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Majesty to be pleased to return it to me. I will speak
,f this. young Polignac to the Minister cf War, in order
that simple justice may be done him, and I will after-
wards reply to M. de Se smaisons.
" I am, &e.,
" ;.=_.aturday, 24th October, 1846."

" GUIZOT.

lOM M. GUIZOI".11) THE KING.
" Sire,— Enclosed are letters from Flahault, ReyrTval,
Rumigny, and Jarnac. I shall wait upon your Majesty
to take your instructions respecting them.
" Since the Duke de Bordeaux must be married, I
prefer this marriage to that with respect to which your
Majesty had been spoken to.
" The history of the mission of Miraflores is a mere
fable, and I said so immediately to Lord Normanby.
There is no trace of it either written or spoken. I am
having search made for the precise date of his arrival
and departure.
"I am, &c.,
"Friday, 6th November, 1846."

"GUIZOT.

FROM M. SALVANDY TO THE KING.
" Sire,--I am most firmly of your Majesty's opinion.
I have always been so. From the first I thought as I
now do. There are, however, now additional reasons.
I cannot doubt that they will be felt; I am sure of it,
because your Majesty's word will make them avail.
"I am, at your Majesty's feet,
" Faithfully and respectfully,
" SALVANDY.

"Paris, Sept. 9."

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I request your Majesty's permission to retire to Grave-
eon, near the Commanday, Eure, for three days. A word
1 from your Majesty will recall me in ten hours.
"My departure will convince your ',ll.ajesty what corn.
plete security I feel. Your Majesty has done all the
things which were impossible to former powers—the
work of the Revolution, without disorders or excesses—
the work of Napoleon, without despotism or conquests—
the work of the Restoration, in many respects, without
commotion, and without unpopularity. You will recom-
mencethe work of Louis XIV., without a war of suc-

cession.
"I place at your Majesty's feet my admiration, my
respect, and my fidelity. " SALVANDY.
" Paris, 28th, six o'clock P.M."

FROM M. SALVANDY TO THE KING.
"Sire,—Archbishop Mekitariste, whom your Majesty
has been pleased to distinguish, and who has just es-
tablished a house at Paris, sets out, on Monday, for
Venice and the East, regretting that ho could not dare
to aspire to the honour of paying his heartfelt homage
at the feet of your Majesty. He speaks French very
well. He is very devout. What does your Majesty
think of this situation? I make no request of your
Majesty. There is only one question to be considered—
that of your service, and who can be so good a judge of
it as your Majesty?
"I venture to make a request on the subject of M.
Leverrier, the admirable discoverer of planets, whose
heart melts with joy and gratitude for that officer's
cross, which has produced the best eftect with the public.
Your Majesty has taught this young savant ambition.
He aspires to the honour of being permitted to lay at
the feet of your Majesty the expression of his gratitude
and his over-powering sense of your favours. There are
so few mathematicians or geometricians who entertain
such correct sentiments that I entreat your Majesty to
consent to see him, either in the morning or the evening
—earlier or later. _ _

"‘VOur Majesty will hare achieved a conquest truly
worthy of you.
"I am, with respect, Sire,
" Your Majesty's very humble and very obedient
servant and faithful subject,
" Paris, Oct. 8.". " SALVANDY.

TRANSLATION OFFICE OF THE MINISTER
OF THE INTERIOR.

"TO M. GLTIZOT, AMEABSADOR OF FRANCE IN ENGLAND,

AT LONDON.

[This letter, written over the head of a letter from the
office of M de Remusat, forms (as may be seen) part of
a correspondence carried on by the private secretary of
the Minister of the Interior of the Government of the Ist
of March,'with M. Guizot, the future successor of that
Minister.] _ _

" Paris, Oct. Ig, 1840.

