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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1834,

MADRID.

CHAMBER OF PROCERES.—SirTirm of AtrotTsT 2.
The Duke de Bailen took the chair at ten o'clock, the
order of the day being the discussion on the draught of the
address presented to the Chamber the day before yesterday.
After the reading of the minutes of the last sitting, the Duke
de Rivas, one of the Secretaries, communicated to the Cham-
ber a letter from General Palafox, excusing his absence in
consequence of his being a prisoner in his own house, but ex-
pressing his readiness to take the oath if allowed to present
himself to the Chamber on his parole d'honneur.
After some discussion on the rights and prerogatives of the
Chamber, the report of the committee on the address was
read by Senor Cano Manuel, one of the Secretaries of the
Chamber, and also one of the members of the commission.
Senor Angel Saavedra made some observations which were
not very intelligible, on the exercise of the Royal prerogative
by the Queen Regent ; and he was followed by Don Javier
de Burgos, the late Minister of the Interior, who contended
that the sole duty of the commission was to have prepared an
answer, an echo of the speech in conformity with the practice
of France and England.
Martinez de la Rosa, the President of the Council, de-
fended his Administration from the charge which appeared to
have been brought against it by Senor Angel Saavedra, and
argued that the speech was frank and explicit in all its parts.
As to the liberty of the press, which had been alluded to, he
contended, that in all political matters it was already free, and
that for the present it was necessary to confine it within rea-
sonable bounds.

The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the answer to the
address paragraph by paragraph. The three first were adopted
unanimously, without even the proposal of an amendment. On
the 4th, sth, and 6th, some slight alterations were proposed,
but on being put to the vote they were carried as they ori-
ginally stood by large majorities. When the paragraph which
relates to the Pretender came to be discussed, Senor Cuadra
inquired if General Rodil had had sufficient powers to make
Don Carlos prisoner.
Martinez de la Rosa began his reply by enumerating the
diplomatic negotiations which had taken place in France and
England preparatory to the conclusion of the quadruple
treaty. He added, that when the Spanish army had arrived
at Zamora, the Pretender had already embarked on board the
British ship of war the Donegal, so that he could not pos-
sibly have been detained a prisoner by the forces of her Ca-
tholic Majesty. Much of what has been said in France and
England on the subject of the pension granted to Don Carlos,
and on the confiscation of his property in order to compel him
to renounce his pretensions to the crown, was repeated, and
confirmed by the Minister, and was evidently received with
attention.

The Marquis of San Felices made some observations on the
present state of public education, to which Martinez de la
Rosa replied that a bill would be sent down to the Chamber
within a few days, having for its object the establishment of a
new system of primary instruction.
A paragraph having been introduced into the address on the
subject of the urban militia, a subject on which the speech had
been silent, Martinez de la Rosa spoke in praise of the body
generally, and took credit to himself for the extension it had
received during his administration, but did not object to the
laudatory paragraph introduced by the committee.
The massacre of the 17th was repeatedly alluded to by seve-
ral of theecclesiastical dignitaries ; and the Duke de Rivas,
one of the secretaries, who has the reputation of being a dis-
tinguished contributor to the journals of the capital, spoke, as
was to be expected, with considerable animation, in favour of
the liberty of the press.

CHAMBER OF PROCURADORES, AUG. 1.
Aftsr some discussion on the qualifications of members, the
President, Count de Almodovar, stated that the committee
appointed to prepare the draught of an address to her Ma-
jesty, in answer to her speech delivered in the Royal sitting,
was now ready to present its report. It was then brought up
and read :
" DRAUGHT FOR THE REPLY OF THE ESTATE OF PROCURA-
DORES OF THE KINGDOM TO THE SPEECH READ BY HER MA-
JESTY IN THE ROYAL SITTING OF JULY 24, WHICH DRAUGHT,
DON JOAQUIM MARIA LOPEZ, THE PROCURADOR FOR ALICANT
WAS CHARGED WITH THE DRAWING UP BY^THF.• COMMITTEE
APPOINTED TO THAT EFFECT, WAS NOW READ TO THE SAID
ESTATE.

" Senora—The estate of Procuradores of the kingdom ex-
perienced the greatest satisfaction at seeing your Majesty
seated in the midst of them on the day of the opening of this
session, and the more especially at hearing fall from your
royal lips those principles and wishes, the execution of which
will be sufficient to secure the prosperity of this heroic nation
—a prosperity to which it is now summoned by a concourse of
fortunate circumstances, but from which the vices of an absurd
legislation have for a long period obstinately withheld it. To
regenerate this unfortunate country, to put in action all the
springs of its greatness—to endeavour to secure full latitude,
and all necessary guarantees to social rights and to raise
upon these bases the august monument of the alliance and
union between the throne and the people—such are the desires
of this estate, and such the noble object to which it will conse-
crate its labours.

