The Sun.
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C UPY OF A DISPATCHFROM COUNT.
POZZO DI BORGO,
DATED PARIS 10TH (22D) DECEMBER, 1820.

(From the Porfofio.—No. 6.)

I have the Loaour to transmit to your Excellency the
cor-esnondenee I have received from the Imperial Missions
in Spain and Portugal.
ly first wish on its receipt was to have forwarded it
im-
mediately to the Imperial Cabinet ; but on the one hand it
would have been imprudent to have confided to the post
digptatobes containing observations of a delicate nature,
which it wold not have been wise to expose to the perlus-
(ration of all Europii t pnd, on the other, I scruple to send
aim2st at every instant eitraordinary couriers with dispat-
ches whicii did not appear to and entirely to ju?tify either
the mode or expei;se of such a mode or transmission.
In order to remedy as much as lay in my power the in-
conveniences of delay, if any existed, I hastened to transmit
the most important news to your Excellency, and I trust
that the Imperial Cabinet has not been deprived in the in-
terval of any essential intelligence worthy of exciting its
curiosity or engaging its attention.
The whole of this correspondence, as now submitted to
your Excellency, contains the proof that the orders of his
Majesty the Emperor have been executed with strict punc-
tuality at Madrid and Lisbon.
That the language held by the representatives of Russia,
and the subsidiary directions, based upon the general in-
structions of the. Imperial Ministry, which they have re-
ceived from me, have constantly aimed at inculcating jus-
tice and moderation on the two governments of the Peninsula.
That France and England, although having relations, and
affecting interests opposed to each other, are unanimously.
satisfied with the. attitude and the conduct of all his .Majes-
ty's servants charged with the execution of his high will,

whether at Madrid and Lisbon, or at Paris and London,
and that this sentiment is manifested by public avowals, and
by proofs of gratitude. •
This result, M. Le Compte, is of value ; because I ven-
ture to hope it will merit the approbation of his' Majesty
the Emperor ; and secondly, because in the midst. bf dis-
cordant opinions and passions, the policy of Russia pre-
serves that juste milieu adapted to its general interests, and
to its special position as regards this species of affairs.
TllB satisfaction we derive from the conviction of having
acted in acdo
ordanee with the rules of wisdom and impar-
tiality, cannot holcTver diminish the painful feeling caused
'
by the progress of disort!..'7, beyond the Pyrenees, the dan-
gerous measures which have
Veen the consequence, and
those which may be adopted hereafter'.
In submitting to the Imperial Cabinet thd observations in
my report of the 24th October (sth November'; I coJd
not avoid—notwithstanding the confidence in which Mr.
Canning and M. de Villele lived, of preventing collision be-
tween Spain, alarmed, Violent, and obstinate, and Portugal,
in the revolutionary act--apprehending different. and deplo-
rable results. My fears were founded on the one hand
upon the incompatibility of the- interests of the two coun-
tries ; and, on the other, upon the error of the two Cabi-
nets ; namely, that of London, in not pronouncing itself fa-
vourably on the fate of Don Miguel ; and that of Paris, in
having for its representative the Marquis de Moustier, an
instrument hateful to all the representatives of the Sovereigns
of Europe at Madrid, and faithless to his own Government.
These fears have proved but too well founded.. Whilst
the King of Spain promised in his notes to eooduct himself
prudently, and to take advantage of the advice offered to
him not to tamper with his good faith, and to avow ;tom-
mitting errors that nobody could dare to defend or dissernd
ble—his agents, or those of the faction which rule him, or-
ganised a corps darme6 of Portuguese, who should have.
been dispersed and disarmed, and prepared without: care or
shame the invasion of the Portuguese territory by the Mar-
quis de Chaves and other refugee chiefs.
The plan was so much the more senseless that it tended
to produce quite the contrary effect to that which its au-
thors expected. In fact, by leaving the Constitution of
Don Pedro to its own defects, it would, in its execution,
have met-with real obstacles in Portugal itself. These ob-
stacles, arising internally, would not have furnished to Eng-
land a motive for defendin,g,it, and perhaps they would have
been obliged to leave it to perish, or allow it to be modified ;
but from the moment that the Spaniards attacked it, before
its vices were known, that attack afforded to Great Britain
a motive for intervention, and the Constitution itself be-
came an object of interest and of union to,the Portuguese,
as soon as they combined to defend it against Spanish in-
fluence..

