Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-08-07

From The Gibraltar Chronicle Of June IL
anala, rsceiued at the Office Of the
Baltimore Patriot.

Baltimore Patriot.
SEVILLE, june 1.-The Secretary oil
State has transmitted the following Cir
cular to the Diplomatic Agents of III
! NJ. at Foreign Courts.
All know the constantly hostile and
perfdious conduct of the Cabinet of the
Tuilleries towards Spain, from the mo-
| ment that she re-established the polit-
cal constitution by which she is govern
ed. The thick veil which for some time
covered the many treacherous designs
OF that cabinet, was, to the scandal of
morality and public decency, torn by the
French Ministers in the midst of le-
sisiative assembly; and postenty will
learn with indignation, by the confess
sion of the delinquents themselves, that
the government OF a monarch styling
himself most christian, hurled on
peaceful nation, its neighbor, friend
and ally, the brands of created factions,
and cherished assassins and traitors !;
thus violating the faith of treaties that
it turned aside from the tranquil course
it would have pursued, political re-
volution the most legitimate and blood
less that's to be found in the annals of
nations, by stipending VIE writer's to
defame virtue, TO sow distrust, and to
preach Monarchy that it calum-
mated the cause of liberty, awaiting
itself of those very excuses, of those
very commissions which its own intrigues
and coirupt;ng gold had excited that
1t undermined the foundation of univer-
sal Justice and the law of nations, by
int oducing that inquitous principle Of
the interference of one power with the
douiestic concerns Of another a prin-
ciple which destroys all independence,
all tranquility, and all stability in So
ciety, in order to establish the necessity
of an impious war, and Of an invasion
the most abominable that man has ever
witnessed but outrages of so henious
a nature were not sufficient to satisfy the
cabinet of the Tuilleries. In order to
sooth the frantic faction by which it is
ruled, it was necessary to crown such
wrongs by one of those deeds which APP
pear from time to time in the bloody
pages of history, and are the opprobium
of civilization, and the disgrace of the
people who tolerate them II was re-
quisite that government that loudly
proclaims the dogma of the legitimacy
of Gymnastics, and Of the sanctity of mon
archical power, as the only safeguard
of the tranquility and happiness of ra-
tons, should hold out to the world the
no less vile than dangerous example of
creating, recognising and patronising
an assembly OF traitors TO their country
and king, that would dare to style itself,
provisional Junta of the Government
of Spain and Indies.o TWAS requisite,
whilst affecting to combat in the name
of religion, of morality, of the preserve
ing principles of society, that perjury
should be extolled, sedition excited, the
bonds of subordnation and public or
der broken, that the beneficial charm
of authority should be torn from her,
that, 10 word, the foundation Of the
throne which it pretends to strengthen,
should be undermined, and that an UNI
worthy shade should be cast over the
good faith Of the august monarch who
occupies it, supported by the loyalty of
his subjects. 1t was requisite, that,
preceded by handfuls OF deloded and
wicked men, the army of a power which
supposes itself first in the rank of civil
cation, should SO far pervert the terrible
laws of war (thus making them still more
odious and destructive,) as to receive
as auxiliaries, falsehood, treason and
fanaticism, and designedly to excite the
fury of troops of banditti, in order after
words, in the afflicted towns and vii
lagos, to pass for benevolent liberia
tor-Europe, the spectator Of these
horrid deeds, is silent, and permits them.
The weak Powers shudder, whilst those
called great, either favor the French
cabinet, approving its pernicious doc
trines, or confde in superior forces to
shelter them from its effects: but force
is not eternal, and the nation which
yesterday gave the law to the rest, is to-,
day the object of their derision. If "a
mong them there should be any that
condemns, in theory, the strange max
inns of public law of which the introduce
ton is aimed at, and yet abstains from
preventing their application, that power
will repent, when too late, of so gross
an error. The REPETITION of these acts
of prepotency will consecrate their JUS
tee, the barrier, however weak, that
protects the independence OF nations
and the balance of power, will fall to
the orcnipd the nations of public