Star.
London, England, 1808-08-22 00:00:00

THE RESOLUTION OF 814.41 N.

[The following ankle, entitled 41 The Resolution of Spain," is s
translation of a placard, whialt has crd►ted a great sensation th
every part of Spain where it has been circulated.]

" The promises of the Supreme Junta of Govern-
ment at Madrid, and the offers of his Serene High-
ness the Grand Duke of Berg, come too late—much
too late. The epoch of the French Gazettes is already
past • the influence of the papers is at an end ; and
the declarations of the Emperor and King have for
ever lost all their force and efficacy. In former days,
when the French armies were occupied in desolating
the North and Italy, there might be some good folks
who put faith in his pompous statements, never sus-
pecting that there was an individual belonging to the
human race, who could attempt to impose-upon man-,
kihd by a regular system of base artifices and infer.'
nal deceptions. But now—after what has passed
within our view in Portugal—with the atrocities com-
mitted in Castile before our eyes—after the events of.
the 2d of May, and the captivity of the whole of the
Royal Family—can he now impose upon us ? can be,
now lead us astray ? The Supreme Junta of Govern-
ment are very much mistaken when they tell us that
tg we know but little of his Imperial Highness." We
very well know the import of " felicity ;" we per-
fectly comprehend what is the signification of " pro-
tection ;" and we are not at a loss to make out the
'meaning of the words " liberty and regeneration."
We have already made tolerable progress in the lan-
guage of the Great Napoleon; for, indeed, we have
taken a few lessons in the idiom of tyrants, having
bought, at a pretty dear rate, a magnificent Machia-
velian Dictionary, which was printed at the expence
Germany, Italy, and Portugal, and of which a
• much more expensive edition was to have been printed
at our cost.. Notwithstanding our constant use of this
dictionary, and the good example of our Ally, we
persist in our errors, continue in our ignorance,
and' never. abandon our prejudices, two of them in
PArliCular ; not to permit ourselves to be deceived in
matters of teligionosor to suffer a foreigner to become
our King. We may be Goths, barbarians, unculti-
•*ecthoors, and mere animals of routine and instinct
_;
- we may be Hottentots ; whatever the Great Napo-
leon chooses to call us ; whatever Prince Murat may
be disposed to say ofus ;. whatever the Supreme Junta
of in their good pleasure, may descae es to
be; we shall be all this, and itny thing, hat the'sub-
. jecb of Joseph Napoleon. The greatest calamity that
can befal us is the loss of life, and that, should Na-
paJeon the Great give as the law, we cannot expect
to escape. The destroying sword of his vengeance-
would speedily dispatch one half of the Spanish na-
" tion, and his military conscription the other..
" About fifteen months age, a deputation of Pole!'
presented themselves before his Imperial and Royal
blajesty at Warsaw, to solicit their inciependence, •
This most discreet Sovereign, though be knew him-
self to •have been proclaimed omnipotent Emperor,
and Monarch. of the whole universe, answered thew
• in the following remarkable words : What you, solicit
. is-inn yoUr own hands. That a nation should be free
and recover her indepencknce, it is sufficient that she
wills it.'

" Under si eh circumstances it is that the Spanidl
nation has re olved to justify the political aphorisms
• our Regenerator."

•FO `ICA' INTELLIGENCA.
•
• PARIS, AUGUST O.
According to certain intelligence arrived from
Naples, the Grand Duke of Berg was, on the Ist of
this month, proclaimed King of Naples ; in case of
the Princess Caroline surviving her Royal Consort,
she is to ascend the throne. The new King has pub-
lished a proclamation, by which he declares, that he
will abide by the Constitution, promulgated by his
Majesty Joseph Napoleon, and guaranteed by the
Emperor.
Ac letter from Nantes, of the 3d instant, contains
the following passage :---“The English have exhibited
almost under our eyes a fresh proof of the insolence
with which they openly violate the most sacred prin-
ciples of the law of nations. The American ship
Comet, which was sent with a flag of truce from tho
Government of the United States of America, with
dispatches for their Ambassador in Paris, was yester.
day taken by an English frigate stationed off our
harbour;the very nloment she was working in: After
landing five American passengers who were on board,
Abe frigate shaped her course for England, taking
fin* her the said ship, the dispatches, and the Mes-
.