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London, England, 1808-10-17 00:00:00

MARRIED.

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On
T)lursriay last, at-Frarripton-upqn- Severn, Clouresit.r_
shire, the Key. Powell Colchester brother ut Sjr
William Guise; Bart. to Miss Maria C second ciaugla.
ter of Nathaniel CliffOrcl, Esq. of Frampton-Court, in the
same County.

The same morning, at St. ntinstan's in the Wesi,
Abernethie, or the Royal Marioe Artillery, to Mrs. IVoul -
lett, of 13romptou,' in Kent.
On Friday last, at P.irliarn, in Sussex. the lion. Rob?rt
Curzon, son of Viscount Curzon, and Member of Parii.i-
Inent for Clithero, to Miss Bishopp, daughter of Si, Cecil
Bishopp.'' -

On the aist ult. at Whitby, Mr. Nathaniel Langbortif!, of
that place, to Miss Widowfield, of Stokesley, grand-
ter of the late gallant Captain liornby, of the snip tiVrig::t_
son and Isabella.

DIED.

On Monday last, at Cleve p.AI9, near Bristol, Miss Frances
Beridge, second daughter of the late key. Basil Bend6e,
tarot' A Iderchurch Linconshire. • " •

On Thursday last, at his house in Upper Berkeley•.stftet,
Henry Ibbetson, Esq. of St. Anthony's, in thg County of
Northumberland.

E,arly-on Priday morning last, Samuel Gillam .Mills, Esq
of Crooms:hill,.GreenwiLli.

The same day, Mr, it,hu Holmes, of Parson's Green, Ful.
ham, Coal-merchant..

On Saturday tuomint., at his hotite. in 11,1il,h.d's-court,
Poultry, William Storrs Fry, 1.340ker.
On Saturday the Bth inst. Mr.. Fraser, of Crcat PulteLey-
street, Golden-square.
Lately, Mrs. Morris, wife of Dr. Morris; of Parliament-
street,- Westminster.

A tew days ago, at his son's house at Johnstown, near fie:-
fast, at the advanced age of Bz, Patrick. Bride, Esq. one of
the Diredors of the Bank of Ireland.

Lately. at Ligard, in the County of LOngford, Roger
O'Farrei. Esq. aged 88 years. •

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livererl into his rtoyalliandg, shouid determine .what
might be his Sovereign intention.
In this report they inforhied the King of the rea7
SOll4 which led to this resolution ; they also advert-
ed to the p.reiend.!d reasons which were given for his
departure, !old him' every tiiing. wiitcii was deemed
expedient, and, as far as circumstances
,would ad=
mit, to make him awn :ion that desi?2n, and to.
lessen the contidepce he had in the couns'As of those
_persons- Who had such influence over his Royal:will ;
entreated h;s.M ijLsty in the mildest manner, that!
if contrary to the general opinion et the state of
frion,iship and confidence with. the Emperor of. the
Freneh, any thing new had occurred which might
render it necessary to think of extraordinary inea‘,
Sure;, he would previously to any decisive resOlution
i oh' that point,-or any, other that might alter the ac-
tual political and military system. n, consult a compe-
tent number of well-informed subjeds, devoted to.
their Sovereign and to their country, who in a:
body might propose
.to his Ma:psty, oil 'a full con.-
sideration of th circumstances, what they Might-deem-
expedient ; "fat-t her adding, that, if aitt the many
'marks of chthidence with which his M.ljeAty and the
'nobte Kingsnis ancestors, had honoured this Council;
it was deserving of being consulted uphir this import-
ant stabled, his Majesty might be : asiaared that it
would delii•er its opinion with brevity, siocerity, and
y, having only in ,view.. the service they owed
to their God, to his Majesty; and Itis-Sti'jeas.
The"troi)ps departed the same night for Aranjuez
before any decision was come to ,on the•rport; and
without the Edict having b.-en published.. The events
which:foilOweil are notorious. •

ABS.TRACE

OF TifE

E MAtsilf ESTO OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL
COUNCIL OF CASTIL.E, RELATIVE TO THE IMPORT—
ANT EVENTS THAT 11AVE OCCURRED SISCE OCTO—
BER LAST."

