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clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAT4UART 14, 184.

Ferdinand's first manifesto against the emancipated Co-
ltish:a of Spain was issued at Madrid on the 'A, and is
given in OUT columns from Mottelay's Etude. It afflicts to
legislate fur these once-proud &penile:ides as nisi tAlly
as in the days of his ancestor, Philip of Bourbon, when
Spain exeseised and ounded control in the New World.
This document has been issued, we arc convinced, at the
suggestion of Di Borgo and the French Cabinet, and has
been some time prepared. By it the wretched despot, who
now tramples on Spain, with scarce a foot of usritory in
the New World, declares, that the political constitution of
the Spanish Monarchy is fur ever abolished in his domi-
nions in America; and, like the
" Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers,
" If these magnitic tides yet remain
" Not merely titular,"
Whi:b we find ill Milton, Ferdinand calls on " his Vice-
" toys, Courts of Justice, Captains-General, Gov !mum
'• and Intendant', and charges the Must Reverend
" Archbishops, Deans, and Chapters of the metropolitan
" churches and cathedrals of 11S kingdoms of the Indies
and the Philippines, to execute, each as far as they are
" unmoved, his Royal will." The raving of the bed-
'smite in his cell, who fancies himself a Monarch, and
crowns b isfevered head with straw, isnot more impotent than
thisdecree of the Spanish tyrant, ',regards all SoutbernAme-
rica. These provinees have been long independent republics.
" The political constitution of the Spanish Monarchy,"
denounced by this manifesto, never existed Mere at all ; the
iron:els of this document knew that Well : hut this is only a
pretest ; the real object is an assumption of authority over
America; and this decree is intended, we have no doubt, as
the Feredd of some new attempt by Ferdinand and his allies
on those shores. The deep designs of France sod Russia
ose the New World are dissembled, but not abandoned ;
and it is now our deckled impression, that nothing but
the strongest menaces of armed opposition by Great Bri-
Lilo and America, will prevent their immediate execution.
Enfeebled Spain, of herself, is utterly impotent ; any squa-
dron sailing from Cadiz, will be, in efflict, French. This
decree, concerted for the purpose, is the precursor of such
an expedition, we are convinced, either to Mexico or Peru, all
the resoui ces of which, order a private treaty, are now sup-
plied by France; the flag alone of such a squadron will be
Spanish. flow will our flovernment act under such circum-
stances? and what instructions have been given to the British

Admiral in the Mediterranean, Sir Ilarry Neale? Will he,
with his force, oppose the sailing of such a squadron ?
for we are persuaded the attempt will soon he made. This
I eig decree opens with a laboured detail of the revolutions
in Spain, Piedmont, and Naples. In its commencement
Car tyrant attempts to extenuate his own deliberate perjury.
'• The violence,- he says, " with which several carps of
'• my armies, turning against my royal person the arms
" which 1 had put in their herds, compePed me to recog-
- nise and swear to the Coastitution on the 7th March,
ltritr." Ferdinand may attempt to lay this flattering
unction to his soul, and eirmlate the damning sophistry
through Spain. But bow is America implicated in it?
The Constitution never was rccognistitl in any of her pro-
'inem ; from the time Moral° quitted those shores, the do-
minion of Spain had ceased in the New World. Mexico
soon after became independent, and nowhere was the
authority of the Cortes reetvised ; yet this decree, vainly
Legislating for these countries, declares " their govern-
- molts are re-established conformably to the laws and
" ordinances existing before the 7th of Mardi, lreaU,
" and that the political chiefs, the provincial deputations,
'• the Constitutional municipalities, their stcretarits, of
Han, and dependents, are immediately to cease their
functions." Notiiing of this kind, under the Con-
stitution of MOM, existed throughout America ; and, there-
free, as regards these independent Republics, the decree of
Ilse tyrant is a men beldam jamess : but it has been framed,
not to revoke the pest, but to answer future purposes,
which are now in preparation, and will need the utmost
vigilance on the part of our Cabinet to defeat. The plot
is gradually thickening, and we shall soon one the whole
plan disclosed.
iVrom the Fealls of Mandeb Jan. 12.1
• aI•DRID, JAN. 2.
l'ese King our '4overeign has batted the following Decree :
•• Thc violance with which several corps of my armies, taming
against any Royal person the arms which I had put in their *wok
io.opellisi me to recognise and swear. on the 7th of March. Ill*
to the political constitution of the Spanish monarchy, could not fail
Si. attract the attention of all the Sovenigns of Europe. Their
tfroc.s were endangered by the horrible time which had been com-
mitted against mine.
• Masters of the government, the conspirators and their ac-
cemplices did not fail soon to throw aside the mask under whicb
they hail disguised the true object of their inglorious denim'.
lUmiled by their triumph, they dad not dissemble that the ronsti-
eitu* of Cadiz W 3. not the final object of their desires, nor Spain
the :NAT theatre where the spirit of rebellion was to display its
Oultifel fury%
•• ale soarers of sedition sad anarchy spread among the ploplt