Star.
London, England, 1808-09-28 00:00:00

CARTHAGENA, AUGUST 2e.

On the 18th, the Spanish squadron under the com-
mand of Don Juan Josef Martinez, entered this port
from Mahon. It consisted of the Reina Luisa, S.
Pablo, Guerrero, Asia, and S. Ramon, the S. Fran-
cisco de Paula having entered a few days before. It
is impossible to give an idea of the joy which the in-
habitants of this town expressed at seeing in our port
so important a part of our navy, which the perfidy of
the most infamous Minister ever any Monarch em-
ployed, had destined For the traitor Bonaparte. It
is astonishing to reflect on the various circumstances
which have contributed to the fortunate deliverance
of the remains of our ancient marine, now almost an-
nihilated
by our disastrous coalitions with the basest
of nations

On the 10th of February the squadron sailed from
this port, under the command of Admiral Don Ca-
yetano Valdes, to form a junction with the French
squadron at Toulon, in conformity to the orders of;
the insidious Godoi • and though they made all due
diligence to obey them with punctuality, for the or-
ders were urgent, yet HEAVEN now took compassion
on us for so many evils suffered during the last 181
years, and did not permit that the enemy of the hu-
man race, who has made such progress on the Conti-
nent, should acquire additional means of making in-
roads upon the ocean, and of enslaving other free and
unoffending nations ; and upon the arrival of the
squadron off Cape St. Antonio, a dreadful tempest
and contrary winds obliged it to take refuge in Ma-
jorca, and repair its damages. After a few days, it
sailed from Majorca for Toulon, but contrary winds
prevailed to such a degree that it became necessary to
return to the same roadstead, very much damaged;
but it not being easy there to repair their damages,
and being continually exposed to an attack from the
English Vice Admiral Martin, they sailed to Mahon,
where, fortunately for us, they remained a long time,
blockaded by an English squadron : had it not been
for this impediment, the repeated orders of Murat to
direct their course to Toulon must have been obeyed.
An Aide-de-Camp of th:...,ame Murat was dispatch.
ed with the orders ; and as, about that time, our po-
litical volcano has exploded, a post was received '
ringing letters for the appointment of a new Adrni-1
ral, and instructions for his conduct. The Supreme I
Junta immediately deputed Captain Joseph Duelo,
with orders to the Spanish Commander of the squa-
dron not to obey those of the French Government,'
His arrival was so opportune, that the fleet was j!ist
then preparing to sail, peremptory orders having been
received from Murat to conduct it to Barcelona and ,
other ports. Let us admire the hand of PitovinieNca,
*hich has ordered so many occurrences in such a way,
as to preserve a property so invaluable.

REVIEW
OF Vier WORT OF THZ FRENCH MINISTER FOR FOREIGN
AFFAIRS," ANTEDATED ZAYONNE, APRIL 24.

Among the miserable cries with which a few fie.
tious persons endeavoured to frighten the people of
this country, during the last session of Parliament,
none was so loud and dissonant as " the New Mora-
lity"—" the New Morality"—" the New Morality!"
—What was the occasion ? Truly nothing more than
using the sante means of annoyance against our inve-
terate and sworn enemy that he employs against us !
—Truly, nothing but our having anticipated him, by
taking into our custody, what he considered as already
his own ! !

The events which have since occurred in Spain and
Portugal, must by this time have opened the eyes of
these well-meaning burgesses, and will no doubt pa-
cify their scruples. Indeed, we expect that, instead
of hearing only “ audible lament" we shall see the
zeal of recent conversion inflame them to the highest
degree, against the audacious principles, now openly
professed and promulgated by the Emperor NAPO-
LEON and his familiar:.
Documents of such principles as the one under review
need only be exposed to be execrated. The insancextra-
vagancies of the Convention were human, compared
to this detestible and diabolical instrument. They were,
indeed, if possible, more frantic in language, but we
defy all the libraries, universities, and cabinets of the
world, to furnish from their accumulated records of
the most uncontaminated wickedness, a letter of private
villainy, or a public proscription, from the decree by
PHARAOH for the murder of the male children of a
whole people, down to the date of the last order issu-
ed from St. Cloud against the Spanish nation—an
order of which the ink is not yet dry !—We defy
them to produce any thing that approximates to this
report, in fearless, remorseless, and resolute iniquity.
Can any thing be found to bear comparison with
it in the history of an ALEXANDER, who revelled in
the burning of cities, and, only in drunkenness, mur-
dered his officers ?—of a HEROD, who, in his fear of
a legitimate descendant of a regal line, ordered the
murder of children ?—of a DIOCLZSIAN, the murderer
of men for mere opinions ?—of a Maisomer, the pro-
pagator of opinions by the sword ?—of a Lawn the
great Papal executioner ?—of a MARATa Roan-
FIERA?, and the other exterminators of integrity, ho-
nour, loyalty, morality, truth, religion, and conscience
in France ?

