The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-24

iscsty, whose carriages were coming to CON
scy his majesty 10 the palace OF Marac:
this accordingly took place. The emperor
came as far us the Coach steps to receive
his majesty, embraced him again and led
him by the hand to the apartmentprovided
for him.
The king had no sooner returned to hiss
Residence, when gen. Savary waited on his
majesty to inform him that the emperor had
irrcvocably determined that the Bourbon
dynasty should no longer reign in Spain !;
that 1t should be succeeded by his-and
therefore his imperial majesty required that
the king should in his own name and that
OF all his family, rcnounce the crown of Spain
and ths Indies, in favor of the DYNASTY OF
Bonaparte.
=" 1t would be difficult to describe the sur
| prize with which the royal mind Of his ma
! jcsty was affected, and the Consideration
with which ali those who we're nearest 10
his person were struck at hearing such pro-
| position. His majesty was not vet recover
:, ed from the fatigues of Il toilsomc journey,
when the same man who had made him so
many protestations of security at Madrid
and On the road, who had drawn him from
his capital and his kingdom to Bayonne on
pretence OF adjusting matters of the great
est Importance to both States, and of his be-
| ing recognised by his imperial majesty, had
the andacity to be the bearer of so scandal
Gus proposal.
| g On the following day. was sent for bv
the emperor toihis royal palace, where found
the minister OF foreign afAirs, NJ. Cham
pagny, waiting TO enter upon discussion of
the proposals verbally stated by general Sa-
vary. Instantly complained of the perhdy
with which so important an affair was pro-
| ceedcd in; representing that the king my
master, came to Bayonne relying on the as
| suranccs given by gen. Savary, in the name
! OF the emperor, and in the presence of the
dukes del lnfantado, S. Carlos, ID. Juan Es-
ciquez, and myself, that his imperial majes-
ty would recognise him at the very first in
terview between the two sovercigns. in the
imperial palace of Marac; that when his
majesty expected to witness the realization
OF this promised recognition. he was sur
prised with the propositions above alluded
to; and that his majesty had authorised me
to protest against the violence done to his
person, in not permitting him to return to
Spain; and as a categorical and final an
swer to the solicitation of the emperor, that
| the king neither would nor could renounce
his crown in favor of another dynasty, with
out being wanting in the duties which he ow-
| ed to his subjects and TO his own character
that he could not do so in prejudice to the
individuals of his own family, who were cal
| led to the succession by the fundamental
laws of the Kingdom, and much less could he
consent to the establishment of another dy-
nasty, which ought alone to be called to the
chrome by the Spanish nation, in virtue of
their original right to elect an other family
upon the termination of the present dynasty.
| g" The minister of foreign affairs insisted
on the necessity of the remuneration WHICH
had been proposed, and contendcd that the
! abdication signed by Charles the WITH, on
the 10Th of March, had net been voluntary.
" expressed my surprise that the king
should be importuned to rem ounce his crown,
at the same moment that it was asserted
that the Remuneration of his father was not
his free act. / wished however not to be
understood as entering into such discus
sion, as could not acknowledge the smallest
authority in the emperor to intermediate
with matters which were purely domestic,
and peculiarly belonging to the Spanish gov
eminent following in this respect the cx-
ample of the cabinet of Paris, when it re-
jected as inadmissibe the supplcations of
his majesty, the royal father, in favor of his
ally and first cousin the unfortunate Louis
XVI
ITO be continued