ciples, which alone can insure an improve- | Kingdoms, that great source of our riches, ment of our political condition, I am, Sir, with due respect, Coolmore, Cork, Oct. 10, 1309. CITY JUBILEE ADDRESS TO THE KING. To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: and fixed object of your Majesty's never failing care and protection, flourishing to an extent unknown in any former war.Deeply impressed with gratitude to Almighty God for the innumerable blessings. he has been pleased to pour down upon this highly favoured nation, and more particularly for his wonderful and great goodness, in having continued his divine protection to your Majesty until this joyful period, we, your Majesty's faithful Citizens of London, have implored heaven to accept our fervent prayers of praise and thanksgiving, and to continue that same providential care and protection to your Majesty for many years yet to come.Believe, Sire, that it is the warmest wish and most fervent prayer of your Majesty's Citizens of London, that Providence may long continue to this nation so distinguishing a mark of divine favour, and that in the fullness of time, when your Majesty shall be called from your earthly to a celestial crown, the memory and example of so beloved a Sovereign may secure to a grateful people the imitation of your Majesty's virtues, in the successors of your Royal House, till time shall be no more. Signed by order of Court, "Most Gracious Sovereign; We the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London in Common Council assembled, approach your Majesty's sacred person with our most lively and unfeigned congratulations on the recent Anniversary of your Majesty's Accession to the Throne of these realms; with joy and gladness we hailed the day on which your Majesty entered into the fiftieth year of your Majesty's reign, not only over the persons, but in the hearts of your Majesty's subjects.When it pleased the Almighty Ruler of Princes to place the sceptre in your Majesty's hands, the brave, free, and loyal people, whom your Majesty was orHENRY WOODthorpe." dained to govern, received with pleasure To which Address his Majesty was your Majesty's first declaration to the pleased to return the following most gracigreat Council of the nation, that “born ous Answer: I thank you for this testiand educated a Briton, the peculiar happi- mony of your zeal and affection for me ness of your Majesty's life would ever con- and my government. It has ever been sist in promoting the welfare of your peo- my anxious care to maintain the rights ple, and your Majesty's resolution to main- and privileges of every class of my subtain our most excellent Constitution, both jects; and it is a great satisfaction to me in Church and State, with an assurance to reflect, that, in the midst of all our unthat the civil and religious rights of the exampled struggles, and notwithstanding subject were equally dear to your majesty the duration of the wars in which, for the with the most valuable prerogatives of the safety of my people, I have been engaged, Crown."-We experience and acknowledge the Commerce and Manufactures of my the blessings of this security to our religion City of London have been carried to an and laws, and that great charter of liber-extent unknown at any former period.” ties which, in virtue of the glorious Revolution, your majesty's illustrious house was chosen to defend. Through the lapse of nearly half a century your Majesty has proved yourself, on every occasion, unwearied in the maintenance and practice of all the principles so graciously pledged. -It is a proud subject for your Majesty's faithful Citizens of London to record, that in the midst of all our unexampled struggles, your Majesty is enabled to say, now, as at the commencement of your Majesty's reign, that your Majesty can see with joy of heart the commerce of these They were all received very graciously, and had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand. After which his Majesty was pleased to create the Lord Mayor a Baronet, and conferred the honour of Knighthood on William Plomer, esq. Alderman. OFFICIAL PAPERS. SPANISH REVOLUTION.-Proclamation to the Army by the Marquis de Romana.—(Continued from page 608.) The country has not for some time known your best services; but the actions of Villa Franca, Vigo, fects; the people have cried out for a remedy; the decline of our manufactures, and the mercantile system unanimously embraced by all the nations of Europe. But though the government knew these defects and reformed them partially, these reforms were a new vice, which only still more embroiled the system. At length the time is arrived when good principles shall triumph over ignorance, and the nation which has appeared great and majestic in the eyes of all Europe by its valour and its virtue, shall be so also by the liberality of its principles and the goodness of its interior administration. The Supreme Junta of government of the kingdom is well convinced, that the riches of individuals are the riches of the state, and that no nation can be rich without encouraging its agriculture, commerce and industry, and that industry in general does not increase but remove the obstacles which may obstruct both the fiscal and civil laws. From these considerations the Supreme Junta cannot omit occupying itself with this work, beginning with the most urgent reform, which is, that of the contribution, and providing in the place of those abolished, others upon such things as can more properly be required to contribute, distributing them equally among the contributors, exacting them in the time and manner least offensive, and collecting them with the least expence possible. Thus the contributions, which are always an evil, shall fall only on those who can contribute, shall be applied to their true objects, and not to the maintenance of an innumerable multitude of tax-gatherers, who are unproductive consumers, and so many hands lost to industry. In consequence therefore of these principles, the King our Lord Don Ferdinand VII. and in his royal name the Supreme Junta of the government of the kingdom decrees as follows: . Art. 1. The contributions known by the name of Alcabalas, Censo, and Millones,* shall be abolished, as soon Royal Decree, dated Seville, Sept. 1. His Majesty would neither fulfil his own wishes, nor the hopes of his people, if, at the same time, when he labours to free the country from the oppression of its