The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

COPY OF A MEMORIAL.

♦DDRL'NED TO ALL TIM SUMTER& Or Rum*, or TUB

BJECT of THU AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.
The Chevalier de Zee Bermudez has presented to the
Imperial Cabinet the annesi o Note. rel.:t:ve to the events
which have jest taken place in the Peninsula, and of
which we were Of ady infornivd by the despatches that
wete ign warded to 114 by oar ,tzehts at foreio Courts.
M. de Zea, in this document, confines himself In in-
forming us, that the Constitution promulgated b•' the
Cortes hi the year I Sl2, has been accepted by the king,
and signs sses a desire to know how the Emperor ha..
viewed this change of the Government. If the distance
which separates us front Spain, and holm the Slates which
ye beet enabled to weigh maturely the nature of the dis-
asters with which she is menaced, he considered, it will
be acknowledged, that the petition of the Imperial Mi-
nistry, with regard to the Representative of the Spanish
nation, was difficult and delicate.
The revolution of the Peninsula fixes the attention of
)he two hemispheres; the interests which it is about to
decide, are the interests of the universe ; and if ever the
Emperor wished.that the opinion of his Allies might con,
dome to regulate his own, it certainly was at the moment
when the note of the Chevalier de Zea imposed upon his
Imperil Majesty the obligation of pronouncing upon an
event which involves, perhaps, the future destinies of all
civilised nations. This obligation, however, existed;
for, in these days, every subject of doubt becomes an IU-
Infoßicoll of niaiesoleuce.

The necessity of replying to M. de Zeit was, therefore,
evident; hut, in this important conjuncture, it appeared
Na rural, that previou•l' to pronouncing au opinion, the
Emperor should consider the object which the Allied
Powers proposed to themselves in their relations with
Role; that he should consult the virtu* %vitals they had
expressed to that same Power, and that he should lake
as a guide for his own, the principles of European
policy. This is what his Imperial Majesty wasbosind to
do; this is what lie bus done,
Since the year 1812, more than one Diplomatic Docu-
ment attests the generous solicitude, which the several
Courts at Europe have constantly manifested in behalf of
Spain. They applauded the noble perseverance with
which hir intrepid people resisted a foreign yoke. Thes
Tendered homage to their niadoin, when they rallied,
round a Constitutional Throne, the dearest interests of
their eonntry, ;—the interests of her independence.—
Finally, from the period when Providence restored Fer-
dinand VII. to his people, they never failed to arknost-
kdge that solid institutions could alone neut.e on its basis, I
the ancient Spanish Monarchy.
The Allied Sovereigns did move. In the eonrse of long
conferences, relative to the differences with Rio de la
Plata, and to the pacification of the Colonies, they let it he
sintficientli understood, that these institutions would cease
to bra means of peace and happiness, if, instead of being
granted by kindness, as a voluntary concession, they
Would be adopted by weakness as a last resource of sal-
Nation.

Let es investigate, on the other hand, the great trans-
actions which established the European Alliance.
What is the object of the engagements that were re.
Dewed on the (11d) lith of November,lBlB.
The Allied Monarchs had just then obliterated the last
traces of the Revolution in France; but that Revolution
seemed ready to prodece new calamities.
The obligation of the Monarchs was, therefore, and
their design was, to prevent that, bursting front the same
horison, the same storm should a third time desolate
Em ope.
Nevertbelese, as Vibe alarms which were then excited by
thestate of France, and whirls it still excites, were not Binh-
eieat—as if Goveruments and Nations eutertained but slight
doubts with respect to its future condition, it was necessary
that the genies of evil should select a new theatre. and that
Spilt in her turn, should he ',Ferrel up as a fearful surrifice.
Revolution has therefore changed its ground, but the duties
of Monarchs cannot have changed their nature, and the
power of the insurrection is neither less formidable, nor less
dangerous than it would have been in France.
In unison, therefore, with his Allies, his Majesty cannot
desire but to see granted to the Peninsula, au to its trans-
nutria* Provinces, a Government which be comiders as the
only one that can yet justify some hope in this age of milted-
ties. Bet in virtue of his engagements of the (Sd) lith of
November, ISIS, his Majesty is bound to mark, with the
iisost for. ibis reprobation, the revolutionary measures set in
active to give new institutious to Spain. Such is the two.
fold idea which is found developed in the annexed answer,
which the Cabinet of has made to the Chevalier de
Rea, by order of his Imperial Miljesty.o The Linticrur
eldest not doubt, that his liii,;ust Allies will approve its con-
tests, read perhaps they have already addressed similar sees
taming to the Court of Mi.drid. The same wishes may, in
fact, have inspired tie same Isligunge,and,eonvinced like his
Majesty, that crime must alma”, held pei nirious fruit : they
love, doubtless, deplored as he bas, the outrage a hit b has
madly tarnished tee &noels of Spain. We repeat it, this
astray is deplorable.
It is deplorable for the Peninsula ; it is deplorable for
&mope t and the Spanish nation sioir ewes the example of
ad expiatory deed to the people of the two hemispheres.—
Till this bedew. the unb.sppy object of their disquietude.
CMS wily sake these fear the contagion of her ettliSMito...—
Nevirthelem, amidst all these elements of disaster, and when
so &any motives combine to afil,et tree real friends. of the
welfare of natione, may a better fm me still le looked for ?
Is there any w ire rind redeeming measure, whose effect may
he to neon' Ile Spam with !wad", us well as.tv oh the other
mares Ur Elalupy
We dare not ut:irm it : for eityriente has taught us to
consider almost Me eI)3 as SU he hope in a !hippy
treat. Rut if we useght trust elm calculations whlcb
llar-
eoa.,l interest anted seem bound to Militate ; if it were per.
untied hi pritialgli: that the Cortrs would consult the Utterer(
of their own pre,ersatinii, it titigi.t be believed, that thty
sough] hasteu to extirpate, by a solemn tll,2a9life, ail that i,
culpable its the circurnstmoti s whit!! aecons pained the change
of tat administration ill ssiu, Tits interest, of the Cortes
are here identified the inters:::s of Loewe. Tim misled
soldiery who protected. may (0-fliarICAV road them ; and
their first duly teamed% t heir Monarch,tow a rds their country,
mud themstivie scents to be, to prove that they n ill never
consent to realise 'flys. :ire ISO?. • whirl,
would not appear to Le a foui.d,it:on. file

• This refrrs to the " Note aildi.e..ect by 11P R...s4aH
Gover:ment to thr Spanish Minilorr reside. ni at Ow Court or
lleris, ea learning that thr King of 7peio atceptrd a,.d
I.oro 19 maintata the Cinstitution," vetch we have olraady