Star.
London, England, 1823-10-29 00:00:00

APOLOGY FOR FERDINAND VII.
PROM TAR JOURNAL D2S MOATS OW SUNDAY.
PARIS, OCTOBER Se.
The revolutionary power is put an end to in Spain.
Ferdinand is again seated on the Throne of his ances-
tors ; he is free to give his people the institutions which
be judges necessary. This is what France desired to
accomplish ; the remainder is not oarimmediate busi-
ness; and we can only obtain any influence over it by
our wishes, our councils, and particularly by our ex-
ample. Undoubtedly all the true friends of legitimate
Royalty would like to see it re-appear in Spain as it has
re-appeared in France, and as it ought always to re-
appear, for the purpose of putting an end to civil wars;
endowed with• clemency, wisdom, and generosity ; ral-
lying all separate interests around the interest of the
country to the common security of all, and to the ex-
istence and prosperity of the State; making the weight
of its justice only feh by some guilty and dangerous in-
dividuals ; soothing the different great masses, and gua-
ranteeing to every tranquil individual his personal se-
curity, and the enjoyment of his legitimate property ;
forgetting personal insults and repressing systematic
vengeance ; the hatred of party and ihterested perse-
cutions ; rewarding the faithful; making all thelnoral
and physical power of the nation concur in the service
of the State, and forcing no man of talent or influence
into a situation in which despair will render him an
implacable enemy; above all, rebuilding and consoli-
dating, with all possible celerity, the great edifice of
laws and institutions, which, after a violent and extensive
Revolution, only offer' to our view a-heap of uninha-
bitable ruins -; this is Royalty restoring and repaiciag
and these are the restorations and repairs whicb,closing
the abyss of Revolution, lead forward to many ages
of pi ospei ity.
Such sentiments reign in the heart of Ferdinand, for
'be is a Bourbon—these thoughts are in his mind, for
he is a King. But there are difficult and unfortunate
situations, in which SoYereigns cannot,.without danger,
follow their own ideas, and are obliged `to grant some.-
thing to the passions of the people by whom they are
surrounded. The remembrance of the recent tyranny ,
of the Cortes—the sight of the rebels who remain ip
possession of their arms—the state of suffering into
which the revolutionary system had plunged the king-
dom—all conspire to make the Royalist party. which',
forms the great mass of the Spanish people, cherish via
lent and exasperated feelings, which are not always in
accord with true policy. A greater degree of calm in
the public mind will soon permit the Spanish Govern-
mem to occupy iiself with that general reconciliation
which is doubly necessary in a monarchy exhausted by '
a civil war, and ruined by the separation of the Colonies.
At the present moment, as a preliminary measure, it
it indispensably necessary to the tranquil exercise of
the civil authority, to disband the army, and form it
anew on another basis. What c:en the-laws effect in the
midst of parties under arms? In the meantime, that
the firm, and at the same time generous conduct of the
Cabinet at Madrid, may entirely satisfy the wishes of
France, and %%hat its policy requires, our example is a
daily and public counsel which we give to Spain; it is
wisdom controuling all the passions of every species,
and leading them in spite of themselves to their corn-
-mon happiness ; it is Legitimate Royalty widening and
smiting the basis of public liberty. May Spain, in
contemplating the spirit of our restoration, learn at
length to accomplish her own.

THE EVEN ING STA It.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1523.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Coasois opened at 82i aT, at which price they have remained
steady during the morning, except until the present moment, when
they have taken a hide change, and are done at 11.31, with a stiff
xnarket.—The Expresses from Paris this morning have brought the
Rentes at 69f. 60c.—After 'Change bouts Spanish Stock was ail 27.