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in SATURDAY, Dretwnen 21, 1822.
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Although there is no question of war or peace, vet
ttie'tnutual proceedings of Spain and France, and the
ilablications on both sides, must long interest every
render of politics, and may ultimately benefit politi-
cal, seience and national improvement throughout
Europe. The writers who would put an end to revo-
lutions are extremely industrious in creating and in-
czewaing an alarm respecting the Landaburian Club
in.bladrid, as if it were an exact counterpart of (or fol-
lbrbing, pari Patna the Jacobin Club in Paris. In this
Club was " an individual named FLoassi ;"—fearful
enough!—"a furious cevulutionist,"—still wone 1—
" who, by his dechunaiions against the Spectator, so
irrfuriated his hearers,"—angels and ministers of grace,
defend us !—that they clamorously " demanded"
(What ?—what ? —0 speak!) "the number of the Jour-
nal in question, in order to have an auto-da-fe." San-
vinery ruffians ! and could your hearts endure so dia-
bolical an act ! But surely the horrid:crime was not
actually perpetrated ? No. " The Speaker had
nt length much difficulty in restraining them from
proceeding to excesses." This FLORA), must be a
a ferocious revolutionist.

The same journal gives a letter from General
QUESADA, disavowing that he had ever said or
thought, that all Spaniards would agree in resisting
a French invasion. The Cencral reasons strongly
and profoundly : " Inasmuch as the Cortes of Spain
would not refuse aid to the Convention, if it still
existed in France, we also, subjects of a Bog/neon,
mould not refuse the aid of a King of Fes); cc, head
of this august race." The fugitive General must
pardon us for thinking this French declamation and
Pot Spanish reasoning. What the Cortes would
do, if the Convention existed, is rather a meta-
Physical problem, difficult of solution. What would
LULUS XVIII. do if JC LICA CiESAR still existed?
Wpm would all the French writers do if NAPOLSON
stilt reigned in all his imperial power ? Those would*
loel ifs, whkh bring the past and the present into close
juxtaposition, arc awkward instruments of reasoning.
But the General admits that the Liberaux of Spain
would have as good a right to assist the Liberaux
of France, and, by parity of reasoning, that the
/Act aux dr Trance have as good a right to assist the
I.theraux of Spain, as the. King of FRANCE has to
trssist the Royalists of Spain. This admission is'
not at all extravagant, for the Convention was the
gistional legislature of the time in France, and the
Cortes is the national legislature now in Spain; but
the Royalists have no!hing national belonging to them.
Kaye they the person of the King? Have they his
approbation? Nothing of the kind is even pretended.
But yielding this point to the Royalists, and suppos-
ing that they are not an entirely anomalous set of
labels, without a King, agahist the King's virtues,
pod for tberestoration of his vices—yielding this oh-
we claim (ova the.Genoral's argument an equal
right to the Lilseraix of France to'give their aid to the
tet.erissei of Spain, as to the King of FRANCE to give
lis aid to die Royalists of Spain. No compulsion ;
let.ail be free to choose their side. We give all the
influence, all the treasury, all die zeal, and all the
rims sesousees of eery kind which the Government
imsesses to the Royalists, and we ask only full
liberty to.the soldiers and the people of France to act
art the other side as they please. How do you like
it, General ? What wraild you give if this were done,
for the reversion of the French crown ?

• But looking more generally at the situation of the
.two pest neighbourly; nations, France and Spain, we
sassy well be allowed to lament that proud and obsti-
nets prejudices, and sordid attachment to selfish and
oppressive privileges, should cause so much agitation
and distress, and threaten such interminable evils.—
It is bj no 'means surprising. that nobles and priests
el:ottirt strenuously oppose -tbe Revolution in Spain,
for their jwyjadiess and their interests were so
i:.st parably identified in that country, with
the degratLition and plunder of the mass of
the people, that it moald be excessive simplicity
to suppose them either enlightened or disin-
• terested enough to bear. patiently a revolution which
stript them of the's/ enormous power, wad set their
at liberty. The miracle, in our estimation, is,'
tie 9ppnsitian to the new and better order of,
is so incons'derable. The Spanish enemies of
'volution are G4ects of no respect certainly ;
icy are entitled to pity. They are ignorant,
irrational, inftecessible to the calls of ge-
hrimsrnty ; but their education, habit:, I;sso-
is, and areciitlii,liavebeen so moulded by the

