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PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause ATKIN -B°l'7 against PARKER, all persona claiming to be the Heir or Reirs-at-law of JOHN TAVERSON, late of Victoria-place, New Charlton, in the county of Kent, Gentleman, deceased, and his Next of Kin living at the time of his death, or the personal Repre sentative or Representatives, of such Next of Kin, who have since died, are by th e i r so li c it ors, on or b e f ore th e 19th d ay o f F e b ruary, 18 47, to come in and make out their claims, and prove their heirship and kindred, before Sir GIFFIN WiLsott, Knight, one of the Masters of the said Court, at hie Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Ch ancery -lane, London, or in default thereof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. The said JOHN TAVERSON was (as it is believed) born at Shad well. In the county of Middlesex, and in the early part of his life followed some seafaring occupation, which he gave up on his mar nage, and it is not known that he afterwards followed any occupa • toe. He resided in Charlton-terrace, New Charlton, and on Plum stead-common, in the county of Kent, and afterwards in the March& aux Herbes, Brussels ; and latterly at Antwerp, where he died in the month of September, 1844. FREDERICK SMITH, 3, Basinghall-street, Agent for Robert Suter, Greenwich, Kent, Plaintiff's Solicitor. NATIONAL SECURITY BANK. „ NOTICE.—No applications for SHARES in this undertaking Will be received after To-Monaow, Saturday, the 16th day of Ja nuary, as the Directors will, after that date, proceed to make an allotment. APPlloatlons for shares may be addressed to the Secretary, at 163, en church-street, by whom prospectuses and a detailed statement of the sources of profit, Etc. will be forwarded, post free, if written for; to Messrs. Sutton and CO., solicitors, 6, Basinghall-street ; Messrs. Capron and Co., solicitors, Saville-place, New Burlington-street; and Messrs. Sutton and Co., stockbrokers, Royal Exchange_ TAE SELF-SUPPORT INSTITUTION, .„ (aided by Voluntary Contributions.) for the Cure of Stricture i Liao Urethra, and a ll o th er Di seases o f U r i nary O rgans, N ervous, Local, and General Debility. S ulorou—F. B. COURTINAY, M.R.C.S.L., 2, Chandos-street, Cav endish-square. To small tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and the working classes generally, this Institution offers, in all cases, gratuitous surgical lstance, and in others medi c i n e al so f reeo f ex p ense . Apply at the Surgery adjoinng the Surgeon's residence. IE:ROTHERTON'S COMMERCIAL HOUSE, it 2, WOOD-STREET, HANOVER-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Miss Brotherton begs leave most respectfully to acquaint her t, so long Conducted by 'nennds and the public that she is earrying on the above Establish her late parents, and in returning her tecere thanks to these gentlemen who so toelibrally patronised them weir support. b3' unremitting care and attention merit a continuance of leir support. Miss B, has the satisfaction to state that the house has recently i•Tyn enlarged to the extent of Six Show Rooms and Twelve Bed which With the acquisition of Hot and Cold Baths, &c., She trusts, add materially to its convenience and comfort. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, -I,4Toti e Fleet-street, Jaivary 14, 1847. p. m . e is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the el tp.lletors of the Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the So. • sultut to ite e xf 3 C r es, Fleet -street, London, on Tu ESDAY, the 2d day of February ‘ , 11411- Past Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, pur ' cei v i m ,•' + Zus Society's Deed of Settlement, for the purposes of re to th e °,, Auditors annual report of the accounts of the Society up u. 31 D eceMbor last, and for general purposes. Ily order of the Directors, 11' Tt. , GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary. ---- .llsiness will commence at Twelve o'clock precisely. PELICAN LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE, LO NDON. LOMBARD-STREET, and 57, CIIARII4G-CROSS Established 1797. BO ITS. ...rour.flfth3 of the net Profits realised by tho Company from In ";_ranccs effected upon the Participating Scale of premiums allotted, i Teeably to the conditions of the policies, every seven years. The " 4 ,1 Period to commence from the 3d of July, 1840. p.lery low rates offered to those who prefer insuring upon the ng Scale. -these two classes of Assurance are kept distinct from each other. It. TUCKER, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ASCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £OO,OOO. Empowered by Act of Parliament. tviirillth Institution embraces important and substantial advantages r esPect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured t) l , all occasions, the power to borrow, witkout expense or for of the Policy, two- th irds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; oPtion of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in y, meet other conveniences or necessity. tata t. ur alleas for terms of years are granted oa the lowest possible DIVISION OF PROFITS. 11,1 r emarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society 4 t,T rt a l l ) !_ed the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare ea ch ,:,!!_ l2 , varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid ui , ey effected on the Profit scale. --...___. EXAMPLES. k h s ' A ._ Bi h reuvui n . i'l Bonus Bonus In a l4 Eli Assured z . added. Cash. E - i'''' g may g . dßorrow. '''.. ----.................._ ........ to 1000 3. d. 1 1 3 17 8 .£2 l ll 1 1'.1 09 0 f Oiii i 1 4 1 r X 1 i g lg V 3 4 9 4 55 11 0 1 3 4 188 4 3 0 9 116 16 7 5 11 1 6 0 5 7 4 4 9 1 1021 11 7 18 3 10 1 1 296 346 13 2 4 3 an_ 184 1 111 6 8 49 19 0 710 41 247 4 5 Irbettiber'livlsi I._ on of profits is annual, and the next will be made in the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. 4 - 11.°11111 CURE OF COUGH AND ~ HOARSENESS BY ae_f., when r atlia ra .„ 1)11 , • LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS. had bean Vaitqaci wi th- s treet,' Li►erpool, Jan. 1, 1846. . l a ves cou g h W y afe w rs o , the effects of and hoarseness o f oc or k u s earl t Sir, — ea l rs h without stole, for one larg e o box (2s. 9d.) has quite cured the y !have Bi nee ' , aye a b io recommended them to several of my friends, and experienced the greatest relief from them. J. WILLIAMS. Mir e , DR. LOOCK'S WAFERS aid„„:_ttsotant relief and a rapi d cure of asthma, coughs, and all dis- S - ‘. f the breath and luns. y are , TO SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS ' 4 ,Las a rhlll,'Etluable for clearing and strengthening the voice ; they rtieel„o'l,pleasant taste. ._. Agea,:. I iid., 2s• 9d., and lls. per box. . ,ldb,,n-ba Silva and Co 1 Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London , .....<::....__m medicine - vendors. " ' IEtARe LAy, ;OCIS S VD DAMP A R. TIC I CANDY has, for ... than -ge ts -Y Years, been proved an effectual preservative from the 11e sp _ Of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter Season, I.4,44:evalent In this Climate. Its effects are to expel Wind, to h k 4 e Ith the Stomach from the admission of Damps, and to relieve rek 0 stiffer from Difficulty of Brean. Prepared only by If th*l ' s ip 3' 4t !' ci 80 u8, 95, Farringdon.street, London ; and sold retail, by riiikre,, n 'tinent, by Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Gifford, 104, and ;t-9, '4 Ol . 180, Strand ; Johnston, 68, Coriahill ; hallows, Drug -I..eett Th,7 l gh - street, Islington ; Heudebour c k, D rugg i s t, Church -44., 4eheY an respectable Medicin Vendes in Town and none can be genuine, e unless the namee of and Sons" are on the Stamp affixed to each Box. bt4,,,.tBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS- T h Produced in a few weeks, and Baldn ess remov ed and 3' the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE few an e ssent i al spirit,, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, kest ~Y,,slas of which cure headache in a few minutes ls also a I ,; o o4„:. l Chtful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in a triangular protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size, 1 411;i b t _sal double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a , eon ,,`ttivin testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled' Pamphlet Three Minutes' on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, IC*" t, 4s. 6d., 7s. lid„ and i2e., f or money orders °al -143,1 wholesale only at Gemstone's li er b ary , Hi g h ga t e , n e ar o,_ ; and by Messrs. Barcl a y an d Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger, (N r ers-street ; Messrs. Butler an d C o., Cheapside ; Fisher and Teller, fndult-street ; Mr. Johnst on , medicine warehouse, 68, Cembill • q,by all Chemists , Perfume rs , and others For Edinburgh, J. and itairnes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver •‘"oflice.fle TO THE LAMES. lady had the following letter inserted in the "Tim es " news -1/411, 41; 11 ' on Aug. 7, 1846. Reader, remember, this letter was put into ••IZlller by the lady herself, as a testimony to me. t eal Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes thi s oppor ht: ef publicly thanking Mr. W. Gemstone, of the Herbary, Hi g h- Idet..