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mandant of a battalioy6f the regiment of Guadalajara,
with whose family/ Mr. Bulwer maintains relations of friendship, has ex,eited a revolt in his troops, and at the ,
lead of his soldiers has raised the standard of rebellion
_ peaceable city, with the singular circumstance of
having attacked the dwelling of the Infanta of Spain,
without regard either to the state in which 'the young
Princess at present is, or to the modest retirement to
which she had betaken herself in her misfatlatne. The
loyalty of the garrison and of the inhabitanfe4 Seville
very speedily put down this new attempt, although at the
cost of lamentable losses. Scarcely had the newspfthis
fresh disaster spread through Madrid, when the pstblio
indignation was at its height; because all the world
knows that the chief of the sedition owes his place to the
influence of Mr. Bulwer; because this event comes in
confirmation of the opinion formed since those events
which preceded it, as to the active part which this di-
plomatist takes in the internal questions of the country;
and, finally, becauee this occurrence has only served to
corroborate the apprehensions which the recent depar-
ture of Colonel Fidge (Fitch). Mr. Buie, er's agent, for
Andalusia, caused to be entertained.
The resentment which the populace of Madrid and
the troops which garrison it entertain in consequence of
the encouragement to rebellion which they attribute to
Mr. Bulwer, reached such a pitch, that her Majesty's
Government entertained serious apprehensions with re-
gard to his person, if the attempts at disorder should be
renewed in this capital. It is impossible to describe the
indignation which Mr. Bulwer's presence excites in
Madrid. Let it suffice to state to your Excellency that
even if the Government had less ground for resentment
against this diplomatist, for his own security it should
cause him to depart from Spain, as the only alternative
recommended by prudence in such critical circum-
stances. Her Majesty's Government has so determined
it, delivering passports to Mr. Bulwer, together with the
note, of which I herewith transmit a copy to your Ex-
cellency.
Her Majesty's Government enjoins your Excellency,
the instant you receive this communication, to endea-
vour to have a conference with the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, in order to make him understand that the deci-
sion of her Majesty's Government can in no way wound
the dignity of the British Cabinet, since, besides that it
is warranted by the law of nations, there are not want-
ing frequent instances in which the withdrawal of a
Foreign Minister is required, and this being required
with regard to Mr. Bulwer, and for reasons which are
notorious to his Cabinet, the Spanish Government, in
consideration of the urgent circumstances, has deemed
it more prudent to give this Minister his passports, than
to expose itself to a conflict by waiting for the order of
his Government directing him to withdraw. Moreover, -
this decision is itself by no means offensive to the
English people or to its Government, because at the
same time Spain does not decline to receive another
Minister from England, and does not refuse to the
English people the fulfilment of any obligation or en-
gagement. The departure of Mr. Bulwer might be
offensive to England, if in itself it signified an offence;
but her Majesty's Government is so far from thinking
that it thereby offends the English Government
or can wound its delicacy, that, on the contrary,
it hastens to afford every species of explanation
through your Excellency, carrying its desire to avoid the
possibility of this occurrence producing a coolness in the
relations of friendship which unite Spain and England,
to such an extent, as even to have arranged that the
respectable Count de Mirasol should immediately pro-
ceed from this to that Court with an especial commission
to satisfy the British Government as to the conduct of
that of her Majesty, and in order to offer to it every
sort of assurance with regard to its friendly, sentiments,
and to its desire that Rye, more than ever, in the midst
of the convulsions which atict Europe, the intimate re-
lations by which the two people are united may be main-
tained.

I , Her Majesty's Government trusts that your Excel-
!grey will exert yourself in order to cause the English
Government to comprehend these sentiments of sincere
friendship,cause and that you will endeavour by all means to
them to be made public and notorious among the
notable and influential persons of a country ever noble
and generous, and ever friendly to Spain.
By royal order I state this to your Excellency for the
objects pointed out.
God preserve, &c.
(Signed) THE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR.
VISCOUNT PALMERsTON TO M. lIITURITZ.
_ ce, June 6, 1848
Sir,--I have had thhei:Foreignmour toOffi receive your letter. of
the Ist instant, in w
tee
otohuarset, aswhtihoehreyhouat:
not been time for you to knew at:
Government will adopt in consequence
you
doquneonteer of my refusal to
authorised to
receive Count Mirasol,
mix yourself up with the mission wietelli
place, which he
charged. In reply I beg, in the first
to you, that you were aware on the 26th of trifrea
I could not receive Count Mirasol ; and that, neverthe-
less, less, on the 29th of May, so far from representing
yourself as unauthorised to mix yourself up with his
mission, you led me to expect that you would add
to the note, which you were then about to send me
the statements which the Count had brought. But
without dwelling further upon this discrepancy be-
tween your communication of the 29th of May and
that of the Ist of June, I must now, upon broader
;rounds, once more, and formally, on the part of her
Majesty's Government, ask from you a written commu-
nication of any statement on behalf of your Government
of which Count Mirasol is the bearer. Allow me to re-
mind you of the facts which have given rise to this cor-
respondence. The Spanish Government, on the 17th of
last month, took a step of which modern times furnish
few examples; and desired her Majesty's Minister at the
Court of the Queen of Spain to leave Madrid in eight-
And •torty hours. The principal motive assigned to that
Nitnister for so vi,lent measure was a professed desire
to remove him from an assumed personal danger; a dan-
ger from which, if it had any existence, it was the duty
of the Spanish Government to protect him; but which it
rested with him alone to determine whether he should
retire from or face. It must have been evident to all
mankind that a proceeding, apparently so affronting to
the British Crown, required from the Spanish Govern-
ment either a complete justification or ample apology and
reparation; and it must also be plain to every one that
the justification, if any could be pleaded, must be imme-
diate' as well as complete.
