Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-08-16

Jaoss :. awakened from the iethargy INTO
, ,. respect for the governmen thad ptung-
ed her. and rises to resist the lnsupPortapic
.-oLe vbich it IS Intended to place upon her
neck. We shall see heroic atchieyements'
glorious actions, tyranny rePened, SPAN
fr;nmphant. altho at the expence OF great
and painful sacrifices, and the Spanlards
bannr under the Just and mild sway Of Their
rightful monarch.
Never hadwe more important or more
interesting intelligence to announce to TIC
nutlic: and the quantity of it willobligens
20 publish extra numbers Of this paper we
hea; ,,ss TO-DAY with the establishments OF the
SUPREME Council Ounta) of government
constituted at Seville, which has given an
impulse to the other provinces Of the king
dom.
(Here follows an ediet which has hereto
fore been published. The Havanna paper
then proceeds
The Supreme Council (Junta) of go
vernment has communicated to the council
of this city, the following Proclamation;
SPANIARDS 81
Seville could not resist the impulses OF Its
heroic loyalty, Of which it has given an ex-
ample in all ages. The king to whom it
had sworn allegiance and whom it had re-
ceived with unprecedented JOY, has been
carried off. The fundamental laws OF the
monarchy have been trampled upon, the
wealth, tie customs, the females, and every
thing dear to the nation are threatened, our
holy religion, our only hope, it lis about to
perish, or be reduced to a vain formality,
and is without support and protection, and
all this is the work of a foreign power, not
effected by the force of arms, but by de-
ceit, by perfdy, making instruments OF our
selves, and perpetating these atrocities by
the means of those very persons who are
called heads OF our government, and who
have not scrupled, either from depravity,
from vile fear, or perhaps from other causes
which time and justice will discover, to sa-
crihce their country. 1t was then become
Indispensable necessary to break those strong
ties which inpeded the Spaniards from a
rising and displaying that generous ardour
with which in all ages they have covered
themselves with glory and defended the ho-
nor Of the nation, their laws, their monarchs
and their a...liginr,- 1919
Tii,., inhabitants of Seville then assembled
on the 9th Max, and with the assistance Of
/ ali the magistrates and persons IN authority
convened, and OF the most respectable per-
sous of ali classes, created ibis supreme
council (junta) of government, invested it
! with Il, Their nou-esc, and ordered 1t to de-
| ffsnu religion, the nation, the laws and the
king. We accept SO sacred trust, we
swear to perform it, and We rely upon the
efforts of the whole nation. We began by
again prcclaiming and swearing allegiance
to our king don Fernando VII, and yowing
to die in his defence. and this was the shout
Of ioy and of union, aud will be so through
out Spain.
"A council of gcvernmsnt scarcely formed
when it violated the most sacred laws of the
| monarchy: a president appointed without
authority, and who if he once had right,
| fastened 10 lose it, besides his foreign birth,
which according to the las was an obstacle
to his being president, a conduct always YER
satile, and which tended to destroy the mo-
narchs themselves from whom he received
his. authority, and the laws which alone
rnusd give him power, could not nor ought
o5lige us to repress our loyalty, still less to
break the sacred obligation which we have
contracted as Spaniards, as subjects, a.
Christians, as men free and independent OF
al foreign authority.
:. 8 III
| Still less could the authority Of the first
tribunal of the nation, the council of Cas-
! tile, detained us. Its weakness has been
made apparent by the uncertain and neon
sistent measures which it has taken at this
Juncture, the most important to the nation
that has ever occurred, and in which it ought
to have shewn the heroic hrmness TO which