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November 28, 1791 in National Gazette

Foreign News November 28, 1791

National Gazette

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Spain Morocco War, Spanish Discontent, Edicts French Expulsion, Clergy Opposition, Liberty Advocates

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

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Spain engages in war with Morocco amid rising domestic discontent. Edicts expelling French residents provoke questions about liberty, but powerful clergy hinders advocates, and lack of philosophical leaders stalls liberal progress.

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Spain has involved herself in a war with Morocco, at a time when all her vigilance requires to be exercised at home, to prevent a universal spirit of discontent from breaking out into action in her own provinces. The late edicts directed against the French inhabitants of Spain have (and little else could be anticipated) set the natives to enquire what this liberty is which provokes such a spirit of persecution; but the advocates for freedom in Spain have a stubborn foe to contend with in the clergy, who are a much more powerful body than ever they were in France; moreover, the French being expelled the kingdom, they have no philosophical leaders to urge them on; the Spanish people of weight and consequence being at present by no means remarkable for that liberal manner of thinking which has long distinguished their Gallic neighbours.

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War Report Political

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Spain Morocco War Spanish Discontent Edicts French Expulsion Clergy Opposition Liberty Advocates

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Spain

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Spain has involved herself in a war with Morocco, at a time when all her vigilance requires to be exercised at home, to prevent a universal spirit of discontent from breaking out into action in her own provinces. The late edicts directed against the French inhabitants of Spain have set the natives to enquire what this liberty is which provokes such a spirit of persecution; but the advocates for freedom in Spain have a stubborn foe to contend with in the clergy, who are a much more powerful body than ever they were in France; moreover, the French being expelled the kingdom, they have no philosophical leaders to urge them on; the Spanish people of weight and consequence being at present by no means remarkable for that liberal manner of thinking which has long distinguished their Gallic neighbours.