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!ft COPY OF A IN CNORIAL. wtoneessen TO ALL THE MINISTERS OT RESSIAj ON Tall SIJJJECT UP VIC AFFAIRS OF gams. The ch evalier de Zen Bermudez has presented to the imports Cabinet the annesed Note, relative to the events which have jnst taken 'shire in the Peninsula, and of which we were already informed by the despatches that mese forwarded to us by our agents at foreign Courts. M. de Zea, in this document, confines himself to in forming es, that the Constitution promnleated by the Cartes in the year lBl2,'lses been accepted by the King, and expresses a desire to know how the Emperor has viewed this change of the Government. If the distance AkOilth separates us bons Spain, and from the States which ate hest enabled to weigh maturely the nature of the dis asters with which she is menaced, he cossidereJ, it will t acknowledged, that the petition of the Imperial Mi. nistry, With regard to the Representative of the Spanish amino, was difficult and delicate. The revolution of the Peninsula fixes the attention of she. two hemispheres; the interests which it is about to lj!cjile, Me the iuterests of the universe; and if ever the Miperor wished that the opinion of his Allies might con. ince to regulfte his owu, it certainly was at the moment whenrhe note of. the Cleve liet de Zee imposed upon his Imperial 31ajiity the obligation of propouncing upon an e) rn which involves, peelrips, the future destinies of all eiviliscil nations. Tus obligation, however, existed; for, in these slays, every subject of doubt becomes an hi moment of malevolence. The necessity of replying te M. de Zee we, therefore, evident; bet, in this important conjuncture, it appeared natural, that previously to prationacing.an opinion, the Emperor should consider the object which the Allied ]'ewers proposed to themselves in their relations with Spain; that he should consult the view, which they had expreised to that same Power, and that lie should- take as a guide for his own, the principles of Eurepeav policy. Ws is what his Imperial Majesty wasbeund do • this I. what he has done. Since the year ISIS, more than one Diplomatic Doeit ment attests the generous solicitude, which the Ctinets of Europe have constantly manifested in behalf of Spain. They applauded the noble perseverance with which her Intrepid people resisted a foreign yoke. They rendered homage to their wisdom, when they rallied, round Coustitutioaal Throne, the dearest Interests of their country ;--tbe interests of her independence.— from the period when Provideice restored Fer dirtied VII. to his people, they never failed to acknow ledge that solid iustitutionli could alone secure units basis, the ancient Spanish Monarchy. The Allied Sovereigns did move. In the course of long coirferences, relative to the differences with Rio de Is Plata, and to the pacification of the Colonies, they let it be miderstood, that these institutions would cease lobes means of peace and happiness, if. instead of being granted by kindness, as a volnatary concession, they should be adopted by weakness as a last resource of sal. ration. Let as investigate, on the other hand, the great trans actions which established the European Alliance. What is the object of the engagements that were re. sewed 011 the (3d) 15th of November, IBIS. The Allied Monarchs had just then obliterated the last traces of the Revolutiun in France; but that Revolution seemed ready to produce new calamities. The obligation of the Monarchs was, therefore, and their deingu was, to prevent that, bursting lions the same bunion, the same storm should a third time desolate Ent opt. Nevertheless, to if the alarms a bleb were then excited by theme*. of Frame, and which it still excites, were outwit& cleat—es if Governments and Nations entertained but slight doable with respect to its future condition, it was accessary that the rains of evil should select a new theatre. and that Spode in her tura, should be offered up AS a fearful seeviSce. Revelation has therefore changed its ground, but the death if Monarchs cannot have changed their nature, and - the power of the in surrectiou is neither less formidaideVaer lest dangerous than it would have been no France. • Li unison, therefore, with his Allies, his Majesty meat desire but to see grunted to the Peuin,uta, as to its trim* atavism Provisoes, a Government which he coasiders ae the only one that can yet justify some hope in Ibis age of calami ties. But in virtue of his engagements of the (3d) 15th of November. ISIS, his Majesty Is bound to mark. with the most fort ibis reprobation. the revolutionary measures set in action to give new institutions to Spain. Such is the two fold idea which is found developed in the annexed answer, which the Cabinet of Russia has made to the Chevalier de Seas by order of his Imperial 111µlesty.