tyrant, he did not make every exertion to correct the vices which exist in the interior administration, and to raise this magnanimous and generous nation to the high degree of splendour and power to which it is entitled by the fruitfulness of its soil, the benignity of its climate, the extension of its coasts, and the possession of its rich colonies. Among the obstacles which have constantly opposed the progress of our agricultural industry and commerce, the first place is held by the contributions, called Alcabalas, Cientas and Millones, imposts, which obstructing the interior circulation, and pressing unequally on the productions of the land, on manufactures, and, in general, on all objects of commerce, not only *[The Alcabala is a tribute or royal have banished from our unfortunate coun- duty which is paid upon every article try that liberty, without which there can sold, in the form of a per centage, accordbe neither arts, cultivation, nor commerce; ing to the value of the commodity. This not only have rendered odious the fiscal per centage is varied, but all the laws and administration, and even industry itself; ordinances respecting it, to remove ambibut, which is more, inflicting on it in-guity and to prevent exactions, are colcurable wounds, have ever been only a lected in a book called the Alcabalotorio. feeble resource for supplying the necessi- There is a Spanish proverb which suffities of the state. Observation and ex-ciently shews the unpopularity of this perience have shewn their prejudicial ef- form of taxation-Quien descubre la Alcabala as those which are appointed to supply MARQUIS of ASTORGA, President. FRANCE.-Address of his most Serene High ness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, to the Conservative Senate, Sitting of the 3rd of October, 1809. GENTLEMEN; His Imperial and Royal Majesty, taking in with a single glance the present situation of affairs, finds it necessary to order a levy of 30,000 men.This is the purport of the Decree which is to be submitted to your deliberation, and by which the new levy is imposed upon the new classes of the conscription of the years of 1800, 1807, 1808, 1809, and 1810-Your wisdom will already have discovered the benefit of this arrangement. You will soon be assured that it is the result of a prudent foresight, and of the unceasing anxiety of his Majesty for the public interest. Whatever, Gentlemen, may be the issue of the negociations at Altenburgh, there are strong indications that the English, after having been driven and King, Protector of the Confederation 1809. ese lo paga. "Whoever informs of the Alcabala should pay it." In the Recopilacion de los Lues the superior clergy and judges are exempted from it.-The Censo, which has been improperly called Ciensos SIRE; If the numerous victories of your and Ciensas, in the newspapers, is a rate Majesty, and the extraordinary successes collected on the rents of houses and estates. of your armies, be at the same time the -The Millones is an aid that the king-work of your genius, the result of the most dom granted to the Sovereign on the con- scientific military combinations, of your sumption of six articles of domestic use, inherent intrepidity, and of the courage of wine, vinegar, oil, butcher's meat, soap, so many brave men, these victories and and tallow candles. Among the accom- successes are no less owing to your admimodations at court, in the Council of Fi-rable foresight. It is this which has innances, there is an apartment called the Sala de Millones. In this room or hall the affairs relating to this due to the king, are transacted, as well as some others regarding the tax on tobacco, cocoa, and a few other commodities. The persons appointed to superintend this business consist of some members of the Council of Finances, and several deputies nominated by such of the cities of Spain as have authority to vote for representatives (Procuradores) in the Cortes.] spired your Majesty with the idea of assembling at first, in the interior of the empire, whatever might be the complexion of affairs, the youth of France who are successively called to serve their country, and of making them constantly pay their contribution to the safety of the State, at the same time that they accustom themselves to arms.-The temporary derelic tion of this system would be productive of some danger to the empire, and it would be placing rather too great a reliance upon the future, however flattering appearances | entrance of the Scheldt, with the intention might be at present, to suffer the depots of burning the dock-yards at Antwerp; in the interior of France to want the re- there our enemies were covered with congular supply of recruits, whenever a part fusion. At their approach, Flushing was of the young soldiers who fill them should provided with a numerous garrison; be called into actual service.-A short 12,000 picked troops marched from St. glance at the state of your Majesty's ar- Omer, under the orders of the Senator Gemies will be sufficient to shew, that the neral Rampon; and eight demi-brigades levy, which I feel it my duty to propose, of reserve, which were at Boulogne, Louis sufficient at present.-Master of Vienna, vaine, and Paris, proceeded post, to the and of more than half the Austrian Mo- points that were menaced. These troops narchy, your Majesty is at the head of the were of themselves sufficient for the demost formidable army that France ever fence of Antwerp. That place, which is had beyond the Rhine; and to judge of covered by a strong rampart, and the adwhat it is capable of effecting, it is only vanced works which your Majesty caused necessary to mention, that it was hardly to be constructed four years ago, is still formed when it conquered Austria, in the further protected by extensive inundafields of Thaun, of Abersberg, and of tions; and on the left bank of the Scheldt, Eckmuhl. Whether the negociations of the fort of La Tete de Flandre, which is Altenburgh terminate in peace, or whe- itself surrounded by an inundation of 2,000 ther the war continue, your Majesty has toises, secures the communication of Antin your depots troops enough, fit to take werp with our fortresses in the north.the field, to recruit your army in Ger- The English Expedition was formed upon many. In the month of January your the supposition, that Antwerp was only Majesty pursued the English army in au open city, whereas that fortress could Gallicia. While you were engaged in not be taken but after a long siege. Init, your Majesty was informed that the dependent of troops of the line, your MaCourt of Vienna intended to break its en-jesty saw, at the first signal, 150,000 nagagements. Though such an event seemed to call the principal part of your forces into Germany, your Majesty nevertheless thought proper to leave your veteran army in Spain; not that the whole of that army was actually necessary to complete the subjugation of the Spanish rebels, but to deprive England of the possibility of prolonging that rebellion, of which she is the cause. That power, seeing in the new system established in Spain, the presage of her own ruin, did not, however, despair of overturning it; and her efforts upon this occasion have greatly surpassed all that we have seen her make upon similar occasions.