Of this the Spanish Government appears to have
been conscious; for, having preferred the course of giv-
ing reasons for their conduct, and being aware, as they
could not fail to be, that the reasons ea:* in the
Duke of Sotomayor's note to Sir Henry
an excusel3ulfwneeri of the
17th of May, were anything butas
that
conduct, they sent off Count Mirasol, charged,
have informed me, with further explanations; aniosilo
great appears to have been the anxiety of your Govern-
ment that the explanations of which he was the bearer
should reach her Majesty's Government at the earliest
possible moment, that Count Mirasol was actually sent
off from Madrid before Sir Henry Bulwer could leave
that city; the intention of the Spanish Government, no
doubt, being that the explanations which he carried
should be submitted to the consideration of the Bri-
tish Government even before Sir Henry Bulwer could
have arrived in London. But Count Mirasol came in no
official capacity ; he was invested with no diplomatic
character which could give any official value to his
assurances, or any official authenticity to his statements.
It was impossible for; her Majesty's Government, in
a matter of so serious a nature, to receive any communi-
cation from your Government through so irregular a
channel , and the more especially while you, the official
and accredited organ of your Government, are still re-
maining at this Court ; and even if Count Mirasol had
come provided with credentials to her Majest4, as on a
special mission from his Sovereign, it surely is not im-
mediately after the abrupt dismissal of the Queen's Mi-
nister from the Court of Madrid that her Majesty
could have been advised to receive a fresh envoy from
the Queen of Spain, unless, indeed, such envoy had been
charged with a suitable apology, en the part of bis
Sovereign.
I informed you, therefore, at once, that I could hold
no communication with Count Mirasol ; but I 'added
that which was calculated to remove any difficulty which
you might have felt if you had been called upon to state
that which otherwise would have been stated verbally
by Count Mirasol ; for, in requesting that the commu-
nication from your Government might come through
you, I also requested that it might be made in writing ;
a mode of communication which must equally have been
adopted if her Majesty's Government had felt themselves
at liberty to receive any communication from Count
Mirasol. With this invitation you at first intimated
your intention to comply, but that intention has now
been retracted ; and the hurried journey of Count
Mirasol to London, as the professed bearer of explana-
tions, is to produce no other result than that her Ma-
jesty's Government is to be required to wait till you
shall have learnt the course which your Court may adopt
in consequence of a decision on the part of the British
Government, which was: the only one which, under
the circumstances of the case, they could reasonably
have been expected to take.
Her Majesty's Government cannot acquiesce in a
course of proceeding so disrespectful to the British
Crown. If the Count Mirasol has brought any state.
ment which it is fitting that the Government of Spain
should submit for the consideration of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, in explanation or in justification of the con-
duct pursued towards her Majesty's Minister at Madrid,
her Majesty's Government are entitled to call upon you,
as the official and accredited orgau of your Government
at this Court, to make that statement, and to send it to
me in writing forthwith.
I now formally and officially call upon you to do so;
and it is my duty to add, that if you do not do so within
two days after the date of this letter, her Majesty's Go-
vernment will deem themselves entitled to assume that
Count Mirasol has brought no statements or explana-
tions which are in the slightest degree deserving of con-
sideration; and that the Spanish Government, in sending
him hither, had no serious or becoming purpose in view;
and'l have further to say, that as no statements can be
admitted by her Majesty's Goverment except those on
which the Spanish Government acted at the time, no
supplementary statements which may hereafter reach
you from Madrid can be received, nor can be taken into
consideration by her Majesty's Government in ferming
their final judgment on this important matter.
I am, &c.
(Signed) PALMEII,STON.
M. ISTURITZ TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
Spanish Legation, June 7, 1848.
My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge:the re-
ceipt of the communication which your Excellency has
addressed to me, dated the 6th instant, in which you
treat at great length of the arrival of Count Mirasol at
this city, commissioned by her Catholic Majesty to pre-
sent to the Government of her Britannic Majesty expla-
nations and satisfaction relative to the unpleasant occur-
rence of the departure of Sir H. Bulwer from Madrid ;
and as there are several points included inch I will en
.
deavour to embrace all, dwelling, however, efly on the
subject of the journey of the above-mentioned Count
Mirasol, because I consider the principal question of the
passports given to Sir henry Bulwer has been already