..~,«, r~ irt " f • ' r • - / 1) )le , - THE NATIONAL A ST t AN. t 5 now renewed by the bite even;s of Europe. e.ents whir +; may render the completioe of our enterprige mere difficult. lilt on which the justice of our cause never depended. It the Spaniards justly beast of hevisertesisted the lyrist of the Fret eh Empire even at its rommeneement, ss bat isms . eat be enesideree the Helot. of America, enalavesl for 300 years since the lapse tinie by no me,ctl justifies usurpations, and the sessions or reumiciations made in Mt xico, Cusco and Hugo's, were not less compulsive than those of Repaint., nor the arts of injestiee committed by Napoleon to Spain mote horrible and ontraeemet thin) those whieleAntertea has. sidle led anti has still to fear from the barbarous desimitisni o Spaniard-. It has hot been one man or one flintily that had exercised its despotie dominion over you. and who is it who now seems to bring you hark to slavery ? It is au entire nation that will domineer over yon s a n d children, innocent victims of the ignorance, of the egotism or tir kitty of their own fathers. Every Spaniard would then walk loffited in your squares and streets, without one of you „having the a ight even to breathe will t his permission. or enjoy without dread she pleasure of his own house The fruit of your labour 'wilt then no longer be vout own, and there will be nothing that will not belong to the Spaniard who may conic to govern over your posaessimia, the sole owner of that property your country has preserved to you. The sad noise of your chains will then cos er with ignominy the sepulehrtss if the keine* who died for your liberty, and their blood will cry aloud to Heaven for detonation of sour indult nee. " Stich, in a few words, is the prospect which the people ought to have before their eyes in order to resolve to employ all their exer tions and all their means in the salvation of their country.--of that country that has suffered so unfelt under its ancient slavery, and whose name alone it was not formerly lawful even to pronounce. Yes, Americans ! we are now possessed if a country that before we could not boast, and which, compared with the miserable mini inhabited by out ancient oppressors, is all that a great and indepeps sleet nation could requite. Not so Spain, who, as we have beforz.6 answered to the intimation e,f Toribio Mottoes, eon never Le any thing else than the sport of the neighbouring nations, unable even to maintain herselfurdess out of these oppressed provinces of America. Let us then no longer employ the riches of our soil in behalf of tyrants,.in ordeeto form the links of those chains they are preparing for us. They without navy, without cOminerce, 'arts, or science. however they may have endeavoured to deprive America of these benefits, have not been able to obliterate from the bosoms of her Inhabitants, the innate love Of liberty.. nor yet exhatist the treasures which they still seek to dispose of at their own will. Let us be on our guard that the arrival of a hand of adventurer); may not catch Ali inactive, but do not Ict us fear their blustering when we know by experience we can conquer these, and that the notifies invaded by tyrants leave never yielded to usurpation but when they have ceased to defend clients( hes. In order to avoid Vis fatal esent, the Congress does not spare any measute in its power. Desirous not to confine the means of defence to our own resources, the Congress has forwarded its proposilious to time British Cabinet, folly persuade 4 that a goverument, the protector of the freedom of nations, and • which more than once itself sought to withdraw us from slavery, will never wish that we should return to it again. Folly 'satisfied that the inhabitants of these United Provinces are Oriels resolved to sustain the rights of their itelependenee, however greet the suer.fioe, Congre-s has made the allotments of money and 411 en that each district is to contribute towards the war, and has adopted the necessary measures to provide the requisite arms. It has also endeavoured to unite hearts and exertions of ail the people, and now redoubles every exertion, tinder the hope that all the provinces are fully sensible of this fimehimental principle, which insures the issue of the most ardnons attempt. l'our's will be auccessful, inhabitants of New Granada, if the resources of the soil you inhabit, the weans which Providence has placed in your hands, the valour which animates your heatts. and the justice of the cause you defend, are only called forth and erinsolidoted by union, and every where impelled by sa crifices—but these must be ready, constant and unbounded. " CA All 1.0 TOR R ES, Pres. CRISENITO VALENZUELLA. Sec." Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock, a dreadful accident liaPpened in consequence of Matthew's Crovelon coach ~ ‘ertiiniitig. opposite Crosii-stieet, Newington. 