The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-16 00:00:00

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I, We hope, front the wisdom of Congreis, that it wilile-
fiect maturely on the importance of this affair, arid that it Will
not place its in the dangerous atternatis'e of failing in our
duties and renouncing our princi pat object, which is the safety
of our country (an object to which we have never ceased to
aspire from the first day of our happy and glorious enterprise),
Or of disolieying a Minister, the organ of inordinate power
whose Order compromises. the national libevty gained,by
efforts.

(Signed) " RAFAF.I. DEL ILUECiO.
" NIIGUEL LOPEZ BANOS.
" PI-11LIt'PE ►DE ARLO AGUERO

" St. Ferdinand, Aug. 11, 1820."

" ADDRESS TO THE KING.

" RE—We wish that those who surround your Majesty
should fully know the sincerity of our sentiments, and >,uuld
desire with as .much good faith as we• to promote the 'happi-
ness of spin, to following the ways which 1-leaven has mira-
culously deigned to open before us; we Wish that they would'
desire, as well as we, that his Majesty should see his glory
and his prosperity increase in the line of conduct which he
has adopted with such nobleness for the felicity of this na-
tion—of this nation which has so well proved to the whole
universe the lure with which it burns fOr your august person.

" Then, Sire, if things were so, without fearing sinister in
[erpretations, we would presume to deposit the whole of ou

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sentiments in the bosom of your Majesty, and our frankness
will make them he received with a generous indulgence. A
Royal Order of the 14th inst., which disbands the corps of

Observation, was con►tounicated on the Bth by the Captain-
General of Andalusia, D. J. O'Donuhu. This order excites
a fear that our demand may not be received so favourably as.

it ought. We are afraid that a hostile hand directs the ope-
rations of the Ministry, and leads the nation to its ruin; we
are afraid that it compromises your Majesty, the Army, and
ourselves, who desire nothing more than the establishment
of a constitutional system. This system, Sire, assut es to your

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Majesty a greathess and a power which you would not have
found in a contrary system ; for your Nlajesty has had too

sad an experience, at the expense of Spanish honour, in those
years of afflicting nKtuory, when you were surrounded and

deceived by Ministers at once ignorant and perverse.

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" We say; Sire; with -frankness, that hidden band leads to
nesitable destruction both the nation and your Majesty;
be-

cause it excites distrust unworthy of your •Majesty and of us

our good faith is irritated by suspicions which there is 110 a

empt to disguise in Ministerial orders.
" In order to preserve, Sire, the -attachment which our
fellow-citizens testify towards us, and the kindnesss with

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which your Majesty honours us,' we must remain faithful to the
principles which we hare proclaimed in embracing the cause
of our country and of your Majesty. Hist' ry teaches us that
it has often cost dear to tell the truth to Kings; not because
they are the enemies of truth, but because it clashes with the
interests of their courtiers.

" The exploits even of the Cid, who never aimed at any
thing else but the glory of its Prince, were the objects of the
sarcasms of the palace favourites, and punished by hint who
ought to have rewarded them. But we could not see
with indifference our Country plunged in confuSion by the
ignorance, if not by the perverseness of a minister, which
drives us to the edge of a precipice, endangers the safety of the
state, forces us to neglect the laws of disCipline, and sur-
prizes your Majesty into orders contrary to your service, and
dangerous to the public tranquillity. Our.conduct proves
that we ought not 'to he the object of any sort of distrust.
The troops whom we have the honour of commanding deserve
the benedictions and the love of your Majesty, and of all Spa-
niards. In spite of the opposition which we experience at
every step, and the intrigues which, cross unceasingly our
most innocent movements, there is not an individual in the
army who incurs any danger of being cited as an enemy of
his• country and' his King. We have already been tried,
and we will still give such convincing proofs of our good con-
duct, that we may reckon beforehand on the esteem of poste-
rity. The Congress has been assembled ; it has not yet been
able to realize the reforms which the nation demands. These
reforms will necessarily -be opposed by those who are keens-
torued.to live upon the public calamities—those who cannot
Support the idea of seeing Spaniards acquire, by means of new
institutions, information which they before wanted—by those
who cannot see the spread of the incontestible truths that
virtue, science, and labOitr, are the best ancestors—the true
sources of that prosperity which should be coveted by a good
man—a Spaniard, worthy of that name. '
" The 10th of March is still unpunished. National justice
has not yet reached those who in IEI4 basely betrayed the
confidence of their country, and abuied their august mission
by deceiving your Majesty, and by, misleading your reason to
such an extent that they made you recompense by tortures
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and death the generouS_ devotion of Spaniards in favour of
'our Majesty, when a captive in the isands of your Perfidious
enemy—that dototion, the object of which was to consolidate
-public liberty on such bases, that it might not be possible
henceforward fur any of our Princes to become the victim of
ignorant or corrupt Ministers.. A thousand indispensable re-
gulations remain yet to be submitted to a first discussion.—.
Tire fundamental law of Alm state, and public safety, are
threatened by associationl protected by foreigners,and by in-
ternal troubles; the causes of which are tube traced to foreign
influence. •

In these circumstances the Minister chose.to dissolve the
Army of Observationi—tbot saiegpard of..the national repre-
sentation, by which we fight for your Majesty—and the ilt;w
Institutions, which are still so far from a state of perfection