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the oppressed find an asylum — our 

 cause is the same, the same be our 

 danger, the same our reward. 

 Come hither, and in despite of all 

 the arts, and all the power of this 

 inhuman despot, you shall witness 

 how we will render dim his star, 

 and be ourselves the creators of our 

 own destinj'. 



( Signed) The Archbishop of 



Laodicea, President. 



Pedro de Rivero, Secretarj'. 



Correspondence between Sir John 

 Moore and Mr. Frere. 



It appears from the printed cor- 

 respondence between Sir John 

 Moore and Mr. Frere, that Mr. 

 Frere used all his influence, and at- 

 tempted to exercise his authoriti/ 

 over sir John Moore, to make him 

 advance with the arm\', when it was 

 decidedly the general's opinion that 

 nothing was left for him but to 

 retreat. Mr. Frere talks of the ar- 

 dent and determined spirit of the 

 Spaniards, and of the desperate re- 

 sistance which they were resolved to 

 make, but never hints at a concert 

 of operations, of any arrangement 

 that had been taken for this effect, 

 or of any means by which a system 

 of general co-operation might be 

 established. Mr. Frere has not 

 even yet ceased to dream about 

 counter revolutions in France ! 



" Every great effort (says he) on 

 the part of France has been pre- 

 ceded by an interval of weakness, 

 or internal disturbance; an advan- 

 tage, therefore, which should be 

 obtained at this moment would be 

 of double importance, inasmuch as 

 it would render a conscription for 

 a tliird attempt upon Spain infi- 

 nitely diflicult." 



And again — 



" The covering Madrid is surely 

 a great matter for effort in Spain, 

 and much more in France. 



The following is the letter alluded 

 to the other night by lord Auck- 

 land, which was sent by Mr. Frere 

 to Gen. Moore, by a French- 

 man : 

 '^Talaveradela Reyna, Dec,3.1808. 



" Sir : — In the event which I did 

 not wijh to presuppose, of your 

 continuing in the determination al- 

 ready announced to me, of retiring 

 with the army under your com- 

 mand, I have to request that the 

 bearer of this, whose intelligence 

 has been already referred to, may 

 be previously examined before a 

 council of war. I have the honour 

 to be, &c. 



(Signed) " J. H. Frere." 



In reply to this petulant, pre- 

 sumptuous letter, sir John iMoore 

 makes the following observation — 



" I have thought it my duty thus 

 calmly to explain to you the 

 reasons which have and do actuate 

 my conduct, and I wish anxiously, 

 as the king's minister, to continue 

 upon the most confidential footing 

 with you ; and I hope, as we have 

 but one interest, the public welfare, 

 though we may occasionally see it 

 in diftierentaspects, that this will not 

 disturb the harmony that should 

 subsist between us. Fully impressed 

 as I am with these sentiments, I 

 shall abstain from any remark upon 

 the two letters from you delivered 

 to me last night and this morning, 



by , or on the message which 



accompanied them." 



And in the same letter, alluding 

 to some remarks which Mr. Frere 

 had made upon his first retreat, sir 

 John observes — 



" With respect to the deter- 

 mination which I made on the 



evening 



