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REVOLUTION IN SPAIN. TOE ADDRESSES OF GENERALS RIEGO, BANOS, AND ! ARCO AGUERO, TO THE CORTES AND KING OF SPAIN. I The following important documents, which have been otten alluded to in the recent accounts from Spain, have never yet been published in this country.' We shall make no apology, therefore,. though they are of some length, for presenting them to our Readers . " TO THE CORTES. gs When the Generals who. ire at the head of the Army of Observation recollect that to them and their companions in arms is owing the first constitutional impul,e—that they first caused the cry of Liberty to resound—that they hastened, nay, even created, the extraordinary events to which the Spaniards are obliged for a country, froM which the King derives his grandeur and his power—and, finally, in conse quence of which the nation has seen its Cortes assem sling—these same Generals do not hesitate to carry to the foot of the throne their wishes and their solid tittles. The Captain-General of Andalusia, under date of the Bth inst. communicates an order of the Minister of War to the Commander in . Chief of that Army. The order pronounces its dissolution, and disperses, on various points, the corps of which it is composed. " To explain to our National Congress the impru dence of this precipitate. measure, would be to doubt the knowledge and the wisdom of our Legislators.— The Congress is not ignorant that existing circum stances are still difficult and precarious. Scarcely has it begun its important deliberations, and time alone can ensure the stability of Constitutional insti tutions, by giving them a force capable of resisting the attacks of malevolence—that malevolence which must increase day by day, an account of the esta blishment.of a system different from that which has I been annulled. The rules which must precede and determine the organization of a national force, have rot yet been subjected to a first discussion. The financial system, which must be the basis of admi nistration—reforms of every kind, which will not fail to excite discontent and opposition among the rich classes—all these great questions remain still to be solved. The fundamental law of the State—the pub lic safety—is threatened by associations protected abroad, and by internal troubles, which have their source in foreign countries. " The national justice has not yet reached those wha in 1814 basely betrayed the confidence of their country, and abused their august mission. They are still unpunished who on theday of the 10th of March caused the blood of patriots to flow in the streets of the heroic city of Cadiz. " In this state of things, without communicating with the National Congress, with whom all our inte- 1 rests are identified, an order has been dispatched from the War Office, to disband our Army which pro claimed Liberty—which swore to bury itself in the ruins of its country, rather than abandon their arms before they saw it completely happy and regenerated. " Is tge present time favourable? The Cortes will, no doubt, allow that this happy moment of laying down arms has not yet arrived—thlt the measure which ordains it is premature—that it is accompanied by a train of fatal consequences, dangerous even to pttb:ic liberty, the preservation of which is the only object of the wishes of that Army and of its Chief. 64 ‘1 l!Aae, from the wisdom of Congress, that it will refl...t maturely on the importance of this affair, and that it will not place us in the dangerous alter native of failing ill our duties and renouncing our principal• object, which is the safety of our country tan object to which we have never ceased to aspire from the first day of our happy and glorious enter prize), or of disobeying a Minister, the organ of in ordinate power, whose order compromises the national liberty gained by our efforts. (Signed) R PAUL DEL R I EGO. a :MIGUEL LOPEZ BANOS. *1 PHILIPPE DE ARCO AGUSIEO. Sc. Ferdinand, August it, 1840." ADDRESS TO THE ICING. " SIRE—We wish that those who surround your Majesty should fully know the sincerity of our senti ments, and would desire with as lunch good faith as we to promote the happiness of Spain, in following the ways which lizavas has miraculously deigned to open before us. We wish that they would desire, as well as we, that-his Majesty should see his glory and his prisperity increase in' the line of conduct which he has adopted with such nobleness for the felicity of this nation—of this nation, which has so well proved to the AN hole universe the love with which it burns for your august person. " Then, Sire, if things were so, without fearing si nister interpretations, we would presume to deposit the whole of our sentiments in the bosom of your Majesty, and our frankness will make them be re ceived with a generous indulgence. " A Royal Order of .the 14th instant, which dis bands the corps of observation, was communicated cis the tsth by the Captain-General of Andalusia, 1). J. O'Donoju. This Order excites a fear that our t: maul may not be received so favourably as it ought. We are afraid that a hostile hand directs the operations of the