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GIBRALTAR, DECEMBSR 18.

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only have been conceived by similar heads.— 1 assistrutere than she has given to Martinique, Cua.la-
The articles of Bayonne, the events that
,took place 1 loupe. and the other ulinunarine possessions wrested
at the Escurial and Aranjuez, the B. urbons leaving l from her dominions? France, which, under the heavy ' di Accounts from Valencia up to the Bth of d,ig
the Spanish territory against the will of the people, yoke of a foreign tyrant, has sacrificed to the ambition month say, that the City was then safe. The sieve
are the reasons which, joined to the hacknied topic of him and his plundering satellites her commerce, of it was continued by Sucirct's army, but with littly
of 300 years oppression, seem to them glorious mo- her agriculture, her money, her soldiers. her liberty, activity. BLAKE'S forces exceed 25,000 men, and the
Lives for erecting themselves into free, sovereign, and her existence, and the heroic blood of your fathers and only fear now is, whether be will be able to maintain
independent stares. That the people may take this j your brothers ? From whom then should you expect them : numbers of volunteers are turned away, a;
innovation in good part they have caused to be printed sincerity and assistance but from that nation which there are no arms for them.
lin their Gazettes, and circulated in all quarters, dif- has accompanied you in adversity, who has sighed frr 46 The Valencians hare thrown np two new re.
ferent writings, filled with pompous offers of happi. you in oppression, which has been your inseparable doubts on the Murviedro road, which must annoy
tress, (hit artifice which never escapes the ambitious) companion in your distresses, to whom the ALMICIIITY the French, who, however, still kept the Grao. The
and with atrocious invectives against the Spaniards, HAND has so closely united you, that it world over- enemy is diminished by sickness more than by deter.
whom they term the trus'y agents of Ferdinand, with whelm you in darkness and mourning to break 'he tion, and more still by the bravery and energy of Ilst
a view of making that nitne odious, which hitherto ties of your creation and consanguinity ? With what Patriots.
they have pretended to respect. predeliction ought you to embrace your mother coon-
Nothing can be more ridiculous than the pomp with try, to whom you are indebted in so many sacrifices. 66 it seems to be supposed, that Sucturr is Waiting
for reinforcements, behare he begins any decisive ope.
sshich they publish in a writino, tinder the title of Who has a greater right than the Spanish people to
Political and Philosophical Rejections upon the Indepen- your confiderre ? Or who can be c, mpared to those rations against the place. Another attempt to raise
the siege was talked of, hut the Spanish o.licers we
flame of Venezuela, t'-e trite and hacknied principles great and valourous people who, without stealth, divided
which they have gat:iered from some acquaintance ;without arms, without soldiers, without m w oney, ,tii- . as to the policy of such a plan of operations."
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with moral and political science ; ..t the same time out fortified places, has, for more than three 3:ears,
blending them with steak mistakes, and deducing, . surrounded with miseries, calamities, enemies, traitors, i
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teem t; e whole, absurd conclusions. After innume- intrigues, and machination, is the only power in Eu- • MESSINA, DECEMBER &
able remarks upon Kings being subject, like other rope whi,ll has maintained its character and indepen. The English whose dornnation in Sicily occasions
men, to the miseries, vices, and imperfections r f hu- dente without stooping the neck to the disgraceful a fricat deal of discontent there, have lately caused a
man nature (the same idea is repeated under different -chains of the tyrant ? Extend your view over the number of arrests to take place ; which they have
names)—after stating that vassals have frequently t whole Continent, and you may see the result of French
torn the crown from the brow of the Monarch, placed alliance and protection:—Germany degraded, Hol- endeavoured to gloss over with the following Pro.
clatnati3n :
it upon their own, and transmitted it in their family land deserted, Poland enslaved, Denmark ch-stroycd, g, Stc•tetaNs—The Commandant of the British
to the most distant generations—that Kings have been t Sweden despise:l, Italy, and other continental natios,s,
forces in Sicily has felt himself under the severe.ne.
assassinated, imprisoned, and at last brought to the without a name, dignity, or representation, w:!de their
cessity of causing a certain number of persons to he
,block ; they tell us that .ill this proves that Kings are sons are transplanted to stain with their blood the arrested.
