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COPY OF A IN CNORIAL.
wtoneessen TO ALL THE MINISTERS OT RESSIAj ON Tall
SIJJJECT UP VIC AFFAIRS OF gams.
The chevalier de Zen Bermudez has presented to the
imports Cabinet the annesed Note, relative to the events
which have jnst taken 'shire in the Peninsula, and of
which we were already informed by the despatches that
mese forwarded to us by our agents at foreign Courts.
M. de Zea, in this document, confines himself to in-
forming es, that the Constitution promnleated by the
Cartes in the year lBl2,'lses been accepted by the King,
and expresses a desire to know how the Emperor has
viewed this change of the Government. If the distance
AkOilth separates us bons Spain, and from the States which
ate hest enabled to weigh maturely the nature of the dis-
asters with which she is menaced, he cossidereJ, it will
t acknowledged, that the petition of the Imperial Mi.
nistry, With regard to the Representative of the Spanish
amino, was difficult and delicate.
The revolution of the Peninsula fixes the attention of

she. two hemispheres; the interests which it is about to
lj!cjile, Me the iuterests of the universe; and if ever the
Miperor wished that the opinion of his Allies might con.
ince to regulfte his owu, it certainly was at the moment
whenrhe note of. the Cleveliet de Zee imposed upon his
Imperial 31ajiity the obligation of propouncing upon an
e) rn which involves, peelrips, the future destinies of all
eiviliscil nations. Tus obligation, however, existed;
for, in these slays, every subject of doubt becomes an hi-
moment of malevolence.
The necessity of replying te M. de Zee we, therefore,
evident; bet, in this important conjuncture, it appeared
natural, that previously to prationacing.an opinion, the
Emperor should consider the object which the Allied
]'ewers proposed to themselves in their relations with
Spain; that he should consult the view, which they had
expreised to that same Power, and that lie should- take
as a guide for his own, the principles of Eurepeav
policy. Ws is what his Imperial Majesty wasbeund
do • this I. what he has done.
Since the year ISIS, more than one Diplomatic Doeit-
ment attests the generous solicitude, which the
Ctinets of Europe have constantly manifested in behalf of
Spain. They applauded the noble perseverance with
which her Intrepid people resisted a foreign yoke. They
rendered homage to their wisdom, when they rallied,
round Coustitutioaal Throne, the dearest Interests of
their country ;--tbe interests of her independence.—
from the period when Provideice restored Fer-
dirtied VII. to his people, they never failed to acknow-
ledge that solid iustitutionli could alone secure units basis,
the ancient Spanish Monarchy.
The Allied Sovereigns did move. In the course of long
coirferences, relative to the differences with Rio de Is
Plata, and to the pacification of the Colonies, they let it be
miderstood, that these institutions would cease
lobes means of peace and happiness, if. instead of being
granted by kindness, as a volnatary concession, they
should be adopted by weakness as a last resource of sal.
ration.
Let as investigate, on the other hand, the great trans-
actions which established the European Alliance.
What is the object of the engagements that were re.
sewed 011 the (3d) 15th of November, IBIS.
The Allied Monarchs had just then obliterated the last
traces of the Revolutiun in France; but that Revolution
seemed ready to produce new calamities.
The obligation of the Monarchs was, therefore, and
their deingu was, to prevent that, bursting lions the same
bunion, the same storm should a third time desolate
Ent opt.
Nevertheless, to if the alarms a bleb were then excited by
theme*. of Frame, and which it still excites, were outwit&
cleat—es if Governments and Nations entertained but slight
doable with respect to its future condition, it was accessary
that the rains of evil should select a new theatre. and that
Spode in her tura, should be offered up AS a fearful seeviSce.
Revelation has therefore changed its ground, but the death
if Monarchs cannot have changed their nature, and- the
power of the in surrectiou is neither less formidaideVaer lest
dangerous than it would have been no France. •
Li unison, therefore, with his Allies, his Majesty meat
desire but to see grunted to the Peuin,uta, as to its trim*
atavism Provisoes, a Government which he coasiders ae the
only one that can yet justify some hope in Ibis age of calami-
ties. But in virtue of his engagements of the (3d) 15th of
November. ISIS, his Majesty Is bound to mark. with the
most fort ibis reprobation. the revolutionary measures set in
action to give new institutions to Spain. Such is the two-
fold idea which is found developed in the annexed answer,
which the Cabinet of Russia has made to the Chevalier de

Seas by order of his Imperial 111µlesty.• The emperor
dues nut doubt, that his Actium Allies will approve its con-
tests, mad perhaps they have already addressed similar sew
Macon to the Court of Madrid. The sanaelvisitee mays lu
fact, have inspired the same laiipagemod,convinced like his
Altuaty, that crime must Mira), )ield pernitiou. fruit a they
have, doubtless deplored us he has the entreat whit has
beeently tarnisjeal the tough of Sp;:iu. We repeat it, this
*strap is deplorable.
It is deplorable for the Peninsula ; it is deplorable for
Iffshropea and the Spanish naitiuu Illl* owes the 'sample of
ea eSpiatury deed to the people of the two bemi•pheree.-..
Tie this be dome, the uuhappy object of their disquietude,
esti oily make them fear the contaaims of her calamities,-
Ifeeenhelese, amidst all these ekswenia of disaster, sod at hen
so many motives combine to 41,0 the real friends, of the
welfare of nations, may a better future still he looked for
theta soy wise and redeeming measure, 'abuse elect may
be to nrecoicile Spain with hermit, as well as with the other
Powers of Lurope I
We dare not affna it ; Air experience hail tangOt us to
. ionsidir almost al% ays as an allusion, the hope ot a happy
treat. But if we might trust the eulealetious wklela pert
'until interest would win hound to indicate; if it were per.
matted to presuatC tu.:t the Curies would coloult the Interest
of their own preservation, it usi;:i.t be believed.. Hutt' they
would hasten to extirpate, by a when miasure, all that i.
Culpable in the circuolstituces which accompanicStiw change
of tin administration in Spain. The interests of the Cortes
are here ideotibed with the interesta of Europa. The Misled
sokliery who protected, may to•morruw assail them; and
- their first duty towards their alonarc towards their country,
• WM themselves scents to he, to prove•that they will never
moue to realise iuserrectiuu. These ere hopes which
trodld pot appear to be without some foutulatmu. The
• this rotten to the " Note addressed bj the Russian
Goeisewiesst to the Spanish Minister resident at the Court of
Rutoi‘os lesruing that the King of Spain had accepted and
mow to maintain the Cenattitution," *Lich sir have alett.iy
On.