Ministry, and leads the nation to its r aa; we are afraid that it compromises your Ma kiry, the army, and ourselves, who desire nothing more than the establishment of a constitutional system. This system, Sire, assures to your Majesty a great ness and a power which you would not have found in a contrary system ; for your Majesty has had too sad an experience, at the expense of Spanish honour, in those years of afflicting memory, when you were surrounded and deceived by Ministers at once igno rant and perverse. We say, Sire, with frankness, that hidden hand leads to inevitable destruction both the nation and your Majesty, because it excites distrust unworthy of our Majesty and of us : our good faith is hritated by suspicions, which there is no attempt to disguise in Ministerial O r d er s. - " In order to preserve, Sire, the attachment which our fellow-citizens testify towards us, and the kind •ress with which your Majesty honours us, we must remain faithful to the principles which we have pro in embracing the cause of our country and of .)ntlr Majesty. Ilistory teaches us, that it has of-1 ten L , ,st dear to tell the truth to Kings; not-because th, ale the enemies of truth, but because,it clashes - Ile iiit..rests of their courtiers. i he eli.loits even of the Cid, who never aimed at t'iing else but the glory of his Prince, were the objecL., of the sarcasms of the palace favourites, and ho ed o w ur in to di h ff a e ve n revt ce ard f3 u u n t i we could shed by hi not m vi seeour country ' plunged in confusion by the ignorance, if not by the perverseness of a Minister, which drives us to the edge of a precipice, endangers the safety of the State, forces us to neglect the laws of discipline, and sur pilses your Majesty into orders contrary to your ser- Ivice, and dangerous to the public tranquillity. %" Our conduct proves that we ought not to be the object of any sort of distrust. The troops whom we have the honour of commanding deserve the bene dictions and the love of your Majesty and of all Spa niards. In spite of the opposition which we experience at every step, and the intrigues . which cross unceas-1 ingly our most innocent movements, there is not an individual in the army who incurs any danger of being cited as an enemy of his country and his King.l We have already been tried, and we will still give ! such convincing proofs of our good conduct, that we may reckon beforehand on the esteem of poste rity. The Congress has been assembled: it has not yet been able to realize the reforms which the nation demands. These reforms will necessarily be opposed by these who are accustomed to live upon the public calamities—those who cannot support 'the idea of seeing Spaniards acquire, by means of new institu tions, information which they before wanted—by those who cannot see the spread of the incontestable 'truths, that virtue, science, and labour ate the best ancestors, the true sources of that prospiiity which should be coveted by a good man, a Spaniard, wor thy of that name. " The 10th of March is still unpunished. National justice has not yet reached those, who, in 1814, basely blrayed the confidence of their country, and abused their august mission, by deceiving your Ma jesty, a. d by misleading your reason to such an ex tent, that they made you recompense by tortures and death the generous devotion of Spaniards in favour of your Majesty, when a captive in the hands of your perfidious enemy—that devotion, the object of which was to consolidate public liberty, on such bases that it might not be possible henceforward for any of our Princes to become the victim of ignorant or corrupt Ministers. A thousand indispensable regulations re main yet to be submitted to a first discussion. The fundamental law of the State, and public safety, are threatened by associations protected by foreigners, and by internal troubles, the causes of which are to be traced to foreign influence. " In these circumstances, the Minister chose to dis solve the army of observation—that safeguard of the National Representation, by which we fight for your Majesty—and the new institutions, which are still so far from a state of perfection and solidity, necessary to present a true guarantee of the general repose. " This corps of the Army being once disbanded, your Majesty has no longer any defence against the enemies of your person and of the nation. If we abandon this position, from which we made the wicked tremble, what a vast field will be open to the culpable hopes of those whose wicked projects our union alone prevents! Sire, the misfortune of innocence springs from the seductions of the perverse ; and the good heart of your Majesty has been already seduced by perfidious counsels, as your Majesty has declared in your Proclamation of the 10th of March last. Who can assure either your Majesty, your Ministers, or us, that the disbanding of the corps has not been a plot laid against the liberty of our country, and the preservation of your Majesty upon the throne ? " Animated, Site, by the most lively interest for the general good, in which that of your Majesty is essentially interested, as well as that of the Royal