The nation is already inforMed of: the fatal decree
cif the 3thh of October--.ltaiiless monument of the
most atrocious In ,lice,-who,c sad tecord will retnam
'bind the oe4s of NA hat is just and honourable shall
cease to ext4t.. It _would have been
,easy for those
by wlio,u it was di.ztated to Bate taken away at that
tii:ne the 4ife of our dear and lawful _Prince, now our.
King, by some of those execrable and treacherous
means which maii..,,iiiy_suggests ; but this was not
sufficient for their varntvt they w.iuld cd‘er the:
most atrocious anu baro,trous conclufi under the.spe-
cious mask of jt.,3tice: Thil idea WZts .perhaps con-
nected with•otheil,' on which it is riot at
,the pre-,
sent in. anent necessary to clu.cll be it sufficient. to
record tl•te firdmess with whteli the Ministers who
compov•Lt th Junta of the Royal Court at St.
retue,ploteeted innocence, as the first epoch of the
eonduA and proceedings of theCotinail, in the, most
delicate Cirdtunstances in which it -wAsever engazed.
Those who had arrogated to, themselves the su-
pr-tne power, immediately conceived •a general dis-
cont,w against this Tribunal, and it 'welt knew. thir
perils which awaited a resistance of their wishes.
lu the mean time the,Freoch troops were-enter-
ing into the kingdom, apparently as friends and al-
lies, nit in the end they caused even in
the most unwary, of i,tich evil'projc.:tsu it WaS not
then easy to pelletize The protecti,al of a perse-
cutes, Prince; the occupation Lit the kingdom of
Porttigal ; the defence of th.- coasts ; the'con-
c:,,,st of a Part .4 Africa, were the objects 'which
ls;.eased themselves to the "public expec',tation 3---
v-ndst it was,given out in the name of the King,

til3, of the Most adva,,t3geous nature were

concerked between the two Governments and the
subjects were exhorted 10 treat the .troops of the
Ally,-not•merely, with civility, but with atrection.—
The Cout;cil observed, that even in a time of the
greatest security, the confidence with which they
were ree...ived t4otild have i,een imprudent, as well
on acco'nit of their intalheiS as of the positions they
took ; arri, above all, that "it was. contrary to the

constant 'nation of not receiving the forceit or an Al-
ly superior in (lumber to our own, and of our per-
*flitting them to take possession of the castles and
fortresses. lint this triuunal was obliged to stifle
their inquietudes for it was not within their coo-
btitutiouni powers to. it,ive any controul met affairs
of this nature ; besides, it was dangerous ro mani-
fest any aprehensionS •.vhilst a probability existed
that the object of these forri:zn troops was of a ge-
berous :description ; or, by means 'of family con:
rtexions; to support tbe intere4s of a more wurthv
Prince against the projeds which he wilo then held
the reins of Government might have conceived.-
As the French troops drew nezr to the capital,
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Symptoms of tint.!iisiness, real or pretended, were
manif.-sted by their Majties "and the Favburhe.—
They talked or tardy plans of defence, and of, alter-
naiely, the flight of their Majesties and the'Royal
Famil), at 011 e. time to At,dalusia, at another to
America : all was disorder andscont4si(n ; tint :what
principal)), excited the attention of Sjnnish loyalty,
was: the fortunes of their yontlatit' and beloved
Prince.

In this juncture of affair's, about half Past seven in
'the morning of:the iith of 'March, D: Carlos Ve-
loco, Chief Secretary in the Office for the Gen:Tal
Staff, called upon 'the most iliustFious Presideui and
im Governor, and acquainted him that the heads
Of that department had just received a decree from
the High Aiiibirara•ld Generadissiino, commanding
them to give the neee-:,ary 4ireiaimls for the tornol,.'a:

