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heart, respecting the principal object which had in-
duced me to leave your place incognito, tending alone
to promote the tranquality of our country, and con-
sequentlyhis own safety, and that of his Throne ; by
My pence at Court, guarding against evils which
might have happened, and doing away with the un-
founded rumours spread abaut, regarding our disobe-
dience and our views opposed to the happy restoration
his Majesty proposed of the Constitutional system,
with which our future glories and felicity were so
intimately connected. I besides toil him how im-
politic and ill-timed I conceived the order to be
which had been given for the dissolution or sepa-
ration of the Army ; an order that had excited
so much distrust in the per,ons and Chiefs com-
posing the same, as well as in the rest of the nation,
by e'iciting doubts respecting the upright conduct of
the Executive Power. If I did not state this to his
Majesty in these express words, and pointed it. out to
him in a plain and perceptible manner, I afterwards
manifested to him, that the distinguished trust he had
confided to me in the general command of Galicia,
was not compatible either with my means to execute
it or the welfare of our country, as it w•aild excite
jealousy and emulation in the heroic'military ofahat
kingdom and the well deserving Chief, who, at the
head of them, had been able to maintain the mime-
' rocs inhabitants a that i aportant province in the
right path, and of whose good conduct and ardent
zeal for the consolidation of the constitutional system,
which would cast so much splendour round his Ma•
jesty's Throne, he had not the least idea there was
in the Ministry motive of complaint or distrust.
" I, besides, added to these powerful reasons, that
the Army, as well as the people of the kingdom of
Seville and the maritime province of Cadiz, willed,
by the most unequivocal demonstrations, my remain-
ing with the Army wishes which I thought to he
those of all good Spaniards who still viewed u as
from the first day, in the light of armed patriots,
lovers of the civil liberty of our country, an J afivasted
of all other views than its cum,,le.c restoration.
" His Majesty was pleased to listen to me with
pleasure, and in the flattering manner with which he
answe:ed roe, gave me proofs of the high opinion he
had formed of the rectitude of my sentiments, assur-
ing me that if he did not then vary the re;oluzion he
had taken in the orders already issued, be was not
displeased with my observations and motives for
their suspension.

" On the same day I had a long conference with
the 'Ministers, in which, guided by the same !.:rin-
ciples and reasons, I spoke to them freely, though
with all due decorum, respecting the tenaciousness
of their conduct in thus wishing to act contrary to
the general sentiment of the army and nation. I
made to them proposals of a compromise, in which
discovered to them, that my views, as well as tho e
of our patriotic soldiers, were no other than the wel-
fare of our country, and the perfect consolidation cf.
the system which was to make it happy. I prep° eat
to them, that Cie army might remain without being
called of Observation ; that its rations and rewards
might be withdrawn ; that one of you might corr.,
mand the Province of Seville, the other go as Govere
nor to Cadiz, and myself as Commander of the army
of the Maritime Province, which might be composed
of the seven battalions which declared in favour of
the cause in January, and the squadron of artillery;
manifesting to them by this proposition, that I pre-
ferred the welfare of our country to my own personal
interest, by selecting a small Province and a sickly
climate, to the important command of a large king-
dom, and which, besides, for me had the attraction
of analogy to that of my native province—but no
one of my proposals have they consented to admit.
" This is the state of the nifair with reward to the
King and his Ministers—Ministers who, in my opi-
nion, unduly aspire to the name of being the only
creators of the civil liberty of their country, its only
restorers, and the only consolidators of the new sys-
tem; viewing us, for this reason, with jealousy and
envy, which their self-love does not allow them to
see within their own breasts, and their imaginations
being besides fevered by the silly tumours spread
about, which, if they do not operate in them, do in
others, and thus excite distrust, and give rise to the
idea that we are undutiful, and lOnd of military am-
bition—miserable and mean phantoms of the human
mind, which HEAVE unhappily unhappily allows to trouble
the souls of the greatest and most deserving men.
" You will please to communicate all I here: point
out to the Commanders of the respective Coi ps; as
to all I feel bound to manifest, by plainly manifest-
ing my own conduct, how much I appreciate their
good opinion and esteem.
" With regard to the manner in which the people
of Madrid received me, the enthusiasm my presence
inspired into all the ;;crud people, and the confidence
they repose in the firmness and immutability of my
patriotic sentiments, it would not be proper for me at
present to speak; I shall therefore merely observe, that
it greatly exceeded all I could have expected. I wish
' nothing but the liberty of my county, obtained
through the very means of the constitutional systerit
proclaimed. I aspire to nothing more than to see
this radically consolidated, by those prudent mea-
sures the Executive ought to take to secure this same
liberty to the people, to the patriotic Spaniards, wl:o,
in the shape of armed patriots, have proclaimed it
in all the provinces, in the capital itself, and who,
hitherto, have been enjoying it The National Con-
gress, in this, has yet done nothing; and I conceive
they (met to have done it whilk public feeling w4s
so much alive. Still I hope it will be none; and, as
the instrument of the Legislature and Executive Au-
thority, I will not take a step that is not directed :o
the main object I. have in view, which you and all
the world have seen-.:hat of dying in any maoner
to render oar fellow-citizens constitutiottally happy.,
because in the complete attainment of this their feh-
ciiy is united with mine, that of all mycompanions in
arms, as well there as here—in short, of Spain and
Europe also.—l greet you, &c. Ste. A
(S;gllVii) " RAYAEL DYL Maw."