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CORUNNA, SEPTEMBER 24.
On the 22d Genera Porlier left this place to go to
Santiago, in order, as we heard, to quell the troops
and peasantry who were disposed to oppOse his views.
Yesterday it WAS reported that he and twenty-two
Officers had been made prisoners. In consequence of
this report, a countcr•revolntion took place here, in
which the Captain-General and the Governor reco-
♦ered their liberty. The town has been put in as good
. a state of defence as circumstances wilt allow.

MANIFESTO
Ae.drerked to the Span!sh lia.Wo, by the Provincial Junta of
the Ktogdont of Gallicia, of which is President the Marshal
de Campo, Uon Juan Dice Perlier, General Commandant
of the interior of the Kingeem.
" SPANIARDS !—i-fter six years of a glorious and
obstinate struggle to support the independence of the
nation and its honour, which were outraged in the
person of its Chief; after immense sacrifices, loss of
property, and the shedding of so much Spanish blood,
we have chased the enemy who sought to subjugate
us; we here driven him from our soil, and obtained
the re-establishment of the Throne of our Monarch ;
We have recovered and maintained die splendour of
the Nation; we have made our name respected, and
secured our independence—the first object. of every
people that values its dignity, and desires to transmit
it unsullied to posterity.
" No; contended with defending at the hazard of
• our lives the land of our birth, Lye sought to secure
its prosperity for the future, by solid institutions, re-
establish our ancient rights, remove the obstacles
which impede and obstruct the fountains of public
Wealth. and secure to all.classes of the state the secu-
rity of their persons and property, and the free exer-
cise of their industry and their talents.
64 While our, valiant warriors were giving to the
world bright examples of courage and constancy, our
Legis4tors, assembled in the Cortes, with full powers
delegated by ourselves, deliberating on the reforms
which the situation of the-State required, had wisely
laid the foundations of our felicity, by uniting, in one
Constitution, our ancient rights and liberties, forgot-
ten and trodden under foot in the lapse of time ; and
seeking, by other wise decrees, to relieve from the
heavy yoke of odious and unjust privileges, the un-
happy labourer;the honest mechanic, the industrious
manufacturer, and ,to :give life and motion to the,
Nation, by increasing its commerce and .its. prospe-
rity. Warned by the lessons of experience, per-
suaded that the good will and the most excellent in
stitutions of the best Kings are insufficient, since,
v; lien alone and without support, they are wont to
be the sport of perverse 'Counsellors and wicked fa-
vourites, they would not have the Monarchy again
become the prey,ol new Olivarez and Gudoys—but
that, founded upon stable laws, confOrmable to our
ancient usages, and to the progress which the science
. of Government has made in Europe, the security
and felicity of die State might be reconciled with those
of individuals, and the rights of individuals with the
prerogatives attached to the person of the King.
og Such, Spaniards, are our desires. Our Depu-
ties, the faithful organs of them, secured them by
Means of wise decrees, which we have all of us sworn
before Goo and men to tidal and to obey ; thus con-
& ming our rights, giving new
.itrength to the throne
of the Monarch, and recognizing the holy religion of
the State.
,4 In the midst of the disgusts which the misfortunes I
of a desolating war must occasion—in the midst of
the opposition which the reform of abuses must pro-
duce—we have enjoyed internal tranquillity ; no par-
ties have arisen to revolutionise the State ; no pros-
criptions to alarm and afflict families; calm and
composed, we began to enjoy the fruits of rational
liberty, and we felt • only that gentle and agreeable
motion which is the life of nations ; `so that our inde-
. pendence being secured by the valour and the efforts I
of our brave soldiers, and civil liberty confirmed by
the regulations and decrees of our Cortes, nothing
was now wanting to oar wishes and our. hopes. but
the return of our captive Monarch—by that the na-
tion avenged the insult it received from a foreign
Power-.with that our-illustrious warriors hoped . for
, the recompence of their services, rod the execution
of so many decrees of the Cortes in their favour. and
to which their exploits gave them **just a tide—with
that return the good hoped that the Executive cower
-acquiring the energy which it ought to possess, . and
which only a King can give it, every deviation might
be avoided, which the Spanish revolution might
have suffered. in time, by consolidating the reforms
ad ,pted, and making those variations which ex-
perience, and the situation of Spain and of other
nations, might show to be necessary.—We were -in
daily hopes of this happy event : at length King
Ferdinand entered our territory, directing his
• steps to Madrid. amidst the benedictions of the
good, who hoped every moment to hear of his en-
trance into this capital, where. in union with -our
Deputies, they thought they already sew him em-
pfqed in die felicity of his subjects, confirming some
dipee,, giving other new ones, and altering time
wbi*h, by common. content, it should be thought
sseci %vary to change or modify; they despised the
,reps tts that were soon circulated, that the Kiog did
not swear to • the constitution, nor approve of any
thing that had been done during his absence; they
isttributed this to the bad intentions of interested per-
sons, and• thought they saw the King surrounded by
those whose folly or treason had drawn them to
Dayoune, placed him in the hands of his enemies,
end delivered up the nation to all the evils of anarchy;
they believed that, hist: =ed by the severe lesson
which experiesice bad givan hits!, he Would not suffer
hittiself to be misled by his mistakeu and pernicious
courisell..rs ; but the habitual influence which they ,
exei cited over-his Mind from his infancy, having more
power over him, he listened to them anew, again
t.,dowed their counsels, and with diem again plunged
tile nation and himself its au abyss of misfortunes,
inch as we have, so greatly at our tamer, felt for
above a year.
o From those wretched counsellors proce.:ded the
do at es for the destruction of the Curtes ; from those
the se....ht'.hlkliment of all kinds of abuses; from
theta* e.inie the persecution of our Deputies, of so
so many worthy Spaniards;
miny brave soldiers, of
from them the disorder of our ioinces, the neglect
and the misery of our soldiers, the public sale of
employments; and horn them, in short, the debase.
won of the oation, which, instead of being respected