,
" An accidental deafness which troubled me for some
time past compelled me yesterday and the day before to
apply leeches behind my ears. This is what has pre-
vented my writing to you until to-day. I have little in-
formation to give you, as I have gone out very little, and
seen very few parsons for some days past.
" The treasonable attempt (attentut) of Dames ap-
pears to have hastened the maturity of a state of matters
already almost ripe. The public mind is much alarmed
at it, and, I must admit, with reason. It is a wretched
state of things, which cannot be shaken fur a moment
without some such froth rising up out of it. People are
beginning to blame the Government generally for not
having prosecuted M. de Lamennais's pamphlet, as also
a vast number of petty, poisonous writings, which are
circulated among the people, and poison their minds.
The boldest even go so far as to say that the National
ought to be prosecuted; its style would remind one of
the days, if they could be forgotten, when its articles
were written by the editors of the Tribune.
"To cap the climax of the situation,' a telegraphic
dispatch has just announced to us that the Queen of
Spain
ore f hersign Minister,edhersovereigntyEsparo Thus teron. the 12th
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have a
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hands
triumphant revolution on the other side of the Pyrenees,
enemies everywhere—abroad and at home.
" You know that the Ultras among the Spaniards
threaten, arms in hand, to bring a republic upon us,
whilst ituasia throws a new coalition upon us.
" The Germanic Confederation, on the invitation of
Prussia, has, in its turn, prohibited the transit of horses.
" The session approaches meanwhile, and on the first
day of it the trial of strength will be made on the ques-
tion of the presidency of the Chamber. I know that some
of your friends think that you ought not to vote, but
certainly those are not the most numerous. The Mi-
nistry will make it an open question; you will thus be
free to vote us you wish, and even though it were other-
wise, I could not understand your hesitating now, above
all, when our foreign policy is complicated by a state of
mutters at home equally grave.
" No person can dispute the right of voting against
M. Bar rot. The question of his presidency has been
precisely what has prevented your entering the Cabinet.
You will be faithful to your precedents. If you let the
15th of April alone take the initiative of his exclusion,
you throw us into a situation which will have no issue.
M. Mole is as impossible as M. Thiers.
" You know my sentiments on the conduct which can
alone save us—the most violent boldness, and, if neces-
sary, foreign war—the most decisive Conservative re•
action, and, if necessary, a sort of terror inspired by
the Government at home. I see no other means to en-
able us to struggle against the dangers of our position at
home and abroad. M. Thiers represents the revolu-
tionary spirit in too great a degree. M. Mole is too much
for peace at any price.
" You alone represent the just medium—that of Ca-
simir Perrier, who vigorously repressed domestic dis-
orders, and dispatched the French army to the assist-
ance of Brussels, at the risk of drawing a general war
upon us.

" With energy it is yet possible to repair all; but
there is no need of commencing an energetic line of
conduct by an act of weakness. Now, in my opinion,
it would be an act of weakness to avoid voting on the
question of the Presidency. That would be quite to
alienate from you the old Conservative party, who, at
present, desire nothing better than to come to inti-
mate terms with you; and it would be also to preserve
an equivocal position, at a time whoa every position is
accurately defined.
" Sir, I should ask pardon for speaking with such
freedom to you; but you know my devotion, and you
ought to perceive by persevering in these same ideas,
what also is my conviction.
" A thousand respectful compliments,
" LAVERNE."

" On the 24th of December, 1839, Louis Phillipe,
who wished to have this list, in order that it might be
preserved, wrote, with his own hand, upon the report of
General Schneider, who had presented the ordinance,
the following note, of which he took ca,e to make a du-
plicate, and which he nffixed to the decree, a copy of
which he had also preserved.
" I have, fur this once, signed the ordinance for the
payment which has been propos( d to me; but for the
future it will be necessary that the acc mots of secret
expenditure for the War Department be submitted f,,r
my apprvval in the same form as those of the Interior;
that is to say, by distinct statements, upon which ever)
article of expenditure must be specified singly, with the
same minuteness and detail as are furnished by the two
other departments for the Interior and fur Foreign
Affairs relative to their secret expenditure.'
" Dec. 24, 1839."