Family—convinced that the good character which we have acquired among our fellow-citizens, and even through the world, ought to be preserved un touched, exempt from all suspicion of treachery or weakness—that our silence would be a crime when our country was on the eve of falling into the hands of its enemies, who would pronounce the dissolution of the Army—we pray your Majesty to give every attention to this exposé, to weigh the consequences of the Royal Order communicated to the Army by the Minister of War, to suspend its effect, and to ap preciate the Minister by the step taken on this occa sion, which might be the origin of incalculable mis fortunes. In our name, and that of the Army, (Signed) " RAFAEL DEL I RIEGO. " LOPEZ BANOS. " ARCO AGUERO." Extract of a letter from a Correspondent at Madrid, dated Bayonne, September 5 :—" I have just re ceived another highly interesting letter from Madrid. Pray cause a paragraph to be inserted in all the daily Papers, partiCularly The Times, stating that Toreno is regal ded, with good reason, as the Member of the Chamber who stimulated the Ministers to disperse the army of La Isla and recal Riego, and that nothing can exceed the indignation excited against the Ministers for their obstinacy throughout this affair—that Itiego had a conference with the King on the morning of the 31st, which will, it is sup posed, lead to a change of Ministers—that the hero harangued the people from the inn, and told them he came to Madrid to dissipate all fears, by shewing that the army was not in a state of rebellion, as falsely asserted by the enemies of liberty—finally, that Canga Arguelles has bungled matters in such a manner, that there is not a shilling to pay the King's household with. Poor Ferdinand is, in fact, poorer than any of his subjects ! Riego is to return, and his visit must lead to a totally new system. It is reported, on the authority of a letter received here this morning, that Portugal has followed the exam ple of Spain, and proclaimed the Constitution of that country. The same account adds, that the English factory at Lisbon was pillaged on the 27th r 2nd the merchants massacred. Three couriers passed through this place on the 2d amt.:3d ; they will have been the bearers of the above news, if true." The following articles are copied from German Papers, received since our last : VIENNA, SEPTEMBER I. The Hungarian regiment of Infantry (the Emperor Alexander's) which has been in garrison at Presburg for these twenty months, received orders on the 17th of August to set out for Italy. S rUTGARD, AUGUST 29. We learn from persons who accompanied our So vereign to Genoa, that whenever his Majesty ap peared in public he was received with acclamations by the people. Since the late events the Genoese thronged still more eagerly about the King, and the cries of ce The Constitutional King for eiret greie daily more frequent. LEIPSIC, AUGUST 29. It is said that the Saxon Government, following the example of Austria, Prussia, and Sweden, is dis posed immediately to open a Loan at four per cent. interest, for the purpose of repaying other Loans previously made, which bear five per cent. interest. BERLIN, AUGUST 29. M. Mechtenfels, of Cologne, whose arrest was an nounced by the Journals nearly a year ago had been re moved a short time afterwards to Berlin, where he has been ever since kept in confineme'it, on suspicion of having been concerned in revolutionary intrigues. Protesting against the manner of this arrest, he had re- fused to answer any of the interrogatories put to him. His intellectual faculties have just sunk under the misfortunes which he has endured, and it has-been ne cessary to remove him from his prison to the Hospi tal for Lunatics. M. Mechtenfels is not yet 30 years of age; his bosom is furrowed with the scars of the wounds which he received in 1813 and 1814, when he served as a volunteer ; and his breast is covered with the insignia of different Orders which the King of Sweden, then Crown Prince, gave him with his own hand. M. Tollenius, and M. Bader, are likewise still kept prisoners. All the persons who were arrested on the same account have been successively released. The House of Commons meets, pursuant to the last adjournment, on Monday next, the 18th, when some discussion will, of course, take place upon the present proceedings against the QUEEN, and before any further adjournment of the House. Various rumours were circulated in the City yes terday, as grounds for the fall of one per cent. in the Funds. The most alarming rumour was, that a squadron of six ships of the line, with some frigates, was ordered forthwith to sail for Lisbon ; this report received some countenance from the certainty that an order was issued for tenders of 100,000 gallons of rum, and it is not now the ordinary time for laying in such stock. In fact, two frigates, and only two, the ACTIVE and the LIFFEY, have received orders to proceed to Lisbon—probably to assist in bringing off British Merchants and property, should this be ren dered necessary by events. Another report was, that the Duke of WELLING TON was about to go abroad, to assist at consultations