The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

S N 7 APRIL 13, 1848.

Majesty to be pleased to return it to me. I will speak
~f this young Polignac to the Minister of War, in order
that simple justice may be done him, and I will after-
wards reply to M. de Sesmaisons.
" I am, &c.,
" Saturday, 24th October, 1546."
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" GUIZOT.

'ROM M. GUIZOT TO THE KING.
Sire,—Enclosed are letters from Flabault, Heyneval,
Rumninty, and Jarnac. I shall wait upon ;our 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,—l 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."

FROM M. SALVANDY TO THE KING.
"Sire,—l have the honour to forward the Standard to
your Majesty. Sounder opinions cannot be entertained.
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from your Majesty will recall me in ten hours.
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-
mence the work of Louis XIV., without a war of suc-
cession.
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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 he 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 effect with the public.
Your Majesty has taught this young sawn( ambition.
lie 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. _ _

" Your Majesty will have 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. GUIZOT, AMBASSADOR OF PRANCE 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. 18, 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 jvu, no I ho.•c Rona out very little, ana
sern very few pvrsons for some days past.

" The-treasonable attempt (atte;tai) of Darmes 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 for 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 our 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
into the
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triumphant revolution on the other side of the Pyrenees,
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" You know that the Ultras among the Spaniards
threaten, arms in hand, to bring a republic upon us,
whilst itussia 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 as 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
matters at home equally grave.
" No person can dispute the right of voting against
M. Barrot. 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 decistve 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, iu 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 care to make a du-
plicate, and which he affixed to the decree, a copy of
which he had also preserved.
" I have, for this once, signed the ordinance for the
payment which has been proposed to me; but for the
future it will be necessary that the accounts of secret
expenditure for the War Department be submitted for
my approval in the same form as those of the Interior;
that is to say, by distinct statements, upon which every
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 for 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
you know she had written to her, and that reply greatly
grieves me. I am inclined to believe that our good
little Queen was as sorry to write such a letter as I was
to read it. But she now only sees things through the
spectacles of Lord Palmerston, and those spectacles
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,toshom I can say everything, to give you all the
explanation necessary to ' replace the things in their
true light,' and to preserve us from that odious suspicion
which, I may say, with the utmost sincerity, should not
be visited on us.
" I shall resume matters withf you from the beginning,
and go back to the origin
tohatthde Spanish marriages.
You knew, my dear friend,
Queen
nring her regency,
and long before her expulsion, christina repeat-
edly invited us to conclude the' marriages of our two
younger sons, the Dukes d'Aumale and de Montpensier,
with her two daughters, Queen Isabella 11. and
replied theto her
that, Louise Ferdinande. We constantly
that, as respected the Queen, however flattered we might
be by such an alliance, it was out of the question, and
that we had come to an irrevocable determination on the
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
.elontpensier.
" 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-
turing the entire camp (alias the smala) 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 coutinued 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 who
desired, and after my sincerity in the intentions which I
proclaimed not to accept 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 Chargé 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-
prosier with the Infanta Louise Ferdinande.
" Before even Qua en Christina came to l'aris, and
since that period in the numerous conversations I had
With LIVI that Lor..t.y conongo. us. I always replied
to her entreaties—that the hio.b.ind of the Queen, her
daughter, should be one of my sons,—by manifesting to
her an opinion, in which I never varied, and which is
to-day confirmed by the nearly unanimons 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
Don Francisco de Paula, 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), zed as in
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 herself
(had she married hire), 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 t I
poinhave
developed that opinion so frequently in my conversation
with your excellent King, as well as in the letters which
I wrote to him, and
you must recollect all the argu-
ments which I used to convince him. I will not, there-
fore, repeat them in this letter,alreadybut I
will call to your recollection hO
much,wso
tindurhOw con-
stantly, I regretted that the example which I gave by
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 I
if the present embarrassment was not terminated, as
have the firm confidence it will be, by the maintenance
and the consolidation of that precious cordial u d
standing which alone can preserve them from. it.
__onj.
" I will now speak to you of the marrtiagenest..mg
ponsier with the Infanta. There was not the thcamellsont_:,
reference to it, either when Queen Victonri_
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in 1843, or when I was at WindsoAr, 1
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reply was the same. I told LordAbnteardrre)e,n
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wished that Montpcnsier should
Louise Ferdinande, but I no more desired that
he should
wed Queen Louisa thanQumeen Isabe a, an that he
son should not espouse
might even be assured that y
the Infanta until the Queen was married. Lord Aber-
deenose added, and when she shall have borne a child.'
lßeit so,' I replied. Ido not desire better; for if the
Queen were to remain sterile, the Infanta would be-
come the necessary or the inevitable heiress, and that
would not suit me no more than you; but, however,
there must be 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.,
aside."
Be that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg be set
Be it so,' replied Lord Aberdeen. We are of the same
opinion with you, that the best which can be done is
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; weyou, merely follow and at all
"tut' we will not ILO in Opposition to you As to Phu.