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. ' By Ms kind/my the Liberator, President of the Republic,'
the Secretary of Stale of the Interior. .
• JOSE MAN OIL RjrATRIIPO.

SPANISH MANIFESTO.

TIMM as "TOIL; DAIIS JAL 31.

The official journal of Spain, of the 18th of January,
contains the following article opiPortugal :
The changes which have taken place in Portugal
since the 31st of July last, when a new mode of Govern-
ment was proclaimed, naturally inspiaPed the Spanish
Government with apprehensions of the interruption of
the tranquillity of this kingdom, which is much in need
of repose to heal the deep wounds which ancient cala-
mities had left behind. and which rebellion hid recently
re-opened. Even supposing that every thing passed
peaceably in the neighbouring country, Spain could not,
without uneasiness, see a representative system extolled
like that which caused us so many calamities, by weak-
ening the protecting power of the throne, dissolving the
public administration, relaxing all the bonds of =society,
and giving up persons and rights to the daggers sad in-
sults of a furious band, or rather sacrificing them to the
sordid interests of the revolutionists, who seduced and
paid this multitude to make them overthrow the barriers
which opposed their ambition and their cupidity.—
Without examining the value of the theories sanctioned
in Portugal, it was to be feared that their appearance
might foment, in the minds of some deluded Spaniards,
the ill-stifled germs of insurrection, that it might
awaken their hopes, and re-animate their efforts. to
renew it. It was to be feared, that to increase
the danger there might be added to the effects .ofi
example, the declamations of the friends of all novelty;
for innovators aspire no less to rule by opinion than
conquerors do by arms. It is not necessary to seek,
in the present crisis, for proofs of this truth—it is sue.
cient to read the multitude of journals with which the
capital of this monarchy was immediately inundated,
to find in them, though they are restrained by the cen-
sorship to which they are subject, the exaggeration of
the principles adopted—the attacks against authority—
the thirst of vengeance, impatient of the check imposed.
on it by the tribunals—in a word, the germ of dissolu-
tion, which produced among us such fatal effects. The
authorities were obliged, at the very onset, to-punish'
several writers, and even to prohibit the publication of
any other journal; so certain it is that people overflow
like torrents, when the dikes which confine them are
broken at once in any point whatever.
To the great danger which the example and the des-
tinies of Portugal presented, were soon added the nom-
motions produced by the change. From the south to
the north of that kingdom, symptoms of discontent with
the new system manifested thernsetves. On both sides,
a part of the armed force declared against the innova-
tion, in the name even of the reigning dynasty, and then
began the emigration of several corps and individuals
into the Spanish territory. The communication if hostile
measures, and persons, and movements, for which the
extensive frontiers of the two countries afford so much
opportunity, led to the criminal desertion of some Spa-
nish soldier:, and inflamed the minds and revived the
hopes of restless men. Of the interior of the kingdom
itself the Intendant of Police himself in a circular of the
12th of December last, confesses that the seal of par-
ties aciing in contrary directions has again troubled
the public tranquillity.' Tranquillity 'was necessarily
still more troubled on the Spanish frontiers, where a
multitude of discontented persons collected to seek a re-
treat, and the troops which support the Constitution to
pursue the former.

" It was thus that they entered our territory, and
soon returned into their own country, before the Spanish
Government, which reposed in profound peace, had sent
'forces to that line to check their movements. Spain,
therefor*, was exposed, not only to the moral influence
of the tilling.' in the neighbouring country, and also
to that of its troubles, and even to the invasion of its
troops.

"In such a state of things the prudence of the King
could not, at the sight of these disorders, remain longer
tranquil, out of regard for the independence of that
Gower nment, and the friendship which fur many reasons
Attaches us to it.

" The safety of the State, which is the supreme care
of society, the dignity of the Crown, the fendamental
'Go►ernment of the monarchy, and the honour of the
'Spanish name, laid our Sovereign under the necessity
'of preserving his dominions from the moral contagion
..nd the armed aggressions which might violate his
frontiers.

" This sacred object, the first duty of a Monarch, is
the tendency of the measures p'esented in the circular
printed at the beginning of thus numbet.* His Majesty
„ • The circular at the Marquis deZembreen.lfiniater Waroebich
"the Elmer published some days ego.—Note of the Dodo.

respects the independence ache neighbouring kingdom ;
aid be does not pretend to exercfse any influence on the
destiny which the chinges thaE have taken place receive
from it; he has the most ardent desite to preserve
unchanged, the relations of friendship which bind him
to his august allies; be will not intervene in any hostile
act against Portugal; but he will repress and punish
every action, every tevolutionai y attempt which shall
dare to pass the frontier ; he will defend his own, and
respect that of the neighbouring country.
8' Foreign nations, notwithstanding the intentions of
the Government, and the vigilance of the Magistrates,;
offer to anarchists an asylum, of which they take ad.
vantage, to carry on their plot at leisure: with a view
to render this inevitable retreat useless, not only will
'mere strict surveillance be exercised in the adjacent
provinces with which they might communicate, but the
military posts hare been strengthened, and a Corps of
Observation has been placed on a line with the Tagus.
" The King of Spain is independent, and free to
adopt precautions which are adapted to the security of
his people the necessity of its preservation, and the
right of nations, which is derived fain it, authorise4iim
to do so, add Gov grant that ne fatal attempt may
oblige him to make use of this force to save the honour
and the laws of Spain. Our Sovereign desires nothing
so much as peace; ncthing is more necessary to repair
the disasters suffered by his people, and to the introduc-
tion of the amelioration which the Kinn in his wisdom
Ilionteawlates, but nothing would so much sully the Cas-
tilian honour, without which neither the Monarch nor
the people could live, as calmly to suffer any offence to
the neutral tranquillity of Spain, my instigation or at-
tempt to overturn its fundamental laws. The King,
our mas ter, cannot consent to it, and the Spaniards who
adore him for his virtues, and who are sufficiently in.
structed by the excesses and the disasters of the revolu-
tion, would intrepidly hasten under the royal banner to
overthrow those who should approach irreverently the
ateps of the throne, or should touch the immovable
foundations of the monarchy.

"So long as his Majesty remained inactive with
respect to foreign troubles, contenting himself with
watching over our internal repose and security, the
Madrid Gracile has been silent with respect to events
which excited the uneasiness of the King, and alarmed
the minds of loyal Spaniards. On the one hand. it
seemed proper to imitate the circumspection of the
Government, Ind on the other it was melancholy to
divulge news which could not but remind us of Cur past
sufferings, and increase by'new fears the ail ction and
anxiety of the public. We waited till time and circum-
stances would shew the conduct of the King. This
moment is come, and his Majesty has. given public
orders, and manifested his Royal intentions with re-
spect to Portugal. The motive which had induced us
to withhold them from the eyes of the Spaniards no
longer existing, the Gonne will henceforward publish
all the events which shall take place in that kingdom."