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'sea esteemed, as its satriftees deserved, is degraded,
despised by all Europe.
44. These few, but degenerate Spaniards, xieleets
'ago, prostituted themselves to the oppressor of their
Icounttl, abandoned their King, and trampled under
their ..het their most sacred duties. Anxious fop
wealth and honours, they recognized him who offered
or secured him to them; and looked down with con-
tempt upon those Spaniards who at Madrid, and in.
Al the provinces, raised the cry of independence...-
They made inveterate war upon them in. the begin-
ning, and did not join their banners, till despairing
of the cause they had embraced, they believed it was
a means to reclaim their salaries and their employ.
menus : faithless to all, they retained their enmity
and opposition only to those who, from the, begin-1
ning, had sought to defend the national cause. Al:
most all those who surrounded and counselled the
King at Valencia, almost all those who surround and
guide him now, are of this class; they possess the
chief offices of the State ; and those very persons,
who, in 1808, were named by the intrusive govern-
ment to calm the insurrection in the provinces. c0m.,1
pose a part of the tribunals appointed to judge the,
Patriots, that is, many of those who, at that time„l
nourished in the provinces the, sacred lame of pa-
triotism. Alas 1 history does not present us any
patella.
14 Against such intuits, such crimes as have been
committed in this year, the Spaniards would long
since have raised a dreadful cry, such as they did
to defend their independence, had they not, prudent
and -composed, and lovers of their country, preferred,'
before they exposed it to new convulsions, seeking
every method of conciliation, hoping that their King,
undeceiving himself, would be the first to change his
conduct, to chastise his perverse counsellors, and
preserve entire and without stain the opinion of SO
many good Spaniards so unjustly persecuted.
64 In vain we have hoped for a whole year ; in vain
has all Europe disapproved the conduct of the Ca-
binet of Madrid; in vain have several Princes remon-
strated against the impolicy of its proceedings, and
the injustice of persecuting so many illustrious pa-
triots ; in vain have many Spaniards ventured to
speak truth to the King—the tint have not been at-
tended to, notwithstanding the respect due to such
respectable allies, and the others have been persecuted.
44 To such a degree have they got possession of
the person of the King, that they do not permit him
to listen to remonstrances of so much weight, that
they do not allow him time to reflect on the falsehood
of their assertions ; they tell him that the Cortes and
the Regency sought to remove him from the throne;
they try to corrupt public opinion by spreading a
perfidious report, that there was a secret plan to
spread irreligion, and persecute the clergy ; in short,
they publish all kinds of calumnies, which none but
men so perverse as themselves could possibly con-
ceive. A year has passed ; the Government has been
in their hands; the Deputies, the Members of the
Regency, the persons whom they wish to calumniate,
have been surprised in the night; they have been,
able to discover their secrets, to unfold their machi-
nations, and yet nothing has been found but proofs
of their probity and their virtues. All Spain is con-
vinced of this truth. What seater proof can there
be than their own judgments and sentences!—and ii
respect of public and pirate rights, ,how illegal and
monstrous are all their proceedings; in which the
very laws of the party they pretend to follow are
trodden under foot ; in which the accused are per.
mined to defend themselves personally ; in which all
judgments are summarily decided, many of the
judges being at the same time accusers and witnesses.
who, forming impeachments for what they themselves
ordered to be executed in the disk of the Cortes,
have given to the world a new and unheard.of ez-
ample of injustice and atrocity.
64 So many deservingand respectable men; so may
priests, venerable for their virtues and dignities s. so
many officers of rank covered with wounds, and il-
lustrious by their services, now loaded with chains
and thrown into dungeons, serve to satiate the rage
of their infamous persecutors, whb delight in their
misery, and hope to destroy them by torments aodi
affliction—and foe what Spaniards ! what are their
crimes ? Their having sought to snake us happy
If they are criminals, we are also ; we have given
our full powers; we have acknowledged and approved
all that the Cortes have done. Their Deputies have
no object but the prosperity of Spain; their Decrees
prove it. The .'Catholic -religion was declared the
only religion of the State ; the privileges of its, Ml.
