The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-21 00:00:00

THR THREE OFFICIAL NOTES.

IDESPATCH FROM THE COUNT DI NESSELRODO TO THE
CHARGE D'APIAIRES OF ROMA, AT MIDRID,DATED FE•

BONA, THIt 14th (26th) Nov. 122.

'• The Sovereigns and the Plenipotentiaries assembled
at Verona, in the firm intention of consolidating, more
and more, the peace which Europe enjoys, ad to prevent
whatever might tend to compromise that state of gene-
ral tranquillity, were led, from the first moment of their
assembling, to direct their anxious and serious attention
towards an ancient monarchy, which had been agi•
toted n iris internal commotion, during two years, and
which could not but excite, in an equal degree, the
solicitude, the intereakand the apprehensions of other
Powers.

When, in the month of Mardi, Inn, some perjured
soldiers, turned their arms against their Sovereign and
their country, to impose upon Spain laws which the
public reason of Europe, enlightened by the experience
of all ages, stamped with its highest disapprobation, the
allied Cabinets, and particularly that of St. Petersburg,h,
hastened to point out the calamities that would follow in
the train of institutions which consecrated military re-
volt. by the very mode of their establishment. These
fears were hot too soon and too thoroughly jnstilied.
Flory are no longer theories nor principles, which are
now to be examined and approved. Poets speak aloud
and what feeling must they not inspire in every Spaniard
who yet cherishes a love for his King and country?
What reret smut he experienced at the ascendancy of
the men who have brought ;shout the Spanish Revoln•
Gun? At a moment when a deplorable success crowned
their enterprize, the integrity cf the Sp.inisli monarchy
was the object of the Spanish Government. Ibe whole
nation participated in the wishes of his Cellohe
Majesty ; all Europe bad offered him an arnieahle
intervention to restore for him on solid hares, the
authority of the mother country over distani legions
st hie' formerly constituted her wealth and her strength.
Encouraged, by a fatal example, to pars in
rebellion, the provinces where it had already broken
ou!, found in the events of the !smith of March, the best

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apology for dieobodienee, and those Which had yet
remained faithful, immediately separated from the mother
couptry ; justly afraid of the despotism which was
about to oppress its unfortunate Sovereign, and people,
whom rash innovations condemned to traverse the whole
range of revolutionary disasters.—To the disorders of
America were soon added the evils that aro inseparable
from a state of aging% where the conservative principles
asocial order bad been forgotten.—Anarchy appeared
in the train of reeelntion ; disorder in the train of
anarchy. klikilsrs of tranquil possession, soon ceased
to be a
..lesta/pkt 'title to property; the most sacred
risll4, wisilindn disputed t ralpossjnins and contribo-
does naonsalnitcr
,reaeseed, Soon attacked both tiublin
wealth .04-the rarsiinetef Privnta Itadividuals. As wag
the case at that epoels, the bare regolleetion of which.
makes Europe aboddkr, religion, was despoiled of her
petrimsny ; the throne of popular respect; the royal
dignity true eutrageldv andastbotist was Transferred to
assemblies Wbere- the blind patriots' of the multitude
seised %Terrelle reins of Goverlintent.' Lastly, ind to
eumplett theirkreilei wish these difihf tatansity no an-
happily reproduced in Spain, etrtiieltk of ;city, blood
was seep to flow in the palace of titer King, and 'a civil
war raged throughout the Petdolliiii: During dearly
three years,. the Allied Poo ers contibited to flatter theta-
selves that..the Spanish charsitertbit character so
constant and so generous, when the emit', of the emir!! ry•
was in question, and lately so htirote wiln it struggled
againstla power produced by reedldtion, would stow
itself st last,"vel in the men Whollid -bad the misfortune
to betray the noble recollections which Spain might
proudly reed! to-every nation Pit Europe. 'They flat-
tered themselves that the Government of his Cathislic
Majesty, nnileeeired by the first letwoni bf a fatal expe-
rience, would adopt measures, if not to stop by one co!,‘.
mon effort the numerous calamities whieh' WPM! berrsting
upon them front all sides,• at least ta'lkitisi fotiltdiltiora
of It remedial system, and to' settifelira_ drolly 19 the
throne its legitimate • rights sinerts' a .liaty peetbWai-
tiveb ; also, to•give to subjects 'digitate proteCtion; sod
to property Indispensable .gusrinfeei. Out thou., hope*
have been utterly falsified. Thi lakiii gilitite has' only
hrOught with it fresh injustice; violet*'hilik_ bee" la:
le .1 ; the number of victims Issi"fri waft), aye
"meted ; and Spain has already • teen' ye dint one
warrior, and wire than one faithfif dill id Marilee( to-
the seaffekt.