from thls capital to the Royal residence of Aranjuez,
, of the Royal Corp of Rod), Guards,' the battalions
of the Royal Spanish and Walloon Guards, with _the
light sql_tdrons of the Royal Carabineer,4, and other
corps belonging to the garri;bit ; and directing that
the oust iliustrion; President should cause to be pub-
lished an Ed,a, assuring the people ttia., this area-
Eure was merely an aa or precaution, to prevent any.
dangers in an open town, since the alliance between
the King our Suvel eign and the Etnperor of the
French st• 11 existed unalterable. Velasco added, that
his superiOrs had. sent Wm -to • the Most illustrious
hilSt the otaial notification -was preparing,
that he nu..ht expedite site dra wing, up rand'placard-
ing of the Edict. Thi! Go,ernor, who nut ad-
(painted witht Velasco, su4;ested that. he should
write down the communication. which he had just
-made and si,;ned;which being done, he went with
the paper to the Council.
The Council considcved the fatal' consequences
-which the departure of their Majesties ?night produce,
the object of which probably was no less than a ti':tai
removal of the imps from this place. They- reile6ted
upon what had just. happened in Portugal,. where
the French troops had made the fliglit.of the Queen
and Royal Family s preteext fur ~eizing, that kingdom ;
and where, instead of de\dueing frotn•the abdication
of thefeioing Sovlreign, the re-establishment of the
nation in the. exercise of its original-right, they opt
only inferred tha; any one was free to occupy it, but
also they acquired a title to private property, which
they coinpelleO the-oWm!rs to redeem, under such

By a Roytil Order of the 3d, and another of,the
4th of April, the, CounCil was directed. to prepare
the charges against the Pfince Of- the Peace,' with
the view of his being speedily put upon his trial ;
but on the 2tst, th.,iJuutQ of Given:talent. address-
ed a Decree to the Council, stating, that the Prince
of I;eac,. hat'in2; .b.-en, by his Majesty, pat at the
disposal of the French Emperor, they had git en or-
ders t-or his release accoedingly. The Council was
required to publish this docuin-mt in t tie usaal forms.
The regret felt by the -CJuncil on the perusal of
this Decree, was not interior to that manife.itud by
the whole Nation. They were, by this cireutn-'
stance, confirmed in the iipibiob they began to 'orn.-1
of the difficulties which successively opposed them-
selves to the
,adallnis.tption Of In a word,.
they foresaw groat evils leading 'to consequence
-whiCh bafti,d all ealci,latforr. • .

In these delicatecircumstandcSo he Council thought
fit to suspend the publication, and mile a represen-,
ta,ion to his Majesty and the Supreme Jenta. It
informed the latter, that the 'people at Madrid, as
Well is'the Whole nation, had heard Of the assur-
ances 'Which had been given hy his Majesty; as well
at the tinie,.,of the impriSminent of the Prince of
Peace a: afterwardid hat his person 4io-6rd be liable
to such sentence as justice might pronounce on the
charge of his public delinquency ; and further, that
the Royal Father promised this by his R0y,.1 Decree;
in which he proposed to his •MoSt Serene Ht ,dtuess,
then Prince of Asturias, that he should lake mea-
sures for drawing up-the process which had since been
referred to the Council ; that' the person accused had'
attracted the universal hatred of the public, and they
would not flit to manifest much displeasure at his
release, since they.wete very eager tor his conciena-
natioo. The Council admonished his Majesty, that
atfeEtion which the -people had ever shewn hint
might by degrees_ become less sanguine, and in time
threaten the security of the Junta itself.-
. His Majesty the King, upon receiving a copr of
this-memorial, transmitted the following Resolution :
----‘‘ I approve of the coniluct of the Council, in not
publishing the Order which \vas seiit -them by the
Government, relative to the surrender of the person
(et ti e 'Prince of Peace." Nevertheless, the, Junta
inid. in the mean time deliveredtip-the priioner, and
com.nunicated 'the unpleasant intelligence tO the
public in two Exaraord-inary :Gazettes,' on the 22d,
and to CRc. Cuuttcil, b a I.)cr!.e, etated to be
,;rounded On a Royal VII& transmitted by Don 'Pe-
dro CEVALLOS. . . •

The Council then proceeded to state a variety of
particulars .d link ihterest,. relative to: the release of
Don Manuel Gociloy's accomplices, by order of the Su.
puerile Junta, and to the removal of Inc sequestration
his- erfeAs a measure which they persi-sred in re-
tusing.to,sanetion with the Inrii.ts of Liar.
At the time that the perfidious plan that had been
formed was advancing to-maturity at B.iyotine, the
arrogance of Prince Murat and his advisers became
daily wore conspicu,,us at Madrid. 'file Council
daily felt fresh inquictudes The- repeated disap-
pointment of their expettations of the speedy return
of thc>ir young Mot-larch, th 6 departure of the Royal
Parents, the marked neglea which ;vas openly twill-
ft..sted towards his Serene Highness the Infant Don
Antonio, President. of the Supreme' Junta of Go,
vernment, the menacing, tone in which the Grand
Duke of Berg, and, in short,• all the Frenchmen,
daily advanced in their pretensions, all tended to
make them fear the most dreadful results.'
• In this state of affairs it was that some steps
were affeLied.to be taken to restore the Royal Sather
to the Throne.

