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LONDON,
THURSDAY. Dtcemass 12, 1842.

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Are you 'wiry that there are nab* thede'eanidt
themselves Liberals a party who ebuke war on the
great body with even more bitterness than the
eoernies ul our institutions? Thendo 'Dot light up
o.e torch i,r discord men—
Ai Constitutionalist+,
fa,r alarm the friends of liberty by commercin-
rbploinntic stnek•jobbings, or base intrigues. Do
you complain of the abuse of the liberty of the
pins, or take for the opinion of Constitutional
lceinisrds that which is expressed by only a feeble
and well-known faction I Then read the Journals
which have with the greatest zeal defended liberal
institutions against the attacks which have been
constantly made. and still are made, upon them,
both by the Absolutists -aitd the Modifiers, and
from them you will learn what is the real opinion of
all the Constitutionalists of Spain—men equally
resolved to defend their country against the despo.
tom of an absubite Monarch, and that which any
taei.on, by whateier Miens it should attOmpt to
OVerintss the law, might attempt to exercise.
real Liberals Will never abandon the work-
vnawillip of their own hands to enemies of the
country of any class, for the nation and the law are
the idols of those *ho brake the chaihs of the
Spanish people. If the wise men of the Coegress
are acquainted with a 'Mode whereby laws can, sud-
denly and without the natural gradation which be-
longs to all other things, obtain that vigour which
time, education, the progress of new ideas and
babas are usually supposed to be alone capable of
giving, let them pniat-it out, 'and we shall be glad
to adept it ; but there must not be included in
the,r admonitien arty propositions for modifications
ur umendinents of any sort whatever, to be made in
the fundamental law of the State; since, in the de-
fects abi.h they are supposed to attribute to it, we
tied no iliconvenietice, and we have no desire for any
improvement. At all eveuts, time is necessary to
this kof that. In the mean time, what we want is
peace; awl when we shall have experienced the ad-
vantages or the disadvantages of our Constitution
during the eight years In which it is to be in force
preetsely as it is, and without altering it in the
slightest iota, we may then, if it suit us, usk the ad-
vice of Publicists.; and if not, we will not trouble
them.

The Report of a Committee on a Memorial of the
Secretary of Finance, praying a grant of money to
supply the dellciency of the revenue, camped by the
'disturbed state of the country, was taken into on-
starvation. fu the courte of the debate upon the
subject, it tree stated, that in Tarragona there were
not ibOve 'IS towns which had not been occupied
by the factious, and the situation of uther frontier
provinces was similar.
These Papers contain several long official ac-
Pouts continuing the successes of MINA, the 'trio-
-1401 facts of which have been commuoicated by
the French Papers.

THE. BRITISH PRES S.

At a late hour last night Ire received, by Ex•
PRIM, the French Papers to the 10th instant. The
fullotting are extracts :

PARIS, DECEMBER 9.
Yesterday the King transacted businees with the
Duke of Montmorency, Minister for Foreign
A ffairs.
The Augsburg Gazette says, the Army of the
FAO') have never been either 40,000 or 30,000
strong; bast that the Spanish Ministry designedly
exaggerated their nnmbers, that they might the
more easily obtain the extraordinary (lowers they
requited from the Cortes. Immediately when the
Curies, adds the same paper, had voted the laws of
exception, the Ministry gave Mina orders to act
pith decirion.

A Irtter from Toulouse, of December 2, has the
following postscript :

On the 29th and !loth of November there was •

general engagement in Spanish Cerdagne, between
tt,e Army of the Faith and the Constitutional
treops. Baron &Endes was cempletely defeated.

Letters from Spain say, it is not known what is
become of the Baron; that it is supposed he re-
mini'd on the field of battle.; but a dispatch re-
ceived by Lieutenant-General Belsir announces,
that he entered France with an escort of sixty
horsemen.

General Mina commanded in chief; General
Roten acicd under his order..

bight u'etuck is the Evetaing.—lt is this mo-
Trent aunounced that Poles is at Toulouse, that
he is lodged at the Grand Soleil-, and that seats
hive been placed upon all his papers at the request
of the hawse of Ouvrard, of Paris.

A great number of priest*, clptichins, soldiers
of the Army of the Fitith,ltave arrived here; seven-
teen officers of the Constitutional Army, who were
made prisoners, and who were released upon the
French territory, have also arrived.—(Constita.
honed.)

We were well informed io anaourteing that a vio-
lent straggle prevaileil in the Admioisttirtion be-
tween the partisans of war and of peace. to the
midst of the war-cry of the EMU., and the iiitacks
of the Qom/id/anise, the Antrim/ its Debits main-
tained a silence, which we- considered a proof that
the fanatics had commenced the fire before the sig-
nal bad been given, and that they only endeavoured
to compromise, by a social) and decisive attack,
the politicians who thought it imprudent, and even
dangerous. The latter, we have stated, appear to
pin ground, and last morning the Journal dee
Debate, who it was snpposed had been silenced,
but who was only waiting for reinforcements, again
dared to declare agnitist war, in an article, whose
form, though somewhat pedantic, cannot disguise