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pressed the intervention in conformity pith the views
of his Court. But Etigland sueceeded'in arresting
or suspending the general assent, and the first pro-
ject was laid aside. .1t was W embdtt an AOstro-
Russian army for the eastern toast 'of Spain, whilst
the French army pushed on iti tftr direction of
Madrid. _ _ .

" Howe►er, the repreeentstions of the French
Cabinet had made the strongest impression upon
the Emperor Alexander. A long conference took
• place on the 44th of October, between the Duke
of Wellington, Prince Metternich, and Vicomte de
Montmorency. Dispatches were waited for from
the Spanish Government, in reply to the overtures
made at the preliminary conferences at Vienna.
The courier having brought a formal refusal from
the Revolutionists of Madrid to adopt any change
in their code and peel of anarchy, it was resolved
on the fifth, in a ministerial conference, unani-
mously, on the proposition of Prince Metternich,
that an official representation should be mode to the
Spanish Government in the mime of all the Powers
represented in Congress. The project of this cate-
gorical declination was forthwith drawn up, and
was signed by all the Ministers in "alphabetical
order. Thus the Congress really commenced its
operations by this official communication made to
Spain ; it was sent off the next day to Paris, and
from thence to Madrid. • _

" Yet the greater part of the Cabinets, and iii
particular one great Power, loomed strongly at the
Congress upon • the destruction of the Cortes. 'lt'
was.iatended, in cam the Uhiatoram should be reA,
jected, to recal the Ambassadors from the Spanish
Government, whose existence was no longer to be
acknowledged, considering the situation of the
King sod Royal Family.. It was left to France,
provided with sufficiedt forces 'and resources, to
support the Royalist party which had token arms
against the Cortes, and the whole conduct of the was
was intrusted to her, with the assurance of receiving
effectual sopped, if, contrary to expectation, it should
become necessary. in this care, England alone de-
dared her intention of remaining neuter. It was
on the sth of November that this intelligence as-
rived at Paris. The different Journals then begin
to-discuss the. subject aceMding to their different
views, till, on the 16th of November, the Manisear
published some-observations, which, however, were
sufficiently ambiguous. •However, there was this
passage, which was generally •applanded ;.--• It is
uot, therefore, ourpurpose here to inquire by what
principles Spain has been brought into the deplora-
ble state in which she is placed; but what is fitting
to be ascertained is, whether the situation of the
Spanish people sloes not expose France to dangers
of such a nature, that there is occasion on our part
—lookicg to the necessity, and the right of self-
peeservatioo attached to every nation—to employ all
the power with which Provideuce.has favoured ui,
in averting those dangers.' • •
N But how happens it that the possibility of war
is ackuowledged, while its necessity, or expediency.
is so slightly touched upon I Is it so necessary,
then, to give time to the ferocious Mina to ester-
mingle the Sluttish Royalists upon the French
frontiers to barn and sack the towns and villages
which have served them as asylums, and to scud
emissaries even into the French.territories ? At the
date of the Mh November nothing had been finally
decided at Verona ;• but the speedy return of
Viscount Montrooreocy was anuounced. It is pro.
bable that he will be the bearer of the manifesto of
the Congress. and of its final resolutions."

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