adopted, and which are more conformable to the age in which we live, the mutual relations of the neighbouring states, and the disposition of the nation, which we have employed ourselves to-ascertain ever since we were called to rule over it. The principal objects which guided us in our labours, were: Joseph Napoleon, king of Naples and Sicily, French prince, grand elector of the empire, willing to confirm, by a constitutional statute, those fundamental principles, by which the monarchy is to be go verned, has decreed, and does decree the following: 1. OF RELIGION. The catholic, apostolic, and Ro 1. The preservation of our holy mish religion, is the religion of the religion. 2. The establishment of a public treasury, separate and distinct from the hereditary property of the crown. 3. The establishment of an intermediate administration, and a national parliament; capable of enlightening the prince, and of performing important services both to him and the nation. 4. A judicial organization, which shall render the decisions of the court of justice independent on the will of the prince, and make all the citizens equal in the eye of the law. 5 A municipal administration, which shall be the property of no man, but to which all, without distinction, shall be admissible. 0. The maintenance of the regulations which we have made for securing the payments to the creditors of the state. His majesty the emperor of the French, and king of Italy, our illustrious brother, having been pleased to confer upon this act his powerful guarantee, we are assured that our hopes with regard to the prosperity of our beloved people of the kingdom of Naples, thus reposing upon his wide-spread glory, shall not experience disappoint state. III. OF THE REGENCY. 1. The king is a minor till he attains the age of 18 years. 2. In case of the prince's minority, the regency will, by right, devolve upon the queen; and in her absence, to a prince of the blood royal who shall be chesen by the emperor of the French in his capacity as head of the imperial family; and in failure thereof of a prince of the blood, the choice will devolve upon the nation. 3. The yearly salary of the regency is confined to a fourth of the grant to the crown. 4. The education of the minor king is entrusted to his mother, and in her absence, to the prince nominated by the predecessor of the minor. The remaining articles relate to the officers of the crown, the ministers, the council of state, &c. The article respecting the parlia ment confines the nuraber of members to one hundred, who are to be divided into five classes viz. the ecclesiastics, the nobles, the holders dom of Naples and Sicily. of landed property, the learned, Bayonne, June 20. and the merchants. ment. Constitutional statute of the king PORTUGAL. PORTUGAL. The following proclamation was addressed by sir Charles Cotton to the Portuguese nation: Inhabitants of Portugal!-Deputations having reached me from all parts of the kingdom, soliciting succour, aid, and assistance, and stating to me the loyal, brave, and manly determination of the people of Portugal to establish the government of their lawful prince, and emancipate their country from French oppression; I send, agreeably to your requests, ships, troops, arms, ammunition, and have directed the standard of his royal highness the prince regent of Portugal to be reared, round which every loyal Portuguese is hereby invited immediately to rally, and to take up arms in so just and so glorious a cause. To be successful, Portuguese, you must be unanimous: and joined by your brave neigh bours and friends, the Spaniards, you must not be intimidated by menaces, nor seduced by promises. -Some months experience must have convinced you of the effect of French friendship; it is now to British faith and assistance, aided by your own energy and efforts, that you will, I trust, be indebted for the restoration of your prince, and the independence of your country. (Signed) C. COTTON. Hibernia, off the Tagus, July 1, 1808. KING'S SPEECH BY COMMIS SION, JULY 4. My Lords and Gentlemen, We have it in command from his majesty to express to you the great satisfaction which he derives from being enabled, by putting an end to the present sessions of parliament, to terminate the laborious attendance which the public business has required of you. The measures which you have adopted for the improvement of the military force of the country promise to lay the foundation of a system of internal defence, eminently useful, and peculiarly adapted to the exigence of these times. The sanction which you have given to those measures of defensive retaliation, to which the violent attacks of the enemy upon the commerce and resources of this kingdom compelled his majesty to resort, has been highly satisfactory to his majesty. His majesty doubts not that in the result the enemy will be convinced of the impolicy of persevering in a system which retorts upon himself in so much greater proportion those evils which he endeavours to inflict upon this country. