The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-02 00:00:00

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C )N VOCATION at, 'ORTES.—GENERAL
AMNESTY.

C LETrEItS-:10YAI, 01 ON vOCATION POR THE CELEBRA-
TION OF THE GENERAL CORTES OF THE KINGDOM.
" Donna Isabella 11., by the grace of God, Queen of
C tstile, Leon, Aragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem, Na-
varre, Grenada, Toledo, Valentin., Galicia, Majorca, Se-
ville, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Minorca, the
Algarves, Algesiras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, East
and West Indies, the islands and continents of the ocean ;
Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Burgundy, of Bra-
bant and Milan, Countess of Hapsburg, Flanders, the
Tyrol, and Barcelona, Sovereign of Biscay, &c. And in
her name, Donna 'Maria Christina de Bourbon, as Queen
Regent during the minority of my august daughter, to all
to Whom these presents shall come greeting.
" That, order to put in execution what is required by
the fundamental laws of the monarchy, and especially by
law v., title 15, 2d part, and laws i. and ii., title 7, book 6,
bf the New Recompilation. According to the bases placed
by the Royal statute, the promulgation, maintenance, and
execution of which have been ordained by my Royal decree
of the 10th of April of the present year
" Having taken the advice of the Council of Govern-
ment (Council of Regrency and Council of Ministers), I
hate resolved to convoke, and by these presents I do con-
'yoke, tb'e General Cortes of the Kingdom, which are to
assernl3le in the heroic city of Madrid, on the 24th of next
..1111y, the day on which their solemn opening will be cele-'
prated, in order that this assembly should be occupied with
the important matters which I shall propose for their deli-
berations confiding to their devotion and loyalty.
" I therefore order and command that there shall be
united on the said day in the capital of these Kingdoms,
those Peers to whom the title belongs by right in virtue of
the article v. of the Royal statute, and those others who
..votild be similarly entitled acccording to article vii. of the
said statute.
" There shall also assemble the Deputies elected by the
towns and cities according to the tenor of the Royal decree
of the same date, which regulates the mode and form of
elections, and investing themselves with the powers to this
effeeteonferred on them.

" My will is, therefore, in the name of my august
daughter, Donna Isabella 11., that the present Royal Con-
Vocation be promulgated with all suitable solemnity, in
order to announce to our kingdom the new era of pros-
perity and glory which they can promise themselves from
the re-establishment of an institution so important for
the good administration of the monarchy. You are enjoined
hereby to arrange all for the accomplishment of this decree,
" I, THE QUEEN REGENT.
" To Don F. Martinez de la Rosa,
President of my Council of Ministers."
This decree is dated Aranjuez, 20th May, and is fol-
lowed by another decree, as follows :
" Desiring to celebrate, by new acts of benevolence,
the solemn act of the convocation of the General Cortes of
the kingdom, I have thought it expedient, by the advice of
my ministers, to give the fullest extension to the Royal
Decree of Amnesty of Oct. 20, 1832, in extending it to
the exceptions which were expressed in that decree.
(Signed) " THE QUEEN."
By this decree all Spaniards, even Generals Mina and
Vigo, can now return to Spain.
The greatest tranquillity prevailed at Madrid.