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. the one with the other—their association we mean
both political, social, and commercial. Spain feels
this, England feels this, that, as to the people them-
selves, nothing except some unnatural and miraculous
catastrophe can lead to their estrangement. Of Eng-
land it has never been said as of France, that she is the
most dangerous of the enemies of Spain. Baron Pur-
FENDORF has made that declaration as far back as
the seventeenth century in his memorable" History of
Europe." Speaking of Spain, he thus exclaims—
" France is the most formidable enemy of that king-
dom." And
,have not subsequent events, we ask,
afforded corroboration a thousandfold to this declara-
tion of the great annalist ? Has not the peril to Spain
of an alliance with France been testified by innu-
merable circumstances occurring since the death of
PUFFBNDORF—from the Treaty of Utrecht to the
Treaty of Vienna, from 1815 to the marriage of
MONTPENSIER ? With England it is altogether dif-
ferent. Spain and England are, as we have already
observed, united by the community of their
sentiments. And their social accordance with
each other is confirmed by the very dis-
similarity of their productions a dissimi-
larity which necessarily compels the inter-
change of those productions, and consequently con-
nects the mercantile activity of the one with the
mercantile activity of the other. Spain with her
fruitful soil, and England with her industrious arti-
zans, Spain with her vintages, and England with her
manufactures, Spain with the olive and the grape,
her wines and her oranges, England with her cutlery
and her cottons, her woven goods and her metallic goods
into
the instinctively, and by necessity pour
the ports of each other the riches of art and of agri-
culture. Any separation between the two countries
would be disastrous to both; any estrangement be-
tween them would only be mutually injurious to
their commercial enterprise.
At a moment therefore like the present—when the
diplomatic relations between Madrid and London
have been interrupted—it becomes a matter of vital
interest to the community both of the British islands
and of the Spanish peninsula, to discern the true
cause of this estrangement, and the most effectual
means for a reconciliation.
We have already explained in detail, word by
word, act by act, letter
.by letter, the origin, the
progress, and the result of the recent quarrel. We
have shown, as clearly as the language of truth can
show anything, that mediately the cause of all has
been the assumption of despotic power by the Na.-
vaez Administration, and that immediately it has
arisen from the irritability and insolence of the Due
DE SOTOMAYOR. Now as to the means of recon-
ciliation.

A reconciliation between the Governments of
Spain and of Great Britain can only be effected by
the substitution of a constitutional and liberal policy
for an unconstitutional and most despotic policy.
Lord PALMERSTON'S first confidential dispatch—(the
dispatch which has provoked all this recent correspon-
dence)—stated as much, it stated that a radical
change in the policy of the Spanish Government had
become absolutely essential. Now we put the ques-
tion at once and boldly—Can such an alteration
be expected from the Cabinet of the Duque DE
VALE:NEIL ? The mere supposition is preposterous'
The transformation of the tyrannous administration
of NARVAEZ into a liberal administration is hopeless—
wholly and positively hopeless. Or, supposing that
such a transformation were attempted, it would only
be followed by a sense of appalling insecurity. No :
the only means left for the political regeneration of
Spain—and from this political regeneration alone can
we look for the reconciliation of the two Governments
—the only means left for the political regeneration of
Spain has been defined as long ago as the 24th of last
November by the eloquent and patriotic lips of
ESCOSURA. That distinguished man then declared
before the assembled Cortes that he believed that in
each of the political parties (that is to say among the
Progresistas and the Moderados) there were men of
integrity, of talent, of knowledge, and of valour,
who ought to divest themselves of the tradition and
the history of the past, and who ought to group
themselves together about one common centre (quo
debieran agruparse en 2111, centro), and that by this
arrangement the two great parties would be com-
bined into one which, under the name of the National
Party, or under any other appropriate title, should go-
vern the country liberally and constitutionally. In the
pamphlet already frequently alluded to by our-
selves, the pamphlet "La Naczon y los
Partidos," by Don VICENTE DE PEREDA, the
feasibility of such a coalition is displayed, and the
centre about which the Spanish people should con-
centrate is plainly indicated. As we have observed
before now, the value of the arguments contained in
this remarkable pamphlet consists mainly and pro-
eminently in the impartiality of its author. We can
listen to the statements of Don VICENTE DE PEREDA
with a perfect and unreserved reliance, because we
believe, and the Spaniards themselves believe, in the
impartiality of
.Don VICENTE DE PEREDA. Hence
it is that we hare alluded to the pamphlet so repeat-
edly, and hence also we shall continue to allude to

it until the National Party is formed, until the re-
conciliation has been effected, and until Spain has
acquired the grand political blessing of the age—a
Free and Liberal Constitution.
In the second section of his pamphlet Don VI-
CENTE DE PREEDII gives a punctilious and even ela-
borate analysis of the condition of the Parties in
Spain. He says, among other things (p. 43), that
" the Moderado party still possesses an extraordinary
influence over the country, in spite of the vices of its

position and the inconsistency of its principles."
Lower down he continues upon the same subject in
the same strain : " The divergence of principles

_ .
which internally affects its organization debi

litates its energy, and embarrasses its vacci

lating progress, because the contrary ten-
dency of those, various principles impels its mem-
bers in opposite directions." Other reasons there are

why the Progresistas, as s party, are incapable 01
redeeming the partially dissipated, or half-buried na-

_ .
tionality of the Peninsula; and among other evil in-
fluences the pernicious and prevalent operation of
Afrancesadoism. Viewing matters in this light, our
author says, further on (p. 65)—" Disorganization
has conduced to the ruin of the State, the ruin of the

State has augmented the general misery, and this

again has engendered discontent, while, as a con-
summation to the whole, the division among the
minds of all, and the venality of some, has
given entrance to those extraneous influences
which.have been the , principal impediments to a na-
tdii7garlaere econciliation. ' As to the possibility of any
resulting from the transference of devotion
from the
Moderado party or from the Progresista
party to the proposed National party, listen to
DdßispapsEsißor:watAse.
«xe Imitate,laroati?ns of Don VICENTE
examipnieouro ' f
moralsayshe (p. 95) " Imitate
that grand
ownday
scourage p a
twr
ihoi
tcihc
has been given us
deed of the most distinguished man in the whole of
s,
own England. Imitate that Minister wno
false considerations of a honourfugitive
bu. depreciat-
ingos art
y
alike the injurious reproaches o
and the vain triumph of his antagonp2erior to thest
only the peril of his native land, and the necessity pe
of a
held
great sacrifice." In that spontaneous panegyric upon
Sir ROBERT PEEL we recognize the perfect iirpaor
tiality of the writer, and in it also the —Pani:
ard:
s
should recognize the patriotism which in a
thousand voices, in the voices of the past, and of
the future, in the name of their posterity, and of their
forefathers, summons them at this moment to the con-
summation of a kindred sacrifice. Let them ad-

vance, and that betimes, for a National Party has
become a .Necessity—a National Party consisting of
the Spanish people grouped together round the

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