4.50 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



and alert in providing for the de- 

 fence thereof; for the more ef- 

 fectual accomplishment of which, 

 they are authorized to call to the 

 defence of exposed and threatened 

 places portions of the militia most 

 convenient thereto, whether they 

 be or be not parts of the quotas 

 detached for the service of the 

 United States under requisitions of 

 the general government. 



On an occasion which appeals 

 so forcibly to the proud feelings 

 and patriotic devotion of the Ame- 

 rican people, none will forget wha„ 

 they owe to themselves, what they 

 owe to their country, and the high 

 destmies which await it ; what to 

 the glory acquired by their fathers, 

 in establishing the independence 

 which is now to be maintained by 

 their sons, with the augmented 

 strength and resources with which 

 time and Heaven had blessed 

 them. 



In testimony whereof I have 

 hereunto set my hand, and caused 

 the seal of the United States to be 

 fixed to these presents. 



Done at the city of Washing- 

 ton, the first day of September, in 

 the year of our Lord 1814, and of 

 the Independence of the United 

 States the 39th. 



Jas. Madison. 

 By the President, 



Jas. Monroe, Sec. of State. 



Spanish Royal Ordinance. 



Don Ferdinand VII. by the 

 Grace of God, King of Castile, 

 Leon, Arragon, &c, to those of 

 my Council, to the Presidents and 

 Regents of my Audiences, the 

 Corregidors, Int^indants, Govern- 

 •rg and Mayors, of all the cities 



and towns of my kingdoms, know 

 ye; That by a Decree of the Ge- 

 neral Extraordinary Cortes, of the 

 Gth August, 1811, all jurisdic- 

 tional seignories of whatever class 

 or condition were incorporated 

 with the nation ; that all pay- 

 ments both real and personal, 

 which owed their origin to a juris- 

 dictional title, were abolished, 

 with the exception of such as pro- 

 ceeded from free contract in the 

 exercise of the right of property, 

 the territorial and manorial seigni- 

 ories remaining in the class of 

 other rights of property ; abolish- 

 ing also the privileges called ex- 

 clusive, privative, or prohibitive, 

 such as those of the chase, fishing, 

 ovens, and mills. In this state of 

 things representations have been 

 made to me by various grandees 

 of Spain, and titulars of Castile, 

 jurisdictional lords of townships in 

 Arragon, Valencia, and other pro- 

 vinces, complaining of the rob- 

 beries which they have suffered and 

 do suff"er, under pretence of the 

 said decree, in the enjoyment of 

 the rights and payments which it 

 reserved to them, demanding res- 

 titution, and some of them, pray- 

 ing a declaration of the nullity of 

 the decree. The said memorials 

 have been referred to my Council 

 of State, and to the law officers of 

 the Crown ; and observing the de- 

 licacy and circumspection with 

 which the latter have abstained 

 from pronouncing as to the nullity 

 of the decree, until they had col- 

 lected all the materials for forming 

 ajudgmentonthatinterestingpoint, 

 my Council has also abstained 

 from entering into an examination 

 of it until the said law officers de- 

 liver their opinion. With regard 

 to the claim made by the said ju- 



