The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

convocation des ancienncs Cortes du genuine, des garatties
d'ord re, de justice, ct de bonne adminfstration. Tout ce que
laTrance.pourroit faire; itiriskue.ses ARMS et l'Europe
tiere, serait fait pour consolider cct acte de votre sagesse ;je
rie crains pas (le m'en porter 'gamut. J'ai cril devoir
ra-
peller a vase Majeste, et par elle a tous ceux qui peuvent
prevenir encore' les maux qui les nienacent, lea dispositions
du Roi, mon Onele et Seigneur—Si d'ici cinq jours, ilne m'est
parvenu aucune reponso satisfaisante.; et si vette Majest6 est
encore a.cette 1-)oque privtie de sa lilierti, j'aurois recours ala
force pour la lut rendre. Cett x qui Ocouteraient bans passions
de.priference 3 hiaret de leu:e pays, reponderout sails du sang
gut sera vast?... -
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Je suis, aver le plus profond respect, •.
Monsieur, Rion Frere et Uousin, de votre Majeta,
Le' tres afrectionn6 Prere,'Consin et SerViteur,
• - LOUIS ANTOINE.
De mon Quartier General, du Port Sainte Marie,
ce 17 Aout, 1823. • •

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TRANSLATION.
I Sir,: my Brother and Cousin-Spain is delivered from the
revolutionary yoke. A few fortified towns now only serve as
an asylum to implicated persons. The King, my Uncle and
',Ord, had thought (and events have in.. no wise changed his
opinion). that your Afa*ty, restored to liberty, and using de
itiency, would think.it advisable to grant an amnesty necessary
after so many troubles., and to give to your people, by the con-
vocation of the ancient Cortes of this Kingdom, guarantees for
the.re-establishment of order, justice, and good administration.
All that Fiance could.perforin, as well as her Allies and the
whole of Europe, shall be done, in order to consolidate this'
act of your wisdom; I do not hesitate myself to beeorrie a gua-
rantee for it. I thought it my duty to remind your Majesty, and
dirough • you,
.all those who may still prevent the evils which
threaten them, of the feelings of the,King, my Uncle and Lord.
If. in five days-hence, I shall not have received any satisfactory
aline!, and: if et that period your Majesty should still be• de-
Kived of your liberty, I shall recur to force in order to restore
to you. Those who should listen to their passions' in prefer-
cue to the interests of their country, will alone be answerable
for the blood that may be spilled.—l am, .with the most profound-
respect, your very affectionate brother,, cousin, and servant,
(Signed) • LOUIS ANTOINE.
Front my Head-quarters, at Port St. Marl's, • .• •
• this 1.7th.0f August; . 1823. ,
ANSWER.
Siroisy Brother and Cousin"-.11 have, received the letter of
your HOyul Ilightiess, 'dated the 17th instant, and, Is in truth
%err remarkable, that till now the intentions of my Mother und
I:rn'ele, the King of France, iiity`e not been manifested to Me,
%%lie:Otis now six . months since his troops invaded my kitio-
(thin,: and are Causing, in support thereof,. so many calamities
t 6 my. subjects. . • • •
' The yoke from which your Royal. Highness pretends to have
Oliveri34Spain, never existed, nor ani I deprived of any
liberty, than that of which the operations of the French.. Army
havb stripptd we.
The best manner of *restoring this to me, and of leaving the
S:pLinigih people in *session of theirs, would be to respect our
rights, as we respect those of others, and that a foreign powsr
should cea.Se- to interfere by Means of an armed force. in our
iittetnal.affitirs, •
' The paternal sentiments of my heart are, with regard"to my,
self, the most secure rule,, and the most powerful stimulus to
estimate and seek a remedy for the wants of my subjects.
greater guarantee for the preservation of order and justice
should be wished by them, with thetn I will agree pn the same,
and-in the meantitne let me be allowed to state to your Royal
Highness, that what with this view you point out to me is as
incompatible with the diOty of my Crown, as it is with the
actual state and political situation of things, with the rights,
customs, and prosperity of the nation which I govern. To raise
up again, after three centuries of oblivion, an institution, so
'varied, .chatigeable, and monstrous as the ancient Cortes of
the. kingdom were, in which the nation, was never assembled,
and never possessed a true Representntion, would, on the other
hand, be • the same or worse than to renew the Stales-Ceneral
in France; would, besides, be, insufficient to secure tranquil.
lily and public order, without affording advantage to any one
of the classes of the State, would, produce the difficulties mid
hiconieniences which In former times were experienced, and
which have always-been known when this subject has been
treated of.
' 1r is, not the King who is the proper channel for the sug-
gestions your Royal 'Highness has thought it your duty to
make neither is possible or just that he should be called
upon to:prevent evils which he neither causes nor merits ;
this appeal ought rather to be made to the voluntary author of
phew:.
. 1 wish, together with my nation, that an honourable and
solid peace should put an end• to the disasters'of the present
war, which we have:ntit provoked, and which is as prejudicial to
.France as it is to Spain. I have on this subject communica.•
spins pending with the Government of his Britannic Majesty,
whose mediation has also been solicited by his Most Christian
Majesty, from
~which I cannot depart, net do I think your
!loyal Highness ought. If, notwithstanding these declarations
Hmine, force should be abused under the pretext your Royal
ighness insinuatesohose who do It will be answerable for the,
blood spilt, anti. your Royal Highness will be particularly, so
before Ood and man, for the evils you may bring upon my
Royal Person and family, and Upon this meritorious City,
41.0 d . preserve your Royal Highness, my brother ana cousin,
many years, &c.—Cadiz, Aug. 21, 1223.
- ,(Signed)

the KING..

