The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-16
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SE.NlLLE.
TO TIE PORTUGUESE.


Your tate has been perhaps mere severe
than has been suffered by any people on
earth.
"Your kings forced to fly from you, and
the same which has happened To Spain is an
irrefragahle proof of the absolute necessity
under which they (the kings) did it, You
have been ordered not to ticIend yourselves,
and YOU have not defended. Junot offered
tomake you happy, and your happiness has
been. to be treated with more crueity than
the most ferocious conSucrors have used lieo-
pie whom they have subdued by force of arms,
and af;e; q NEST obstinate resistance.
You have been deprived of Your kings,
your lands. nsa.ses, customs, goods, lbcrty,
OF life itself and Of that holy religion which
Your enemies have never respected, but
whicA according to their custom, they have
promised to protect, and have even feigned
to practice themselves. Your nobility has
been annihiated, Your goods have been con-
fiscated, as a punishment for your fidelity &c
loyalty.
.. You have been dragged vilely to foreign
regions, and you have been forced to becon,e
PROSTATE atthesfeet OF that which has caused
you SO many evils, which by the most terri
BILE pertdy has usurped your empire, and
rules you with an iron sceptre. Already
your troops have passed your borders, and go
chained to die in defence of that which has
oppressed you, of that which follows a spirit
profoundly wicked TO destroy those which
ought to be your strength. and make them
starve with their lives, 10 their triumphs. and
to that ferocious glory to which they aspire.
Spain has seen, between grief and desperate
on, your. servitude, ami AL the horrible evils
which have followed it. Ye are her brothers.
and pant to fly to our succour. But some
chiefs, government, either weak or corr,iD-
ted, has arrested it, and prepared the means
by which the ruin OF our king, of onr laws,
our independence, cur liberty, our lives, the
same holy religion which unites US, that all
should accompany your own destruction
and by which that barbarous people might
accomplish triumph. and the slavery of the
rest of Europe. Our loyalty, our generosity,
cur justice, could nor safer wicledness so
atrocious they have broken the restraint.
Let us go to fight We have armies. and
chiefs, and there is but one cry throughout
Spain-Io de aNin offence Of Lie country,
6nt also 20 make those Uiie enemies 10 fall with
as.
" Come tben, generous Portuguese, tounite
yourselves to Spain. to die for the couGtry-
Its standards expects you, and will receive
You with glaaness as brothers UNANIMOUSLY OPP
pressed. The cause of Portugal and of Spain
is the same. ponot fear our trGops their
desires are the same as your own--and with
their arms aud forces, you may reckon upon
security.
Within yourselves you have an object
for yo1r vengeance. Do not obeY the authors
OF your calanities: Attack them. They are
handful of dismayed wretches, and alrea-
| dy varqnished by the yerg rcrGdies and cru
elites which they haye committed; and in the
eyes of Europe, and of the whole world, they
are covered with disgrace.
Rise in mass Avoid to stain V &c
seiere:!s hands "'!t!. any, ltt go,to
! fight against it, and DESTROY it, Oar forces
re-unieed, win put an cad TO tfis perhdioas
enemy--and Portugal, Spain, ali Europe, "a
gam wall breathe--or viii die free, and as
men
! Portuguese your country is net yet lost
unless that it has been only delayed.--U-
mite, and fly "to re establish s. o save it 70
"SEy1LLE, S0th May, 1905"