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but draw the attention of their 

 subjects. 



The King on his part has given 

 no cause thereto. 



That his majesty has refused 

 to cede his kingdona of Norway, 

 or a part thereof, for the offered 

 compensation of giving places and 

 lands that border on the duke- 

 dom of Holstein, is a matter that 

 all his subjects are already con- 

 vinced of. 



His majesty's dear love of the 

 country is the guarantee, that 

 their lord and King places too 

 much confidence in the loyalty and 

 attachment of his people to make 

 him, under any circumstanceswhat- 

 ever, resolve to exchange them 

 away for strangers, on whose at- 

 tachment his majesty has no 

 claim, when they do not of their 

 own accord require his naajesty's 

 protection. 



Accustomed to see his sub- 

 jects' willingness to sacrifice their 

 lives and welfare in a long conti- 

 nued defensive war, his majesty is 

 assured that a readiness to defend 

 his state's independence, and its 

 undivided preservation, will always 

 be found in all Danes, Norwegians, 

 and Holsteiners, in case the sove- 

 reign's endeavours again to make 

 peace should prove abortive ; or a 

 system of abuse force his majesty 

 to require of his dear subjects new 

 efforts for their security and that 

 of the throne. 



Manifedo of the Spanish Regency 

 against the Archbishop nf Nicea, 

 the Popes Nuncio in Spain, to 

 the Prelates and Chapters of 

 Spain, the Regency of the 

 Kingdom. 



Upon taking into my hands the 

 government of the kingdom, 1 

 find myself under the painful ne- 

 cessity of interfering witli a sub- 

 ject equally delicate from its pub- 

 licity and transcendant nature, as 

 from the character of the persons 

 who were concerned in it. The 

 chapter of the cathedral of Cadiz, 

 with their capitular vicar, and the 

 ordinary and military vicars of 

 this town, pretending the defence 

 of religion, and a fear of acting 

 against their own consciences, 

 opposed themselves to the pub- 

 lication in the parish churches, 

 of the decree and manifesto of 

 the Cortes, concerning the es- 

 tablishment of the Tribunals for 

 the protection of the Faith, in- 

 stead of the lately abolished Inqui- 

 sition. I, therefore, adopted the 

 most energetic measures, in order 

 that, whilst those decrees were 

 duly enacted, Spain might be pre- 

 served from the convulsions which 

 threatened her at that moment. 

 To those measures, equally tend- 

 ing to maintain the dignity of the 

 holy church and the tranquillity of 

 the state, we owe the extinction 

 of a flame which might have con- 

 sumed the kingdom. But the cir- 

 cumstance of having desired from 

 the chapter of this church, and 

 from some others with whom I 

 had been in correspondence, an 

 authentic copy of their resolutions 

 and otherdocuinents, that wc might 

 take such steps as the justice of 



