APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 533 



subjects which seriously and deeply 

 affect their interests, in common 

 with the rest of your majesty's peo- 

 ple. 



We have witnessed with deep 

 regret the disastrous failure of the 

 late expedition, as the magnitude 

 of its equipment had raised the just 

 hopes and expectations of the 

 country to some permanent benefit. 



And we cannot avoid expressing 

 to your majesty the sorrow and in- 

 dignation with which we are affect- 

 ed, by the unhappy dissentions 

 that have prevailed among your 

 majesty's ministers, and our tiears 

 that such dissentions may prove 

 eminently prejudicial to the best 

 interests of the nation. 



Your majesty's faithful citizens, 

 actuated by loyal attachment to 

 your sacred person and illustrious 

 house, and solicitous for the honour 

 of your majesty's arms and the dig- 

 nity and solidity of your majesty's 

 councils, are deeply impressed with 

 the necessity of an early and strict 

 inquiry into the causes of the failure 

 of the late expedition ; therefore 

 pray your majesty will direct 

 inquiry to be forthwith instituted, 

 in order to ascertain the causes 

 which have occasioned it. 



Signed by order of Court, 

 Henry Woodthorpe. 



To which Address and Petition 



his Majesty was graciously 



pleased to return the following 



answer : — 



I thank you for your expressions 



of duty and attachment to me and 



to my family. 



The recent expedition to the 

 Scbeld was directed to several ob- 

 jects of great importance to the in- 

 terests of my allies, and to the 

 security of my dominions. 



I regret, that of these objects, a 

 part only has been accomplished. 



I have not judged it to be neces- 

 sary to direct any military inquiry 

 into the conduct of ray com- 

 manders by sea or land in this 

 conjoint service. 



It will be for my parliament, in 

 their wisdom, to ask for such infor- 

 mation, or to take such measures 

 upon this subject as they shall judge 

 most conducive to the public good. 



Proclamation of the Governor of 



Minorca, appointed last month 



by the Supreme Junta. 

 Noble and Loyal Minorquians ; 



It is now five himdred seventy 

 and nine years since Spain liberated 

 you from a barbarous yoke, and 

 bringing to you the light of the 

 faith and liberty, you became the 

 cherished children of the most kind 

 and benevolent mother. The situa- 

 tion of this precious island, and 

 other circumstances which the vicis- 

 situdes of time produce, occasioned 

 you to change your governors; but 

 they were temporary changes, and 

 you have always preserved your holy 

 religion, and your laws have been 

 administered with justice. 



Now there appears in Europe a 

 malignant phenomenon.a tyrannical 

 monster to humanity, thirsting for 

 blood and destruction, and deter- 

 mined to count Spain amongst his 

 victims; but she will never lose her 

 heroic valour, though nearly extin- 

 guished by the insidiousness and 

 apathy of a languid and depraved 

 government; she will raise her head, 

 and display her ancient golden 

 crown, in defiance of the ferocious 

 attack of the tyrant, and divest her- 

 self of the indolence to which the 

 most infamous artifice had reduced 



her. 