" A desolating pestilence, which afflicts a great part of the
nation, which in the capital has spread misery and,death, and
which, up to a certain extent, has paralyzed all relations, was
not, however, able to deter your Majesty from appearing in the
midst of your children, and sacrificing your own security to
the desire of gromoting their happiness ; nor has it prevented
the Procuradores from coming forward to second your great
designs. To those who love the country every other considera-
tion is secondary, and of little consequence is the loss of life,
if their duties be fulfilled, the public will be satisfied. Be
this, then, the political profession of the Procuradores, and the
rule of their future conduct.
" But if in the very midst of danger these consolatory ideas
could be cherished, room only can be found for a just indigna-
tion for the excesses which sullied this heroic city on the 17th
and 18th of July. This Estamento is guided by reason and
candour, and will never fail either in the one or the other.
The Procuradores well know that personal security is the first
interest and the first right of man in society, and that Govern..
ments cannot neglect to guarantee it without committing a
monstrous violation of the first of social compacts. States ad-
vance to perfection only by the path of justice, and justice de-
mands that the persons of all the associated individuals be re-
spected ; where there are laws and Ministers to execute them,
there alone is it the duty of the citizen to obey and respect
them. The Procuradores request more particularly your Ma-
jesty's attention to this point, and are desirous that the most
efficacious measures should be adopted for discovering and
chastising the delinquents, whom a lamentable want of fore-
sight had favoured, and to fix public opinion in a manner which
will do honour to a nation whose noble sentiments ought never
to be confounded with the sinister ideas of a handful of per_
turbators.
" When your Majesty submits to the deliberation of this
estate the conduct pursued by the ill-advised Prince, it will
devote itself to the consideration of that subject with the cir-
cumspection and zeal which the interests of the reigning dy-
nasty, and of the people who place in it all their hopes of
happiness, demand. -But it is expedient, Senora, not to give
way to illusion, and the Procuradores would consider them-
selves culpable were they, in meeting an emergency of so much
importance, to withhold the frank and austere language of
truth, and yield to timid and dangerous considerations. The
laws of the monarchy, public utility, the general will, which is
essentially the most solemn and most indestructible national
element, all have declared in favour of your august daughter,
and all have announced and consecrated her rights. But ne-
vertheless a rebel party raises the cry of sedition, chiefly in
one corner of the peninsula, and that party the strong hand of
an energetic government can alone repress. The experiment
of lenity and clemency has already been tried too much, and
with melancholy result, not to renounce all the deceitful hopes
which have been conceived. The malcontents are encouraged
by impunity, and he who closes his heart and his ears against
the piercing cry of his country is only to be reduced to obe-
dience by the inexorable arm of the law.
" This estate perceives with satisfaction the settlement of
the affairs of Portugal, and the friendly relations which exist
between the government of your Majesty, that of France,
that of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that of
Her Most Faithful Majesty, and others. If some governments
have delayed the acknowledgement of your august daughter,
think not that such a circumstance can offer any impediment
to the progress of those salutary reforms which are in course
of preparation, or to the glory and happiness they are destined
to produce.
" The picture presented by the interior of the kingdom, your
Majesty has informed us, is far from being so flattering as your
patriotism could desire. The Estamento will add, that it is
without doubt far more deplorable than your Majesty can sup-
pose. Many years of an arbitrary system of erroneous legis-
lation, of a blind administration, and of a formidable reaction
against principles which are acknowledged as axioms in every
social organization, have progressively sunk us to a marked
state of degradation and misery. Agriculture is in the lowest
state of depression, because the exorbitant nature of the taxes,
the violent mode of exacting them, the low price of produce
(owing to other errors which it would be out of place to ex-
plain here), the difficulty of communications, and various other
causes, have rendered unavailing the calculations and the la-
bours of the unfortunate cultivator. Commerce, surrounded
on all sides by obstacles, is paralyzed in its movements, as well
through the influence of that first evil as through others which
have operated to its prejudice. The arts and industry in all
their branches have, by an inevitable consequence, shared the
vicissitudes produced by the disasters of the period. Your
Majesty is called to the great task of reanimating this fallen
nation, and of associating with your name the high glory of
having accomplished an undertaking at once so important and
difficult.

