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minion ? Their
and his whole
toyed into
armistice, in
in history. Their c.
is more iniquitous than we had the right to expect
from a horde of Hottentots. They have profaned
our temples ; they have insulted our religion ; they
have assailed-our wives ;in fine, they have broken all
their promises, and there exists no Tight which they
have not violated. To arms, Asturians, to armsl
let us not forget, that Asturias at the time of another
invasion, which undoubtedly was less unjust, restored
the Monarchy. Let us aspire to the same glory on
the present occa4on. Let us recollect, that no foreign
Nation could ever lord it over us, whatever exertion
it may have made for that purpose. Let us offer up
our prayers to the GOD of Hosts. Let us implore the
intercession of our Lady of Battles, whose image is
worshipped in the most ancient temple of Covadonga,
and perfectly sure that she cannot forsake us in so
just a cause ; let us rush upon our detestable enemy,
and annihilate and drive out of our peninsula, a peo-
ple so base and treacherous. This demand is ad-
dressed to you, in the name of your representatives,
by the Procurator-General of the Principality.
(Signed) ALVARO 'LOB= 13STAU/14.
MANIFESTO.—PROVINCE OF ABRAGON.
Peoviorzsce has preserved in Arragon an immense
quantity of muskets, ammunition, and artillery, which
have not treacherously been sold, or delivered to the
enemies of our repose. Your patriotism, your boy-
alty, and your attachment to the good customs which
you have inherited from our ancestors, induced you
to shake off the disgraceful yoke, which was prepared
for us by sedition, and by the false promises of the!
French Government, which regulating F----'s con-;
duct by the most abominable Machiavelism, inerelyl
endeavoured to deceive us and all Spain, in eriler Mi
cover with shame acid disgrace the most generous na-
tipn upon earth.
You have placed implicit confidence in me, and
this honour which you have bestowed on me unfit
servedly, obl4ies hue to tear the veil of the most de-J
testable iniquity and lajnstice. My life, which cal
only he of any yalue to ine, ns far as it can promote.
your happiness, and the prosperity of my beloved'
country, is the smallest sacrifice I can make in return
for the many proofs of confidence said love with which
you have honoured me. Do not doubt it, Arragoni.
ans ; my mind is not able to harbour crimes, nor to
associate with those, who cherish and protect them.
Some of the depositaries of the confidence of the Spa-
nish nation, they who hold the supreme pcwer in their
hands, are the first to work your ruin by every means
which malice can suggest, and to form traitorous cosi-
nections with the enemies of our country. Thirst of
gold, and the mistaken idea which they have perhaps
conceived, to defile our destinies by their iniquitous
proceedings, makes them view with indifference the
destruction of their country. Although 1 have strong
grounds to believe it, yet I shall forbear to mention
names, lest I should render grief still more poigilant.
At this time, being acquainted with your determina-
tion, that of your neighbours, the inhabitants of Va-
lentia, and all the provinces of Spain, where the same
ssntiments are entertained, some of their leaders
have perhaps changed their deterinination, embraced
the cause of justice, and endeavoured to shake off the
yoke, which they tried to impose on us, by means the
most iniquitous and base. Should I be mistaken in
this opinion, time will discover the truth. Fear not,
Arragonians ; let us defend the most just of causes,
and we shall be invincible. The enemy's troops now
in Spain, are not able to withstand our efforts. Woe
betide them, should they ever dare to repeat in any
other Spanish town, what they did in Madrid on the
2d May, sacrificing without pity, and calling those se-
ditious and assassins, of whom they had but very
lately received honours and favours which they did
not deserve. Bayonne has witnessed and will remem-
ber the acts of violence, which after a long series of.
treacheries and frauds, have been committed ; acts of
violence, which clearly appear by the striking con-
tradictions found in the papers published, where
Charles IV. is charged with having conspired with a
Minister, who is afterwards appointed a Member of
the Council of Government ; where the King, his
son, who was never married but once, is questioned
about his first wite. In consequence thereof, it is my
duty to declare, and I accordingly do hereby declare
what follows :
1. That the Freneb Emperor, all the individuals of his family,
and every French General and Oilicer, shall be personally re-
sponsible for the safety of the King, and of his brother and tincle.
s. That, in case any violence should be Attempted against lives
so valuable, in order that Spain may not be without a King, the
nation will make use of their elective right in favour of the Ad!.
duke Cusetes, as nephew of Commas 111. in Can that this
Prince of SICILY, or the Infant Don P/11110, and the other heirs
Should not be able to concur.
S. That should tie French army commit any robberies, dents-
tadon and murders, either in Madrid or any other town, invaded
by the French troops, they shall be considered as guilty of ideA,
treason, and no quarter shall be given to any of them.
4. That all the transactions which have hitherto taken place,
shall be considered as illegal, void, and extorted by violence,
which is known to be practised in both places.
