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• ,may, have occnioned with respect to other nation ,F. 14
Majesty, confiding in the sentiments of his. Allies, hopes
that they will assist him iy aceomplishing • the worthy
object of upholding the principles of order and legiti-
.niacy, thesnbversion of which, Ante commenced in Ame,
ricn,•would presently communicate to Europe ; and that
they aid him, at the same time, in re-establishing
peace between this divisi,ln of the globe and its-Colonie..
It is, therefore, his •Majesty's pleasure,. that, penei
trated with these reasons, and availing yourself of thri
resources of your well known talents, you should duo
deavour to dispose the Government with which you re-
side to agree to the desired co-operation, for which thel
events of the Peninsula• have paved the way ; audio;
sizing you to communicate a copy of this note to chi'
Minister for Foreign Affairs.—God preserve you fo
many years.

(Signed) Tim. CONDE DE OFALIA.
To the Ambassador of his Catholic Majesty at Paris, and
to his Min6ters Plenipotentiary at_ St. Petersburgh and,
Vienna.
(Third Enclosure in N 0.2.)
SIR WILLIAM A•COURT TO COUNT OFALIA.

•Madrid, Dec. 30, 1825.
The undersigned, &c. &c. has the: honour td acknosiodge the
receipt of the Count -ofata's note, dated the 26th of this .tuenth.—
He will hasten to submit it to hii Oovernment.—He begs his Hz-
cellet.4 to accept; kc: (Signed) WM. 041.COUR7`.
His Excellency the Count Ofalia, &c.
N. 3.— MR. SECILETA HY CANNING TO SIR.*. 119COU1tT.
Foreign Office, Jan. 30, 1824.
Sir—The messenger Latchford delivered to• me, on.
the 14th instant, your dispatch, inclosing a copy of the
Count de Otalia's- official note to you of the• 26th of
December . last; with the accompanying copy of an in-
struction, which• has been addressed, by order of •his
Catholic Majesty; to his Ambassador at Paris, and.to
his Ministers Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Vienna
and St. I'etersburgh.
Having laid these .papers beim e the King, I have re-
ceived his. Majesty's commands to direct to you to return
to them the following answer:—
The purpose of the Spanish instruction is to invite
the several Powers, the allies of his Catholic Majesty, to
" establish a conference at Paris, in order that their
Plenipotentiaries, together with those of his Catholic
Majesty, may aid Spain in adjusting the affairs of the
revolted countries of Americ.a."

The maintenance of the " Sovereignty" of Spain over
her late colonies is pointed out in this instruction as one
specific object of the proposed conference; and thongh
lan expectation of the employment of force for this object,
by the Powers invited to the conference, is not plainly
indicated, it is not distinctly disclaimed.
The invitation contained in this instruction not being
addressed directly to the Government of Great• Britain,
it-may not be necessary, to observe upon that part of it
which refers to the late ,6 events in the Peninsula," as
having " paved the way" for the " desired co-operation.".
The British Government could not acknowledge an
appeal founded upon transactions to which it was no
party. But nn such appeal was necessary. No variation
in the internal affairs of Spain has, at any time, varied
the King's desire to see a termination to the evils.arising
from the protracted struggle between Spain and Spanish
America ; or his Majesty's disposition to concur in
bringing about that termination.
From the year 1840, when his Majesty's single me-
diation was asked and granted to Spain, to effect a re-
conciliation with her colonies,—the disturbances in which
colonies had then but newly broken out,—to the year
1818, when the same task, increased in difficulty by the
course and complication of events in America, was
proposed to be undertaken by the Allied Powers assem-
bled in .conference • at. Aix•la•Chapelle ; and from the
year 1818 to the present time, the good offices of his
Majesty for.this purpose have always been at the ser-
vice of Spain, within liniitations, and upon conditions
which have been in each instance explicitly described.
Those limitations have uniformly excluded the em-
ployment of force or of menace against the colonies, on
the part olany mediating Power; and those conditions
have uniformly required the ' previous statement by:
Spain, of some definite and inteiligihlepr?prisition, and,
the discontinuance on her part of a systeni utterly in-
applicable to the new relations which have grown up
between the American provinces and ether countries.
The fruitless isstie: of the conferences at Aix=l4.!
Chapelle would have deterred the BritishsGovernment
from acceding to a proposal for again entertaining, in:
conference, the question of a mediation between Spain:
and the Ainerican provinces, even if other circum-
stances had remained nearly the same. But the eventsl
which have *followed each other with such rapidity
during the last five yeas-s, have created so essential 4,
difference, as well in'the relative situation in v .whic)
Spain and the American prrivinces stood, and now stand
to 'each Other, as in the external relations and the in-
ternal circumstances of the provinces themselves, ,that
it would be vain to hope that any mediation, not
founded on the' basiS of independence, could nosy be
successful.
The best proof which the British Government can give
of the interest Which it continues to feel for Spain is, to
state—frankly their opinion as to the course most advis-•
able to be 'pursued by his CathOlic Majesty; and to an-
swer With•the like (lankness the question implied in M.•
Ofalia's instructipn, as to the nature and extent of their
own .relations With Sidianiih America. .
There is n 9 lietitatiai in'answering this question:
The SithejectS of his IVajeity
,hate for many years carried
inn-trade and Tormed Commercial connitions in all the
Arnericansirovairtei Which have dedlared their separa.
tiois froth Spain. - -
This trade *ifs originally:opened with the consent of,
the SpairiilfGpverwhent. It has grown' gradually tot
such an extent reqnir&so*direct ota,ction,
,theesal4.4A' et•tt' it .sei.eril"port# aces 'o4Psel
pro/slices, of ComPils an ;the part of this ,comatry7.-a'
'measure long:deferred out of delicacy to Spain, and not
rpsorted 'to at last without distinct and timely notific.,l-
- th,ttie Spanish Poyei ronent.
As to any further step to be taken by his Majesty to-
wards the acknowledgment of the de facto Govern.*
ment,s of Attune*, the decision must (as has already been
stated "Mote than once to Spain and to other Powers)
depend upon various circumstances; apd, among others,
upon the reports which the British Government =ay re-
. ceive of the actual state of affairs in the several AMP.
ticahprovinces. •
Out a appears manifest to the Byitish Government,
that if so large a portion of the globe should remain
much longer without any recognized political existence,
or any definite platical connexion with the established
Governments of Europe, the consequences of such a state
. of things must be at once most embarrassing to those
Governments, and most injurious to the interests of all I
European nations.
for these reasons, and not from mere views of selfish
policy, the Br itish Government is decidedly of opinion,
that the recognition of .such of the nevi States as haye