ata iystem of tliings,tlikefare at once hstensible of
the 'mischiefs they ()mash', and delusively persuaded
that duty and honoKre them to resist innovation.
The 'degradation of classes from their elevated
and most mischievous station, that is, their depellia-
ticm of exemptions froM pub& of privi-
leges which oppress and impoverish others, is of itself
a treat eiil, and ought to be accompanied with great

'public ldvantag,es, to make it justifiable. But they
resist the degradation, and .render it necessary to
take away their lives on the scaffold, or to drive
them into perpetual exile. Here is a grievoas evils to
be imputed indeed to the immemorial grpwthlof in-
justice and oppression in the relations of society, but
still to be lamented for its cruel ereita on an unfortu-
nate rather than a criminal class of men. As the'
King in every country sbares largely in the accumule-'
tion of emreasonable end oppressive privileges, he is'
usually with the enemies of a revolution. In Spain
he is with the revolUtinniats, in person and proles-
(ions, but his sincerity may well be doubted. That
the Spanish nation Dave approved, if, they. had not
achieved, the Revolution, adra iti *of no doubt ; and,
however we maywonder that The humbler classes should
so universally have burst the bonds of a grasping
and tenacious superstition, we cannot hesitate in pro-
nouncing the Revolution in Spain the most unequivo-
cally necessary, which has yet adorned the annals of
modern history. Every' sober-minded inquirer into
the value of political institutions, and every intelligent
filet's; of social improvement, will therefore at once ac-
knowledge that humanity and jutice combine with stern
necessity in prescribing the prompt and effectual ex-
tinction of the rebellion in Spain against the new Con-
stitution. We lament the unhappy prejudices and pas-
sions which make conscientious men traitors to their
country and enemies to their countrymen, but on
account of those incurable prejudices and passions
their country must be delivered from their presence
and machinations.

What, then, shall we say of those in France who
encourage the enemies of the Spanish Revolution, and
use all the arts of instigation and bribery to seduce
others to join them' Our view of their motives and
objects is, indeed, far less favourable ; but of them
we shall take another opportunity of giving our opi-
nion with all the freedom which the importance of the
subject warrants, and even demands.

A Dutch Mail brings Papers to the 19th instant.
The fulluwing are extracts:—

VIZNNA, DECEMBER 4.
Our funds have fallen considerably within these few days,
in consequence eau agreement by which, In the interval be-
twpcn the Ist of August, 1843, and the Ist of January, 18te
the Oovernment will give to the National Bank the sum of
thirty millions in monthly payments, for the redemption of
lbe Vie,naa currency, but will issue new Bonds instead. As
the Bank will be hereby dispensed, for a long time, from
alienating its shares, and the Bonds will only be issuod ao-
cording to the monthly payments, extending over a consider-
able period, it is to he hoped that our Funds will speedily rise
again.

DlRcrxena b.
Count Langeron, C 1 of Infantry and Gorernor•Ge-
neral of Chersen, arrived bare yesterday.

BERLIN, Dire l4.
Count Monet's, Russian Ambassador Extraordinary at this
Court, is gone to Warsaii..
11111DSIBRIS, DICCICIIIINI 14.

It is said that the clothiers of Verniers have received pro-
posals for a contract to supply cloth for the whole Con'dilu-
tions' Army of Spain.

