The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-02 00:00:00

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CORUNNA MAIL.

have been engaged in the wars in Spain, or who have
accepted of civil employments in the train of Rona..l
parte's army, or during the ;,?riod of the Peninsular
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CORUNNA, SEPT. 24.—On' the ?2d, General Per.
invasion. This measure deprives a great number of tier left this place to go to Santiago, In order, as we
i the privilege of entei its?: this country, and we hope heard, to quell the (Mops and pesiontry; who were
1 that the publicity of this notice will be sufficient to disposed to oppose his viewti. Yesterday it was re•
j deter persons from entering his States whom his Ma- ported, that he and 15'. Officers hid been made pri-
tjesty does not wish to receive. Somers. In consequence of this report (the truth
1 The news of the expedition entrusted to General of which Is not .it presem ascertained), a counter-
; Murillo are contradictory; we willingly doubt of revolution took place here, in which the Captain.
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the authenticity of what•does not flatter our hopes. General and the Governor of this place recovered
BARCELONA, SEPT. 18.—Our army of the right has their liberty. 'FL.. town has been put in as good a
; reentered Catalonia. Head-quarters have been fixed state of defence as circumstances will allow.
!at Mater°, a beautiful little town, situated more • -- •
!than .20 Spanish leagues .from the French frontier.-- ! M tNIFEsto. A
The Insalubrity of Lompourdan at this season, has Addressed to the Spanish nation by the Provincial
ceased us to take up cantonments so far from our , Junta of the kingdom of Gallicia, of which is
i line, and the happy undeistanding that subsists be-' President the Marshal de Camp Don Jt! sm Drcz
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1 t ween the Cabinets of Madrid and Paris renders such i Pograza, General Commandant of the Inttuior of
' a measure very safe. We already know that several the Kingdom:—
divisions of our army have executed a retrograde 46 SPANIARDS !—After six years of a glorious and
movement into the interior. The first has arrived at obstinate struggle to support the independence of the
Mataro ; the Captain;General, Cuteness, is expected nation, and its honour, which was outraged in the
there forthwith. ; person of its Chief; after immense sacrifices, loss of

VENICE, SEPT. 12.—Several persons attached to property, and the shedding of so much Spanish
his Austrian Majesty have already arrived here.— blood, we have chaced the enemy who sought to
Orders have been given to put the Imperial Palace in Subjugate us, we have driven him from our .oil, end
a condition for receiving his Majesty. The fund- obtained the re-establishment of the Throne of oar
ture is entirely renewed, as it was necessary to Monarch, we have recovered and maintained the
destroy all the signs and emblems of the late Govern- splendour of the nation, we have made our name re-.
went. ' spected, and secured our independence, the first
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The Palaces Contarini, Manfrini,and several others object of every people that ♦alues Its dignity, and
upon the Great Canal, have been engaged for dif- desires to preserve and transmit it ensollied to pos.
ferent personages, whom the stay of his Majesty will terity. Not contented with defending, at the hexer&
attract to our city. of our lives, the land of our birth, we .sought to
The Civil Council have voted 1,500,000 Venetian secure its prosperity for the future by solid instint-
livres for defraying the fetes and rejoicings which the Lions, re-establish our ancient rights-, remove the
city proposes to exhibit on this solemn occasion. obstacles which impede and obstruct the fountains of
It is believed that his Majesty, in order to furnish,' public wealth, and secure to all classes of the State
a proof of the special protection with which he ho- the security of their persons and property, and the
flours commerce, will renew the ceremony of the free exercise of their industry and their talents.
marriage of Venice with the Sea, celebrated in the I . " While our valiant warriors were giving to the
days of the Republic. Several vessels are construct- world bright examples of courage and constancy,
ing in the arsenal to be employed in this fete. ; our Legislators assembled in the Cortes with full