FROM LOUIS PHILIPPE TO THE QUEEN OF
THE BELGIANS.
" Neuilly, September 14, 1846.
" My dearest Louise,—The Queen has just received a
letter, or rather a reply from Queen Victoria, to the one
ou know she had written to her, and that reply greatly
grieves me. I am inclined to 1 elieve that our good
little Queen was as sorry to write such a letter as I v, a,
to read it. But she now only sees things through the
spectacles of Lord Palmerston, and those spectacle,
distort and disfigure them too often. This is quite
natural. The great difference between the spectacles
of the excellent Aberdeen and those of Lord Palmerston
proceeds from the difference of their dispositions. Lord
Aberdeen wished to be well with his friends ; Lord
Palmerston, I fear, wishes to quarrel with them. This
is, my dear Louise, that which caused my alarm respect-
ing the maintenance of our cordial understanding when
Lord Palmerston resumed the direction of the Foreign
Office. Our good Queen Victoria sought to dispel
those alarms, and assured me there would only be a
change of men. But my old experince induced me to
apprehend that, through the influence of Lord Palmers-
ton, much more perhaps than his intentions, the political
system of England would undergo a modification,
gradual or sudden, and, unfortunately, the affairs of
Spain have afforded an opportunity.
" In the first moment that followed the perusal of the
letter of Queen Victoria, I was tempted to write to her
directly, and I even began a letter to appeal to her heart
and recollections, and demand to be judged by her equit-
ably, and, above all, more affectionately, but the fear of
embarrassing her stopped me, and I prefer writing to
you, to whom I can say everything, to give you all the
trueexplanation
necessary to replace the things in their
light,' and to preserve us from that odious suspicion
which,f may say, with the utmost sincerity, should not
be visited on us.
" I shall resume matters with you from the beginning,
and go hack to the origin of the Spanish marriages.
You know, my dear friend,uls that during her regency,
and long before her expulsion, Queen Christina repeat-
edly invited us to conclude the he marriages of our two
younger sons, the Dukes d'Aumale and de Montpensier,
with her two daughters, Queen Isabella 11. and the In-
fanta Louise Ferdinande. We constantly replied to her
that, as respected the Queen, however flattered
uwe might
b 3 by such an alliance, it was out of the
that we had come to an irrevocable deterinicilesatiotnieoen"re
subject ; but that, with regard to the Infanta, we should
think of it when we should be nubile, or, as they say in
England, marriageable ; and that, provided there was a
good chance that she should not become Queen, but re-
main an Infanta, it was an alliance we should very much
like, and should conclude with pleasure for the Duke de
Aontpensier.
" The military successes of all my sons having giving
a new impulse to that favourable opinion which mani-
fested itself everywhere on their behalf, and after the
glorious combat of Ain Taguin, where the Duke d'Au-
male commanded, and in which he succeeded in cap-
curing the entire camp (alias the rmala) of Abd-el-
Kader, surrounded his name with that prestige which
always dazzles the men of every country, a cry arose
in Spain, which I may say was almost universal, ex-
pressing a wish that the Duke d'Aumale be married to
Queen Isabella 11. But I continued as deaf to that
wish as I had been to those which were successively
addressed to me to place the Duke de Nemours on the
thrones of Belgium and Greece, and to marry him to the
Queen of Portugal. My refusals were positive and
formal. I never deceived anybody. I spoke frankly
to the Portuguese, as I did to the Belgians. I left no
illusion in the minds of those who feared or those whe
desired, and after my sincerity in the intentions which 1
proclaimed not to aceept the hand of the Queen of Spain
for the Duke d'Aumale,had been proved with so much eclat
by his marriage with a Princess of Naples, it is incon-
ceivable that Lord Palmerston should now speak to Count
de Jarnac, my Charge d'Affaires in London,in a note writ-
ten with his own hand, of that concealed ambition, which
he thinks proper to consider as the moving principle of
my:conduct relative to the marriage of the Duke de Mont-
pensier with the Infanta Louise Ferdinande.
" Before even Queen Christina came to Paris, and
since that period in the numerous conversations I had
with her during her stay amongst us, I always replied
to her entreaties—that the husband of the Queen, her
daughter, should be one of my sons,—by manifesting e,
her an opinion, in which I never varied, and e hieli is
to-dity confirmed by the nearly unanimous assent of
Spain, that the husband of the Queen should, on the
contrary, be chosen among the princes descendants of
Philip V., in the masculine line, a clause which ex-
cluded all my sons, since they only descend from Philip
V. in the female line, by the Queen, my dear and most
beloved wife, but which included among the princes then
marriageable three sons of Don Carlos, two sons of
I)on Francisco de Pella, two Princes of Naples, and a
Prince of Lucca. My Government, fully concurring
in that opinion, had even instructed one of
our diplomatic agents (M. Pageot) to expose it to the
three Courts of London, Vienna, and Berlin. That mis-
sion was attended with no result. Nevertheless, Lord
Aberdeen was so struck with it, that, after considering
all the difficulties those Princes offered, he at once de-
clared that Count d'Aquila, brother of the King of
Naples and of Queen Christina, would be the choice that
presented least embarrassment. The Prince having
shortly afterwards married the Princess of Brazil, Dona
Januaria, the preference of Queen Christina, among those
Princes, devolved on her younger brother, Count Tra-
pani, and it is that (and not any personal preference on
my part) which produced what has been called his candi•
dature, of which so deplorable a use has been since made.
The marriage of the Infanta, who was only 10 years old,
was not then talked of, and one party was endeavouring
to force me to consent to the marriage of the Duke
d'Aumale and the other to prevent it. It was amidst
that struggle the project was started, no matter by whom,
no matter how, to marry the Queen of Spain to Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg, nephew of' the King of the
Belgians, cousin-german of Queen Victoria and of
Prince Albert, brother to the King of Portugal, of the
Duchess de Nemours, and of Prince Augustus, my son-
in-law.
" It was an unfortunate circumstance that such a can-
didate should have been proposed. It placed all parties
in a false position, and me particularly, in consequence
of the opposition which I thought it my duty to make to
it, and I see according to the terms of the letter of Queen
Victoria to what extent parties were mistaken and how
unjust they were in their appreciation of the motives
which suggested this opposition. These motives sprung
as much from the sincere friendship which I bear the
Princes of Coburg (and of which, I believe, I have given
them more than one proof in the part which I took to
facilitate the new illustrations of their house), asd as iii
the same political considerations which induced me to
refuse to propose my own children. I was convinced,
and I am still more than ever of that opinion, that it
Prince Leopold had been the successful candidate, it
would have brought misfortune on the head of this
young Prince, and likewise on that of the Queen borscht
(had she married him), by producing the overthrow of
their throne, and by plunging Spain into an anarchy
from which it is always so difficult to preserve her.
You are aware, my dear Louise, to what point I have
developed that opinion so frequently in my conversation
with your excellent King, as well as in the letters
wh
ich
I
I wrote to him, and you must recollect all the argu-
tnents which I used to convince him. I will not, there-
fore, repeat them in this letter, already so long, but I
will call to your recollection how much, and how con-
stantly, I regretted that the example which I gave b)
excluding my own sons has not been followed, and that
this candidate, whose success would be a common mis-
fortune, was not formally repelled and set aside from the
first by those who had authority to do so, which would
have probably saved some from being much and uselessly
disappointed, and me from one of the most poignant
griefs I ever experienced (and, God knows, I have ex-
perienced many in the course of my long life!) and to
all our countries, and to the entire world, the danger
of the misfortunes which would necessarily. befal them
if the present embarrassment was not terminate& as I
have the firm confidence it will be, by the maintenance
and the consolidation of that precious cordial under-
standing which alone can preserve them from it.
_
" I will now speak to you of the marrtisghee
slightest
Mont-
pensier with the Infanta. There was no.
orta tame to Eu,
reference to it, either when Queen
in 1843, or when I was at W
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that time.
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reply was the same. I.told
desired naaery
thatthe h
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wished that Montpenstlernosmhoourled
Louise Ferdinande, u
wed Queen Louisa bthtan Queen Isabella, and that he
might even be assured that my eon should not espouse
the Infanta until the Queen was married. Lord Aber-
deen added, and when she shall have borne a child.'
Be it so,' I replied. 'I do not desire better; for it the
Queen were to remain sterile, the Infanta wouldbe-t
come the necessary or the inevitable heiress, and that
would not suit me no more than you; but, however,
there must bo some reciprocity in this affair, and if I
give you your securities it is just that in return you
should give me mine. Now mine are, that you will
do all in your power that Queen Isabella shall choose
her husband from amongst the descendants of Philip V.,
and that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg be set aside."
Be it so,' replied Lord Aberdeen. We are of the same
opinion with you, that the best which can be done ie
that the Queen should select her husband from amongst
the descendants of Philip V. We cannot take the ini
tiative on this question as we have done, but we will
suffer you to act; we shall merely follow
on, and at all
events we will not act in opposition to you. As to Prince

