Star.
London, England, 1810-07-23 00:00:00

TURNPIKE TOLLS TO I.F.T.

NOTICE is hereby given, That the next Gene '
ed
Meeting of the Trustee:, of tha •Ittrnpike Road leadirg
from the Town of Beglithelnistone through Cucktield to the
County Oak on I.osel Heath, in the County of Sussex, is appointed I,
to be held at the King's Int., in Ctickfial afor...aid, on
Thursday, the 16,1 k day of August next, at Twelve o'Clock at
Noon, at which Meeting the Tens arising at the several foil
Gates upon the said Rol, called Preston, Stone Pound, Ansty
and Ansty side Gate, :lough-Green, IF :Lid-bar, Crt..viey, and I
Saint John's Gates, will be l.&r 1•1 Aueion, to the best liistler,
from the nOth day of Septemb,r neTt, for are or more years as
shall he then agreed on, between the haars of twi.lve and taro cf
the same day, in the manner directed by the Az,. pas 4.-11 in the
Thirteenth V.•ar of the Iteitin of is preser:t Majeaey, " for ri - a
gulating the Turnpike. Roads:" The 1 olls of the said Cates,
called Preston, Stone Pound, Ansty and Aunty Side Gate, Slough I
Green, !field Bar, and Crawley Gates, are Let for the current
year at the sum of C;505, and will be pat tip at that sum. And
the Tolls of the said Gate, called Saint 'Ares Gate, produced the
last year the sum of Xi I. 4s. Bd. over and abe,ve the expences of
collecting the same, and will be put up at that sum. Whoever
happens to be the best bidder, must pay into the lauds of the
Treasureas of the said Road, two tnor.ths rent in advance, and
• also give security with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of
the •Frits ees of the said Road, for the due payment of the re•
minder at such times as they shall direct. .4
SANIUEL WALLF.R,
Clerk to the Trustees of the said Roal.

C4RACC,4.3 GAZETTES.

THE SUPREME JUNTA OF THE CA ItAECAS To TILE PERSONS
COMPOSING THF. REGENCY OF SPAIN.

• " MOST EXCELLF,NT SIRS,
44 The various papers and documents which, in the
name of the Supreme Junta of Cadiz, and of an esi.a-
blishment called the Regency, have been sent to the
Viceroys and Captains-General of these dominions,
and of all their inhabitant 4 for the purpose of obtain-
ing the recognition of the said establishment, as the
leg. tkrsate depository of the sovereignty of Spain, have
been punctually received.
44 Your Excellencies have observed, at different
periods, the fidelity shewa by this country to its be-
loved Sovereign, Ferdinand VII. and its. true and
cordial sentiments of fraternity with regard to all the
Spaniards of Europe. You have sea also the respect
shewn to the Junta of Seville, and to the Central Go-
vernment ; but your Excellencies would most griev.'
ously deceive yourselves, f you were to suppose that
we are so destitute of discrimination ar to pay obedi-
ence, and incur the duties of vassals towards all the
different establishments which, one after the other, as-
sume the sovereign authority, without any delegation
from*the Monarch, and without any concurrence ofi
the Spanish nation of either continent. A govern-
ment thus arbitrarily assumed mull b. absolutely null,
illegitimate, and void, and contrary to all the princi-
ples sanctioned by our laws.
What, in fact, ar; the grounds which the Regency
allege as the foundation at their claim to that homage
of Americans which they have sworn only to pay to
their lawful Prince ? Have the national Cortes been
assembled, which alone can possess the legislative
power necessary to form a provisional Constitution, to
administer public affairs. during an interregnum ?
Even in the bosom of the Central Junta, there have
been no Ministers sufficiently upright to oppose the
spirit of corruption which had crept into the State to
its ruin,-as to lift up their voices against that arro-
gated authority which, in contempt of our laws, had
been acquired. If there have been no Cortes, has
there been any other national convention which might
be considered the legitimate organ of thenation, and
which might be supposed to be invested with sove-
reign power.
...A little attention will shew, that the Central Junta
had no claim to the character of national representa-
tion to which it pretended. Its authority did not ori-
ginate is a legitimate source, but in a sort of tumid-
tuary acclamation of a few capitals of provinces,
while the inhabitants of the New Hemisphere had not
the share in the Government which properly belongs
to them. The Central Junta declared expressly
that it considered the American dominions as an in.
tegral and essential part of the Spanish Monarchy.—
America could see only in this annunciation the foun-
tain of her own rights which she ought always to
enjoy, and of which she could never be deprived with.
out manifest injustice, and she observed it as a solemn
confession of the despotism to which to that moment
she had been unhappily exposed. America was now
inclined to prom;se herself that since the authorities of
the Peninsula acknowledged, with so much ceremony,
her character of citizenship, the epoch had arrived.
for the first time, when she was to be admitted to the
inestimable enjoyment of her aril privilege, and when
a stop was to be put to the iTsupportable pride and
avarice of the unworthy administritors who, in the
name of the Monarch, since the discovery of tills coun-
try, have done nothing but vex and degradeosuci who
have stifled in the germ its prosperity, as youe,Excel-
lencies yourselves acknowledged in the declaration
you have addressed to us. But our fond expectatior:s
lasted only a moment.; neither in the orders seat for
the election of . Members to complete the Central
Junta, nor in that ter the convocation of the Nationdl
Gorses,, have been seen any thins but a culpable par-