two hundred thousand men beyond the
-Pyrenees, without, however, .weakening either the
armies in Germany, or that of Dalmatia. For the
attainment of thiS end, a levy of eighty thousand
rm.'n appears to be indispensable. Your Majesty
can only take these eighty thousand from the tour
classes of the conscription of the years 1806, 1807,
1808, and 1809.

"It is ascertained *by the registers kept in my
office, that independently of the men who have mar-
ried within these inar years, the conscription for

these years.might furnish hurr3tl/4?: thousand.—`,
In taking from that number a levy of eighty lion-
Sand men, your Majesty will have called out only'
one conscript out of seven, and the vacant es in this
armies will be filled up with soldiers of Q i . 2,%, and
2'3 years of age ; that is, with men fit'and prepared
to undergo the fatigues of war.
" Nor has it escaped your Majesty's foresight, that
such a. R augmentation of force would necessarily e-
volve an increase of expence of several millions
the War- Department. - It is not your Majesty's wish
that I should detain your attention' with that object
in this report : your Finance Minister has taken upon
him to make good that charge, without in anywise
increasing the taxes established by the bat
" It is true, Sire, that the custom observed of late-
years, -might, to a certain degree, induce a part of
your subjects to.consider themselves as released from
the duty of the conscription, from the moment that,
upon the total 'mass, they had furnished the contin-
gent required for the year; and under this point of
vivv, what I propose to your Majesty, might. appear
to. require from your subjects a sacrifice; hut, Sire,
there is no one but knows, that by .the words of the
law, your Majesty would be authorised to call. to
your Standard the whole of the conscription, not only
of the last four years, but even of the antecedent
years ; and even were there question of a real sa-
crifice, what sacrifice is it that your Majesty has not
a right to expeet, from the love of your subjects ?
V/ho among us is ignorant :hat your Majesty wholly'
sacrificed yourself for the happiness of France, and
that upon'the speedy accomplishment of his high
designs the repose of the world, the future safety.,
and the re-establishment of a maritime-peace, with-
out which France can never enjoy calm and trail'
quillity, depend.
" In proposing to your Majesty to declare, that
henceforth no retrospective call shall take place on an
antecedent Conscription,- I only participate, Sire, your
paternal wishes. .
" I think it expedient, at the same tinie, to pro-
pose to your Majesty to order out the conscription
of the year 1810; and to determine the amount of
it, from the present instant, at eighty thousand men,
to furnish the means, as occasion may require, of
forming camps of reserve, and of protecting the
coast in the spring time. 'This conscription would
be raised only under the apprehension -Of a war with
other Powers, nor would it.be called out before the'
month of January next.

, " Sire, it is a trnstortune inseparable from the re'
sent state of Europe, that When one Power exceeds

the amount of the forces proportioned to its popula"
latiOn, the other Powers cannot dispense with en"
creasing their's in the same proportion.
" England, independent of the immense number
Of .her seamen, has on foot an army of more thAll
two hundred thousand men ; nor is 'she so much oc'
cupied in every Session of her Parliament with any
tling so much as with the increase of her land forces'
The armies of Austria have been considerably in'
creased. France, although she has "armies more
numerous than all the other Powers, has, notwith-
standing, fewer men under arms than any of them,
compared with her population.
• " Your Minister for Foreign Airs assures me
that a stria alliance subsisted between your Majesty
and. Russia. The armaments of Austria have often
excited my solicitude. The same Minister assured
me, that the best understanding was kept up
Austria, and t hat her levies shout..!
only be eons
eel either as precautions, or as thy effcCl of appeebol'-
sipns, which are forcibly impreSsed_on.every
by the numerous Agents which England continua
in pay on the Continent.
" But if it does not belong to the business of my
department to, dive into the views and interests ot
States, and explore the tortuous labyrinth of •po:!'
tics, it tS ftt le" my duty to
,neglect nothing to rriake
your Majesty's:.armies maintain, at all points, that
just superiority which they ought to I,sess. The,
armies of Albania and Dalmatia, of Demnatk, an"'
of the Übe, will not iiiio‘v of any diminution, unt-leC'
the circumstances of the moment.

" What I
have to propose to your Majesty, Will
give the army of Apain two hundred thousnd meri,
without weakening the other armies ; so 't hat, no",
withstariding the augmentation of our force beyona
the Pyrenees, wbeh- the conscription of 1810 shall
be called out, your Majesty will have increased your
armies of Germany, of the North, and of Italy, by
more than eighty thousand men.

" And when, in .order to escape the crisis
Which she has, been-drawn by a take as well as:'tt
angry polidv, the .English Government, exertiPg.;
every where its aaivity, does not hesitate to cow
pine with the resources it draws from its inexhausti-
ble finances and its formidable fleets, the arts.of in-
trigue, of con uption, and itnposture, Auld it b!..
at all extraordinary that the immense population 01,
France should. hold out (lie spoLlacle of a million 0L
armed men, ready to punish England and all those
whom she may seduce; and present every' where tlio
same tinge una,f of force, to protea will) the saint;
-shield the honour and security of Fiance ?
" What other result,. Sire; is there to be experl-
- from armies so numerous, and a position so 1"r:.
midable, but the -speedy re-establishment of
tranquillity of Spain, that of a maritime peace, oir
of that general tranquillity, the object of your 113"
jesty's'indessatit wishes ? Much blood will have beets
spared, because a great number of men Will
.been ready to shed it. A durable happiness, Pr''
pared by the combinations of your poy,erful genitl4.o;,:
will be the effe,a, Sire, of the new prools.olaffeC(o
tion and attachment which yonr people will atii
you, and of the noble aspect of that nation, whicil
your Majesty has pointed to posterity under the pato°
of the Great Nation.

"'War Minister, and nmler this denotninati°
the organ of the French so:dicrs, allow we, Sire, tc)
be the interpreter of their •sentiments for you. Y(”1r.
Majesty shall always see Ili ready to sacrifice 00
lives for your. glory, which is inseparable trona_ the
national glory, to which tou have so powertullY
:added, and for the important interests-of the country.

" I am, mitl) respect, &c.-

[This Paper also contains the A& of Renunciai
tion negotiated between the Prince of PEACE an'
Dunoc, by which CHARLES IV. and the Prince ei
ASTURIAS abdicated their right to the Crown °t.
Spain to NAPOLEON.)

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