nisters were 'preserved; care was taken if the sole
deers ; distinctions were given them ; decrees were
passed to divide lands among them, as soon as peace
shobld be established; institutions for inv.ilids wens
formed; and notwithstanding the Isoverty of the
State, from its territory, for the most part, being oc•
cupied by the enemy during the most of the time, the
soldier was much less neglected than be has 'since
been, notwithstanding the peace and the deliverance
of the Peninsula. The peasant was relieved from
many burdens and gabeller which oppressed him ; the
manufacturer was heed from many ridiculous regu-
lations, and the merchant could traffic and make his
sreculations at liberty, and without thook injurious
formalities which the fiscal system had introduced ;
the creditor of the State hoped to see himself covered
for the advances he had made. In sheet, 11l was ace
tatiiiing a new life, and the nation would have bees
recompensed for its sufferings, and its losses. if the
road pointed out by the Cortes bad been followed.
But holy different is that which has been taken, and
how different also are the results.
" Notwithstanding a year's peace and tranquillity,
our finances are in a worse state than ever ; public
credit is annihilated ; the brave defenders of the coun-
try are naked, without shoes,. without pay, despised
and persecuted; the labourer with his oldgaidler, the
manufacturer with his former fetters, and the mer-
chant without circulation ; our American colonies,
.continually more irritated at seeing their deputies im-
prisoned, and the promises made to them broken ; op
the one hand the prison on the other revenge.—every
where disorder and i»jklltice. Such is the situation
of tmfortunate Spain.
4, Spaniards, either the country must perish, ter we
must find a remedy for such great And dangerous
evils. Au Europe is interested in seeing our notion
well governed; it is the sincerest pledge of its tran-
quillity; experience must have taught it that when
Spain is governed by feeble handsat necessarily sub-
nots to any who can impose conditions *pen it, All
Europe cannot but belleamd to see to Government

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feriae: is Spain which . a Inch centrilented is the
liberty aid independence of all States, which has been
recognlzed and treated with by the Kings of Prussia
and Sweden, and the magnanimous Emperor of Rua
sia ; England, our first ally and companion, that na•
tion rich and happy in its constitution, which has
seen with honor the destruction of the Cortes, and
the persecution of its members, will be the first to
I applaud us, as it was the first to assist us in cur in-
surrection, to acknowledge the Cones, and to praise
the patriotism and the virtues of the people.
44 All will applaud us, if "we continue to sheer in
our conduct that prudence and circumspection which
have always guith3l us; and if, taught by experience,
we improve our institutions by assamilating them to
theirs. , •
14 Yes Spaniards, prudence will never abandon us;
the good of the counts y must be our sole object; our
opinions, our rivalships, our private interests must
be silent before such a great and important object.—
Compelled by necessity, seeing that truth cannot pe-
netrate to the ears of the King, who is, as it were,
besieged by his Counsellors, unless it is supported in
a manner to make itself respected, we have taken the
terrible, but necessary resolution, to demand, by arms,
what has been r fused to !more gentle means.
41 Our object, like that of all Spaniards, is no other
than the establishment of the Monarchy under wise
laws, which at the same that they secure the prero-
gatives of the King, slay likewise ensure to us our
rights. We require the convocation of the Cones
named by the people, who may make in the Consti-
tution proclaimed by the Extraordinary Cortes, those
changes which our situation demands, which expe-
rience has taught us, and which the constitutions of
the limited Monarchies of Europe require.
The Cortes, by introducing order into our
finances, ail! take care of the soldier; will reward the
deserving warrior, will insure his subsistence in old
age, and place the nation in a situation to be respect-
ed and feared.
44 The nobility, W they lose any trifling part of their
privileges, may be indemnified by the changes whiCh
the Cortes make in the Constitution, by giving them
a political existence. The condition will, in general,
be improved; the parochial priests, who so imme-
diately contribute to the spiritual salvation of the
faithful, bring better endowed; the merchant, the
labourer, the artsan, the manufacturer, will again
enjoy the behefits which they had begun to derive
from the changes made by the Cones in their favour;
the public creditor, with a god administration of the
fonds of the public credit, will again hope to he in-
demnified for the advances and the losses which have
'becn brought upon him by his. services, or by his faith
in the promises of the State.
11 These, Spaniards, are the wishes of the Cortes :
they are ours, and they will doubtless be again the
wishes of the Cones when they meet. for such holy
purposes we invite all our
.sister provinces to unite
with us, with 'the brave defenders of the country, with
their worthy Officers and their illustrious Generals :
in short, with the Spaniards of all classes.
