The Statesman.
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which I do not trouble your Grace on-this occasion) relates
to the questions pending between the two Governments, re-
specting commercial grievances, and the piracies to the
West ludian Seas.
(Translation of linclostire.)---EsTlkter or 4 DESPATCH
ADDRESSED DT M. SAN MIGUEL, MiNISTER TOR FO-
REIGN AFFAIRS AT MADRID, TO M. DE COLONS,
DATED NOVEMBER 115, Del.
The Government of his Majesty has received with gra.
titnde, but without sarprivi the verbal communication,
purporting that the Cabinet of his Britannic Majesty,
respecting the independence and the political institutions
adoated by the [Sprnish] Natiou, is determined not to
,interfere in our dour -wit: affairs.
Nothing else could be expected from the Government
of a nation, which like the British, knows its rights and
the primordial principles of public law ; and it is only to
be wondered at, that it should not think it expedient for
give to a declaration of such obvious justice the solem-
nity of which it deserves.
the ties of inthu ite regard, the principles of mutnal
convenience and the analogy of the respective institu-
tions which exist in Spain and in Rill-old-10 they not
positively entitle the former, overwhelmed with diffieu:-
tics; to expect from the latter, whose political iniluente
is of the greatest weight, something more than simple
' and abstract justice—something mare than a passive re-
spect for universal laws, than a cold and insensible neu-
trality? And it some tender interest, Stlell as befits two
'unites in similar circumstances, exists in the Court of
London, how is it that it does not manifest jtself in vi-
sible acts of friendly interposition to save Ally fruits
evils, In which humanity, wisdom, and even cautions
aid provident State pialicy will sympathize'? Or bow
Is it that (if these benevolent acts exist) they are not
`communicated to the Cabinet of his Catholic Majesty?
The acts to which I allude would in no wise compro-
mise the most strictly-contrived system of ortitrality.
Hood offices, counsels, the retlections of one friend in CI.
your of another, do wit place a nation in concert of atta •k
or defence with another— ht not expose it to the enmity
of the opposite party, even if they do not deserve its g ra-
titude; they are not, in a word, effective aid, troops. arms,
entnidies, which augment the force of one of the contend-
ing parties. It is ef reason only that we are speaking,
and it is with the pen of eimeiliation that a Power, situ-
ated like Great Britain, might suppott Spain, witho it
exposing herself to take pin. in a war, n hich she may
I perhaps prevent with general
England might act in this manner; being able, ought
she so to act: and if she-ought, has she acted so? In
the wise, just, anti generous views of the Government of
St. James, no other answer ran exist than the affirm-
ative. Why then does she not notify to Spain what Tres
been done, and what it is proposed to do in that medi-
atory sense (en spiel sentillo mediador)? Ale them
weighty inconveniences which enjoin discretion, which
show the necessity of secrecy? ',they do not appear to
al ordinary penetration.
Nevertheless, in such uncertainty of what she has to thank
the British Ministry fur, the Govern vent of his Catholic
Majesty thinks itself bound to manifest, in the face of the
world, in order that it may regard it as its profession of
faith, that whilst it respects the rights of others, it will never
admit the least intervention In is internal concerns, nor eN-
scuts an act which may compromise in the least the free ex-
ercise of national sovereignty.
When once you "shall have communicated these frank de-
clarations to the Right Honourable George Canning, his
Excellency cannot Co less than find them worthy of his flat-
tering concurrence, as well in substance as in form, and must
correspond cordially with the spirit which has dictated
them; and it will be aulacient that you should terminate
your discourse, by remiudiug his Excellency that Spain tins
been almost always, in .twr political relations, the victim of
her probity and good :collet ; that her friendship has been,
and is useful I, other netaians, and sincere under every trial;
that the government of -Vs Majesty is desirous to preset.% e
friendly ties which exist between Spain and England, but
without the diminution, without the degradation of its dig-
nity, and that if it has to struggle with the einbarrassmeots
that result from Its immense progressive losses, the Soanish
people always possesses sublimity of seutiment to coodnet
itself with honour, strength of character to support its
calamities, and constancy of resolution to maintain ihrlf in
spite of the last sacrifices, in the post wh.elt belongs to her
In Europe.
No .Vlll.—Tne Duet OF WELLINGTON To MR. SEtRE-
TART CANNlNo.—Received December 11.
(Extract.) Paris, December 9, 1929.
I arrived here this afternoon, and received your despatch
of the oth inst.
I have since had-an interview with M. de Villele ; and I
have the pleasure to inform you, that he has sent a Messen-
ger to Veroua with orders to the French Ministers et that
place, to express the desire of the French Government, that
the transmission of the delpatches to Madrid shoult be sus-
suded. (To be continued.).