Star.
London, England, 1812-05-19 00:00:00

SPANISH MONARCHY.

POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF TIIE STANIsIi MCMAACRY.
I.IIOUVLGATLD IN cADM TU 19 r a MARCH,

(The reprinting of this Work is pruh tilted by .special order of
• Government.)
Don Ferdinand VII. by the Crane of Goa and tha Constitution
of the Spanish Monarchy, King of the Spaiso, (and, during his
absence and captivity, the Regency the K;ngd urr.„, appoinV4
by the Cortes General and As traordinary) to all those concerned:
be it known, that those sAme Cones have sanctiuned and de.
creed, as follows :
POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF flu arAMSII ?MONARCHY.
In the Name of Amcor Ty Goa, the Errant, Sole; and Hos.T
GuosT, Author and Supreme Letslaturof Human Society.
The General and Extraordinary Cortes of the Spa-
nish Nation, fully convinced, after the most detailed
examination and the most mature deliberation, that.
the ancient and fundamental laws of this Monarchy,
if accompanied by proper provisions and precautions,
such as, may ensure in a permanent and stable man-
ner their complete execution, are fully capable of at-
taining the "grand object of promoting the glory, the
prosperity, and general welfare of the whole nation,
do decree the following Political Constitution, in order
to the good government a::d right administration of
the State :
TITLE 1..--OF THE SPANISH NATION, AND OF iPANIAED%
CHAPTER 1.-0, Tile SPANISH NA noN.

AT a General Meeting of the Master, Wardens,
and Comoialty of MERCHANT VEN I'URERS of the
Ci y of BRISTOL, held on the 16th tiny 4f May, 1812, at the
Merchants Hall,
WILLIAM PERRY, Esq. Warden, In the Chair;
Voted and ordered unanimous!y, Thar an Address be pre.
seined from thisSoeiety to the Prince Regent, express of the
sense of gr!ef and horror which this Society entertain of the foul
murder of the Right Honourable Sestscsa PencevAt, nrs:6,
crucl'y hurried out of existence by the hands of an Assassin, at a
moment when he was acivel7 employed in the service of his,
country.
Voted :rid ordered now i.noully, That the Address now
read and seconded be app:oved, and that the Hall-seal be affixed
thereto; and that it be immediately transmitted to the Re:ire-
sentatives of the City in Parliament, and that they be requested
to present it to his Roy.l Highness as early as possiblz...
Voted and ordered, That a Copy of these. Resolutions and
of the Address be inserted in the STAR, the Courier, the Globe,
and in all the Bristol Paters.
WILLIAM PERRY, Chairman.
" To h's Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT.
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" The humble Adirets of the Mast, r, Wardens, and Com-

monalty of Merchant-Ventureiss of the City of Bristol.
" We his Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Master,
Wardens, and Commonalty of Merchant-Venturers of the City
of Bristol, hasten to the foot of the "Mane, to assure your Royal
Highness, that we deeply participate in the general sensation of
grief, horror, and indignation excited throughout the country, by
the foul murder of the Right Hon. SeaNcxa PElletVA I, whose
important and valuable exi-tence has ben most cruelly and ,n-
-famously cut off at a moment wben he was actively employed in
the discharge of his pulite duties. 1
" It is most painful and humiliating to us as Englishmen to
reflect, that this country, hitherto famed for the generous and
manly sentiments of Ifs inhabitants, should have given birth to
a monster capable of lifting 'his hand against the life of a per-
soilage of such exalted virtues and talents—a man whose univer-
sal benevolence of heart, and unrivalled mildness and suavity of
manners, extorted the applause, admiration, and love even of
his most inveterate political opponents.'
" We trust, howtverf for our country's credit, and for the
honour of human nature, that the guilt of this atroc'tms murder
did not extend beyond the individual by whom it was committed
—that the horrid design originated with him, and was confined
to the dark breast from whence it sprang—thathe was the sole
plotter and contriver, as he was the sole.'perpetratsr of a deed at
wi i h humanity shu Ids a, and which is almost without example
jn the annals of clvi ized society.
" Your Royal Highness's gracious inseMiems,expreesed to the
tyro Houses of Parliament upon this melancholy occasion, afford
us the consoling assurance that the family of this great and la-
:mlted Statesman, thus cruelly bereft of a husband, a father, and
frotector, will not be left destitute of a prov.sion at once suited
to their rank in society, to the Meritorious services of their de-
p..oted relat.ve, and to the character and dignity of the nation.
—For this mark of your Royal Highness's gracious avid humane
sympa•hy in the feeltrgs of an afflicted family, we entreat per-
mission to express cm: lively sense of gratitude ; and with plea-
sure we embrace this occasion to assure your koyal litlincsa of
our firm attachment to your Royal Highness'. Person and Co-
vernment, and our cheeriol acquiescence in the sacrifices which
the peculiar exigencies „and unexampled difficulty of the times
render necessary In support of the honour and s:curity of our
Country and Constitutic.n:'

