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Emperor. This truth rennet have esaaped the deep penetratlonl
of your Excellency. 1n such a situation, my conduct is not '
merely the consequence of my private opinion, but of the general
will of Spain ; and I can Inver oppose the irrevocable decision of
inz Wowed country. Accept the homage of my high consideri-
doh, &e. (Agned) " FRANCISCO DE SAAVEDRA.

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jittAlllre ilrbt etc Y DON OASPAR OE JOilijA ?OS. • I
" Six—The refit:Mahon you enjoy in Europe, your liberal ideas, I
your love for yourconntry, and the desire to behold it happy and
flourishing, ought to roAke you abandon a party which is contend?.
ins only for the inquisition, prejudices, tke interests of some
Grandees and of England. To prolong the struggle is to augment
the calamities of Spain. A man like you, recognised by your ta-
li rats and character, ought to know that Spain may promise her-
self the happiest result by submitting to a just and enlightened ,
King, whose genius and gcnertrity ought to attract to him all
Spaniards who dellre the tranquillity and'prosperity of their coon-
try. Constitutional liberty under a monarchial government, the
free exercise of your religion, the removal of all obstacles which
for ages have impeded the regei.eration of this noble nation, will
be the happy result of the constitution which the vast andsublime
genius of the Emperor has given you. •'
" Torn in pieces by factions, abandoned by the English, who
had never any other project than to weaken you, sob you of your.
Races; and defer* your commerce, tendering Cadiz another
Gibraltar, you cannot be deaf to the voice of the country, which
demands' frtlßt yiotr ',cue and tranquillity. Labour to this end in
maks& with WI, and let the energy of Spain evince itself solely in
t efnentitog her troirfefieity. I offer you a glorious career. I do
netaiisubt that you will embrace with joy the means of being use-
ful to King Joseph and your fellow citizens. You know the
%trength and number of our armies. You know that the party
apou have embraced Was not obtained a glimmering of success :
Oyou would one day have deplored it, If victories had crowned
'your efforts with success ; but tht Omnipotent, in his infinite
4inercy,- has delivered you from that calamity.
" I•sarritiody to open communications with you, and give you
proofs of my high consideration. (Signed)
" IJORACI SEBASTIANI."

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" Seville, April sl, 1809.
(No. V.)
TO Tilt GENERA!. oF Tlit ARMY or CAROLINA.
" GENERAL—The glory of giving peace and tranquillity to
his country, ought to be preferred even by a General of an army
to that which be can expect to gain by battles. Let us then, Ge-
neral, understand each other, in bider to make the evils cease
which press upon Spain, anditop the effusion of blood. We both
owe this to the troops we command ; you, especially, oive it to
your country, in return for the confidence it reposes in you..
" The frank,loyal, and beneficent character of King Joseph, is
to you and your countrymen the surest pledge of what you have
to promise yourselves. Fur my part, I shall he happy if I can be
a useful medium between the King and his people, in procuring
them, by a prompt peace, the tranquillity of which they stand in
need after so many tempests,and the felicity they may reckon upon
under such a Monarch. These views induce me to do toys if the
honour of writing to you and waiting your answer. This step
must appear to you the more sincere, because our advantages are
so decisive, that there can be no doubt of the success of the war,
and because no man can arrest the designs which are planned by
the Omnipotent Genius of the Emperor, to whom Goo has multi d
victory over all his enemies. Accept, General, the expression of
my high coLslderation. (Signed) " MIASTIAIII."
No. VI.—ANSWER.
" GENERAL—I received in due time your letter of the 12th of
la .t month, and I should not have failed to answer it withodt de-
lay, if I had not depended upon . a Government to whom I was
bound to give information, before I entered into a correspondence
with you. Authorised now to answer you, I have the honour to
assure you, that in this we are agreed, that nothing is more grate-
ful Than to give peace and felicity to nations, the glory of which
I shall always consider as beyond any thing the fate of arms could
give.
" Spain was enjoying that unspeakable felicity, and could not
expect her loss, or her sufferings, or the effusion of her blood,
from allies for whom she has made such vast sacrifices, witk that
characteristic fidelity which other nations have never denied to
her. • But a boundless ambition, added to modes of warfare un-
known among cultivated nations, have emerged her in an abyss of
nfsery, from which the valour of her sons has to deliver her.
