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464- Original Letter on the Insurrection at Madrid i ? 66 .
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On the OTonday morning thousands of people assembled in the great square , high street , and about the palace , without arms , and committing no manner of violence to any one , and oniy insisting that all should flap their hats , in which jnanner all the ambassadors , with their servants , went to court without the least
interruption ? Thus every thing continued till about four o ' clock in the afternoon , ( the piety of the catholic king inclining him to employ all acts of clenien - cy rather than rigour , ) when the xnob seat a paper to his majesty , who was graciously pleased to promise that his subjects should continue with their old Spanish dress , that bread and provisions
should be lowered , and a Spaniard should succeed t ; he Marquis < Je Squillace ; and , that same evening before dark these acts of clemency were proclaimed to the people , and Sign or Don Miguel de Muzquiz appointed for the department of the Hazienda , whereupon all the people dispersed and every thing was quiet
during that night , as if nothing had happened . But as soon as it was known the ije ; ct morning :, Tuesday , that the catho-Jic king , with all the royal family a / id principal attendants on the court , h # d gone to Aranjuez before day , a kind . of macjness seized the common people , who Assembled in large parties , seized the
arms and drums or the many small ^ guards of soldiers dispersed about the ^ town , and taking by force every offensive weapon or club they could find , and joined by numbers of the lowest soit of women , took possession of every gate of the town , permitting none to go out on foot or in carriages , but giving lea . ve to everyone to come in , and bring all kinds
of things free of duty or customs : others ¦ in large bodies with shouts and noise niarcfi , ^ "with drums beating , and firing their musjtets without bal ] s in the air , terrifying every body , but injuring no , © ne , and thus continued all that day and . the following 4 ) ight , / with the additional circumstance of their appearing with jflarnbcaus and torches .
They permitted , however , mesxengets to be dispatched to , Aranjuez with letters from tbe , governor of tjie council . Qn We < Jn _ e ^ 4 ay jnprn . ing » 6 th Maich , the . same .. turnuhs continued , till the arrival of a messenger from Aranjuez , who was concluded by thousands of people , lp the governor , of the council to whom w / as : $ I < $ veT ^ a , ro ^ aV ^ isp ^ ch , the contents . of which were iQ ^^ e 4 ia , tcly iT ^ adeti : nQVfn to the public , by proclamations ^ dinerent pares of the town , w&ereby his ca > -
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tholic majesty ' s gracious declarations W / efe published , viz . entire pardon for all past offences , entire liberty for flappedhatsand long cloaks , the price of bread to fee reduced to eight quarts the loaf , from i % quarts that it was before the riot , oil and so 3 p quarts 14 for what was wortri 17 , and bacon or iard to 16 . That the Junta de Abastos should be abolished , that the Walloon guards should retire
from Madrid , as also the Marquis de Squillace , and that the aforesaid Signor Muzquiz , a Spaniard , should be minister of the Hazienda ; all this to be granted upon condition that the people should retire home and to their respective occupations , deliver up their arms , and be no rrtore seen' in parties and crowds .
These royal acts of grace and clemency had the desired effect ; for before noon , of the a 6 , all the people retired and dispersed , after delivering to every guard the arms and drums they had seized , and shook hands with the soldiers .
I own to you that I was very much alarmed at first . On the Monday morning I went to J , ord JRochfordV in my coach , my servants with their flapped hats , and I held my own flapped at the window , by which I passed very quietly and returned home that evening with the same tranquillity . On the Tuesday morning I went again to my lord ' s , and
his lordship was desirous 1 should remain with him all that ni ^ ht , and permitted my small family to remain there , as the situation of his house promised more quiet . 1 tell you all these facts for your own private information , and I can say no more by common post , nor indeed is it yet easy to see clear into all the secrets of this proceeding . I have in my own particular lost a kind friend in the late minister . I was at his office on the
Saturday , the day before the insurrectipn , " I know , " saith he , " you . have a great deal to say to me , but I wish you would come after to-morrow , for I must go directly to > the King . " He added , •« we will be often together this year at Ar ^ anjuez . " How uncertain is our destiny in this world , apd . what accidents happen from one , moment to . aaotfoer . rjc is gone to some sea ^ port to em b ark ; for
Italy , and 1 believe * fcCK Carthagena 1 Tiie new mi $ isj ; er . i ^ as ^ been 30 . years in . tfyc finances . I am wejl -known to him ,, and he fcnows-weUJho ^ v rjxuch bis pjrede , ce £ - , sor -was always partial % o jnjie . Wl ^ at . jvity OugK $ ay wl ^ nu be friars t ^ Jiis- ? 4 1 a ^ n , » my &M ^ i »* ,, n ^ p ^^ in ^^ rdy ^ a ^ d truly , Yours ^ &c * Sec * < Jeorge Whatley ^ Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/8/
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