UNION WEYMOUTH COACH,
CARRYING TOUR INSIDE, AND TEN ou relics
'THE COMMITTEE for conducting the Business
4- of this Coach, running between Weymou'h and London.
hereby give Notice to all Persons who may be willing to cmtract
for Horsing the same for Six andTwi lite Months, at a price per
double mile. to commence on the day of July next— I hat
Proposals (to be written and staled up) will hi received by
Samuel Weston, Esq. the Chairman, on or before the 14th day
of June next.

Art. 1. The Spanish Nation consists of all Spaniards of both
Hemisphere".
Art. 2. The Spanish Nation Is free and independent, and i; nut
nor ever can constitute the patrimony of any farni!y or person.
Art. 3. The Sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation, and
therefore, to the Nation exclusively belongs the right of sstabhab-
ing its fundamental laws
Art 4. The Nation is bound to preserve and protect, by wise
and just laws, civil liberty, th t• right of property, and all the other
• legitimate rights of all the indivclualsWllQ coinpose it.
CIiAP. It—OP SPANIARDS.
1 Art. s.—The following j•asons are Spaniards
First. All native freemen and denizens lu the Spanish domi:.,
nions, and their childre.r. •
Secondly. AU strangers who may have received from the Cortes
certificates of naturalization.
Thirdly. Such persons as, without that, may have ten years of
dom.ciliary right, acquired In the manner prescribed by law, in
any part of the Monarchy.
Fourthly. Freemen, from the time they become free in the
Spains.
Art. Love for their country is one of the principal duties of
all Spaniards, as also.to be just and beneficent.
Art. 7. Every Spaniard is in duty bound to remain faithful to
the Constitution—to obey the laws, and respect the established
Authorities.
Art. e. Every Spaniard Is also bound, without any distinction
whatsoever,
,to contribute a portion of his property towards the
expences of the State.
Art. 9. Every Spaniard is also bound. to take up arms to de-
fend his coubtry, when ealltistponby law.
TITLE ll.—Or THE TERRITORY or nut SPATNS, THEIR
RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT) AND OP Till! SPANISH
CITIZEN& . .
CHAP. 1.-01, Tile TERRITORY or rue SPAIN!.
Ant. to. The Spanish Territory *comprehend',
In the Peninsula, together with their appendages and adjacent
islands—Arragon, the Asturias, Old Casule, New Castile, Cata-
lonia, Cordova, Extremadura, Galicia, Grenada, JaCtl, Lean, Mo-
lina, Murcia, I:avarre, the Vocongadasi"Seville, and Valencia,
the lialcates and Canaries, with cer.ain posses.ions In Africa.
lit N'cr h Ameriea.—New Span, wl h NeW Galitia, and the
Peciiiptla of Yucatan, GOASPIIIeII, tl e internal Eastern and Wes.
tern Provinces, the island of Cuba, w th the two Flotillas the
Spatial part of the island of zit. Domingo, ar.d the eslar.d of Purr.
to Rico, with the other Wands adjacent to those, and to the con-
tinent in both Seas.
M South America—New Granada, Venezuela, Peru, Chili, the
Provinces of Rio do la Plata, and al the adjacent islands ha the
Pacific Ocean and in the Atlantic.
In Asia—The Philippine Islands and their "dependencies.
Ar. 1 1. A more convenient division whl be made of the Spa.
nish territory whenever the circumstances of the nation
shall render it practicable.
CRAP. 2.—or gbitiatott.