'the horses set off full spee:l with the pole of the coach; and the coachman, being entangled in the reins, is co shockingly mangled and ent about thy head tinit his life is des paired of. Several outside passengers 'A ere dreadfully hriiiscal one gentleman had his leg broke ; and another;iii consooitroce (*part of the coach falling on his head, presented a shocking , oectec!e. The horses were staid in the etiiiiuster road, with all their 11.0(.0 broken and very much cut. 116, 36 yoke on the section' of Ametlea. sad reduce than to their old hu miliating state of colonies, is este froe fipm the eppressive power of France, and able to cast on our shores an inundation of insoleut sol t}ie of tourgre thieves„ atul hardened assassins. '► !ler cruelties and perfidy in Anterica Were. fully expetlenced in the instance of the Constitution of the Cartes, by which they fiats • tested themselves with having re-established the hornet' race in the enjoyment of their natural rights. That Cotistitntion adjured and proclaimed with so much solemnity wherever the Spanish arms held sway, was not sufficient to cause the lives and property of the Ante ric•an•, the chastity of virgins, or the sacred dignity of the clergy and satt.lnory to he reseeded. s Now that this same Constitution has disappeared, and that by the decree of Ferdinand issued at Valencia on the 4th of May. those same Cortes are declared to be no other than a club of factious 411.1 criminal persons, and the Constitution the result of their s iel.e , lisess, as well as of oil those who now pretend to upheld its ele ci vnisee ; what have the Americans to ex pert, who on its treemiti declared ago Ist their fellow countrymen? What are now the hopes of the Spaniards themselves, when, in the Constitution which hilt yesterday formed all their happiness, they now find nothing but opprobrium, and the anathemas of the sovereign power? Yon, Spaniards, at the expellee of sacrifices which at one stroke are rendered abortive, re-established those rights which yon disfigured for America, but which by means of your Con atitntional Code you expected to secure for Spain ; and these same tights, as formerly, are now converted into crimes of high treason, nod the people returns to its ancient abjection, anti the Throne again surrounded by sattefites, will become a source of oppressive de g►adation. ►e The ruin of Ithonaparte being completed by the re-establish wet of the Bourbon line. and time Family Compacts between France and Spain, as'.l inequality being again restored with all the intermediate agent* of absolute power, nothing will h left un- Vied, nor rto exertion spared; and it will be of little avail that the House of Austria has experienced any disgust in the very moment that lie contributed with his threes to the dethronement of Iris son• in law, or that the ancient rivalship . subsisting between the two Houses be again renewed ; of little consequence %%ill it be if fresh differences arise between Spaniards and Americans, that the Prince, of Bucinapartel creation have to repast their erroneous calculation , ; or that England}, intent only on her own iaterests, and penetrated with the justice that oblieeti her to snake so mangy• sacrifices toe (Spain, should fail to be sensible of those still stronger inducements which call upon her to look towards .‘inerica. All these eonsidera tions ought to have no iirflmience on the inhabitants of New Cratu►da, who ought to be persuaded that the lot of America is already cam in Europe. " America has already proclaimed her liberty and adjured her lodependenc.e, at the time that the. Spateisle Dation . , in the name of lerdinand, mad with his presumed will, was every o hese spilling 'le blood of her ilfintrious sons, end carried discord and desolation thrioighout every part of the Columbian soil, where the rights of man u►umenced to be known. Hitltrrta the crimes of the nation have been c•,..!erciseet n n ►ler the ►lame ot• Ferdinand ; henceforward the latter 1 act thriough the medium of his own agents. and there are no . horrors se hint the libel al party will not leave to dread from the pride -and vei l :tearer of theservile one. True it is dist ihe first invitations of Fel (Inland, his emissaries, his decrees, and orders, will not fail to N peak in the usual tone of time paternal beneficence of kings. At first they will Not come with that sangninary aspect which will be reserved till hereafter, and which will in due time display the domitieering character of the Spanish nation Before hying our strength with these armed ltil.thwayinett, we shall have to struggle • • with pardons, promises, ds, crosses, titles, and distinctions, on vri►ich Europe relics toinfinettee the habits, prebulices, and foolish credulity of the Ante►jeans. llowever strouely religion may condemn tiokpolitical artifices in the ministers. of the sanctuary, the Court of P.ladrid will prodigally distribute mitres, eationships, and other ecelesiastical benefices, and will not bill to resort to inmetratienes as long as they will serve her oust purpose ; vices which excite horror its our clergy, too enlightened hot to resist such a profanation of the sanctuary—vices which would he again 'putting the fate of the -American chtuthes at the mercy of the Spanish Government—would leave them perpetually chained to the car of despotism. Deception still precede the sword, and both will be employed to carry on a wide and destructive war against us, iu which the weak mind: - deceived, by .Spanish tyrant" would uselessly have to deplore the selling of Moir country tette vile price, when fatal experience came to undeceive them. .„ " People of New Granada !—Weigh well your fate and that of • sour posterity he the balance of futurity, in order to form a resolution worthy of these objects. On this depends the issue of the stinggle .. .