• The emperor dues nut doubt, that his Actium Allies will approve its con tests, mad per haps they have already addressed similar sew Macon to the Court of Madrid. The sanaelvisitee may s lu fact, have inspired the same laiipagemod,convinced like his Altuaty, that crime must Mira), )ield pernitiou. fruit a they have, doubtless deplored us he has the entreat whit has beeently tarnisjeal the tough of Sp;:iu. We repeat it, this *strap is deplorable. It is deplorable for the Peninsula ; it is deplorable for Iffshropea and the Spanish naitiuu Illl* owes the 'sample of ea eSpiatury deed to the people of the two bemi•pheree.-.. Tie this be dome, the uuhappy object of their disquietude, esti oily make them fear the contaaims of her calamities,- Ifeeenhelese, amidst all these ekswenia of disaster, sod at hen so many motives combine to 41 , 0 the real friends, of the welfare of nations, may a better future still he looked for theta soy wise and redeeming measure, 'abuse elect may be to nrecoicile Spain with hermit, as well as with the other Powers of Lurope I We dare not affna it ; Air experience hail tangOt us to . ionsidir almost al% ays as an allusion, the hope ot a happy treat. But if we might trust the eulealetious wklela pert 'until interest would win hound to indicate; if it were per. matted to presuatC tu.:t the Curies would coloult the Interest of their own preservation, it usi;:i.t be believed.. Hutt' they would hasten to extirpate, by a when miasure, all that i. Culpable in the circuolstituces which accompanicStiw change of tin administration in Spain. The interests of the Cortes are here ideotibed with the interesta of Europa. The Misled sokliery who protected, may to•morruw assail them; and - their first duty towards their alonarc towards their country, • WM themselves scents to he, to prove•that they will never moue to realise iuserrectiuu. These ere hopes which trodld pot appear to be without some foutulatmu. The • this rotten to the " Note addressed bj the Russian Goeisewiesst to the Spanish Minister resident at the Court of Rutoi‘os lesruing that the King of Spain had accepted and mow to maintain the Cenattitution," *Lich sir have alett.iy On. THE NATION I. REGISTER Emperor, however, is far from cherisning them ; nod if he admitted the possibility of a result so useful, he would make it depend upon the unanimity which might munifcst itself le opinion of the principal pito rigid Europe, as to the ACT by which the representatives of the Spanish people ought to signalise the opening of their delibenttions. This unanimity, always so powerful alien it takes the cheraetetber an irre vocable deed, will perhaps carry cuoviction to the miatlit of of the must eminent Members of his Catholic M a jesty ; and the Allied Courts would seen to have ao sissy means of impressing upon their language such an imposing tinilurinity. Their Ministers in France hove hitherto treated, in their atone; with a Pleniputentiary of the Court of Madrid. Can they not now present to him, iu c ommon, observations, the seminary of which folitios, nod which would rend to the Swinish Government the conduct, at well as the political principles, of the Allied Stomach.? " The Monarchs," would say the five Ministers •• have !Neer ceased to entertain wishes for the prosperity of Spain. They will always entertain them. They have desired that, in Enrope, as in America, isslitutions con. formable to the,progress cf civilization, and to the wants of the age, might procure to all Spaniards loug years of peace and happirie.s. They desire the same at this mu moot. They have wished that all these institutions should become a real blessing, by the legal manlier in which they should be introthiced. They now wish the same. " This 1414 COlllSideratiOn a ill convey to the Ministers 'of his Catholic Majesty, with what sentiments of affliction and grief they have kneed the events of the Stb of March and those which preceded it. According to their opinion the salvation of Spain, as welt U.l the welfare of Europe, will requite that this crime should be disavowed, this stein illactd. this had example tetmineted. The honour .of suck a itperatiou appears to depend upon the Cortes. Let theta deplore, and forcibly reprobate, the' means employed to establish a new mode of Gower - imolai in their country, and in consolidating an ad'• Kathie wisely constitnrional, Jet