5. That whatever may hereafter be done in Bayonne, shall also
be considered as null and void; and all who shalt take an active
part in the like transactions, shall be deemed traitors to their
eSan
S. Sot all deserters of the French army who shall present
tbisselires, shall be admitted in Arragon, and treated with that
rty, which forms a prominent teature of the Spanish na-
cliaracter; they shall be disarmed and conducted to this
capital, Where they may Win in our troops.
7. All other provinces and kingdoms of Spain, not yet !undd
by the enemy, areinvited to meet by Deputies at Terms!, want
other suitable place, to nominate a Lieutenant-General, watbie
orders shall be obeyed: by the particular Chiefs of the Maw
Ihingdoms.
8. The foregoing Manifest* shall be printed and published in
the whole Kingdom of Arragon' and it shall also be circulated in
the calittals and principal places of all the provinces and kingdoms
*Spain.
Given in the Had-quarters at Saragona, the 8 Ist May, HOS.-
PALAFOX,

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STATE PAPERS,
Published in the lifihniterr, as the Daemons accompanying tie
Accession of )osern Bow Areal ILO the disuse of Spain.
ADDRESS OF THE SUPREME JUNTA OF TXX CIOVERNMFNT
TO HISMAMISTY THE EMPEROR AND RING.
' " Madrid, May 13, 1505.
6, Those who at critical and difilcult periods are
placed nearest the Government, and who have at all
times shewn themselves to be good and faithful sub-
'jeep, can and ought to avow their sentiments, when
the welfare of their country resiCures it.
44 Convinced that the coaditlon of Spain and all its
concerns desmuid the closest connection with that po-
litical system of the empirreshich your Majesty go-
i Mils with so much glory, We colluder that the grea-
test proof of kindness to the ,Spanish nation wilich
our Sovereigns ever gave, is ;bete haein4 fixed their
'last *terrain:Won on an i . hie basis, and cots-
' (wined by a long series of political events,
46 0 that there were no Pyrenees ! This was the
constant *ish of good Spbniards ; because there could
Ise no pyrenees whenever the wants of each should be
the same ; when confidence should be returned again,
and eich of the twe nations have received. in the
same degree' the tespeot due to their independence
;ad worth.
The interval which yet separates us from 441 k
hap?, moment canntS now be long. Your Impenid i
Majesty, v•ho foresees every thing, and executes thesis
still more swiftly, has chosen for the provisional Go.
yernment of Spain a Prince educated for the art of
Geyeniment in the great school of your Majesty,
He has succeeded in stilling the boldest storms, hi
the moderation and wis4pm of his measures. What
have we not therefore to hope from his deeds, now
that all Spaniards unite to devote to him that admi-
ration to which he his se many claims, and assist
him in those labours which he applies for our servij*?
44 The Spanish Moparchi shall resume the rank
which belongs to it among the 'ewers Of AnaVei as
soon as it is united by a new fansily compact to its•
natural ally, whose power is so great! Whoever the
Prince niay be whom your Majesty destines fat 114
chosen from among your illustrious family, he willl
bring that security we so much need ; but Spain can
urge a plea which none of the other cowries ;came-
ted with your Majesty can dispute.
‘, The Spanish throne rises to a greater height.- i
The consequences arising from its relations to France
are of an importance commensurate with the extent
of its possessions. It seems, therefore, that the throne
itself calls for your Majesty's eldest brother to go-
vern it. On the other side, it is a happy presage,
that this arrangement, which Nature has confirmed,
so well corresponds with the sentiments of reverence
and admiration with which the actions of this Pia •
and the wisdom of his Government had inspired us.
44 The Council of Castile, whose wisdom comman-
ded their giving all the support to these principles
which stood in their power, unites with the with of
the Supreme Junta.
~ May GOD grant prosperity to your Iniperial and
Royal Majesty !"
LETTER PROM ales IMINENCIL Tit CARDINAL ARCNRISIOP OP
TOLEDO, TO NIS MAJZSTT TNIC lIMPRIOR AND LINO.
" Tokdodiday SS, MIL
" The resignation of the Spanish Crown, which has beam made
by King CHARLES IV. my Illustrious Sovereign, and the mks-
notion of the same by their Royal Highneues the Wino? if As-
turias and the Infants Don Carlos and Don Antonio, impose upon
me, according to GOD'S will, the pleasing obligation of laying at
the feet of your Imperial and Royal Majesty the assurance of my
homage, fidelity, and reverence.
" May your Imperial and Royal Majesty be grachanly pleased
to took upon me as one of your most dutiful subjects; and in.
'street nu concerning your high purposes, that I may be furnished
, with the means of manifesting my unfeigned and melons submit.
don.
