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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 29.

Tax sow indisputable fact that Preach forest are
ea the march from various points for the frontier of
Spain is as which pointedly refers to to the history
of ear (watery, the prioeiples of our easetitutioa, and
the beers of oar foreign relations. All these may he
studied together by a simple reassesses to the inci-
dents of the Commis of Verses, end their eats*.
deet facts. Tee most cursory review of that motion
of lb* history of oar seatury minot bat impress to
with a various and anxious sense of the parallelism
of the cent of 1823 and that of 1868.

It was at the beginning of 1820 that Remo pro-
claimed In the south of Spain the Constitution of
1812. Nowhere, perhaps, but in Spain would the
attempt have been made to conceal Rixao's rinser
from the rut of the kingdom : but the ancient dread
felt by the Kings of Spain of the liberty-loving
mountaineers of the north operated now to make
them keep the secret, if possible, from spreading
beyond Madrid. Of course, the attempt wan vain.
A Spanish Revolution was presently heard of all
over Europe. FERDINAND put forth hasty projects
of reform, which were not the less too late for being
butt'; and he was compelled to withdraw his own
propositions in favour of the Constitution of 1812,
which he accepted on the 10th of March, 1820. As
has usually happened in the on., of Spanish revolu-
tions, other countries, sad especially Italy, imme-
diately followed the incitement. Naples and Pied-
mont demanded Constitutional Government :
Naples in thaw days, with Sicily looking on and
likening in trembling hope and now, after all these
years, still in the anguish of political torture; and
Piedmont, then so disappointed by the weakness of
CataLas Ammer, and now so reilessiol, se thriving,
progressive, and politically virtuous, nadir tem Coati-
tntional Cloven mot. and a King worthy toadminister
it. The similar condition of Naples and Piedmont then,
and their contrast sow, cannot but afford instruction
aid guidance to all teachable cations who will pre-
sently have once more to decide in a critical alter-
native which will affect the welfare of genentions to
come. For a time Libevaliam succeeded in Naples,
as well u in Spain; and the demote of Europa were
alarmed at the wide demand for Geestitational
Government. The French KENO was the first to
move against it. He took pecression of the pusse of
the Pyrenees in 1821, and, by allusion with FERDI-
NAND, left only one road open. Every coat-pocket,
and every ass-pannier that mead that road was
examined; and every person who attempted to eras
without late was shot. The pretext was a bilious
fiver which had appeared the previous autumn at
Barcelona; bat the world understood very well
that the real object at dread was the poll-
tioal • epidemic which bad spread from Cadiz
to Coronas, aid from the Sierra Nevada to
the Pyteues. There *ever was any doubt that
continental Europe was this honeycombed with
Secret Societies, as every country now is, and ever
will be, when speech and attics are washed nader
Ciovernmset »prima& Them wee the Name talk
of Carbonari and Anarchists then that then is now
of Socialists and Red Republiews; and there was
the same fatal error common among despots of ow-
handing the mast Gain and enlightened demand of
Coestitational Goverammt with the uproar of the
wildest anarchy. The differences hearses the two
ouse—so alike with an interval of live-end-thirty
years—ia that the Liberals of Europe were without
the aperient* that they hive shoe galas& They
wen too sanguine, especially those of Spain; and
they misled their French sympathisers. It was this
kind of sorrespeadseee which made the French
Bonmens far he their resoared threw, and which
speed them to take powession of the healer when
the Constitutimial ease triumphed is Spain. It is
important for us to remember that la times days
other satins were so far vigilant sad cautious as
that way ally of either France or Spain insisted on
knowing what was meant by the asmeabilag
of ea army on the frostier which divided
them. Farther than that, the Clemgress of
Verona was held, wider fake pretsews it la true,
hat so as to saes every Governmeet to &elan its
Jonathan or at hest to show its leaner. The pre-
lims far the Cessna was a consultation on the
affairs of Oresee ; bet out of it oases the avowal by
England of the Cam nto policy, which it particularly
behoves us to remember at this day.
It had bleu the policy of the European Sovereigns
to represent Ragland as favourable to the Holy
Alii-
auaa, though not engaged in it. It wee the object of
England then to dissolve the Holy Athena*, quietly
sad peaceably. CANNING lipoid have bees glad to
do it by hang Ragland nerepresseted at the Verona
Cooper; bat the,. was so time or facility for so
decisive a mousses. The Duke of WILL irceroze had
so other idea thin that the Cecinas was really SOM.
bled to settle the stein of Gramme; and when he left
London for Varese. Mr. CANNING had been is caw
only fortywight bean. In a law more hours, Mr.
CANNING did something se decisive se if he bad kept
the Dales of Wxxxlicovon at home. At Paris, the
French Minister, Vitiate, informed the Duke
that the affairs of Spain, as well as Greece,
would be diseased at yams; sad the Duke
wrote home for instruction. Seen of one readers
may remember the reply he received; but others may
never have read it, and nom can object to non it at
the present juncture. This was at the nose of 1822,
when constitutional government had existed for be-
tween two and three years in Spain, when the ruler
of France was known to be favourable to its over.
throw, and when his armies wen marching down to
the Pyrenees, under pretence of stopping the comma-
eication between the Liberals of the two wearies.
• If there be a determined project to interfere," wrote
the British statesman. "by force or by 'Mae, in the
present struggle in Spain, so 00eViNted are his MA-
J 1617.11 Ooveroment of the uselessness and danger of
any such ioterference, so objectionable does it appear
to them in principle, as well as utterly impracticable
in execution, that when the necessity arises (or I
would rather say, when the opportunity offers), I ant
to instruct your Once at once frankly and preempts
rily to declare that to any such interhrenos, come
what may, his Manner will not be a party." By
this declaration the Verona Coogress was prevented
from interfering, in spite of the arguments and entrea-
ties of Fromm When Frame avowed her intention
of marching to Madrid to put down the constitn-
the, the Car ALIIXANDIR and some other potentates
declared their delight : but the Doke of Witurno-
lox carried in hie pocket a lather intimation from
Mr. CANNING, which pet a atop to the miechiseose
monspirsey. " If," wrote Aire CANNING. " a &wh-
eelies of say woh determination should be made at
Verona, the Dike of Wumwerow should, ems