44 Firm in our purposes, we will not lay down our
arms (if we should be obliged to employ, them) till
we have obtained it; and as. we shall embrace every
Spaniard who shall offer to join the banners of the
country, we shall persecute without mercy those who,
without love for their country, and enemies to the
King, would rather leave him in the hands of vile
counsellors than try to rescue him from their power,
and open his eyes to their pernicious counsels. Our
conduct shall be a model to our enemies. Property
shall be respected, and personal liberty not disturbed.
But woe to those who, availing themselves of the
august name of the King, shall venture to insult or
to persecute any individual ; they shall be responsi-
ble, and if they cannot be taken, those perhons shall
'be so, whom we consider as hostages.- Secure in the
justice of the cause which we defend, the world shall
see that Spain, valiant and persevering in defending
her independence, is no less illustrious and courageous
when she has to defend her rights and liberties.
64 By the Members of the Junta
(Signed) 11 JUAN NU poatarh."
(The above is stated in the title to be printed at
Corunni, but has no date whatever.)
PRIVATE LETTER.

" CORVIINA,
" The sigkest-for cry of Liberty has at length burst forth. The
valiant Portia- is the sun who first broke silence. To his call

every thing has yielded, so well were the minds of every. one
urepared. For some time back, this well deserving patriot has
been revolving in has mind this noble and generous project, and
shut up in a castle, and in the midst of the agents of terror, he
has been planning the future liberty of his country. • The magic
appearance ot.Bonapartein Francs atom* his intentions, already
on the eve of below realized, la order to deprive t!?..-.• malevolent
of all pretest of strgmadzing the purity of has clew+, by connect-
ing them with those of the farmer tyrant of Spain. New the
theatre has changed: he has attempted tbe entercrize, and suc-
ceeded in it with all the fealty with which that k obtained
which all desire, nines especially, when a leader of sucti pure in-
tentions pats MOW' at tbe head. Porker has no more tido-awn
to open his thoughts to a few brave oMcors, be merely presented
bleu:elfin the strong and commanding position of St. Lucia, which
yielded so him wu homy resistance. 'lleums was also instantly
done by the Captain General, and the other Civil and Military
Autlionties here.
"• From this moment, the Most lively enthusiasm lamed on
every countenance. "i he sanitary and Inhabitants, overcome with
joy, 'embraced each other-in thweute:4l, crying out, • Now we
return to be Spaniarda, now we are &lame
.".• The number of soldiers, inhabitants, and peasants, pouring
in to enrol mid. volunteer themselves under the banners of liberty,
is great, and what Is most admit:able is, the order and harmony
with which all has been done.. Not a misfortune has happeied,
not an insult, not even &disagreeable word.
•• General Fortier has published a ProclantadonhaAriven in the
STAR of Saturday), which he himself wrote off and from
its contents you may gather the noble sentiments by which ho is
animated. The General himself also, it appears, by this same
conveyance, writes to his asuntrymien ha England, as well as to
some illustrious Englishmen from whom you yourself are not far
For my own part, what I can were you, ii, that this blow
Is not solitary, or in the air, but that it is concerted with great
heads, and persons of known honour and character, mattered
about the several Provinces of Spain, and even otaeolk.
64 Ferdinand has no one who loves him, no one urdefend him;
his gloomy and monistical despotbmn, as well as his black higra.
Stade, have alienated the hearts of every one 4 The military,
more especially; are extremely resentful, owing to the Desist:mai
manner in which be milers them to want, sacriSeing his treasures
on objects of sterile piety and petite superstition, as Iva as on
the gond living and ease of the clergy and Mars, to whose prayers
and disciplines he says he owes his throne. Consequent to this,
disetnit is general anions the troops
"a General Abliinal (O'Donnell) on his late return front Prance,
harangued his troops, In order to dispose them to bear their
waists with resignation, and to aerauge some plan to canton
them, as a means of subsistence. The answer to his harangue,
genetal through the ranks, was ta tell him in a most energetic
manner, that it would be much better for his master, ferdinand,
to employ th*t money which he eras lavishing its his Guards and
surrounding Clergy, who advised and upheld him in his twang,
to provide iiga:iist the hunger of thom soldiers who had
r
Ai' than% Sissy 1140 times tea When( his trefire4r