Art. 12. The religi.zi of the bp—ambit Nation is, and shall for
ever remain, the Catholic A yestulic Roman and only true relijton.
'I I.e Nation protects it by v.i.e and just laws, and p.ohila,ts
the ezerc se of any other.
cos,. TUE CGVIIINUINT.
Art. 13. The object of the Government is the happiness of the
nation, seeing that ,I.e end of every political society is the well-
being or all those who compose it.
An. 14. The Government of the Spanish Nation is a limited
hereditary monarchy.
Art. lei. Ihe power of meting laws resides in the cartes
with the King.
Art. 16.1 he power of causing the laws to be egecuted resides
in she King.
Art. 17. The power of applying the laws In civil and criminal
causes resides in the tribunals established by law.
MAP. SPAJAISU CITSZISNS.
Art. 18. All those are Spanish citizens, who derive their origin,
in bosh lines, from the Spanish dominions in both hemispheres,
and domiciliated in any part of the same dominions.
Art. ifk Every foreigner will be also considered as a citizen,
who, having formerly enjoyed the rights wf a Spaniard, may oh-
rain a special certificate of citizenship from the Cortex.
Art. 20. In order to-euable's foreigner to obtain such a certi-
ficate, he must be maned to.a Spanish sbuman, and have intro-
duct4 or established is the Spans, some useful invention or
mode of induc ry or he must have acquired. some flx.d pro-
perty for which he pays a direct comrlbution, or he must have
established himself in commerce with a capital of his ow n, and
of sucb an amount as may appear cuosiderahir to the Ccii.ter; or
he must Lave performed signal.serv.ces fur the interest and pro.
section of the nation.
Art. 21. The legitimate childrerisin foreigners domicillated in
the :'pains ;re also citisens, if, having been born in the Spanish
dominions, they have never left them without the permission
of the Government; and having reached the roe of tweniy-one
years, they may have acquired domiciliary right in some part t(
those dominions, there etereising- Mate protessiou, pi riuni.ine
some official duty, or employing thentselves in the practice Os
sonic useful industry..
Art 22. To Spaniards who may be held, amt considered to
Al hR,
FRANKLYN'S CRINIS NITI'ANS, OR INFALLIBIZ / have drained, their origin front Africa by any line whatwevcr
.ft•
i the power is given to become citizens by virtuous and wanton.
or lee Elack.
For chaaginilted or Grey Hair into a beautiful Auburn, Brown
cue means.--Consequently; the Cones will grant certificates
MANY. attempts Have been already made With citizenship, to such as may have palmated well-attested servidle
to the nation, and to sucb as may have ihstinghisbed tbenuele •
little or en success id discover proper means for chatiging by the.r talents, application, or ood sondnet, pruealed they are
the children of free tubas by `legsmate marriage; that they
the coloor of Red or Grey Hai?, whim growing .1. F. there-
fore. begs leave to reconitnend this aryaralleled Water tie rho are mai ri:d to free women, Oat the are durnicanied in some
attention of the Public, -assining them, that it never. fain to Fro-, part of the Spans, and thlt they anPlujileinsetvcs in salsa lank
due, this desired effect. • fession, office, or useful iodustry wito3l,eir own capital.
N.B. This Liquid is no way, injurious to the aches,Art. 23. Stich penora only as are-gtizens cen obtank spiAt
conducive to hs growth. • pal emPloyments, and elect others itp lii!:theris the eases.
Sold wholesale and retail, by the Proprietor, at his I.oncipit ed-out,byaw.
Oruar.iental Hair and Perfumery Warqbouse, No. 1, Uansge- i 5. AM 414. ,1-1 W rights of Spaniels citizenship' may be lost
street, Bristol; also, by itism likt• 654 Crhedride es !- tyr.t, By becoming naturalized eloreign.eounter •
No. 52, Park-street, Grhavenor-equare, Landow* wimp' 'fidecl• Secondly,By becion#ig a tunctiimixi acyotherGlove .
wiropt
awns of kalifs:its may be seat.,—Pride 71, per bottle., .
Thirdly, By betuming the stklikis of any mimosa
.tell,,
•

