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MEMORANDUat BY TUE DUKE OF WELLINGTON FOR
LORD FITZROY SeiMERSET.
London, Annary 6, /523.
It is important to make the Spaniards feel, that a King being;
necessary for the government of their country, and a part of
their system, as established by .themselvese—it fellisers, as a.
matter of equal necessity, that the powers and pmengetbree. as-
signed to the King in the system, should be Web ati.ae enablei
hint to perform his duties, and rush as, in reason, a VII ought
to be satisfied with.
If the situation of the King is not what it ought to be,—if
he has not the power to protect himself, and those employed
under him, in the performance of their duty in the service of
the Public ; and if the King bsi not MOSS CO be all that
the power allotted to hbn by the law 111 sullelent, the country
wiU never be in a state of ttanquillity, be the system of Govern.
ment what it may.
There will be perpetual. successive' Royalist Inettrrections in
part°
one of the country or the other; and the King and his Go-
vernment will be objects of never ceasing jealousy and disttust.
The family connection between his Catholic Majesty and the
King of France, and the interest which the latter centrally feels
fur the welfare-of the former, will occasion a perpetual Irritation
between the two countries, so long as the situation of the King
in Spain is not what it ought to be; which it may be expected
will, sooner or later, occasion war, and the invasion of the
weaker country.
Thus, then, those Spaniards who really desire the peace and
Welfare of their country, must look to an alteration of their
Constitution, which shall have for its object, to give the King the
power of executing his office. I confess that Ido not see any
objection to this alteration, either in the antecedent conduct of
the King, or in the apprehension that his Catholic Majesty will
abase the power thus confided to him. The King will feel the
advantagm of the position in which tie shall find himself, and
will have no motive for wishing to overthrow the system esta-
blished, particularly if the alteration is made in concert with
him ; and, moreover, the spirit of the people, and the exertions
of those individuek who have prevented the existing system from
being overthrown, will preserve that to be established, even
!bough the King ould be desirous of overthrowing it, by the
abuse of the power entrusted to him. '
This will be the ease, particularly if the proposed alterations
of the system are mned with the King. Indeed, no other
mode amides those alterations can have the desired effect : as,
if they are not made in concert with the King, his Catholic Ma-
jesty WIZ not cordially carry into execution the system proposed ;
and, both King and People being dissatisfied, there will still be
the same cameo for internal disturbance and for carpal war as
exist at present. The concert with the King so the alterations
must be a real one ; and the King must be satisfaed that the
Constitution, as altered, will secure the foundations of his power
over the Executive Government, and will give him the means
of protecting himself, his family, and his swam.
Neither do I see any reason for deferring to stake these al-
tendons in the reeept transactions of beetle Pewift.• Those
transactions are all professedly defensive._ Prance I=e, by
her Artny of Observation, to be defensive; and that
she will OK pass the frontier, excepting en the emnierwke of
certain cases. 'r he alteration; of the Cemehtitionk owthe prin-
ciples proposed, would render those asses miospeeheble, as that
the continuance of the Army of Observation tread be as top
less expense ; and there is no doubt that it woo* be iguana-
ately withdrawn.
Thee, another advantage which would result from this aims.
tioo in aid of Internal tranquillity Is, that Fripet would most
probably immediately adopt Matt efikkot measure to prevent
the assembly of the Itoyallits whisk the French frontier....
AU Spaniards who pass the frontier, might he. ordered to re-
side at such a distance from the frontier, as to render their
intrigues or their operations within the Spanish beitiee nearly
impossible; and thus the asylum given in Frank to persoas of
this descriptitm, would not be inconsistent with the peace and
tranquillity of Spain.
But this is not all. The Spaniards Most see that ail the sources
of the prosperity of their country are nearly destroyed ; and that
the very foundations of social order and government are in a
state of risk. There is nowade, no private or public revenue :
the national property cateot be sold the interest of the Na-
tional Debt cannot be paid; nor can the army, or any of tibt pub-
lic servants oc establishments; and no money can be borrowed. ,
I happen to know that the principal ntottied people in Europe,
will not lend their money. to Spahr, till they shall see a eyeless
prevail in that country, which shall afford some hope of the re-
establishment and permanence of peace and good order.
If all this be true—if it be true, besides, that the best chants
that Spain has oi coming to some arrangement with her Colo-
Ides, is to be found in some settlement of her internal distal.
*ion, and distractions, it is imputable that my tameable Spa-
niard can doubt that the time is tome, to effect those alterations,
which the common sense of mankind, points out to be necessary.