" The fidelity of the Army and Navy fills the Estarnento
with pride, and must inspire your Majesty with the utmost
confidence. The brave men who have vowed to support the
Throne of Isabel will faithfully fulfil their oaths, and annihi-
late by their bayonets those odious hordes who are the enemies
of the public peace.
" There is, besidez, Senora, another force well deserving of
consideration and gratitude, and that is the Urban Militia,
which has rendered up to the present moment so much service
to the throne and the cause of liberty, and which, by its very
institution, is the bulwark of public order, of our present in
stitutions, and of the peaceful enjoyments of the citizen.
" As soon as this estate may have cognizance of the obli-
gations of the Government, it will be able to resolve upon the
mode of fulfilling-them. In the mean time, it will by anti-
cipation give expression to an idea which may serve as the
thermometer of its real opinion. To enforce strict economy,
to alleviate the lot of the people, hitherto oppressed by the
weight of insurmountable burdens, will form the first duty of
the representatives of the nation and the first object of their
philanthropic views.
" ' The Estatuto Royal (said your Majesty in the conclu-
siqn of your speech) has laid the foundation—it is for you,

illustrious Proceres and Procuradores of the kingdom, to co-
operate in raising the edifice with that regularity and order
which are pledges of stability and firmness.'
" Responding to this frank invitation on the part of your
Majesty, this estate will lose no time in establishing the cha-
racter of its principles and its convictions. The political ma-
chine is composed of a variety of wheels, of which it is neces-
sary that in their progress all should have a corresponding
movement, impelled by a primary agent. All social rights
should be equally protected, and without this exact correspon-
dence the object of society will be defeated. The liberty of
the press, that sentinel and advanced post of every other gua-
rantee, ought to be freed from the restrictions which amongst
us have hitherto reduced it to a nullity. Wise laws can pre-
vent abuses, and chastise them when they take effect, so as to
deter from their repetition ; but never is it just or prudent to
sacrifice positive advantages to the apprehension of a danger,
perhaps imaginary, nor can the liberty of propagating thought
by means of the press ever exist, when a previous censorship
or arbitrary authority represses it."
" The support and most favourable organization of the
Urban Militia is another of the objects of primary interest.
The character which these individuals possess of being citizen
soldiers, stationed in the centre of a family, the numerous and
agreeable objects which identify them with their country, and
the ties which bind them to their duty, speak abundantly for
them, and give full assurance that every thing may be expected
frorri their civic virtue and discipline.
" Equality of rights before the law, and civil liberty, must
not in a less degree be consecrated to the full extent which
reason and justice demand. Personal security should be pro-
tected equally against the attacks and abuses of power • and
let the inviolability of property be announced as one of the
chief symbols or the second clause of the social compact.
" Adding to these principles the independence of the judi-
cial power in all its branches, and its responsibility for the
acts it performs ; the equal responsibility of the Ministerial
authority for its administrative act ; the opportune establish-
ment of the trial by jury, the essential safeguard of innocence,
—and having reduced all these maxims to an elemental code
which may form the table of our political rights and obliga-
tions, and the bond of intimate union between the throne and
the people (to whose support let the ablest men in all
branches be called), this estate will then venture to promise
that the condition of the nation will speedily be altered, and
that the people, blessing the name of your Majesty, will ac-
knowledge the difference between an absolute Government,
which treads everything under foot, and a paternal system,
which only makes use of authority to promote the general
welfare.

" The frankness with which the Estate of Procuradores has
thus expressed itself will suffice to convey a true idea of its
principles, and to hand down to all ages the praises due to
your Majesty. Your Majesty has told us that we may always
reckon on your disposition to do whatever may redound to the
happiness and profit of Spain, and we, penetrated with joy
and gratitude, abandon ourselves to the most pleasing presen-
timents. Our duty is to point out the necessities of the nation,
of whose rights and confidence we are the depositories, and the
fortunate disposition of your Majesty to hear and remedy them
is the most flattering presage for the future.
" The interest of States may be misunderstood, and under
the semblance of fatal glory they frequently experience de-
gradation and misery. But to regenerate a people by the
influence of wise laws—to raise the magnificent trophy of ra-
tional liberty upon the ruins of a devastating despotism—to
unite all the citizens of a nation into one family, guarded as
well against the furies of anarchy as the bayonets of arbi-
trary power—to publish to the world in a well-digested code
the sacred maxims of morality and politics, from the observ-
ance of which springs public and private happiness, is the im-
mortal task reserved for privileged minds and hearts. Your
Majesty possesses both these gifts, and the nation, which
already owes so much to yoii, hopes for everything at your
hands. Complete, then, the august monument of justice and
concord of which your Majesty has traced the first lines, and
accept the testimonials of indelible love and gratitude with
which the present generation and posterity will surround your
name and memory

" VINCENTE CANO MANUEL.
" MANUEL MARIA DE ACEBEDO.
" FRANCISCO DIEZ GONZALES.
" JOAQUIN MARIA LOPEZ.
" PIO LABORDA.
" RUFINO GARCIA CARRASCO.
" MARQUES DE SOMERA,ELOS.
" JOAQUIM AVARGUES.
" TOMAS MIGUEL POLO."

