The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

arose, its tendencies and its desires were to strengthen
its relations with England while preserving those it had
already with France ; that when Mr. Bulwer, after the
eineute of March required, in a moderate and honourable
manner, that a system of clemency should be followed
towards the accused, the existence of which he admitted,
belonged to. the action of justice, the Government was
pleased to agree with the Envoy, and to express
itself so to him. When he accomplished again such
acts of hostility, which compromised not only the
dignity of Government, but the public safety menaced
by those he sheltered in his house, the Government
contented itself with demanding his recall on the 15th
of April. When Lord Palmerston showed himself
displeased with this request, the Minister at
London retired to leave him to act more freely,
hoping that he would proceed in the interest of the
peace and the good friendship which animated him.
When Mr. Bulwer, the day after the rising of the 7th,
again addressed a note (annexed to No. 43), in which
he expressed sentiments which little accorded with him
who was accused of sending emissaries into the pro-
vices, the Government contented itself with advising
him to retire from the Court as if propria motu. When
the hope of succeeding in this disappeared—when we
knew the negative reply which Lord Palmerston gave
to the first dispatch, that Mr. Bulwer persisted in the
same conduct, and that public opinion accused him in an
incontestible manner, the Government again demanded,
and with more eagerness, his recall, which was refused
as before. When 'tbe &cute of Seville proved in
an evident manner the opinions and the accusa-
tions of all, and seemed to compromise the dig-
nity of the country and the safety of Mr. Bulwer,
who thought of perils of another nature, the
Government had no other course than to give him his
passports, protesting even in this act its affection and
consideration for Great Britain, for which a special
Envoy departed with the sole object of being the inter-
preter of these sentiments.
"I leave it to the foresight of your Excellency to con-
sider and to show that when the Government, in such
circumstances, took a step, the importance of which
cannot be concealed, it did so with profound grief, and
solely in defence of the high interests confided to it. In
effect, by a providential coincidence, which took place at
the interval of a few hours, the Minister has disappeared
from Madrid, Portal from Spain, and Sanara from the
midst of his faction; and since then opinion has greatly
pronounced in favour of the Government, and public
peace and tranquillity are assured as much as ever.
" The Government is pained to have had to recur, to
obtain this result, to a measure which on its part it
would never have provoked had it been in the position
of that of Her Britannic Majesty. If the English Ca-
binet had manifested against a representative of Spain a
single one of the complaints which have been brought
against Mr. Bulwer through your Excellency, the Go-
vernment of Her Majesty would have thought it its
duty to recal immediately one of its delegates who had
lost the confidence of the Monarch and the Government
to whom he was accredited.
" In giving the explanations contained in this dispatch
(of which your Excellency will submit a copy, as well
as the documents which accompany it, to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Her Britannic Majesty) the Go-
vernment of Her Majesty hopes that the English Cabi
net will there see the most complete justification of its
conduct, and the sincerity of the protestations it has
constantly made, and that it reproduces anew the desire it
has to maintain the relations of good harmony and
close friendship which are so important to both countries."