with the Allied Powers at Vienna ; but this is in di rect contradiction to the pledge given by the Earl of LIVERPOOL, in his place, that we had.no question to settle with those Powers, respecting the late changes in Spain and Naples. Letters from Venice of the 26th ult. state, that the Turkish armies had so completely hemmed in Am PACHA, that he had no means of escaping, nor of saving his family or his treasure. Hi s ar my, it i s stated, - had been almost annihilated by desertions, and his best friends had abandoned him. Tuesday se'nnigbt, being the birth-day of ROBERT FERGUSON, the Poet, the anniversary dinner of the " Ferguson Club" was held in HEPBURN'S Tavern, Edinburgh, when a numerous company sat down to an excellent dinner. The evening was spent in the utmost harmony, during which a variety of the most appropriate songs and toasts were given. The band played several favourite Scottish airs. The admirers of the genius of SHAKSPEARE will have a high treat this evening in witnessing Mr.' BARTLEY'S performance of Falstaff; at the Lyceum Theatre. Mr. BARTLEY, some time since, appeared in this arduous character at Drury-Lane Theatre, and it was then remarked that the facetious Knight had not been so well represented since the days of the late Mr. HENDERSON. We understand that the Proprietors of the Hay minket Theatre are about to revive SHERIDAN'S beautiful Opera of the Duenna, in which BRAIrAst in tends to introduce some of his best selections, in the character of Carlos. Sir JOHN and Lady SHERBROOKE, Sir W. and Lady SARAH DE CRESPIGNY, Sir JOHN MORRIS, Sir HENRY WHITE, General Sir W. AYLETT, Mr. and Lady SINGLETON, Lady BENTLEY, Lady BLAKE, Judge BURTON, Judge DALY, and the Hon. General MA HON, have joined the Haut-Ton at Cheltenham. Lord FREDERICK BENTINCK led to the Hymeneal Altar, this day, Lady MARY LOWTHER, the second daughter of the Earl and Countess of LONSDALE. Miss CALCRAFT, only daughter and heiress of the late General CALCRAFT, gave her hand on Saturday last to EDWARD COLLINGWOOD, Esq. of Dessington Hall, in Northumberland, at the Abbey Church of , Great Malvern. An very unlucky ?encounter took place in Canter bury on Wednesday night, which will furnish some work for the Gentlemen of the Lone Robe. A Lady, the wife of Mr. B—, lately visiting at Margate, having been absent for a short time in London, was expected to return to Margate on the evening of the above day, but not making her appearance on the ar rival of the coaches, and a friend (a Captain in the Navy) who had for some time previously travelled and lived with the parties, being also missed, the husband proceeded to Canterbury, and unexpectedly surprised the Lady with the Captain in bed at the above Inn. A scene ensued which it would be difficult to describe, but which ended in the separation of the Lady from the noble Captain, and her removal to another Inn, to spend the remainder of the night, and the husband returned to Margate. The Author of Goldsmith's Biographical etas:- Book has been amply rewarded for the production of the most elegant and instructive volume ever printed, by the sale of his First Edition, of Five Thousand Copies, within a month after its publica tion. A Second Edition, of double the number, is preparing with all speed. Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAW has, with the concur rence of his colleague, determined to abandon the old custom of the Sheriffs to pamper City Officers with repeated feasts, for which there is so reason; and also to use his own private coach ,upoii all occasions. FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES. The Duke of Devonshire, from Chiswick, on a visit to Mrs. Wm. Cavendish, at her seat, Beer-hill, Berks. Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, Bart. from Batt's Hotel, Dover -street, to his seat in Scotland. The Earl of Thanet and L. Concannon, Esq. M.P. from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Paris. Lord Arden, to his seat, Nork, Surrey. The Countess of Westmeath, to the Marqois of Salisbury's seat, Hatfield. Lady Throckmorton and family, from the Prince of Saxe Cobourg Hotel, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on a visit to the Duke of Norfolk, at his seat, Arundel Castle. Lord Cranborne, from a tour , to Ibtheld. ...MD..- 1 ..": . ~t.y tHE QurEm. The Mites sayi, .that the authors Cif the jnoceed ;ng against the QUEEN ought to be impeached for the following reasons t "'That the Ministers have poured out, upon the hitherto Un stained imaginations of the virgin daughters of this moral and refined community, a mass of licentious, profligate, and depraved descriptions of vice, in its most abandoned forms: " That they have inflicted this irreparable evil upon their country without taking due steps to ascertain beforehand that the facts which they listened to would be satisfactorily proved ; and thus that the circulation of horrible indeeincy would Le palliated by the detection of enormous guilt, and by its subser. vieocy to the ends of public justice. "That no Mischief of • such dreadful magnitude was ever before compassed against the welfare of any people by those who were intruited