" The reading of this draught of the address, in answer to
the sptch from the throne, being concluded, the President
proposed that it should be printed for the purpose of being
distributed to Proeuradores, submitted to discussion on the 3d
instant.

‘4 This proposition was agreed to : the sitting closed at 12.
The Prucuradores are summoned for 10 in the morning of
the 3d."

The following is the address of the Proceres, which we ex-
tract from Galignani's Messenger :
" Your faithful subjects, the Proceres of the kingdom, ap-
proach the foot of the throne to present the Queen their Sove-
reign, Donna Isabella, the homage of their loyalty and obe-
dience. To your Majesty, as Regent during the minority of
your august daughter, they offer the expression of their pro-
found gratitude for the sentiments which, in obeying the im-
pulse of your heart, you condescended to manifest to us on
the solemn occasion of the opening of the Cortes General of
the Kingdom.
" On this memorable occasion the Proceres acknowledge
with your Majesty the blessing of Divine Providence, and, in
imitation of your Majesty, they hasten to offer up their thanks-
givings to Heaven for having acceded to their wishes.
" The Proceres of the kingdom deplore with your Majesty,
that the august ceremony of the meeting of the Cortes should
have taken place at the very moment when the Asiatic cholera
was extending its ravages to the capital, after having afflicted
diverse provinces of the monarchy. In so melancholy a situa-
tion, the calamity has doubtless been attenuated by the public
charity which has been excited by the august munificence of
your Majesty, by the generous succour of the Government of
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" Nevertheless, Madam, what admits of no consolation, is
that a handful of ill-designing people, taking advantage of the
terror which the sudden invasion of the cholera had produced,
should have circulated among the people absurd and calum-
nious imputations, and that, aided by the frenzy thus excited,
they should have attacked divers religious establishments, pro.:
faning the churches, and dispersing or assassinating their in-
nocent officiating ministers. Such atrocities are not only in
contrast with the noble and pure blood of the Spanish people,
but, by their execrable impiety, they belie its religious cha-
racter. They impress an indeliable stain upon our political
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" The Proceres of the kingdom admit the justice of those
sentiments which compel your Majesty to submit to the deli-
beration of the Cortes the disloyal conduct of a Prince of your
family, who, even during the lifetime of his brother and King,
dared to harbour ambitious designs, and who after the death
of that Monarch, endeavoured by civil war to wrest the
sceptre from its legitimate heir. Your Majesty thinks, with
reason, that the present tranquillity and future destiny of your
kingdom may depend on the decision of the Cortes, and you
do them justice in believing that their decision will be worthy
of them. The proceres of the kingdom, Madam, will justify
this high and honourable confidence. The laws, the customs,
the national gratitude, and above all, public happiness depend
on the justly anticipated success of this cause.
Thanks are due to your Majesty for having caused the
Spanish troops to enter into Portugal, and, for having in a few
days put an end to a long contest by contributing opportunely
and efficaciously to expel the two Princes who disturbed the
tranquillity of the Peninsula. The Proceres of the kingdom
offer their felicitations to your Majesty on so glorious a result.
It is an omen of the fate which awaits insensate conspiracies
and attempts at new commotions.
We congratulate your Majesty on the repeated testimonies
you have received of the amicable dispositions of our august
allies, the King of the French and the King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; and also on the good
harmony which happily exists between the Government of
your august daughter and that of the Most Faithful Queen
Donna Maria 11. The bonds which Unite the two Govern-
ments, and which your Majesty has formed in the interest of
the two Peninsular Monarchies, will doubtless be drawn more
closely when the treaty which your Majesty has made for the
purpose of insuring the tranquillity of both shall have been
put into execution in conformity with its spirit, and when this
execution shall have extended to all its consequences.
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nition of your august daughter could never think of inter-
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After having paid a tribute to the firmness and fidelity of
the and to the zeal of the Urban Militia, the address
The Proceres will employ all the attention which com-
ports with their loyalty and patriotism in investigating the
several engagements which the Government may be called
upon to satisfy. It will inquire into the resources upon which
it calculates, and the extraordinary means of credit to which
it may have to resort, in order to avoid augmenting the
charges of the people.
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the balance between the wants and the means of supplying
The settlement of the foreign debt, and the amelio-
ration of the home debt, will be seen happily to concur in
effecting this desirable object. The proofs of good faith
which your Majesty has given, and which honour the entire
nation, make it imperative to recognize the urgency of these
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A supplement to the Gazette of the Ist inst. contains a re-
port, dated Salvatierra, July 20, in which General Rodil gives
an account of a battle which was fought the day before in the
Borunda, near Ciordia and Alazagoitia. During his march
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