Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

TRINIDAD, JUNE 25.

SPANISH NEWS.

THE ship L'Orient arrived here yesterday, in 20 days from Gibraltar. She brings the papers of that garrison to a late date. We learn from them, that a Counter Revolution has taken place in Spain;—That the old King, Charles IV. had been restored to the throne; and had put himself and crown under the protection of Bonaparte:—That the old and new King, with the Prince of Peace, continued at Bayonne, in the safe keeping of Napoleon, and his king-killing and king-making legions:—And that the Grand Duke of Berg [Murat] had been appointed by the old King of Spain, Regent of his kingdom. In all this the strong arm of Bonaparte—as well as his treachery and duplicity—are abundantly manifest.

BOSTON, JULY 27.

Latest from Europe.—We have very interesting intelligence from Spain, received by the way of Trinidad. The last reigning branch of the ill-fated House of Bourbon has ceased to wield the sceptre of command; and Bonaparte is not only the actual but acknowledged ruler of Spain. We remain ignorant how the Emperor Napoleon, and his Arch Magician Talleyrand effected this great work:—But they have permitted the world to know the results. It has been before known, that a large French army had marched into Spain under pretence of guarding its seaports from invasion:—That after the tumult which eventuated in the removal of the Prince of Peace from office the old King Charles, renounced his throne, in favor of his eldest son who was proclaimed King, with the title of FERDINAND VII: That afterwards Charles protested to Bonaparte then at Bayonne that the act of abdication was involuntary on his part:—That soon after both the old and new King, with the other branches of the royal family, were seen posting to Bayonne to lay their complaints at the feet of the Emperor Napoleon.—At Bayonne the royal visitants were lodged in the French imperial palace; and their business was speedily executed.—Immediately on his arrival, the new King was made to renounce his sovereignty:—And the old King was pleased to appoint Marshal Murat (brother in law to the Emperor) to be his Regent in Spain with the military title of Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom.—This was scarcely proclaimed before the King, and all the princes, by a solemn act and apparently without any consideration, ceded Spain and all her dominions, to the rule of BONAPARTE;—and renounced all right to the kingdom.—Thus ended the transactions at Bayonne, and here end the official articles. Other accounts add, that the Spanish people had revolted at those proceedings; that they had proclaimed FERDINAND to be their rightful sovereign; that in some provinces they had risen en masse and attacked the French; and that at Cadiz they had driven all the French on board the squadron in the harbour; had offered to surrender the place to the English; and that the fleet heretofore mentioned as being seen bound to Cadiz, was destined to take possession of that city, with its fleet and arsenals in the name of the new King, FERDINAND VII. Thus stood affairs in Spain the beginning of June: We may daily expect to hear of new and great events in that kingdom.

From official and other accounts it is evident the Spanish people will not yield their necks to a French yoke so readily as their King and Princes have.—Cent.
LETTER OF THE KING,

Appointing Murat his Regent in Spain

BROTHER,

My absence and infirmities not allowing me wholly to dedicate myself to the unremitted exertions required for the government of my states, the tranquility of my kingdom, and the preservation of my crown, it has struck me that I could do nothing better than to appoint a locum tenens, who, invested by the supreme authority which I hold from God and my ancestors, should govern and rule, for me and in my name, over all the provinces of Spain.

In consequence whereof, and having previously consulted the welfare of my people and my wish to rescue the monarchy from the precipice into which the enemies of the peace of the continent were on the eve of plunging her; duly appreciating, on the other hand, the eminent virtues of which your Imperial and Royal Highness has given us so many proofs, and the great services which you have done us; I resolved, with the consent and approbation of my faithful and great ally, the Emperor and King, upon appointing your Imperial and Royal Highness my Lieutenant General, by the decree which I have just issued to the board of government, and which is here annexed; intreating you, prince, to transmit it to them, and to accept of this appointment, which will restore peace to my mind—

And I pray God may keep you, brother, under his holy and worthy protection

[SIGNED]

CHARLES.

Bayonne, May 4, 1808.

Renunciation of the Royal Family of Spain to that Kingdom.

BY THE KING.

"I have thought it proper to give my beloved subjects the last proof of my paternal love for them. Their happiness, the peace, prosperity, preservation and integrity of the dominions which Divine Providence had put under my government, have been, during my reign, the only objects of my incessant solicitude. Whatever dispositions and measures have been adopted ever since my accession to the throne of my ancestors, tended to that just end: nor could they tend to any other. At present, under the extraordinary circumstances in which I have been placed, and see myself, my conscience, my honor, and the fair name which I leave to posterity, imperiously require from me, that the last act of my sovereignty should exclusively be directed to the promotion of the said end, namely, to the peace, prosperity, security and integrity of the monarchy, the throne of which I relinquish: and to the greatest happiness of my subjects of both hemispheres.

And accordingly, I have ceded to my ally and dear friend, the Emperor of the French, all my rights to Spain, and the Indies, having stipulated that the crown of Spain and the Indies shall continue independent and entire, such as it has been under my dominion; and likewise, that our holy religion is to be not only the established religion, but the only one professed throughout the territories of this monarchy. You are to understand it so, and to communicate the same to the other councils, to the tribunals of the kingdom, to the heads of provinces, both military, civil and ecclesiastic, and all the justices of my kingdom, that the last act of my sovereignty may come to the knowledge of all throughout my Spanish and India dominions, and that you and they may concur in carrying into execution the dispositions of my dear friend, the Emperor Napoleon, whose aim in the maintenance of peace, friendship and union between France and Spain, and the preventing of excesses and popular commotions, the effects of which are invariably found to be the public calamities, the desolation of families, and the ruin of all.

Given at Bayonne, in the Imperial Palace of government, May 8, 1808.

TO THE KING

To the temporary Governor of my Council of Castile"