with the care of Chriitian morals." We agree perfectly with our contemporary as to the appalling magnitude of the evil which has been done to the morals of the country by the prosecutiOn against her MAJESTY; and we feel well assured that, whether by Iniptachment or not, vengeance will sooner or later reach its guilty authors. It is our firm conviction that the worst man who ever dis graced, yet only talked and acted on the earth, could not, in the course of the longest life, accumulate sins to answer for, equal in their aggregate to the sin of causing a single licentious or immoral sentence to be committed to the Press. Ail other offences and disorders, which an indivi dual has the will or the means to_ perpetrate, are comparatively venial ; they have a limitation with the life of man ; their influence is confined to the in dividual's own contaminated circle. But this sin takes a range that no human mind can foresee, or calculate, or grasp, even in idea. It may tra verse the whole globe, debasing and corrupting the ingenuous minds of youth, disseminating the most vicious principles, blighting all that is fair and comely in human life ; it may corrupt generations yet un born, and be doing increasing mischief in society till time shall be no more. It is an act of such moral turpitude as a life spent in charity and good deeds cannot expiate ; for it is a mortal stab at the virtuous propensities of man, which is repeated with every transcript and copy in circulation. It is a crime which no recantation can cure, which no penitence can recal, which volumes of a contrary evidence will never mitigate. If such be the guilt of simply causing such a pesti lence to be shed over the earth, how much must that guilt be enhanced when it has been done with deli beration ; when the publication has been, not merely caused, but in a manner compelled ? We will not ask the authors of such a crime, " What evil have they done ?" The more awful in quiry ought to be instituted, " What evil have they not done ?" Human nature shrinks within itself at the idea of the awful responsibility which such a question supposes. Two persons arrived yesterday morning at eight o'clock, with dispatches for the QuFix; they left Milan on the 7th September. They report, that not withstanding all the professions of impartiality which have been made, and every recognition of Mr. HENRY as her MAJESTY'S agent, passports were refused to witnesses summoned on her behalf. In consequence of this, a messenger was dispatched to Vienna, who took a letter to Lord STEWART on the subject, and returned on Monday se'nnight with an answer, en closing Lord CASTLEREAGH'S letter to Lord STEW ART, which it appeared his Lordship had laid before Prince METTERNICH, who replied that the Austrian Government required a letter from her MAJESTY or from Mr. BROUGHAM, for each witness—a thing of course impossible, unless her MAJESTY or her At torney-General were present there. On Wednesday se'nnight Mr. HENRY applied to get a passport for a Venetian witness. He was told that he must be serft to Venice to get his passport, and it was not until after remonstrating strongly against such abominable shuffling, and a declaration that Mr. HENRY would advise her MAJESTY not to proceed any further in her defence under such circumstances, that he ob tained the passport. It is affirmed, but it cannot possibly be true, that ge Colonel BROWN sends couriers daily to Como, who pay witnesses for the QUEEN to stay away, if they fail in inducing them, by bribes, to depose against her MAJEsrv.”—We have said, that this cannot be true. We say so, because it is so diabolically wicked, that no human agent could possibly engage in such a work. What! a 'relation of Lord CASTLEREAGU employed in such a business as this?—lmpossiblel It is also rumoured, but this, it is to be also hoped, will prove false, that measures have been resorted to, calculated to prevent any of the Austrian Officer's from appearing as witnesses for her MAJESTY.' Or ders, it is said, have been issued, commanding them not to appear in their uniforms in England. Until this restriction is removed, and until the Austrian Government order them to go to England, and more over convince them that they will not suffer any loss by it, not one person will leave Lombardy. There is a Society at Milan called the Orfei, of which Colonel Bauw N. was anxious to become a mem ber, and was accordingly proposed for admission in a sitting of the Society on the 20th of January last, but was rejected by a majority of 31, the ayes being 9, noes 40. Chevalier VASSALI, Equerry to her Majesty the Queen of ENGLAND, arrived at Milan on the 29th of July. Mr. HENRY, one of the Advocates of her MA JESTY, is also therefor the purpose of collecting evi dence on behalf of the Quese.—(Paris Paper). Her MAJESTY will receive no more Addresses un til Monday seanight. Alderman WOOD joins his fa mily at Ramsgate. The five Addresses which her MAJESTY will on that day receive at Brandenburgh House, are as follow :—Farringdon Without, at one o'clock; Cripplegate Within, and Spitalfields, at half past one; and PaddingtOn, at two. : I • • • I ......1....aau