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EXTRACT or A LETTER KNOWN TO CONTAIN TIIE
-SI:NTISIENTS OF.TIIF. SPANISH ODVERNMENT AND
TILE Estaogas or. THE POPULAR CAUSE., .
CADIZ, SEPT. 2, 1823:
The. arrival of an AidedeeCatrip from the French head.quar-
ters with a letter addressed to the King, and the publicity of
an answer having been- transmitted thereto, have in some mea-
sure obliged the Ministers to allay public anxiety, by communi-
cating to those in their confideneethe 'contents thereof, as well
as their own sentiments on the communications made; a seed,
tice most assuredly clue to the leading men in this place, who
have roade every sacrifice in behalf of their- afflicted country.—
I therefore hasten to forward to you copies of the Royal Cor-
respondence,. and therewith I give you the sentiments of our
Leaders.
Hitherto some doubt might-have hung over the operations as •
well ae the intentions of the French in Spain, so much mystery
and contradiction have been observed ; the present communi-
eatioo;-boatevei,-reMoves ell, and' places their conduct in its
real pointof view. It now evident andaindeniable that they
are nolonger actuated by a wish to introduce prudent and rea-
eonable reforms into onr existing institutions—the object they
have always avowed publicly to the people of Europe and
to the Cabinets of the several Powers—hod.' reforms as might
give to the supreme authority the necessary force and vigour,
thus removing all danger or motives of apprehension to other
States e but rather that they are impelled by the arrogant and
unwarrantable ambition of gaining possession of the person of
the King and mot' his. Royal family, and convert them into in-
Aruinente in favour of the views of their own Government,
without alloWing the Spanish nation to have any. Consti-
tution whatever, either moderate or otherwise, or, in "Other
Words, laws to govern them e their aim is to plunge the
Spanish people into a state of anarchy, misery, and op-
probrium, by depriving them of every shadow of independ-
ence, by stripping them -of every remnant of freedom, as
well as all ..guarantees which could secure property and
persons. Pe is simposedewith an affectation 'of the' most re-
voltjg kind,. thnt the' King is not free, and it is even ate
tenipted to sitesteen a falsehood, as evident as it is 'absurd, in
defiance of so many and such solemn declarations of the King
himself—of such unequivocal acts of his own, which do away.
with all idea of restraint. This langnage is, in fact, held forth,
notwithstanding the tranquillity, hitherto uninterrupted, and
the good order which have hitherto prevailed in Cadiz, the
respect shewn towards his august person as well as the per-
Omit character and known principles of Ministers.
It was the French who' drove die King from his 'palace in
,Madrid ; they drove him from Seville—how then can they pre-
tend io restore him toerty, when it was they who compelled
elm to seek a refuge here? Where ie his royel power in their
f'y es; when they demand that lie should be delivered up tamelyto
them, and made subject to their humiliations ? His surrender
is the only explicit demand made by. the Duke d'Angetileme
in his letter ; this is the prdilninaty slue qua nen—all. is to be
done iniConditinally. rfhose who feign to believe that a
Monarch is not fret, surrounded by hie own countrymen and
faithful subjects, conceive that he may be so among foreign
troops who have invaded his kingdom, or among those rebels
aed traitors who are desolating their Let eland,
and covering
it with horrors and lamentations- Let Ferdinand the Vllth
be feee, said the King of France,. so as to give to his subjects
inst.:whips which they Can only receive front him; and the war
Shall ininiediatelyeteaee.'" •
The civilized world has seen with astonishment an aggreesion
founded on a pretext of this hind, and heard with alarm a
shat
destructive of the most sacred rights of nations ; never-
theless the King of France did =
ot. say that he would not, con.
eider the King of Spain' as being in a state of Reedom till he
odds` of French troos • nor did he announce Ids
was in-tae
intention Of dictating to' hint what'kind of institntions he was
ei e' to his subjects. His Generalissimo, however, now takes
the King is to be held as free,
teniiinTlimself to decide
,wheee
euhjects such institutions as
and that lie shall only cto itie
may please the Cabinet of the Tuileries. Ile is eVell told what
tied it it i$ only if he adopts these, and no
kind they are to be,
the co-operation of France and her
Other,
tatorbdecristi°i-econecte,:eiidate them. And what are these
institutions lie is couitnnaded to adopt? Pre.criksey those least
the most yto weaken
suitable to the dignitiy ef his Crown,
dthesetroltoletsPunoivitts7,,d-d:ernietasnitsli the action of the Govermnent, and
conformable to the spirit of the age,