Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-19
FROM SPANISH AMERICA.

ptiCdteu III the contemplated NuTueT
Caracas GozeIte, .May II, 1890.
The eommandant of Maracaybo has in.
formed Gen. Morllo, that on the 22d ut.
commandant Of the advanced royal detach-
ment surprized detachment of 60 Patriots,
at Moreno, and took them prisoners, with
80 muskets. Thy were conducting ammu-
milton from Rio de la Hache to Gen. Month.
10, who was in the valley of Upar.
C1rraeoa, June 8.
The Spanish constitution has been pro-
claimed at Porto Rico. The new Spanish
merchant flag We learn, consists Of three no.
rizontal stripes. green top and bottom, and
yellow in the middle. (Bost Cent.
Translated for the Philadelphia Gazette.
REPRESENTATION
Of the Officers of the National Navy 10 bis
Majesty.
The officers OF the Spanish navy for the
first time approach the throne OF your Ma.
jesty to express their extreme Joy at the
greatest and most interesting events which
history has recorded To nation. who re
gained their territory inch by inch at the
point OF the lance, eypelling the numerous
and valiant Moors, to nation who, from
her las, refuge, the distressed but renowned
Cadiz seized at the expense Of blood and Of
martyrs from the formidable tyrant of Eu-
rope, and from bis disciplined and immune.
rable hosts, the most extensive dominion on
earth, to this invincible nation there remain
ed nothing in order to complete and seal her
lriumphs, but 10 conquer her own king her
king more oppressed and subjugated in the
palace OF Madrid than in the castle of Va
lency; less free when surrounded BY wick
ed and sordid hatterers than in the midst of
avowed enemies. Because the Roman EN-.
pire commenced under one Augustus and
fell under another Augustus, timdity thot
that CASTLE which bad risen to glory under
one Ferdinand would perish under Ferdi.
nand. All! it was forgotten that your Ma
jes.y was Spaniard and reigned among
Spaniards. AT the first threat OF these loyal
subjects despotism dies, disappears, is an
INFLATED like dark and tetid atmosphere
by pure north wind, and at the first init
nation of the will Of the people your majes.
ty without hesitation threw yourself into
their arms for your own and general welfare,
as tempest beaten vessel steers 10 port of
safety. This victory of your majesty over
the fatterng suggestions of the passions and
of vain glory, the greatest heroism of which
man is capable, the vigor and boldness with
which your majesty broke the strong and
gilded chains by which unweary kings are
enslayed, the Aattery and avarice, the su.
perstitIon and ignorance Of the Ubiquitous
satellites who besege then, is the real and
satisfactory motive which brings US the
throne.
Desplcable hattery dwells not in free bo-
SONS, and with the same frankneSs that we
nave declared the person of your majesty in
vlOlabie, we will assert a truth, to US iudis-
PQsoOiSS uAuSt OC 1dttSkiu6 w So'
heart OF our king.
BY swearing to the great national charter,
by rendering ibis homage to reason and to
justice, your majesty has exceiled the ac-
tions of all the Ferdinands. SO grateful to
our memory. If under Ferdinand Coma.
lez, Castillo was first distinguished in the
Peninsula, under Ferdinand the 7th she be.
gins to act her part in Europe, and through
out the universe-It she was erected into
kingdom by Ferdinand the great, by Fer
dinand The It'll she has been rendered free
nation, the greatest nation in the known
world.
If ST. Ferdinand gave her general laws.
without which society cannot properly ex.
ist, Ferdinand The 7th has given her a con-
stitution which renders the laws stable, and
leads the monarch to justice, and the peo-
pie. by secure paths, to happiness. If the
anti.evangelical and and anti-social inQui-
sition, the destroyer OF learning and Of ia
Tents. darkened the great deeds and glory
Of Ferdinand the Catholic, Ferdinand The