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SPAIN.

are indisprensible. Ferdinand the Vllth
ordains it—Ferdinand the With cannot be restored'
..--- ' to his Throne without such' union of pOwers : when
MANIFESTO OF THE SUPREME JUNTA OF =RCM. ,all the Provinces are united by their 'Representatives,
[FROM THE CORUNNA GAZETTE.] l' there is an end to all the jealousies of superiority, and
" Provinces and cities 'Of Spain I our senti -1 ts thodangerous arms of division and intrigue are cut
are uniform, and our will has been marvellously and off to the enemy—the Foreign Powers ill know with.
unequivocally expressed. We are hastening to the . whom to treat both in peace and war—andan um-
defence.of our country, and the preservation of the versal Government being establishid ,in Spain, the
august tides of our amiable and endeared Ferdinand Monarchy will be preserved inviolate for its legitimate
the Seventh. Let us beware of disorganisation, were and beloved Sovereign.
any disunion to steal among us : Be there no voice ! . " This City awaits your answer for its satisfaction
heard in the peninsula, but what breathes union, con- ; and information.
Murcia, chest_ June, ISO&
fraternity, and mutual defence. Let us be gteat and. (Signed) ./.:
disguise the frivolities of precedence. Let us form a . cctsrceTs de Cameos. VINcINT HILLTA. .
solid central Government, to which all the provinces JObl'.l,, BISHOP Of CAR.. COUNT ae CAMPO HEAMOSO.
and kingdoms may have recourse, by means of Re-, TUAGENA. ANTONIO FONTS& ASA K.
COUNT FLORIDA BLANCA. MARQUIS DEL VILLAR.
presentatives, and from whom orders and institutions
JOAQUIM deELGUERRA. ANTONIO VERNARGICT DE •
may emanate under the name of Ferdinand VII. JULIAN JOSZPIS de Rit- SANTO DOMINGO.
" The General Cortex held in the year 1789, have 1 TAMOSA. VISCOUNT de HuIRTA.
sworn by Prince of Asturias aslreir dthe Crown, the M. MARQUIS 4 En:- Louis SANTIAGO BADO.
NARDO T AGUILAR. FRANCISCO Lorzz de Au'''.
dignified, actual Monarch. The Deputies of the
The Aiciozhcon Or LAR.
Cortez, and King Charles the Fourth, have sworn on VICUNA. JOSTPU HRNARRJOS.
the Gospel mutually to preserve .the privileges, laws, By Order of the Junta,
statutes, customs, and usages. The Grandees and " ANTONIOJOSEF DE CALAHORIA."
the Nobles have rendered their solemn allegiance, ac-.
CORUNNA, AUGUST I. • - '.
cording to the use and practice of Spain. By this
mutual bond, neither can the-subjects cast off their... Between yesterday and the day before yesterday,.
Obedience pledged, nor the King contravene the soo some English ships of war and transports have enter-
lemn promise, to uphold the laws, statutes, ctistnyns, edthis.harbour, and among them a frigate, which we
and institutions of the nation. understand left in Asturias some millions of rials, and
" The principal, and perhaps the most essential, is, brings here three more millions and a fraction, which
the succession in the kingdom, establishedin our great were deficient of the twenty millions.
code, entitled' de las Partislas,' by the laws of which„ VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, JULY 10.
the succession has from the remotest antiquity been Besides Campo Mayor and M.trban, we have taken
fixed. • This nation has not chosen to reverse or alter possession of Castle David and Puerto Alegre. Im-
this method.; and thus, when our Lord Philip the mediately after this, we organized with our own the
Fifth meditated the subversion of it, intending to in- Portuguese troops, who rejoice so much on the occa-
troduce
.theSalic Law of France, by which females sion, that they seem almost to lose their senses.
are excluded, and his solicitude reviving in the said As soon as we arrive in the" districts, they form a
Cortez, it was by an unanimity of votes declared, that temporary council, and they appoint our military of-
his Majesty could not alter the order of succession in ficers to posts of honour, delivering into their hands
Spain, the observance of which he had sworn to money and other resorrces, without being asked for
maintain, and consequently the Princess Charlotte of it. They have performed mass in honour of Ardi-
Brazil was to be admitted to the Crown, in default of nand the Seventh, and of their Prince Regent. They
her male brothers. manifest as much zeal as our countrymen can do, and
" Under this fact, by which the subjects have their troops collect on all sides. We shall soon take
pledged their fidelity, and the Sovereigns the accom- yetbes.
plishment of their oath, it is manifest to the nation,
that the renunciations and abdications of the Crown,
by our Lord Charles IV. and Ferdinand VII. in be-
half of the Emperor of the French, have been posi-
tively and notoriously null, as made in favour of an
individual, a stranger to the family pointed out in the
said Cortez, conformably to the laws, statutes, cus-
toms, and usages of Spain, and in defiance to the so-
lemn and reciprocal oath verified between the King
and his subjects in the Cortez solemnly assembled :
To this nullity, which exempts us from all obligation
of acknowledging as Sovereign the Emperor of the
French, is added the want of liberty under which they
have heenmade, and the presence of that Emperor with
a powerful army on the spot, where the renunciation
took place, and whither the legitimate Sovereign Prince
has been insidiously and treacherously conducted. •
" The King Francis the First evaded fulfill:ng
the treaty made by him with the Emperor Charles
the Fifth, under which he had been released at Ma-
drid, on pretence of having made it in captivity.—
Let the nations compare, and see whether there can
be any parallel. Francis the First was made priso-
per in the famous battle of Pavia, in an open and
just war : Ferdinand the Seventh was seized at Bay-
onne, under the idea of embracing an intimate ally,
sOro invited him to consolidate and draw close the
bonds of peace and onion, to augment the glory of
both natons.

