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seen displayed among the mast maxims and encbentin
images of the author of the Martyrs and of the Genius.'
of l'Aristoonity ?" IN it a cri-ne, that a valiant youti s.
wit:ise hands shone the arm of his country—that country,
.otich be hail traversed Gout CA!), Finisterre to the
boltimas of Hercules, from the Ilidiessoa to the Tagus hear.
• Pie the cries of discontent, and seeing the misery, disorder,
rensi—steermulation into which the immorality and the in.'
eaeiable avarice of the evil connsellera of Ferdinand had
• unhappily sunk her—is it ao inexpiable crime, I say, that
• be should have raised his voice on. the banks of the Oar.
• delete, and • exclaimed to his :compatriots " Ferpinand it
. yonr King ! Ferdinand is not a tyrant ! fear nu' to repeat
the echo of tuna CabrZaS; let that sound reach his ears and,
. Spain will he happy, and Ferdinand behold himself sue-
rounded by his vhildren !" Oh! shall deeds of valour, of:
' humanity, of safferine, of constancy, and the sacrifice of
'health and of life. offered up on Omahas of his country to
' ameliorate the condition of his fellow citizens—actions
which constitute the prominent feature of horo sm,
• Fe•hlotttel out from among the names of the social
virtues', and •pl teed in a black catalogue of crimes ?
• • The 'word wle.ch becalm a national trbeiy, and which was
itelemnly decreed to belong to the people alone—the hymns
.'which were heart b,y joyful Andalusia, and resounded on the
• henget-the Ebro slid the Minho, afterwards repeated with
sseprobstion on those of the tteine, the Thames, the Danube,
. . and the kiha--the patriot soldier., who thrice refused to be
...pinied with *hi <etch of the °ewers!: with which it pleased his
• Aleoarch to remunerate him, as eiell as to nominate him his
LI • • Rid-de-Crep—the heed, which was decorated with the civic
crowns ot .the gllre and the rose, presented to him by an en-
. reptured people, fillaCwitti the enthusiasm of the purest plea-
sure ; willthis twoid,leislc, be converted (as now sn madly
. cud auderiensly some pretend), in the pages of severe history,
. • . • tete the bloody itsirger of a men destroying rebel? Will these
':'patriotic hymns be changed into the bite rrrrr castes of ironical
!.ties..' smogs; and will the sevens forehead of a virtuous man, who
• deserved of his King and country thetitleof their best servant,
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• . te traduced as rile and treachmtoss
Let, Sir. his destiny be whatever !leaven may please—let it
• spelt that may draw upon his devoted head all the unbridled
• pesslons of.a' pernicious policy—of bloodthirsty vengeance,
' - • and of the insatiable hatred of fanaticism—yet never shell the
sifters of Riego be converted into crimes, and never will the
• Govermosnr of Prance be able to wash away the stain, which
small for ever cover it. should they allow a General, whom the
Prent4terme had detested in thatfield in which he foeght tinder
seeerders of Ids king, denying to bias the rights of a prisoner
• 9f war, to fejt a sicrifice to 'senile passions—passions which, •
fif not repressed, sill 'reinitiate in Against% even to their foun-
. detloes,lhe legitimate thermos of nil existing dynasties.
• The perf of the Canon Meg°, out accustomed to write
'Upon tenViers of state, delineates upon paper the sentiments
-•••-. whieb anhitate his bosom in favour of a brother, without
• Oaring to displease a Minister, whom be rawest look upon
• lA,any other. light than as a man of sense, an enlightened
!'s p7ditssopher, and a profound writer. Were he, however,
allowed, in advocating a cause which he is so much
' • rested in pleading, to mix some political consideration.,
holy many could be not present to the superior understand-
ing of the-sagacious Minister, calmilated to prevail upon
trim to exert all his infloence in thertebinet of his most
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••fltristiito Majesty taiare the Preach Government from such
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..ifearmoos disgraces. and to acquire to himself the glory of
-..• . ttie action as just as it is humane.
What greatelpenislement—what more cruel sufferings
c.lll he inflicted en Alva than the spirit destroying mdse-
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• Cote which •Most now agitate his bosom, at seeing the eon.
