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;teed to Hawkesbury direct ; but was obliged to re-
turn, as the roads•were impassable. The banks of,
'George's. Liter were unfortunately inundated at the
same-rrne ; and a great quantity of stock and other
pinperty lost. In Major Johnstone's stack-yard 490
sheep were drowned; Mr. M.Callam lost SOO, and
several houses were left in ruins.

SPANISH PAPLBS.

ADDRESS TO THE, PEOPLE OF THOSE PARTS OF THE ASTU-
RIAS THAT ARE NOW OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY.
When a great and generous people opposes to the
arms of a conqueror all the zeal and enthusiasm of
Eberty, every attempt to enslave them will be found
in vain. The tyrant, convinced of this truth, calls
to his aid dissimulation, flattery, and artifice, which
exercising an absolute dominion over the simplicity
and unsuspecting nature of a noble and magnanimous
nation, promise him in some degree that certain suc-
cess which he could have in vain hoped for froth vio-
lence and terror. Such is the ultimate systeM pursued
by the French in the Peninsula, already considered
by them as invincible by all. the efforts of their phy-
sical force.
Asturians, you have unfortunately experienced all
the attempts of this new and infernal policy. Those
barbarians, who crowd upon your soil, and who now
expect nothing from their power, that has been so
long baffled, have recourse to the most fatal but re-
fined hypocrisy to subjugate and enslave yOu. You see
how they run in every direction, inculcating peace
and tranquillity, and masking their most horrible ex-
cesses with a yeil of apparent justice. They pursue the
soldier who defends the rights of his country as a dis-
turber of the public peace, which they pretend to pro-
mote; they threaten, on pretext of his being a rebel,
unless he appears, every one who,leaving his dear home
and fireside, seeks safety among the savage beasts,
as infinitely preferable to the society .and fellow-
ship of the French.' They proscribe, in short, as an
insurgent, and a declared enemy of the public peace,
every one who, preferring the public to his own
private interest, sacrifices his happiness in any shape
to the good of his country ; and under these spe-
cious pretexts, dispossesses those deserving Spaniards
of whatever they have most valuable, even of
that very property which they have so often sworn to
respect and maintain. In this manner, Asturians,
and by oppressing the people, the crafty enemy en-
deavours-to create a pernicious and ruinous indiffer-
ence to the public interest ; but not content with that,
he aims at a complete triumph by means of hypocrisy
:and pretended beneficence. Knowing the influence
that this will have with the people, he pretends to act
for the benefit of religion ; he erects himself into a
protector of the sanctuary, while in his heart he de-
spises or disclaims the sacred object to which he pays
his sacrilegious worship. He promises to the simple
peasant the enjoyment of his farm, and the fruit of
his labour, that misled, by so flattering a promise, he
may not feel the sacrifices to which he will be conti-
nually exposed ; to the artisan he announces tran-
quillity, and promises him the reward of his industry ;
in a word, he practises every thing that at little ex-
pence may procure him the esteem of the people, the
only ground he has of his cruel hopes. i
This conduct, Asturians, this fatal conduct has
been invariably observed with respect to you ; but,
after all, those tigers whom necessity obliges to array
themselves in sheep's clothing, are they not the same
who, according ter their first system, scattered, where-
ever they va.Ait, robbery, devastation, horror, murder,
'and sacrilege ? Be not deceived ; the mildness with
which they now treat you resembles that by which
Nature announces to us a terrible tempest. or a deso-
lating earthquake. Ah ! should the infamous op.
'pressor succeed in keeping up Your illusion, the day
will soon arrive when, exhausted by vicissitudes, with-
out strength eind without hope, you will know too well
that he has t n'y preserved you for a sacrifice. Then
you shall See yourselves reduced to a herd of slaves,
victims of your credulity and want of foresight, to i
whom there will no longer be either national repre-;
sentation or laws, or country, or religion, or customs.
You will be led as wild beasts through every corner I
of the world, to serve as instruments to the insatiable i
ambition of a monster, who regards the human species
as destined to be the humble footstool only to the
throne of his greatness ; and sometimes, among the
number of those against whom your arms will be di-
rected, you will find your friends, your brothers, even
your fathers, and your dear unfortunate sons.
Asturians, see here the result which the enemy ex-
pects from your credulity and his delusive snares !
Will you staffer him longer to flatter himself with such
hopes ? Ah ! fly, fly, I. entreat you, from the deceit-
ful song of this syren, whose only aim is to sink you
into an abyss of misfortune. Trust not, for a moment
her deceitful promises, nor consider those barbarians!
in any other light than they deserve, the destroyers
of the human rice. Endeavour only to annihilate cr •
to expel them from your territory, and from the Pe-1
ninsula, in which sacred and patriotic object we all
severally can and ought to co-operate. The vigorous
youth will fulfil their duty by hastening to unite
themselves with the illustrious defenders.of the coun-
try,. who, overcoming :ill obstacles, have for so long,
a time pursued, harassed, and consumed the forces
of the enemy which oppress the province : the rich
.and powerfal (unless they wish to lose every thing);
by geaereusly devoting to the wants or the country;
veliatevei surplus they have remaining, after the sup- I
;sly of their necessities ; the wise and learned men,
distinguished by their information and knowledge, by
communicating toalie public their enlightened viewsti
by
.correcting opinion, and hit orming the people of 7
their true interests; in short, the venerable ecclesiastics,
the old and feeble, the fair sex, and all those that are ,
absolutely incapable of bearing arms, will fulfil not i'
les their duty to the country by imploring the aid oil
OsisreoTExce in behalf of cur independence, and in
promoting that holy reform of life and manners in
which we aught to place all our confidence.
Asturians, in the name of tl)e legitimate Govern-
, mein, I exhort you to this heroic resolution. The
Superior Junta offers you whatever assistance is in
il their power to promote your success, and wall not 1
I fail to recommend your several seivices to the Save. I,
reign Authority. Cheerfully obey it, and those il-
lustrious Chiefs who direct you, that under their pa-
t ternal auspices, and by means cf your own active es-
.ertions, you may effect the extinction of every one of]
those vile hypocrites who infest your soil, intreatinil
you to hilieve• that lizaarstx, nqw the declared Pro- 1
tector of our cause, will one day abundarktly reward