'1 he Person or Persons (whose Tenders may be accepted) to
engage is run Seven Miles per hour, stoppages•not included,
and to specify in those Proposals the rate per doable mile.
The Contractors will be required to be holders of not less than
Five Sharel each in the concern, at .C 5 per Share. and to find
two sufficient Securities to the perforirance of their Contract;
and also to engage for the Coachmen keeping their time, and
that no nwee than three .Coachmen shall be allowed between
Weymouth and London.

'1 he Coach will leave \Weymouth every Morning at Half-past
Nine &Cloak, and London evtry Af.ernoon at .1 hrce riCinck,
Sunday excepted.
N.ll. The Coach will (from the 22d July next) run through
Andover instead of Stockbildge.
Any farther information that may be necessary will be given,
on application to the Chairman, at Weymouth.
Weymouth, May 14, 1812.

FOR PUBLIc INSPECTION.
'TURK'S PATENT COOKING APPARATUS
- DAILY IN USE, (ruin Eleven Co Four,
At his FURNISHING WAREHOUSE, 188, FLEET STREET.
'I-he peculiar quaßtie..pf the above Apparatus embrace every
useful improvement, and it is so systematically arraeged, a. to
be rendered suitable Irons a small to the most extensive Establish.
meat, possessing every convenience for cooking, viz. Roasting,
Boding, Stewing, Baking, &c. &c. the whole of which is per.
firm. ti by oue *mall lire, and warranted to save two-thirds of
Fuel. The vessels are used without the Icast soil, by which
means the), are rendered far inure durable tlran those used on!
comilituti Ranges. It is also a certain Cpre for a Smoaky Litilinney.

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trupoie.prlnful or famous piatemeot,
lowed by a formal restoration ed rights.
Fourthly, gy reskilog fin years asseenkrel,
Oh territories Mahout a oileusaindeni,
Government.
Art. ^_f. Tile remise of the snot debts
First, By a judicial interdiction foe

