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of Portugal, with his august relation of the 
Howse .of Bourbon, to emigra‘e to distant 
realms; and he had prepared a similar exile 
for'the kings and princes of Spain; but the 
glorious,conflict at’ Aranjutz disappointed the 
schemes of the parricide. . 
*¢ Dncil chat time, the insidious project of 
the emperor of the French had not been dis- 
covered; but his subsequent conduct has 
opened our eyes. When the farce in Portugal 
was Cconcluded,: he still continued to pour his 
legions into the heart of our country. He 
pretended that these troops, in conjunction 
with his foreign mercenaries, were to be em- 
ployed in an expedition on the coast of the 
editerranean Sea. This deception could no 
longer serve his purpose: at last, the veil 
Was torn asunder ; he boldly spake his mean- 
ing; dared to propose to our Sovereign to 
abdicate his kingdom, when he was placed at 
the mercy of his enemy; tricked and deluded 
with the most solemn assurances of happiness, 
and of the strictest alliance between tte two 
nations.. Heinvited to his presence the whole 
of our royal family, our couns:llors of state, 
grandees, and mijitary authorities, under the 
pretext of some change or arrangement of our 
public institutions, when his sole object was 
to destroy our dynasty, and to proscribe, for 
every the illustrious House of bourbon frdm 
the succession. Such is the language of the 
proclamations distributed to mislead the coun- 
try 5 such is the sentiment expressed in the 
anonymous precep:s to our magistrates. He 
has.tolé you all this without contradiction ; 
’ he. has said, that your beloved Ferdinand, with 
his august: brothers, have renounced the 
throne of their fathers; that they have ap- 
pointed, as viceroy, Murat, the infamous out- 
law of Madrid s that their royal parent sur- 
rendered in favour of Bonaparte, the nomi- 
Nation of your future sovereign; and pre- 
sently he will tell you, that the sad relics of 
the family of Bourvon are prisoners in Vin- 
tennes, or some other prison of France, 
-'* This, Spaniards, is your situation. Your 
king is.arrested,, your princes are exiled, and 
‘the key of the kingdom is in the hands of 
the enemy. . By his minions your capital is 
occupied, and your brave veterans, without 
arms, without money, without aid, and with- 
out hope, are removed to the distance of 300 
leagues from their countrymen. Stal] we 
submit to this.cruel-separation? No, Spa- 
niards, let us rather die than leave our sove- 
reign in the hands of this perfidious tyrants 
let us.rother perish than permit these Van- 
dats co lord it in our dwellings ; to trample on 
our holy religion; and to abrogate the funda- 
mental laws of che state: \ 
§* But, Spaniards, we shall not be sacri- 
ficed—because a great and united people is 
invincible: a-people fighting for the state, 
for the supreme head of the government, for 
their altars, for their hearths, for their chil- 
Sten, tor their wivesy and for their iastite~ 
State of Public Affairs in Fuly. 
Rise as an armed nation, and eS 
_[Aug. t, 
tions, rendered sacred by time, cah never be 
conquered. What! Do you wish that the 
code of Napoleon should be imposed upon you 
—a military, sanguinary code, calculated to 
render war eternal, of which conscription is 
the soul, and revolution the essence? Do 
you not perceive that these armies, denomi- 
nated French, have their ranks supplied with 
Poles, Hanoverians, Bavarians, Prussians, 
Russians, Swiss, Italians, and ever Mame- 
Tukes? Does not this disclose to you the 
Projected: destination of the youth of your 
country ? Are you desirous that your sons, 
the support and consolation of their families, 
should be sent to your veterans, and be art- 
fully bsnished from their country, to render 
you defenceless, and to wage war in Sweden 
and Denmark ?’Do you wish that they should 
be transported to the torrid clime of Hine 
dostan, under the idle pretext of ruining rhe 
British factories? Do you not discern that 
the Portuguese are groaning under these op~ 
pressions—that they are deserting from the 
standard of wsurpation, hecause they are 
transported to France ? 
“To arms, Spaniards; let us not submit 
to tls state of infamy; let us intercept the 
communication of these outlaws with their 
companions; let them not return to their own 
country ; let us withhold from them themeans. 
of subsistence; let. us open our ports to the’ 
English people, and then we shall have arms, 
auxiliaries, intercourse.with our brethren in 
America, and friends to. supply the demands. 
of this holy war. : 
~** Do you believe that the nations of Eu- 
rope will look with indifference at the per- 
fidy of our enemy? Will they, without in- 
dignation, see our innocent princes made 
prisoners in the environs of Paris? Neither 
the Italians, nor even the French, ave care- 
less spectators of these atrocities. ' Witness 
the mutilated statues of Versailles, the relics 
of Italy, and the incessant desertions of the. 
French army in Spain Be persuaded that 
the Tyrant of Europe is not so safely 
repdésing on his throne as his vanity imagines. 
1 are invin- 
cible 3 display the energies ‘of your native 
courage, and the multitudes that are op- 
pressed will become your allies. Above all, 
implore the assistance of heaved and of St. 
James, the sacred guardian of the Spanish 
people. Swear at the feet of St. Ferdinand 
that you will have none for your king but 
him whom you have proclaimed, Ferdinand 
the Seventh, who bears the hallowed name_ 
of his canonized protector !” 
The English fleet. whieh blockaded. 
Cadiz has disembarked from 4000 to 5000+ 
men, to co-operate with the Spaniardsin: 
Ayanionte; every moment prisoners are 
arriving from Cordova and Portugal, and’ 
it is expected! that the whole of the’ 
Erench army will be obliged ‘to surrender’ 
themselves, 