This public abandonment of shams, tbeinly wreck
of principle that was left in the French Government,
written as if there were no contemporaries, nor likely to
be a posterity, is ante.dated as if drawn up at Bayonne
on the 24th of April, 1808, though probably written
on or about the 2d of September, a day famous in the
annals of French public atrocities. The craft of this
anachronism consists in veiling from the sight of a
nation, rendered reprobate by its Government, the
previous unparalleled proceedings against an unof-
fending people, which by a retribution almost mira-
culous, had rendered it necessary to justify what had
been so heinously attempted by pretexts of political
humanity. It begins thus

" Sire ! The security of your empire, the consolidation of its
power, and the necessity of employing every mean to compel a
Government to make peace, which making a sanguinary sport of
mankind, and in violation of every thing held most hatred among
men, has adopted the principle of perpetual war, impose on your
Majesty the obligation of putting an end to the anarchy which
menaces Spain, and to the diuentions which agitate it."

In reading this paragraph, one is apt to imagine
that it was some address, or document, presented to
the King of Great Britain. But, Reader, it was ac.
tually addressed to his Imperial and Royal Majesty the
Emperor Napoleon; was received into his Imperial and
Royal hands ; and it was sent by a Imperial and Royal
command to his Senate, a deliberative body of human
beings. This paper, which would be ridiculous if it
was not pernicious, contains a serious admonition to
the British Ministers, -were they to read such things.
The necessity of employing every means to compel
a Government to make peace, which, making a san-
guinary sport of mankind, has adopted the principle
of perpetual war, is now openly avowed. What are
emery means ? fair and foul, secret and open, poison
and the cannon, cajoling and assassination, treaties
that are never intended to be fulfilled, and the ruin,
subversion, yea even the extermination of any Mi-

nister, General, or man that is likely to oppose the
Government which males a sanguinary :port of mankind.
What say the new morality criers to this ? But what
Government is it that violates every thing held sacred
among men ?:--is it any other than that of the Emperor
NAPOLEON, the successor of the French Republic, and
the extinguisher of that revolution which was to give
light to the world ? It can be no other. For what is
more sacred than the ties of domestic society, but The
laws of a kingdom ; and what more sacred than the
laws, but the lives of the people ? and have not the
French soldiers in Spain and is Portugal, by the
orders and machinations of the French Government,
violated all the social obligations ? Has not the
French Emperor NAPOLEON himself, personally at
Bayonne, violated the fundamental laws of a great
nat'on ; and is he not actually at this present instant
inanying gangs of his slaves to the pillage, slaughter,
and destruction of the Spaniards ? 44 Me principle of
Aerpetual war !" With whom can this be a principle
but with him, who at this very moment has put aside,
the map of Austria, and the port-folio which con-
tains the forojiii for allotting her dominions, having
Added his last and final thoughts; and flied her des-

w-

tiny irrevocably—and who is even now examining
the map of the territories of the silly and devoted
Emperor of the North, and skutching the outline of
their future partition.
ltfenitesa--" Of all the States of Europe there are 1.-ne whose
fate is more 11:TCJIIIIIIS connected with that of France than
Of all the States of Europe, except Great Britain,
none is lest connected with France than Spain. In
language, probity, monnerc attd customs, they are as
widely different as it is possible to suppose ; aad they
are separated by a vast rampart of mountains, uhich
form a barrier a thousand times more exclusive than
all the Rhines, Rhones, and Danubes, which sub.
divide the present and future territories of hu Imperial
and Royal Majesty Na.ozEon.
AfoNncue—" The rivalships of Charles V. and Francis I."
Since the days of the San: Collates the French state
papers have been larded with names famaus in his.
tory, or allusions to ancient events, which, however,
have only served to illustrate-the ignorance of the
writers. The instance before us furnishes a deplorable
proof that the present French Minister for Foreign
Affairs is either most illiterate or very foolish. For few
Spaniards were employed by the EmperorCmtaLas V.
in his Italian wars with FRANCIS I. When that Em.
peror subdued and took prisoner that King, the French
Minister- for Foreign Affairs should remember that'
but for the generosity and interference of England,
France would have been totally destroyed, and that
she was then so humiliated as to send Ambassadors
on their knees begging the pity of the English King !
Ay, begging that same sort of help, which England
will never refuse to those countries that Imperial or
Royal Conquerors attempt to enslave. Nay, more :
in the folly of her liberality, as she has too often done
when they do not seek it, she may urge them to take
her assistance, though she may be rewarded as she has
been by such despicable Governments, as constitute
the allies of France, or the wretched and detestable
crew of whom PROVIDENCE has employed the Empe.
ror NAPOLEOW to rid the peninsula of Spain. All
the acts of the Prince of the Peace and his corrupt
coadjutors, if at any time capable of being considered
as partial to Great Britain, could only have been such
in appearance. For it is utterly impossible that such a
set could devise any thing for the interests of a free
state, although the course of PROVIDENCE might work
good out of their evil.
Harness.—s In its present state Spain is ill governed."
That is, WAS, when leagued with the Emperor NA-
POLEON (for this Report professes to have been writ.
ten in April last). But if victories and triumphs be
any proof of an able Government, and we know of
no other that France can produce, Spain is better go.
veined than the Empire of the Great NAPOLEOW, for
she has beaten and banished his armies.