-General Moore had not been able to bring off from Gallicia the half of his troops. The immense losses which his army sustained, did not dissuade the EngLish Government from sending a fresh army, consisting of 40,000 men, to Lisbon. It penetrated to the centre of Spain, and rallied round it the various corps of insurgents. The banks of the Alberche and the Tagus witnessed their flight and their confusion. Compelled to retreat to the further side of that river, and pursued at the point of the bayonet, they totally evacuated Spain, and the Portuguese saw them return in disorder to their territory. -At the same period, an army of equal force suddenly made its appearance at the tional guards ready to march, and at their nounced that this expedition originated in | be maintained at their present respectable ignorance and inexperience; and when, establishment, and a considerable number sparing of French blood, and directing of your subjects will be definitively released that a plan merely defensive should be from the conscription. Your Majesty will followed, you wrote to me; We are also have at your disposal, the 25,000 men happy to find the English crowding into afforded by the class of 1811, upon whom I the marshes of Zealand; let them be shall not propose to your Majesty to make merely kept in check, and their army will any call, unless events should disappoint be speedily destroyed by the bad air, and your hopes and pacific intentions. YourMathe epidemic fevers of that country.' jesty's armies are equally formidable from Whilst our troops were distributed in com- their numbers as from their courage. But fortable cantonments in the environs of who could advise France not to proportion Antwerp, or stationed in that fortress, the her efforts to those of her enemies? In giving English army, encamped in the midst of such advice, the result of the most impru marshes, and destitute of water fit for dent security, it would be necessary to drinking, lost upwards of one-third of its forget that Austria, very lately, had on soldiers. But the facility which the Eng- foot 700,000 men; and that to create this lish have of going by sea from one quarter gigantic force, that Power did not hesi to another, may lead us to expect that all tate to expose her population to almost that will have escaped the disasters of this total destruction, and to attack the very expedition, will be sent to reinforce their basis of her prosperity. We must equally army in Portugal.-Sire, the various fields forget, that England has taken part in the of battle in which your armies have dis- Continental War, by landing, at the same tinguished themselves, are too remote from moment, three different armies, on the each other to admit of your marching, coasts of Naples, Holland, and Portugal. without inconvenience to the soldier, one -The agitation of those who are jealous of your armies, from one scene of action to of France has been redoubled, because the other; and your Majesty, so highly they are conscious that the present crisis satisfied with the zeal of the troops you has for ever fixed her greatness. Their command beyond the Danube, is anxious efforts will be impotent, because France to spare them from the fatigues of the war has been enabled to reach the highest in Spain. Besides, the French armies be- pinnacle of success and of glory, without yond the Pyrenees, now consist of 300 making any of those ruinous sacrifices battalions and 150 squadrons. It is there- which destroy her enemies. In fact, notfore sufficient, without sending any addi- withstanding the successive calls, up to tional corps thither, to keep up at their full the present moment, made upon the differestablishment those already there. Thirty ent classes of conscripts, scarcely have onethousand men, collected at Bayonne, af- fourth of those who composed them taken ford the means of accomplishing this ob- the field.-In considering the situation ject, and of repulsing any force which the of your Majesty's armies and the results English may cause to advance.-In this of the English expeditions, can we, withstate of things, I conceived that it corres- out a degree of satisfaction, behold Engponded with your Majesty's views to limit land, in imitation of Austria, making the levy, necessary at this moment, to the efforts disproportionate to her means, and contingent indispensably requisite for re- the wants of her navy? What can she explacing, in the battalions of the interior, pect from this contest upon land, and maṇ the drafts which are daily made from them. to man, with France, that shall not re The returns which will be laid before your dound to her own injury and disgrace? Majesty will inform you, that, of the conscription for the years 1806-7-8-9 and 10, there still remain more than 80,000, who, though ballotted, have not yet been called into actual service. This immense reinforcement might march against your enemies, should that measure be rendered necessary by any imminent danger to the State. I propose to your Majesty to call out only 36,000, and to declare all those classes entirely free from any future call. By this means, your armies, Sire, will Sire, the French people will have to thank your Majesty for the inexpressible advantage and glory of a peace, conquered without maritime expeditions, from an enemy who, by his situation, thought himself free from all attack. Every serious attempt upon the Continent, on the part of the English, is a step towards a ge neral peace.--The English Ministers, who preceded the Members of the present Government, a more able set of men than the latter, were well convinced of this |