" May Gov preserve your Imperial and Royal Majesty many
years, for the service of Church and Stater
PROCLAMATION OF THE SUPREME JUNTA OF GOVERN.
lIIINT.
4, Srmnaans—The gupreme Junta of Government
which at present consists of persons of the highest au-
thority in the nation, addresses you, to dispel the
errors, which malevolence and ignorance are endea-
vouring to inftnuate, and to propagate among you—
fatal errors, which might draw after them incalcula-
ble misery, did not the Supreme Government hasten
to annihilate them at the moment of their birth.—
The Junta dares flatter itself, that those who at all
times, and on all occasions, have hearkened with re-
verence to the voice of their superiors, will evinde no
less submission at ~ moment when it depends on them
either for ever to insure their happiness, by uniting
with the chief powers of the State, or to plot the
downfal of their own country, by yielding to cla-
mours and .comraotions, into which the eternal ene-
mies of the fame and prosperity of the Spanish nation
are endeavouring to plunge them.
,4 As the very moment when Spain, a country so
greatly favoured by nature, but impoverished, ex-
hausted,and debased before the eyes of all Europe,by
the defects and misrule of its own Government, had
arrived at the point of a complete annihilation—when
the very exertions which might have been employed
to revive her exhausted strength, would only have
served to increase her suffering,and to plunge her into
fresh calamities—when, in fine all hope was extin-
guished, Providence has granted us the means not
only of rescuing our country from certain ruin, but
also of raising her to an height of happiness and
splendour, which she has never yet attained, even in
the most glorious periods of her history. By one of
those political revolutions, which astonish only those
who disregard the events by which they have been
prepared, the House of Bourbon, after having lost
the other thrones which it in Europe, re-
onrycso7reseodn which ir "

Governor and Captain-General of the kingdoM of Arragon. . signed that of Spain, the it-retain-
trikeicy ;Rost ?Ili, OVIEDO GAZ ITT!, DATED JONZ 11,WILiCal a seat.
WE CAVE Ilt 3USITANCI. TaSTEPDAT :.... - " After having brought the nation to the brink of
a The poverucir of Carthagena, who had 'received' mars to
sup hitherto,
glve'up digitate to the French, mid was about to execute them, min,. deprived. of the
trt granted by the
i remaininiebranches of err family, and tenable to
-experhinced the sarnelate as Alvala. The Atraloart who
watches over e lives of the innocent, and who regards his' loyal preserve countries which had formerly unitedthem
tend Catholic people with an eye of compassiop, ordained that, on i with France ; the Bourbons found it impossible to
the approach of the enemy's squadron to the P°l4, With 8000 I keep a seat which all the changes which have occur.
rench troops for disenahalcation, it should fall in *Alt one he- ! „____, .
1 ltd in the. system of politics compelled. them to quit.
longing to'the Mighty Island !Mt Ocean ; the latter carte up witih
attacked; and defeated them. Two of their frigates and all their . The most powerful. Prince in Europe has accepted the
transports were sunk; hod two shlFs of the Par which remained, resignation of the Bourbons, not to incorporate your
were boarded, and their crows put to 'weird. 'rbe English lost territ.nr, in his already so extensive imperial dami.
tic, frigates, iod received some dame in 4se miser ships. This . .---#
minions, but to establish the Spanish Monarchy, on
entagemant took place bersieen Alicant ind Carthagena, on the
Mb of last Mom's, -anticontinurd two days. • . ' renovated principles, to besubsery ion tto his irresistible

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uvo, eieney,fee power, to the end that he may introduce all the u.pen leas* ' ado lutary reforms which we have so long fruitlessly pined
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the ssta, me wee 7 c"). for. It is svith this purpose that he has summoned
..,_ around his Serene person the Deputies of the Towns
and Provinces, and Municipal Corporations of the
State, in Neer to consult on the fundamental laws
which iiiay serve to secure the Supreme Power and
the allegiance of the subjects. He will place the
-Frown of Spain upon the head of a noble minded
Prince, who, by the gentleness of his disposition, will
Succeed in winning all hearts. He will display re.
sources which no other will have in his power, and
will soon replace Spain in that station from which the
has may sank through the weakners of the Princes
era° hive hitherto governed her. Is it possible, that
now the dawn of felicity is arising, there should be
found persons, who, unable to appreciate the lofty
destiny iebich awaits us, Ind unworthy of the honour-
ed panne of true Spaniards and upright friends of their
country, should labour to mislead you, and abandon
you to all the horrors of civil war, at the very ma-
,. . t when the hero mho must be the object of our
daily blessing and the admiration of following ages,
is altogether busied in carrying into effect the projects
be 1424 formed for the felicity of Spain ? It certainly
did not become the Junta to apprehend so great a
crime from Spaniards, so estimable for their lave of
their country—and yet they are grieved to be inform.
ed, that some have been carried away by an ill-un.
derstood zeal, and a mistaken conscience and alle.
gianee s that others have been brought to doubt COO.
corning the real interests of their country ; and more
than all these that the secret machinations of a people,
by system the enemies -of - the Continent, have been
employed to seduce a part of the good people of sonic
of the provinces, and sow the seeds of sedition and
rebellion, Prove Opartiartis I will you suffer your.
selves to be deceived by their fraudulent promises ?
