The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-19


the monarchy in favor of a foreign prince 10
be circulated and obeyed; an act most ev,-
IDENTITY Illegal and void for want OF power in
him whonade it, since the monarch. was .ot
his, nor is Spain composed OF creatures sub
jeCt to the arbitrary will of him WAC govern
ed us, and had come to his throne ,, the righ;
of blood as he himself acknowledges, and nv
the fundamental laws OF the mOna+ch which
prescribe invariably hereditary sucCesSia f,
and over which the Council has So pnWt i,
but is under sacred DBL gator TO tienlh4
their observance. Void, because Ut the state
OF violence and oppression in which il was
made, greater and more evident than tn 70
which he attributes his abd!cation. Noia, be-
cause the renupciaiions WHICH have been
Published of the king Fc, diuard tue seventh.
and of his uncle and bcu her, supp0sing t'em
to be genuine, are made in the same state of
violence, and were extorted as the rerunci-
| ations themselves expressly declare. Void,
because many of the ro,ai family who have
| claim to the monarchy, nave renowned it,
and to preserve it entire-Added 70 a.! this
the horrible perfdY which has been made
use of, and with which ,he Spanish nation
has been mCcked. To cur alba &c and sd
crihces that natcn owes ali lis Wanted tri-
umphs: 1t has obtained oar valiant troops
Conducted them to the most distant countries,
causes them to fight far her interests, with
! out necessity as is wei, known, and for the
| purpose Overwhelming us and depriving us of
those forces Her armies then enter Spain,
always protest;pg their object to be our hap
piness under the pfctc>t # undertakings a
gainst the enemy, OF which they no longer
speak. The people, with generous spirit,
oppose the departure of their king with which
that nation ought to have been pleased, and
| Far from this, preserves a naughty silence res
pecting that departure, & still more, make,
1T a reason to Cypress us. She Supp0ses divi-
sions in the nation, and there is, nor has there
ever been any 80 united in loving and defen-
ding their king. She entiCes the latter by
| deceittul language to her territory i; with
generosity of which perhaps there is no ex-
ample, the King believes them, throws him
! self into their arms, and with a perfdy of
which no nation has anv vestige IL IT'S annals,
she makes him a prisoner, treats him dsres-
lpectfuly, and compels him to commit errors
which all Europe has seen with consterna IL
on, and every Spaniard with the greatcst
grief; by the same treachery she occasions
his royal parents to enter her dominons, and
obiges them to perform actions illegal, IN
Just, and which dishonor their august names,
both at present and to the latest postcritv
She makes prisoners of the other royal per-
sons, even of those whose tender age would
have been an inviolable protection even a
mong the most barbarous nations
The Emperor convokes the nation to his
presence: he chuses such deputies as he
thinks proper: he arbitrarily deSignatcs the
mode of electing others to treat iii foreign
country respecting the most sacred concerns
ot the nation, when he himself has publicly
censured as criminal and contrary to the
rights of sovereignty, aprivatc and respect
full letter written to him by Ferdinand VII.
when he was PriHce, to wife which he was
perhaps instigated by the foreigner who now
prctends to imputc it to him as a crime-It
is in fact crime and an act of rebellion in
an independent nation to obev a foreign Prince
and to discuss in his presence and under his
cOntroul her most important interests, and
lSeville, nor no Spaniard will ever be so lost
1 to shame and so destitute OF Loyalty as to COM
NIT such manifest and atrocious rebellion
| even slaves would not be capable of staining
themselves by conduct vile and Infamous.
| He has taken a Thousand unworthy means
| to deceive us I; he daily dsseminates setliti-
GUS libels to mislead public opinion, in which
processing respect to the laws and religion,
he tramples upon, ridicules, and insults both !;
he omIts no means however infam Gus to place
| upon our necks an iron yoke and make us his
Slaves; his audacity and falsehood have ri
sen to such degree as even to publish in one
OF his journals that he is united with and
favored by the Supreme POntItf and Vicar of
Jesus Christ, when it is notorious and Eu-
rope and even barbarous nations who have
respected his dignity, know, that he holds
him i'll a state of the most heavy oppression A;
he has despoiled him of his estates he has
caused his cardinals to leave him, as the Pore
himself states by violence alone, and for the
purpose of preventing him from exercising
the direction and government of the whole
church, which the Pope possesses by author
ity and command of our Divine Savioar Jesus
Christ.
SPANIARDs: all this impcriously calls up
on us to unite and prevent such atrocions at
tempts. There is no revolution in Spain-
We declare war against no one, and We on
ly endeavour to defend what is most s,crel
against him, who under the pretext of ALI
ance and friendship has snatched it from us,
and who unless we contend with hi ~, we have
reason to fear will deprive us Of laws, of
monarchs, and Of Religion. Let us then sa-
criice every thing in so just Il cause, and if
we must lose every thing, let it be in battle
and Ike generous men.
Let us then all unite tho people through
ont Spain arc ready 20 take NJ arms let the
most intelligent men of ali the provinces be
convened, that public opinion NAV be prcser-
we'd, and t. rcfu;e tho libcls replelc with
inso'cnce and atroClous faieehoods Let us
all fight, each one in his own way, and let
TIVE Church of Spain necessarily implore the
God Of Armies, whose protection the evident