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Ad, you may be tranquil with respect to his pre-
tensions. I answer for it that he shall be neither ae-
.ledged nor supported by England, and that he shall
not interfere with you.' Guizot, to whom I have just
read this recital, admits its accuracy, and I am certain
of the same testimony on the part of Lord Aberdeen if
I could read it to him. Nevertheless, however anxious
Lord Aberdeen might be that his agents should act
as honourably as he has done, their proceedings did
not answer either his or our expectations. They had
recourse to all expedients to malign Count Tra-
pani, because they were aware that he had the best
chance of success with Queen Christina and the Queen
her daughter, who repeated constantly to her Ministers
Quiero Trapani.' (I will have Trapani.) This young
prince was represented as a dwarf, which be is not, for
he is of a lofty stature and handsome features. He rides
admirably, and he has even gained several prizes in the
tournaments of Naples. They then objected to his
having been born in Italy, in order to obliterate the re-
collection that he is grandson of Philip V. and of Charles
111., and to his having been educated in a convent of
Jesuits at Rome, in order to represent him as bigoted,
superstitious, and fanatic. Those manoeuvres, d►rected
by the journals of the Progressist party, who unfortu-
nately have ever enjoyed the favour of the British
agents in Spain, succeeded in covering the poor Tra-
pani with real unpopularity. It was then by an extra-
ordinary manmuvre, which originated in the Palace
of Madrid, it was imagined—in order to cover
the transition of the Queen Christina in favour of
the pretensions of the Prince of Coburg—to cast on me
the unpopularity of Trapani's pretensions, by making
the journals resound with the astonishing absurdity that
it was I, Louis Philippe, who wished to impose Trapani
on the Queens of Spain—l, who had not, nor could not
have any other predilection for him than that which re-
sulted from my knowledge that he was the one of the
descendants of Philip V. to whom the two Queens ac-
corded their preterence—l, well known I dare say for
the constant care with which I watched that my Go-
vernment should abstain from all interference whatever

in the internal affairs of other countries—in Spain, as in
Belgium, as in Switzerland, as everywhere—l, in fine,
who dissolved the Ministry of M. Thiers in 1836 to pre-
vent the imminent invasion of the French armies in

Spain. It is truly surprising that in presence of so
many facts, of so many proofs of my respect for the in-
dependence of all states and of all governments, I have
been exposed to see this accusation directed against me
personally, in the article recently published in the Times,
under the title (in large characters) of French Dicta-
tion in Spain.' . _

" All these manoeuvres brought about that step to
which Queen Christina allowed herself to be persuaded.
A secret agent was dispatched by her bearing a letter
from herself to the Duke of Coburg, for the purpose of
demanding the hand of his cousin, Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg, for the Queen her daughter. The open-
ness of Lord Aberdeen's character induced him to give
us immediate cognisance of this step, which had been
concealed from us at Madrid, adding, at the same time,
that neither Queen Victoria, nor Prince Albert, nor
her Majesty's Government would give any support or en-
couragement to the demand of Queen Christina. We
represented to him that, after what had passed
upon the subject, we were entitled to demand of
him a more positive expression of the intrigues of
the English agents, which had led to this step
on the part of Queen Christina : and, in fact,
Lord Aberdeen addressed a very severe reprimand to
Mr. Bulwer, who was on the point, it is said, of tender-
ing his resignation; he remained, however, at Madrid.
" Such was the state of things when Lord Aberdeen
quitted the British Cabinet, and was succeeded by Lord
Palmerston. A very short time after his installation in

the Foreign Office Lord Palmerston made a commu-
nication to the Comte de Jarnac of the fresh instruc-

tions that he had dispatched to Mr. Bulwer relative to
the affairs of Spain, and which he had already sent
off a few days before without thinking it necessary to
give us any previous notice a proceeding by no
means conformable to our cordial understanding, and
to the manner to which our relations of reciprocal
confidence with Lord Aberdeen had accustomed us.
In these instructions Lord Palmerston confined to
three the number of princes whose pretensions to the
hand of the Queen of Spain, Isabella, England admitted,
that is to say, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, Don
Francisco d'Assis, Duke of Cadiz, Don Enrico, Duke of
Seville.

" The Comte:de Jarnao was stupefied upon seeing"the
name of the Prince of Coburg placed upon this list, aad
placed at the very top. He told Lord Palmerston' that
it was quite at variance with the assurances constantly
given by Lord Aberdeen, and he required that this can-
didate should be; struck out of the list. Lord Palmers-
ton' replied that it was utterly impossible in every way,
since the instructions had been already sent ; that,
moreover, the measure having been adopted in the
Cabinet, he was unable to make any change in it alone,
and that he was not disposed to propose any to the
Cabinet.

