Star.
London, England, 1820-09-16 00:00:00

REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

TOE ADDRESSES OF GENERALS RIEGO, BANOS, AND !
ARCO AGUERO, TO THE CORTES AND KING OF SPAIN. I
The following important documents, which have
been otten alluded to in the recent accounts from
Spain, have never yet been published in this country.'
We shall make no apology, therefore,. though they
are of some length, for presenting them to our Readers.
" TO THE CORTES.
gs When the Generals who. ire at the head of the
Army of Observation recollect that to them and their
companions in arms is owing the first constitutional
impul,e—that they first caused the cry of Liberty to
resound—that they hastened, nay, even created, the
extraordinary events to which the Spaniards are
obliged for a country, froM which the King derives
his grandeur and his power—and, finally, in conse-
quence of which the nation has seen its Cortes assem-
sling—these same Generals do not hesitate to carry
to the foot of the throne their wishes and their solid-
tittles. The Captain-General of Andalusia, under
date of the Bth inst. communicates an order of the
Minister of War to the Commander in. Chief of that
Army. The order pronounces its dissolution, and
disperses, on various points, the corps of which it
is composed.
" To explain to our National Congress the impru-
dence of this precipitate. measure, would be to doubt
the knowledge and the wisdom of our Legislators.—
The Congress is not ignorant that existing circum-
stances are still difficult and precarious. Scarcely
has it begun its important deliberations, and time
alone can ensure the stability of Constitutional insti-
tutions, by giving them a force capable of resisting
the attacks of malevolence—that malevolence which
must increase day by day, an account of the esta-
blishment.of a system different from that which has I
been annulled. The rules which must precede and
determine the organization of a national force, have
rot yet been subjected to a first discussion. The
financial system, which must be the basis of admi-
nistration—reforms of every kind, which will not fail-
to excite discontent and opposition among the rich
classes—all these great questions remain still to be
solved. The fundamental law of the State—the pub-
lic safety—is threatened by associations protected
abroad, and by internal troubles, which have their
source in foreign countries.
" The national justice has not yet reached those
wha in 1814 basely betrayed the confidence of their
country, and abused their august mission. They are
still unpunished who on theday of the 10th of March
caused the blood of patriots to flow in the streets of
the heroic city of Cadiz.
" In this state of things, without communicating
with the National Congress, with whom all our inte-1
rests are identified, an order has been dispatched from
the War Office, to disband our Army which pro-
claimed Liberty—which swore to bury itself in the
ruins of its country, rather than abandon their arms
before they saw it completely happy and regenerated.
" Is tge present time favourable? The Cortes will,
no doubt, allow that this happy moment of laying
down arms has not yet arrived—thlt the measure
which ordains it is premature—that it is accompanied
by a train of fatal consequences, dangerous even to
pttb:ic liberty, the preservation of which is the only
object of the wishes of that Army and of its Chief.
64 ‘1 l!Aae, from the wisdom of Congress, that it
will refl...t maturely on the importance of this affair,
and that it will not place us in the dangerous alter-
native of failing ill our duties and renouncing our
principal• object, which is the safety of our country
tan object to which we have never ceased to aspire
from the first day of our happy and glorious enter-
prize), or of disobeying a Minister, the organ of in-
ordinate power, whose order compromises the national
liberty gained by our efforts.
(Signed) R PAUL DEL R I EGO.
a :MIGUEL LOPEZ BANOS.
*1 PHILIPPE DE ARCO AGUSIEO.
Sc. Ferdinand, August it, 1840."
ADDRESS TO THE ICING.
" SIRE—We wish that those who surround your
Majesty should fully know the sincerity of our senti-
ments, and would desire with as lunch good faith as
we to promote the happiness of Spain, in following
the ways which lizavas has miraculously deigned
to open before us. We wish that they would desire,
as well as we, that-his Majesty should see his glory
and his prisperity increase in' the line of conduct
which he has adopted with such nobleness for the
felicity of this nation—of this nation, which has so
well proved to the AN hole universe the love with which
it burns for your august person.
" Then, Sire, if things were so, without fearing si-
nister interpretations, we would presume to deposit
the whole of our sentiments in the bosom of your
Majesty, and our frankness will make them be re-
ceived with a generous indulgence.
" A Royal Order of
.the 14th instant, which dis-
bands the corps of observation, was communicated
cis the tsth by the Captain-General of Andalusia,
1). J. O'Donoju. This Order excites a fear that our
t: maul may not be received so favourably as it
ought. We are afraid that a hostile hand directs the
operations of the Ministry, and leads the nation to its
r aa; we are afraid that it compromises your Ma-
kiry, the army, and ourselves, who desire nothing
more than the establishment of a constitutional system.
This system, Sire, assures to your Majesty a great-
ness and a power which you would not have found
in a contrary system ; for your Majesty has had too
sad an experience, at the expense of Spanish honour,
in those years of afflicting memory, when you were
surrounded and deceived by Ministers at once igno-
rant and perverse.
We say, Sire, with frankness, that hidden hand
leads to inevitable destruction both the nation and
your Majesty, because it excites distrust unworthy of
our Majesty and of us : our good faith is hritated
by suspicions, which there is no attempt to disguise
in Ministerial Orders. -
" In order to preserve, Sire, the attachment which
our fellow-citizens testify towards us, and the kind
•ress with which your Majesty honours us, we must
remain faithful to the principles which we have pro-
in embracing the cause of our country and
of
.)ntlr Majesty. Ilistory teaches us, that it has of-1
ten L,,st dear to tell the truth to Kings; not-because
th, ale the enemies of truth, but because,it clashes
-Ile iiit..rests of their courtiers.
i he eli.loits even of the Cid, who never aimed
at t'iing else but the glory of his Prince, were the
objecL., of the sarcasms of the palace favourites, and

