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OL. I!.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M-DONNELL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1809. OK THE ENQU J R£R. the Minifies of the Seville received ? queftion is about to be \ome to our adminiftration, . -rival of his excellency Don On'is a: New York. ’ all pafs over the machine- Great Britain plays off io aftton—the intrigues of his Mr. Canning in the ap it of a Spanilh minifter, , of dividing the people of try, in cafe he fhoukl be and of embroiling us in a ith France, in cafe he is We believe, that this is of fo fun pie a complex it may be fettled to the fa of every liberal man in I—the1 —the arts of England to ary notwithHanding. Gen. Waffling,on addreff n queries to his cabinet, cii oi April, 1793— among Shall a minitier from the of France be received? and, fhali it be abfolutely or liilcauons ; and if with ons, of what kind ?” of France was materially from that of Spain at this There was then 44 a n ex acting government” in one organized govern pojfsjfion of the power of vhich could depute am and ether public minifters. •e is the exiftinff govern- Spain ? That unhappy rent into pieces. A ] un •: Seville j king Jofeph at ‘There is no one govern- Spain * or* the contrary, . druggie for the govern f. Blood is daily ihed. e daffy advancing and re yefferday Welled v claim aim of vi&ory ; to day reti es in diimay before ts of Souk. oven review the powers of lent him ft If, as chalked ne conflitution of the U. The 3d Eft ion, article 2, :hac iC he fhali receive am and ether public minif an am b a pad or f art tentative of a foreign nt. s the government of Spain ! viile, or at Madrid ? In of a. monarch, now a pn ance, ora felf-confututed >f jofeph r ; the lad f that there is rtr rtment in Spain —that now ffiTggling for it— is no organize'! author!- &t ids ift j Yim t J"! C *f(i an be ace:edited as the * Spain. How the a* can ion receive any mi a ‘s ;n t h e [ • ale of his cere G wers 2 Me Jeff: T- ha; Foreign Correspondent C) Zusn- f GEORGIA EXPRESS. MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL 32 INCREASED. accurately deferibed this (Ute of things, vvhen in his reply to the in habitants of Bolton of Auguft 26, 180S, he observes to them, “ in Spain indeed a coni eft for the govern ment appears to have an fen—but of its couric or profpedts, we have no information n which prudence would undertake a hafty change in our policy, &c. Some light is fhed on this fub jedt by able letters of Heividius , written in reply to Pacificus, on the Prdident’s Proclamation of Neu trality, in the year 1793, and as cribed to the pen of Mr. Mad Ton. 4 When a foreign minifterp*e!ents himielf, two queftions immediately arife : Are his credentials from the exilting and adling government of his country ? Are they properly authenticated ? Theft! queftions be long of necefuty to the Executive j but they involve no cognizance of the queftion, whether thole txer cifing the government have the right, along with the poffeffian. This belongs to the nation alone, on whom the government is to ope rate. The queftions before the Executive are merely queftions of fad. Again : 4 that the authority of the Executive does not extend to the queftion, whether an cxifi ing government ought to hr recog nized or not, win it ill room leariy appear from an examina i oof the next inference of the write-', to wit —that the Executive has a right to give or refufe activity or operation to pre-exiffing treaties.” Thefe ideas encourage the con flruCtiun, that events have not yet attained luck a maturity as to per mit the exercife of the power of the Executive. There is no 4 exifting and adling govtnj men to f Spain.’ T here aie as yet no perfons, who can claim the fuprtmacy of 4 exercifing the government.’ 4 The pcll’cffion* is yet in difpute. But fhould this queftion be va ried into a nev/ form ; fhould it he afked why not receive die minifter of a Junto, who is mold likely to come into pofT flion—the fubjedfc affumes a more complicated form, j; is not merely, what would be the doty of our Executive in a given iUte ot facts, but what thefe fadis are likely to be ? It is to weign ‘die fate of Empires—to gage the re - fburces of contending powers—-to fix the varying revolutions of war. But even under this view of it, the Junto of Seville are deftined to kick the beam; Is there a man of any eifeormnent, who weighs the victories of Bonaparte in Auftria, and the power which they impart, c pouring frtfii detachments into Spain—who considers wi 1 h wh a t a - riry and fpiric the French have mEmaistd fair pc::: or. in that ex-enfrv , ir.l r ice of the Auftrian ca ‘Treedkrts the com- plaints of Sir John Moore of the incredible 44 apathy and indifference of the Spaniards,” even at that time, and his even 4£ hiking his army to convince the people of England, as well