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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16.
LORD ABERDEEN made a great and fatal mistake,
when he consented to the conclusion, even in con-
tinge ecy, of a marriage between a son of the King of
the FRENCH and the sister of the Queen of SPAIN.
Common sense at once shows, that a marriage which
is only to take ph cai I s ich and such o rntingencies, is
very unfair. To promise two young people to each
other, both possessed of every attraction personal
and ambitious, is to create a kind of link, very
difficult to break. To introduce the Due de Mora-
PENSIER and the Infanta to each other's hopes and
affections, and to tell them, at the same time, that
the fulfilment of their marriage depends upon the
fertility or barrenness of a sister, is cruel. It natu-
rally tempts the young, as well as those who counsel
them, to overleap such seemingly preposterous ob-
structions. Lord ABERDEEN, therefore, in consenting
to a marriage between the Due de MONTPENSIER and
the young Infanta, so soon as the Queen should
have offspring, placed too strong a temptation
in the way of Lours Pmurre and his mat
Monarchs, we are sorry to say, arc seldom tied
by those laws of honour in the observant*
of promises, which bind gentlemen. The deal-
ings of princes in the matter of intermarriages, are
very much like those of gentlemen when they
deal in horses. The gentleman throws off gentle-
manly principle, and royalty condescends to jockey.
Lord ABERDZEN was deplorably outwitted when
be consented to the marriage, with limitations,
which, he might have known, such a king as Lours-
PHILIPPE would infallibly set at nought A firm and
decided language held to Doves-PitturrE, instead
of the deceitful aznicabilities of Eu, might have
aparedithe country the mortideation of seeing Spain
in danger of becoming a French apenage.
From what has transpired ad Mr. Buhwra's notes
and rensonatranceis, it would appear that this diplo-
matist and his government take the ground of
resisting es tots the marriage of the Duc de MONT-
PENSIER. We fear that such ground is unten-
able, after the admission of our late Foreign
Minister. The utmost that eau now be done
or, hoped, is to keep the King of the French to his
solemn engagements, and mist the marriage of the
Infanta so long as she remains presumptive heir. But
after all, we have no mew of resistance, except each
violent meamires as it would be absurd to employ. j
Our policy, for these few years past, has been to give
up all influence in the Peninsula, all mesas of guiding
its councils or its goverment. There is not a
Spanish party or a Spaniard, who looks to England
or who eonsiders her other than a captious, niggardly,
cowardly, ill-humoured, and cold-hearted power. Our
characteristic, ea far as Spanish politics are con-
cerned, has been to slander our friends, and lick the
feet of our foes. We were told, over and over, that
this was the wise and prudent plan; and we now see
the result

It is one question, however, what we ought to do,
and another what we have done. The interests or
the dignity of England are not alone concerned. The
interests of Spain herself, and of France, are more
vitally affected.
As to Spain, the marriage of the Infanta rivets her
chains, as a country necessarily dependent on
France. Let Queen ISABELLA do what she will, let
her re-establish the constitution, let her allow its free
play by admitting the liberals to power, every act
in that direction will but create a host of malcontents,
who will have a court of their own in the Tuileries
to repair to, and a rallying point from which Spain
may be menaced, when not governed. If the Queen
of Spain have no children, every eye and hope will
desert her, to turn to the presumptive heir and to the
Orleans dynasty. And even if she have a family,
what difficulty or disturbance can arise, especially
with a personage so imbecile as the Queen's husband
to meet it, that some sections of the people will not
look beyond the Pyrenees, for a prince with far better
means and powers of governing, aweing, and rewarding.
It is needless to recapitulate the uses that France
will make of Spain, when once her influence is esta-
blished there by this marriage. Her naval, her com-
mercial, her colonial policy will be so directed, as
that the House of Bourbon shall outweigh, over-
awe, and exclude England. This bas hitherto been
French policy in the Peninsula, and it will now march
to its completion.
Nero necessarily arises the worst result of this
Spanish marriage, in the inevitably and newly-
awakened rivalry between France and England. Oar
present Parliament may be very pacific and tolerant
The present King of the French is very prudent and
adroit; and, no doubt, would do his best to prevent
his ascendancy in Spain from at first creating too
meek annoyance in England. He would probably at
first provide for the interests of our Spaniah bond-
holders. He would flatter oar free-traders. He would
try to coax that party amongst as which is absorbed in
domestic and economical progress, so as to make it
blunt the edge and anab the spirit of any over active,
or• over patriotic, diplomacy. But Louis PHILIPPE
will one .day be removed freak * scene ; whilst the
policy which he has left behind will hoer* ripened,
will have mede•advances towards driving us from tile
iZetliterraneary will have nullified' mix Mimi" szul,
wild: influence, our trade. Jowl Butt, may then
awaken
red the world may me a renewal of those
, .
long and dla:strous s I the germs of which
are Always own,
~""! start up. think that the result of the
AB it not lann:4l,*