Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-08-07
FROM HAVANA.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.-By the schr.
Atlas, capt. Murphy, arrived here Oh
Saturday in eight days from Havana,
we have received from our correspon-
dent there, a file Of the Havana Diary,
to the Esd Of July inclusive. The Pa.
pers are in the hands of a translator.
An extract Of a letter to the editors
Of the american dated Havana, July
"a says:-"All is quiet here at present
we have had no arrivals from
Europe for number Of days A
proclamation has been privately print
ed here, upon the subject of the inde-
pendence of the Island--but 1t has been
seen by very few individuals. do not
exactly know the purport of it."
UThe gentleman into whose hands
we placed the Havana papers has SUBJ
sequently handed US the following doc
ument, translated from the Diary Of
the Goth July.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN IA
VOROF SPAIN.
Don Francisco Dionisio Wives, the
Captain General of the Island Of Gu.
ba, mas addressed the following COM
munication to the inhabitants of Ha-
vana, in consequence of their having
formed committee to contribute to
the support of Spain.
"Inhdbitants ofthc Island of Cuba !
While the peninsula is laboring IN.
der the most atrocious and unjust ag-
gression that could ever be affected by
force or abuse-while the hosts of su.
perstition and despotisrn present them-
selves with the sword in one had to des-
troy the symbol of It's liberties, and
with chains in the other to sink it into
the most AFFECT and ignominious slave
ry: will the faithful and generous in
habitants Of this province be passive
spectators Of this bloody and degrading
invasionp Will they behold with iDdif-
ference the tyrants taking possession
Of, and domineering over. the ruins of
a government the most liberal and the
most beneficent will they remain
tranquil ano nnconcerned whilst their
constitutional king, and their govern
ment are wandering out of the Capital
of their Empirep Whilst the legisla-
ture and representatives Of the Spanish
Nation are obliged to int errupt the au.
gust functions of their ministry-Whilst
foreign tyrant pretends to correct and
profane the immortal work of their
wisdom and mum ficence, and to crush
the psniacdsS with the same yoke, Of
which they were redeemed by theirno-
BILE forsitude, and generous magpanimi.
ty?
Eternal ignominy and disgrace would
attend the inhabitants of this Island;
inconsolable aflliction and dismay would
enfeeble the hearts of their brothers in
the Peninsula-if they were not to re-
ceive from the liberality and adhesion
of the former the aid which the priva-
tions and calamities they suffer require
IF whilst the natives of this Island are
enjoying all the comforts of tranquility
and opulence, they were to be callous
to compassion and to their own inter.
ests.
How can the fate of the Peninsula be
Indifferent to the Island of Cuba ?
They are most intimately united by the
ties of blood and affinity, by the laws,
by the religion. by the usages and GUS
toms; and consequently Cuba must
necessarily participate in it's misfor-
tunes as we'll as in its prosperity. The
alterations which may take place in
Spain will shake all these provinces.
from one extremity to the other and
this Island, how the mansion of unin-
terrupted peace and abundance, the
asylum Of the unfortunate of both
worlds, may be converted into desert.
destroyed by horrors and devastations:
its abundant and fertile fields covered
with fragments and ashes--and those
nations which now contribute to it's ag-
grandize would then bee ONE the
most solic!tous to foment in it an in
testine dissention with all the devasta-
tiops which invariably follow.
unconstitutional authorities, inhabi-
tdnts Of this prouince; guard against
this dreadful catastrophe. The most
sacred duties ofjustice, gratitude, and
public convenience most imperiousl; res
quire that your names should be inscri-
bed in the registers which the first cor
poration presents to you. corpora
ton established by yourselves to pre-.
serve untaipted the magma charta which
elevated the Spaniards to the dignity Of
freemen to watch for your prospect
ty and pressevation, and to spread a.
mong the people the illusions of pa.
,ernai government. binding closer ard