The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELIAUENCE.
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The Paris Papers of Sunday, and the Etoile of Monday .8
date, have arrived. Their contents, as will be seen by the
following Weeds, are of more than usual interest :
(raom L'ILTOILE of BOND 11r, JAY. 12.)
MADRID. Jaw. 2.—The King, oar So serrign, has issued
the following Decree :
is The violence with which several corps of my armies,
turning Against my Royal Person the arms which I hall
put into their hands, compelled me to recognise and
swear to, on the 7th of March, 1820, the Political Con-
stitution of the Spanish Monarchy, could not fail to a•tract
the attention of all the Sovereigns of Europe. Their thrones
were endangered by the horrible crime which bad been
committed against mine.
" Maiters of tbeGovernment, the Conbpirators and their
accomplices did not fail soon to throw aside the mask
under which they had disguised the trite object of their
inglorious designs. Blinded by their triumph, they did
not dissemble that the Constitution of Cadiz was not the
final olect of their desires, nor Spain the only theatre
where the spirit of rebellion was to display its dreadful
fury.
" The maxims of sedition and anarchy spread among
the people the spoliation and bioniliation of the elevated
classes; the gross Insults, both in words and deeds, directed
against the majesty of my person and all the Royal
Family.: the usurpations, sometimes surreptitious, some-
times violent, of my legitimate authority; and lastly, the
scandalous degradation of the Holy Religion of Jesus
CHRIST, barbarously insulted and prosecuted in the p 000ns
of its Ministers, left no doubt, even to the most elm-
. sighted, that .io the dark machinations of the Secret
Societies, Spain was irrevocably condemned to cease to be
a Monarchy.
"The Revolutions of Naples. Turin, and Lisbon, con-
trived one after the other, by the same means and on Ilse
same principles, completed the conviction of the Sovereions
that no throne could be in safety, without cutting off at
ones a'l the beads of the Hydra, which threatened to
devour the Universe. Such was the otject, equally noble
and Important, of their frequent meetings. Certainly, but
for the resolutions which for the salvation of the human
race prevailed in the Congresses of Laybaeli awl Verona,
a great part of civilised Europe, deluged in its blood,
would now be the prey of ignorant and presumptuous
reform.
" A single effort of the powerful Emperor of Anatria
sufficed to putt an end, in a few days, to the troubles of
Naples and Piedmont. A similar effort of the must
Christian Kinc sufficed in like manner to make the
edifice of the Constitution throughout the Peninsula fall
to ruins on its authors. Emboldened by the presence of
my well beloved cousin the Duke of Angouleme and his
valiant army, the immense majority of my subjects
hex tined to withdraw the trophies which stimidity.h as
erected to revolt, and to re-establish the ancient institutions
which had made the happiness of their fathers. Con-
ducted by Victory, the Son of France flies to the banks
of the Goadelete; he attacks, he carries the Trocadero ;
l:e fills my oppressors with terror, and at length, I and my
flintily are free. Glory be to Goo!
" In the midst of the griefs with which my heart is
afflicted. at the sight of the condition to which three
}ears of suffering have reduced my kingdom, I have seen
pith satisfaction that my Supreme Council of the Indies,
moved by its constant zeal for the good of my service, was
eager to propose to me by its deliberations of the 30. h
Oc'. the measures which appeared to it the most proper
to alleviate the evils caused by the Revolutionists of the
Peninsula in that part of my possessions. Adopting the
opinions of the said Council, I ordain as follows:
" I. In all my dominions in America a solemn Te
Deans shall be celebrated in gratitude to the Almighty for
the blessing which in his infinite mercy he has granted to
the whole nation in preserving me and all my Royal
Family safe and unharmed amidst such great and continual,
dazger.
2. The Political Constitution of the Spanish Morarclie
is for ever abolished in my dominions in Am-rica. Their
Governments are reestablfshed conform ably to the laws and
ordinances existing before the 7th of March, IS2O.
" The Political Chlisfs, the Provincial Deputations, the
Constitutional Municipalities, their Secretaries. Officers,
and Depenclants.ohall immediately cease their functions.
" 4. The newly established Court of Justice shall also
cease their functions:
" 5. The Militia created by the Cortes, under the name
of national, shall be immediately dissolved. The individuals
composing it shall give up their arms and equipments
before they return to their homes.
µ" 6. The suppressed communities shall return to their
convents, and be reinstated in all their possessions, Co
prehending all those which have been alienated in any
manner whatever.
t• 7. I confirm the favours and employments which may
Lave been granted during the Constitutionul Government,
in mrpossessiohs in America, provided, however. that they
are not derived from the. Constitution, that they are not of
new creation, and that those who have obtained them have
mot rendered themselves unworthy of them by their con.
duct.
Bth. With the exception of what is determiied by the
preceding article, every office which may have become
vacant by the discharge or unjust removal of hint who
held it, shall he restored to him if he desires it, with the
exception of him who shall have been just in his place.
lo consequence, l order my Viceroys. Courts of Justice,
Captains General, Governors and intendants, and I champ.
the Most Reverend. Archbishops and Bishops, Deans and
• Chapters of the Metropolitan Churches and Cathedrals of
sy Kincdoms'of the Indies, of the adjacent islands, and
of the Prislippines, to fulfil and cause to be executed, each 1
as far as he is concerned, my Royal will, each as it is here
above expressed
." Done at the•Palaee, the of Dee. 1513."
The King our Mester desiring to recompense the fidelity
of the Minister de Caps Espola, Don hopes d'Alcazas,
and the Intendants of the army, Uon Antonia tloncera and
Don Joachim y Sans, has by a Dern-, sign-4 by his hand,
nominated them Directors Generals of the Revenue of the
Kingdom.
• 'Father Cetilen, Provincial of the Jesuits in Stain,
commanded all the Pri-sts of the Order to eelehr.o,
omeme, in gratitude for the happy delivertmee of the Kink
of *ha& and all those of the society wise are not Priests
to offer up prayers.. Tbe 29ah ot May, and the Isto
November, are for'ever happy days is the sneak of ri
bocietys_ , .

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