% the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having com e 7 restored the hair on her head, after uaing it about four months, eNtal Whole of her hair Is much stronger and mere luxuriant than Wt' before the baldness appeared. Weekley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s sai I, Igr feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase ttae eri4Lbottle If they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex -71:. Oct only in the restoration and roduction ell hair in abund -1,10% a cure of nervous headache ; p as a toilet perfume it is far -, ay.„, : I _7 to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any &In ,:TPeetability to the above facts.-3, Swan-street, Borough." Z ( epe 7' l Of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, a few 111Tb_he crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre hitthet..air from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and 2 , It to • tiv..op s 0 ril ing grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A Your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the „,"IncY, causing it to curl. "4°4t delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the t olzatl vet t c herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing the. '`'Wes headache and makes it a most necessary companion L.44114,441r,,e_t• of cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops Or T rm o f the head ;If very bad, repeat it every qu esot,eases relief is certain in ten minutes. I prod uce r s s heads in a few appplications. It used on infants' L - 5 .t.O, I °e n it `_` l, _s such a peculiar cooling influenee on the brain as to pre- Ni,myttlsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—Bee ,117 4 1 g rtE Et 11 1101tht1S. ad dresSed to William Gri t ary 1 111 vo , TWO FEET.—AN ANECDOTE. E• MOSES AND SON'S BOO TS AND SHOES. trotters conversed as they happen'd to meet, Ztl.. t he reader shall hear what was said by the feet. praY what do you honestly thi n k ( said the one), For the boots and the shoes made by MOSES and SON? toy own part a full satisfaction I feel, I qh my sole and my Instep, my toes and my heel. That heots we have on are so stylish and neat, truth, we're a couple of beautiful feet." I' o , uell done t (said the left with a stamp of the foot). I` right, Mr. Right,' with regard to your boot ; Or a "", en limee thought I'd begrudge lot a r ansom .A,, i t leoot or a sh oe th a t would make me look handsome ; Bach' l PY I have got it, and so have you, too, 41, 0 ,tI)air of neat feet very seldom we view. prime feature which ev'ry one views 11035 they to MOSES and SON'S boots and shoes, L'hy t t b _t tkat they are faultless in fit and in style, ;iv r_eyanswer their purpose a very long while. obt a rd Would do well to attend our advice 4 .Itloirg such goods at a very low price. 8 and SON, in their boots and their shoes "'alined that a 1 folks shall gain and not lose. LIST OF PRICES. 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SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers flatters, q t1 M , 4 4 : 11 (1 tOnd General Outatte s, for Ladles sad Clothiers, kliklpub, ti o ,. . •,. 157 Idinorie; and r 03,84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, t 4 t .... ..._ L tillool opiDostors, but 1: I V l llat ,'lol3ea and g „ regret being obliged to guard an tlle . 411)t44,4-I:::ettebei:gh,ennneeteer weitheattV, otiritt'stthil sameutradesesn m eern, I l i oll 47l%ll l .o cOut tuzi — on nary instances, and fbr obvious reasons. V4let pe,i'. ),141414re get; f i n t e h ai tlY other house in or out of London; 424attill Ic:ritisru:ssnd transacted e l t ;;P , clothing , &e., should call at, ~11, suuset rttsacted at this eStablishmeat from sun -1144414 . Saturday, when business is resumeil till twelve 144 A1t4444*._ ent Is at 8 3 r donartin, Abigate, corner of tie ' 4 ? °Pl)o sl te the failure-, 7;; "----""'''""---H :' • . 7 f./.2:7*.f."'"e!:0; Zll7'. If-J1::.3 ..., ~ • . .. a. 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The Directors of this Company win meet at the Company's Offices, No. 5, South Parade, Leeds, on Thursday the Eleventh of February next, to receive and open TENDERS for the supply of the following Articles, viz.:- 5,000 TONS of MALLEABLE IRON RAILS. 1,800 TONS CAST IRON RAILWAY CHAIRS. 120 TONS RAILWAY SPIKES. 77,000 3IEMEL FIR and LARCH SLEEPERS. Persons desirous of Tendering for the supply of the above, may ob tain further particulars on application at the Company's Offices on and after the Twenty-first of January next. Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Secretary, will be received until Noon of the Day of Letting. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept of the lowest Tender. tical character, why did that Government, while it felt the propriety of endeavouring to come to an understand ing with her Majesty's Government about the one mar riage, consider itself free to make a secret and surrepti tious settlement of the other ? The memorandum further contained assurances that each of the two Princess - es ought to marry a desendant of Philip V., and that consequently neither of them should marry the Duke of Montpensier, except in the case of imminent danger of one or other of them being married out of the House of Bourbon. What, then, were the circumstances which are men tioned as having made such an event imminent ? The first circumstance happened, as I have observed, during the time of the late Government. M. Guizot says " that in May of the present year the French Govern ment had addressed to the reigning. Duke of Saxe Coburg, th en on a v i sit to the Court of Lisbon, a message for the purpose of negotiating the marriage of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg with the Queen Isabella ; and that the French Government had learned at the same time, and with the same certainty, that this message had been previously communicated to Mr. Bulwer, the Bri tish Minister at Madrid, and had received his approval ; that the French Government immediately expressed, both at London and at Madrid, its surprise and uneasiness, and that it received from Lord Aberdeen assurances which demonstrated his entire good faith." Now what is the impression which this statement is calculated to produce as to the course of the transaction to which it relates? Why, evidently, that the French Government having, from its own sources of information, obtained a knowledge that a letter had been written by the Spanish Court to the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, and that it had been seen by Mr. Bulwer before it was sent off, expressed to Lord- Aberdeen its surprise and uneasi ness, and received from Lord Aberdeen, in reply, satis factory assurances. But the real transaction was ex actly the reverse of this, as regards the communication between the two Governments. The first knowledge which the French Government received of the letter having been written by Queen Christina was from Lord Aberdeen himself. The first knowledge which they had that this letter had been seen by Mr. Bulwer was equally given to them by Lord Aber deen. The surplise which they expressed was surprise at what they learned from Lord Aberdeen; and the first expression of that surprise is said to have been accom panied not so much by uneasiness as by alleged incre dulity. The French Government seemed unwilling to believe that such a letter could have been written, and that they should have received the first intimation of it from any other person than their own Minister at Ma drid. M. Guizot says that Lord Aberdeen, in reply to the communication of the French Government, gave as surances which demonstrated his good faith. M. Guizot ought rather to have said that Lord Aberdeen demon strated his good faith by spontaneously communicating to Count St. Aulaire a fact of which the French Govern ment represented themselves as uninformed. Lord Aber deen thought himself bound to make known to the French Government that such a letter had been written, because he found that the letter had been shown to the British Minister at Madrid before it was sent off ; and as Lord Aberdeen had said t o t h e F renc h Government that her Majesty's Government meant to take no active part in favour of the Prince of Coburg, he thought it right to inform them of what had passed, lest the bare knowledge which her Majesty's Minister at Madrid had acquired of this step might expose her Majesty's Government to the suspicion of having changed their policy in this respect, secretly, and without previously informing the