The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Tile subjoined Orders of SOUL? (Duke of Du.-
v 1.04) and tho annezed retaliating orders of the
it 4 ner, hare been publiAcd by command of the

Litter.
Di Blys de Amnia, Counsellor of State of his
Ca:holic Ntajoty, Wird Commissary, Prefect of
this Province, 84,-. ilia Excellency tip. Marshal of
he Empire, Drake a( Dalmatia, has transmitted to
ale the fulluNing orders, dated the 7th :
The state of the South of spain imperiously re.
quires tbst rigorous ineasurashould be adopted to
roevara;e respectable people, and destroy those
feint's bawls who endeavour to excite in this un.
I.ingibn all the horrors of civil war : it is
.herelire become necessary, in consequence of this
,tale of a train, to rigidly enforce the following ot.

I 3 every place *here a civic guard is not organized, and
where it is cuovequentiv orressary to station Imperial troops to
maintain peace and prevent disorders, the pay of the said
troops, during the time they may remain in such cantonments,
is to be discharged by the iuhabitunts, are taoreover
humid to supply them with the mai articles of subsistence.
U.

'Whatever may he the nature of any crime committed to
diitriet, the lahet,imnts snail be obliged to pay the value of
the .lA6 prope.ty t find in addition thereto, an extraordinary
war contribution snail be imposed on them.

fill diattirrs that organize a civic guard, or volanteer coat-
paste', for toe 'malice of protecting the public establisbmeots,
tranquillity, and repressing robbery, shall be
taccupt from this iturtnen apd penalty.
IV.

All the Inhabitants of a district are respnisible ias mass for
.the safety aud preservation of the public funds, as *ell as the
/oval trea:ucei .416 u:,: it, therefore, happen that the districts
eager thi► propert) to be carried off by robber., they shall be
litiordiatel% amerced in a ,um triple the value of the btoVe
'property. Tae same penalty shall be Inflicted on persons who
themselves to be robbed, and they shall moreover be
hie to the regulations contained in the Ist article.
V.

Distrito that furnish assistance to the bands of robbers, whe•
ther in men, horses, beasts of barthrn, pruvisious or forage,
or it btch suffer term to be carried off, shall be obliged to pay
tato die Roynl Trets,ury shire times the value of the artieles
So supplied, and shall be broiled before a tribunal to be tried
th, laws against such persons as give assistance in any way
to rubbers, and agalost Ilse families of those who attach them-
rho to such bands.

VT.
Na 4peeies of indemnity will be received for the pains and
penali,e. contained in the foregoing articles, unless the inhabi.
tants shall prove that they resisted. and that they were obliged
to yield to a superiority of force, which MA ,a all cases ex-
teed half tar population.

vu.

Ihriuld It happen that a district is sorprisedby a consideraide
cumber of rubbers, and that its force is obt sufficient to repel
time, the magistrato are enjoined to adopt afi possible means
of snaking it kaolin to the troops in the nellibbinsring ditancts,
who,se soeo as they are apprized of it, as. tillliareb without
delay, to th assistance of the district' thitt areitlpeitod ; but
Should there be the least neglect on an', side in 11* tore.
those guilty of it &Ina be stashed. •
VIII. r Te.
The Msgistrates of every district are 'seminally responsible
?hr wailers travelling therein, and those residing In it. It Sr
'their ditty to arrest Ali persons travelling without a reviler
poison; th.ie who shall not make known their means of 11,-
t peso. s whose conduct becomes sospleious (rola making
seditious propos .Is, exciting the inhabitants to joie the hour-
gents, distributing proclamations or false intelligence, contrary
to the Government of his Most Cattho4c Majesty the ZOOK,
.Doe Joseph Napoleoo, or maintaining an understaoding nob
the rebels. The persica arrested shall be conducted. by Jae
)istgistrates to the principal t,.wn in the provincial district, and
brought before the respective tribunals? by whicl! they shall
le iunuediasely brought's° trial.
11.

There is no other Spanish arniyithan that of the King, Doo
Joseph Napoleon. Therefore nil collections of persons in the
prosioces, whatever be their number, or • ;whoever be their
leader, shall be considered only us so many gangs of robbers.
whew sole object is p!uoder and murder. Ever., one belonging
to these gangs, who is taken with arms in his hands, shall be
immediately tried by the military Prevot and shot, and his
body exposed oo the highway.

