The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

THE SPANISH SUCCESSION.

The Eco del Comercio, a Madrid journal, is pub-
lishing a series of articles on the Spanish succession.
The following extract will be read with interest :
" If," says the Eco, " oAing to some casualty,
Queen Isabella should die without leaving direct suc-
cession—it is very possible, as up to the present she
bats had no issue, and as there is no reason for hoping
she will have issue, owing to circumstances the ex-
planation of which is beyond the jurisdiction of the
press—the entire nation, the Spain of all parties, will
be in a state of the most serious perplexity. It is
true that the Queen has A sister called by the con-
stitution to the inheritance of the throne, in the case

we suppose alone ; but, as we have elsewhere said,
the Infanta of Spain is married to a French prince,
who, in consequence of treaties celebrated between
nations, and of solemn renunciations, appears ex-
cluded from the right of succession to our monarchy,
both himself and his issue. It is true that the mar-
ria
have also shown that a terrible protest, legally and in
ge was approved by the Spanish Cortes; but we
due time drawn up, was presented against it ; a pro-
test, too, the most explicit and the most solemn that
ever was attempted with respect to us. Neither must
it be forgotten that these Cortes were formed and
constituted of one only of all the political parties in
Spain. The others had no participation whatever ;
they contracted no engagement of any kind ; no tie
unites them to that act of approval beyond the re-
spect which in representative countries is due to
whatever emanates from that which is termed the
legislative
Power, when this is considered as the con-
stitutional expression of the people. It follows, then,
that the Infanta Donna Luisa Fernanda will natu-
rallydispensably obligatory, of the engagements, and of
ascend the throne, counting on the support, in-
thelaws of that same Moderado party, which rejected
the protests of the foreign nations, and the petitions of
the nation, addressed against, and previously to, the
marriage.
" England sees with dislike the immense influence
which the Court of the Tuileries has acquired in our
affairs. England has not forgotten the Family Com-
pact, and the senseless assistance we, to please
France,
period of their emancipation. England knows well
what
gave to the Anglo-American colonies at the
Spain will be for her, with an Orleans on the
throne in Madrid. England, from the fact of her
being an insular nation. and of France pretending to
become her rival, can never consent with impunity
to the immense p
es to Castile and Estremadura. It
power she would acquire by trans-
ferring the Pyrene
is not necessary to be a very profound statesman to
know that the British Government has to make
every possible effort against, perhaps, the only
neutral nation on the continent, having on its throne
a French Prince. The rivalries and antipathies of
nations and of Governments necessarily terminate in
war, and the way of protocols being once opened,
there is a serious risk of diplomatic notes being soon
converted into cannon balls, and each prepares fur war
I during peace.

" But it will be asked, what are those ' possible'
efforts of England to produce a conflict amongst
Spaniards f Bat we mistake ' • such a question there
is no necessity to ask. In London there resides a
personage who was born on the steps of the throne—
the son of a Pretender who.
disputed the crown with
Isabella ll.—who ;
is -the representative of a principle
that existed for ages—who has inherited the preten-
sions and the party of his father,
and who may serve
as a watchword for Great Britain to direct in Spain
its opposition to the enthronement of the Orleans
dynasty. And that England will make use of him
there is no doubt ; because English Ministers are
Englishmen above all, and they will never permit the
Spanish Government to become the intimate friend,
the near relative, the ward as it were of the
Government of Paris. It may be that there are
no :recent notes of the Cabinet of St. James re-
specting the re-establishment of the Salique law ;
but it is a fact that there are others which
against the Orleans succession,
an
conduct followed by England these last
fourteenincdludteha protest e
months clearly indicates that she is not dis-
posed to give a friendly consent to it. It is positive,
and Spaniards of all parties are conyineed of the fact,
that
to
s
the
pn
ai `casualty' to which we refer occur, the
Infants being in Paris, Montpensier and Montemolin
will
come f
almost at the same time.
64 We are, then, in a state of war ; Montpensier,
speaking in the name of the constitutional rights of
the sister of Isabella 11. i
supported by the Mode.
rados, who were the supporters, the approvers of the
marriage; aided efficaciously by France, of which
there is no doubt ; and reviving perhaps the period
and perhaps the armies of Louis XIV.; Montemolin,
speaking in the name Of other laws of a far more
ancient date ; citing incompatibilities written in
European treaties ; invokin4- a principle, which,
though defeated, yet still has its partizans; aided by
a party which but a short time ago sustained a war
of seven years, and assisted, without any doubt, by
England, with greater or less show, but most surely
and efficiently.
,6 The Moderados and tho Carlista fight. The latter
have numbers on their aide, because the Carlists are
far more numerous in Spain than the Moderados.
The Moderados count on the organization and force
which every constituted Government has at its die-
posit i•,
aticl,the Spanish Government is Moderado,
ezoiusiv•ly Moderado. Here you bays o,plia tiwows