The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

of the Constitutional patriots whom that mea-
sure was intended to restore to their country.
But in speaking with respect of those exiles to
whom the Royal clemency has been extended, it
defends or excuses the Administration for not
going further, and seems to hint that the throne
call easily be supported without their aid. The
language of the article itself, in which it speaks
of the Act of October 23, 1833, as " an am-
nesty," and the tone in which it alludes to ex-
isting Spanish parties, have called forth an an-
swer in Spanish from one of the refugees in this
country, in which we discover no inconsiderable
portion of good sense and sound reasoning.
'This publication, which occupies only a single
half sheet, shows that the late measure is not
an " amnesty" in the proper sense of the term,
—that an "amnesty," as the word implies, is
equivalent to an act of " oblivion" passed on per-
sons whose offences have not been tried or de-
fined, and that the late decree for restoring to
their Tights 31 deputies was only an act (.)f
pardon. These deputies had been condemned
to death by the Supreme Tribunal at Seville,
for having voted the deposition of the King in
that city in June, 1823 ; and the late decree
only reversed the sentence with respect to 31
out of the 63 members of which the Cortes
consisted when the alleged treason was com-
mitted. To this statement there cannot, of
course, be any reasonable objection, and it is
incumbent on the present Spanish Government
to explain why all the deputies who were in-
cluded in the same sentence of condemnation
are not likewise included in the same act of
pardon. There was no allegation of a more or
less aggravated offence in the conjoint treason
for which they were all capitally convicted, and,
of course, there was no equitable ground for
restoring some to their country, while the weight
of the first condemnation presses on others. A
manly and well-expressed letter from a patriotic
Spaniard, now resident at Paris, has put the
question in a very fair and reasonable light ; it
will be found at the end of this article. In this
reasoning all the world, with the exception of
that small part of it in the late Spanish Cabinet,
must concur, and in a few days or weeks we
may expect from the present modified Min►stry
a complete act of grace in favour of all the
persons exiled by sentence of law, or by threats
of prosecution, for the part which they took in
the transactions of 1820, 1821, 1822, and
1823. In the Queen's present Government,
and among the provincial authorities who have
evinced the most zeal in her cause, are found
civil and military functionaries who held office
in the time of the Cortes, and are those who
wavered in their principles on the entry of their
French invaders, and in the presence of clan-
gers, to be preferred to those who fearlessly
struggled for the principles of their constitution
and the rights of their country to the last ? Is
Morillo to be a Captain-General, and to be
trusted with an important command, while Mina,
the only commander who, in 1823, really ac-
quired a European reputation, by the able and
efficient discharge of his military duties, finds
the gates of his native land, and the ranks of
the national army closed against him ? The

young Queen's advisers need be under no
apprehension that the crimes of which such
faithful chiefs and such courageous deputies
were found guilty will be contagious. The
crisis of 1823, in which a band of patriots
boldly contended for months against the treachery
of the Court and the influence of the clergy,
supported by the machinations of the Holy Al-
liance and the bayonets of one hundred thou-
sand Frenchmen, is not likely again to recur ;
and if it were, no severity of persecution could
ever convert their magnanimity into a crime, or
deprive them of the glory, while it inflicted the
pains of martyrdom. The continued resistance
made to any arrangement with the invader by
carrying the King to Cadiz may, in these cir-
cumstances of weakness and desertion, have been
unwise or imprudent ; but nobody can deny
that it was at least patriotic and disinterested,
and probably there will not be found many ex-
amples in history where a legislative body, fleeing
from an invading enemy, encountered so much
personal danger for no conceivable object of
personal gain or ambition, as the 63 deputies
who were lately under sentence of death for
having suspended for a short time the authority
of the King, by the appointment of a temporary
Regency at Seville. Had they applied another
kind of suspension to their treacherous Monarch

at Cadiz, -they could not have shown more
courage, though their energy would have made a
different impression on Europe. The following
is the letter alluded to in the preceding re-
marks : .

" DUPLICATE.

" I have the honour to transmit to )ou, for your in •
formation and satisfaction, a printed copy of the real de-
cree of yesterday's date, which her Atijosty the Queen
Regent and Ruler has been pleased to issue in the name of
our august Sovereign Donna Isabel Segundo, and by which
you are authorized to return to your country : in pur-
suance whereof the proper p is.port will be delivered to
you by the chief of her Majesty's Legation in the country
in which you are residing as soon as you may apply for it.
" FRANCISCO DE ZEA BERMUDEZ.
" Madrid, Oct. 24."

" ANSWER.

" I have just received the duplicate of your Excel.
iency's polite letter of the 24th of October, in which you
enclosed a copy of the Royal decree of the preceding day,
by which her Majesty the Queen Regent and Ruler has
thought proper to authorize me to return to my home.
Assuredly this and other measures of her Majesty's Go-
vernment afford me much gratification, as they disclose to
tee an earnest desire to lay the foundation of salutary im-
provements and reforms; but your Excellency will permit
me to express my regret at finding that the favour which
is dispensed to me is not extended to others of my com-
panions in misfortune, who have performed not less faith-
fully than I their duty, and who have with equal dig-
nity supported their long protracted exile. The con-
sciousness of having acted rightly has prevented them,
as it has me, from taking any steps for relief from the
injustice with which they have been treated ; but if their
position requires that they should remain silent, I am
bound to avail myself of the opportunity of replying to
your Excellency, to call your attention to the difference
which is thus made between individuals engaged in the
same cause. This distinction, and the preamble of the
Royal Decree, from which it might be inferred that I had
during my absence, given proofs of fidelity to thedeceased
Monarch, would give ground for suspicion that I had, in
some way or other, adhered to his views and system,
which were no less opposed to my sentiments than they
are to the course adopted by her Majesty the Queen Regent
fur gathering around the throne of her august daughter
(the Senora Isabel II.) all who wish to avoid fading under
the theocratic, barbarous, and brutal domination of the
Pretender. I hope your Excellency will be pleased to
give a moment's consideration to this plain and frank
statement, and that you will recognise the advantage in
the present circumstances of nut depriving yourself of the
co-operation of p‘rsons who are so distinguished, and have
well merited the gratitude of their country, and who can
serve it more advantageously than I can, though none
exceed me in the desire of being useful to it.
" Paris, Dec. 2." Times.

" 7VINCENTE SALVA.

We have often felt compelled to advert to the
mischievous effects produced by a University
education, on the two classes whence our coun-
try magistracy is constituted ; namely, the clergy
themselves, and the aristocracy, whose education
is in their hands. Hence the perverted opinion
—which is like a cancer, which leprosies the