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London, England, 1823-02-10 00:00:00

eeeil. It w•as rather unfortunate; but another time, perhaps,
the experiment may turn out better.--( Journal des Debuts.)

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COUR ROYALE, FED. 6.
The appeal of 111.11. Constant against the sentence by
which he was condemned' to +one ,month's imprisonment, on
account of his letter to the Pxocureur.Oeneral of the Court of
Poitiers, was this day hearth.
The Court was sosnuch crowilei, that merry of M. B. Con-
stain's friends could not get even into the hall.
The Court, after deliberating for_ more than an hour and a
half, returned at four o'clock..
Baran Seguier, First President, then delivered the judgment
of the Court, condemning M.. 11. Constant to a fine of 1000
francs and costs.
The imprisonment'has thus been revoked, and the :fine in-
creased.

The following is the -Speech 'of Prince de'
TALLEY RAN Nidelivervd on -the occasion of the
Chamber of Peers, taking into consideration the
projet of the Address to be presented in answer to,
the KING'S Speech :
MY Lorins—Siziten yearsbave elapsed this day, -since,.n.
vited by him who then ruled the world to state my opinion.re-
lative to the contest about to be engaged in with the 6people of:
Spain, I had the misfortune to excitehis displeasure by unfold.;
ing futurity to his view ; by disclosing to hint all the dan-
gers which would spring up on all sides during an attack not,
less unjust than rash and presumptuous. Disgrace was the
reward of my sincerity. Strange destiny ! that after thedapse•
of so many years .1 should be again called upon to renew the:.
same effor ts, to urge the same councils to our legitimate Sovereign.
" The Speech from the Throne has caused the last hopes of
all the friends of peace nearly to vanish. It threatens Spain ;''
and my duty obliges me to Say that it seems to me alarming toy
France. ar, however, has not yet broken out. Peers of
France, there is yet a moment, a single moment, to save'
the King, to save your country, front the risk of so danger-
ous an enterprise ; hasten then to make use of it—to.fulfil
' most sacred of duties, to undeceive the King, Omni, •as he is
with respect to the wishes of' Prance, the wants of his people, his
own peenliar interest, and not less than with regard to the state
of Spain, which is now represented to him as enfeebled by in.'
testine dissensions.

".The wish of France—it is . almost supeifluous to say
the wish of all France is fbr peace. Satiated with•tile glory of
amts, she flattered herself, that under the Government of her
King, 'she should be enabled to recruit, during the leisure of.
peace, the strength - wasted in a war of thirty yeats.—.
All parts of this vast empire, composed as they are of
so many various interests, are unanimous on this question,'
—Lille thinks as Strasburg, Lyons as flordekux, Marseilles
as Grenoble. The most 'furious party •spirit • cannot deny
thivtruth. ti

" ,And how could it be otherwise ? Ilas ,not the merchant
of Bordeaux and of Marseilles, in this case, the same interest
as the Manufacturer of Lyons and of Rouen ? Is not the one
threatened with having all the treasures which he embarked on
the ocean snatchettfrom him? Does not tlaaother see the moment
approaching when his manufactories must close, which have
hitherto tbrmed the source of his glory and of the prosperity ,of
his country?' Shall speak of that part ,of thepopulation
which derives its support from daily labour?
" Each individual belonging to this class already knows by,
the reduction of a part of his labours, that in Suture be will re-s
ceive only a portion of those earnings which are necessary for
the support of his family, and that he may, front day to day,
be deprived of this last resouree. Can you suppose, my Lords,'
that agriculture will be more fortunate—that it will escape the
dangers which threaten commerce anti industry ? In our per-
fect system of society all classes ate united in one chain of ge-
nera) welfare. The embarrassments of the mercantile will be
felt by the class of cultivators, and our agriculture too will suf-
fer, from the loss of the numbers who are sent viperish in the;
desolate plains of the Peninsula.
" U that the powerful of the earth could calculate the
soffrages at this dreadful moment ! On our side is xn united
people ; 'on the other—Mist shall I say 'r
--are some indivi-
dual interests, who struggle to make a restoration, concurred in
by all for the general benefit of society, subservient to their own
private advantage. I will be bold enough to speak the
whole truth. nose self same chivalrous sentiments which,
in 1709, attracted the hearts of the generous, and seduced the
imagination of the enthusiastic, yet could not preserve the le-
gitimate monarchy; they Msragain destroy it in 1823, notwith.
seinding France wants to preserve its legitimate monarchy.—
.11y Lords, the questien of war is not, us some have been pleased
to say, a questiun of dynasty : his a question of party alone.
'lii Isterests of royalty are not at stake : no, but the interest
of it psity, steady to its old hatred, fixed in its old prejudices,
and which is h s eager to maintain than to reconquer—it is a,
retellation which sorne seek to take on the height of the Pyrenees.
Atat, what are the real motives urged to induce Prance,—
' Prenee happy, so tranquil, so prosperous,—to expose herself
to the risk of a war against Spain? 01 what hats France to
complain ? All is reduced to this simple proposition. The
Spatii:h Charter is full of Imperfections.
1 agree in that. proposition, it is full of imperfections :
But when have neighbouring nations received the authority of
exacting from an independent people the reformation of their
political lews ? If this theory be admitted, what becomes of
the independence of nations ? \net extraordinary reformers—
what wonderful Lycurguses, walnut 100,000 soldiers form!.
especially when 100,000 nre ready to'follow in their track ?
Where i 4 lie who can be deceived Ity this _political Quixotism ?
Is it thought that the secret of this new crusade will long con.
tinue a mystery in the eyes of the people of all countries ? No,
my Lords, no; Spain has conquered freedom for herself; Spain,
no longer overrun by privileged individuals, aflisrds a spec.
tacle intolerable to pride ; it cannot be tolerated ; and what is
to be the event ? In Spain, what was ineffectually attempted
in France, is to be attempted, viz.--a counter-revolution.
" I am well aware that tlfe invisible movers in this grand
conspiracy against the liberties of the tieoplb are not so stupid
as to aspire to any success by the sole efforts of their partisans ;
' what then is in reality the support on which they rest their last
hopes? They do not know. it; they would shudder if they
were repired to state it truly. My -Lords, that support, with-
out which they are nothing, is the support of' foreigners. Let
it not be said that this hypothesis is at chimera ; this parricidal
wish has been avowed in the Papers of the day, those cheerless
echoes of the passions which agitate the surface ofour native
land. But what is the price of the foreigner on whom they will
be compelled to place their last reliance ? What is he to receive
for his co-operation.ln these monstrous transactions? Who will
pay his armies, who will provision them ? Assuredly, it can-
not be unfortunate Spain—she has no treasure, she has scarcely
enough to supply her own subsistence—she is rich in courage
alone.

