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SPANISH COLONIES.

11.18•0.1.111:1TEI:LY REVIEW.]
(Cootidued from our Npur of the 20i.11

The words European and Spaniard are become
synonimbusin Mexico and Peru. The inhabi-
tants of the remote provinces have theiclore a
difficulty in concei..ing that there are -Fairopeans
who do not speak..their langulge ; consider
this ignorance as a mark of low extraction, be-
cause•everywivcre around them, all, except the
very lowest class ofthepeople, speak Spanish.—
Better ac,,,.aintei With the history of the sixteenth
century tiin with that of our oWn times, they
imagine that Spain eqntiimes to possess a decided
preponderance over the res t. of Europe. To
them the PeninStila 'appears the very centre of
European civilization. It' is :other ;vise with the
Americans of the capital. Those of them who are
acquainted with French or English literaturefall
easily into the contrary extreme, and have a still
more unfavourable opinion of the mother country
than the French had, at a time when communica-
tion was less frequent between Spain and the rest
of _Europe. They prefer strangers from other
countries to the Spaniards ; and they flatter them-
selves with the idea that intellectual cultivation
has. made mor rapid progress in the colonies tlig.n
in the Peninsula.

The public opinion being thus divided. with
spect to the mother country, it is evident that if
the first class lost their enthusiasm for Spain, they
might easily be led into rebellion by that more en-
lightened part of the community who despised and
hated her government.

The news of the invasion,of the French, together
with that of the captivity of the King,,and the re-
signations of Bayonne, produced a kind of stupor
which pervaded the whole population of Spanish
America ; but this was soon-followed by-a general
enthusiasm in favour of the mother country.
pre ailing _sentiments were ablioirence of the
-French, and desire to support the Spaniards against
their tyranny and injustice. If we wanted argu-
ments to confirm the correctness of Humboldt's
description, we should find a very strong one in
the confidence with which the Americans look-
ed-for.a speedy and successful issue to the Spanish
cause. If there were. any who doubted of that
they were to be futud -among the higher
classes, aild even among the Spanish Authorities.
Those, whri, 8.6!( tling to Humboldt, considered
Spain just as if only a day had, -passed since ,-the
battle of Pavia, hourly expected to hear of the
;patriotic armies having reached Faris, and of 84-
obapartd heing sent a ,prisoner to Madrid.
• Few examples can be found of Such an attach-
ment between what might be called two nations,
as that which was evinced byrthe American pope-,
lation .towards the mother country. The opinion.
in favour of sinporting Spain was so general and
decided, that not a single voice was heard from tlm
discontented Creoles,, who bad been long
medi-
tating a revolution. Had the Spanish Govern-
ment acted wisely, the FrenCh -invasion would
have strengthened the ties of union between Spain
and her ; and what. force had at 11;:st es-
tablished, friendship, gratitude, and cbmnassion,
would have sanctioned and confirmed for cen-
turies.

The news of the general
.insurrection of Spain
reached Mexico on the 29th July, 1868. The en-
thusiasm which it had produced vitas sti'l in full
force, when the arrival of two deputies frrnn the
Junta of Seville was, announced, who were come
to claim the sovereign conun md of Spanish Ame-
rica for that corporation, Which had assumed the
title of Supreme Gubernative Junta of Spain., and
the Indies.

Such was the general , disposition in favour of
the Peninsula, that it appears-probable; from the'
documents before us, that the Mexicans would
have acceded to the deinands of the Junta, if,
during the deliberation of a meeting of the public
anthOrities, which; the Viceroy had convened, dis—
patches bad not arrived from :London, in Which
the deputies of the Junta of Asturias. •announced
their installation, and Warned 'the Mexicans
prcssly against the pretension of the Andalusian
Junta. We may easily' conceive how this declared
rivalship must have affected the opinion which the
Mexicans had fOrmed of the spirit of the Spanish
Revolution.
The resipations of the Roal Family produced
no diminut'ion of American loyalty. The acclama-
tions of.• Ferdinand VII." were as sincere as they
were general : but the blind sOthission,which the
old 'Spaniards demanded for whoever called lan