Leopold, you may be tranquil with res .t to his pre.
tensions. I answer for it that he 6 be neither see-
knowledgeA'nor supported by England, and that he shall
not inter re with you. Guizot, to whom I have ju't
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 nut, for
he is of a lofty stature and handsome features. lle 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
HI., and to his having been educated in a convent of
Jesuits at Route, in order to represent him as bigoted,
stqerstitiocs, and lunatic. Those maroeuvres, directed
by the journals of the Progressist party, who unfortu-
nately have ever enjoyed the favour of the British
agents in Spain, succeeded in coverinr, the poor fra-
pant wizh real unpopularity. It was then by un extra-
ordinary manoeuvre, 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 tne Queens or Spain—l, who had nor, nor could not
nave any other predileetiou tbr him than that which re-
,ulted from my knowledge that he was the 4 ne of the
descendants of Philip V. to whom the two Queens ac-
corded their preterruce—l, well known I dare say for
the constant care with which I watched that my Go-
vernment should abstain from all interl'erence whatever
in the internal affairs of other countries—ii, Spain, as in
Belgium, as in Switzerland, as everywhere—l, in fine,
who dissolved the Ministry of M. Triers 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 prows of my respect for the in-
dependence of all states and of alt governments, I have
been exported to see this accusation directed against me
personally, in the article recently published in the 'limes,
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•

