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

• " ;'G the right, given me by my i'Ord;.
father ; my abdication was the result of force and:
violence; I have nothing to receive • frottr you; nor
can I consent to the t ouVocation Of the Cortes--;-an
additional absurdity, suggested by
.the inexperienced
persons who attend you.
. I have reigned for the happiness of my Sub.,
jests, and I do not wish to- bequeath to them civil
war; mutiny, popular Juntas, and revolution... Every
thing should be done tut the people, and nothing by
the people: to t;)rget this maxim, mere to beeolue
the accomplice Of all the crimes that must follow its
neglect,, I have-sacrificed the. whOle.of my lite to
my people ;,and in' the advanced age to which I
have arrived, I shall do nothing in opposition to their
religion, their tranquillity, and their happiness. ,
I have reigned for them ; I ‘.Vill'constantly occupy
myself for their sakei ; I will forget all my sacri-
ticevs ; and when at last I shall be convinced that 'the -
religion of Spain, the integrity of her. i.rovinces, her
independence, and .her privileges are preserved, I
shall descend to the tonih, forg:.ving' those who have
embittered the last years of my lire.
.‘ Dated from the Imperial Palate at 134,Jmie,- called the
• GoVerninent Palace, May z, OW."

LETTER WRITTEN BY KING FEI{DINAND-1M TO

HIS AUGUST FATHER, IN ANSWER TO THE PRE-

CEDING.

"My honoured Father and Lord—l received the
letter that your Majesty condescended to write to
me, dated yesterday, and I endeavour to answer
all the particulars with that moderatiUn' and revedt.
which is due to your Mj,:sty.
Your Majesty speaks, in the first place, with
resped to the olteration in your conduet to-
wards France, alter the peace of Basle ; and,' in truth,
I believe, there is no individual in Spain who 'has-
complained of it rather all were unanimous in
praising your Majesty for your confidence in, ' and
fidelity to, the principles you hltdoadopted. Mine, in
particular, were entirely to your own ; and I
have given irrefragable proofs of it from the' moment
when your Majesty abdicated the throne in my to
vour.

" Had the affair ofthe Escurial, which your Ma;
jesty states originated in the hatred with which my
wife inspired 'rne against France, your Minitcrs,
my beloved mother, and your royal self,.been.exa-
mined with all the legal forms, it would evidently
have proved the contrary. Not withstanditig lad.
not the least. influence, an6l no liberty beyond the
shew of it, guarded as I was by domestics whom you
put round me, yet the elev ereCouncillors chosen by
yoUr Majesty were unanimously of opinion, that
there was no ground for the accusation, and that the
supposed criminals were innocent. .
Your Majesty talks of the distrust created by
the entrance of so many foreign troops into Spain
and that if yoUr.Majesty recalled from Portugal yotlr
troops, and united those that were in. Madrid, at
Aranjuez,- and its neighbourhood, it. was not to
abandon your subjeas, but to .support the glory of
the throne. Will your Majesty permit .me to re-
mind you, that no alarm need have been given by.
troops entering as friends and allies, but on the con-
trary, that it ought to inspire, additional confidence.
Your Majesty will lik,ewise permit me to observe,
that the orders given by your Majesty, were for a
journey with the R Family. to Seville, al .4.1 the
troops wcre to keep op2u that road. There Was no
person .who wag not persuaded that this was for the
transport of your Majesty and the Royal Family to
AmeriCa. Your Majesty also published a decree to
quiet the minds of your subject4' in this particular;
but as all preparations were made, and it was Mani-
festly seen, that the coast of. Andalusia was to see
the Royal Family asgembled, despair took possession
of the public mind,.and the moveomtheenrt
tohtanAynjyuLzr
was the consequence. ' The part I took in it,your
journey.Lbineci ursoer Ire
the
,beeMajestyee dt
hkteon
objectob ,hev which
ararssokh
hatred,
eecl
command, to go to proted from the fury of the
" Let your Majesty
French, and his Imperial Majesty will no doubt tell
you what he said to me in a letter that he wrote to
the at Vittoria, viz. that the motive of his Imperial
and Royal Majesty was, to induce your Majesty to
make some reformS, and to separate from your per-
son the Prii;ce,of Peace, whose influence was the
cause of every calamity.
" The universal satislataion that his arrest produced
throughout the whole .nation, is an evident proof of
the truth of what the Emperor declared. As to the
rest, yotir Majesty is the best witness that in the
midst of the commotion at Aranjuez, not a word
was whispered against your Majesty, nor against the
person of any one of the Royal Family ; on the con-
trary, they applauded 'our Majesty with the greatest
demonstrations of joy, and professions of fidelity to
your august person. On this account the abdication
of the throne which you made in my 'favour, sur-
prised, every body, and myself among the rest ; for
nobody expeded it; or would have solicited it. Your,
Majesty yourself communicated your abdicdtion to
all your Ministers, enjoining thern'to acknowledge
me as their natural Lord and Sovereign. YOU corn-,
municated it .verbally to the Diplomatic Body, pro-
ft;ssing that your determination proceeded from your
spontaneous will, and that. you had before, deter-
mined. upon it:, You yourself; old it to your be-
loved brother, adding, at the same time, that the
signature which your Majesty had put to. the de-
cree of abdication, was the happiest transaction of
your life ; and finally your Majesty told, me per-
sonally, three days afterwards, that I should pay nd
attention to any assertion of the abdication. being
involuntary, inasmuch as it was in every respect
free and spontaneous.
" My supposed hatred to France in no respc
appeared by my condul; the contrary will appear
by my actions, of which I will -give a• rapid nar-
rative.'

" Your Majesty had scarcely .abdicated the
Crown in my faVour befoie I addressed various
letters from Aranjuez to the Emperor of the French,
which are so many proofs that my principles with
reipett to the relations of friendship and strift alli-
ance happily subsisting between the two States,
were the same that your Majesty had inspiren
me with, and had yourself inviolably observed. M.
journey to Madrid was one of the strongest proofs
that I could give to his IMperial and Royal
jesty.of the unlimited confidence I placed in