The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

MANIFESTO OF THE PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS.

" Spaniards,—The new situation in which I am placed by the
renunciation which my august father has designed to make in my
favour of his rights to the Crown, imposes upon me the duty of
addressing you. Do not believe, Spaniards, that I intend to cast
amongst you a brand of discord. Sufficient blood and sufficient
tears have been shed. My heart recoils at the sole recollection of
past catastrophes, and shudders at the sole idea of their recurrence.
" The events of the last years will, 110 doubt, have left prejudices
against me in some =rids, and they perhaps suppose me animated
with the desire of avenging old wounds. There is no room in my
heart for such a sentiment. If, one day, Divine Providence throws
open to me the gates of my country, I will know no party, and
make no distinction between Spaniards.
" During the different phases of the revolution there have been
accomplished serious changes in the political and social organisa-
tion of Spain. There are some which I have assuredly deplored,
as it became a Christian Prince and a Spaniard. They deceive
themselves, however, who believe that I am so destitute of know-
ledge or the real position of affairs as to suppose that I wish to
accomplish what is impossible. lam aware that the best mode of
avoiding the return of revolutions is not obstinately to destroy all
th-at has been constructed, and to reconstruct al► that has been
destroyed. Justice without violence, reparation without re.action,
a prurient and equitable compromise between all interests, by utiliz-
ing and turning to advantage so many good institutions bequeathed
to us by our ancestors, without at the same time opposing the
spirit of the age as far as those inspirations are salutary—such is
my policy.

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(Q. S. G. G.), excited a civil war. I cannot forget what I owe to
my personal dignity, nor sacrifice the interests of my august family.
But I assure you from this moment, Spaniards, that it shall not
depend on me if the dissension I deplore be not for ever extin. 1
guished. There is no sacrifice compatible with my honour and
my conscience to which I am not disposed, in order to put a con-
clusion to civil discord and to hasten the reconciliation of the
royal family.
" I speak to you, Spaniards, candidly and from my heart. I
desire to present myself amengst you with words of peace, and not
with the war cry. It would be to me the subject of great grief, if
I find myself ever obliged to deviate from that line of conduct.
Under every circumstance I depend upon your correct sense of
right, upon your love for the Royal Family, and on the assistance
of Divine Providence.
" If Heaven grants me the happiness of again treading the soil
of my country, I wish only to be surrounded by your loyalty and
your affection. Ido not wish to feel any desire in my heart but
that of consecrating all my life in effacing even the recollection
of past discords, and in cementing your union with 'general pros.
perity and the happiness of all, which will not be difficult to me,
if, as I expect, you will aid my ardent desires with the qualities
which are stamped on your national character,—with the love and
the respect you bear to the holy religion of our ancstors, and that
magnanimity which has ever induced you to give your life when
it became impossible to preserve it without disgrace.
"Bourget, May 2... " CHARLES LOUIS."

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