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London, England, 1841-10-28 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

THE EX-QUEEN REGENT .AND
THE ACTUAL REGENT OF SPA CF.

The Journal des Debats publishes the follow tug docu-
ments as official :
LETTER. ADDRESSED TO HER MAJESTY :HI
DONNA MARIA CHRISTINA DE BOURBON BY DON A

LI:S72LINO DE OLOZAGA, DATED PARIS, OCT. 1 T,
'°Madam—l have just seen in the Monit eur a de-
spatch from the French Charge d'Affaires r yiadricl,
transmitted by the telegraph from Bayonne, w ecording
to which it would appear that a rebel army C.ad endea-
voured by force of arms to obtain possessic a of the per-
sons of her Majesty Queen Isabella IL r end her Royal
Highness "le Infanta, Donna Maria Low sa, and that the
attempt had reached so far that the robe's fought even in
the palaces against the faithful troops, And that the hal-
berdiere themselves, who were on guard about the
Queen's. person, had been obliged to interfere in the con-
test. four Majesty's heart must have been profoundly
afflicte, I when you were apprisv'e of the danger to which
your a ,ugust daughters were eeeposed, when you consider-
ed the spectacle which the palace of the Kings of Spain
prese cited at that terrible moneemt—a palace which had
been religiously respect:A, even when under the
most critical circumstaneivs the enemies of liberty com-
pronrised the cause of the constitutional monarchy.
tr the reign of yor.r Majesty's husband, the Royal
Guard, which had revolted, was shamefully defeated by
the :.gaeional Guard at. Madrid and the troops of the line,
and although, whey. defeated, it took refuge in the
palace, ,where the centre of the conspiracy way esta-
blished, the feeliree of respect was more powerful with
the comenerors than the desire of crowning their tri-
umph, aryl they halted at sight of the royal residence—
an admii able example which probably stands alone in
the hist( pry of revolutions—an example which your
Majesty (if you were not present) may learn accu-
rately frc an one of those who wero witnesses at least of
the clang( Tto -Lich the Spanish Constitution was ex-
posed or. that day. But your Majesty yourself ob-
served tic it, dewing the six years which the war excited
by Don C: erlae's partisans lasted, the latter never made a
similar att grape. The reason is, that the present rebels
have not the same pretence as the Carlists, nor a
principle, ev en a false one, to proclaim, and those who
have coaxal( 'need by treason, can only maintain them-
selves by violence.
" If ateyth'.ng could increase the profound regret which
such an ace, together with the rebellion which has
broken out in some parts of Navarre and the Basque
provinces, 'will produce throughout Spain, it is the fact
of the rebels. making use of your Majesty's name, and
that those who placed the Queen's life in peril style
themselves the defenders of her mother. Before yester-
day, when I handed your Majesty the last letters written
to you by- your august daughters, I could not avoid
respectfully requiring. from your Majesty, that in order
to regula to my conduct and the ulterior decision of my
Govcrnraent, you would deign to acquaint me whether
Generta O'Donnell, who styles himself Viceroy of Na-
varre. and the others who in the Basque provinces repro-
sent themselves as the agents of your Majesty and the
Lieutenants of. a Regency which does not exist, had,
in fact, received from your Majesty an appointment, an
order, or an authority to do so ; and your Majesty
deigned to reply that re was false that you had appointed
O'Donne.l, that you had not given him nor any other
person aay authority to do so; that you could not do so, as
you yourself have none, and that whatever they did was
on their own account.

"I carefully collected and faithfully transmitted to
the Government your Majesty's words. But, after
having seen that at the same time that your Majesty
declared what the rebels advamed to be false the latter
continued to assume your Royal name, and particularly
after having read the communication made by the French
Charge d'Affaires, I believed that your Majesty could
no longer suffer your name to serve as a flag for those
who, by profaning the immunity of the Palace, placed
the Queen and the Infanta'.i life in danger ; and that it
became my duty, a ithout prejudice to other duties I
have to fnifil, to represent to your Majesty, that if on
this occasion, and when so unheard of an attempt wc';
committed, your Majesty did not address a declaration
to the Spanish nation, to show the fraud of those who,
by attributing to your Majesty a design of recovering
the Regency, assume your name to destroy by force of
arms the legitimate Government, your Majesty's silence
could only bear one interpretation, according to which
the connexions hitherto existing between your Majesty
and the Spanish nation would manifestly change.
" As I am about to fora at.; a despatch to Spain to-
morrow, I could, at the same time, transmit any mani-
festation which your. Majesty might deign to consider
suitable to the occasion. I have the honour to inform
your Majesty that the messenger will, for this purpose,
wait until the latest hour of the night.
" In renewing to your Majesty the most sincere ex-
pression of profound regret which the late attempt has
caused me, inasmuch as it might have compromised the
precious existence of your Majesty's august daughters,
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
" Minister Plenipotentiary of the Queen of Spain,
" SALUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA."
COPY OF TrE DESPATCH WHICH, BY ORDER OF THE
QUEEN, HER SECRETARY ADDRESSED TO DON SALUS-

TIANO DE OLOZAGA THE 15TH OF OCTOBER.
" The Queen Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon
commanets me to tell your Lordship that she does not
think pr oper to reply to your strange communication of
the 12th of this month, in which the facts were mis-
stated, and her Majesty's words falsified.
"May God protect your Lordship many years,
" JOSE DEL CASTILLO Y AYENSA."
RIMY OF DON SALTJSTIANO OLOZAGA, DATED THE
17Thi OF OCTOBER, TO THE PRECEDING DESPATCH.

