Star.
London, England, 1830-10-11 00:00:00

Amidst the variety of projects which Paris is daily giving birth ti
with respect to Spain, and which are first made mantles: to the world in
the London Journals under the date of illathid, as if actually hatched
in that city, instead of being, as they are, the abortions of out salons,
there arc two that deserve some notice, if only for their absurdity and
extravagance. The first has already been made public; the at tond
shall probably be the first to uslor into the daylight, to which it would
have arrived in due course under cover of another Spanish Mail.
It appears, then, that the Quixotic race of Spain. or a portion of
them. now actually expatriated front their country, anti gazing wait
vague hopes on the lofty barriers and the bristling arms
their return, do nevertheless entertain lofty plans of exu.r:id conquest
or political aggrandisement. In older to round a territory too insigri-
ficatit for their capaclies, and to consolohte a power mitre ma thy of the
vigorous anus which are about to yield it, Porotgal is u.:ntn.g tot
Spain, and Portugal must therefore be united with Spain, Pot yr.:
mal yre. Theclaim is grounded on the same logic which their Pat istan
teachers employ vis-a-vis the Netherlands : Bclgiu:n tat wary-
live years formed a part, and the Kirke it the Natural boundary of
France. The acquisition of Portugal is, however, to be made, if pet,.
sible„ peaceably ; and nothing so easy, according to these profemod Rs-
!Ancient, as the folkwing combinations will testify.
There is nothing certain in this world, we arc told from high aolio-
rity ; the exception—the only exception it may be prestimpti--is the
continuance of Ferdinand VII. on the throne of Spain. Ho has ceased
to reign, both de facia and de jure. El .:edico swears it--the Times
has both said and proved it; what every body says mus: b.' tsar ;
therefore let us take for granted that the Serviles are subj-cod the
Carlists vanquished—the Monks annihilated—and Ferdinand depastd.
hie head shaved, and shut up in a monastery. Who next snail sway
the sceptre of Castile ? In the order of succession the Royal loran,
now struggling in the womb should reign, but " No Regency" is th.•
ay abroad. In its default by death Coon's Don Carlos, but he is
worse than his brother Ferdinand pass him by. Next is
Don Francisco de Paula--but he is a weak, silly hince,
besides that he is Godoy's bastard, Maria Louha's shame, and was
attainted as such, and blotted out of the line by the Cortes of La !sl •
somewhere about 1810. You will remark these consistent Statesme.•
object to Ferdinand--to Carlos, because they are men of talent and
spirit ; to the Royal Infant and Don Francisco, because of their weak -
nets and iscapacity. They will not be ruled by the Log ; they woubq
lytee the Stork, but onsof their own choice, and not of Jupiter's giv-
ing. Having thus summarily disposed at those in possesition,
wise men of La Mancha bethought them of a notable coup fetal,
compromise the French to join them ; they resolved to offer all th...
Spain:: to hlonseigneur his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, eldc,t
son and heir of King Philip, and Cannoneerin the Artillery of the Na
tional Guard of Paris. The Cannoneer, however. it was speedily ricer.
tamed, preferred the muddy Seine to the romantic Guadalquivir. Nl-
thing daunted, the Statesmen of grandee pewees recoUected that to
the Duke's brother, the Duke de Nemours, an appanage was wanting,
and the Crown was forthwith deferred to him. Having arranged this
preliminary natter to their satisfaction, the same ingenious men cast
about for a wife; It was resolved to have one with a dowry, and who
so fitting in all and every qualification as Donna Maria da Glo-
ria, the heiress of Portugal ? Why nothing could be more romantic
—more, ;nftnitely more so than the Venetian Doge espousing the
Adriatic would be the nuptials of the Tagus and the Guadalquivir,
crowned with the felicitations of the Seine and the Ebro. The whole
pageant was adjusted to the entire content of these political regenerators,
when the beatific vision was dissolved by the tardy remembrance that
England might forbid the banns, and:Brazil refuse to sign the marriage
, license.