Every individual who shall arrest a murderer or robber who
is convicted of being such, shall receive a reward of 100 francs
whit!' shall be increased in proportion to the consequence of
the person arrested.
Thee are the measures which appear to ma the most effectual
for re-establishing order. They ea nowt be considered as too
severe, when it is kiln% n that the weight of them is intended to
tall upoo criminals, who have hitherto defied the ordinary
laws. The object I have in view will be partially obtained, if
the respectable classes of the community, animated by gratin
confidence, will henceforth display more energy, and S.
doing reader themselves more worthy of the approbation is!
his Most Catholic Majesty.
(Signed) The Marshal DUKE OF DALMA.TII4..
That every one may become acquainted with this, and its
one pretend ignorance of it, I have ordered it to be published,
la o►edience to his Majesty's orders, communicated by his
Eacellesey the Dakeot Dalmatia.
(Signed) BLAB DE ARANZA.
Seville/ May 9, IMO. •

ItETALIATING ORDEItS Cr THE SPANISH fife_
GENCY.
The Council of Regency of the kingdoms of
Sole And the Indies, governing these States in the
name of their King, Ferdinand VII. a prisoner,
feeling the utmost horror and indignation on read.
ing a kind of Decree, signed at Seville on the 9th
Slay, of the present year, by a lunatic, calling
himself the Du4ie of Dalmatia, and published by a
thgeoerate Spaniard of the name of alas de Aranzat
could have forthwith adopted measures against a'
proceeding offensive to the brave deft:infers of their
iteligien, their King, and their cetutttry, if they
stolid have conceived that the articles of this
sanguinary Decree were intended to be put in
force: bat, as experience has nut left the least
doubt on this point. the Council of Regency
feels itself nutlet the necessity of departing from
the boom's of that sober conduct, inapired till
ikia moment by their own noble sentiments,
Old UM" of th maguanistious nation that has

placed them it its head, whose dignity it considers
to have heen grossly insulted; and considering how
improperly the epithets of robbers and murderers
are applied, by which the said Duke of Dalmatia,
and the French Marshals and Generals, attempt to
justify the unexampled horrors which they commit
in countries they have unjustly attacked, and the
denaturalisation of the small number of Spanish
wretches, who, by assisting such robbers, flatter
themselves they shall be able to complete their
perfidious plan of usurpation, by means revolting
to humanity, have ordered that the following arti-
cles be observed and put in execution :

I.

They renew the declaration of the Central Junta on thet3th
March in last year; to wit, that every inhabitant of Spain,
capable of bearing arms, is a soldier of his country, because,
in cm+equence of the measures already taken, every Spaniard
is obliged to take up arms against the brigands who infest the
Peninsula, and join the armies, the flying corps, the detach-
ments, or Guerrillas; acting together or separately, or compos-
ing thecerps of reserve or garrisons.

If on Ole arrival of she national troops in any district they
shall find there a body, calling itself the Civic Guard, ap-
pointed oy "the Usurper Joseph, the commanders of battalions
and other superior officers of suet guard shall be immediately
taken before the next justices; and in case the nntional troops
have been fired on, the chief or chiefs who ordered it shall be
brought before a council of war, and upon couvictioo shall bo
.punisbed accordiug to t►e magnitude of their offence.

111.
The Corregitiora, Alcides, Justices, dtc., of districts, Who
throng'i fear of the French •hall refuse to facilitate supplies of
pros isionsor,assistaace to the national troops, shall be punished,
we,l as the inhabitants, for any charges substantiated against
them. _

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1 v.
The Justices of districts, and the officers consmanding corps
or parties, are ordered to arrest every passenger nho,shall he
• found bearing the orders of the intrusive Government, or Whe
"shall represent himself as authorised by such Government to
I make requisitions of provisions or any other articles; he shall
be conducted to the next post occupied by the &Wood troops
, to be there tried and punished..r.
For every fipaniard proved to have been sturdered In obe-
dicr..e to the before•mentioned Decree of the Duke of Dal-
matia, the first three Frenchmen taken in arms shall be hanged
without fail.
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