Will you be the victims of their destructive errors 1
—Shell the generosity pf your feelings be aim.
sed, to drive you, your fertuoes, and your farniliesto
perdition ? Whm end do the inciters to disorder sad
desolation promise to themselves ? Is it the restoration
of your ancient Princes ? They are beyond the fron.
tiers of Spain. What have they to expect from your
powerless efforts ? Will you defend the Lawson which
your happiness depends I Why then do you labour
to annihilate the laws ? On the other hand, are not
lures now taking to restore to the nation the pos.
session of jtsancient liberates, and its primitive customs,
a felicity which but a few days since no one could have
hoped for? What is it then you expect, ye misled in.
441aiRip pf the provinces ? Will you draw down
q yourselves all the horrors of war, to see your
. As waged, your cities burnt, your dwellings laid
Boogia
. is 1 Do you think that the disorderly rebellion
pf a people brave, but inexperienced, without Gene-
rals, 'without finances, without magazines, without
provisieqs, without military supplies, can maintain a
cordfiet agaimt soldiers inured to war, and grown old
In thy habit of coociuering t The Junta still flatter
themselves that yoq ill weigh the fatal consequences
• 'eh will infalWp result from your first proceed-
ings, should unhappily a foolish ;obstinacy prevent
your speedily returning to the paths of obedience and
patriotism, which a moment of doubt has made yell
abandon. In order to cerrvince you, that it is their
sole desire to enlighten your judgment, and enable
you to perceive that the Prince, their President, and
the Emperor of the Freoch, in whose hands our fate
is placed, have no other object than your felicity; the
Junta will bring to your knowledge the objects of the
new Sovereign who comes to reign over us. Hear and
judge!
N The Cortes, the ancient securities of our rights
and privileges, shall be restored, with more powers
and under a better form than has for a long time taken
place. They shall be convened every three years at
least, and more frequently when the wants of the na.
don shall require their meeting.
46 The annual expenditure of the Royal Family
shall be fixed. The sum assigned out of the Royal
Treasury shall be liable to no increase, it shall be less
than one half of what has hitherto been issued for
that purpose. o.
44 The Catholic worship shall be exclusively esta.
blished in Spain. No other shall be tolerated.
44 Finally, the Junta of the Government has strong
reasons to hope, that the personal contribution in sap.
port of the present war will be considerably dirni.
nished, in consequence of the improvements which
the new Government is about to introduce, and cf
the pxient political state of Europe, which requires •
the most strenuous erections in support of the increase
of the marine, and admits of a diminution of the land
force.
" A gradual improvement shall take place in every
department of the finances; credit shell be univer-
sally restored, the national debt fixed, and in a few
years discharged. The administration of justice shall
be subject to invariable rules, and the superior power
shall not interrupt its course. Agriculture shall be
encouraged. New fife 4111 be given to commerce
and industry. The military arid- naval force shall
have their ancient splendour. All means which can
secure the felici7 ;of the people shall be alike em-
ployed.
" Judge now whether it be your interest to take up
;inns, in order yourselves to annihilate that, which is
to establish your felicity and that of your children and
descendants; and whether they are true Spaniard%
11# can be friends of their country, who endeavour to
weld among you the fire of sedition.
" Such, Spaniards, ie the destiny which awaits you
if you will mainta , ce.end order among your-
selves ; if you y yourselves with your
Government and your local ttgist -es. If all of
you be animated by the dull to act well, you are
about up become happy, bat if you neglect the sale-
Lary counsel which eta of the Government gins
you, then fear the 'just resentment pf it Monarch.
~....who is as severs in avenging a useless and blind ore
h, as he is senmous and quick to forgive a mi•
!sittrst of error. Ara yon • t that already
nurse bus French armies are within the Spanish terri-
tory ? Do you know that other armies, as numerous,
approach your frontiers? The provinces which do
not instandy rennet to their dqty, shall be immediately
*set by French troops, and-, ted with all the seve-
lkit of military law. The Lieutenant General of
the kingdom has already issued commands that se-
' wend divisions shall advance and punish the seditious,
but the Junta of GoVernment have been desirous to
vrithaterr thole provinces, is 10642 disorders hive
been committed, from inevitable danger. For them
they have implorrd t illey have offered in their names

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'heir perfidious conduct towards our •
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France, under the promise of an etentil une Andalusian& hare fortified
in order to chain them all, has no precedent tfilery."
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