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, We are commanded by his majesty to return his most hearty acknowledgments for the cheerfulness and liberality with which the necessary supplies for the current year have been provided. His majesty directs us to assure you, that he participates in the satisfaction with which you must have contemplated the flourishing situation of the revenue and credit of the country, notwithstanding the continued pressure of the war: and he congratulates you upon having been enabled to provide for the exigencies of the public service, with so small an addition to the public burthens. His majesty commands us to thank you for having enabled him to make good his engagement with his allies; and to express to you the particular gratification which he has derived from the man(2 P) ner ner in which you have provided for the establishment of his sister, her royal highness the duchess of Brunswick. My Lords and Gentlemen, His majesty has great satisfaction in informing you, that, notwithstanding the formidable confederacy united against his ally the king of Sweden, that sovereign perseveres, with unabated vigour and constancy, to maintain the honour and independence of his crown; and that no effort has been wanting on the part of his majesty, to support hini in the arduous contest in which he is engaged. The recent transactions in Spain and Italy have exhibited new and striking proofs of the unbounded and unprincipled ambition which actuates the common enemy of every established government and independent nation in the world. His majesty views with the liveliest interest the loyal and determined spirit manifested by the Spanish nation in resisting the violence and perfidy with which their dearest rights have been assailed. The Spanish nation, thus nobly struggling against the tyranny and usurpation of France, can no longer be considered as the enemy of Great Britain; but is recognized by his majesty as a natural friend and ally. We are commanded to inform you that con.munications have been made to his majesty from several of the provinces of Spain, soliciting the aid of his majesty. The answer of his majesty to these communications has been received in Spain with every demonstration of those sentiments of confidence and affection which are congenial to the feelings and true interests of both nations; and his majesty commands us to assure you, that he will continue to make every exertion in his power for the support of the Spanish cause; guided in the choice and in the direction of his exertions by the wishes of those in whose behalf they are employed. In contributing to the suc cess of this just and glorious cause, his majesty has no other object than that of preserving unimpaired the integrity and independence of the Spanish monarchy. But he trusts that the same efforts which are directed to that great object may, under the blessing of Divine Providence, lead in their effects, and by their example, to the restoration of the liberties and the peace of Europe. PROCLAMATION OF PEACE OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY WITH THE SPANISH NATION. At the court at the queen's palace, July 4, 1868; present, the king's most excellent majesty in council. His majesty having taken into his consideration the glorious evertions of the Spanish nation for the deliverance of their country from the tyranny and usurpation of France, and the assurances which his majesty has received from several of the provinces of Spain, of their friendly disposition towards this kingdom; his majesty 15 pleased, by and with the advice of his privy council, to order, and it is hereby ordered: 1. That all hostilities against Spain on the part of his majesty shall immediately cease.-2. That the blockade of all the ports of Spain, except such as may be stul in the possession or under control of France, shall be forthwith raised. 3. That all ships and vessels belong in longing to Spain shall have free admission into the ports of his majesty's dominions, as before the present hostilities.-4. That all ships and vessels belonging to Spain, which shall be met at sea by his majesty's ships and cruizers, shall be treated in the same manner as the ships of states in amity with his majesty, and shall be suffered to carry on any trade now considered by his majesty to be lawfully carried on by neutral ships. -5. That all vessels and goods belonging to persons residing in the Spanish colonies, which shall be detained by any of his majesty's cruizers after the date hereof, shall be brought into port, and shall be carefully preserved in safe custody, to await his majesty's farther pleasure, until it shall be known whe ther the said colonies, or any of them, in which the owners of such ships and goods reside, shall have made common cause with Spain against the power of France. And the right hon. the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, his majesty's principal secretaries of state, the lords commissioners of the admiralty, the judge of the high court of admiralty, and the judges of the courts of vice-admiralty, are to take such measures herein as to them may respectively appertain. STEPH. COTTRELL. JOSEPH BUONAPARTE'S PROCLAMATION ISSUED AT VIT TORIA. Don Joseph Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitu tion of the state, king of Spain and the Indies. Spaniards!