We have never ceased to inculcate and declare these
truths, since the apparition of.the-o- Charte" of Don Pedro;
but the Court of Madrid and its counsellors have never
been brought to admit their importance, France on her
sidelas lost three months- in injudiciously offered remon-
strances,' and has allowed herself to be overtaken by events
which :ware pointed out to her, while there was yet time to
exert herself with more sense and efficiency to prevent them.
The news of the invasion had hardly reached London
when the Cabinet determined to send to Parliathent the
message already known.
Mr. Canning had it communicated to-blade Villele the
day before the opening of the Chambers. This it was that
caused the insertion of the phrase which terminates the
King's speech, and which invokes the warrior virtues- of
France, if they were again called upoil to display themselves
in defence of national honour.

In the meantime, the orders given to Mr. Lamb changed.
their tone at almost every instant. Now they were peremp-
tory that he should quit Mrdrid, and now that he should
defer taking so decisive a step.
We learnt at the same time that the Regent had caused
it to be notified to the Count de Casa Flores, the Spanish
Minister, that his diploMatic quality ceased to be recog-
nized, and that she bad ordered her Charge d'Affaires at
Madrid to demand and obtain the recognition of the Re-
gency, or to depart within twenty-four hours. Upon this
news, the Baron de llamas dispatched a courier to counsel
the Catholic King to admit` the demand er the Portuguese
Government, and availed myself of that.' opportunity to
address the annexed dispatch so M. d'Oubril. _ _

The hope that this would serve to prove in London that
re left no means_untried to allay the storm, determined me

to send a copy of it immediately to Prince Leven.
People were in anxious expectation, and in
.some sort
alarmed as to what was to happen, when the speech of Mr.
Canning in the House of Commons came upon them by
surprise, and in the most painful manner. •
IF ever those who have examined the political character
of this Minister have judged harshly of hiS principles, and
have prognosticated that he was capable of respecting neither
justice .nor propriety, whenever his interest or anzour-propre
required their sacrifice, they have certainly found in this cir-
cumstance the most complete proof and justification of their
painful presentiment.
It is when he avows that he is convinced of the sincerity
of the intentions and of the efforts of . France to restrain

Spain within-the limits of duty and moderation, that he I ,
boasts of having caused to that France all the evil that he I
could, in rendering to her the guardianship, even more than .
the occupation, of the Peninsula injurious and disastrous.
Mr. Canning adds, that to avenge himself for the war
against the Revolutionists, of spain, he has consolidated the
revolt of America, and secured its independence.
Not content with limiting to the two monarchies, which
he nominally designates the influence of the evils in which
he glories in being the author, he announces that he re-
serves a more 'powerful portion for the remainder of the
world. Ile declares that England, seated upon the caverns
of the revolutionary winds, has the power of letting them .
lodse, to confound heaven and earth, thrones and institu-
tions ; and to render that Europe, whose destiny he holds
in his hands, a vast field of disorder and desolation. .. .
To aN'crt the necessity of opening up the cataracts of his
fury, and to avoid becoming its victims, he conjures us all
to occupy -ourselves in propitiating- him.
..
-When we think that this language has proceeded from
the mouth of such a man, and under such circumstances ;
that no voice , was raised. to contradict him ;. that, • on the
contrary, all have re-echoed his words with an enthusiasm
equal to that with which he sounded the pean of vengeance
unprovoked—we are led to painful but necessary reflec-
tions ; namely, that in England •a revolution of men's
minds is taking place against the tranquillity of the Con-
tinental Monarchies ; and that if any contest whatever
.Should take place between Great Britain and any other
power, the man who presides over the Cabinet of London,
and the nation in general, would have recourse to means the
most heinous to accomplish their ends, and to satisfy the
pride and insatiable rapacity which characterise them.
As to the truth of the assertions of Mr. Canning-, it is
happily more than problematical ; his evil intentions alone
are proved. It is falSe that he has aggravated the situation
of the French in Spain. It is not correct to say that lie is
the author of the separation of the Spanish Colonies. Five
years of revolt, without encountering almost any resistance,
the misfortunes and imbecility of the councils of Spain, pre-
sent sufficient and immediate causes, without seeking for
others more remote. The rhetoric of Mr. Canning and
his' precipitation have cost Great Britain a cowinercial and
financial crisis greater and more severe than she has ever-
suffered, and from which she is very far from having re-
covered. These facts are evident, but no one remembers
them, because the rage of annoying the Continental Mo-
narchies
renders her leSs sensible to her 'own misfortunes.
As to,the facility of exciting revolutions, I hope, and am
cony need, that it is infinitely less.great than is boasted of by
the English. They may excite troubles and form conspi-
racies, if such means appear to them preferable, but. they
swill
themselves..lose
their victims without the power of defending
there. ; because they have no armies to support them, and
beeinise those whom- they have doomed to destruction will
be wanting deithyr in energy nor in means for 'preserving
This speech has provoked general indignation, but as
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