The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-04-05

Siguensa, An Dec.
My dear friend, suppose you are inform
ed OF all that has happened, / will neverthe-
less add that our army which was under the
command OF Castanos and consisted of 10000
men, has passed through this city in disor-
der difficult to be believed it is impossible
to describe the damage they have caused
throughout the country, Dy their robbery and
plllagmg. Only 10000 men now remain.
General Castanos has been put under ar
rest he is to be carried before the supreme
Junta VIC cannot say what will be the result,
We found at Madrid in the Palace of the
duke OF Infantado two caskets containing pa
pers belonging to the Princes of Austurias,
IN which matters of the highest importance
are spoken Of This passage of q letter from
her mother, dated ! 5th January, 1906, makes
known what opinion the Queen of Sicily her
self has of the English.
These letters are full of proofs of the con-
spiracy which was forming to break the
friendship that subsisted between France and
Spain.
Coty Of 7vhat IS ,vritten in synahathefick INK in
The letter from Queen Charlotte TO the Pyin-
cess of.dsturiaS, the 18Th Jan. 1906.
My beloved child, am infinitely uneasy
about your situation, about the increase of
grief which you will experience upoh learn
.ng our cruel situation. But rely upon nv
truth. BeNeve in no fright which people will
no tail unchshitably to give you, and be pru-
dent. Twill always write to you, and very
sincerely, and believe in no other news, for
promise to the heart & tenderness of my dear
child to conceal nothing from you thus be-
leivc only in me. We all support ourselves
in good health.-We are very uncasy; Mas
sena rs with $4,000 men at our frontier, sinee
that fatal e cursed Decentralization ofthe Enc
Fsh,7Oho Uitha heyfdiouS e uneramtled cowar.
dice, after having comyronised rs, quilted IL
at the moment avhen the danger ryas the most
violent. Those PEOPLE haze ruined us. Bona
harfe causes nothing to be said or ryrs,ten, and
in all Likelihood 7ve shall be undone. We have
only 800 men in arms for the two years and
q half that the French have been in our coun-
try, they required that we .hould not recruit
our army they thereby rendered all our for
ces useless, and behold we arc now at their
mercy, without any hope Of defence against q
force of $4,000 men, end if they please of
100000 men. .AustriG destroyed, disobied, and
for so years annuNed lin fine ii is an uner-
an'f'led miSforfnne, to which nothing but our
holy religion can make us be resigned, tkat sols
consolation under all miyortunes. Your dear
father and the svhole family are in desolation
Every thing is itacking uh, for. from the en-
trance Vhe frontier TO come TO Naples, is IL.
affair efsir or seven days, and one cannot l.e
ones sef6e taken prisoner thus, we are pre-
pairing every thing for disastrous and eter-
nal departure, and this rends my heart The
king has sent the Cardinal General! Russo 20
Rome, and has dispatched to Paris. But nei
ther Felch, nor Alquier, Tor Eugene Beau
harnois, nor Messena are able, according 20
their declaration, to stop the march of the
troops thus St. Theodore, who has been
dispatched in order to join Gallo, and speak
to him OF all that, has remained al Rome 70
superintend our affairs, and the Cardinal is
set Oft IN search of Bonapartc, either TO Num-
lch, or to Paris, wherever he may be to be
found, to endeavor to save us.
Your good father is ready in order to salts
~ the general wish, to al,dicaie and leave
Francis king, rescrving to himself good
pension, the fruit Of part of the money which
he has advanced to the royal finances MANY
people think that this viii suffice IA lay the