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f3uuntiwe couldshed by hinotm viseeour country'
plunged in confusion by the ignorance, if not by the
perverseness of a Minister, which drives us to the
edge of a precipice, endangers the safety of the State,
forces us to neglect the laws of discipline, and sur-
pilses your Majesty into orders contrary to your ser-
Ivice, and dangerous to the public tranquillity.
%" Our conduct proves that we ought not to be the
object of any sort of distrust. The troops whom we
have the honour of commanding deserve the bene-
dictions and the love of your Majesty and of all Spa-
niards. In spite of the opposition which we experience
at every step, and the intrigues .which cross unceas-1
ingly our most innocent movements, there is not an
individual in the army who incurs any danger of
being cited as an enemy of his country and his King.l
We have already been tried, and we will still give!
such convincing proofs of our good conduct, that
we may reckon beforehand on the esteem of poste-
rity.
The Congress has been assembled: it has not
yet been able to realize the reforms which the nation
demands. These reforms will necessarily be opposed
by these who are accustomed to live upon the public
calamities—those who cannot support 'the idea of
seeing Spaniards acquire, by means of new institu-
tions, information which they before wanted—by
those who cannot see the spread of the incontestable
'truths, that virtue, science, and labour ate the best
ancestors, the true sources of that prospiiity which
should be coveted by a good man, a Spaniard, wor-
thy of that name.
" The 10th of March is still unpunished. National
justice has not yet reached those, who, in 1814,
basely blrayed the confidence of their country, and
abused their august mission, by deceiving your Ma-
jesty, a. d by misleading your reason to such an ex-
tent, that they made you recompense by tortures and
death the generous devotion of Spaniards in favour
of your Majesty, when a captive in the hands of your
perfidious enemy—that devotion, the object of which
was to consolidate public liberty, on such bases that
it might not be possible henceforward for any of our
Princes to become the victim of ignorant or corrupt
Ministers. A thousand indispensable regulations re-
main yet to be submitted to a first discussion. The
fundamental law of the State, and public safety, are
threatened by associations protected by foreigners,
and by internal troubles, the causes of which are to
be traced to foreign influence.
" In these circumstances, the Minister chose to dis-
solve the army of observation—that safeguard of the
National Representation, by which we fight for your
Majesty—and the new institutions, which are still so
far from a state of perfection and solidity, necessary
to present a true guarantee of the general repose.
" This corps of the Army being once disbanded,
your Majesty has no longer any defence against the
enemies of your person and of the nation. If we
abandon this position, from which we made the wicked
tremble, what a vast field will be open to the culpable
hopes of those whose wicked projects our union alone
prevents! Sire, the misfortune of innocence springs
from the seductions of the perverse ; and the good
heart of your Majesty has been already seduced by
perfidious counsels, as your Majesty has declared in
your Proclamation of the 10th of March last. Who
can assure either your Majesty, your Ministers, or
us, that the disbanding of the corps has not been a
plot laid against the liberty of our country, and the
preservation of your Majesty upon the throne ?
" Animated, Site, by the most lively interest for
the general good, in which that of your Majesty is
essentially interested, as well as that of the Royal
Family—convinced that the good character which
we have acquired among our fellow-citizens, and
even through the world, ought to be preserved un-
touched, exempt from all suspicion of treachery or
weakness—that our silence would be a crime when
our country was on the eve of falling into the hands
of its enemies, who would pronounce the dissolution
of the Army—we pray your Majesty to give every
attention to this exposé, to weigh the consequences
of the Royal Order communicated to the Army by
the Minister of War, to suspend its effect, and to ap-
preciate the Minister by the step taken on this occa-
sion, which might be the origin of incalculable mis-
fortunes. In our name, and that of the Army,
(Signed) " RAFAEL DELI RIEGO.
" LOPEZ BANOS.
" ARCO AGUERO."

Extract of a letter from a Correspondent at Madrid,
dated Bayonne, September 5 :—" I have just re-
ceived another highly interesting letter from Madrid.
Pray cause a paragraph to be inserted in all the daily
Papers, partiCularly The Times, stating that Toreno
is regal ded, with good reason, as the Member of the
Chamber who stimulated the Ministers to disperse
the army of La Isla and recal Riego, and that
nothing can exceed the indignation excited against
the Ministers for their obstinacy throughout this
affair—that Itiego had a conference with the King
on the morning of the 31st, which will, it is sup-
posed, lead to a change of Ministers—that the hero
harangued the people from the inn, and told them
he came to Madrid to dissipate all fears, by shewing
that the army was not in a state of rebellion, as
falsely asserted by the enemies of liberty—finally,
that Canga Arguelles has bungled matters in such a
manner, that there is not a shilling to pay the King's
household with. Poor Ferdinand is, in fact, poorer
than any of his subjects ! Riego is to return, and
his visit must lead to a totally new system. It is
reported, on the authority of a letter received here
this morning, that Portugal has followed the exam-
ple of Spain, and proclaimed the Constitution of that
country. The same account adds, that the English
factory at Lisbon was pillaged on the 27thr 2nd the
merchants massacred. Three couriers passed through
this place on the 2d amt.:3d ; they will have been the
bearers of the above news, if true."

The following articles are copied from German
Papers, received since our last :

VIENNA, SEPTEMBER I.

The Hungarian regiment of Infantry (the Emperor
Alexander's) which has been in garrison at Presburg
for these twenty months, received orders on the 17th
of August to set out for Italy.