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" of those very men upon whose virtues, experience,
' intro/ledge, unilloolitical foresight, he had founded the hope
• . •if ilising theelltorre of his Kurg established and respected,
• AbdtlWisirvsliiirity of ad- his fellow citizens Armored and
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•P".Aad boar have his companioas in arms. who
Awisray oceaaions mixed the sacred names of religion,
, •••••• evoker. liberty, and King, with his own celebrated oar.
?-.111;at have they defended 'Of I may he allowed
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v• Mtpression) the work of Riego ? Then what greater
• . piraiihment— what more cruel sufferings -- Where
, • tbeu is the-politica reason for considering the existence of
• • Vivo as terrible ?
• lot if so many powerful reasons should not be seSirdent to
' • . Move your Exettler(ey to the performance of the action of sav-
ing/Virgo jun "Wien as noble as it is glorious), let the bitter
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• t gears ends distracted. rigid, beat sunken wife, fading away
•••••.- • .lo the dower other age with a consumptive disease, excite in
.year heart the feeli. gs of compassion, and age you to do a
'' • deed for which your name shall be blessed by generations yet
.• _amber& Oh! why was she ever separated from her mother's
• • *eroinb I.—Why did the. light of heaven ever shine upon her pale
'cheek I Sorely ant that she might live so cruelly—so barbs-
. • rctisly tormented !
• Eight end twenty days have elapsed since a wife, drowned
In teas, sad a btother agitated with a thousand inquietodes.
Wow themselves on the compassion of the Most Christian
Einttethrosgh the medium of Fettles de Pollegnae, who assured
tbeel that theltirdent prayers, by mestere( your Excellency.
owsitreach his angesat ears; but even the small consolation of
Idewhig that seep has ham the case, has never arrived to
119210..H=eir aoziety or their griefs. Lents ought to save Fiance
'--Yeeldie Ought to save Spate. An efil:cted wife end a discon-
• •aditerleother plea their trust in Chetesubrland for the sales-
; tints ofthe life of Riego.
• • " MARIA TERESA DEL RIEGO Y RIEGO,
MIGUEL DEL RIEGO, Canon of Oviedo.
. et Alfred plea, London, Nov. 14,
• • Ills tegeelleAcy the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
- Me Most Christian Majesty.
No. VIII.
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. .New Burlington Street, Sunday Morning,
Nov. 16, 1923.
e .` F9tl•4lnving received the letter which you addressed
to e)r. Secretary Canning on the 14th inst., I did not lose
• ,• - 'areseoevet in forward igg it to him, though I knew that he
c•-fl etready on his rettbn to London. •
;`• ,• • • •This Morning I received instructions from Mr. Canning
a ' •tlaiiend uff your latter to the Viscount de Chateau's, iand by
• ...' 'aspeeial miniver; Which instructions I was on the
. -point of executing, when the aritral of intelligence from •
Rail prevented me from doing so. With that intelligence
• . you are_probehly toe Well acquainted.—l bare the honour
to be, lilt, your mud obedient, bumble servant, , •.
• - , ' JOSUE PLANTAaOI6:,
the Canon, Mignel del Riego.
; • ••••'• •• • P.S.-4 rotors the latter whi.da you intended for Moo.
• =tie tlhateattlni and.
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N PAPERS ote SUNDAY AND MONDAY.
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" Att. A. Ills Exmliermy the Marshal Dote deCornegllatio
. ineopose tde mediation to get removed the sequestration,
armed for political reasons, upon the property of militia men,
oe° jettotheiindivideals .dootellisted or taking refuge in the
•'Vitas above indicated.
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"Att. I I. The Rehabs and Germans, who form part of the
*Covps that may be found. is the above places, shall be treated
'the owe es epeeist) soldlere.—Paespotts shall be granted to
'those Who msy require them.
"Aft. K. Perseus in a civil capacity, or who rosyheve ea-
ereised functions ender the Constitutional system, and all other
•fndillttleals, shall be free from any process, af-cting either
their persons or their property, on account of their
,duet, or of the opinions they may have expressed,
belay or in writing."
(remer Tea CONSTITCTTONN:
71111 paper contains the convention for
Baroelonajlestalrich, Arc. The followil
articles of imporesece :
VllO3l Tilt *TOILS.)
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" Yesterday the Mu beard Mass io his
Mareceirsii in private audience, M.
, Oseussellor of State.
Woe, who has been nominated
PI• • 'Cot the Cher. yesterday
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