French Government that they intended to do so. It must be confessed that, as regards Lord Aberdeen, it may be said of the statement made of this transaction in M. Guizot's dispatch, that " there is in it, perhaps, some want of memory, or of justice." At all events, this example of' scrupulous good faith on the part of Lord Aberdeen cannot be quoted as con stituting a reason why the French Government should be released from the engagements which it had spon taneously taken towards the Government of Great Britain. The second circumstance upon which M. Guizot's dis patch founds the defence of the French Government in this matter, took place, as I have said, since her Ma jesty's present Administration came into office. M. Guizot says, that soon after the above-mentioned communication between Lord Aberdeen and the French Government had taken place, Lord Aberdeen retired from office ; and the information received by the French Government no longer permitted them to doubt that the efforts which had been undertaken for the marriage of the Queen of Spain with the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg were actively pursued. No doubt that informa tion was correct; and it was not difficult for the French Government to acquire it. Those efforts were actively pursued; but where? and to overcome what obstacles? Why, if her Majesty's Government have not been much misinformed, those efforts were making specially at Paris by the Marquis of Miraflores, who had been sent by the Spanish Court on a particular mission to the King of the French, to endeavour to prevail upon his Majesty to withdraw the opposition which he had made to a match which was stated by the Marquis to be anxiously desired by the Court of Madrid. But that mission, at least, the very foundation of which was the assumption that the Coburg marriage could not take place without the assent of the King of the French, afforded no excuse for a de parture from the above-mentioned engagement. " But then," M. Guizot says, " in the midst of this state of things, and in the anxiety with which it inspired the French Government," he received from Count Jar nac my dispatch of the 19th of July to Mr. Bulwer. This dispatch, he says, enumerated, for the first time, Prince Leopold as one of the three remaining candi dates for the Queen's band, and that Prince's name was the first mentioned in the enumeration. No preference indeed, as M. Guizot admits, was expressed in that dis patch in favour of Prince Leopold; but, on the other hand, it is said that no objection was urged against him ; and the passage in that dispatch which stated that " her Majesty's Government have only to express their sincere wish that the choice may fall upon the candidate who may be the most likely to secure the happiness of the Queen and to ensure the welfare of the Spanish na tion," was, in the opinion of the French Government, such a plain though indirect recommendation of the Prince of Coburg, that this dispatch was calculated, by a mere act of laisser alley, to bring about that marriage without any direct support or active co-operation of the British Government. And it is argued that this dispatch justified the French Government in taking its own mea sures in regard to the two marriages. Now, in the first place, it is to be observed that if the knowledge of this dispatch of the 19th of July by the Spanish Court was ca l cu l ated to render t h e Coburg marriage probable, that knowledge was afforded to them t by M. Bresson, w h o s h owe d t h em the not ' by and by Mr. Bulwer, wh o was t o ld i n i t t h a t her Majest y's Government (lid not instruct him to take ana l ; step o thereupon. In as f a r, th ere f ore , as a knowle d ge Spanish Court of the sentim en t s expressed in dis patch constituted, in the opi n i on o f the French Govern • t hat ment, a danger, that danger w as- created by their own agent. and cannot be pleaded in their own defence. With respect to the assertion, that Prince L eo p old had. never before been officilaly- mentioned as one of the can didotes for the Queen's hand, and that his d being so men tioned in this dispatch gave him some a observe w that h , ge hic he did not possess before, I would on l y vn Europe had considering that almost every ne wspaper in long ago already so mentioned him; considering that the memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846, was founded on the assumption not only that he was known to be a one Co ourt in nsider s .he Sp an i s h C candidate, but was likely to be the chosen , ing also, that the known wishes o f the of _this year, been regard to him had, later in the s pring the subject of an o ffi cial and t hre atening in consequence intimation from M. Bresson to the Spanish Gov e rnment , d ee med it necessary of which the Spanish Government t o the Government of to make an o ffi cial communica tio n England, to which communication Lord Aberdeen mad e , momenta hen my dispatch of on the 29th of June, an o ffi cial reply ; a nd considerin g, moreover, that at the very w a Spish envoy at, Paris, July was written negotiatethere was with the French Government sent expressly to Psereince Leopold to the Queen of about the marriage of Prince how the mere mention of the Spain, it is not easy a dispatch not intended to be name of that Prince, in made public, and me a n t on ly for the personal inf ormat i on of her Majesty's e n Mi nister ato at Madrid, could i n any way alter the position of Prince Leopold with r e f erence to the marriage question. But it is said that th e flivatch of the 19th of July expresse d no objection to P r i nce Leo- M • ,s present ajesty pold. Undoubtedly it did not. Her .. Government have in t his h m atter adhered stri ct l y to the judiciouscoursepnrsued y their predecess ors. - They haven t had been of opinion, that n o fores a candidate ignGever Government had any for h right to object to any Pr in ce as independent country , unless for those political the Queen of an political reasons connected with the maintena nce of the balance of power, which were stated in my dispatch of and as those the 19th of July to Mr. Bulw er ;f Saxe reasons did not apply to Prince Leopo ld Coburg, neither the late Government nor t he present saw any ground for objecting to Prince Leopold as a candidate for the han d B t that dis of the Queen of Spain. Patch distinctly resent Uovern stated that her Majesty's p ment were not prepared to give any can (- dates therein mentioned. Moreover, it refered Mr. Bul wer to the instructions which lie had received on the marriage question from my Predecessor in Office, and among those instructions was the communication to him of a c opy of the note addressed on the 29th of Jun e, which by Lord Aberdeen to the Duke of s o , tomayor, in which Lord Aberdeen stated that " when an alliance of the Queen of Spain with Count Trappani had manifestly become odious to the Spanish nation, the British Go vernment had'ventured, although without any E nglish candidate or English preference, to point out the Infant Don Enrique as the Prince who appeared to them to be the most eligible, because the most likely to prove ac ceptable to the people of Spain." And yet the French Government endeavour to represent that a di spatch which contained the passage first ab ove quoted , and which referred Mr. Bulwer to this last- mentioned expo sition of the sentiments of the late Briti s h Governmet, as having been adopted by the present Government, was to be considered as an indirect encouragement of an alliance of the Queen of Spain with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. M. Guizot admits that good faith re quires, that what is not attempted directly should not no aimed at indirectly; and her Majesty's Government cannot refrain from expressing some surprise at the groundless insinuation contained in the passage on which I have been remarking, seeing that M. B rauizot, in the paragraph immediately following, directly admits that her Majesty's Government had no intention to put forward or to recommend Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. That admission is an acknowledgment of the exact truth. The British Government has at no time put for ward or recommended that Prince ns a candidate for the band of the Queen of Spain, and has at no time taken any step to promote his alliance with that Sovereign. If that Prince, being the object of the choice of the Court of Madrid, had also been wished for by the great majo rity of the people of Spain, and if his union with the Queen would have created fur Spain no embarrassment in her foreign relations, the British Government would cheerfully have taken any steps which it might have been competent to take in order to facilitate such an arrange ment. But being led to doubt, by what had passed with regard to Count Trappani, whether any foreign Prince would be acceptable to the Spanish nation, and seeing that the objections expressed by the King of the French to Prince