The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

ESPARTERO AND TIME DUKE OF SUSSEX

The Duke of Sussex has addressed the following letter* to
the Duke de la Vittoria, dated from Kensington Palace,
August 11:

"-My LOrd Duke,—Having received orders from the Queen
of England, my niece, to transmit to your excellency, by the
hands of Colonel Wilde, the grand cross of the very honour-
able military Order of the Bath, as a mark of her high esteem
for your person, and as a pledge of her approbation of your
loyal conduct to your Sovereign, her Catholic Majesty, and
of your absolute devotion to your country, I hasten with the
greatest pleasure to acquit myself, in the capacity of Grand
Master ad interim, of a commission as flattering as it is
agreeable to me. I must avail myself of this occasion to ex-
press to you all my esteem, and the admiration with which
her Britannic Majesty's government views your political and
military career. Your name is always spoken of with praise
in England, and all your public actions (and they are nume-
rous) are distinguished as being the work of a faithful sub-
ject, of a true patriot, of a man of honour, and of a general
as skilful as he is distinguished. You have fought for the
throne of Spain, for the constitution which you have
sworn to defend, and for national liberty. In short, you
have fought in order to acquire internal peace, and you have
thus contributed to ensure the general peace of Europe, and
I hope and strongly desire that you have obtained it in so
important and glorious a contest. With that persuasion,
and being animated with the most cordial sentiments for her
Majesty the Queen Isabella and for the Spanish nation, the
Queen Victoria of England sends your excellency the distin-
guished riband (which I have the honour to transmit to you),
believing by that act of kindness towards a distinguished ge-
neral and a good patriot to confirm the friendly relations
made to respect and cherish each other, and to add by those
means a new lustre to the military order of a country which
reckons already within itself so many men of merit, and the
records of which will receive the inscription of the name of
the Duke de la Vittoria and de Morella. In expressing the
most sincere wishes for your hal' piness and glory, and for
the preservation of your excellency's health and life, so im-
portant for the interests of your Sovereign, and so precious
for your brave nation, desiring that you may for many long
years enjoy that public mark of high esteem of the Queen of
England for your services, and of all the well-merited dis-
tinctions which your Sovereign has deigned to honour you
with in the midst of the general acclamationg of your coun-
trymen, I have the pleasure to subscribe myself, my lord
duke, your affectionate and sincere admirer and friend,
" AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Duke of Sussex."

The following is the reply of Espartero :
TO THE► DUKE or SUSSEX

" Barcelona, Aug. 25.
" My Lord Duke,—The distinguished mark of favour
from her Britannic Majesty, which you have deigned to
transmit me by her orders, has agreeably surprised me. I
experienced extraordinary satisfaction, not only in consider-
otion of that flattering mark itself, but also in consideration
of the motive to which I was a party, and which nobly evinces
the justice of the cause defended by me with honour and loy-
alty. My first duty, under these flattering circumstances, is
to beg you to have the kindness to offer to the august Queen
of Great Britain the expression of my eternal gratitude, and
the assurance of the ardent vows I offer up for the prosperity
of her reign, for the happiness of the English people, united
by close ties with the Spanish nation. The kindness with
which your highness has deigned to fill the office of grand
master of the 'Queen's commission ad interim, the too
flattering opinion you have had the goodness to have for me,
and the praises you fasten upon me for having faithfully
fought for the throne of my Queen, of the constitution
to which I have sworn fidelity, and of national liberty, all
stimulate my gratitude for your royal highness, and make
me desire to see the realisation of your opinion, that the in-
ternal peace of Spain would contribute to ensure the general
peace of Europe. What flatters me the most in the letter of
your royal highness is the expression of the analogous con-
viction of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the assurance of
her cordial sentiments for my Queen and for my nation. I
do not doubt that my sovereign and country will justly appre-
ciate the honour conferred upon me as the devoted defender
of their rights, and the good understanding between the two
countries will be continued, and the two people will cherish
and respect each other, according to the happy expression of
your royal highness for their mutual happiness and glory.
I return you thanks for the sincerity of your wishes in my
favour ; mine will respond to the signalised proofs of your
esteem. I shall know always how to preserve the remem-
brance of your highness, and I shall be happy to find the
opportunity of being enabled to prove to you my cordial
affection, and the consideration with which I have the honour,
my lord duke, to subscribe myself your very devoted servant,

" DUKE DE LA VITTORIA AND MORELLA.";

* As the translation has been made from Spanish into
French and from French into English, the style may be ex-
cused.