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'TROY THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS OF THURSDAY::
PARIS. MARCH 13.
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The inconveniencies inseparable from a war with.
Spain are too generally felt, and too well appreciated,
to -permit. us to. announce without a profound impres-
sion of sorrow that the last hopes of peace have almost
disappeared ; but our just sorrow is tempered by the
conviction that in drawing the.sword from the scab-
bard we ire fulfilling a national duty, and a com-
mand of honour.
Everything has been done to draw from revolu-
tionary Spain a single proof of a Wish to, put an end
to the excesses which disquiet Europe, and compro-
mise France. There was no question of the sacrifice
of liberal institutions, or of foreign intervention, nor,
in a word, .of anything which could compromise the
interests or Wound the honour of Spain. It was only
required of. misled men to substitute for a destructive
itticirip.Witholit object and without limits, that iode-
ydentAiiitit Of Royalty which is the life-spring of
opiratiCiliOcietY.. Spanish liberty was only asked
to recognizethe rights of. legitimac lot .she refused.
she is then no tonger liberty. • .No veil now covers
T,TeLltfOusiraits at anirchy—no consideration tem-
feta' its fury=no friendly or pacific voice can stop
its progress. •
-Facts tinnily indilputable and shocking have just
eilal4ithed the orstrageotis captivity of Ring Ferdi-
nand., jt. is Evident that' f4tiOn is determinectio.carry
its crowned prisoner iu its train, and the propOvitions
for Stripping him even of the shadow-of royalty find
no longer any obstacle, except the fear df opening the
eyes of the multitude-tin the real state of things. But
what man of 'sense; what enlightened nation, can
henceforth be deceived by, this empty :image -of
royalty?. Who can fola moment doubt that the King
of Spain is now as completely a captive as if he were
already loaded with' The base chiiins,with which his
Ministers haye.dired.to.nienace his auguit person ?. .
'But the reiolittionists out of Spain have, by their
suggestions, given to their copfederates at Madrid the
word of order for a blind resistance—for an impla-
cable fury, in order to lender fruitless the efforts
made by reason andloyalty to prevent a deplorable
War. They sacrifice Spam to rlie infatuated hope of
reviving the flames of a universal revolution along
with a general war.
That hope will not be realized. The invisible, and
yet incontestible presence of the Revolution of 11793•
in the Councils of Spain, necessarily unites all Go-
vernments in one common wish—that of repressing a
- knovin enemy—an irreconcileable enemy, whose ter-
rible excesses they well recollect.
Such will be the uecesiary consequence of the late
events at Madrid: they will have, at least, the me-
lancholy advantage of justifying the foresight of
France, :and the .measures which she has taken for
her own security.

PROM Tilt PILOTE OF WEDNESDAY EVENING.
PARIS, MARCH 12.
The ordinary Cartes, in their Sitting of the 2d,
unanimously passed a_Decree, in which they ordered
the Ministry, in twenty-fours, to report the execution
of the Decree for the removal of the,,Piieritiient.
By the same Decree; the Cortesdeclaire that neither
the Report upon the situation of Spain, which should
be presented by the Ministers at the opening of the
Session, nor any Other.4eport upon the saint subject,
shall be heard until after the translation Of 't-be Go-
vernment, and then only in the place where it shall
haVe been established. .
The Society Of the Communeros, by an unanimous
decision, has tniito with the Masens; and driverificiin
its bosom Bertrand de.Lis, as bought over by fo-
Feigners,- and as occupied only for some months past
I 7064 :tic/diviiiOni lifTSPain. The Society has pro-
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pt 44 py.me.notoiciny.!Starilisneu between the Com-
Mown* and the. Masons, in order to reform tbeir
*litotes, anti toisrritedistruttians to all the provinces
itVoi-ilersto unite khd electrify the public mind.
' 'he latest news received from die frontiers of Spain
ettlosouas. Al hat gina
hat .be a .
tremiked tnoell .11:11nto
f‘alufen.wioihpisalus• at
Municipality of
of
thiCtown (mot° 'piastre's, and • that 96;000 Were
s - l tof iedMm on lie spot. 'This Constitutional
mil will quickly repair to the frontier nearest
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erdagne, where a considerable body is concentrated,
chiefly ' 'it is said, composed of foreigners. -
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PAIATATX CORRESPONDENCE.
• ••• PARIS, 4I ARC 11 tr.
" The Englishlitistris of Saturday last, containing
the Report of the Dinner proceedings.of the London
Tavern on.friday, itia the Protest of the 62 Mem-
hers f thethamber of, Deputies against the expul-
sion of,M.,Mannel, were yesterday seized by the po-
lice.' Copies of them, however, had arrived by special
couriers a day before, and thus the account of the
Dinner appeared in the French Journals of yeiterday.
lkliine eft .ern cared to copy the Protest. This latter
document was taken by the Law Officers from the
band of the President of the Chamber, and submitted
to Council of Ministers, to determine whether it did
not Warrant a prniectition against its 62 subscribers.
Nothing but the number and respectability of the sig-
natures, and the dangerous agitation that such a pro-
ceeding-would excite, prevented the.' Council from
plscing the Deputiii on their trial for sectitiims writiog:
—The Ministers would, however, eagerly seize an
opportunity of prosecuting any printer, bookseller, or
journalist who should give it 'to 'the work, and there-
fore all those parties are on their guard *.Lithogra;
phic copies, howeier, are largely di,stributesf; and
thus, in Paris at least, every person-who feels an in-
terest in such Objects may obtain a perusal of it.—
Printers and bOOksellers 'bare been apprised 4 the'
Police, that ,if any copy alit appears its their Shriciai
they will be deprived of their licenses (or irekti),
and have their shops shut up. Mercier, the serjeaht
of the National Guard; wbo fr.ft4d to an est Pitahtter,
is to be tried by a Council of Piscipline. The utmost
punish ment.that it can inflict is dismissal and a month's
imprisonment. Even this' moderate punishment the
Authorities May be aftaid Wh
to Whet, Trci.in a sense of
shame, 'and a fear of irritating die rational Guard,
whose services will be now'moreveteisary-than ever,
when a great art of the troops is sent to the frontiers.
~ There are various rnoidiirs in town to-day, re-
specting- the relation4etweei Fraoce.aod Spin, but
none (.4 them can be traced to any authentic source.
-- .crated - 'Chi- that Mina had entered
accounts was at Barce-
that the King had con-

h was •stated on 'Change,
France, but Mina by the last
lona. Another rumour was,
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