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London, England, 1814-05-09 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPARS.

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MADRID, APRIL
TIIE CORTES. •
In the Sitting of yesterday, the Presi4ent an-
nounced the approach of the Secretary at War, who
came to communicate a piece of important informa-
tion. The Secretary entered. and read from the tri-
bune the following letter from the Duke of Ciudad
Rodrigo to the Minister at War, on the subject of
the entrance of the Allies into Paris:
" Most Excellent Sir—l transmit to your Excellency the sub-
joined Paper, which is the translation of 1 Proclamation pub-
lished yesterday in Toulouse by the*Prefect of the Department,
from which you will see that the Allies entered Paris on the 30th
ultimo. I hasten to communicate to you this important infor-
. mation, begging at the 'same time to felicitate the Government,
On so glorious an eeent.7
[Here follows the Proclamation.] •
Senor REP.—Since the French have deprived us'
of many valuable articles, both in the arts and in let-
ters, I suggest to your Majesty, though I know it to
be rather the province of the Executive, that a Com-
missioner should go to France, for the purpose of re-
cognizing in Bourdeaux, and even in the museums
of Paris, the articles of which the literature, and arts
of Spain have been robbed, demanding them back,
and restoring them to Simancas, the Escurial, and
other places to which they belong. •
Senor VARGAS supported this ideas which however
its author did not commit to writing, satisfying him-
self with the zonsideratiori that the Secretary would
announce it to the Government.
SITTING OF THE 17TH. •
The Report of a Special Commission on the ex-
penses of the King's Household was taken into con,
sideration.
" ART. . That the annual endowment of the Household of
the King should be fixed at forty millions of reels."
[N.B. Twenty reels vellon make a dollar."
• Senor MoYANO.—I should be satisfied with the
sum fixed by the Committee, if it could be altered
during the life of his Majesty ; for should Ferdinand
VII. marry and have children, as we all wish, then
forty millions would not be sufficient. • Though the
nation be poor at present, yet it is in a course of be-
coming rich, considering the impediments which have
been removed from agriculture. commerce, and the
• arts. For this reason, and because at Bayonne sixty
millions were assigned to the usurper, I think that the
revenue of the Royal Household should be more than
forty millions.
. Senor VARGAS.—I wish to know whether the Mat.
terships of the Military Orders (Matrtrargor) are in-
cluded in these forty millions? for though I know
not what they are worth, I am-sure they are very
lucrative.
Senor CANGA Annueuss.—The Masterships are'
Consigned to the public account.
Senor Vaacas.—Then I think the forty.millions
snore than sufficient.
Senor CEPERO said he was happy in having contri-
buted to the saving of ten millions, by demanding
accounts from the Government. The Committee at
.first proposed fifty millions; but afterwards; on hear-
ing the Regency, it agreed to the forty which the
latter proposed. I rely, said he, on the Government,
which possesses all the data • and believe the
amount quite sufficient, even though Ferdinand VII.
should marry and have children. The virtues of his
Majesty, which a peputy has painted, and which no-
body doubts, do not come into cosuideratietc,ia this
question ; for, fortunately, the nation has :leached that
state in which its happiness does not so much depend
on the private virtues of the King, as on the execution
• of the laws. Here we are representatives of the people
and this day exercise the highest act of sovereignty.
.We must bete act for the people who have sent us
hither, and confided to us their interests. 1 think the
• endowment of 40 millions quite sufficient. The King
of England, though the nation be most opulent, pro-
bably has not so much ; for though he has assigned
to him by Parliament a revenue of perhaps ninety
millions, yet he has to pay nut of it his civil list, -the
Judges, and I believe even his guards. As to what
has been said of the revenue assigned to the Usurper
at Bayonne, that assembly was a complete farce, and
the farcical Spaniards met there had nothing of the
character of representatives,
Senor CANGA Aiueuu.Les proved from facts in our
legislation, that our Kings had often been urged to
make reforms in their households—that profusion had
been advancing-to such a degree, that even Charles
IV. proposed to reduce some expences ; but it seas
not accomplished on account of the want of 'character
of those who surrounded the throne, or from the ge-
neral corruption. He then read a list of the expences
of the kingdom in the year 1799, and proved that
not even Charles IV. in days of the greatest pro-
fusion, had a greater revenue than that now assigned
to the King.
The above article was then approved of. as well as
the following.:
Art. 2. That with this sum the King must pap, first, all the
ordinary and extraordinary expences of the household, chamber,
chapel, and stables; second, these of tapestry, Ste. third, those•
of the wardrobe and jewels; fourth, those of the palaces woods,
gardens, villas, and grounds, which are assigned to his Frajesty
for his amusement ; and fifth, those of alms, and penitons to ser-
vants, the poor, convents and churches.
Art. 3. 'That the domains which the Cortes may aealipi for the
receeation of the King form an article entirely separate from the
endowment of his household.
Art. 4. That the public treasury shall be cbirged With the sole
payment, first of the pensions of the Infants; second, of the Se-
cretaries of State and their offices; and third, with the pay attic
chiefs, officers, and soldiers of the Royal Guards ; and with other
services which do net properly belong to the Royal Household.
Art. 5. That to each of the infanta be assigned an annual re-
venue of 1,650,000 reals, equivalent to the 140,002 ducats here-
tofore assigned to them.
Art. 6. That an aid be granted to the King, by way of antici-
pation, for the er.pence which bit establishment in 'the capital
may occasioe, to the amount of a third of the endo%nient as-
signed to 14m; 'lye distribution of the same remaining at his free
disposal.
Senor MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA thought beat the ex-
Fences which would now be necessary for the equip-
ment of the Royal household, should be borne by
the Treasury, without deducting them from the an-
nual 4.0 millions; for this expense would only happen
once, and it would be indecorous for the nation not
to defray it,
Senor Vaaaas—The commiitee has aetekwith
the greatest discretioti in this resolittiono. and I tup-
port it. This.third should sac 4nyanced,. end
VIT. should distribute it in the way he thinks
However, I was 50nd:dozed at Ain't -Which
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and mules.. We knovithat, erdinand VII. is now
coming very economically on his journen and I wish
he would despise the barren rate of mules, and pre-
fer horses. I Also wish, thatobsereing the fields de-
stitute of labourers, he would despise having, such a
multitude of coachmen, who are as unproductive and
useless as mules, and would put his household on
another footing. lam quite scandalized at the peti-
tions of these retainers of the palace ; I believe that
if there are incorrigible sinners, they are these re-
tainers. Let us not give countenance to this extra-
vagance.—The article was then approved.
MADRID, APRIL So.
We learn that the NAg has arrived in Valencia.
The Regency has ordered the Duke de San Carlos
to take the oaths to the Constitution, in Valencia, that
he may act in his capacity of Great Chamberlain.

• It ,ras the following :—For the stables, 3,878,000 reals, viz.
600,000 for seventeen coaches and 7 berlins, 3,304,000 to buy 206
mules, 479,000 to buy 109 saddle boric*, 136,000 for fourteen
coach hones; for furniture, 3cc. 900,000; to clothe ten masters
of the horse, 213 coachmen, boys, grooms, horse-breaker%
runners, 3cc. 463,000 teals.

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