They were in correspndetice with the
made of the s ime stuff with other men, and tinit, in banks of the Ebro and the Tagus, and ignominiously
the social state, GOD has left men th.! san ete liberty ch tined to the bloody chariot of the Usrper of the enemy ; and their object was to deliver up Sicily, a'
w°ll as the Fne,lish army, her faithful arty, into thv
which he granted to the first man when be formed sceptres of their disgraced Monarch ; tor: Spain, still bands of those isho wish the destruction of both; but
him from noilino ; as if this principle; which they unconquerable, unfurls the glorious Standard of her
call ,mprescriptib.e, eternal, and the rule of govern- Liberty and Independence, supported by the magna- their intrigues, ve hich . were long watched, hare at
last been unveiled.
ment, had any cc noection with the usurpation of nimous efforts of her sons, who are your brothers, and " Sicilians—Alf who were accessary to th7s plot
crowns, with assassinations, prisons and blocks ; or in whose immortal renown you participate, whi:e they
have not been arrested, but all of them are known
as if these horrors could serve to prove any principles rejoice in your union and fraternity."
Thus that worthy American explains himself, who,
secure those who had taken the most active part.
', and it has been deemed sufficient for the present to
or maxims whateve:-. But not content with so incon-
gruous a medley, they goon to infer, that society is speaking afterwards to his compatriots of the South, 1
who have declared themselves against their mother-46 An interval of three days is granted to such
an invention of men, to deliver themselves flour the
miseries of a solitary and savage life ; extravagant country, assures them that he has not taken the pen persons as were engaged in this plot, and are not
under arrest, in order to repair their fault by a full
error, a thousand times triumphantly refuted—as from any personal interest, but for the
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purpose of 1 and sincere confession. There are proofs against
men have no need to invent what is a necessary con- sincerely pointing out to them the errors and dangers
of the system they have adopted, and the dreadful them not less char than those which caused the at.
sequence of their physical and moral wants, which
cannot be supplied out of society. evils it has produced. rest of their principal accomplices; and it is well
known, that English Generals are not in the habit of

But the incendiaries of the Caraccai are of opi-
nion, ilea, without gong so far back, it is impossible
to fix the commencement cf regal, of republican, or
of any form of government. They pr. cad to speak
of the compacts betw xt icings and their people ; of
the nature of those compacts, which c innot be eternal,
as the men who formed them are not so ; and that it
is not just that posterity should be obi ged to pre-
serve that ferm of government !tended down to them
by their ancestors. To what purpose all this ?—to
censure the conquest which the Spaniards made 01
those countries ; to tell us that the authority of right
belonged to elle natives ; that the Spanish Monarchs
were usurpers ; that those countries were happy • in
their obscurity ; and that none had a right to draw
them out t f that t b,curity, in order to make them
slaves ; and the, if the constiterors had sn singular
a mission, they might leave fulfilled it on the inhabi-
tants of Algiers and the coasts of Barbary, so near-to
their own, without the necessity of repairing to the
west, re hemisphere to accomplish its ohject. Such
are the deceits of those worthless men, contrived to
mislead the unhappy people, forgetting, or affecting
to forget, what were the manners and opinions of the'
age, which is essential to form a proper estimate of
the merit or demerit of the conquest. Wien could
hear those things without believing that they issued
frogi the mouths of the de icendants of the aboriginal
inhabitants of the .provinces of Venezuela, who were
conquered by the Spaniard> ? But those are not the
person; who complain. Were they to be asked, in
the presence of their actual oppressors, By whom
would they be governed, by the Spaniards, or by that
I factious Junta ? It is pretty certain, that the answer
would not be favourable to those who compose the
patriotic society of the Caraccas. They say, thet
Venezuela is already sufficiently great and respec-
table to govern iteell, and, therefore, the Spaniards
should emancipate the people. But what do they
mean by Venezuela? the mass of inhabitants of these
provinces. Nobody will beteve them, especi illy es
those who assume the name of Venezuele, are men
without honour, and morals inflated by wicked pas-
sions, are those who wish to govern. They con-
stantly return to the old decimation, about three
centuries of oppression, but certainly it is neither they
I nor their fimilies who hive sustained any injury from
I the prctt nied severities of this imagined despotism of
tie Spanish au,horit'es.
Unfortunately the loyal inhabitants of the city of
Valencia, who J'd ren desire to break their ties with
the mother comory, were at lest overcome by num-
bers, after hiving gloriously defeated the army of the
facli.‘n, killing and wounding m my of the leaders.