" The character of your King Joseph may be as loyal and be-
, oeficent as you please to stile it ; let those virtues be exercised in
countries where he is called to reign by the rights of his family,
or the will of the people. With respect to myself, I shall never .
. acknowledge any other • King than him whom the laws of my
country established by my ancestors, in the plenitude of their li-
berty, have designated. lam satisfied there is not one of my
countrymen who is not animated by the same Spirit, howesfer it
may be attempted to deceive distant nations by the publication•of
oaths and eat of homage as voluntary, which have been extorted
by terror and the sword, and eery species of violence.
" Convinced, as you, General, ought to be, of this undoubted
fact, and fersuaded that you would, as you assured me, be happy
to contribute to the restoration of a speedy peace, and the tran-
quillity which our kingdoms need after so many tempestp, I im-
plore you to avail yourself of the favour you enjoy tinder your
Emperor, in order that, withdrawing his armies from the Penin-
sula, and restoring us our lawful King Don Ferdinand the Seventh,
.the Spanish nation may enjoy that felicity which it promises itself
under his Government, these being the bases on which we may
receive your propotitions.
Besides, the fate of arms.has been in all times changeable
and uncertain ; and when, in the first campaign, I Contributed to
the glories of my country in the fields of Mengibar add Baylen,)
did not, therefore, flatter myself that I should have only to offer
her my blood in the battles of Bubiesca and Cries. General, the
constant triumphs of your armies are not so certain as you sup-
pose; nor do I believe that the omnipotence of your Emperor is
• a pledge'of further victories ; and far from believing that the Di-
vinity can protect, as you assure me, so unjust a cause, on the
contrary, I ,rely that his unalteraMe justice will ever declare it-
self in favour of the most holy war, which is to be found- in the
history of nations, and the favourable issue-of which we already
begin to sae realiZed.
" Chosen by the Supreme Grivernment to lead my country-
men in this sacred conflict. it shall ever be my resolution to save
my country, or perish with it.—ALeept, General, &c.
(Signed) " FRANCISCO VitiILGAS."
" Santa Elena, May 5, 11309-"

(No. lI.)—ANSWER.
" GEN ERAI,—I do not embrace a party. I embrace the just
and holy cause of my country, which I have unanimously adopt-
ed, who have received from her hand the august charge of de-
leading and governing her, and which we have all sworn to em- ,
. boodo,thd isies4n at the etpenee of our lives. We do not contend,
. as yelp pretend, for the inquisition, or for absurd prejudices, or
1 he.interests of the grandees of Spain. We are contending for the
rcrieus rights of our Xing, our Religion, our Constitution, and
--bur independence; and do not believe that the desire to preserve
Vase Is at a tititassee from that of destroying whatever obstacles
Arley be opposed to this end. On the cannery, and to make use
,of your phrase* the desire and purpose to regenerate Spain, and
'raise it to the degree and splendour it once enjoyed, and will
henceforth possess, is considered by us as one of our principal ob- ,
.ligatiohl:• .•-iserhaps no long period will elapse before France and
, pU Europe will acknowledge that the same nation, which knew
how tosostaiu, with so much valour and constancy, against an
aggression so much the more unjust, as they could least expect it '
4retnt those set- i called themselves their first friends, possesses also
fitifficleni seal, urmness, and wisdom, to correct those abuses
esencietu4r,sibly led the country to the horrible fate prepared for ,
-it.; There IS. aid U feeling heart which does not deplore the atro-
'elens evils y,rh:cis this aggression has shed over an innocent people,
2to whom,feller a pretence to degrade them by the infamous title
'4,r-rebels, thai humanity has been denied, which the rights' of war
allow, and which-the most barbarous enemies grant. But, to
wlinm ate these evils to be imputed 1 To those who cause them,
'by violative all the principles of nature and justice ? Or to those
Who nobly strive to defend themselves from them, and avert them
• for ever from the great and generous nation ? Do not, General;
Suffer yourself to'bes. deceived. 'nese sentiments which I have
the honour to expects are those of the , whole nation, there not
being a singlegood man, even among those whom your arms op-
press, who does not feel in his breast the, noble flame which burns
‘bi it fOr his defenders. . 1
. " To. speak of our allies would be irrelevant, if your letter did
not oblige are to declare to their honour, that the. purposes you
attribute to them are as injurious as they are opposed to the ,;ene-
iosity with which the English nation offered her friendship and
leer succours' to our impoverished and diiarmed provinces, at
tbeir,solicitation, from the first commencement of the oppression
,with which they were threatened by their friends.