Tact
Secordiy, 13y becoming tin insolvent.
se pnblit nines.
Thirdly, By being in the situation of ,
Fotirildy, By not poseessing acy ensploymt
ible means of living.
Fifthly, By becoming tie eisjest of a
S --lily. Alter the year IoSO, those
:i .1:: i of rititrusblp. mutt know how to read and write.
Art. tai. 'I he rights of citizenship can be lost or suspend 44,
the methi.de noticed in the preceding Articles, and by Do oda%
TF11.1.111.-0, Tilt CORTEZ.
CNA?. I.—er rut MITIIOO Of FORMING INC CORTI!.
Arr. C. The tortes are constituted by the anion of all the 1)..
mattes wne represent she motion, oominated brthe citizens, le.
cording to the fonts that Anti be porter:bed. •
Arc. 2a. The basis of national representadoa is the math
both hemispheres.
Art. 29. This basis la the pepulatico coniposed of natives wig
ty both lines, have derived t weir alight from the Spandk don.
Mons, and of tbuse who may havesobnined {ruin the Congo,.
tdicates of citirenship, to, ether with those comprehended ia de
21st Ara de. -
Art. en, The last census of Ice:. will serve for the oemst .
Lion of the Europeatrdontinisea until smother can be talks, sag
a corresponding one will be Bad fen the computation of thealtra.
marine population. In the meets time the rood authtatk
the censuses asst taken, shall be mode to serve for that .
1. Art. 31. For every 70,900 souls of the poptilvionaeamoug
according to the rules specified in the 19th Article, there ibtg
be a Dvi,ttty to the Cutlet.
Art. S 2 Thtkpopulateao hOlllll &mauls% through the lid*
' Proem:es, if there sheitild be found in kny of them an rag%
amomtingao 13,200 soak, an additii;aal•DetnitY elrail be draw
As fur another 30,000 g but it the excess shuald pct Rama to
sspoq, no account is robe made of ir.
. Art. 30. It there •should be any Province. the *,.oplagtigg c
whlch should nut amount to 70,000 souls, praviCed it does en
fall beneath eto. a Deputy shall be elected fur it ; and if it dosed
do so; it shall be in that case trMted to the ;opti!rion of teed
• the Provinces vett to it, In cider to crunprete au mord if
seventy thousand souls. '1 ha Oairt ut St. Domingo is excepted
• from this regulation, it win nominate one Deputy, be itspopc.,.
ilion vei:at it May.
CNA!. 2r-or /Kr NOMINATION Of DIMITIES TO Till cant
Electoral 'Meeting.. of Parishes, Distnos. and Posies%
wi'l be heal for the election of Deputies to the Cortes.
• cline. 3.—or TIM ILLECTIMAL MEETINGS Of PARIMItt.
The Electoral Atom:olkt of Parishes shalt be•comile,ed at 32
the citizens dowiciliated, •iad rtsletst wit'iln the limas Vibe
Parish, among whoin shall be reckoned then ocular clergy. •
Art. 3a These Meetings Nall Ise always lied MO, Potiosali,
and the adjacent islands, and other dependenciesi on itt Mt
Sunday of the tn,, tith of October, of the year pros elle: that d
the meeting of the Conn.
Art. 37. in the ultramarire Province*, they thall be hells.
the lire Sunday of the month of December, fifteen mouthAgest
the meeting en the Cozies I but iu all, Presileir.s that; be pre.
viveoly appointed.
A. se. In the Pa:Lb Assemblies, a parochial Elenorshall be
nomicated for every 200 parishioners.
Art. 39. It the number of Parish Electrtrt should eiszed A
, although it should fall short ,of too, two Election shall heap.
pa tad; if it should exceed 300, though it should fag short('
ti 00, three shall be appointed, sod so in progression.
Art. 40. In such parishes as du contain two hundrionasqll,
provided they du contain 150, there shall be an Elector awl. •
sited; and, In those, whert the parishioners do not read this
number, they shall unite thenuedvtfs to those of the nestpuish,
In order to name the Elector, or Jilestors, to whom they mayM
entitled.
Artoll. The Paioch Assemldy *ail elect, by a runty of
suffrages, eleven Referees, who shall apliostit the Parochial Elector.
Art. 42. It there shall be two Psroelstal B'ectors to be mimed
in the Yamaha lunt a, there shaillocaroktity-oneßtlenessiesd;
if three, thirty-one ; but this number can never be excaskil, ia
'order tra prevent new ion. . -
An en With a view to promote the eopvenience of j'lsigget
entail population, k mast be bbocrviii, that soy parish width
Contain. twenty pernansbehad elect nice lteferee ; any pa:l6lli
contains from thirty. to. turfy. shall elect two; troy sixty w
seventy, three; and so progressively. Parishes wit:eh le tat
coutaus twenty t crams* share With' a neighbouring parish te dad
Referees.
. • .
Art. 44. The ref.rort of rarldwo of small pdpihadon dm
elected will MARI more to MIR; purphse, and' forsaleg tie rausht