•‘ Prudence forbids my entering into more ample develope-
merits of the dangers of war with Spain_; your intelligence and
reflection will supply the deficiency. But J have said enough
to shew that it was my duty to appear in this Tribune. It be.
longed to nic, who am old—who respect France—who am de-
voted to the King and his Family—to me who have taken to pro.
minion a partin the events of the double restoration—who by
my efforts, and, I venture to say it by my successes, have
placed all Iny glory and my responsibility in the renewal of
the union bttween France and the House of Bourbon, to pre-
vent by every means in my potver. the work of wisdom and
,justice fronfbaing compromised by rash and foolish passions.
" The King is deceived, My Lords ; it is our duty to unde-
ceive him.—lfe,is told that his people wish for war; his people
desire peace.—lie
is to ld‘that the honour of his Crown is coin-

promises, by his not revenging the insults offered to Ferdinand.
His ancestor Louis XIV. did not revenge insults far more fla-
grant ; and yet in a quebtion of dignity Louis XIV. is a model
not to be despised. 'l' lie happiness of France is the glory of
Louis XVIII. and he is worthy of enjoying it.—lle is told that
Spain, a pi), to anarchy, is dangerous to France. Let facts
answer for themselveit. It is true that anarchical doctrines have
made all alarming progress in France? But on the contrary,
has not power made rapid conquests among us since the revolu-
tion of Spain ?
" Let us not be afraid, my Lords, to present the truth to our
King : he never. rejects it, and it is in this confidence that I
support the amendment which has just been proposed to you
by the Baron de liarante. May the majority of this Chamber
be induced by their fidelity to the King and the Chamber, to
sanction it by their votes.
" My Lords, I will say only one word more, and it is to
ask you whether no one has; any doubts with respect to the se-
cret wishes of Ferdinand VII. I permit myself a personal
opinion on this point ; I ground it on past events but too well
known to me. Assuredly tire King of Spain was never inure
ott w l:iettly deprived of all liberty than during the seven years
of his captivity at Valencay; and I appeal to some of my Noble
Colleasues to recal to their recollection that at that painful pe-
riod neither their honourable names nor their touching devot-
edness could inspire that Monarch with sufficient confidence
to remove from his mind the impression, that the attempt which
they were pilling to make for his deliverance was nothing but
an aet of temerity of which he would be' the victim ; and my
personal relations with King Ferdinand have authorised me to
believe, that these refusals arose from a noble confid'emes in the
fidelity of his subjects, to whose courage and attachment he
wished to owe his liberation. This last observation, notwith-
standing the difference of the times, affords you many oppor.
tunities finsomparlson."

itunmsnit, continues to be rumoured that
a nor Cinigress will soon be held at Vienna ; that the Allies
will assemble on the Milne ioo,orm men ; and that two Rua.
sian divisions will be encamped in a second Rae, whilst a third
alivision of "000 Russians will proceed into Italy, whence they
will embark for Catalonia.--(Drapeau Blanc.)