" In fine, General, I shall be well disposed. to respect the hat-
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mane and philosophical principles, which, as you say your King
Josepli professesawhen I perceive that, departing from our terri-
tory, he _recognizes that a country, which is at this instant laid
waste in his name by your soldiers, is not the fittest theatre for
dleelaj'ing those principles. This would, indeed, be a triumph
Worthy of his' philoiophy, and you, General, were you penetrated
OF THE DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH:.
teeth the sentiments which it inspires, ought to glory in concur-
ries in that triumph, that you might share also in our admiration i PUBLISHith BY ORDER OF MIR IMPERIAL VIGNNESS
and gratitude. THE ARCIIDUKZ CHARLES. ' . .
' " it is only for this purposethat mybonour and sentiments •
In pursuance of the cpmmand of his Imperta,
eikrmit me to make those communications which you propose, if
Highness •
the Generalissimo, the following prelimi-
she Supreme Central Junta shall approve of it. In the mean
while, accept, General, the expression of my sincere gratitude for nary Report- of the brilliant victory obtained the 21t
the honour you personally chew me, assured of the consideration and 22d of May, wasissued on the 23d, from the head-
I profess for you. (Signed) quarters, at Breitenlec :
• ~ 'Seville, April 24." " GASPER DE JOVELLANOS."
" On the 19th and 20th, the Emperor Napoleon passed the
• (No. III.) , greater arm of the Danube, with the whole of his army, to which
T• HIS EXCELLENCE DON FRANCISCO DE SAAVEDRA. he had drawn all the reinforcements of his powerful allies. He
" SIR—You are animated by the love of your country—you established his main Cody untie island liobau whence the second
desire its felicity—you are far from wishing to see it suffer any passage over the less arm, and his further offensive dispositions
longer undtr the trammels of feudality and the inquisision, which I were necessarily to ha directed.
appose its regeneration : your sentiments are to* noble, too wor- ! " His Imperial Highness resolved to advance with hie army
thy of a true Spaniard, to permit you to be the instrument of to meet the enemy, and not to obstruct his passage, but to attack
foreigners or fanatics, who delight in nourishing discord, , him after he had reached the left bank, and thus to defeat the
• " This opinion which 1 entertain of your character and intel- object of his intended enterprise. •
ligence induces me to propose to you to • terminate at once the I a This determination excited, throughout the whole army,
Oils of Spain, which would be aggravated by a longer resist- tie highest enthusiasm. 4nimated by all the feelings of the
rice. After so long a conflict which unplead6t circumstances purest patriotism, and of the most loyal attachment to their Su.
save occasioned, is not the time yet come to permit your pro- vereign, every man became a hero ; and the smocking ruins—:he
vince to enjoy with the rest of the nation all the advantages which scene, of desolation which mark the track of the enemy in his
are offered by the liberal constitution which has been given it by progress through Austria, had inflamed them with a just desire of
his Majesty the Emperor, and which is guaranteed by the just, vengeance. With joyful acebmations with the, cry, a thousaad
loyal, and generous character of his august brother, King Joseph ? times repeated, of—' Live our geed Emperor 1' and with victory
"It is easy for you, Sir, to acquire the justest, in the eyes of in their hearts, our columns, at noon, .on the 21if, proceeded one
by ward to meet the reciprocal attack of the advanciug enemy, and
humanity, the fairest title to the gratitude of your country,
employing the inlluence which your character, and ti4ents give soon after three o'clock the battle commenced.
you, to induce your country to enjoy, immediately all those ad-
" 'lke Emperor Napoleon, in person, directed the movements
vantages. Draw that country to a monarch, whose qualhies of his troops, and endeavoured to break-through our centre With
merit all its confidence, and its Government assures them that the whole of his cavalry ; that vast body of horse be had sup-
honour and prosperity have been hitherto the, object of its desires ported by sixty thousand infantry, his guards, and 100 pieies of
and efforts. artillery. His wings rested on Aspern and Eslingen, places, to
" Believe me, it is my sense of your free interests, as well as the strengthening of which, the resources of nature and a art tad,
the esteem which your country professes for your person, which as far as was possible, contriboted. .