It-15 then that the rerolutioti-of the• 9th* March
went en, tiny by dui, hastening-the ants oY thtillpanish
Mooarehy, when two particulai events occurred which
emited•threlsWit 'lesions attentithil/401Poreign !tavern.
meet's. .• • •• , • •
' the esidtt of a people,to whet!, %Aeration to their
'King? is •alitigthiatary sentiment; a• geoid* who fer
six sagesheyears shed the .noblest Woad to '4*over
.tbeir legkiieste M 0111,41); that monarch and fithrfatitity
were reduced to a itaurtbf notorietts and alinottabatilule
capti brothers compelled tolusti fy
were daily menaced with the dungeon or the axe,oend
insperionspoutreands4urbade him, with his dying wilei
to quit the capital. On the other hand, in heitation of
the Itecilatione of Naples and Piedmont, which the'
Spanielt conspirators congest, represent as their own
wonky we hear them anooonee that their plans of
sib-
version have no limits. In a neighboarimt cbuittry they
strove rt ith nnermittieg perseverance' to encourage
*tumults aid rebellion. .1 -digital states they
!abetted to create accomplices; theilatiritybf their pio-
itlytitutiirtad•typry where felt; aad every where it p ra-
&iced the elate disasters.

" Such cc:induct would, of reeisitti exiite general re.
probation. Those Cithinete erhielsdocerely desired the
good of Spain, intimated daring, tire'yeers. their senti-
tnent9, by the nature of the relation which they main-
tain with its government. France saw herself obliged yip
confide to an army the protection of her frontiers, cast
probably she will be compelled also to confide to it t':e
task of putting an end to ,hose provocations which bare
rendered it necessary. Spain herself has rebelled, 13
souse parts, against a system which is foreign to her
habits, to her own loyalty, and to her entirely nio-
narchical traditions In this sttte of things, the L'm-
peror, our august master, has determined to take a steo
which cannot leave to the Spanish nation any doobt as to
his true intentions,nor as to the sincerity of the wishes lie
enterteins in her behalf. It is to be feared that the din=
gers arising from vicinity, which are always imminent,
those which menace the Royal Family, and the just
complaints of a neighbouring State, will terminate la
creating, between him and Spain, the most grave embar-
rassments. It is this painful extremity which his Ma-
jesty would avoid, if possible; hot, as long as the King
is not in a condition to express freely his will, as long
is a deplorable order of things facilitates the r"• its
of the artists of revolutions, who are united be n•
common bond with those of the other coun'riec if
Europe, to trouble its repose, is it in the pour: t.f
the Emperor, is it in the power of any Monarch
to ameliorate the relations of the Spanish Government
with Foreign Posers? "tin the other hoed, how easy
d'olll,i it he to attain this essential end, if the King re-
covered, with his perfect liberty, the means of putting
an end to Civil war, of preventing a foreign war, anti of
surrounding himself with the most enlightened and thn
most faithful of his subjects in order to give to Spain
those institutions which her wants and her legitimate
wishes require. "'!'hen, fire and tranquil, she could
not but inspire Europe, with the security which she
would herself enjoy ; and, then, too, the Potters, which
now protest against the conduct of her Government.
would be eager to renew with her relations truly amica-
ble and founded upon mutual good will. "Itis a long
time since Russia announced these zrand truths to tlic
attention of Spaniards. Never lied their' patriotism
higher destinies to fulfil than at this moment. lVliat
glory for them to conquer Resolution a second time, anti
to prove that it can never exercise dominion in a country
where ancient virtues, an indelible attachment td princi-
ples which guarantee the duration of society, and re-
spect fur a holy religion, will always triumph over ansr-
Chical doctrines, and the-artifices employed to extend
their fatal influence Already one portion of the na-
tion has declared itself. It only remains for the other
Portion to unite instantly with their King to deiiier
Spain—to save it—to assign it, in the great European
a pl ire is tondo Lie more iinfiuntalile, because it
would lie snatched, as in ISI I, from the disastrous tti-
ampli of military usurpation.
t. In directing you, M. le Comte, to communicate to
the Ministers of hie Most Catholic Majesty, the senti-
ments developed in this despatch, his 11Iajesty is willing
to believe, that neither his intentions, nor those of his
Allies, will he misrepresented. In vain will malevolence
endeavour to represent them in the light of foreign ir.-
terferent e, whi:ll seeks to dictate laws to Spain.
" To express Ilse desire of seeing a protracted misery
terminate, to snatch front the same yoke an unhappy
Monarch, and one of the first among European natiutis„
—to atop the ellasion of blood, and to facilitate the re•
establishment of an order of things at once wise nod
nationahis certainly not attacking the independence o
a country, nor establishing a right of intervention
-against which any Power whatever would Late reason