" The rest of his instructions were not of a nature to
be at all more satisfactory to us. They were in a com-
pletely different tone, and had quite another tendency to
those of Lord Aberdeen. There was not an indication
or a recommendation ot a good understanding between
us; and the entire tendency of the instructions went to-
wards assuring the Progressist party of the concurrence
and support of England—a party, which, in my eyes at
least, is only at bottom the more revolutionary party, the
ascendancy of which in Spain had caused many deplor-
able events, as well in the affair of La Granja, as by
placing the young Queen and leaving her under the yoke
of Espartero's regency.
" Such instructions as these necessarily excited fears
of a return of similar disastrous scenes; and in fact they
thu rina,et onni.ue niartn ;n tha rinlatql of Madrid
as soon as they were known. The consequence was,
that all those who had been led to make the proposal to
the l)uks of Coburg, Queen Christina at their head,
completely turned round, fearing the renewal of the
Progressist insurrection that had been but recently ter-
minated in Galicia, and had led to the expulsion ot Don
Enrico, and came over to us, with the demand for the
immediate and simultaneous two marriages of the
Queen with Don Fra,cisco d'Assis and of the Infanta
with Montpensier. This simultaneity was not only the
sine qua non of Queen Christina for the acceptation of
Don Francisco, whom she had never desired until then,
but the desire of the Ministry and of all Spaniards, who
looked upon the prompt conclusion of these two mar-
riages as the only means of putting an end to all the in-
certitudes upon which were based the hopes of a party
of men who were getting up new insurrections.

"As soon as this change was known, the English
agents, more than a month after the instructions of Lord
Palmerston, which admitted as a candidate Prince Leo-
pold of Coburg, made every effort to support the pre-
tensions of Don Enrico. Nothing could be more
untimely, since it was only too notorious that Don
Enrico was chief, or rather the agent of all the different
revolutionary parties; and Lord Palmerston at once
rendered those pretensions impossible by recommending
them in official documents.
" It is incontestably evident, it seems to me, by this
long explanation, that, on the side of England, the line
of conduct agreed upon with me was not at all main-
tained; that the pretensions of Prince Leopold of Coburg
were positively accepted, by his being placed at the head
of those to whom the English Government made no
objection; that combinations absolutely contrary to those
to which we had agreed to confine ourselves were ren-
dered probable and even imminent; and that I thus
found myself warranted and necessitated to use my
liberty for the purpose of avoiding those combinations,
as my Government had always declared that it would
do, if impelled to it. It was not I, consequently, who
first commenced or gave the example in deviating from
sities of thtee
mdyeveiaxtpioeentectoimenms.enced elsewhere, and quite
our primary conventions. I only yielded to the neces-
contrary
" This much explained, I will now sincerely state in
what the deviation on my own side consisted. It con-
sists in my arranging and bringing about the marriage
of the Duke of Montpensier, not before the marriage
of the Queen of Spain, for she will be married to the
Duke of Cadix at the same time as my son to the In-
fanta, but before the Queen has a child. This is my
only deviation—nothing more and nothing less. This
fact I desire should be appreciated as it merits by en-
tering into details which you will lay before Queen
Victoria, as best you may be able ; for I consider them
essential to the complete elucidation of the affair, and
it is no petty considerations that ought to be a hindrance,
after after a whole life like my own, when for the thaea.arsrion
of
one is exposed to a suspicion or evena
saida (and the
having broken one's word, I have alreadyit only depended upon
fact is a matter of notoriety), t
' should marry the Queen of
pensier,
resist all the entreaties with which
it: and I was able to
such a marring©. Thus,
myself which one of my sons, that it
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alliance
I was assailed to consent to
always done, that my lion
while desiring, as I have
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suited me in every manner, and
did not desire that it
to the Queen and all my t
except under the circumstances
views,
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sl
,dnmo ao rb;riyectthifotehniletnfanta—b:icl
should be contractedaduwseastheicis
in this respect, to surround
of Spain, and I
with all was
guarantees as the nearness of the
myself and' the uncertainties of
to the throne human
that the InfantaasandoeuslidranuOts, necessarily become Queen
Infanta
disposition on my part ; but he desired a gua-
rantee admitte_d. Lord Aberdeen appeared to be satisfied
with this
enteredm y own into
part. myN e ?rimer-
wsrt
there should
ass
this,gtoeoff nuelrsdle
todn be
rantee against the possibility of sterility on the part .of
and as that equally
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part
aoanns
ot Never-
theless, eEI
understoodens
as l
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nn d agreeing
tohra ot
with the Infanta ; and yet it is a notorious fact that ob-
jection was made, by anticipation, of every shade and of
every degree.
" In September, 1845, when Lord Aberdeen spoke to
me for the first time, at the Chateau d'Eu, of the mar-
riage of Montpensier with the Infanta, Queen Isabella
11., although fifteen years of age all but a month, was
not marriageable ; and I can assort with all sincerity
that, as long as this state of the Queen's health conti-
nued, it would have been, even with Lord Aberdep's
observations, a, complete obstacle to the marriage of the
Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta, her sister. But
the Queen became marriageable in the course of the
winter ; and she being, according to the assurances that
were given us, under the most favourable circumstances
for the marriage state, nothing was left but to know
whether the husband she might choose exhibited the
best condition or virility. It seemed to me to be certain,
from all the information, even of the mostnnna
na-
ture, taken upen this subject with regard to
Don
condition,
Fran-
cisco d'Assis, that ho was in the required
and that consequently there was every_ probability. united
_ewit.r
for hoping that their marriage would not.
.b lut
issue. The difference between only waiting fof th e
marriage of the Queen with Don Francisco d'Assis to
celebrate that also of the Duke of Montpensier,-and. the
waiting for the birth of their first child, mreduced now
to the fact of two lives instead of one between_ the In-
fanta and the succession to the throne.
" Nevertheless, I may lay with 611 sincerity; that I