The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

PANISH CORRESPONDENCE.
(Continued from The Sun of Monday.)
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO M. ISTURITZ._

Foreign Office, June 12, 1848.
Sir,—Having had the honour to receive your letter of
the 7th instant, I now proceed to state to you the result
of the very attentive consideration which her Majesty's
.Government have given to the allegations put forward
by the Spanish Government with a view to justify the
course which they have pursued towards her Majesty's
Minister at the Court of Madrid. But before I enter
into an examination of those matters, I wish to say a
few words upon what has been stated by yourself and
by the Duke of Sotomayor upon the subject of the ap-
plication of the Spanish Government for Sir Henry Bul-
--seer's recall.
The Duke of Sotomayor, in treating of that matter,
seems to argue as if every Government was entitled to
obtain the recall of any Foreign Minister, whenever,
for reaysns of its own, it might wish that he should be
removed ; but this is a doctrine to which I can by no
means assent. It is quite true, as said by the Duke
of Sotomayor, that the law of nations and inter-
national usage may permit a Government to make
such a demand ; but the law of nations and interna-
tional usage also entitle the Government to whom such a
request may be preferred to decline to comply with it.
And there are obvious reasons why this should be. Di-
plomatic agents are appointed to guard the interests of
She Government and nation which they represent ; end
the performance of their duties may often compel them
to make representations and demands inconvenient and
distasteful to the Government to which they are accre-
dited. But if their continuance at their post were to de-
pend upon the good will and pleasure of that Govern•
merit, instead of resting within the discretion of the Go-
vernment of their own country, it is manifest that men
mindful of their professional character would decline an
employment in which a firm performance of their duty
might lead to a recall, the causes of which it might be
difficult for them publicly to explain ; while men weaker
in mind and less firm in purpose might be exposed to the
temptation offlinchingfrom their duty, fur fear of injuring
thv'ir professional prospects. And fl this be true as a gene-
ral proposition, it is especially true in regard to the diplo-
matic. relations of Great Britain with Spain ; for, on the
one hand, the British Government and nation have unsa-
tisfied cieims upon Spain, and the course of events in
Spain has given rise to political differences between the
two Govemments; so that it has often been the duty of
the British representative to place himself in a position
not suitable to the views and wishes of the Spanish Mi-
nisters of the day ; and, on the other hand, the succes-
sion of Ministers in Spain has been of late years so
rapid, and changes of government have been there so fre-
quent, that if it were to be understood that the British
Minister at Madrid held his office by no steadier tenure
than the pleasure of the Spanish Minister of the day, the
British Government might be exposed to: frequent repe-
titions of such demands.
I do not mean to say that if a foreign Government is
agile to state to the Government of her Majesty grave
and weighty reasons why the British Minister accredi-
ted to such government should be removed, her Ma-
jesty'a Government would not feel it to be their duty to
take such representations into their serious considera-
tion, and to weigh them with all the attention which
:hey might deserve.
But it must rest with the British Government in such
case to determine whether there is, or is not, any just
cause of complaint against the British diplomatic agent;
And whether the dignity and interests of Great Britain
would beet be consulted by withdrawing him, or by main-
taining him at his post.
Now, with regard to the application made by you, by
.order of your Government, first verbally and then in
w rising, for the recall of Sir Henry Bulwer, I have to
stare that no grounds were assigned for that application
which appeared to me to afford any just reason why it
should have been complied with, if it had been perse-
vered in, and if an answer to it had been required. But
you will remember that twenty-four hours after you had
sent in to me the note, in which that application had
been made, you came to me of your own accord, and
stated that you had that day received instructions from
your Government which, if they had reached you sooner,
would have prevented you from making the application;
,that upon our discussing what course it would be hest
reader such circumstances for you to pursue, I took the
liberty of suggesting, that instead of making any further
written communication in accordance with yeur fresh in-
structions, you should take back your note, which I then
tendered to you for that purpose; and upon your adopt
ing that suggestion, and carrying your note away with
you, it was agreed between us that this transaction should
be considered as if it had not taken place.
Upon this matter, then, I would beg you to chserve,
that the Spanish Government, of its own accord, sent
you instructions to withdraw its application; and that
those instructions were written a few days after the time
when it had sent you instructions to make that applica-
tion; and consequently Its change of purpose could not
arise from any knowledge that the application would
not be complied with, but must have sprung from a ces-
sation of the motives by which the instructions to make
the application were prompted.
The Spanish Government, therefore, cannot be en-
titled to found upon that application, nor upon the inti-
mation made to you by me, that if made it would not
be complied with, any justification for the conduct sub-
sequently pursued towards Sir Henry Bulwer. Nor can
the Spanish Government allege that the application
was withdrawn in consequence of some understanding
upon that subject come to between the Duke of Soto-
mayor and Sir Henry Bulwer, and that such under-
standing was afterwards departed from by Sir Henry
Bulwer; because no such understanding was ever entered
into with Sir Henry Bulwer, nor was there any discus-
sion between him and the Duke of Sotomayor with re-
ference to an application for his recall.
In considering, therefore, the statements put forward
by the Spanish Government as a justification of their
proceeding in sending Sir Henry Bulwer his passports,
her Majesty's Government is fairly entitled to dismiss
from the account everything which bears upon transac-
tions anterior to the time alien the Spanish Government
sent you the instruction upon which you withdrew your
application for Sir Henry Bulwer's recall; and the with-
drawal of that application must be deemed a bar to
any right of the Spanish Government to refer, for
their present purpose, to transactions which had pre-
viously taken place.
But her Majesty's Government, nevertheless, will
examine, without reference to that date, the several
heads of statement put forward by the Duke of Soto-
mayor and by yourself, as bearing out the Spanish
Government in the conduct which they have pursued.
The substance of these statements may, as it appears
to her Majesty's Government, be classed under the fol-
lowing heads:—
First. That Sir Henry Bulwer kept up social inter-
course and communication with persons belonging to a
parts, hostile to the present Government, and that thus
by his moral support he gave encouragement to that
party.
Secondly. That after an insurrectionary movement
which took place at Madrid on the 26th of March, he
allowed his house to be an asylum for persons who are
represented by the Duke of Sotomayor as being enemies
of the Government, ot the throne, and of the institu-
tions of Spain; and that he permitted the persons who
had thus found refuge, to carry on, from his house com-
munications with persons in other places. with a view to
planning hostile
Proceedings against the existing Go-
vt opain.
Thirdly. That he must have been implicated in the
military revolt which happened at Madrid on the 7th of
may, and in that which tok place subsequently at
Seville; -because, in regard tooth e first of those revelte.
the Spanish press had pronounced itself against hina.•
and because, in regard to the second, he was intimate
with the family of one of the officers who took a lead in
that revolt; and Clio because it was supposed that it was
through Sir Henry Bulwer's influence with some former
Government ot Spain that that officer obtained a mili-
tary command.
Fourthly. That the mission of Colonel Fitch to the
southern part of Spain was connected with some plan fur
exciting insurrections in those quarters.
Fifthly. Treat Mr. Sansom, a personal friend of Sir
Henry Bulwer's, and a director of the Union Bank at
Madrid, held language very hostile to the present Spanish
Government.
Sixthly. That, owing to many of these things, there
existed in the minds of the garrison and population of
Madrid such exasperation against Sir Henry Bulwer
that the Government were afraid that if he remained at
his post he might be exposed to personal danger.
Now, with regard to the first of these heads of com-
plaint, Sir Henry Bulwer positively and unequivocally
denies that he engaged in any plots or conspiracies
against the authorities of the State; and it is only of
anch conduct on his part, if he had pursued it, that
the Spanish Government would have just right to
complain. At Sir Henry Bulwer's choice of private
friedds, or at his avowed attachment to constitu-
tioal principles of government, the Spanish Ministers
hand no right to take umbrage. It is no part of
the duty of a foreign minister at a court to confine his
social intercourse to persons belonging to the party who
may happen for the moment to be in power; and least
of all could such a restriction be submitted to in Spain,
where, between December, 1832, and October, 1847, the
office of President of the Council has changed hands
twenty-nine times, and has been held in succession by
twenty-seven different persons; and where, between
r,
Octobe
for Forei
183ge, and October, 1847, the office of Minister
- Affairs has changed hands thirty-seven
times,
person,
Her been held successively by thirty-two dif-
ferent
Her Majesty's Government cannot then admit the pre-
or i
tonsion
nterfere of the present Governeett of Spain to restrict
it m
e
social intercourse or private inti-
macies of the British Minister at Madrid.
As to the second it is admitted by Sir Henry
Bulwer, that he confPoorisnumet
areoislt the occasion of the insur-
rection of the 26th of
Madrid, to the custom
which has long been establLtheodf in that city, and
at:cording; to which the houses
ministers
have been always open to afford sahnefc°trueairgyn to political
ofiendere, until they might
the means of leaving the counts
able to find
Henrymhpeora ry
Bulwer frankly- avows that lie did not i:e.fuseSitr
shelter to one person, who acknowledged that
not et°
andhad
actually been engaged in that insurrection •
others, who represented to him that although
gaged in those transactions, they yet feared to be victinins-
of the groundless suspicions of the Government. But
Sir Henry Bulwer at the same time adopted the best
means in his power for preventing the persons thus har-
boured by him from holding, while under his roof, any
tnamnnications with other persons for the purpose of
disturbing the public tranquillity.
But so much was this proceeding treated as a matter
of usual occurrence that the Duke of Sotomayor actu-
ally asked Sir Henry Bulwer to tell him, as between gen-
tleman and gentleman, whether a particular person was
under hie ea
, ; and being- told in reply that that person
was there, he gave Sir Henry Bulwer reason to expect
that he 'Wel land that person a passport to enable him

