American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-05-23

protesting against the formation Of jun,a oil Co.
vernment at the head quarters of the Duke Angou-
|Ieme The other circumstance to which We have
alluded we shall give III the words OF our corresPoh
dent. =,
"Saturdav Evening French irigate la
Guerrero has been taken, almost IN sight oil brest
by two armed vessels bearing Spanish colours one
OF which was brig carrying Is or 20 guns ne
figate was peppered in high stiie. You may rely
upon the truth Of this"
By he ship Leeds, at ~. York, from Liverpool,
The Duke d'Angouleme issued he following pro
clamaton and order the day previous to the french
army entering Spain:
"PROCLAMATION.
"The Duke d'.ingouleme, General IN Chtef 81
the army Of the PyreneeS, to the SPdniards.
"The King of France, in recalling his amoassa-
dor from Madrid had hoped that the Spanish Gov
eminent, warned Of its dangers, would have return
ed TO more moderate sentiments, and would cease
to be deaf to the counsels benevoence and reason.
Two months and half have elapsed, and his Ma
esy has waited, in vain, Tor the establishments III
Spain, OF an rider ofhngs compatible with the saIe
lly of the neighboring states
"The French Government has supported two
whole years, with unexampled patience, the most
| unmered proyocatlons. The revolutionary lac
ton, which has destroyed in your country the royal
authority, which holds your King captive which de.
mands his forfeiture, which menaces his lie and
that OF his family has carried beyond your frontiers
its guilty efforts. 1t has tried every means to cor
rupt the army of his Most Christian Majesty, and
TO excite troubles in France in the same manner as
it had succeeded by the contagon OF rs doctrines
and its examples, to produce the insurrection OF Ma.
pies and Piedmont Deceived in its hopes, it has
invited traitors, condemned by tribunals, to con
summate, under the protection of triumphant re-
beIliop, the plots formed by them against their coun-
try.
''It is time to put an end of the anarchy which
tears Spain in pieces, which deprves her of the
power of giving peace TO her colonies, which sepa-
rates her from Europe, which has interrupted all
her relations with the august Soveregns whom the
same intentions and the same wishes unite with his
Most Christian Majesty, and which compromise the
rePose and the interests of France.
"Spaniards France is not at war with your coun.
try sprung from the same blood with your Kings, |
can only desire your independence, your happiness,
and your glory. am about to cross the Pyrenees
at the head OF a hundred thousand Frenchmen, but
it is TO support the Spanards who are the FIJI ds Of
order aud the laws; to aid them TO liberale their
captive King to raise again the altar and The throne
10 rescue the priesthood from prescription, men OF
property from spolatlon and the whole nation from
the domination of few ambitious persons, who, in
Proclaimlng liberty, prepare only the slavery and
ruin of Spair.
"Spanards Every thing will be done for you and
with you the French are and will only be your aux
illaries. Your standard alone shall wave on your
cities. The provinces traversed by our soldiers
shall be administered, in the name oil Ferdinand by
Spanish authorities. The most severe discipline
shall be observed. Whatever is required for the
service of the army shall be paid for with the most
religious exactness. We pretend not to impose
laws on you, or to occupy your country. We wish
nothing but your deverance when we shall have
obtained it, we shall return 10 our county, happy
in having preserved generous people from the cal
antilles generated by a revolution, and which expe
rence has taught us but too well to appreciate.
headquarters Of Bayonne, April 2, 1928.
"LOUIS ANTOINE"
"By his Royal Eighness the Prince General in
Chief, the Counsellor of State, Civil Commissioner
OF his Most Christian Majesty.
ode MARTICNAC."
"ARMY OF THE PYRENEES.
"oRDER OF THE DAY.
Soldiers The confidence of the King has plac.
ed me at your head, in order to fulfil the noblest Of
missions. 1t is not the spirit OF conquest which has
made us take up arms, more generous motive ami