as the reft of Europe, that the Spaniards had neither the pow er nor the inclination to make ef forts for themfelvr s—the complaints of Gen. Blake of the cowardly flight of his own troops on the firft found of the French cannon—the com plaints of Sir Arthur WtftlefEy’s officer, that the Spandh troops were without difeipline or (kill— the refignanion of Gen. Cuefca and ibme other Spanilh officers of their command, into the hands of Wtl leflev, on the avowed ground that they 44 could nor depend on their men”—the jealoufy which the Spa niff. troops entertain of their Eng lish allies, and their complaints of thGr 44 tyrannical condud”—the probability, that as the Spanilh of ficers have left them, the privates will gradual:/ imitate their exam ple, and 1 avc Welle fley alone ; is there a man who can ferioufl/ fcan the fe tranfaClions, without de(pair ing ci the fuccefs of 4 the Patriots ?” A nation that conducts itlelr with fuck ipiritleis indifference, is Icarce ly fit to be free. A nation that thus encounters fo near and power ful an antagonift as France, cannot exptbl to be free.—lf then the queftion be, who is the mofl likely to be the proprietor of Spain, there can be but little doubt as to our du ties or our interefts. But let us apply the principles laid down, to anew cafe. Eong and interefting negodations have exifted in Spain, rcfperfting various points of difpute between h**r and the United States. Mr. Jdfierfon informed Congrefs, in his meflage of November 8, 1808, ihat thefe 44 important negociations with Spain, which hsd been alternately fufpended and refumed, neceffarily experience a paufe, under the ex traordinary and interefting crifis which diftinguifhes her imernal ft tuation.” If Don Onis were now received as the ambaflkdor of Spain, would the Prefident of the United States think of renewing thefe ne gotiations with him ? No i tor it would be ufelefs to conclude a treaty with a party, that is even now ftruggiirg for its own txift ence, and may in the next moment be diverted of a fingie foothold in the empire. This fubje<sl prefsnts itfelf in a norhtr point of view. The United States v.ifh to be a neutral and paci fic nation. But to recognize the minifter of either of the parties, as the mirdjler of Spain, would, on the contrary, be to take a fide in the conteft, nr-d to corn pi emit the peace and neutrality of the Linked Stans. Tu receive the minifters cf both, in that capacity, would be a dired iolecifm in terms. A few months more will proba - bly decide the difputed pofTeffion of the throne. In the mean time, let us extend to Mr. Onis all th rights of hofpitality and friendfliif —and, if it be confiftcnt with th*- terms of his miffion, lec us refpftf't.T fully hear him on thofe points wfl. — do not touch our own neutrality, the general interefts of Spain. PROCLAMATION OF KING JOSEPH. 44 Soldiers ■—lt is fcarcely fifteen days fince 120,000 enemies, con fiding of Englifh, Portuguefe and Spaniards, who marched from dif ferent points, rendezvoufed under the walls of my capita! ; but uni ted on the 20rh of July at the bridge of Gaudarama, the firft and 4th corps, and the referve, difeG- ‘ on that day the enemy. Oi th.- 27th, he repaifed in great hafte the Alberche. On the 28th, attacked in a port ion judged inatrackable, 80,000 men have not been able to contend againft 40,000 French.— From that time, renouncing their chimerical project of cpnqucfl, they have thought but of fafety, and have abandoned the fiffd of battle. More than 6,000 Englifh, wounded are in our holpitals. 44 The laft of our corps, the ift, was judged iufficient to obferve, and keep in check this army, ftili fo numerous in fpite of its loft's.— It remained upon the Alberche whiift cur corps and the referve fee out on the 29 I1 to ft’zeon Toledo, befieged by the army of La Man cha, and that of Madrid, menaced by the fame army, already within four leagues of die capital, ro re linquifh its prey. It has p; ft'* ; ,!;a Tagus in the greateft hafic, .J flies towards the Sierra Mo re fa ■ having abandoned ibme thoui *. of killed, wounded and prifon: The 2d, sth and 6th corps are !... lowing the r<:ar guard of the er <. - my *s army. Thefe corps former: a junction with the ift corps o r G pafon the 7th Auguft. tc The Englifh fly in every wr / in diforder, and bv reads hither / judged impracticable to artiiier*. - The zd and sth corps, aie purfuG;g them. 44 Soldiers you have faved m capital, the king of Spain thank: you ■, you have done more, G • brother of your Emperor fees ft before yeur eagb s the eternal ene my of the French name. 44 T lie Emperor will know r.ii that you have done, he will acknow ledge the brave who made thrrn fti ves confpicuous among the brave, thofe who have received honora ble wounds j and if he fays to us, f can content wUh you, we Gail be fu:- fi ier.tly rccompeaced. JOSEPH. 71 n vy/-v, - T o-- ** (No. 76.