The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 10.

Or the soundness of the policy which has prompted
the Spanish ministers to recommend, and the Queen
to proclaim, a general amnesty, there cannot be
two opinions among those whose opinions are worth
anything: The measure shows that the counsels at
present in the ascendancy at Madrid are of a truly
statesman-like kind. The miserable "palace ques-
tion "isto be consigned to oblivion. The past cannot
be recalled. The injured Queen will bear in silence
the unutterable wrong inflicted upon her. The
loyalty of the Spaniard will be appealed to that he may
wink at any untoward consequences of the monstrous
misalliance. The Queen and ministers of Spain devote
themselvee to their public duties, keeping silence on
private griefs. They throw themselves on the na-
tion, and invite all true-hearted Spaniards, whatever
their theoretical politics—whatever their partisan

dilemmas in the paA—to return to their country, and
honestly endeavour to work out the greatest possible
amount of good for it by the instrumentality of the
government de facto.
There is true magnanimity and true wisdom in this
design. It is only thus that Spain can be made a na-
tion. At present there is no Spanish nation. There
is a court in which baffles and intriguers have been
eentending for power, and there are provinces sub-
jected to the crown round which these hornets and
gad flies cluster; but there is no nation. In France
there is a nation—in England there is a nation—in
the United States there is a nation ; and the conse-
.quence is that in all these countries we frequently see
common-place ministers, ministers below mediocrity,
and even ministers subservient to sinister interests, in
power without the general prosperity being mate-
rially endangered, or the public peace at aIL In
Spain, for want of a nation, all depends upon the per-
meal character of the rulers for the time Wag.
The first step towards the introduction of good
stable government in Spain must be the creation of a
nation. The spirit in which the amnesty is conceived
and promulgated is exactly the spirit in which the
statesman who would create a nation must go to work.
He must summon around him the elite of Spain, and
persuade them to "let by-genes be by-gones, and
co-operate with him in future to promote the public
good. So that he can get them to work together with
tolerable harmony the exact mode of working is at
first of minor importance. He ought to make large
allowance for individual opinions and even crotchets.
The theoretical principles laid down in the memorial