Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-05-24

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audacieusly .undcrtaken by the usurper.-'
Such ia my Will"
The Installation Of the council Of the re.
gency Of Spain and the ladies. took p'aes
at the royal island Of Leon, on the soth OF
Ian. last.
The regency consists Of ths most serene
Don Francisco Xavier Castanos, President,
their excellenciesD Don Francisco de Save.
dra. DON Antonio ,Eseano, Don Miguel
de Lardizabai y Tribe, and the r. Hev.
Bishop de Orence Don Pedro de Qusvede
~ Quin.apc, (absens }
On the 18th Of Feb. his Britannia ~nnsjes'
Etv addres. his royal manifesto to the
[ Hispano Americans, (Which sAahbe forth
| withpubGshed.( 1t begiRs as follows:
Scarcely had the regency received from
! the ex.governmentt the authority with which
it was invested, than it dressed it's attention
| to that Immense and valuable portion Of the
! empire. 10 communicate 10 it this great
| change; to explain the motives which have
| accelerated il ; to proclaim the hopes width
it ente1tains, and to manifest the principles
| whick attuate the regency for the glory and
happiness Of those regions, have been the
objects Of its earliest care at this memorable
epoch, and now it's about TO accomplish
them with the frankness and sincerity which
never more than at present. ia both hemis
pheres, should characterize the spirit Of
Spaniards.
Amongst the FIRST cares Of the regency a
particular place is occupied by the celebra-
ton Of the extraordinary Cortes, wherein
are to assemble the representatives Of ANTI
RIGA, conformable to the royal decree Of the
f4sh Feb. as may appear by the sequel of
the manifesto. .
Those representatives of the council of
the regency, are about TO contribute with
their zeal and their talents to the restoration
and reform of the monarchy. They will
establish in union with the Representatives
Of the peninsula, a plan for the felicity and
social perfection Of those immense regions,
by eoncurring ip the execution Of such a
grand enterprise, they will acquire a.gbry
which, were it not for the actual revolution
neither Spain nor America could have
ever expected. This CONGRESS- shall be con-
rvened and will consolidate our hopes Of
redemption and failure happiness.--The
events Of war may protrscs this great enter.
prize, batthis vsry protraction, says the re.
gency, affords an opportunity Of giving to
the approaching rational congress, the COM
plete representation of the vast empire
whose destiny is eoh6dcd TO its zeal.
Returning now to the events OF the war,
/ shall tell you that the superior juuta of
Cadiz, says, under date Of the 2Ssh Feb.
that although il beseertain that the enemy,
by concentrating the main body. of their
forces at the dc files of Sierra Morsna Ode.
Tended by the residue Of our army defeated
at Ocana, and not yet recovered from that
unfortunate reversc)) theyhave broken thro'
the we akest points, have occupied others,
and have entered ARdaluss we have yet
for our defence forty thousand men, indie.
pendent ofthe strength OF our natural positi-
on, and although they may boast occupying
Seville, and other defencelsss cities Of An
dalusia, and Of proceeding towards the sea
coasts, and after all meet with this ,disap-
pointment, yet they have abandoned the
greatest part of the places they had oceupi-
ed, and the whole Kingdom of Portugal,
that g. allieia, the principally of AstOrias,
Valehcia, Murcia, Estramadura, together
with all their fortified places, a grea. part
of Leon, the CASTLES, Andalusa, Arragon,
and Catalonia are actually delivered from
their ~ %rannical and det.stabk yoke. In all
those provinces our existing armies are re.
enforced, others are forming and i, may be
affirmed, that the enemy by his movements,
has done nothing more than to contribute
to our energy and increase our forces, in
order to make a more violent resistance.
The worthy general Blake appointed to
the command of the central army, has or
gaui.ed at Guadix a respectable force which
having been assisted by the regency With
six millions of reals and four thousand mus. |
kets, together wiki the resources to be !
found in the kingdom Of Murcia, fired with
patriotism, will reduce the French who are |
in the kingdom Of Grenada to the neeessity