Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-06-05
OF HAYTI.


had not signed the Constitution.
OF HAYTf.
We have received several pamphlets,
gazettes, and edits, published in Hayti,
containing accounts of the events which
have recently occurred there. One of
them contains the Constitution of a Soci
ETY. lately established at Port-au-Prince,
with ample funds, to encourage the emf
grafton of free Africans and their de-
scendants from the United States, and to
provide for the payment of the passages
of those unable to pay their own, and
their suppor. until they can find employ
ment. NJ. P. Inginal, Secretary Gene
raj to, President Boyer, is at the head Of
the Society.
.fnaqUer Of the Certes 10 the King Of
Shain's speech on ohening ofthe Con-
grcsS-.ffom a Madrid haher Of
March 7, translated for the National
Gazette.
The Cortes have seen, with the great
est satisfaction, that the second time your
majesty has deigned to appear among
them, to ratify your union with the re-
representatives. of the nation, you have re-
iterated the solemn protestations that the
welfare and happiness ofthepeople whom
| Providence has entrusted 10 your care,
| from, the sole motive to your majesty's
spontaneous resolution to adopts system
of government which they eagerly de-
sired, and which the reason of the pre-
sent age imperatively demanded How
grateful was it to the cortes to hear, from
the mouth of your majesty, the express
sion of your satisfaction with the loyalty
your subjects and their fixed adherence
to the new institutions Your majesty has
thus proclaimed, in the face of the uni
verse, that those institutions are the foun-
dation of the future prosperity of the
kingdom, and the best safeguard of the
throne, and the most brilliant ornament
of the crown.
| Your ma esty has borne to the cones,
the most honorable testimony of the es-
TEEN entertained for their labors during
the last session, and of the pleasure de-
rived from the demonstrations of their
love and respect to the august person OF
your ma esty. The cortes are resolved
to pursue the same path in The fulflm ent
their important duties-they will exert
themselves, in concert with the govern
ment of your majesty, to establish ge-
neral plan of finance that shall embrace
the collection of the taxes and the ma
lnsgement of the public revenue. They
will be guided, on both points, by the
soundest and most efficacious principles,
and will bend their attention very parti-
cularly to the reduction of the national
debt. They trust that the result of their
efforts will correspond to the expecta-
tons and wishes Of the nation whom they
represent.
The cortes will examine, as their duty
enjoins, the schedule of expenses which
the secretary ofthe department of finance
may present, and will make the requisite
appropriations to maintain the national
forces by sea and land ON suitable foot
ing, and such arrangements with respect
to the army as circumstances and the Sc
curity of the state exact.
The suspension of the ravages of war
on Terra Firma, owing, doubtless, to the
establishment of our constitutional law,
and the hope ofthe salutary effects which
this fortunate event may continue to pro-
duce beyond sea, must alleviate the afflic-
ton your majesty's heart has experienced
from the attempts of ill-disposed persons,
who, nourishng chimerical and criminal
views, have momentarily interrupted the
tranquility Of some provinces of the pc
ninsula and even Of the capital With
goodreason your majesty presumed, that
the cortes would be persuaded Of the in
dispensable necessity of adopting prompt
measures to crush the audacity of those
who, taking advantage OF the moderation
and mildness of our system, have dared
anew to disturb public order. The cortes,
at the opening Of their deliberations, have
given evidence of their earnest DISPOSE
ton to second wishes SO just, by al! the
means within their province, SO that the
arm of the government being sufficiently
invigorated, public tranquility may be
assured, and an effectual remedy ap-
piled to those evils which, as your ma :
|jesty remarks, have infested the nation
for so many ages. Such are, in this re-
spect, the sentiments Of the cortes, and so
lively is their desire to observe, faithful
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