tbewhkiiendness to express to-
_
As yOur Excellency has
wards me personal sentiments
favourable to me, I feel it toy duht
place my acknowledgments, and, atytitio
regret that I have not been sufficientlyeXme
ciently fortunate, to accomplish the
carrying this matter to a conciliatory and f?!
mination.—l have, 840., are honourable and
declare in this
time, my
anxiiolful, or suffi-
desire or
riendly ter-
(Signed) XAVIER DE ISTURITZ.
THE CHEVALIER DE TACOS tO VISCOUNT PALIttRsToN
Harley-street, June 15, 1848 •
My Lord,—M. de Isturitz desired me to inform
Your
Lordship of the day and hour of his departure from
London, and in compliance with his Excellency's re
quest, I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship tha
M. de Isturitz left town yesterday evening at half-pas,
eight o'clock, for Folkestone, on his way to Madrid.
I have, &T.,

(Signed)

MICHAEL TACON.

BOILER EXPLOSION, AT PRESTON.—TWO MORE
LIVES LOST.—On Sunday last two more of the unfortu-
nate persons so severely scalded by the explosion of the
boiler at the Sovereign Mill, Preston, died in the House
of Recovery. Their names were Elizabeth Lowe and
Evan Evans. An inquest was held on the bodies on
Monday last, at Preston, before R. Palmer, Esq., when
Mr. J. Stevenson, engineer:, and other parties, were
examined, and their opinion being that the accident had
arisen from the insufficient supply of water, a verdict was
returned of " Accidental death."

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