CIUDAD RODRIGO, JULY ts.
We have here a small army of peasantry, perhaps
consisting of about 4000 men, but full of life and ar-
dour • and, in conjunction with the Portuguese, they
talk of taking Almeyda.

• BILBOA, JULY 23.
The Asturians advance towards Pancorba. The
French took away from the manufacturers of arms
at Placentia more than four thousand muskets quite
finished, which were sent to Bayonne, and the indus-
trious Labourers were left without compensation.—
' Likewise they have taken away all the arms that
were to be found- in Alava. The terror they have
diffused every where is prodigious.
Our General Eguia has given orders at Victoria
for quarters for 14,000 men. These' are Literal-jug,
1 and we hope to part for ever with our late visitors.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13. -
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
• Cons. money, 664—for am. 663 Reduced 67.
Onsnitun par dis.--Escheq. Isiils 6s. INS. pre.—

Thursday the Morning Star cartel arrived at Ply-
mouth from the coast of France. She sailed from
Plymouth three days before with eleven French pas-
sengers, being permitted by this Goverment to return
to the r native country ; they intended to have land-
ed at Morlaix, but on approaching the shore, and
coming within hail of the battery, they were ordered
to leave the coast immediately on pain of being sunk,
and no intreaty could alter the determination of the
Commanding Officer, who, it appeared, was acting
under the rigid orders of his merciless master, and
the vessel left the inhospitah:e shore. Notwithstand-
ing the great risk of opposing the orders of the
Officer at the battery, one of the French Officers and
a boy took the boat belonging to the Morning Star,
and actually made for the shore, and they were seen
to be fired on from the battery, but what became of
them was not known. All the other passengers re.
landed at Plymouth, among whom are two ladies :
these passengers were lately captured in the Tigre,,
bound from New York to Bourdeanx.