The city proposes to present to ber Majesty the powers, delegated by ourselves, deliberating OR the
Empress, twenty fathoms of golden chain, of work- reforms which the situation of the State required,
manship superior to any that has hitherto been seen. had wisely laid the foundations of our felicity, by
M. Mafrini has been charged with the making of it. uniting in one constitution our ancient rights and
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PARMA, Seer. 15.—An order has been given to berties; forgetten and trodden under foot in the
the Commandants of the fortresses of this Duchy to lapse of time, and seeking by other wise decrees to
Observe constant residence, under the penalty of relieve from the heavy yoke of odious and unjust
being considered as giving in their resignations, and privileges the unhappy labourer, the honest mechanic,
of being superseded. the industrious manufacturer; and to give life and
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motion to the nation, by increasing its commerce and
its prosperity. Warned by the lessons of experi-
ence, persuaded that the good will, and the moo ex-
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cellent intentions of the best Kings are insullicieut,
since, when alone, and without support, they are
wont to be the sport of perverse Counsellors mud
Wicked favourites, they would not have the Mo-
narchy again become the prey of new Olivareses end
Godoys, but that founded upon stable laws, conform-
able to our ancient usages, and to the progress which
the science' of Government has made in Europe, the
security cad the felicity of the State might be recon-
ciled with those of individuals, anti the rights of in.
dividuals with the prerogatives attached to the person
of the King.
" Such, Spaniards, are our desires ; our deputies,
the faithful organs of them, secured them by means
of wise decrees, which we have all of us sworn he.
'fore God and man to fulfil and to obey ; thus con-
firming our rights, giving new strength to these or
the Monarch, and recognising the holy religion of
our fathers as the only religion of the State. in the
midst of the disgusts which the misfortunes of a de-
solating war Must occasion, in the midst of the op-
position which the reform of abuses must produce,
we have enjoyed internal tranquillity; no parties
have arisen to revolutionize the State ; no proscrip.
• lions to alarm and afflict families; calm and cote-
! posed we began to enjoy the fruits of rational liberty,
and we felt only that gentle and agreeable motion
winch is the life of nations, so that our independence
being secuted by the valour and the efforts of our brave
soldiers, and cisil 'liberty confirmed by the repla-
tints and decrees of our Cortes, nothing was now
• wanting to our wishes and our hopes but the return
of our captive Monarch; by that the nation avenged
the insults it received• rrom a foreign Power, with
that our illustrious warriors hoped for the recom.
pence of their services, and the execution of so many
decrees of the Cortes in their favour, and to which
their exploits gave them so just a title; with that re.
turn, the good hoped that the Executive Power tic.
quiring the energy which it ought to possess, and
which only a King •can give it, every deviation
might he avoided, which the Spanish revolution
might have suffered in time, by consolidating
the reforms adopted, and making those variations
which experience and the situating of Spain and of
other nations might show to be necessary. NVe were
in daily hopes of this happy event. At length King
Ferdinand entered our territory, directing his steps
to Madrid, amidst the benedictions of the good, who
hoped every moment to hear of his entrance into his
capital, where, in union with our Deputies, they
thought they already saw him employed on the feli-
city of his subjects, confirming some decrees, giving
other new ones, and altering those o birh, by common
consent, it should be thought necessary to modify or
Changli • they despised the reports that were soon
cirufated; that the King did not swear to the Con-
stitution, nor approve of any thing that had beon
done during his absence ; they attributed this to the
bad intentions of interested persons, and though they
saw the King surroontled by those whose folly, or
treason, had drawn him to Bayonne, p1vc...1 boo its
the hands of his enemies, and delivered up the sta.
tion to all the evils of anarchy ; they believed that,
; instructed by the severe lesson which experience had