Leopold, however unreasonable, unjust, and in public law untenable they might be, might never theless, in the eventof that Prince becoming the consort of the Queen, injuriously affect the relations of Spain with France, the British'Government, from the moment when the Trappani match was :abandoned, stedfailly and constantly maintained the opinion, that it was desirable for the interests of Spain that the Queen's choice should fall upon a Spanish Prince. It is true that when her Majesty's present Ministers came into office great efforts were made by the Spanish Court to obtain from them some expression of opinion in favour of Prince Leopold; and not only were those efforts made at Madrid, but the Duke of Sotomayor came over from France, where he was residing on leave of absence, to urge personally the, same request. The British Government dealt with these applications, Its considering them made in good earnest, and as under standing them to express the real wishes of the Spanish Court, and as made with no other object in view than that which was professed. My dispatch of the 22d of August to Mr. Bulwer conveyed an answer to the Spanish Court; and on the 15th of August I gave an answer to the Duke of Sotomayor, by stating to him that which I had before more than once said to Count Jarnac, namely, that the British Government had no candidate of its own; that considering all the difficulti es connected with the s e l ec ti on of Prince Leopold, that selection did not seem to us to be the best; that it would be most advisable, on the whole, that a Spanish Prince should become the Consort of the Queen, and that amongst Spanish Princes Don Enrique seemed to us to be the fittest. These answers, no doubt, disappointed the expecta tions with which those overtures had been pressed upon her Majesty's Government; but what was there in all this which could justify the French Government in de parting from its voluntary engagements at Eu?—even admitting, for the sake of argument, that her Majesty's present Government were to be held bound by the me morandum of the 27th of February, which the French Government had never either mentioned or communi cated to them. But M. Guizot's dispatch goes on to say, that " The French Government was unable to deceive itself as to the state of things; and saw that there was on the part of the Spanish Court so strong a desire for the Coburg alliance, that if the British Government should make no active opposition to it, and should remain only passive in the matter, that marriage would certainly be con cluded; and that, consequently, the French Government resorted at Madrid to the most direct and most legiti mate means, and appealed to the free choice and inde pendent will of the Queen and of her Government, to bring about a different arrangement. "By the side of a combination which was being pursued evidently in opposition to the policy of the French Government, that Government," says M. Guizot, "offered a different combination • and this latter one was ac ce pt e d b y t h e Q ueen and her Go vernment." The contradiction between the opposite statements contained in these passages is too obvious to require to be pointed out. If the Spanish Court had so strong a desire for the Coburg marriage, that nothing but the active anti decided opposition of the British Government could have prevented that marriage, how did it happen that in the absence, as M. Guizot alleges, of any such opposition, the mere and simple offer of a different ar rangement by the French Government sufficed to pro cure the immediate adoption of that different arrange went? And if, as M. Guizot states, the Spanish Court acted in this matter with the most entire freedom, what was the reason of so sudden a transition from what is represented to have been an almost uncontrollable de termination for one arrangement, to a spontaneous and equally decided adoption of another one? M. Guizot says that this result was brought about by the most urgent motives ; what those motives were he does not explain. May it be inferred that one at least among those urgent motives was furnished by the urgency with which M. Bresson pressed the arrangement which he thus proposed to the Spanish Court? And might not another of these urgent motives have been afforded by the conviction, then already obtained by the Spanish Court, that the British Government did not recommend the Prince of Coburg, but thought that under all the cir. cunistances of the case, a Spanish Prince would be fittest consort for the Queen. If that conviction was felt at Madrid—aid her Ma jesty's Government have good ground for asserting that it was there felt—what becomes of the excuse put for ward for the precipitate and secret settlement of the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier to the Infanta, upon the plea that the engagements of Eu had been rendered void by the happening of the case of imminent d h e a r n g e spec ified p i n r e t s h e e n t u n com Government, m uni cated , and, unacq a u t least -in n y memorandum, of the 27th of February, 1846? The imminent danger specified in that memorandum was the likelihood that either the Queen or the Infanta should be about immediately to marry a foreign Prince, not being a descendant of Philip V. But, if that likelihood had ever existed, it had at all events ceased to exist when M. Bresson demanded the hand of the Infanta for the Duke of Montpensier. Not only had it then ceased to exist, but with respect to the Queen, whose marriage was at that time the immediate and only subject of dis cussion, it had been succeeded by an impossibility ; because, when M. Bresson demanded the hand of the Infanta for the Duke of Montpensier, the marriage of the Queen to the Infante Don Francisco had actually been resolved upon and settled. Therefore, the memo randum of the 27th of February, 1846, cannot afford the s li g ht es t ground on which to [build a justification for breaking the engagement of Eu. M. Guizot denies that the treaty and the renunciations I of Utrecht afford to the British Government any ground of right for protesting against the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier, and against its possible consequences. Now, the British Government have protested against that marriage, as at variance with the spirit of the Treaty of Utrecht, and against certain contingent con sequences of that marriage, as a violation of the letter of that treaty ; and her Majesty's Government are of opinion that their protest rests upon good and sufficient grounds. Guizot says that the Treaty of Utrecht had a double object: the first to secure the Crown of Spain to Philip V. and hi s d escen d ants e eT S ff p he a ec n tm i , obaniunto and n a e n rwe d ahtlehreoebspjaeumet object of eo h rf e t head. Now • the second t o prevent is the possibility o f a un i on of the Crowns of F rance and thest that oarta treaty;ftoior nwhich hf i tt ep n he d at ehee the bi s 3r e te c wc o e dai preceding thea ws a Now the first of thes e resu l ts was undoubtedly the treaty, one means acrohn tard contracting not tei a en n ng d tpina drtei re a ts n a, end. t besides he o objects j t e h e e ts r re storation k w en as ; and it is truly set ;forth in the second article of the treaty between Great Britain and Spain, which recites that, " La guerre qu'on vient determiner heureusement par Bette paix a ete entreprise au commencement, et continues si longtemps avec tant d'animosit6 et des de penses immenses, aussi Bien qu' avec une e ff us i on d e sang inexprimable, acause du danger imminent dont la liberte 'et la slime de toute l'Europe, a é'e menacea par l'upion trop etroite des royaumes d'Espagne et de France." By order, No. 5, South Parade, Leeds. S. SMILES, Secretary. 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Her Majesty's Government, therefore, contend that the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier to the Infanta is at variance with the main object of the treaty ; and that the letter, and positive stipulations, of the treaty, would prevent any of the descendants of that Prince from succeeding to the throne of Spain, " whatever might be the manner in which the succession might de volve upon their line." The French Government do not pretend to deny the validity of the renunciations of Utrecht. Those renun ciations were clear, positive, explicit, and comprehensive. They were incorporated in the treaty, and were made part of the law both of France and of Spain ; and the Kim; of France engaged by the stipulations of the treaty " Solennellement et par parole de Roi" that neither be nor his heirs and successors " ne ferout jamais rien, ni ne permettront que jamais it firt rien fait, capable d'em- Ocher les renonciations, d'avoir leur plein en, entier effet." But that, on the contrary, they would take sin cere care, and exert themselves, " o.fin que rien no donne atteinte u ce fondement du salut public, ni no puisse l'ebranler." Her Majesty's Government are surprised that in the fate of such renunciations and of such stipulations and engagements, the French Government should endeavour to represent, as implied, though not directly asserted, in M. Gaizat's dispatch, that the descendants of the Duke of Montpensier could relieve themselves from the positive and perpetual exclusion which attachks to them from the transactions of Utrecht, by the plea that they would inherit rights from the Infanta Luisa Fernando. It is manifest that no claim transmitted to them by the Infanta could counterbalance or set aside the positive disqualification which they will inherit from the Duke of Montpensier. Nothing is more common than that the disqualification inherited by children from one of their parents should invalidate all the qualification which they inherit from the other:. But if there were any value in this implied assertion of the French Government, and if the marriage of the PRICE SD. Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta would really free his descendants from the disabling effects of the renun ciations of Utrecht, how could the conclusion of that marriage be reconciled with the above quoted engage ment of the Crown of France solemnly taken, "et par parole de Roy," never to do nor to permit to be done, anything which could be capable of preventing th , ,se renunciations from having their full and entire or et? The French Government, therefore, must either admit that the descendants of the Duke of Montpensier are excluded by virtue of the renunciations in the Treaty of Utrecht. or they must acknowledge that they have violated the engagements contained in that tis aty. M. Guizot, wever, quotes instances of marriage of two Princes of Spain with Princesses of France, and of a Prince of France with a Princess of Spain; and he says that the last instance is remarkable, because it was the heir to the Crown of France who married one of the heiresses of the Crown of Spain. To these instances her Majesty's Government would reply, that even if they were cases in which the stipula tions of Utrecht had been overlooked, the fact of their having been so overlooked by statesmen in the last cc n tury would be no reason why they should not be appealed t'9,,and observed by statesmen in the present century, if ,403 e stipulations are in themselves clear, positive, and indisputable. Doubtful stipulations may receive an interpretation from precedents ; but a treaty that is plain and precise can only be invalidated by an act as formal as itself. A law is not abrogated for one man, because another man has abstained from appealing to its enactments ; and a treaty is not annulled for one generation, because another generation, under circumstances essentially different, may have allowed its stipulations to lie dormant. BEA the cases quoted by M. Guizot are very different from that of the marria ge o f th e D u k e o f M ont p ens i er . 'ln all these cases the Salic law was in force both in France and in Spain, and the Princesses in question, instead of being immediate heiresses to the crown of the country to the Royal Family of which they respectively belonged, were, in the two first instances, by the law of France altogether excluded ; and in the third i ns t ance , by the law of Spain, excluded until all the male heirs should be extinct. It is obvious that while the Salle law was in force in both countries, the strict enforcement of the stipulations of Utrecht in regard to women might well be considered as less important than it has now be come, since the change which has of late years been made in the law of succession in Spain. But with rt speet to the cases quoted, it may be observed as to the first, that, after that marriage, the treaty between Spain and Austria in 1729, still further confirmed and recorded the exclusion of all French Princes and their descendants from the throne of Spain ; and with respect to the third, that no descendants of that marriage have succeeded, or have claimed a right to succeed, to the Spanish Crown. M. Guizot, indeed, says that the stipulations of Utrecht will suffice for the future, as they have done for the past, for the interests of peace and for the balance of power in Europe. If her Majesty's Government are to understand by that sentence, that, whereas no French Prince or his descendant has since the Treaty of Utrecht claimed to succeed to the throne of Spain, no French Prince or his descendant will ever claim so to succeed in future, her Majesty's Government would admit that the question at issue between the two Governments was divested of much of its practical importance. Her Majesty's Government, however, cannot admit that the experience of the past, as asserted by M. Gui zot, has demonstrated that foreign influence has no power of swaying the international policy of Spain. On the contrary, the history of the last century affords many examples to show how, in consequence of that in timate connexion which, notwithstanding the Treaty of Utrecht, continued to subsist between the Crowns of France and Spain, Spain followed France into war, and made peace only when France did so too. It is true, indeed, as M. Guizot reminds her Majesty's Government, that in the present century Spain made a great and successful effort to vindicate her national in dependence ; and it may be remarked that the unani mity of feeling which then crowned her exertions with success, was much strengthened by the deep impression produced throughout Spain by the secrecy and surprise with which those proceedings were conducted which were intended to lead to the establishment of a French Prince on the Spanish throne. The British Government has not, as M. Guizot seems to suppose, forgotten those events, nor does it fail to render justice to the patriotism then displayed by the Spanish nation ; and her Majesty's Government are convinced that on any analogous occasion the same spirit would animate the whole Spanish people. But her Majesty's Government would deeply lament that any such occasion should arise again to let loose on the Peninsula a tempest of angry passions, and again to pour forth on the soil of Spain a deluge of human blood. The calamities of such a conflict, however great they may be, are not too dear a price for a people to pay for the maintenance of their national independence ; and though other States may be involved in the evils con nected with such a struggle, sound policy may lead them to choose immediate exertions and sacrifices, rather than encounter the future dangers which apathy and inacti vity would render too certain. But great would be the responsibility which would weigh upon those who should wantonly have been the cause of such evils; and if those evils, besides being unnecessarily produced, had their origin in breaches of treaties and of engagements, that responsibility would, indeed, be heavy and overwhelming. I have to instruct you to read this dispatch to M. 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Having answered already most of the allegations repeated in this docu ment, I shall confute mysef to correcting the more seri ous of the errors - which it contains, and to reiterating, conformably with the truth, the more important of the facts to which it relates. The only effect of lengthened controversy is to throw obscurity on the controverted matter, and to raise animosity between the parties to the dispute. Whilst it asserts the rights and the interests of France, the Kings Government is earnestly dearous of maintaining the m ost friendly relations with the Govern ment of her Brita snic Majesty, .and to this sentiment I shall remain faithaEul. Lord Palmersto n endeavours to make out that the King's Government has not kept the engagements re lating to the Spitaksh marriages which it entered into into in September. 