Without exaggeration it may be said, that if SW cf
our solders bad been there, they would in one day
have reduced to dust the edifice which was raised by
the revelers of Carecces. It h impossible to give a
better picture of that city, or of the vigilance with
which its inhabitants ought to exercise in guarding
themselves against the machinations of French emis-
saries, than has been done by D. Pedro Urgumeona,
a native of Santa Fe, and Bogda, then res:dcnt in the
Caraccas, in a Manifesto, winch commands the ad.
min a ion of every good and impartial man. He says,
" The immense territory they possess, and the thin-
ness of population which you experienced ; the dif-
ference between the classes and casts which surround
you ; the variety of opinions which operate against
your security ; the weak resources you have to op-
pose the invasion of an insulting enemy; all, all de-
mand your union, and that you become warriors ca-
pable of assisting in defending your property, your
legion, your customs, and your manners. And who
can best secure to you those sacred objects ? France,
which has shewn herself insensible to the misfortunes
of her own sons, when they became victims to the
fury of the negroes:of Guavico ; or the brutal f-ro.
city of sAnguinury troops, who, under the veil of pro-
tection, has to.. drawn desolation from Europe to the
tal extermination of those unhappy provinces ?
France, which by inclination and by system, is con-
tinually engaged in sackings and depredations, in per-
flay and in crimes, which, basely humbled by the ele-
vation of one foreigner, has seen with apathy the de.
struction of those provinces, and copld give you no snore •

ordering arrests without proofs: the long patieuce
which they have thought it their duty to czercise.
renders this sufficiently manliest.- Let those, then,
who are implicated in this conspiracy present them.
selves ; and, by Acknowledging the part which they
have taken, let them fac hate the ponfsliment of the
guilty who would have betrayed their country.—
Pat don and protection ate solemnly promised to such
as shall manifest their rtpentatice within the period
above prescribed.—By order of his Eicellency,
(Signed) ‘• W. TAYN TON, Mil: Sec.
Head-quaritra, Mesviins, Dee. 1811." •
This proclamation, in which the Sicil7an Govern.
went is not even t .imcd, sufficiently thesss, that the
Inglish must have lit- enera.es in that eountry, both
sore whom their tpanry disgusts, atid those in
whom an enlidueuccl knowled.c f their true inte•
'rests induces a wish, that ;his tine province 'should
enter into the political system of the Europa)
Contineitt.

In proof of this, he prneeeds: " Turn your attention
seriously to the miserable and degrading situation of
the city_ in which I write, stirrollnied by misfortune,
and the fear of becoming a victim to a consummated
frenzy. In Caraccas you will behold the h, ruble
picture of terrorism occupying the seat ce preclamed
liberty. There you will see the sad effects of a eis:rile
ere ineipation, aid the continual and dangerous cert.
test of the auarchye'
In this manner the article proceeds to describe the
st ee of Affairs at the Caraccas. It next notices the
transactions at Buenos Ayres, nn which a similar
censure is beetnwed, while the conduct of the A yun-
tamiento of Lima is praised. Many of the inhabi-
tants of Cuzco are stated to be not less commendable
for their zeal and patriotism, and it is observed—
" The Government never can forget the greet ser-
vices of the Colonel Don Mateo Pumaccabua, a noble
Indian of that district, and Cacique Proprietor cf il.e
town of Chinchero. This officer, worthy of the hghest
eulogiums for his constant fidelity, was prompt in I.IADRID, DECEMPER s.
defending the true cause of his own native land, as : General D'Ai inagnac, having set out frotfl ''
well as that of the mo:her country, with more than i monte, advanced upon 'Carazona, where he defoileti
foriyetbousend Indians, in whom be has inspited re- the corps, which ohs.. rved the b<nks of the Jucar
spect and confidence, and who will fight by the side watched t:pon 'Mesta, where the i! surreckional Juntas
of their chief, if the occasion should arrive to render. ! hod its sittings, and then tLc.k c e direction rf
their efforts necess try for the defence of the province. I The in airgeet General Baseecourt attempted to
—lt is net preletble any serious inquietude will te- f dispute the passage of the river Cab-iel ; but the
cur in New Spain. The frequent conspieleies which' French advanced guard, under the orders of General
were plotted in the cap.t il ligaitst the Viceroy and ISt. Gen's, having on the same day made its appear-
all the persons of respectability who embraced the ! ance at the bridge of Contreras, whist was occupied
great national cause, Americans and Europeans, by the enemy, tie troops which defended it, afraid
have been discovered through the vigilance of the ! of being turn. d, retired Across the mountains toVella
Magistrates; and if a s) stern of indulgence has not Gordo, where they joined two battalions and three
been sufficient to stop the silence and temerity of squadrons which had arrived from the Valenci.n
tyre conspirat irs, sere, riiy, which was at last eb est to army. In spit,. of the obstacles presented by the
be employed against twiny of diem, will produce the ete.und, two regimeets cf dregeons advanced against
this
desired object.corps, and ti.e enemy took advantage cf the
,
But how unfortunate is it that all the inhabitants of d irkness of the night to retire. Some prisoliers were
America are not co:winced, as is the wisest part, that taken, arid the battaiiiin of Daroce was entirely dis-
if, by abandoaing the ca•ase of tl.e mother country, persed. The mono eh ch defenried the bridge of
the Peeinsula should become extremely deficient in Paxaro, over, esh c 1 it was necessary for the arta-
resources ter its defence, it won't: not be it alole that lery to pass, seeing themselves turned, took refuge in '
would perish tinder the tyrant's yoke, all Europe ; the mountains.
