The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-23 00:00:00

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" The Cortes will soon be assembled, and to that
body must a persecuted Prince elevate his voice
from his place of exile. To address the Government
would certainly be useless—to appeal to the nation
might be considered dangerous ; the Cortes alone
will know how to reconcile what is due to the

tranquillity of the country with what is due to its
Princes and to the future destiny of the Royal
Family.
" Remote from. the Court and all ambitious views,
I lived exclusively devoted to the duties of my pro
fession as a sailor, when, with the royal permission,
I repaired, towards the end of the year 1845, to
visit my revered father at Madrid. In his paternal
affection, and guided more or less by what he knew
or imagined of the Queen's wishes, he thought that I
was in a position to take some initiative in the im-
portant question of her marriage ; for myself, taking
into consideration the public opinion as unanimously
manifested by the press of all parties, I thought I
could not take such a step without declaring in
writing, and that in the most solemn manner, the
political principles which ought to be observed in a
matter so important for the security of the constitu-
tional throne and the independence of the Spanish
nation. My father undertook to present in my name
to her Majesty the expressions of my sentiments.
The circumstances which occurred at the Royal
Palace on this occasion obliged me to publish my
manifesto of the 31st of December, which could not
he understood, as the motive of its publication re-
mained unknown.

"From that moment commenced for me a period of
persecution which has hardly beheld a day pass with-
out some fresh injury being levelled at me.
" I will not descend to enumerate the various
vexations which I suffered. The most public and no-
torious will suffice to show whether or not they
ought from the past to adopt some measure which for
the future may prevent a Prince, or any other
Spaniard, from being the victim of the arbitrary will
of their Ministers.

" Having obliged me to quit Madrid immediately,
I was received and treated by the authorities of
Galicia in a way which taught me to know the other
trials to which the Ministers had resolved to subject

me. The regard of my countrymen, which, how-
ever, they were not allowed ta show. me, compensat,4
nevertheless for the vexations I endured, and never
did I enjoy greater peace of mind, and more complete
tranquillity, than during the first period of my perse-
cution. Nor did I dream of obtaining a position which
would have forced my persecutors to respect me;
on the contrary, I longed, from the bottom of my
heart, as the greatest happiness for the Queen and
for the nation, that the choice of her Majesty
should fall on my beloved brother, as more worthy
to occupy so distinguished and high a position—a
sentiment which I have ever manifested with
loyalty whenever the opportunity for so doing was
afforded me.

" After this sincere proof of self-denial given by

ire at that time, and living as I was in tranquillity
and exile, I could not at that time understand the
motives of the fresh persecution which assailed me,
when, being in Ferrol, I received the order to present
myself without a moment's loss of time at Corunna,
before the Captain-General of Galicia, who commu-
nicated to me the order which I inclose, to the effect
that I should quit the kingdom in forty-eight hours,
•in spite of anylimpediment I might oppose to the con-
trary, even that of illness—a circumstance mentioned
in the Government order, which was communicated

to me on my embarking, but which I have not in my
possession. Out of respect for the Queen and love of
peace, I consented to this indignity, and writing to
her Majesty in fitting terms I embarked for Bayonne,
without even receiving the honours due to my rank
on leaving the shores of my country, and the object
of the cruel prejudices excited against me in the
mind of the commandant of the vessel which con-
veyed me, and who was required to give a receipt for
my person. In as far as the action and power of the
11 inisters could reach me in a foreign land, I ex-
perienced the effects of their rage. 1 could not
comprehend the true motive and object which they
had in view until I arrived in Paris, where I was so

kindly received by my august uncle, the King of the
French, when I perceived clearly that it was not the
act of having one day aspired to the hand of her
Majesty that was to be punished in me, but the
not continuing to do so, accompanying my desire

with submission to a certain influence, and com-
it with --a—certain .-condition. I sever
intended to mention this, but to, the National

Assembly,.l owe the whole trudy.i. and . I will
in those which bind me towards my country and my
not fail in this duty any more than I did at Paris
family.
" I quickly left that capital for this peaceful king-
dom, where I have lived retiredly and tranquil, al-
though caluminated, calmly
awaiting the solution of
the question which was to bear so much influence
on my future destiny. Proposals from, in my eyes,
the most respectable quarter, have been made to me
to return to Spain. Had I consulted my own per-
sonal interest, I should have accepted them; but
attentive only to my dignity, and to the severe
principles which I have laid down for my guid-
ance, I rejected them, declaring that I have a
right to require, and that I must sooner or later
obtain, reparation as complete and honourable as
the injustice of my ejection from the kingdom of
Spain was great.
" The silence which followed these communications
might naturally have been expected to be the fore-
runner of some catastrophe, and such, indeed, it has
proved—the marriage of her Majesty the Queen with
my beloved brother, and that of the Infanta with the
Duke of Montpensier, agreed upon at the same time,
although not published in the same form, solemnly
Announced to Spain. The first accomplishes my
wishes so often manifested, and the second discovers

to Spain and the whole of Europe that which I was
given to understand during my short residence in
Paris. Of the use which Spain and Europe may
make of this discovery I have nothing to say, nor
does it belong to me to examine whether a clause in-
serted in the Constitution in the year 1845 opposes

this union. What belongs to me by right, and
that which I shall do, influenced less by family
views and interests than by the desire to avoid the
possibility of difficut questions, and perhaps even
wars of suczession, which have been so fatal to
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Crown which may be granted to the children of the
Duke of Montpensier, if he should ever be united to
the Infanta.
" The renunciation which the family of Orleans
made by the treaty of Utrecht would annul before-
hand any right of this kind which might be declared
or supposed, and my family being the one most in-
jured, I protest before the Cortes against any preju-
dice which may atis@.
" Thus, the present document, which I respectfttlly
address to the Senate, will serve at the same time to
enable the Cortes to adopt the necessary measures
that for the future, and by their orders, the antecedent
rights of all and such of the individuals of the Royal
Family should be respected as the,basis of the tran-
quillity and independence of the nation, which, where-
soever I may be, is, and will remain, the idol of my
heart, as it is of every good Spaniard, no matter what
may be his party.

" ENRIQUE DE BOURBON.
Ghent, Sept. 9th, 1846."

SUDDEN ILLNESS OF THE VISCOUNTESS HAD:
DINGE.—ThiS lady, it will be recollected, only a few
months ago returned to England from Nice, where she
had been sojourning for the benefit of hur health, since
the departure of Viscount , Hardingo for India. Her
Ladyship has been paying, since her return, many visits
amongst her numerous friends, and last, week went to
see her nieet at Bromham Hall, the s eat of the Hon.
Colonel and lirs. Rice Trevor, near Bet lford, where she
was taken ill ; the attack at first vvi s considered to
be influenza, %Mich, however, becoming more alarming,
her son, Sir Walter James, and his lad y, Were sent for
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