Aleniterr.-.-" To arrive at least h at that peace which humanity
calls for, and of which all Ettrope stands so much In need : every
thing that leads to this end is legitimate !"
Suct an infernal proposition has never been main.
tained since the period when the French Government
decreed the formation of a chosen band of Regicides ;
and the Minister who has dared to promulgate it de•
serves, at the hand of NAPOLEON, a punishment ten
times more severe than he inflicted on the German
Printer PALM. Can such a proposition, if legitimated, .
be the right of one party only ? Can the French
Minister. persuade Spain and.. Portugal—can he per-
suade the world that “ that peace which humanity
calls for, and of which all Europe stands so much in
need," is kept at a distance by any but his own mas.
ter ? To what then does his proposition amount !
Wee to NAPOLEON, should mankind ever become so
depraved as to admit the axiom of his own Minister,
and reduce it into practice ! Infernal machines,
pistols, daggers, poison ! all would be held legitimate
means to rid the world of the man whose restless am.
bition can be satisfied with nothing short of universal
empire.
Afmainir.,—,4 Spain will not be to France sincere and faithful
friend

And therefore France has a right to make Spain her
own property ! ! Has France ever been the sincere
and faithful friend of any state in Europe ? If this ques-
tion cannot be answered in the affirmative, we leave
to this Minister to draw the legitimate inference from
his own premises !—For ourselves we are satisfied
with the fact, that " Spain will not be to France a
sincere and faithful friend."

Attemienir—" Nor can the war against England be continued
with the hope of arriving at peace, until a common interest shall
unite the two Houses reigning in France and Spain."
Had not Spain at least as good a title as France to
make this assertion? What would NAroLlos have
thought of P proposal to place some member of the
Spanish House (alias the Bourbons) on the Throne
of France, that the two kingdoms might have " a
common interest ?"—Would there have been less •.
justice in this than in dethroning a lawful Sovereign,
and enslaving a whole people ?-0 temitora ! 0 more:!

lliamiterr" What Policy suggests Justice authorizes."
This is sometimes true, but never as the French
Minister has applied it. Policy has suggested to NA-
POLEON, that Spain would make a convenient king;
dom for his Imperial and Royal Majesty's Brother, and
thercLre it was just that Spain should be deluged
with blood, and profaned by every species of crime 1
—Therefore it was just that his Royal Brother, from
being King of Naples, should become a felon ; and,
instead of legislating for the security of property,
should commit burglary I—Therefore it is just, that
loyalty should be called rebellion, and patriotism
treason 1
Policy suggested to Use wretch who was executed

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SPAIN.

The reduction of the Castle of Mongal, in Catalo-
nia, a fact which we stated a considerable time ago,
on the authority of the Spanish papers, was announ-
ced in the Gazette of last night, in a dispatch from
Lord Cou.nrcwooo, inclosing a letter from Lord
COCHRANE.

The latest Madr:d Gazettes in town come down to
the 10th inst. With respect to military movements,
they are more barren than usual ; but the fact is—
in the South of Spain they have triumphed completely
over the insidious foe who attempted to enslave them,
and nothing remains but to organize more perfectly
the national force for the defence of the country, and
the reinforcing of the Northern armies.
The French still remain in their positions on the
Ebro, and it will require vigorous and well-concerted
measures to drive them from that quarter. They
have, however, not only a determined foe to contend
with ; but the rigours of an approaching winter, which
will impede the arrival of reinforcements from France,
and increase the difficulty of obtaining supplies in a
hostile country. The diseases of the camp may be
expected to increase, and, if the Patriots avoid any
rash measure, the French force must be daily dimi-
nished and dispirited by partial actions, and become
at last a certain conquest.
The letters from Spain speak with great confidence
of the success of the plan which has been arranged for
dislodging the French from their positions on the
F.bro. The army of Gallicia was to march from
Carion-dc.los Cordes on the 4th of September. It was
ro proceed by forced marches, and was to pass through
Orsono and Melgar de Fernamental to Burgos, where
it was expected it would arrive on the Sth of the same
month. The attack on the French had been con-
certed with General BLAKE by the commander in
Chief, in conjunction with the Juntas of the respec-
tive provinces. The troops under the command of
PALAJOI were in motion at the same time on the left
bank of the Ebro. The infantry of the Andalusian
army was marching fur Soria; the cavalry belonging
to it having proceeded to join BLAKE, who was very
deficient in that description of force. It was supposed
that a junction of those several divisions would be af-
terwards effected; but the place of rendezvous was
prudently concealed from the knowledge of all, but
those concerned in the arrangements.
These letters; as might be expected, express senti-
ments similar to those which prevail in this country
respecting the Ddryntftle Conveletion. Of the bravery
oi the British troops they speak in tlaelighest terms

—but of the CoMmanders, nothing but what might
be expected !

The Deputies appointed from the Juntas 6f Seville
and Valencia were expected to reach Madrid on the
Bth of September, whither Count FLORIDA BLANCA
was to repair to meet them.