The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXitEGENT OF SPAIN.

LAST LETTER OF K. OLOZAGA, ADDRESSED TO TILE PRI-
VATE SECRETARY OF QUEEN CHRISTINA DIIINOZ.
Your communication of yesterdai, which I shall hasten
to transmit to my Government,' contains two distinct
parts. The one relative to the audience which her Ma-
jesty Queen Christina condescended to grant me on the
10th inst., and the communication to which it gave rise.
The other touching the opinion emitted by her Majesty
on the rebellion atranipeluna, on its causes and pretexts.
On the first point, though your Lordship taxes my
memory With infidelity, on account of the less or more
exactness with which I remembered the words of her
Majesty, and though you explain the sense of those
words after several days have passed, during which so
many grave and important events have occurred, I re-
ceive with great satisfaction the reiterated assurance of
her Majesty that she neither fostered nor excited the
melancholy circumstances in which our unfortu-
nate country is again placed. Her Majesty thus con-
firms not only what she condescended to declare to me
at the time, but even goes further-than what, in accom-
plishing my mission, I could have asked or known ; for
I thought it 'neither necessary nor prudent to seek to as-
certain the provocations or excitations which might have
beeii made to the chiefs of the rebels, and I contented
myself with learning from her Majesty that she had not
granted them either the appointment or the authority
which in their proclamations they pretended to have
received.
After this a party man may advise her Majesty, more
or less prudently, to bestow praise on the enthusiasm
and devotedness of those chiefs ; but for an official of
Government, it is enough for him to hare ascertained
the contradiction which exists between their language
and their writings, with those of the august person in
whose name they act, and by whom they say they were
specially authorised.
Unfortunate men 1 How dearly have some of them
atoned for the motive (whatever it be) which led them
into so criminal an enterprise ! And how dearly is Spain
paying for it, weeping over the loss of some of her most
valiant sons ! God grant that the losses already known
be the only ones, and that a facile triumph, inspir-
ing the conquerors with clemency and the conquered
with sincere repentance, may' permit our unhappy coun-
try to strengthen and to maintain, without fresh struggles,
those institutions so dearly bought, and with them her
prosperity and repose !
Till then, animated as I am with these sentiments, I
think I am not bound to explain why I shall not answer
to all that has been said about threats, outrages, per-
fidious tricks, barbarous persecutions, and so forth ; nor
to what, ' in dereliction from truth and reason, has been
added to cause the excitement of passions which it is so
important to allay:
Nor do I think it necessary to answer to your Lord-
ship on what yoh choose to call my irreverential ex-
pressions. Your Lordship abstains from pointing out
to me tare obnoxious words. Indeed I do not think it
,an easy task for any one to find such in the severe but
moderate terms, in the firm but dignified language,
which, if my wish does not deceive me, I employed in
the communications referred to. This answer must
suffice you likewise as to whet in your communications
you say respecting mine. If really they appear strange,
they never can be so much so as the situation which, by
no fault on my part, gave them birth.
What is stated on the events of Barcelona and Valen-
cia, on the origin of the present Government of Spain,
on the lawfulness of its measures, on the accomplish-
ment of the treaty of Bergara, and other similar subjects
which I shall not repeat, constitutes in my opinion a
new manifesto of her Majesty the Queen-Mother.
If so, I know not how it can be properly transmitted
by a private secretary ; but this I know, that if after the
people and the army of Spain giving recent proofs of
their loyalty and devotion, the manifesto required any
other answer, the honour of making it would not devolve
upon me. The Government, the Cortes, the Spanish
nation in short, would decide on what is most becoming
to their interests and dignity.
Finally, I beg to declare to your Lordship, that should
the communication to which this is an answer not be the
last, I can receive none in future through yon. After
having requested of you the other day not to omit my
quality of representative of the Spanish Government, I
received your last merely because your Lordship in-
scribed my quality on the direction, though you sup-
pressed it in the body of the despatch. I shall abstain
from stigmatizing the means employed, but you must
not be surprised if they do not succeed a second time.
SALUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA.
Paris, Oct. 25. _

The Gazette de France says:—
" M. Olozaga Went this day to St. Cloud to demand
the expulsion of Christina, founding his request on the
manner in which Don Carlos is treated at Bourges. The
Council is divided in opinion on the ultimate use of the
army assembling on the Spantsh frontier. It was at first
intended to make a military demonstration against Es-
partero, but M. Guizot is for remaining neuter, and
waiting for provocations from the Dictator, which, how-
ever, he says will not be made."
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