A very interesting discussion took place on Thursday.
at the Meeting of the West of England Agricultural
Society, in its Rooms, at Bath, the Alsrquis of JAYS-
vows in the Chair, arising out of the Report of one
of the Committees, which represented the state of the
agriculturists to be utterly hopeless, without an imme-
diate change of circumstances. To this an amend-i
ment was moved by Mr. FACIE, of Backwell, and
most ably seconded by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. LYOON
,(of Worcesterthirey, end• Supported by Sir Jorlw Co*
111"eisttr,' who arliewitb a vigour, an acuteness
and effect, which, wheh the HonAltaronet declared
his age to 1e,7,7, excited the greatgst applause. The
speakers maintained ilal_tite state of •flietigriculturists
was bad, but not such. is to excite to despair; that
the country was improving, and would improve; and
that any statements from such a respectable body as
1 there assembled, which would tend to. unnerve Eng-
lishmen and , paralyze honourable exertion, must.do
harm. Sir T. •LETIIBRIDGE, Mr. ELWIN, and other
'gentlemen, most energetically pressed the reception
of the Report, maintaining that every syllable of the
statements of distresi was• true, and that the truth
ought bcddly to be giien "(At to Me -world. • •Theques •
lion was not decided when Our—dorrespondent was
forced tcickie his letter.--41ristel Pbseirert • •
The ship William and Alfrecf,vihic tsiß re in the
West India Ititiort Doc,k, yas.itnig • Aadar-
day. Pumping commenced et:twelve, the
water of the dock being drawn clown to two, feet below
the cabin windows to facilitate the niteration,,and at
lour "tic—she floated, and was 1,116m0-the Blackwell
basin. The ship was placed in the basin with her bow
in the mud, and the water was drawn dawn to enable
the ship'wrights to stop the holes-rditie intending her.
She is now nearly free of water... .

•
lece.—The late storm -did much damage to some
of the houses in Ince, view this eft.. The ono neesipis4 by the
Rev. Mr. Peel, however, miertoined the greatest- While the
storm was ragirg with its utmost violence, at about fuer-past ten,
a stack of Amon ies fell upon the roof, which burst into the garret
with a trelnendous crash; forted-that floor into the room below,
and inalty burst into the latter; the whole nines of .brieks, tiles,
mortar, and two floorings, ,lteingprecipitalpd into the kitchen!
At this time Miss Peel. • ehilt of Mr. Peel's, and, the nurse,
were in the kitchen, and, what is truly surprising, not one
of them was injured. It seems the.anaes of ruins descended
towards the outward side of the Louse,. wit/re the spars and
boarding of the second floor, shaken from their fa/Mesas'
in the wall. gave way, and fell in a body:' while the own.
site extremity of the boarding, though entirely loosened -or
broken of. from the inner wall, remained resting against it,
the floor now presenting an oblique position, somewhat re-
sembl ug the ridge of a house. Providentially the individuals
named; were sitting in that part of the kitchen over which the
flooring stock, sod were thus preserved from being hurled in the
ruins. . At the time of this extraordinary preservation, one, not
ineb lea singular, occurred in another part of the house: Two
Peel's children were in bed at the time of the crash, in a
room adjoining the chamber whirls had fallen in, when a quantity
of bricks and slates proceeding from the inner wall of the upper
room, fell upon the curtain at the lop of a camp-bed, in which the
children lay. The weight of the rubbish was at least sixty
pounds, which, though it did not burst through the curtain, forced
at downwards to %vitals half-imyard of the children, and forward
the appeanuer of a bag, hanging immediately over them. Of
course, inapoediately after the accident took place below, these
innocents became objects of solicitude, and on the ts remis-
ing twit, nem, the, were found asleep and unhurt ! An out-
40,,,ssess,ot men happeting to be on the premises when the floors
fell, alaineci the neighbours, several of whom ran to the house,
when Miss Peel, four children, and all the servants, were taken
from the scei.e or dosolstion to Mr. Ns arburto•'s farmhouse.
where they, rent fined JhK qt.! oitAt. The Res, Mr. Peel al.d his'
Lady happeeed to be oti a visit at Oiford, as we' are inforsated,l
when the accident took place. —CAister CisarifirM. .

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