" The cession and renunciation of a place, and
even cf a province, may be tolerated, if it prove the
means of terminating a bloody and cruel war ;—but
the unheard of and astonishing renunciation of a
great Monarchy in the midst of peace, without further
notification to the nation, or assent on the part of the
States of the Kingdom, than the annunciation of its
having been derived from the mouth of a captive Mo-
narch, or perhaps alledged only in print, without ever
having, been really effected, is so violent and extraor-
dinary a result, that no precedent of it will be found
among the robbers of kingdoms in the annals of the
ivoild.
" The French papers have censured the conduct
of England when' they seized our frigates, and the
Royal Navy of Denmark! What have they to say
now on the attempt of disposing of the 'whole Spa-
nish Monarchy, undei the confidence. of amity and
alliance I Charles the Great, at the head of power-
ful armies, and ruling vast provinces, attempted to
validate certain tides on this nation ; but Alphonso
the Usage taught him in Roncesvalles, that Sove-
reign even of petty kingdoms, such as Leon, can
overmatch the insolently proud. He that has Justice
acs Otis side, is under the protection of Goo—and if .
Goo be with us, vain is the watch of those that seek
to ensnare and persecute us. By the LARK schooner, the arrival of which at
'4i Cities of vote in the Cortez! Let us unite and Portsmouth from Corunna we announced yesterday,
form one body, let us-appoint a Council, which in the some letters and journals have been received, but not
name of Ferdinand the Vllth, may organize all the
civil dispoSitions, ail :1 let its avoid the evils with which - of, a later date than accounts previously commani.
disunion would threaten us. The portentous notion cated. lt has been reported that the accounts by this
that in each capital the 'Junta of Government should,. vessel:state, that JOSEPH Bosamarearas shot on the
suppose itself supreme,,withqut relative subordination, 27th ult. as he was quitting Madrid ; but we have
would draw anarchy, . desolation, and rain, down. }nos been ibe to ascertain that any of the letters con-
upon us—united, we siiall be iav*cible-.-distiatited, ~
the common enemy well find his gratification in otir • tam such a statement. Id, the preceding columns we
destruction Woe to. Spain if that should ha ! ,have given some farther extracts from the Spanish
Ferdinand the VI Ith ordains—the CortezJavettictig-; papers.
nised him as hereditary Prince-the country has pro- .•By a vessel arrived from Gibraltar, a letter has
claimed him as monareb ; Seville, Grenada, Valets- •
cia,. Saragossa, noble cities,• vouchsafe to take the . 'been received by the Lady of Sir Haw Datnameta,
dated the .24,th•Of July, hs'which'it is stated, that Sir
lead, unite and embrace this resolution, point out •
and circulate the nominationsof the place and day for Hew Taaiatrurzat had just received a dispach from
the reunion--of the Representatives of the people, oc- General Caircanos, informing Min of the..unconcli..
-copy by rrovisi .n the faculties of the distinguished r 6,)n al surrender of DUMONT% corps, and of the capi-
cities of Burgos and Teledo, at.present disabled from
1 tulation of the corps which had passed the Sierra
raising their voices.
' ". Captains-General, "distinguished Commanders& rein forte that officer::
.Morena to ...
protect this preservative of the nation—worthy He-. -7a gentleman of respectability, who *as lately at
rt es form the Council, from which the orders may 'Vienna, stases, that the Military force of Austria is
emanate, which those that conduct the armies shall . on a moist...respectable footing. The Emperor, warned
have to execute, and bya 'knowledge of the *ate mid
position of all the forces Of the r.ation, and of the fate e theßoyal Family Spain, as well as
by the f of
movements of the enemy, you will know how to 'save of the fallen house of Brandenburg, that his security
:le country. , ' • z, • I must depend, not upon illusive promises, but on his.
.'Our City Ratters itself that this . y will o&n activity and exertion, has now prepared, as we
:-:-.-,:ad decisive. A central Gcrtrnment, a Supreme .are informed, for immediate action, an army of near

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400,000 men, besides the Mids. To facilitate the
effecereopemtions of these troops, iiiagaaine-z have
been established at every important post, and all the
lariotts resources of war have been distributed in pro-
per situations.
The above Gentleman, on his way through Hol-
land, had ample opportunities of observing that great
discontents prevail in ever/part of that country, espe:
cially in the districts situated on the coast. The de-
basement they have -experienced in being made a
province of France ; the annihilation of their com-
merce ; and, above all, their sons being dragged
from them to serve in the French armies, have ex-
cited so much disgust against. the fraternity with
which they have been afflicted,•that there is every
disposition to shake off the yoke. But without a fo-
reign aid, which may now be nearer than they looked
for, they could hardly hope so succeed in such an
• effort.
What with the determined resistance NAPOLEON
has met with in Spain, and the force that will be re-
quiredagainst Austria, it will be no easy matter to
recruit the French armies to the extent that will be
'necessary. Will the French Emperor venture to em-
ploy,
at the present crisis, German quotas furnished
by the•Fcederaticn of the Rhine ? His necessity must
indeed be great if he hazard the expedient. Will he
have recourse to the system of conscription in France,
where the youthful population is already. nearly ex-
itausted ? In this also there is great danger. A gentle-
man recently from Paris, who was an eye witness of the
drawing of the lottery of conscription, exhibits the
most striking picture of its horrors. He describes
the Hall of the Commune as filled and surround-

