Star.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

EVACUATION OF SPAIN BY THB

• FiENCH ARMY.
FROM THE "TOILS.
The French were to leave Spain on the Ist of last
July. His Catholic Majesty, however, could, if he
deemed it necessary, call for the prolongation of the
stay of our army. He judged this would be useful, to
enable him to complete the organization of his army,
and a new convention, which fixed the period for eva.
' cuating Spain for the Ist Of January, 1825, was con.
eluded- on the 30th of last July, between the two cons.
tries.—lt is this convdntion which is about to be exe-
cuted, and which has for some days occupied the atten-
tion of all our Journals. They have till now contented
themselves with presenting to their readers the evacua-
tion of Spain as a piece of news which they hastened to
Communicate. But this day, two Journals, which tall
themselves the organs of the Opposition, take occasion,
from the simple execution of a- treaty, to attack two
GOvertiments, those of France and Spain, and to paint
in colours the most gloomy and alarming the future
state' of the Peninsula.
One of them, the Journal do Debate, inquires
" What pledges the present state of Spain offers fo;
the security ot the Spanish Royal Family ? What •re-
sources, what military means, do we leave in the
hands of King Ferdinand, to consolidate and defend his
authority ?"
What pledges!—Do you not know them f Ask the
whole of the French army, which has seen the %ath%
population rush before it, with shouts a thousand rimt%
repeated, of " Long live Ferdinand r " Long live the
Bourbons!" To Spain we miftrust the tails •of de-
fending her King, pow that she is no longer kept dawn
by a rebel army.
What financial resources?—Why—obviously those of
Spain—of her soil—of her colonies—which cannot re-
4ain order but by submitting to the mother country'.
Some years of tranquillity will restore to Spain what
the revolutionists have taken away from her.
What military means?—Why; the rebel army is dis-
banded ; the King is surrounded by a Royalist Guard,
by volunteers raised in every instance at Iris call, and
our soldiers will occupy the strong places, to confide
them to faithful Spanish troops so soon as they shall be
organized.
" Here, then, after so many efforts," exclaims the
publicist of Des Debate, 44 are all the fruits which Mi-
nisters have known how to draw from the exploits of the
Puke d'Angouleme, and from the *stories of the krench •
*army. With the exception of the per tonal liberty of the
king, we find ourselves as forward now as we were
when we crossed the Ebro.". • •
Is it, then, nothing to ane pred ':the persOn al
liberty of the King ? And was pp :pat the 'mild ilo
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dpposed the war yet to learn the benefits thence using ?
The revolution annihilated in Spain, an (with it a Con-
stitutional Army of 75400 men, which had. introduced'
it, and which defended it ; the Spanish nation (a nation
of Royalists and Christians) delivered from the yoke of
a military insurrection; the army reforming itself on
new bases ; the fortresses of the kingdom and Cadiz,
where the revolution had its birth, confided to French-
men, who will know how to defend them from attacks
like those made on Tarifa, if these should be renewed ;
Spain, forgetting for ever, through our late-glorious in-
tervention, a former criminal invasion; in fine, the
Royal Family and the Clergy snatched from their
jailers and executioners : this as what France has done
is what our army and its Generalissimo have ac.
complished since they croised the Ebto.
44 How different the result if the Minister bad fol-
lowed the inspirations of Andujar Supreme media-
tors between parties who were disarmed, you would'
have made both of them feel the benefits of 1 neces-
sary guardianship. In protecting existing establish-
ments, who would have turned their thoughts from
chimerical cnnstitutionc." _ _ _

What, is it you, who before the war were so loud
against intervention, who now give us such counsel?
You cite to us the ordonnance of Andujar but you
forget that when the Prince Generalissimo issued
that ordonnance, the King of Spain was still a prisoner
n Cadiz.
The Prince exercised then all the authority which re-
sulted from his position, and from the glorious end
which he proposed to himself, and he bad grounds to
fear that the safety of his army might be compromised.l
But on the Ist of October, King Ferdinand was free;
and the Duke d'Angouleme was no more than the Ge-
neralissimo of the Allied Army—of a King who was
• his telation. What would you wish that the King's Go.
%Trams* should hays done?—that it should have in-
terpord between the Spaniards and their King, between
Spaniards and Spaniards, and that it should have re-
established the Cortes par estantentost But, once more,
we say this would be, to govern Spain though the King
were free.

Besides, do you think the Spaniard; would suffer such
a mediation ? Was it with such projects that we entered
Spain? Was it with 415,000 men left iu Spain that we
could accomplish such designs? Open the history of
Spain, and you will learn to know that nation, always
so jr.ilous of its independence—always so distinguished
for defending it. You are alarmed after the war, but,
you were also alarmed before it. Your predictions now,
ss ill prove as vain as they were then.

The Constitulionnel speaks more ingenuously than
you. It does not trouble itself about the safety of the
Spanish Royal Family, but for the oppressed,. " who
breathe but under the shadow of the protection of our
min'', and who will see it retire with fear."
To this we have but one word to answer: it was
against the Liberals, and not for them, that our army
entered Spain.
As to the influence of the Cabinet of London, the re.
cent events in Portugal, which the Constitutionnel cites
as. an example to the French Government, everybody,
knows dur4se English had not even an Ambassador in
Portugal then ; and it would be to shut our eyes to evi-
dence, not to recognize with aU Europe, that the influ-
_mice *WO prevailed on this occasion was wholly exer-
cised by Prance, and that by her policy she has re-esta-
blished the Royal authority in Portugal, as she had pre.
vicusly done by her arms in Spain.