-On entering the territory of a people, the govern ment of whom Providence has confided to me, I feel it my duty to explain the sentiments which l ́entertain. In ascending the throne, I rely upon finding among you some generous souls, who will second my efforts to restore this people to the possession of their a cient splendour. The constitution, to the observance of which you are about to pledge yourselves by your oaths, secures the exercise of our holy religion, and of civil and political freedom. It establishes a national representation, and restores your ancient cortes in a meliorated form. It appoints a senate, forming the guarantee of individual liberty, and the support of the throne in critical circumstances, and constituting also an asylum and reward to those who shall have performed signal services to the state. The courts of justice, the interpreters of the laws, divested of passion and favour, shall, in pronouncing judgment, be impartial, free, and independent. Merit and virtue shall be the only claims to the holding of public offices. Unless I am disappointed in my wishes, your agriculture and commerce shall nourish, free from those restraints which have hitherto retarded their prosperity. Desirous of ruling according to the laws, I will be the first to give an example of the honour which should be paid to them. I enter among you with the greatest confidence, surrounded by those meritorious individuals, who have concealed from me nothing which they have thought necessary for your interests. Blind passion, fale rumours, the intrigues of the common enemy of the continent, anxious only to separate the Indies from Spain, have plunged some of you into the most dreadful state of anarchy. anarchy. My heart bleeds at the view of it; but this evil, however considerable it may be, may instantaneously cease. Spaniards, only unite round my throne. Conduct yourselves so as that internal disturbances shall not deprive me of that time which I wish to employ in labouring for your happiness, nor deprive me of the means of accomplishing that object. I esteem you enough to persuade myself, that you will make every exertion to obtain and merit that happiness, which is the dearest object of my wishes. I, THE KING. ADDRESS TO THE ANDALUSIANS UNDER GENERAL CASTANOS, After the Surrender of the French Army in the defiles of Sierra Brave Andalusians!-The spark of patriotism, which was kindled in your breasts, has in a few days been fanned to a flame which has consumed the oppressors of your country. You wished to be free; and in an instant you possessed a tutelary government, and an army eager for conflict and triumph. Those legions of Vandals, who for a moment seized by surprize some of your cities, and delivered them over to pillage, who, intoxicated with victories gained over divided nations, marched, loaded with the spoils of Europe, to scatter over the fair fields of Betis the flame of desolation, have experienced the force of loyalty, and the love of country and religion.-Brave An dalusians! Yours is the glory of Marengo, of Austerlitz, and of Jena. The laurels which encircled the brows of those conquerors lie at your feet. Immortal glory to the hero who has renewed in the Sierra Morena the achievements of Fabius Maximus! Our sons will say, "Castanos triumphed over the French, and his gloy did not fill with mourning the houses of our fathers!" The unfing laurel of victory to the brave combatants who have laid prostrate the oppressors of humanity! Hymns of benediction to the wise government which has defended your rights, and prepared the way for new triumphs! I invoke you, not as Andalusians, but as Spaniards! Fly, sons of Betis! Fly to unite yourselves with your brethren of the Ebro, the Duero, and the Xucar; fly to break the chains of those who lie captive by the Tagus, the Manzanares, and the Llobregat. Go and purify the soil of Spain from the footsteps of those traitors. Go, and avenge in their blood the insults they offered you under the shelter of a feeble and cowardly government. Do you not hear the cries of those who were murdered on the 2d of May? Do you not hearken to the groans of the oppressed? Are you not touched by the secret sighs of our Ferdinand, who deplores his separation from his Spaniards!-War and revenge! Let the tyrant of Europe tremble upon the throne whence he has given authority to every crime.Brave Andalusians! you will deem no sacrifice costly with which you can purchase your king and your independence. Already you have a country, already you are a great nation; follow the paths of glory and virtue which the God of ar- |