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perienced with no lets violence in every species
of speculation. The value of houses and
that of estates in the captial, have already suf-
fered • fall, that of rents must follow. The uctivi'y
in building is relaxed ; the price of material., the
amount of salaries of every• kind cannot but Jinn-
nish. Lastly, war by driving foreigners from the
sAnSilty, and particularly the Raglish, will deprive
us of tamw than a hundred millions orfranco, winch
Amy ammo* bring to it.
7 PARIS, NOVEIIIIIIIII.O.
The grearquestioh of war with Spain still cum i-
. lines undecided ; it will remain so during some
rinie, consistently with its own nature and the cir.
eunishinces Odell Mar come to our knowledge.
Our privatelel4ri from Verona, dated the sth
iust. (and none of a mice recent date have been re-
ceived) affirm, that op to dud day nothing hod been
decided at Congress relatively to Spain. No do-
chmration had been resolved upon ; Ito ultimately:
seat to Madrid ;.nether was there the slightest op,
vearance of the disiiilution of the Congress.
• -Advice' front Madrid of the-6th lust. which we
have this day received, are of a less alarming cha-
racter as regards the Princes of Spain. The So-
pretne Tribunal, charged to examine the prelimi-
nary proceedings respecting the movements of the
7th of Jule. hes declared that the Fiscal, by des
wending the imp eschment. before the Military Tria
Impel, of the late Ministers, and of other datinguish. ,
ed personages, carried Abs zeal too far ; and that
only eleven Ifficers of the guard, who were taken
witteertne in their hands, shall be tried before the
%act...tribunal. The same letters announce that
strains are successfully making
,to approximate the
,I.btve parties into which the Cortes are divided, vit.
• That of the present Ministry, or the Frolic:dos of
the 7th of July ; that of Arguelles, and other mem.
bers of the Cortes of Cadiz; and that of the per-
sons who, with Morillo mid Martinez de Is Rosa,
believe some modrications of the Constitution pos.
sible at a future period, when they might not ap-
Tear to be provoked by foreign menace.. In gene-
•ral, there were eyaipturnsof a tritium, not certainly
• Pwil rds moderation, but towards less exaggeration.
...';We have said., tint the violence alone'of the pre.
..I!ehdersting piety iathe Cortes, might force France
• to declare against Spain. The revolutionary axe
' raised over the head of a Bourbon would not allow
'a
_Royalist Ministry to calculate neither the in-
terests, nor even the chances, of success. Honour,
that aspreine arbiter, would impetuously requite
decisive demonstration, which would, at least, tea.
Cry our firm disposition to oppose ourselves to the
clime, even though we could not successfully ac.
cdvbplish the object. Who, en seeing a brother
rhos surrounded by assassins. on the point of perish-
' ing by their poniards, would nut fly to his aid,
without calculating whether the proceeding would
accelerate the fatal blow ?
Bat, exclusively of this extreme ease, which now
• seems to be removing, who can doubt that France
ought to make every effort to avoid, and to pre-
vent, a war against Spain ? We will not here re-
peat the irrefragable arguments by which we have
*hewn, that between two independent nations, the
right of armed intervention cannot be founded
upon the circumstance, that one of them should
have adopted a bad Constitution, so long as she
sloes not attempt to impose the yoke of it upon
Viler nations. We will only observe, that the
danger resulting to France from the existence
of the detestable Constitution of the Corte,, is
nothing in comparison to the danger which would
result horn the admission of a right, with which
soy Congress might he vested, of supreme con-
trol over existing Constitutions, legally and dtplo.
rnatically recognised. In order to make us combat
the percicioua principles of the Spanish Constitu.
Lion, our love for our legitimate Kings, our attach.
meat to the Charter, the tranquil enjoyment atoll
our liberties, under an excellent Government, on.
der the guarantee of a national representation, and
under that of the liberty of the press, are quote suf.
*dent. With these elements of order, peace, and
stability, France has nothing to fear from the ex-
staple of a Coastitotioo which hitherto has produc-
ed no fruit calculated to seduce even the most
ouionery minds. Nailing, on the contrary, can
wrarautee the tranquillity of France. sod of all
Western Europe. if the Powers of Eastern Europe,
so different from as in laws, manners, sod insiitu-
bone, puaseased • recognised right to interlere in
oar internal constitutional regime. This confu-
, stator the rights of sovereignty would be an Inez-
• . kaustible source of disquietude, agitutions, and
• even of wars. Nye believe that Fiance. as well
for her interest as fur her honour, cannot too firmly
oppose a system of iuterfereoce founded epos this
false basis.
There is another special interest for France ;
which is the preservation of the sceptre of France
in the hoods of • dynasty allied to the blood of our
Kings, and naturally disposed to cultivate those
re4ations of friendship between Spaniards and
Frenchmeo which their reciprocal situation renders
so beneficial. Statesmen will understand us when
we say, that the armed intervention of the Powers
o 4 the North, .and of the centre of Europe, iu the
drain of the Peninsula. might, perhaps,' lewd th
chances still lea favourable to the maintenance of
the Bourbons on the throne, than the present state
Of thirgs. Fears may be entertained of combine-
ot events which would induce a Spanish party
to call iii a foreign dynasty, whose establishment at
Madrid would change the equilibriums of the South
of Europe. to the particular detriment of France.
U we would speak unreservedly of the pull, this
observation would appear more serious; hut we
wish to avoid every thing which may tend to wound
the feelings of respectable Governments. Another
fatal chsuce, stud to which we can oily obscurely
allude. would be to throw Spain into the arms of
new Hispano-American Republics, which would
give birth to an immense federation, to a new poli-
tical world, and to the subversion of interests and
relations which no human reason can calculate.
'Here then are additional reasons for desiring that
this Incalculable war may not break out. But what
• • ore rommo ? all that we can promise oar readers is,
that they shall be in possession of mats as they
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