'principles of. public law as no nation ever, yet knew,
Lor ambition till that hdur had conceived. More-
over,- the- Council trembled for- the saieiy of the
Prince ; and_ it wa; proposed to impede or retard, at
least 3s nltich as possible; the departure of the troops,
either to the ilitept that, during this intertlal, 'and'
ami,lst the diveisity of precipitate plans formed for
the moment, they might have son-re time to refle6t
upon what might -be the result of the departure of
their Majesties; or that they might at least be able.
to facitiwe the escape of the Prince, for which it was
:positivelystated some secret measure had been ea-
dy taken, -and which was an objedof general desire.
To this and the Council airlused the Chiefs of the Ge-
neral Sniff, daring nearly the whole of that day,. for
they did not break up till our in the afternoon: They
however; came to the determination, that it should
be signified to the aforesaid‘Chiels, by the most il-
.Yustrwc:s Seignor, that it was the resolution of the
Council that the Edid praptised by the Commander
in Chief should .ne,t be published, until his M:ijesty,
alter per Using a.report, which was about to be de-

On the 20th of Ap;;..l, between the hours of two
and three in the evening, the Printer, • Eusebius
Alvares de la Torre, waited on the Governor, and
informed hint. that sortie .Frenchmen had called on
him, and requested him to strike oil some copies of
a certain Proclamation, which signified the intent
that the Royal• • Parents were about .to re-ascend the
Tlirone. The .Printer informed the Governor, to
whom he first related the fad, that he acceded to
their wish,ainwilling to let them know that he was
inimical to that party, and that he might be able to
give a fuller account of the nature of Ake Pro-
clamation. In consequence of this information,
Joseph Tumiel and Antonio Bibac, who stated
themselves to. be dependants of General Giouchi,
were arrested, and put into; confinement. Madrid
knowi the dangers- it encountered that night from
the immense concourse of' inhabitants, with the
French in the streets of the Arena' La Zarza, and
Puerta del Sol.
The symptoins of mutual soon became
manifest, and most particularly amongst the sol-
diery ; and it-at length increased to such a pitch,
that the Grand Duke of Berg no longer enjoined the
ratter to keep up any sentiments of unanimity or good
will with the people. He. however, made a formal
complaint, in a letter to Don Antonio, the Infant,

dated I.`viikirid, Apiil 23, in which he says“
ileclay,. to 'your Royal that SlCain can no
1004er be slibit-A to such a state of anarchy. Toe
army: which I command must, not,
,cannot, disho-
nour itself so far as .to let:such. disorders go univa-
Dished." •

On the. day that this letter was delivered to.the
Council, wince was given. of a Proclamation which
announced Pon Carlos IV. as-Kin?, and that.
Emperor of the French dill not chaise to tick nowle'it-e
Ferdinand VII. This news, akilnignt be expected,
made! the people indignant indeda. Soott, after came
the dreadful day
.Ot-the 2d of May. The. los; of the
Spaniards amounted to 104 killed; 54 wounded, and
35 ttlissu g.. The loss of the French cbtisidera-
bly:more, notwithstanding the generous conduet of
Some Spaniards, 'who secreted and sea many.. who
had been disarmed.

