The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-16 00:00:00

SPANIVI PAPERS.

the following Manifesto has been published here
by order of the Government
" SPANIARDS, •

" If our haughty enemies hive imagined that the

Spanish courage and constancy is abated by the re-

verses offortune we have. suffered, they give an-
-: ather proof, that, notwithstanding all they have
'exPerien&d to their cost, !hey are still unac-
quainted with ocr true clialaaer. The conchision
.of peace bdtween France and Austria -has been suc-
ceeded by two defeats, one in La Mancha, and the
oilier in Castile ; and the GOvernment, instead of

concealing or palliating these unfortunat*vents, has

announced them with the candour and sincerity to
which it is accustomed. But if fortune 'and skill
have snatched from us the victory, they have not

deprived us of that valour by which skill is con-
quered, and fortune subdued. The wall of brass
which French iniquity, has raised between us and
them, cannot be removed by these transitory mis-

fortunes.
Where is the Spaniard who, in the midst of the
difficulties in which the rigour of fortune has placed

hino, will dare to raise his voice and wish to be

French ? If there b 4 none—if the unaniutouS wish

of the nation' be to continue Spaniards, at all risks,

let ui redouble our efforts to remedy the evils we

tuffer, and look forward, instead, ot looking back

upon thy past with dismay. Such is our situation—
such our duty.

" The Supreme Junta, the .organ of the wishes
of all good patriots, the moment that rumours of
peace began to be beard, the fatal presage of the
misfortunes which have since succeeded, began to •
take measures proportioned to the magnitude of the
evil. The statement already drawn up and publish-
ed
of the funds received and invested by the Junta,
will immediately spew to the nation the immense
resour:_es that are necessary to maintain the war hi-
therto, and the nevi .fforts which, in the situation in
which we are, it is necessary we Should make: But
the Government is well perivaded that neither dif-
ficulty nor sacrifice will appear &tat to Spaniards,
if they aredireeted to the salvation of the nation.
" The means taken hitherto are
,the following,
which are recapitulated here, though some of them •
have already been. published for the information.of
the nation. t in the mean time, every measure will

be,talctli for their due execution. 'the Supreme
Junta has resolved that the Order of the .4th of
April, that the jewels and plate of the churches,
not necpssary:for public Aorship, shall be sent to the
mint at Seville, shall be carried into execution with
ell due exactness and promptitude; that a fOicedloan

of half the gold and wrought silver in the possession

of individuals shall be opened; that an extraordi-
nary contribution shall be imposed on all classes of
the state; that all useless offices shall be suppressed
as they fall vacant;
,that a loan shall be opened o£
six millions of dollars in Spain, • another of forty
mil:atolls in Americal that a contribution shall be
imposed on coaches, and other carriages of conve-
nience; that our armies shall be augmented with
100,000 men ; that 100,000. lances, and 100,000
poinards shall be manufaaured, to be distributed
among the provinces whero they may be of use ;
that the difeeient points of the Sierra, from Santa
Olalla to the Kingdom of Granada, shall be survey-
ed by able engineers,; that all the companies of the
corps 'of the army _shall be supplied with compe•
'tent officers; that besides-the means'that'aie employ-
ed with extraordinaty.aaivity to replace the arms and
effeas of the army, the superior Junta, by such means
as they may judge most suitable, shall cause the mus-
kets of the peasants to be colleaed that three i)e.
putfts shall go (as they have already gone) to the
army of La Mancha, with ample powers to remedy
the misfortune at Ocana, and to prevent similar in.
future.

" May these mean', and others not less energetic,
which the Government has in contemplation, con-
..
tribute to inspire the Spaniards with confidence, and
to the defence and salvation of the.country."— (Go-
ternment Gazelle, Dec. 2.)

Yesterday at two o'clock, 'eleven deserters were,
lodged in the Savoy, in the Strand. These men de-
serted from the army in. Halifax, with an intention
of getting into the United States of America, but
were pursued and made prisoners. Some of. them
were so tame that they could hardly walk. They
were under the escort of a serjeant's guard of

militia.
The Inverness Regiment of Militia is appointed to
do duty jointly with the Artillery of the King's Ger-
man Legion; over the French prisoners, when they
•
•ccupy Porthester Castle.
Yesterday morning the first battalion of the both
regiment, lately returned, from Walcheren, marched
from Silverhill Barracks for Hastings, there to re-
main. The 2d battalion is still at Silverhill Barracks.
• The 77th regiment began 'their march this morn-
ing from Chichester Barracks for those of Bexhill

The Officers of the 7th, loth, 15th, and 18th
Regiments of Light Dragoons, being four ilus,cir
Regiments, have subscribed upwaids of 15001. for
the purpose of purchasing a piece of plate, to pre,.
sent to Lieutenant-General PAGET, Colonel of the
7th Regiment.- AinorK the subserisz;rs are the
Prince Of WALES, cOOl. and the Duktt of CUMBEI.I-
- the same sua-L.