dons 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
•
"The Comteide Jarnac was stupefied upon seeing the
name of the Prince of Coburg placed upon this list, aid
placed at the very top. He told Lord Palnaeraton that
it was quite at variance with the assurances constantly
;:iven 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,
,irce 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,
Ail that he was not disposed to propose any to the
Cabinet.

"The rest of his instructions were not of a nature to
ise 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 of a rood 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, es by
placing the young Queen and leaving her under the yoke
of Esparteru's regency.
" Such instructions as these necessarily excited fears
of a return of similar disastrous scenes; and in tact they
excited the most serious alarm in the palace of Madrid
as soon as they were known. The consequence was,
that all those who had been led to make the proposal to
the Duke of Coburg, Queen Christina at their head,
completely turned tound, fearing the renewal of the
Progressist insurrection that had been but recently ter-
;nitrated in Galicia, and had led to the expulsion of Don
Enrico, and came over to us, with the demand for the
immediate and simultaneous two marriages of th•
Queen with Don Francisco 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
~ere positively accepted, by his being placed at the head
of those to whom the English Government made no
objection; thlt combinations absolutely contrary to those
o which we had agreed to confine ourselves were ren-
dered probable and even iinnainen' ; and that I thus
found myself warranted and necessitated to use my
liberty for the purpose of avoiding those combinations,
as my Government bad 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
our primary conventions. I only yielded to the neces-
sities of the deviation commenced elsewhere, and quite
contrary to my expectations.
" 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 Doke of Montpensier, not before the marriage
of the Queen of Spain, for she will be married to the
Duke of Cadiz at the same time as my son to the In-
fants, but before the Queen has a child. This is my
only deviation—nothing more and nothing less. This
tact 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,e
after a whole life like my own, when fur the the first
one is exposed to a suspicion or evenl an
tact is a matter of notoriety), that it only
having broken one's word, I have.a reads
whether Aumale or
myself which one of my
the
Queen6onsthoef Spain.eutrea depended acidaccusation
aa n dupt
uh
se
entreaties
es didv.,nitoht
whichchoose
it: and I was able to resist all
Mont-
{eusier,should marry
I was assailed to consent to such a marriage. Thus,
done, that my son
while desiring,
should marry the Infants—because this
lly agreeable
suited me in every manner, ain
y I did olio desire that it
as
I have
always
ase this family alliance
to the Queen and all my
is7ti-under the circumstances
should be contracted
necessarily become Queen
of Spain, and I washdesirous, in this respect, to surround
guarantees as the nearness of the
that the Infanta should excnet
myself with all such
and the uncertainties of human
Infanta to the throne
life admitted. Lord Aberdeen appeared to be satisfied
with this disposition on my
.art ; but he desired a gus-
rantee against t eo possibility of sterility on the part of
the Queen ; and as that equally entered into my own
views, no objection was offered on my own part. Never-
theless, in agreeing to this, I necessarily considered it as
understood that there should be no objection on the part
„e England or of its agents to the marriage of my son
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 assert with all sincerity'
that, as long
as this state of the Queen's health conti-
nued, it would have been, even with Lord Aberdeen'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 most minute
na-
ture, taken upen this subject with regard Don
toFran-
cisco d'Assis, that he was in the required condition,
dnot be without
for hoping that their marriage woul
and that consequently there was every_ probability united
marriage of the Queen with Don Francisco issue. The difference between only waittungd,Afosrsisthtoe
celebrate that also of the Duke of Montpensier, and the
waiting for the birth of their first child, is reduced now
to the fact of two lives instead of one between the In-
fanta and the succession to the throne.
" Nevertheless, I may say with all sincerity, that I