The day after, a Deputation, of the Junta was sent
to the Grand Duke, in order to inure the lis-eS of
the Spanish prisoners ; tor. it appears that lie con-
&ned hopes of pardon- only to the milie.ry, hu
were a6ting in a lawful capacity,. under their re-
speaive leades s ; and that he tittered a military or-
der, in whieh.he resolved upon putting to death in,
discriminatelyi and ,Without trial,: the greater part
of the prisOners who were not soldiers. By the ex-
ert ions ofThe abOve Deputation, the order was re-' .
paled ; but, notwithsta4tig, on the 4th • and sth
vf the same month,- some- tew were shot, and even
for Some days foilowing—whether it arose front the
remissness of the ,Duke nut seeing that, the ene:age,-
. ment into which' he had' entered was properly tut- •
filled, or-from the ferocity of some subaltern Oth-
CerS, in'tiot.Obeying his orders.
When the Frenchmen were taken in the-Printing I
Office, in the street of Zarra, as beforeallinted
the Council began to enter more deeply on the coit-
sideration of the public affairs : , they accordingly
cause to a resolution that will the provinees of Spam
should be enjoined respettivety to arm a body of uftil
in proportion to their population ; and the number
of the whole,, tiaceording to the estimate of the Coun-
cil, might amount to three hundred thousand then.
Atter intiCh einisultation, however, with the knfaut _
Antonio, and" some com:nuilieation with persons
who had come with -confidential instructions from
Ferdinand VII. and Don Pedro Cevallos, thisresO-
lotion was as tending to endanger the
King's Person, and prematurely to put to hazard the
salety'and• independence of the kingdom.. Dun An-
. tuna, nevertheleSs, vegaged to transmit Mstruc-
,tions privately to the Captains-General of "the Pro-
vioces, to rake every measure consistent with pru-
dence to increase their military force.
On the"l3th and f4th of April the Junta addressed
two Decrees to the. Council,' directing it to send a
circular notice to all the Tliounals, enjoining them.
to ensure, in their respective jurisdictions, the attht
cordial treatment of the French troops. The Council,
apprehensive that a nonce in the ierieS deli ed would
thwart the defensive preparations which were going
on, traionnitted a long COnsulta to the Junta on the
subject of their Decrees, setting 'forth the inarty sa-
erifices which the people of Spain, and particularly
the peasantry, had made, 'and were still inakitig; fur
the aceonmindation of the French troops, as'a proof
'that they wanted- no extraordinary exhortation to
treat them with every degree of :kindness,. and et-
patiatittgalso n the dangers which might result from
any attempt to reprcss that high spirit of lo•ealty and
affeetton towards their Sovereign with which the
people were ani.inated,
. It was oft the r2Gth.of May that the" Council re-
ceived the first official • inteliigefice of the patriotic
movements in the Provibees. On that day, the ,
President received an order from the Grand Duke of
Berg o' ,convoke the Members, without delay,- to.
consult oh the measures proper to be taken relative to
the proceedings at Velem:la. The.Councii•answered
t 4 order by a Consulta, reptesentitig theinetheiency
-of any resolution's or proclamations 'that they •could
address to the Valencians, as the latter did nut con-•
bider them as 'in, a state of freedom. •
By a decree ot,',the 3d of, May,. there hal been,
trubniittecito the Council, a memerial from the.Cap-'
grin-General of Catalonia, stating the Means.to which
he had recourse, by subscription and otherwise, for
the relief of the indigent poor in Barcelona, ,and •
requeting the approbatioo and 'sant:fib/1 of that-bo-
dy. The Council taking all the circumstances of
the state of B:irceliin4 into; cOnside,ration, were
convinced that toil was onlya pretence on. the part
of the Captain General, to obtain the funds necessa-
ry for procuring, arms. They therefore instantly
sanctioned his proceedings, without. making those
previuds enquiries which the usual forms enjoined.
On the I 4thethe Council registered and dispatched
a decree, cornmetticated to them only the day be-,
foie, permitting the use of arms to the Catalonians.
1 Their celerity was must opportune; for on the 2011 i,
- they were informed that the publication of the de-
cree would be dispensed with, if it had not already
taken place. -
On the 4th of May, the Junta of the Government
announced to the Council, that as it' was expedient
they should appoint one of the Judges: ef Police, Mi-
nister of the Council, they did L-1(4• scruple to offer
three persons to their attention, from whom they
might make their choice. These were the Seiguors
Don Domingo-Fernandez Campomanes, Don Tomas
Moyailo, ,and Don Alfonzo Duran Barazabal. Ihe •
fie st of these was no sooner eleCted, than on the
there was received a decree from the Grand Duke,
direeting the forinat•ion of a Junta of Police, having
the said Seignor Campomanes for its -President; and
two others, named Rail-mind and Estrienard, in qua-
lity of Commissaries. This the Council.. declined,
quoting, iu vindication of their conduet, the laws
of Millones, which prohibit any one, except he be-a•
native, from obtaining or holding the offices either of
Chief Magistrates, PrefeCts, or Privy Councillor's,
nor even others-of 'an inferior class, which are con
dined in the political Government, or the public
administsation of justice. Thus war the door shUt
against the favourites of the Grand Duke ; and thus
were those mischiefs ohm iated, which undoubtedly
must hive come upon the Stale had they been per;
• mitted to influence the branches of public admini-
stration. Thus was , Madrid freed from the' snares
which awaited her, and thus did she continue in the
enjoyment of he own Magistrates..
he Count. I always turned a.deaf ear to the
re-
peated solicitations' of the Fiend) Emperor, which,
in consideratidn of 'tile renounced rights of their

