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Madrid to the Count de Canellas. But let us leave

conjectures to state facts.
" I addressed myself anew to the Foreign Ministers;
but I remarked in their speeches, a constant reserve
,with respect to the predominating party in Spain, and
regret on account of the absence of positive instructions.
a' I then determined to send couriers to Lisbon and
Paris. verbally declaring to each of the above named
Ambassadors, that if any disturbance should occur in
Portugal, the blame would not rest on my Government
nor on me, and throwing on them the responsibility for
what might happen through their not having used the
necessary diligence. They promised me to refer the
subject again to their respective Courts, but there was
one among them who esplained to me all the evils
which Spain had to dread from the vicinity of our re-
volutionists, and even complained of the reception which
bad been given to Spanish deserters.
" I then addressed myself to the English Minister,
who refused to attend the levee, on the Ist of October,
alleging as the reason for it, the uncertainty in which
he remained with respect to the disarming of our refs.
gees. This resolution produced its effect. Don Manuel
Salmon signified to me or; the Sd, tbat.his Most Catholic
Majesty had given orders to send back their arms, and
directed Viscount de Canellas to leave Madrid in three
days, and Spain in a month. In consequence of this.
I did not demand my passports, and our Government
suspended its di fensive preparations against the aggres-
sion with which, it was menaces'.
" But who would have been able to believe, that
while we reposed on the promises of the Spanish Go-
vernment, that Government pet severed in its secret
machinations. The prof of this soon became notorious,
by the revolt of the Marquis de Chaves, and the insur-
rection of the regiments of the Algarves.
" It was, nevertheless, at this epoch even, that the
Cabinet of Madrid assured me that orders had been
given to the Count de Casa Flores, its Ambassador to
our Court, to come to an understanding with the Minis.
ter for Foreign Affairs, to arrange the sending back of:
the arms.
" In this interval there arrived to many Ministers,
and especially to the Ambassador of France, positive
instructions to urge the Spanish Government to make
the promised restitutions. The French Government,
which throughout this affair has acted with the frank-
ness and honour worthy of the great Sovereign at its
head, and the high character of the personages who
compose his administration, not content with sending
these instructions, pressed the same councils on the
Cabinet of Madrid, through the medium of the Duke
de Villa Hermosa.

However. none of the promises of the Spanish
Minister were realized. Can it be doubted that the
Commanders on the frontiers had :met orders? It

has been stated to me that these had been given by
Don T.tddeo Calomarde. All that I know is, that this
Minister bested himself very much opposed to our new

institutions.
44 Mr. Lamb, the English Minister, strangle sup-
ported my demands, and did not conceal the fact, that
he should be obliged to quit Madrid if justice were not
speedily done.
60 We were in this situation when the Princess Re.
gent, in her Speech on the opening of the Chambers,
announced that her august brother, Don Miguel, had
taken his pure and simple oath to the Charter. I
instantly made this the basis of new representations ;
but Don Manuel Salmon repeated as heretaire, that
the Government of his Most Catholic Majesty found it
necessary to consult with his Allies.
" Could you imagine, Noble Lords, that they could
hold in doubt the reality of taking the oath by the
Infant Don Miguel? It is, however, but too certain,
that many persons of high rank refused to give credit
to it at the Court of Madrid, under the pretence that
the Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Vienna bad
not mentioned it in his dispatches.
" I addressed myself, in writing, to the Ambassadors
of France and Austria. At the moment (Nov. 10.) when
I caused my note to be transmitted to the former, he
received a dispatch from Paris, in which he found a
copy of the declaration which the Baron de DAII:A% had
made to the Spanish Ambassador. In his answer of the
next day, the Ilth, he wrote to me that the solution of
these difficulties did not belong to him, and that he was
about to refer the whole subject to his Court. The Am-
" to lan,Ambassador replied to me, that he had received
no instructions, and that no fresh proceeding was neces-
sary for the recognition of our Government.
" I endeavoured to draw verbal explanations from
the Foreign Ministers. But far from adopting the con-
siderations that I sought to give effect to, they answered,
that as the Portuguese. Government refused to rely 03
the promises of Spain, they could not abstain horn con-
sideting it (Porttipt.) as the aggressor.
" I heard that the Court of Madrid had been offici tlly