them adopt the most' rigorous laws against sedition alul revolt.' • Then, and ooly alien, the Allied Cabinets will be able to maintain friendly Mid andeable relations with Spain.' Thesi Observations, urged in common hyThe Represen tativei of the. five ' Courts, would, from thenceforth, de• monstrate to the Spanish Ministry the conduct which the Allied Gower:intents would observe, is ease• the 'conse quences of the Sib of' March should perpetuate, is Spain, trouble mid anarchy. If these salutes); cutincils be listen• ed to; if The Cortes oUet-to their sing, in the name Of - the nation, a pledge of obedience, if they succeed .in establishing, noon durable basis, the tranquillity of Sliain, and the peace of 'Southera America, the revolution will have beau defeated, at the very moment when it thought to obtain a triumph. it; on time contrary, alarms, perhaps too reasonable, be realised, at least the five Courts will have discharged a sacred duty; at heist a stew occurrence will have deve loped the principles, indicated the object, and displayed the scope of the Eesopean utliance. The Emperor awaits the answer of the Cortes of Vienna, London, Berlin, and Paris, to the coininunications which Iris Ministers have addressed to him on this subjeci. He informs them, that the present Memorial is the instruction which lie bas caused to be despatched to all his ministers ea the subjecColf the affairs of Spain. GERMAN PAPERS. 0 SW/TURLAND, JULY 26.—The Papal Nuncio at Lucerne is said to have received information of the events at Naples by an express from his Court. The foreigners are reported to be very obnoxious to the people, especially the Austrians and English, who are considered as enemies to the new order of things. The persons formerly arrested for their political opinions, but who were subsequently set at liberty here for some time past, committed various excesses in the capital, which were in a measure the prelude to the events which have since occurred. They are supposed to have been secretly in the pay of the Carbonari, and to have been set on by them. The Governor of Rome, Pscco, nephew to the C'rdinal, and who lately fled from Rome, is reported to have been a leader of the Carbonari, and since he left Rome, to have lived secretly in the kingdom of Naples, to have directed the intrigues, and prepared every thing for the explosion. It is further stated, that Rome was to have been the central point of the revolution, but that a priest, who was arrested, dis. closed s o his oonfesenr the secret plots of the gover nor, who, being informed of the discovery, hastened to take flight. Notwithstanding this, a fermentation is said to have been observed in some towns in the Papal dominions-..may, even in Rome itself. CARLFRIIIIII, Juror 29.—As the navigation of the Mediterranean (and not long since even of the North Sea) becomes more and more dangerous to the Ger man merebentmen,on account of the Barbary pirates, and as the public payers now so frequently mention this subject, and allude to what are called Turkish passports, it will doubtless be agreeable to our read ers to have some information on &bighead. The crowns of Denmark and Sweden purchase the safety of their flags by paying an annual tribute to those pirates. The flags of the German states are :sot respected, and the German captains (that is, G those of Prussia, Mecklenburgh, Oldenburgh, and the three Hanseatic cities) must therefore endeavour to obtain by underhand means the protection of Denmark or Sweden. The proceeding is as follows: —The owner of the ship sells (but 0:14 to appear. ance) Ms vessel to the captain; the latter then sails to Denmark or Sweden, where he purchases the rights of citizenship, which, together with the inci dental capeuks to attain the desited end, costs about 70 :ix-dollars, species Banco. The ship is then taken to the dock-yard, the carpenters make a show of working at it, end the owner of the vessel, now a Swedish or Danish citizen, receives from some ship. wright residing on the spot the necessary certificate that the ship is built there This costs 8 Grouch, (Is. English) per last. Provided with these docu. ments, the captain goes to the Town-hall at Stock. holm, where he receives two sealed signal letters, as they are called, and a Turkish passport ; which papers cost likewise several dollars. He is obliged to take an oath not to open those paper's till lie meets a pirate, and not to sell, give, or show them to any person, in case he should not have occasion for them himself. If the captain meets a pirate, and pro. duces his Turkish passport in the hands o f