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beloved Prince Ferdinand, and-of-his rheyal Parents,
to the Ye-ooe., called upon them to sanetioe-and
a knewledee jOsepl-eNteoleen, as ilter King. They
argued, that a renunciation. of -the Crown was a
thing, under such circumstant es, 'altogether ahurd, •
iecompatible. With the laws of the Con,tii-aioa
which had conferred it :. it was' inonsroos to sup-
.pose, t hat either the Royal Patents or their son,
could give away the Sovereignty of their ire ion ; or
that any one thaTwhich they had Perk)! thee, ceu'd
'be considered bit:ding, on account ot the time, the
situttinn, anl the circumstances in ‘viticli thev,‘t ere'
placed. Such Were their sentitneots, wh,ai they
hdd the mortification to receive •the follever • ,xe
trait of a letter from the French ,tut etiu ale
„Grand Duke of Berg, dated 'lMay 7, 1808
" The treaty with the King, Charles IV.ei9
niched., The King,' Charie, IV. and the Prince
t
Asturias, have ceded' to me tll their' rights' tv • ,
Sputiah thrune."
Ia another letter, dated the Bth, and which '39
coomiuuicated confileittialiv by
of
B, to the Junta of the. Government, and to
Ceuecil of • Castile, the Emperor, after' expres.sing
eye-I-tie what is c'ontained itt the zttEl-Geaaidtils'l7:k''
" :arid I would wish to imew the opinion of ;the
'Comic:l-of 'Castile relative to the.section of a new
So.ereign, • who.ought to be of my family, to the
111;itt,"*16;it the ueien of the two nations
.may. b 0 •
perpetual; and that the [leads, as well as the people
of either, array 'hew. one and the same interest.
The E.:W.11161s 'formed a' Cotisulta the same PIP'
and resolved, that they shohld heg of his Imre' •
Majesty Ito excuse them from in..l..ing the de54.113"
tion he required.
When 'it .as"..fonrid that ito persuasion cod .have
tiny avail, or shake the Me`inbers from the firm res°-
lotions they:had:adopted, artifices were left no
, tried to bring them over to the prfortnance of the
desired C,jecte: In one of the meetings appointed
for the. consideration arid di:, ussioh of this huiittes6
'with the opp,-isite party,' a ;Mil-Oster of the Cooncil,
willing to- preset% e the strictest. maihietsavce of its
.rights,'• a;ked it-what they desired to be perfortned,
was writtee order r•The Seignior Cabal,io
replied, ciat it Aas not, for it was confidential, 04
"'`)"1 1101 allow of 't • The-Member then observing,
that if such wet the case, he, for one, wo"0 "c
'gibei‘e ltis assent, sii6eld the Council take the satne.,
:into deliberation, he was severely threatiered; tau"
toid that he should be treated as revohilioilist. •
,•
One,
~91 the principal reasons which the
gave for withholding its consent to the inceSs-nit "
port unities of the. EMpertar's wishes, was, that trilr
considered it as not belongiog to their depart event-;
that upon que.stiJusof law they were ever, ready t°
-make their report : they, however, in one itenahc-, -
ooserved, that, (lit the supposition that the lr"nes •
of andicatiOn and ceasioh-were v.aid, and tint ,e,
throne of Spain was. to devolve to a branch of 14_e
IMperial fatnily, was their ohini•ai that the r\-""4
-of' Naples, Joseph Napoleon, appeared the fittest
person for such a dignity.
Utz the,2nth,6f May, .the Council met to receiXe
from Seignior Penuela the Decree and Proclasneviell
relative to the Co'avocation Of the Junta 'at Bayotioe' •
S•!a,1111or Penuela having retired, the. Council
