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told, who familiarly mention the filo. Win& the
for. troops may banisiismilkol to creel the PP"
reveal; and it is even tided by those " prophets of
ill," that King FtantoOtto himodf has desired the
assistance of the Allied Powers in repressing the
principle of freedom throughout. the Itiorlpw,

would no

rest)

King's friends, but they are; in fret; his worst ene-
mies. FERDINAND is unfortunate enough even nnw

not to posse,. the confidence of the majority of his
people; but should he, in addition, be represented
as a secret intriguer with foreign Princes, fur the
purpose of inducing them toinvade his country, and
bring upon his people, who have scarcely recovered
from the horrors of war, the sufferings diet snot
necessarily accompany the presence of hostile troops
within their territories., who will guarantee his personal
safety from the effects of their indignant vengeance
The populace of Madrid have already offered vio-
lence to his person, and who can calculate the
,lengths to which thty may proceed, should they be
taught, by the injudicious threatening. of the ultra-
royalist party, to regard their Sovereign not in thi
light of a beoeficent protector, guarding Ins collo-
try alike from foreign violence end intestine die.
co►d, but as • traitor, the greatest and most den.
gerous in an extensive conspiracy, which has for its
objects the present injury and di•gruce of a foreign
invasion, and the future misery of arbitrary power
in the hands of en exasperated and vindictive So-
vereign? It seems, by intelligence from Madrid,
that the exchange of couriers between Morbid and
Laybach has been of late unusually active, tied
it is f►om this circumstance principally that the
impression is derived to which we have alluded; but
from whatever cause arising, such a belief is fraught
with consequences too alarming not to command
the attention of the Government and Cortes of
Spain, and we may therefore expect shortly to heir
of some disavows! on the part of the King of
SPAIN of the desire of change that is imputed to
him, some assurance that the Allied Sovereigits do
not entertain the designs supposed, and also some
heart-stirring declaration from the assembly of the
Corte+, avowing its abhorrence of the principle
of foreign interference, and adjuring the nation
rather to endure the severest sacrifices than submit
to the insolent domination of foreigners and despots.
The Austria* Observer and the Mositevr, and
their obsequious imitator in this country, have
been of late very sagely arguing, that us the revo-
lutionary spirit has recently appeared ►o active in
Europe and America—a+ i‘o malty countries have
almost simultaneously been made the scenes of
revolutions in the frame of government, there meet
not only have existed somewhere a geezers! con-
spiracy embracing these several countries, and act-
ing with one object and one principle, but also the
conspiracy must have been very limited in point of
numbers. Whether the charge of conspiracy be
urged as a matter of reproach and censure
against these mysterious enemies of despotism,
or be merely stated as • point of information
to the world, we cannot clearly collect, but we
are inclined to think that reproach is the pur-
pose of the writers. We ■re at a lots, how-
ever, in conceiving how the proposition of this gene-
ral conspiracy maintains the conclusion of there
being but few hands employed i►► the great works
which we have so lately seen with feelings of
mingled surprise said pleasure. To influence dis-
ciplined armies, and turn their power •guinst the
form of government which they have been long
accustomed to contemplate with re►pect, to inspire
large bodies of the petiple suddenly with an unusual
longing after freedom, to cause the people of the
several countries so to concur in the expression of
this ennobling spirit as to make them the voluntary
agents of choosing, iu distinct and separate places,
deputies to represent them in the legishitiee
assemblies, breathing the very spirit of the sup-
posed conspirators ; to effect these great objects,
out in one country alone, but in several, not having
all the same previous discipline of mind, or the
same habits and customs, pruve in these conspire.
tors the possession of the most extraordinary
faculties, nienial mid corporeal, each we will venture
to affirm as no human beings erne bef►re enjoyed.
We are told of a certain sentence uttered by the
Emperor of RUSSIA, who that "
would blush were she to know by how few persons
and with what poor pretensions her tranquillity has
been disturbed." To our minds the wonder is,
" that mankind have not long since found out by
how few persons they have been defrauded of their
rights, and kept iu u state of degradation and
misery." It is at this reflection that Europe ought
to blush ; still snore deeply blush when slit
finds that such occasional efforts as the more ge-
nerous of her sous make to ennoble their existence,
by assuming the port and dignity of freedom,
should be thwarted by the effort* of persons who
hold no higher rank in the scale of intelligence
than the Autocrat himself, and his lfnpe►ial Ally
the enlightened and learned FRANCIS.
The character and conduct of the revolution in
Spain proved irresistibly that it could not have
been the work of a few persons, for during the
time that the army of Andalusia lay in the Isle de
Leon, besieging or besieged, • sufficient opportu-
nity was afforded to the King of SPAIN to appeal
to the sense of his people at large, but not a town
er province declared for his service. The success
of the revolution was fur several weeks extremely
doubtful, and if it rested exclueively upon the