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f;"11 1.;"1, he WOUlti not suffer Malian' to be rrtklegi.
by L. ot.:,:11:01, and ; groicigros CoilosolIori; but the
infitreggce %hid: tiger hagi exert-keg! oter Iris
trait; fr•ger Lip iat'arwy, hat iggg more I).)%ser over !liar,
Ire Igs•eg.e.l Igg Vgiqvi anew, again fo!!gru Pal their coun-
sels, agg;l aide theca rt4gtio p!urrgeti the maim) anti
himself into an abysa of misfortgraes, such as ue, so
nruch at our expeucc, have felt for above a year.

" From these wretched Ceueeellois Itrti.'l•Pllt'll the
decrees for the sleet roetieit of the Ceetee; eel term
liteetre. etablielsnieut of all kinds of abtoee ; from
then, cents the persecution of our Deputies, of so
▪ hese erttiliers, fan meny tverthy Steeatirde;
fleet them t,ie disorder ,1 our fieetiees, the neglect
PIA the tii7sery of out 591die.e, th • pnt.lic side of em-
..ployetecits; aced front Ili ; r .'lo't, the debleement
sof the netioli, which, iii•teed of fete% tespected and
Cct somerl. t= i•e se r;rives iheeive, is degraded and
,pieed by ell Enrop
• • These few, b'it decenerate `,ranintde, biz years
ago, prostituted theeeelse; to the oppre•eor 'of their
.eountry, übateloned titter !elite, and tialepled tinder
f,'ut their most sacred duties. Anxious for *Penh
• heaoure, they recognised him who offered ur
:secured there to them, I louked down with coo.
tempt upon thoee Speniatil•, who, at :Wilt id and in
ail the provinces, raised the cry II indeormilence.—
They made inveterate war upon them is the begin-
7ning, and did not j(1111 their banners till, ileepailing
:of thsecause they had embraced, they believed it was
a means to retain their salaries amid their employ.
trnents ; faithless to all, they retained their enmity
a :td oppoeil:ritt only to these whit, front the be 'l'M-
enne, had sought to defend the national cause. A!.
most all those who surrounded nod counselled the
King at Valencia, almost all thuee nho surround at :I
-guide him now are of this 'lees; they possess the :lee(
1/laces of the state; and those very persons, who, in
-1808, were named by the intrusive Guverntmeit to
tales the insurrection its the provinces, compete a
!part of the tribunals appointed to judo the patriots,.
that is, many of these who, at that time, nourished
im the protitices the sacred flame ;'f pate iotism. Alas!
history does not present us any parallel.
" Against such insults, such crime* as have been
committed in this year, the Spaniards, would have
tong since raised a dreadful cry, such as they did to
defend their itidepentlence, had they not been pru.
alert and composed, and lovers of their country,
•preferred, before they exposed it to new convulsions,
seeking every method of conciliation, hoping that
their King, undeceiving himself, would be the first
to. change his conduct, to chastiee his perverse
Counsellors, and to preserve in fact and without
eteitt, the opinion of so many good Spaniards, so
einjosely persecutes!.
" hn vain we hate hoped for a whole year ; in vain
bait a 1 Europe disapproved the conduct of the CA.
tbitiet of Madrid ; in saio have several Princes re-
toretsttetted against the inipelicy of its proceedings,
acid the injustice of persecuting so mnny illustrious
erttrites ; iu vain have many Spaniards ventured to
apeak truth to the King ; the first have not been at-
tended to, notwithstaudine the respect due to such
respectable Allies, and the ethers have been perse-
cuted. To sack a degree have they got possession.
the.person of the King, (het they do not itet mit Han
to listen to rerneostrattees a so much wei4lit, that
they du not allow hie• time ID Iva 'Ct Ou the falsehood
pf their asses lions. They telt him that the CottPs
land . the liegetr:y sought to removo hint from the
'Throne; they try to col rapt public opitliots, by
spreading a perfidious report, that there e 1 as a secret
titan to spread irreligion anti to persecute the Clergy ;
in short, they alh keels of calitrunies, which
none but men so pet verse es themselves could pos-
sibly conceive. A year ha; passed ; the Govern-
snout has been its their hands; the Deputies, the
Members of the Itee,ency, the persons et horn they
.es kit to ciluenniate, base been surprised in the night,
they have been able to discover their secrets, to un-
fold their machinatiens, and vet nothing has been
leusid but proofs of their preLityantl their virtues ; all
Spain is convinced of this truth ; what gieater proof
ran there be than their owe jedgments and sentences,
and in respect to pa title ale! ie irate sights, how illegal
Bud moustrous at e all their proceedings; iuwhich tee
very laws of the patty they pretend to follow, are trod-
den under foot, in which the accused are not permitted
to defend themselves peisotiallye in which all juilg.
Melds are sommaeily decided, many of the Judges
being at the swine time accusers and witnesses, who,
fseeningimpeachnietits for what they themselves or-
dered to be executed in the time of the Cortes, have
given to the world a new unheard-of example of in-
justice and atrocity. So many deserting and re-
apectable men; so many priests, venerable for their
;jet ues and dignities, so many officers of reek, cover-
ed with wounds and illustrious by their services,
now loaded wieh chains and thrown into dungeons,
serve to satitte the rage of their infamous persecutors, -
who delight in their misery, and hope to destroy
them by torments and affliction. And for what ? Spa. ;
piarele! what are their crimes? Their having sougitt
to make us happy. If they are criminals we are all
so : we have given our full poems, we have acknow-
ledeetl and approved al! that the Cortes have clone::
tie it Deputies hail no object but the prosperity of
Sip& ; their decrees prove it : the Catholic religion
was declared tile only religion of the State; the privi-
leees of its mieisters stele preserved ; care wastoken of
the soltlierv; dis(loielints were 1;4E41 them ; decrees
were passed to div;do lands among them as soon as
peace should he established; institutions for invalids
were formed, and notwithstanding; the [timely of i
the State, from its territory being for the most part
occupied by the enemy, (luting the most of the tune,
the soldier was much less neglected than he has'
since hett, itotwithstieeline the peace and the deli-
vereece of the I'etri:lslla. The peasant was relieved
from frosty burdens and gabcfles which oppressed
him ; the ma nefacturer was freed from many ridicu- ;
lone reviAlions aro) privileges; the merchant cOuld
traffic and snake his speculations at liberty, need with-
nut those in:lent...is formalities which the liscel eys-
tem had introduced ; the creditor of the State hoped I
to see himself covered for the advances he had made;
its short, all was acquiring a new life, and the nation
Would. have been recompensed for its sulteringe nod
ies less's, if the road poieted out by the Cortes had
been followed. But how different is that which lass ,
the results.—
and how different also are
been•taken,
Notwithstanding a yell's peace and tronquilll.ey,
cif
fittancesare in a worse state than ever, pub ic erica
is null) the brave defenders of the country are na.