liberate.t, and 'resolved, that they should stee,e;,'
the poblic.viou of the said Dir,ree and Pro4.la,Datqt`l!
attiodtlitaLlthar\e,..i p,hrit, o exiokeion 111°4' Ccrr
should iai,
be submitted to his se.re"
. ness the
,cirand.Dukc Thq observed,
their Body never had, nor c0u1..! it, aCcordtog te`
laws, take upon itself
.the nee ion-d reereserl"73;
• and that they were consequeetly, -arid
tic:
laws, the s`l';
laws, excluded -from he election of their ~--„,eereta
that whatevrer-innovatioh.:ookplaee in the 411"' • s't;rl
to the rillirene, it was eu ce
tirely, the con' '`j,
;le
nation; and that when a succession to4,Wptace 61.
,01}t the proper forms,,it was to be d•t•inea, a``'"'-1
ing to the aCtuhl constitution of he. ~4alonarelly,
and void. Tills. spirited answer drew down .ituc"
indighation'on the Council.: they w,Lh-e threate;-
,
that
,a process for sedition s oul'l be issued agatosl.
them ;" and next day they received the lobo 441 •
" Most Illustrious Seignoi7---tihi' Sere
Ser
, Highness trie Lieutenant --t.enetal of the King :c,ttt
requires and-demands of tee- Public Come 11,
they innate iately prnit and 4 irculate- thee-elle" 04.
, to
his Serene Highness, welch were commottica,l,eui;il
them yesterday, with the Decree. and I'recl39l:,,tti
of the French Emperor, bearing date Bayetniei'
of this month, ex-a.h" 1,1 Schal-
Lietters . were daily Sent to the •Chtinc'l!
tian PinuelA, signifying the neeessry that they st
do what, was required ; -and t hey at leolol. Tet,lheti
Mg. themselve, mituenced by the, reasons s'e"---tre.
' by the President of the Junta at Bat enoWas.,ltc'd
wise by the req lest of Joseph a‘Ae'-
tlie documents te. he printed without the order.
Oh the 7th of July the Cooneh received a Decree.
from 'Joseph Napoleon, with a copy of the new Coo:
sthution, ',and a list of the Cabinet Mieisters, wit')
r orders to forward- the same to the Ftscals. OrdV:
ilpetaihe 27th' of July continued to be sent to t`l.
Council;. and. its Members hat perhapi•groh-J diu'r;
culties• to stru4e against than the nation \kJ' awa2„
of. They werethreatened' with theloss of itliitt
thority3 but 'they determined' rai her to u-
altog, cher, than retain it when polluted, 1 aleie
tion, death eandhanishment hccame familiar to
ears ; but the tonscioushess Ut -their integrity udi✓
ported them through all their trials. Such 4tl' oh,
state of affairs,. when, on the 219th of the
Month, they had the unexpeetea hanioess of To
nessiug the sudden depiitture, of the French.
ei.o.
Omnipotent Ruler of human events, by a soli'
ad of his benign Providence, deli,ered
from the itnnaiherit danger whichhung over it
rewarding the purity of its intentions and uns:;
lOyalty, which, amidst ail its troubles and all
•
meat,.
dnulriainnstatiredn jinn lel.
the. lamentable cause c?,./f tite• Es' curial. •
ltiiut
either the Council air- corporation of .111,:,
Joseph Napoieondeparted 31111Y,_
haying taken the oaths to hhn,
on -any °nliaobni et
hisbiltilalet'eliiriepssceidi-tsill'c°.
tortui
Tribunal had ever been in the habit 6f. por ,
as marks of respedi to foreh.ei Prieces: Gto,!IP.
ever, .was .the exultatioh or the Couecil 411
ist
signal a delivery ; they on ilk! 4 Augt
=cat; tgl the Sup:: the Juntas, I""
occasion paid hint. thoset:'ltictgiouliristriiliLcii
ilitY
•
ing a g-eneral,Militeiii-tyret to e,Llde 511.
tr'lllqUi
[fins[finsdikum,nt is Aug List zz ;, • 16.
by order of the Cools:A