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• REPORT
.AN nit STATE or THE SPANISH DOMINIONS, PRESENTED
TO THE CoitTEs IN THE SITTING OF NOV. 23, BY TILE
MINISTER OF GRACE AND JUSTICE.
SENOR—The interior state of the Peninsula offers
nothing worthy of particular considciation, with re-
gard to the office with which I am intrusted, in ad-
siiti at to. what I formerly mentioned. Perhaps it
might be of advantage to put in execution what I
then stated, concerning the utility of certain magi-
strates travelling through the provinces. Perhaps it
might be of advantage that such of the provinces as
are in a state of freedem, should have si me more de-
pendence ueon the Govtrnment, respecting the elec-
tion of the Members if their Juntas, since, though
the regulations for preserving a good agreement be-
Ween them and the Military Authorities are wisely
laid down, something if that spirit is always felt,
which the interests of their respective orders, fami-
lies, tsr friends, have a tendency to inspire ; interests
Which are a motive with some, to avail themselves of
the.influence they possess in their respective districts,
in order to be nominated. As to other subjects, what
Can I say that must not, on the one hand, excite the
deepest concern, on account of the dreadful evils
which the national firmness has to undergo, and, on
the other, the terrible in.iign ition which ought to be
roused in the breast, not only of every Spaniard, but
Even of every f,reigner who is not dead to all the
feelings if-humanity, by the conduct, every day more
barbarous and more atrocious, of the inhuman satel-
lites of the greatest miscreant existing upon earth ?
What disgrace fer a nation that was wt nt to boast of
its pretended tights, enl to make such an ostentatious
display of its far-famed humanity, cow tesy, and ge-
nerosil, to have vomited from its bus lint swarms of
ferocious iobbcrc, who plunder every thing, who re-
spect nothing, with whom neither sex, nor age, nor
misfortune, have the smallest consideration ; who
join insult to inhumanity, and calculate how they can
be must cruel ? Perhaps the world now secs, for the
first time, that counterfeit civilization is worse than
the greatest barb .rism. The barbarians of the North,
svho assailed the IZomasi Empire, in the sth century,
were tormidable in the hour f battle, or in the at-
tack of a city ; but their wants being few, were easily
supplied, and they neither desolated the country, nor,
when they abandoned it, carried off its resources to
their own. The infamous slaves of Nepol on, some
with the titles of P. inces, Dukes, Counts, Barons, and
many otlicts who war his livery witht tit. any title,
feel all the wants of the most t xtravagant and dis-
Fraceul luxury. All of them sre deshotis of possess-
jug magnificent houses in the cepital, elegant furni-
nue, equipages, splendid tables, good cooks, country
houses, are addicted to gaming and keep mistresses.
They.are not contented consequently with what they
can devour and destroy, but impose conthuntily con-
tributinn upon c.intribution, and they demancl four,
fie, ten, and twenty times the quantity .of what is
necessary fir their troops ; they sell and re-sell in
proportii n, and, in shout, exh itist all their iagenuity
and all their invention, that nothing, however incon-
siderable, should remain in Spain, either of money or
cattle, or of the products of agriculture and corn-
mince. Thus they :accomplish the phut of the am-
dein Attila, much mere deserving than he of the fifth
eentury of the appellation of the scourge of the
human race, a plan to dispcople Spain, that it might
*to longer be, as Was the case t:11 the last century, the
true bridle on the turbultnt ambition of France.
'• To the internal pro jsct i.f this monster, the incen-
diasies of another hemisphere have unhappily contri-
bsseed their aid. A society is established at the Ca-
raccas under the name of Patriotic, composed of about
SO individuals, among whom are many Frenchmen
by brth; men of b :d character, raised to ntutice by a
revolution, and infamous far their iotmorality. It
consists also of several idle persons of obscure origin,
and of men easy to be imposed upon from their ge-
neral ig .orance, or superfisially initiated in some
branches of science, or known by their pretended pa-
triotism, without any merit but that Mein unbridled
ambition, stained by atrocious crimes whose impunity
has inspired them with asisliticmal boldness.
This was the association which, on tht, 19th of
April, exhibited in ti:e streets and public pl ices of the
Caraccas, a spectacle the most it:famous and Uisgrace-
firl that could take place among cisilized nations.—
'he people, on the contrary, screwed Themselves far
superior, viev ing with indifference themadness, folly,
and excesses of those frantic preachers cf Jacobinism,
who could not on that day proclaim the independence
.1 Venezuela. This was at length done on the sth
.IJuly, by establishing a confederation, sovereign,
' nd independent, not founded upon generosity, Asir-
; ue, and ialour, as was the case with the Swiss con-
• ederaCon and others, but . upon the vices, the law-
ess Passions, the cruelty and terror of the founders
t that furious democracy known by the name of the
rench Republic, whose dirsfal memory sill c's all
e friends of humanity, when they isse that all the
lamities which it at this day suffers arc the fatal
•onsequences of that execrable system.
In the Caraccas, as in France, those unprincipled
retches are alone termed patriots, who, in the traffic i
or power, scruple to employ neither calumny nor
ssassination, nor any means whatever to becOme
asters of the public fortune. Then, as formerly in
ranee, they ate exclusively styled patriots who re-
Ile most and accuse as traitors such prudent men as
r sotached to the cause of order and justice : those
o are occupied in misleading the people, in paying
Ittln servile adulation, in reviling Ferdinand of
.stelsaa, and every crowned head. But ultimately
ey will clash 'among themselves, form themselves
to parties, charge each other with conspiracy, and
e evil of discord once set on fire will not be extin--
uished till both are reduced to ashes.
The act by which they declare themselves for ever
P •
al ted irons the Spanish Crown, and by which
sty annoOliteibemselves as the representatives of
I.e nation, is founded upon reasons which could