Difficulties so startling appal only comnion minds. The baby-house
had been shivered to pieces with the breathing of a sigh alone. It was
soon reconstructed, with an ease and dexterity that must command ap-
plause if not success. What, indeed, so sublime in conception as an
union between his Royal and Imperial Highness Napoleon Bonaparte
Duke de Riechatadt and Donna Maria da Gloria ? This glorious scheme
conciliates all objections, removes all perplexities. The Emperor of
Austria must desire and promote a plan which gives a throne to his
grandson, extends the influence of his house, and unites the des-
tinies of two grandchildren, equally dear to him. The En..
pester of Brazil will be but too happy to accede to the
desires of his august European father in law. The King
of England will and can refuse nothing to his ancient ally of Ger-
many, and to the wishes of him of Brazil, with whose realms the Bri-
tish nation carries on so advantageous an interchange of commercial
relations. Behold, therefore, this masterotroke of policy ; or, it you
please, these flights of imagination—of minds which with such ease ca:,
give to "airy nothings a local habitation and a name." l'ertugal
merges into Spain; Don Femat.do and Don Miguel are dispesid of_
the first in cell and cowl ; the last changes sides with the Terce;ra fie-
vernmcnt, where he may sir.g, at his leisure, " I am Monarch of a.,1 I
survey."
How far this last plan, upon the ad eapianduas principle, mar sty.,
with the inclinations or the interests will be better left in your hands
than mine, if indeed so crude a proposition deserves entertain:l.cm at
all. It has formed the subject of much irsesip amongst us, and has
been discussed with due gravity in our Salons, where all great State
affairs and national business are prepared and decided for the approval
of the Cabinet and signature of the King. It does not, however.
meet with the assent of the Bonaparte school, who have on
the contrary arranged a matrimonial scheme of another sort.
Young Napoleon, according to this new disposition, i. to
espouse her Royal Highness Mademoiselle d'Oslesuis. ti,iughter
of King Philip, to whom Napoleon the Second is then to suc.
ceed. This speculation--worthy offspring of a partizan of the
man of the grandees pensees--has actually been printed and published,
is to be seen in every book shop-window, and hawked about and bawled
about in every street. Absurd as it may appear, it has caused uneasi-
ness in high quarter., and has been alluded to in the Chemises of ih -
puties in so marked a tone of deprecation as serves only to sr.
tech more importance to it than it would otherwise seem to merit.
In resuming, after this digression, 1 will content myself with remark-
ing the most Christian spirit of forgiveness with which the refugee
Spaniards would invoke the rule of the son of that bloody man--that
llonapute—whose Lieutenant, Murat, massacred thousands of their
brethren in Madrid, when they rose as one man, to protest against that
most perfidious, most infamous, most cowardly kidnapping of Bayor.nt,
and thief-like skulking into the strong places. Yes, they would vet
pardon only but recompense, with the richest gifts, the highest ;honours
of earth, the son of that egotistic, that sanguinary conqueror. whose
sword has not missed to strike one single house, nor rests there one fa.
mily in the whole Peninsula which it has not desolated, which it h:a
not made fatherless, childless, and widowed. I please myself to bcliev
that the moderate—the national party— are no parties to so base at,
oblivion of those crying wrongs and sufferings of Spain, even in the mest
minute degree.
The Precursor contains a Royal Order of the Government to the
Captains General of the Provinces, of the date of the 17th September,
under the date of the 51341, from Madrid, exhibiting proof of consider.
able inquietude ar.d alarm in the Cabinet, and inducing one to marvel
at the inconceivable blindness with which the King still refuses the ow.
derate reforms advocated by his principal and most enlightened subjects
and Ministers, and the Constitution of which they have submitted to
him a well-digested project, swayed by the fears, inspired by his pe.
sition between two furious parties—the Comuneros and the Monks—his
sowanlice has betrayed into the more instant and pressing danger; he
appears to have committed himselt to the fanatical Friars, body and
soul. To this deplorable result the furious menaces, the diabolical re-
actions, proclaimed by some of those incendiaries at the foot of the Py-
renees, have deubtless largely contributed. The insensate Proclama-
tion of Torrijos and the 'limes, disavowed as it was on the spot by the
pariot leaders, hardly indeed left him any choice ; and thus it is that
the pace of kingdoms, the cause of liberty, the hopes of wise and good
patriots, are betrayed, in order that intriguers and anarchists nosy
flourish.—Morning Paper.