would see him as a pedestal upon which to elevate ! On the 251.11, the whole division was collected at
himself to greater designs, and, doubtless, the first Utiel, supposing that the enemy would endeavour to
thing he would attempt to put in execution would be defend himself at Itequena ; but, on the approach of
the destruction of England, the only asylum of afflic. the advai ced guard of ti.e .French cavalry, Bosse-
ted humanity, and then what resistance ceuld the court retired to Las Cabrillas, and •bandoned his
Spanish Americans oppose, when English America, sick, who were taken.. He was pursued as far as
which possessed the two greatest men i-f the age, Siete knas.
Franklin and Washington, and which had in its fa- ! This exiedition has very much embarrassed the
your a. party in England, would undoubtedly have army of Blake; who was compelled to detach a divi- •
been subdued by the small armies sent for that sion to Las Cabrlas. The enemy list 200 prisoners,
purpose, had it not been for the assistance of France ? 2010 muskets, Wee/cartridge-boxes, some magazines
The tyrant of Europe, persisting in the adven:ement of corn and clothing, KO mules laden with provisios
of his interminable projects, would put in motion SU for Valencia, besides 300 horses. •
millions of men to obtain the means of invading Great The Commandant Morales, on the 31st ult Ines
Britain, which the squadrons of that power could not surprised some bands of brigands near Avila, and
uitimately prevent. And who can doubt that when took 64 prisoners.
in all the ports of the Continent no voice should be AMA': RDAM, DECEMBER sm.
heard but ther of his atrocious authority, the period A violent gale from Vie N.W. has caused th• loss
of the destruction of English liberty, and with it of of a ship of the line, and several vessels coming from
every hope of felicity, would not be remote ? and if the Baltic.
this should happen, who should be able to prevent the The convoy was under the Hero, of 74 guns. Thi
iron sceptre, which has desolated the Old World, ship ran ashore on the North Haaks, off the 'FL:eI.
from passing to the New ? If the cause of the English Ail the efforts made during the 24th, to get to her,
and Americans be the same as that of the Spaniards, were unavailing. It was only ou the 515th that wt
and if the Americans, white they compose, really and c.iuld approach her—but nothing was found but the
truly, and in every sense the same nation wth the wrecks. The crew certainly perished.
Europeans, should abandon the latter in their glo. A brig called the Gras•hopper went over the North
rious struggle, they will soon become the victims Haaks. The pilot of he Furet going on board,
of their error, and their posterity will pour forth piloted her into Niew Diep, where the now is. fib,
maledictions and opprobrium on their Graves ! carves 18 32-pounders.
—Let us hope, however, while we de not lose sight The transport Archimedes ran ashore, but the crew
of the insatiable ambition of France, (which, what- were saved.
ever may be its Government, undoubtedly aspires to The prisoners from these two ships are just arrived
the empire of both worlds,) and the necessity of uni- here—they are 141 in number.
ting our efforts to frustrate her iniquitous designs, that Two other brigs are lost to the north of the Texelt
a day so unfortunate for the human scies never but we believe the crews are saved.
may arrive ; for there is nothing which will not finally Other shipwrecks took place during the same gale
yield to the firm determination of a nation which is on the coasts of the I les of Eyetlanci and Tersctiel-
superior to all adversities, superior to all its enemies, ling, and we expect positive details relative to them.
and. which has resolved gloriously vs bury itself under . PARIS, JANUARY 2.
its ruins, rather.than present its neck to the French Their Excellencies Marshals the Dukes of El.
yokel chingen and Reggio are arrived at Faris.

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