1845, at the Palace of Eu ; and that it has broken the Treaty of Utrecht, with the ob ligations which that treaty imposes upon it. S uc h are the terms of his dispatch ; and the more unmeasured these terms are, %he more anxious I am to reproduce them without attenufation, that I may give theca an unre served answer. Lord Palmerston.. declared, in his dispalch of the 22d of September last, that he had not found in the Foreign. office any conventioi i or arrangement betw,en the French and English Govern menta relating to the Spanish mar riages. He insists, in his dispatch of the 31st of October last, on the ongagesnents relating to the same matter, which, as he says, were-entered into by the hint T's Go vernment at the j niece of Eu, affirming, at the same time, that there is :not in the Foreign• office any trace of the memorandum w ritten by me on the 27th of February last, and communi co ted to Lord Aberdeen on the 4th of March following. I might ask, in Dry turn, whether there exists in the Foreign-office any trace Of the engagements contracted at the Palace of lam? I might, moreover, urge (with some surprise at the inconsistency) that, while he affects a perfect knowledge of engagements not attested by the faintest official evide nce , h e di sputes facts and documents which it would n.xt be convenient to admit, on the ground that there iia% no official trace of their existence. This (might it not be said ?) is a striking contradiction, and evinces an ext roma partiality for his own view of the question. I shall, however, Flo nothing of the sort. I shall not dispute the engage ments contracted at Eu, because no record of them has; been found by Lord Palmerston in the Foreign -office. Where Governments are connected by mutual confidence• and respect, public business is not unfreqwently transacted without official documents. There are even ciircumstance in which this course is dictated to theta by propriety, and in which, therefore, they are bouHd to pursue it. Such was the case in re spect to the Spanish marriages. As the question related substantially to the domestic concerns of Spain, it in volved consideration is which regarded her independence and dignity. Lord, Aberdeen and myself (who were de sirous of acting in concert throughout the affair) did not think it fitting to Yam ke the question the subject of an official correspond ensce. Out of respect towards Spain, and considering our own position relatively to her, He thought that we should act with More propriety by con fining our correspondence to those less fotmal com munications which were rendered haturarand easy by ' our mutual confidentce. It is for this refasuu that Lord Palmerston has not found in the Forei l m-office any trace of the negotia tions or arrangetneiva which. in his dispatch of the 22d of September, he styles a bargain. But the engage ments contracted at...Eu, with the declarations in the memorandum of the• 27th of February, are not, on that account, the 16ss reeor serious; and, so far urn I fro disputing theft), that I am anxious to aclitio‘Nktige their existence, ana:.•to • assert their true and serious character. It is, hourbver, my Iduty, whilst milking this aeknow lodgment, to' re -stabs them correctly and compl ete l y. Now, in referring to tl le en gagements contracted at Eu. Lor Palmerston for; its, or omits to say, that these en gagements were Matt at and conditional. Whenever we have adverted to ther.a, we have coupled them with two reservations : first, ;that the Queen of Spain should choose her consort amongst the descendants of Philip V. secondly; that the English Government, in concert with us, and accordipg to the measure of its moans, should help us to secare the accomplishment of that object. We could not, indek d (without the most culpable im prudence), have refill icted our liberty of action in a matter of such serious importance, unless we had limited our engagements by oonditions demanded from us by the interests and dignity of Prance. I have openly, and. on every occasion, announced our line of policy in rest sect to the matter in question. I have frequently conversed' pa the subject with the English THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) We have received from Paris copies of the docu ments respec4ing the marriages of the Queen of Spain with Don Francisco d'Assis and the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier, presented to the Chamber of De puties by M. Guizot on Tuesday last. The following are translations of the most important dispatches:— LORD PALMERSTON TO LORD NORMANBY. Foreign-office, Oct. 31, 1846. My Lord,—Her Majesty's Government would willingly have allowed the communications between j; the two Governments on the Spanish marriages to close with M. Guizot's dispatch of the sth inst., a copy of which was transmitted to me by Count Jarnac on the Bth, if it were not that there are some statements and some arguments in that dispatch which it is impossible for her Majesty's Government to leave entirely without a reply. M. Guizot's dispatch, like that from me to your Ex • eellency, to which it was an answer, treats of two sub jects,—the marriage of the Queen of Spain, and the marriage of the Infanta. With regard to the first I have little to say, except so far as I may have to touch upon it in treating of the second ; and except to express the sincere and earnest wish of her Majesty's Govern ment that it may conduce to the happiness of the Queen and to the welfare of the Spanish nation. Her Ma jesty's Government, indeed, in answer to repeated appli cations from the Government of Spain on the subject of the Queen's marriage, had instructed her Majesty's Mi nister at Madrid to recommend a different arrangement, and had invited the French Government to join in that recommendation ; but the recommendation or her Ma jesty's Government was not givea to the Government of Spain in the spirit of dictation, as M. Guizot's dispatch would seem to imply ; nor did her Majesty's Government either ask or expect that the Government of France should exclusively recommend the candidate whom her Majesty's Government thought the best. Wo knew perfectly well, that if that candidate were not ac cepted by the Spanish Court, the French Government would recommend another; and I distinctly stated to Count Jarnac, in answer to a question which he put to me, that her Majesty's Government, having given its opinion, would, in the event of that opinion not pre vailing, take no part either for or against the other can didate whom the French Government would afterwards propose. But what I adverted to in regard to this matter, in my former dispatch, is this, that while at the latter end of August Count Jarnac was holding out to me, and M. Guizot to your Excellency, the expectation that M. Bresson would be instructed to co-operate with Mr. Bulwer in recommending the candidate whom the British Government wished to point out, provided that, in the event of that candidate being rejected, Mr. Bulwer would be instructed not to oppose M. Bresson in recom mending the other. M. Bresson was at that very time al ready deciding the matter at Madrid, against that first candidate, in pursuance of instructions previously sent to him from Paris; and her Majesty's Government think that the French Government might as well have made those instructions known to them, instead of continuing to discuss the conditions of a joint action which those in structions had put entirely out of the question. And in at professedters, wi t a h t respect the te t a o d w e s h i r ic e h fo t r h a e f Fr u er l g l ean m redh utu Gt a oo l v u teh n re d ns e me r e s n t m a t nding, and now seems to imply that a similar disposition was not equally felt by her Ma jesty's Government, it is to be observed that her Ma jesty's Government twice communicated to the French Government the instructions which had been sent to Mr. Bulwer ; the first time in extenso, and the second time in substance •, whereas no similar communication was ever made to her Majesty's Government of the ine structions sent to M. Bresson. But not only was the confidence thus shown by her Majesty's Government towards the Government of France not reciprocated, but it was turned to purposes at variance with the spirit in which it was. made ; and though M. Guizot declared that my instruction, of the 19th of July, to Mr. Bulwer, of which a copy was communicated in confidence to M. Guizot, and was sent immediately by him to M. Bresson, was not used by M. Bresson in any public or official manner, yet he does not deny :that it was u s e d by M. Bresson in a manner unauthorised by her Majesty's Government, to whom, and to whom alone, it belonged to determine what use should be made at Madrid of own instruction to her Majesty's Minister at that Court. M. Guizot reverts to the earlier periods of these trans actions, and admits that, from the outset, the King of the French spontaneously made kriown that he did not pretend to obtain the hand of the Queen of Spain for any of his sons, and that he wished the Queen of Spain to choose her consort from among the descendants of Philip V., a category which, as the French Government pointed out at the time, specifically excluded all the members of the Royal Family of France. But surely there declarations had reference to a principle, and not simply:to a person. The objection of which his Ma jesty the King of the French by such declarations ad mitted the validity, was not that one of his sons should be the husband of Isabella of Bourbon, but that one of his sons should be the husband of the Queen of Spain ; and the principle of that objection is therefore not confined in its application to a marriage of one of his sons with the reigning sovereign, but evidently applies also to a mar riage with the immediate heiress to the Crown. And is this the doctrine of her Majesty's Government alone P And is it only now ' 'for the first time, advanced? Far otherwise. It i s a doctrine admitted virtually and by his al an Maj e an t e e s c t y e d e tnbt p l e i r i i n e g d ; of fe t r he m F . r G en a c i h zot h a i l m ia s d e e lf, s in his dispatch to certain