of eleven, or at least of mut. will naness, Ptruchial know. d
they shauld amount in nurnbeetOnventrone, or at least tear.
; teen, ‘hey evi I nom nate two Pared/WI stieJturs; or if to Maar
Bye, three coriesp.mdink m their altittbet.
Art. 45. in larder to be appointed a Parotids! Electer, it isat
cawary to be a citieen and tun.hitant of tneparith.
• Art. 40. late Parish Meetings shall be presided over by *
, political Lead, at Alande us the city, town br village, wheridef
may assemble, the corm* ol tine ?with bang plesent, in wile w.
Unpaid at,' cater solemnity to the pa oesettiugs; ands in utopian, .
i In consequence of the Lumber tit it. paiishts, two or One do
I aecriblies should be held, cL..: 4.lcaleie shatlVrende 'ova the folio
I his.LepUty over the second, and the other fola‘istrates, by tort
' over ,lye remainder.
. Art. 47. At the Lute appointed for the Meet*, which shill
h.? held in-the Town hiau, or. any Adner p:ace approptswel ter
similar purposes, the cit.swia who may have assenstned wlh pies
cesil to the parish with :stir Pre:Adesit, when a sohttun man of
. the fluty Liuust shall las, celebrated Is) tittle:ate it the Parish,
who shad del v.r a discourse suitable .o tee 0f.R.M1014
Art. so. hies' beim:, crier, they dia.. reti.ni to the place Goth
whence they 'proceeded, se hen the balsams, oi the :. tenth{ shall
be conunenced by She INIIIINiatIvII 1.4 • CA•tiLIaI3I•IAIS, eau abet
crew y, who shall be elected !runt anumg ens wear% the ii!de
r‘nesuing uPetb .
, • Art. 4ss si h: P teAtlept theft then ask.if any citizen his is
con plaint to prefer relative to the election_ at auy talividedi
through the means of bribery er subornat cri ? and it any anew
swen in the affirmative; a untie and v:r:tal iecheadon lad
take place Mimed ate ly ; should the aceusatioa be proved, dem
, who appear to Le gut'. y shad be depaivrht of act/right of Wes
Whether active or passive ; if °therefor, the calming/ars andl
isuffer the seine yunistunenr;aiol, Wool tliejudgluent hest prti•
vouticed, there uhall be no Jinn at.
lArc. 50. if doubt ehousil alive, as so whether the qualification
en:sena,/ tor voting are posseis. il by any of the intbvidulli Pr'
I slit, the Meeting shad onnotitiatety catme 101 decision opts the'
koint, which decision shall be enecuted witlibut weld; Wl*.
tea it revirds Use present ume and act. _ .._.
• Aft. 61. lite nunnuation ooh the keterees shill be Inunediatef
Vocceilet in ; every citizen elesignat.ng a gumbo* of pei'i
equal to tin. of the iseferees, fok *hub porpoise tertwo howl-
nen, and the hecretary shall be placed round the table se de
l'tes:dvit, and the Lest tit these shaft so,cripe the oases is shit
hi his pret•euce' and hi thannel the other peoceedisigh ofthesina
uen, nu ptr.on shall vote lit Is.a uwa Iseult., without heruningthe
' Peualiy of I sing she right ed voting.
As t. 51. 3ft II prue:ceding bcsug concluded. the Presider*.
, tannin% rs, and beeretk!y, shallilnlicst the lat., and ght 41*
i-half d-. date, in a lend vase, the names of the cusses, who awl
have h. en'etected kW:reel, in con.eirenee et having obtaleed
the gfeatest humber ol votes in thud saviour.
Art. 53. lbw steterees qcni haii:il.. dub rears to a separate
stece before the Meeting disperws, and havtos edelloved =AN
Itenne.v% is they 'shall peered to nominate Use illowniter:iedwi
Of tl:at psi ish: Ihe person of penioto who Lave IMPS ORS do
Lilt or the votes in their (avow, shall be Wanda #441110." • '
sary shelf publah such electien to the Mee**. ; - •
Art.. .4. The Secretary shall draW up a et el Ws
ss%ille•
wbich lee shall attest, together with the President iii...
large. and a copy of this; a.testedth the same snaanlii ilaas
debvered to the perm* qe persons elected, as evaddies of gal
election. i .. • "
Att. 55. No elitte iell Ile efellK4 0092 Abille "as' !gill
• 0. •
pretest whatever. . ..
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Art . ti. No citizen shift 'eppeeir armed at the ..
614
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meeting: 0.
Ait. 57. The novloEll.4oll of the electors being verilkai. . ..,./.11.
/niceties shell disperse, mid el ry
.uther kructeduNg• isi. W.6' •
.
, 4117 May fANigt, mall be null,and void.
opir• van.toSti.the4.lpandlbbe cidziwasharevittoa
egiannbave 'eclair,
as
jposedji
shall
ss
aawillb '
bcisiid:m.......i
Skitter Or Electors beingylaced between the PrealtleAs *ln.
Wang, nati the Veeeistaryi-i;(10 be continued ) ' - . -

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