-Jenld have preferred waiting for this birth had it not
been proved to me that the consequence of this delay
woul 1 be to cause the failure bo h of this marriage and
the marriage of the Queen with the Duke of Cativa, to
ontinue in Spain that state of uncertainty
which was so hill of danger, and and agitation
finally to render not
only possible, but probable, and
almost
inevitable, these
combinations which would have given Queen Isabella in
marriage either to Prince Leopold of Coburg, or to
o
e other prince unallied to the descendants of Philip
scene
in opposition to the policy I had constantly an-
nounced and practised, and to the arrangements agreed
upon between the English Government itself and my own.
" Under the present circumstances, my dear, good
Louise, it is for Queen Victoria aad her Ministers to
weigh the consequences of the steps they intend to take,
and the line of conduct they mean to pursue. On our
side this double marriage will effect in us no other
change than such as we may be constrained to adopt by
the new line which the English Government may think
fit to take up. There is no reason to fear any interfer
ence on our part in the internal affairs of Spain. We
hare no interest in interference; and we are most de
aidedly determined to abstain from any. We shall ccn-
tinue religiously to respect its independenee, and to take
care, as far as depend, upon ourselves, that it is as much
respected by the other Powers. We can see no
interest and no motive, either on the part of England or
our own, for a rupture of our entente cordiale—and we
see, on the contrary, the strongest for its maintenance.
Such is my desire—such is that of my G.,-u.rnm.t.t.
That which I request you to eapress on my behalf to
Queen Victoria aid Prince Albert is, that they should
-pre,erve me in their heart that friendship and confidenee
to which it his been ever so agreeable to me to re-pond
with the sincerest reciprocity, and which I have the
anxious conviction never to have ceased to merit on
their part."

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fiER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
M THALBERG.
GRAND SACRED, CLASSICAL, and 3fISCELLANEOUS
CONCERT, oa MONDAY EVENING, April 17.
It is respectfully announced that on MONDAY EvzwlNo, April 17,
will be given a (111.-ieW CONCER r, with great Orchestra, Chorus,
&c., on which occasion M. Thalberg will execute the following
pieces :-
1. Grand Concerto in C minor .• .. Beethoven.
2. Fantasia on Subjects from Mozart's Don Giovanni Thalberg.
3. Fantasia on Subjects from Auber's Siasauiello •. Thalberg.
4. " Lieder Ohne Worte" .. • • .. Mendelssohn
The Vocal portion will include
Madame Tadoliiii, Millie. Schwartz,
And Mdlle Sofia Cruvelll.
Signor Belletti, Signor F. Lablache,
Signor Bouche. Signor Cuzzani,
And Signor Lablache,
And comprise selections from the works of Mozart, Beethoven,
Gluck, Mendelssohn, Weber, Spontini, &c., and include a Grand
Trio for Three Basses,by Meyerbeer —Signori Lablache, Belletti, and
Coletti.

Mddlle Vera, •

Signor Garden!,
Signor Coletti,

Conductor, M. Balfe.
Prices of Admission.

Boxes._ .. ....................... 2 and 3 guineas
Pit Stalls .• ...... • • .. • .......... .. 10s. Gd. each.
Pit Tickcts...... •••• • • • • ............ sa. Od. each.
Gallery Stalls • • • • ••••••..• • • . • . . . ss. Od. each.
Gallery Tickets .• ••..• • • • .......... 2s. 6d. each.
Doors open at Hall-past Seven, and the Concert to commence at
Eight o'clock.
N.B. A second Grand Concert will be presented on We*lnesday
morning, April 19.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.
UNDER DISTINGUISHUD PATRONAGE.
The publie is respectfully informed that a Grand Morning Per-
formance will be given by M. Jullien (the lessee) and M. Dejean, the
aliutiger of the Equestrian Troupe (from the Cirque National De
Paris), on SATURDA Y, April 15, for the benefit of the Distressed
Operatives and the British Artisans who have been recently com-
pelled to leave France.
PerfOrmance to commence at Two O'clock.
No Second Price. Private Boxes to be had at Jullien and Co.'s
214, Regent-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Last Night hut One before Easter.
The Nobility Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the pub-
lic are respectfully announced that an EXTRA NIGHT will take
place THIS EVENING, April 13, when will be performed, Dent.
zettre Opera, entitled . _