engagements, from which February,the F renc h 184 G 6 0 , v t e h r a n t m t e h n e t y i s n h t o i u m l a d e i d n , a o s n pec t i h fi e ed 2 c 7 o t n h tin of . gency, consider themselves freed and released. And what were those engagements ? They were, first, the engagement, originally and spontaneously made by his Majesty the King of the French, that no son of his should marry the Queen of Spain ; and, secondly, the engagement, also spontaneou s ly t a k en by his Majesty, and by his Minister, in September, 1845, at Eu, that in no case should the Duke of Montpensier marry the In fanta until the Queen of Spain should have been mar ried ; and until, by her having had children, the prospect of a direct succession to the Spanish Crown should have been assured. Does not the second of these engagements prove that the first was understood by those who made it exactly in the sense which I have given to it ? and that the objection of which the King of the French acknowledged the force and justice, was, not that one of his sons should marry a particular Princess of the House of Bourbon, but that any of his sons should be the consort of the Queen of Spain ? And his Majesty, feeling and admitting the force of that ob jection, proposed, of his own accord, that the marriage which he wished to take place between his son and the Infanta should be postponed until the birth of children to the Queen should in some degree have divested that marriage of the appearance of an attempt to take the chance of attaining by indirect . means in Lone way that which had been relinquished directly in another. This last-mentioned engagement at Eu was obviously not sufficient to remove the objections of the British Government to the proposed marriage of the Duke of Montpensier to the Infanta. But that engagement, such as it was, ought to have been kept; and if it had been kept, time would have been allowed to the two Govern- ments to discuss with deliberation the various questions connected with the matter, and they might have endea voured to have arrived at some, amicable arrangement of their mutual views and interests with regard to it. But the object of the French Government on this occa sion seems to have been so to precipitate the matter, as to render all arrangement and mutual understanding im possible. This engagement, spontaneously made by the French Government, has been broken; and upon what plea? M. Guizot, in his dispatch, assigns two grounds of excuse for its violation. The one, a circumstance which happened during the administration of her Ma jesty's late Government; the other, some circumstances which are said to have happened after her Majesty's present Government came into office. M. Guizot alludes to a communication which was made to her Majesty's late Government on the 27th of February of the present year, the purport of which was that the King of the French would hold himself free from the engagement he had taken as to the marriage of the Queen and of the Infanta, and would deem himself at liberty to ask the hand either of the one or of the other for the Duke of Montpensier, in a certain con tingency. That contingency M. Guizot stated, in his dispatch, to have been defined to be, "if any combina tion should acquire consistency, which should make the French Government fear that the Consort of the Queen of Spain would be takennot from among the descendants of Philip V." This communication of the 27th of February, 1846 upon which so much stress i s l a id as a ff ording justifi cationl, for the course which th e F renc h G ovt rnme nt has pursued, was ve rbal and uno ffi cial. There i s no recor d of it in the For eign-office. There is nothing to show that it was aver acquiesced i in in by her Maj es ty' s l ate Govern ment ; and the pretensions put forward, an d t h e inten tions announcedit, are at v ariance with the principl es laid down, and with the opinions declarecil by her Ma jesty'slate, as well as her Mi;tjesty's present, Adminis tration. I never heard of this memorandum till l ate l y . It was never even mentioned to me by Count Jarnac until after the event had happened for which it is now quoted as a justification. It is said to have been a tim e ly ri e ge warning, and the it s existencen e lec of eraswhich made j ust ifies k n ow theu to m double f e rm thear first time, by Count Jarnac, after the news of the double te marriage m b, e r,ce h u a n d t b j e e en rn r a e e ce s i h et A m b e o u a t n the un s middle ned of Sep • memo randum, which he said was the record of the communi . cation in question ; but, although I remember that the received. d passage quoted by M. Gutzot was in that memorandum, yet, the specific contingency stated therein as the one which would release the French Government from its en gagements, was the case of "there being at any time an imminent danger of a marriage either of the Queen of Spain, or of the Infanta, with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, or with any other foreign Prince, not being a Bourbon, and not being a descendant of Phillip V. of Spain ;" and it was in such a ease that the memorandum declared, that his Majesty the King of the French would consider himself free to ask for the Duke of Montpen sier the hand either of the Queen or of the Infanta. It is to be remarked, that the memorandum thus places both the marriage of the Queen, and that of the heiress presumptive to the throne, in the same political:category; but if there was between those two marriages, in the opinion of the French Government, this identity of poli- ,-"-,z-.G,'-- ~// _,"~ '~ ~. - ~~ ~Y ~ C..y Ambassador at Paris; and I hare forai'*44l in all my conversations with him,- of the;.,., ' • 1, „ e should pursue, if a Prince not dpsCeri hail) V. (and especially if the Prince L e i. 1141 ctil; :10bourg), should offer himself, with a pro: poet m st:(.:.6ss, as a can didate for the hand of the Queen of Spain The Pug lish Government, therefore, was fully apurised of the reservations annexed to our enge.geunnts, -and of the concurrence which we expected from it. It told us, I admit, that it could not adopt the prin ciple of our policy; and that in respcct to this question it could not place itself in our position, or hold our lan guage, or pursue our line of conduct. It mulled us, however, that it would act in the same spirit and pursue the same obj(et. Nor was there in this conduct of the two Governments anything in the nature of a bargain. It was, on both sides, a conduct perfectly rational, unre served, and sincere. We constantly relied on its conti nuance. According to Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of Mira gores, during the last summer, was 'sent en a mission to Paris by the Court of Spain, for the purp , se of persuad ing the King and his Gov( rnment to sequiesee in the marriage of Queen Isabella with the Prince, of Coburg. This assertion is entirely groundless. During the two months which he passed in Paris, the Marquis of Mira flores never made to the King's Government cloy come munication or overture of the purport indicated by Lord Palmerston ; nor did he ever address to me a single word to that effect. I pointed out, in my dispatch of the sth of Wain' last, that the placing Prince Leopold at the head of the three candidates for the hand of Queen Isabella was calculated to produce the Effect of an indirect recommen dation of that Prince. I then added, " admitting that Lord Palmerston did not intend to propose . or to is com mend the Prince of Coburg, he would certainly acknow ledge himself that he said nothing to induce him to withdraw his pretensions, or to discourage the . Sp an i s h Government from persisti ng i n its designs." Lord Palmerston entirely mistakes the meaning of this sentence. "M. Guizot," he says, "directly admits that her Majesty's Government had no intention to put for ward or to recommend Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg; that admission is an acknowledgment of the exact truth." The intention of Lord Palmerston to recommend Prince Leopold, of Coburg, by his instructions of the 19th of July I neither admitted nor contested. It is not the intentions, but the effects, which it is my pro vince and my duty to determine. I endeavoured to show the effect which these instructions would naturally produce at Madrid, even admitting hypothetically that Lord Palmerston did not intend to put forward or to recommend that Prince. Proceeding to discuss what I said to ycu (in my dis - - patch of the sth of October) on the effect of his instruc tions of the 19th of July, at Madrid, .Lord Palmerston quotes, as if it were extracted verbatim from my dis. patch, the follo w i ng p assage :—(I place his quotation, and the passage in my dispatch, side by side.) LITERAL TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATED QUOTATION IX THE ORIGINAL TEXT. SERTED IN THE ENGLISH DOCUMENT. " The French Government "The french, Government could not be mistaken as to was unalile . to deseive itself this state of things. In order as to-the state of things"' and to obviate its consequences, saw thatithere' saris; en the it resorted at Madrid to the part of the Spanish Court, most direct and most legiti- se strong a desire for the mate means, and appealed t o C o b urg a lli ance, that, if the the free choice and inde- British Government should pendent will of Queen Ise- make no active opposition to belle and of her Government. it, and should remain only By tile side of the combine- passive in the matter, that tion which was being par- marriage would certainly be sued in evident opposition to concluded;' and that, copse its policy, it placed and of- quently, the French Govern fered a different combination. meat resorted at Madrid to It had a right to ao so, the most direct and most having openly and positively legitimate means, and ap made a reservation of that pealed to the free choice and right to itself'. It was its independent will of the duty to do so, for the con- Queen and of her Govern tingency in view of which meat, to bring about. a dif that reservation had been ferent arrangement. By the made, and which the French side of a combination which Government had foreseen in was being pursued evidently its instructions sent to Ma- in opposition to the policy of drid, as well as in its declare- the French Goveriiinent, tions in London, became that Government (says M. more and more imminent. Guizsat) offered a different This combination the Queen combination, and this latter of Spain and her Government one was accepted by the have accepted." Queen and her Government." - On reading this passage, I felt, I confess, extreme surprise; the phrases which I have quoted are not in my dispatch; nor can I consider this interpolation as in different, since Lord Palmerston avails himself of it to impute to me " palpable contradictions." These contra dictions would be palpable indeed, if all the phrases from which they are said to result had really existed; but he must permit me to repudiate contradictions which are no production of mine. Speaking of the overture made in May last by the Court of Madrid, with the knowledge and concurrence • of the English Minister, for the purpose of offering the hand of the Queen of Spain to the Prince of Coburg, I did not mention that I had received my first information of that overture from Lord Aberdeen. Lord Palmerston expresses surprise at this silence. I thank him for this reproof. It is true that Lord Aberdeen was the first who gave me that information, which was soon after confirmed by the King's Ambassador at Madrid. Nothing, certainly, could have better suited the King's Government than giving publicity to this fact; since it shows at once the sincerity of Lord Aber deen, his engagement to aid us in preventing the Prince of Coburg from offering himself for the Queen's hand, and the fidelity with which he adhered to it. But, having received the information as a confidential and private communication, I felt uncertain whether it e ould be egrceable to Lord Aler deen himself that I should declare officially that it had reached me through him. It appeared to me that I could not make that use of it without his authority. It is with heartfelt satisfaction that I now offer this acknowledg ment to the undeviating sincerity with which, on this occasion, ns on many others, be pursued that policy of entire confidence and intimate concert to which we were mutually pledged. I must draw one short comparison. In the month of May Lord Aberdeen gave me immediate information of the proceedings which first rendered it certain that Prince Leopold of Coburg was a candidate for the Queen's hand. He disavowed these pretensions, and blamed the English Minister at Madrid for having taken any share in those proceedings. In the month of July following, without any notice, without any previous communica- tion with us, Lord Palmerston himself proclaimed Prince Leopold of Coburg a candidate, and instruct,cl Mr. Bulwer to express the sincere desire of the English Go vernment that the choice might fall on that one of the three candidates who might be most acceptable to Spain and to the Queen. And when, as soon as wo were made acquainted with this dispatch, you represented to Lord Palmerston the serious objections which it suggested, and you asked him if it could not be in some degree reconsidered, he replied that it was already forwarded. Who will say that no change had taken place? Who ' will say that we ought, that we could have closed our eyes to such a change, and in blind inaction awaited the chances of what might occur? The most obvious duty and the commonest foresight prescribed to the King's Government its conduct. The Government had promised, in September, 1845, not to conclude the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta until the Queen of Spain should be married and should have a child, provided, however, that the Queen gave her band to one of the descendants of Philip V., and tint the English Government aided us in bringing about that re.ailt. The King's povern ment has faithfully performed its promise. In Novem ber, 1845, a proposal was made to it, in order to de cide the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip V., to consent to the immediate and shun!. taneous marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta. This proposal it rejected. In May, 1846, we saw the hand of the Queen offered to Prince Leopold of Coburg, and in the July following that Prince offi cially announced as a candidate, without objection or comment by the English Government. We could not but regard the chance of that alliance as probable and imminent. To obviate that chance, we were justified in consenting (and indeed bound to consent) to the imme diate marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta. The King's Government has not in a single instance, nor on a single point, violated its engagements. It has, on the contrary, scrupulously observed them ; subject to the reservations and within the limits which it had constantly assigned to them, and which it had care fully made known beforehand. The King's Government has not been less observant of the Treaty of Utrecht than of its own engagements. The meaning of this treaty, and the consequences which it implies, are thus summed up by Lord Palmer- Ston :—That the Crowns of France and Spain shalihl for ever separated ; that every Prince of th%1t0 i .3 . 7 . 1: Family of either country, together with althis desee d I the throne shall be fur ever excluded from succeeding shall take take effect of the other ; and that this exclusion . hal of these principles, the perpet u al separa tionn I have fully admitted. It does wh T a h te e ve i r .or tt r henature of their title to such s suecessio of the, two Crowns, such marriages ate to be not, hovvever, to ' llow from this principle, that marriages issuing an from e e and Spain pro ar e to lose .those rights to the Spanish Cr own w hi ch bet h w i e l e ii n tei t i the royal ,or-that Douses prin c es oft may accrue to them as descendants of Philip V. IN hiist I admit the principle, I maintain that the inference (e whiducih c nobody itin Lurope ever t h ought of before) is not deducible fro m . cited i a s n d t, 1)1 \ 1 . s m g ig e t h i e t r have in t i , n u u r l o ti p p e lie d d u ) r , n t g o I will only reit e r a t e one of the facts which I have al ready that l i)roz the entire course of the last century. In 1721 Louis 1., Kin g o f Spain, and awl of Plii!ip V., married Madeinoiclle de M on ip e nsier, daughter of the Regent, Duke of ()cleans, the very Prince who had signed, in 1712, the renunciation, by the Or!eins branch, 01 its eventual sights to the Spanish throne. • New, if Louis I. had had children, a grandson cf the Regent would have ascended the Spanish throne; and in presence of this fact, which would have happetted in the lifetime of the parties who signed the Treaty of Utrecht, what a ould have become of the inferencri drawn from it by Lord Palmerston? "But, admitting (says he, in his dispatch of the 31st i,f October) that there were cases in which the stipula tions of Utrecht had been overlooked, the fact of their - having b: en so overlooked by statesmen in the last cen tury would be no reason why they should not be appealed to, and observed by statesmen in the present." In reply to this answer of Lord Palmerston, I shall produce a fact. more recent, and carrying with it a weight which he will not contest. In 1739, the Infant Don Philip, Duke of Parma, and son of Philip V., married Louisa Elizabeth, daughter of Louis XV. In 1765, the Infanta Louisa Maria Theresa, a child of this marriage, and therefore a grandchild of Louis XV., married Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, who was afterwards Icing of Spain, under the name of Charles IV. Ferdinand VII., King of Spain, was, there fore a great grandson of Louis XV., and his daughter, ~2~t~ ee t ss goi th ie 0. Ili .rls-