induces me to take this step, and that I shall deem Myself happy "He was not able, however, to penetrate the compact mass
if I .ucceed in attaining the end I propose. which eur battalions presented, and evcry where his cavalry
" Let me know whether, as I hope you are, disposed to this. *hewed their backs, while our cuirassiers Waterbed his armour-
', You must, nevertheless, be sufficiently aware of my chase- equip[ cavaliers, and our light horse carried death into his &mks.
ter, to beliete that I shall not on this account cease to march, It was a gigantic
a combat, and is scarce capible-of desert's:Meet
and that nothing can detain the progress of our armies, whose "'1 he battle with the infantry became immediately generate--
sec:cases are assured by the oninipozent genius of the Emperor, More than illo pieces of cannon exhibited on the opposite sides a
t-e whoin Goo has confirmed victory over all his euernies. j rivalry in the work of destruction: Aspern was ten times taken,
" Accept, Sir, the expression of my perfect consideration. lost, end again conquered. 'Esliiigen, after repeated attacks; Wild
(Signed) " HORACE SLEASTIANI:t not be maintained. At eleven at night th,e villages were in flames,
(No. IV.)—ANSWER. and we remained masters of tic held of. battle. The enensywaa.
' " Cit N tit At --4 have received the favour of your Excellency's driven up in a corner, with the island of Loban and the Damilie
letter, dated at Daindel, she lath instant, and cannot omit re- in his r. ar. Night put an end to the carnage. •
turning my sincere thatlis for the good opinion
,with which you " Meanwhile fire boats, which werefloated down the Danube,
honour-me, and which I should certainly not merit if I assented destroyed the, bridge which the enemy had thrown over the prirre
te what you propose. Your Excellency does not err in saying, cipal branch of the river. The enemy, however, conveyed oven
that it is the love of my country which animates me, but it Is during the night, by continued embarkations, all the disposable
that love and the confidence which the Spanish people have re- troops which he had in Vienna and oh the 'Upper Danube, made
roiled in my principles, inviting me to share in the Administra- every possible effort for the re-construdtlte of his greet hildin'sl
tion of public affairs, from the commencement of this afflicting and attacked us at four in the mowing with a furious cannosade
war, which are t r.e guide of all my proceedings. I believe I ant front the whole a'. his artillery, imluediately after which thenction„l
maintaining the catt,e of justice ; and inwardly impressed with extended along the whole of the line. Until seveji in the evening,
cgs 'oi:iolon, I shah, under the influence of those loyal principles, every attack was repelled. The perseA,erinite of the eneniy 'was
afid that'horiour which has directed all the actions of my life, then compelled to 'yield to site heroism-of our troop, ibid.-ear
earl-bandy pursue the path I have resolved never to abandon MOST COMPLETE vieroe V crownesktlMlSOTtessf ad dris!fswhlshe
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even should the uncertain fate of arms reduce me to extreme ca- 110 the French Proclamation, was &Flared • tolit disPilinli'llai '
liniity. Approaching the end of my career ; rewarded by the represent: das annihilatid by .the'ntere idia Of the hrtfithdhility os',
laii of my fellow citizens, 1 shall not hesitate a moment to sa- their adversaries. ~ „ , , .. ..
crilkeinvself by returning that love, though I saw suspended t " The loss oFthe eitt Nat alia.lieen lianiebk t the brill of bduk
over my Ileac'• the sword of vengeance. • is covered with dead ladke, feint!, among nbitightpwalseroilieddif
Air resider, General, does your Excellency think that if it was pi
set4tile that I could fareet the dictates of my reason, and em- : Hzked* a'
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lot'`tte that ran you propose, that 1 sould reconcile those who are °%"PW"' 3.
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Aspern, the brave Rellidahlr Vier, binged' illariakt a.talEttl4(;'
DP4,;iligoserdn my grey heirs, and draw on me, for such
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tit! indignation of all good Spaniards. The' "At La, ,h,r„tim,". 4.-0,0". conani.sho :.•*. NaiiitertnniWas- -:'
a_- __ were sa,crioeva,......-- . I:3 t.,.. .!:,-. ' .. ' , ..J,-•./ -.:. .. .
1 ed tor desertion,
en, sou ezpr.fraw; die clone of dynasty is riot peculia: to ' in full sewn*
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