" At. 3 o'clock in the afternoon of yesterday I received
a letter from your Lordship, dated the 15th instant, in
which, by order of the Queen Donna Maria Christina de
Boir:bon, your Lordship has the kindness to tell me that
her Majesty does not think proper to reply to my strange
communication of the 12th of this month, in which the
facts are misstated, and her Majesty's words falsified.
" These latter words, which neither your Lordship
nor any other person has a right- to address to me,
would justify me in using similar language. But my
education would not permit me to do so, and my duty as
a public character requires that I should at this moment
dismiss every personal feeling.
"Confining myself, therefore, merely to my functions
as Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty Queen
Isabella 11., I wish to tell your Lordship that I am will-
ing to corarnun'ecate to the Government of the Queen
any resolution of her august mother which your Lord-
ship may wish -to transmit to me, and that I shall con-
sider everythirg stated in my former communica-
tion as accuraee until what is regarded as inaccurate is
pointed out to. Inc. If there should be any inaccuracy
therein, notwithstanding the care with which I endea-
voured. to retain and promptly commit to writing the few
and serious words I had just heard, I am positive that it
cannot be in the substantial matter, and I am disposed
with respect to the remainder to admit any variation
which may- be pointed out. My position is not equivo-
cal, and far from being obliged to elude any contradic-
tion, and to appeal to studied phrases to conceal the
truth, I anxiously soak it. The Spanish Government,
so desirous to ascertain the fact, will tell whether I have
found it or not by her Majesty's silence.
" Your L ordthip, when writing to me as Private Se-
cretary of her IlEejesty, omits, either designedly or
through forgetfulraess, to mention my official character
as the representative of the Spanish Government; and
although Ido not -wish, for that reason, to term your
Lordship's commi mication strange, I hope that if you
have to address n le again it will not be under that form,
inasmuch as it is not possible for me, under existing cir-
cumstances, to c antinne a correspondence with any one
who would not . txplieitly acknowledge in the person of
its Envoys the legitimate constitutional government o f
his Highness the Regent of
the kingdom during the mi-
nority of the Queen Donna 'lsabella 11.
" May God Preserve your Lordship many
_years.
" The Minister Nen' t
" Paris. Oct., 17. "SA LusTrouNentoarT)ot. Spain,
OIsOZAGA.
“To his LoTdship Don Jose del Castillo
Privet. t Secretary ,af her M • .. eeY 43'ensa,
ajesq ezueeu alas
ria Ch'istina de Bisurbon."
INswER RICTURNED ~N THE NATIE OF THE QUEEN TO
TILE pia CEDING DESPATCH, BY THE SECRETARY Or
HER 3r,i;TESTY, a'.471 DATED THE 24TH OF OCTOBER.
. The swan ;e a eel disrespectful language of the corn-
munication which y our Lordship addressed to the Queen
on the I 2 tli. ins Cant , and the inconsiderate intention which
it evinced off el Az ipping her Majesty, to the detriment
of
fhe exams
'dignity and honour, have obliged her
Majesty to &fie It such ambuscade
useadheebeen
in the
pleasedsim
letoandse
e
se-
vere man r • which sh
pre-
scribe. The- n n
arms,
estyoof lessthe strange
letter thanwhich your disrespectful,
Lordship
addressed to 2 a
towards her .31,sj
e on the 17th, might also dispense her
Majesty from. returning any reply to your Lordship,
if, in presence of the obstinate perseverance of your
Lordship, cons ideration of a superior mind did not in-
duce her Mak !say to break silence with a view to pro-
claim her real sentiments, give vent to her profound in-
dignation, an, I defeat the objectv
of the refined, and at
the same time barbarous persecution, directed against her
by her enemi ,ts.
" The Que en neither advised nor created the sad
events which, have again afflicted our unhappy country,
while the te• irs and blood which, during seven consecu-
tiveie. years, were shod in the Peninsula were still flowing.
A stranger to all fete passions engendered by political
discords, her Majesty supported with courage and re-
signation the ang wish which she has had to endure from
the day when gee lost sight of the two august orphans
so dear to her h cart. Deploring. as she does, the error
and infatuation, of men who requited by insult and by
the basest inearatitude those benefits which they had re-
ved from ',ler generous hand, and reconciled to lead a
sad
has hut travaquil existence in a foreign land, her Majesty
which inearlaHsty
she has •
followed the pacific, noble, and safe course
laid out for herself under those painful
'menet
entor exciteances. No, her Majesty has neither advised
de so
tt,_d c.iviil war, and it was not possible for her to
,consolaZi dzcaring in a recent public document the
promoter of h she felt at having been the constant
causes of the new.e Jt. is elsewhere we must seelc‘tho
„ Those
causes o 'sten which has broken out in Spain.
celona and Vaieneare to be found in the attempts of Bar-
;.iiin\ithe vicious origin of the Go-
vernment constituted;
in
th-e-adrid, the work of the revolu-
tion of Septenamr 1
us.urpation of Royal authority, I
in the illegality end unr l injustice of the measures of
Government in numerouus,yaind flagrant infractions of the
constitution and the laws
tirileis imprudent and scanda-
loos obstinacy in violatir4
thaith pledged at Bergara,
and trampling under foot
fueros of the
.generous Basques
e ancient and venerable
and Navarrese ; in the
violent and iniquitous
to the guardianship ee u 'hue? illustriousa t"of
daughters, a usur-
pation Queen's right
pationivtich loyal Spaniaride,
svc viewed with stupor equalled
only by their profound grf,
se they Witne s s e d on
this and several other occasion;satnhd,
becausecontempt entertained
for divine and human laws
Of they saw the
honour and dignity of the mother
tet
tieir sovereign seri-
ously offended. In this uninterrupted series of violent
attempts against all that was most Wo yof respect and
most sacred in the nation, against therthely re
which
father of the faith.
it professes, and against the common