ed with women, the wives. mothers, and sisters of the
youths subject to the fatal ballot : and he says, that
so repeatedly had the drawing taken place, that in
the Commune in which he resided, there remained but
1400 names on the roll to be drawn, even by antici-
pation, for the year 1810. On the ballot it is not
unusual to permit the women to draw out the names,'
because they may be supposed to be lucky. But
whenever the chance falls on a person of their ac-
quaintance or kindred, the scream of lamentation
that instantly rises is petrifying to the heart ! And
this is incessant, for the place being crowded with the
relatives, the cries of the unhappy women, who are
to lose their children, their husbands, their brothers,
or their lovers; are dreadful .1 Will he venture to pro-
ceed to the conscription of 1810

Letters from ireineril& 6f the 6th July mention, !
that ever since the Abdication of CHARLES and Fan-
DlVAltibi the people of the Canary Islands were in a
great ferment, and manifested the utmost indignation
at the conduct of BONAPARTE, opposing the icha of
any submissiowto Emilie. As soon as the proceed- i
• ings of the Patriots in the mother country were known,
the whole population of the Seven Islands declared
lo FERDINAND the Seventh—men, women, and chi':
then, even the Friars and Nuns, yore the patriotic.
cockade. A Junta was to take place at the city of
Laguna, the capital of Teneriffe, to which every
town and district of each Island were to send Depu-
Lties, there to elect a certain number of the persons of
highest local influence and consitieration to compose
i National Junta, to which, it was certain, none.
would be appointed, but men on whose firmness and
integrity there was entire confidence.
Notwithstanding the ferment in the minds of the
people, the greatest order and harmony existed. No
riots occurred ; no insult was offered, even to the Jew
French residents.

The Officers under the old Government were not
removed. General CAGIGAL, who has been long Go-
vernor, ind under whom the Islands have prospered,
particularly the mercantile interest, continues Com:
mander in Chie£

A few days ago the Count de LILLE ( LOUIS XVIII.)
had an audience of his MAJESTY, by sfig,:ial Wein:mesa,
at the Royal Palace at Kew. On the same day the
illustrious stranger dined with his Royal Highness:
Monsistra, and all the other branches of the House of
Bourbon' that remain in England, at the house ofi
Mosstgua, in South Audley-street.

Mitcham Fair (Surrey) began yesteiday, and was I
well attended by very decent company. GINOELL,
Scow lON, and RICHARDsON'S Shows, in which most
miyuing Tragi.Comedies were enacted and burlesqued,
were crowded ; and Pouro's Exhibition of Wild.
Beasts was as much so. The several sports used at'
Country Fairs, with the exception of gaming booths,
were allowed, and all went off. It continues two
more days sand on Monday, gingling, wrestling. &c.
will close the scene.

Tuesday, the .annual boat-race of Deptford took
place ; when six young watermen of that town ex-
erted themselves with great skill and dexterity, for
aquatic pre-eminence ; and after three well-contested
heats, which lasted till a late hour in the evening, the
prize, a very handsome wherry, was adjudged to a
young man. of the name of Brown, amid the noisy
acclamations of the surrounding multitude. The
victor was then towed backward and' forward, in the
front of the town, and was escorted from thence to a
tavern, where the remainder of the evening was spent
in mirth and jollity.
The forty-five pounds of English Bank-notes which
were lost at Brighton, a few days ago, were found by
Mr. Ward, Who manages the' Masquerades at the
Opera House. Mr. Ward, by making it known he
had tOund them, released the person who was charged
with stealing them from Mr. Adamson, from the
greatest misery. An action, it is said, in the Court
of King's Bench, will be the consequence, for defama-
tion of character.

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