pirate, of the same tenour, and found correct, the captain is at liberty to proceed on his voyage. The Governments of Denmark and Sweden now require, that he who desires a Turkish passport shall really live there, or.at least give security, by depositing a sum of mangy , that the vessel does not belong to any foreign owner. Advice* from the coast of Barbary, of the 10th of July, contained in letters from Gibraltar of the 13th of the same month, state, that an insurrection of a very formidable nature bad taken place in the army of the Emperor of Morocco. A regiment of the guards to the Emperor, being ordered to escort him from Rebalt, one of his summer residences, to Morocco, refused compliance, and, disregarding all attempts to restrain them, suddenly marched off towards Fez, which they entered tumultsously, where they committed the greatest excesses, plun. dering and ill-treating all the inhabitants, but par ticularly the Jews. The next directed their march towards Tetuan but the inhabitants, aware of their approach, resisted their entrance, and compelled them to retire. The Emperor, with a portion of his guards that remained faithful, proceeded towards Morocco, but had taken no measures to bring back he rebellious troops to their duty. This state of things had Spread great alarm through the country, and caused a casette interruption to the commerce by land. . . . . . The rumour of a new commotion at Berlin is officially contradicted. The 3d of August was the day on which the King had at last prosni,ed to fulfil engagement to give his people a Constitution, and there are, as yet, no arrivals from Berlin of a recent date. Madras Papers have arrived to the 11th March. They contain no decisive intelligence with respect to the operations of the expedition under Sir %V. G. Keir, on the Persian Gulf: An article from Bombay mentions the arrival, at that Presidency, on the 18th of February, of the Naiades cruizer, with dispatches from Sir W. Keir, and a copy of the Treaty which had been concluded with the pirate Chiefs, who had accepted the terms dictated to them. It is added, " with the exception of the troops necessary to gar rison the stations that may be retained in the Gulf, and the shipping requisite for their supplies of wa ter and provision, the whole of the expedition is expected to return to this port in the course of next month, or at latest in April. We may hope, there fore, that the rumour which was in circulation a week or ten days ego, respecting the severe loss said to have been sustained by the 47th and 64th regi went,' will prove to have been unfounded.—We learn from these Papers that the cholera toorbia, which bad so long afflicted the island of Mauritius, had almost entirely ceased its ravages. Her Majesty will positively take possession of the house of Lady Francis, which is next to the man sion of Lord Castlereagh, in St. James's Square.— The house is lent to her Majesty gratuitously by Lady Francis, and is to be held only as a temporary dwelling during the approaching proceedings in Parliament. It is now painting, and getting ready for the Queen's reception. Her Majesty will sleep at Ludy Francis's house, on Tuesday night, and will go from thence daily to the House of Lords. — The Queen made application to Ministers for several houses which she would have liked; but as objec tions were made to her occuping them, Lady Francis offered the use of the above house as long as she might require it. Race against 7';ine.—The match to run against each other, tell miles. for too guineas aside, betweetiCapt. Pierrepoint and Mr. Fenwick, both celebrated for pe destrian feats, took place on Monday morning over eirede of two miles on the Southern part of Bagshot Heath. It was a real sporting match, and every inch was closely contested. The Captain took the lead, and until the sixth toile both kept together. The first nit!e was done in 6 minutes 4 seconds; second, 5 minutes; third, S minutes 3 seconds; fourth, 5 minutes 6 se conds; fifth and half the distance, S minutes 8 seconds, making half an hour and 19 seconds. The Captain made extraordinary play in the sixth mile, and lie did it in 4 minutes sti seconds, leavin g his adversary nearly 50 yard. behind. The seventh h e did in rise minims to seconds; eight, 5 minutes so seconds; ninth. 5 mi nutes 30 seconds; tenth, 5 minutes 50 seconds. Capt. Pierrepoint overtook his adversary at the beginning 01 the tenth mile, headed him, and heat him by 60 yards, having performed the ten miles under sixty.on,e miautes and a half, which is a Rapt ,fxtraordinary performance , comiderios the heat of the weather. •