Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-08-09
CHARLESTON, July 27.
HIGHLY IMpoRTANr!

ne fast sailing snip boYNEs Capt. bal.
ford, days from HAVANA, arrived isst as
we were putting our paper to press. ToI
he poliieness of Capt. TATE, Ga passen-
ger) we are indebted for the subioined
Declaration of the supreme Assembly oil
spain, against the French Emperor and
Nation.
Bonaparte, it appears through strata
gem gothic Royal Family in Spain com
posed of Charles Nth, Maria Luisa,
Ferdinand With, the Queen OF Et,nria,
and the infaoie Dan Carlos, &c. to Bay.
onne--as also by force, the Prince OF
Peace and the Infinite Don Antona.
From thence he sent part Of them to
Valenciennes, and part 10 Foniainhleau.
Mural took upon him the supreme com
mand of the kingdom, in the name OF
Napoleon; resistance was made, bot the
feeble inhabitants of Madrid were over.
Powered-great slaughter and carnage
was the issue--the guillotire was erected
numbers ofihe grandees, minis ers, and
conspicuous characters Tell victims to the
Peridy and cruelty of Mural. The whole
nation rose IN arms, breathing vengeance,
and the determination of the French race.
in Seville, Court under The tile OF the
Supreme Council of the Nation, is erect
ed; Saavedra is at the head and this il
THE only government now known or ac..
knowiedged-it has proclaimed Ferdi-
|nand With, and entered into an alliance
with England; for the moment these G..
vents were known, the British Admiral
on the station repaired to Cadiz, offered
nd
from Gibraltar, ifrequired, The French
fieet in Cadz, composed of six ships, was
ordered to surrender 10 the CITY hey
refused, and as long as they could, they
obstinately defended themselves against
the plsce aud Spanish ships.
IL was stated in Spain that a new CO.
alition was forming of all the continental
powers.
King Ferdinand the With, was pro-
claimed at Havana on The 10Th. inst.
These important transactions excited
an extraordinary degree of emotion ip
Havana. !; vas thought every French:
man there would be massacred, SO great
was the irritation of the people against
them; but the prudent and humane mea-
sures of the Governor prevented blood
shed. A deputation was sent 10 an En-
glish frigate, the Franchise, then lying in
the ofiing, to communicate these events,
and invite her into port.
IL was generally supposed at Havana,
that he Island OF Cuba, ali the Vain, and
Mexico would declare themselves indie.
pendent.
The arrival tHIavanna, from which we
derive cur. interesting Spanish ne VS., Iei,
81. Lucar or the i2th May and brought
out rev inendant Of HAVANA, Don JU
AN De AGUILA -
DECLARATION OF WAR.
Hgnrst the Emheror France NAPoLE-
ON he First, in 6chakf of FERDfNAHD
the SeUenih, King Of Sham and The IN
dies; and in his name-by the Suhrene
Hsseni6iyD Shain and India, esfa6HSh-
ed at Seville.
FRANCE, or more explicitly the En-
peror of France, having violated the most
sacred Treaty with Spain, by taking the
Royal Family q Paris, and obliging them
to tbdcaie and renounce all claim to the
Throne, III his favor and declared, that
he has been elected King of Spain the
most daring and greatest outrage and tall
sily ever known in disappointing enter
~u us dihltS III OpaiDS tOOk POSSESSION oil
all the FOrtresses, and Capital, aud COM
mitted the most cruel assassnations and
ever known all OF which he has
not by force of arms, but un-
der the pretence OF our felicity the most
enormous ingratitude or services rendered
him by Spain--the friendship we protested,
have been paid with tricks OF treason, and
the most dreadful perfly, ever committed
by any nation or monarch that has ever
been heard Of
He has declared lately, that he would
overset the. Monarchy and fundamental
Laws also, our holy rehgion-and has o.
JIiged US, by his misohievous conduct, to
to all Europe and that, for our
,nly remedy, we do declare War against
aim; and in consequence o. which, and in |
he name Of our King Ferdinand VII. and |
in that Of the whole Spanish nation, we do |
leclare War, both by sea and land, to the /
Emperor Napoleon the First aud to France,
while she will be under the yoke and OPP
preston of that tyrant and we do hereby |
uthorise and ,ordain, to all aRd every
5Rniard, to act against those with HOSTILE
y, and do them all the prejudice, harm, ]