The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-01 00:00:00

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Debats' apology for the KING ttinOtintS to this :
" We acknowledge that the French Govetiiinent;: in
conjunction with the Cabinet of England, did gitailin-
tee to the Queens of PORTVG.AI, and SPAIN the
possession of the thrones of these kingdoms. But
what was the state of affairs, or rather, what did the
two principal contracting Powers consider would be
the state of affairs, in the countries to which they gave
this pledge ? Tile ainitver is sufficiently evident.
They anticipated for Spain a inonarehy, igvincloci
on the principles of the Estatuto heal of MAR TINWZ
DE LA ROSA ; 4:4 for Portugal a Government based
upon the charter of the Itegot on PEDRO. The
anarchists in both countries have eompellad their
respective Sovereigns to abolish both the Estatiito
Real and the Charter; and to place themselves
at the head of certain Utopian schemes to which they
have given the namei of Constitutions. The main
condition, therefore, upon which the King of the
FitEscir- signed the Quadruple Ajiiiv4,2 has been
departed from, and consequently the conditions it ha:
pees are not binding upon him." This we believe
to be a fair and impartial statement of the arguments
put forth by the organs of the French Government in
(Listißcation of the KING'S conduct, Our answe.r to
it shall he expressed in as few words as possible,
Admitting the facts of the case to be fairly stated
by the Debats, we beg to ask what was it that com-
pelled the people of Spain to discard the Estatuto
Real, and proclaim the Constitution of 1812 ? Was
it not the treachery of France ? Will it be denied
that the Estatuto Real was established for nearly two
years in Spain before the people offered the slightest
objection to it ? Will it be contested that during the
time it was established, the Spanish Government re-
peatedly made applications, to the Cabinet of the Tuil-
leries for the assistance to put down Don CARLOS
implied in the very spirit of the Quadruple Treaty,
and that the Ministers of the QUEEN were as inva-
riably denied such assistance ? Will it be asserted
that during this time • France sought to prevent
ammunition, military stores, and succours of every
kind, from being conveyed to Don CARLOS across the
frontier ? Was it not when every application to France
had most signally failed—when the agents of that
Power had filled Madrid with spies for the express
purpose of sowing the seeds of suspicion and distrust
among the people—when it became evident to all re-
flecting persons that the King of the FRENCH was
covertly driving the country over the precipice of
anarchy, in order to re-establish despotism—was it
not, we repeat, when all these things were known, that
Spain in self-defence proclaimed the Constitution ?
We defy the Government of France, through its accre-
dited organs, to answer one of these questions in the
negative—that is, if
.it accompany such negation with
those evidences of fact which every Government
must possess with regard to questions of this nature.
But even were we to admit that Louts PHILIPPE
never knew any thing of the Quadruple Treaty, and
-consequently never gave his sanction to it, we should
be equally at a loss to discover the sanity of his retro-
gade policy in the case of Spain. What will his
neutrality avail him ?—Nothing. The Constitution of
1812 has been proclaimed, and will be permanently
established despite of him. In the " march of events "
he will thus meet with an enemy of his own creation,
which may yet cost him his crown. Had he followed
the advice given to him by M. TILLERS two years ago
—viz., had he marched an army into , Spain, and
crushed the Carlist insurrection before it had extended
beyond a few villages in the Basques—the word " Con-
stitution" would not have been heard of in either Por-
tugal or Spain. The important service thus rendered
to the cause of liberty by France would have given
Lours PHILIPPE a right, which Spain would have
cheerfully acknowledged, of suggesting such altera-
tions in, and modifications of, the Estatuto Real, as
would have created something like harmony between
the social institutions of the two countries. With the
importance of this fact, IVI. TRIERS was well-ac.
quainted; nor was he ignorant that as soon as the
Spanish Minister would discover the hollowness of
the French Government's professions, he would revenge
himself upon it by evoking the mighty spirit of the'
Constitution. Behold, then, in the proclamation of
the Constitutions of Spain and Portugal, the loud-
trumpetted evidences of the political second-sight of the
King of the FRENCH I What wonderful trophies
these of the far-fetched political victories of the Na-
poleon of Peace ! The traitors who sported with the
most solemn engagements, with view to re-establiSh
despotism in Spain, are welcome to exult in the pleni-
tuM of that sagacity which overlooked the existence
of the dormant Constitutions of Portugal and Spain.

By the arrival of the Cape steamer at Falmouth
from Lisbon, whence she sailed on Sunday, the 25th

ult., we have obtained advices from Portugal of a date
two days later than those published in The Sun of
yesterday. They are not, however, of much impor-
tance. The efforts to work a re-action in the public
mind against the Constitutional Charter, are wholly
confined to the creatures of the Court. The QUEEN
does not attempt to conceal her chagrin ; and the
PRINCE looks as if the Constitution had been pro-
claimed solely with a view to insult himself personally,
by depriving him of the command of the army—for an
article of the Constitution virtually cashiered Mut,
though be contrived to have the merit of sending in
his resignation. We published his Highness's " Es-
pecial Order" addressed to the troops yesterday : we
now insert a copy of his letter to the QUEEN, tendering

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his resignation :
" The scenes which I have witnessed in the presence of
your Majesty on the 9th of September, the want of disCipline
on the part of the troops who assembled without my orders,
consulted in the public squares, abandoning their posts, and
marching en masse to the Palace of your. Majesty ; the acts of
violence, of insubordination, and of arbitrary power which the
soldiers have arrogated to themselves in dismissing their
officers, imposes on me the obligation to declare to your
Majesty that, under the actual circumstances, I should be
wanting in that duty I owe to your Majesty were I to continuo
as Commander-in- Chief of the army and Colonel of the sth
Regiment of Cacadores, and I therefore place the resignations
of these commands in the hands of your Majesty."

The observations which we yesterday made upon
the purport of the " Especial Order" might be repeated
to-day as equally applicable to the tenor of this letter.
But we have already taken sufficient notice of the
freaks of Prince FERDINAND.
The new Ministers cannot be blamed on the score
of idleness. In addition to the measures begun by
them enumerated in this Journal of yesterday, we have
hir3 to announce that all arrears due to the army
have been paid—that an order has been addressed to
the Mercantile Association of Lisbon, requesting it to
.select fifteen proper persons, out of which the Govern-
ment may appoint a Commission for suggesting the
Reforms required in the Custom-House laws—and
that another Co►r►mission, half Portuguese and half fo-
reigners, is about to be appointed, to report upon the corn.-
pensation which ought to be given to All foreign officers
and soldiers, whose demands upon the Crown foe services
rendered, during the late war, have not been liquidated,
In every change that has been effected or recommended,
the Portuguese Government has shown a tender regard
for .the rights, of all foreigners ; and Ministers pledge
themselves that the, payment of the foreign debt will
be one of the main kilijoeti their administration.
The Miguelite chief, RHENEciDE, with two hun-
dred followers, took. the village of Odeimira on the
20th in the name of, Don MieuEr,.. The goVern,
ment sent a large body of troops against him as soon