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rors of anarchy, in the hands of an ignorant, deluded
rabble. To speculate upon the final issue, would be
more than we dare hazard;- and if we may risk an opi-
nior, the march of a French army to Madrid (although
Louis Philippe at present exhibits great finesse upon the
point) appears the inevitable result. The auxiliary corps
are stayed in the interim ; and it is well known that Ca-
latrava's ministry consists of the anti-French party.

The news from Spain, received during the last few
days, is equally important as it is instructing—it yields a
powerful illustration of the fatal consequences which
have resulted from the abrogation of the ancient Salique
Law in that country, to serve the designing purposes of
a vain, weak, and ambitious woman. What acute re-,
flections must that unfortunate being in the order of
creation, filling the degraded and more contemptible
office of a Queen Regent, have, when looking backwards'
on the horrors her pride and presumption have occa-
sioned ! From Captains General sacrificed within the
short period of eighteen months, and other murders and
assassinations innumerable, performed for the sake of
propping up the blood -stained popularity throne of
Isabella Segundo ! If the Christian and the moralist
consider the " destiny from above" to be retributive in
its character; and a just medium of punishment for the
turpitude of governors, and the immorality of subjects,
in their headlong licentious career, here indeed, there is
presented another scene for our sober reflection, and
fully impressive in its warnings. " God is great," said
the Mahometan Dey of Algiers, " who renders the
retribution of anarchy and despair to an unrighteous
and factious people !"

This keen and heart searching rebuke, applied to the
restless and revolutionary population of France, is more
particularly applicable to the present progress of the
Spanish people ; and an awful destiny it portends!
But is the infatuated Queen Regent sensible of her
situation; and that upon her devoted head, principally
rests the awful responsibility for all the misery and
carnage produced? No! Her chariot wheels roll as it
were in callous triumph over the mangled comes of those
deluded men, who, in the execution of a false duty—a
fatal loyalty of purpose, became, one after another, the
devoted victims of her utter insensibility to all the softer
feelings of womanly humanity, and y the dictates of
religion. And yet our liberal " equaljustice"—freedom-
loving Ministers, justify and defend, with Protestant
British blood, and with English money and fine
speeches, this hell-born infamy! Can any class of
Englishmen, not rendered pur-blind by the intoxicating
—the poisonous influences of that Acitate of Morphine
principle, " the spirit of the age," look calmly on and
give its approving voice to such human and national
degradation ?
Spain, of all European countries, is the least adapted
to be governed by the destruction of the monarchical
principle in her institutions—modified her institutions
may be; but a terrible reaction inevitably awaits the
despotism of this fundamental principle, in her govern-
ing power. No Roman Catholic state is less adapted to
the controul of purely popular institutions—the religion
of the land, essentially despotic—the people superstitious
—jealous—revengeful—divided in feeling, can only be
restrained from perpetual passions, and violent excesses,
by the strong arm of power.
With all that has been done for Spain—with all the
experience before her eyes of the consequences of follow-
ing in the train of ambitious party leaders, her popuTa-
, tion is benighted on the great subject of moral and
social happiness—she is a country behind in the scale of
European civilization ; and even more than that, with
regard to the general state of her literature and her
knowledge of the useful sciences. Twenty-five years of
civil commotion, have thrown her back fifty in the natu-
ral progression to improvement. This, ye restless libe-
rals of England, is the state and condition of things to
which ye would reduce this happy country—this free—
this prosperous land, where religion, united with law,
throws a shield around every man from the prince to the
peasant, by your Utopean schemes of popular felicity—
your crude, but selfish reforms—your voluntary princi-
ples, as advocated by some such instructors of every
principle, and no principle—your worthy Chronicles,
your Suns, and your GLOBES, breathing a moral pesti-
lence over the land of your fathers, who purchased your
freedom at the price of their blood !
The " glorious days" of the July of Paris, have partly
been enacted over again in the city and vicinity of
Madrid, and murder consecrated to the tune of " Riego's
Hymn, in August 1836—and this it seems instigated
by the performance of a French national play at Saint
Ildefonso. Well might the mighty Burke, have
designated this principle of " revolution the most con-
taminating of all the contaminating influences, which
afflict humanity in its fallen state ;" for verily, it is the
most insensible of all the base-born passions allied to
human nature--cowardly in design—blood-thirsty in
execution ! Quesada, who was the first to counsel
Maria Christina to dismiss Zea Bermudez in promotion
of the former revolution, and to put into his place the
" liberals," has paid the forfeit of his life, and the penalty
of his treachery to his lawful Sovereign, and to his
country, at the hands of those very liberals; but certainly
in a manner which puts to the very blush the savage
doings of cannibals. And this is all in the spirit, we are
told, of an enlightened and philosophic march to human
improvement—assassination consecrated by playing a
funeral hymn ! Why, the furious democrats of the
National Convention, in their wholesale murders, did
not come up to this ; for they did not make religion sub-
servient to such infamy as being rendered the footstool
of the dagger--they renounced it altogether !

Quesada then is no more, and his faithful follower
Lavalette, also paid the debt of nature by the same
brutal means. This is the retribution of anarchy ; think
of it ye English liberals—ye adventurous gamesters for
unrestricted agency; and then deny the possibility of
similar scenes being made to polute this now Christian
Isle under your own wile systems.

And now for our kind friend, Lord Palmerston, in
whose lamentations for his pet Queen and her quadruple
tiara trampled in this revolutionary dust, we must sym-
pathise a little—what is to be done to enable him to
" work the oracle" a little longer, when his protege,
Monsieur le General De Lacy Evans, &c. &c. &c. wants
£60,000 from Maria Christina to pay the 1. egimites
and the hold privates of the " Tinth" Regiment having
kicked up a shindey, and sacked all the officer's pay
Really this is a perplexing question fo answer.
The Queen, under the positive dread of the stiletto,
unsheathed before her eyes, and warm with the expiring
blood of the civil and military Governors of Malaga, has
been compelled to accept the free constitution of 1812,
by an armed insurrection of the lower orders of the re-
gular and irregular " nacicnnals," (for the officers yielded
through fear,) and to submit to the debasing honour of
being marched into Madrid by a body of the latter heroes
mounted
The very act of proclaiming the constitution is itself
an act of open insurrection against all existing consti.•
toted authority;—it is nothing more nor less than usurpa-
tion of the power of law and government, by the mob,
which proceeds to instal, at once, its own junta, and to
dictate the law to the supreme governing. head in the
state, and that at the point of the sword! It is more
especially an act of usurpation of the entire govern-
merit of the Queen Regent, personally, and absolutely
dissolves it. Thus, wherever the constitution is
pro-
claimed, there her authority ceases, ipso facto. The cir-
cumstance of her forced acceptance and
subsequent pro-
clamations do not give this constitution the force of latl';
for it has yet to be recognised by the Cortes, legally sum-
moned, in full deliberation, and by vote of the majority
of that body—should the majority decide against its
adoption, all the acts performed under it are acts of-trea-
son, and then comes another struggle with the knife I
Again, by the constitution of 1812, the regencdy of
Spain is specially to be appointed by the Cortes,
to
be composed of three or five heads. The spirit then,
not the letter, of that constitution entirely shuts out
Queen Mother, as a party possessing any go
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authority. Thus, under any circumstances,
can only be a member of that regency, subject to the elen-
tiort of the Cortes. Therefore, have the constitution
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