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

to protest. If his Imperial Majesty had other views, it
would rest with him and his Allies to let the Spanish
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revolution complete its work. Very soon every gents of
prosperity, of wealth, and of power. would be destroyed
in the Peninsula; and if the Spanish nation can sup-
• pose these hostile designs to be entertained, they shonld
look for the proof of their existence in the indifference
and the inaction of the Allies. . . .
" The reply that will be mails to the present declara-
tion, must decide questions of the vory highest import
• once. Your instructions from MS day will point out
the determinatim that you are to make, if the disposi-
tions of the public authority at Madrid reject the means
which are offered for securing to Spain a sure tranquil.
lity, and an imperishable glory.

DESTATOR OF M. TIM PRINCR Di Morhtketren TO THE
MAROS Des AFFAIR'S OF AUSTRIA, At MADRID, martin
MONA, TIM 14th mimosa, 1822.
" The situation in which the Spanish Monarchy finds
itself, in consequence of the events width have trans•
pired in that State during the last two years, was an
object of too paramount importance not to have serious•
iir occupied the attention of the Cabinets assembled at
Verona. The Emperor, our august muter, has desired
that you shotild he infOrmed of the view which he takes
of this momentous question, and it is to fulfil his desire
that I address to you the present despatch..
" The Revelation of Spain watjadgod far ns from its '
drigin.—Conformably to eternal decrees, good can never '
arise to Stains any more than to individuate, from edit'.
• regard Of,:; t 4 .firat duties imposed upon man in
Social lardertAke. amelioration of the condition of
41.Aktis niwiall,. commence;!
ant, be commen by criminal il-
LeitOns; by peVvesslpg opiaioo, and by orialseding the
conscience; sod,tarlitary revolt can never Juin the
boi. of. , happy and durable Government. The Re-
it:4o*i of Spans considered solely is regard to the
• duttartive intignee Mich it has exercised over the
kingdom Ale les experienced it, would be an event
worthy the , • . vidvd attention and interest of Foreign
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~,,,, Spit' ; ~ tprosperityor the ruin of one of the
most uteresting tea of Europe cannot be in their
!PA iPdigelattlitatpenative; only the enemies OS pai o,
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it ohly she isOs spy, could be capable of regarding,
on E ied,. the convulsions which prey upon her.
A t repugnance, however, to meddle with the in-
ter Wm of an iadepeudeut nation would per-
baps, lolikrtlce-Abesc Sovereigns not to pronounce on the
situation of Spain, if the evil operated by ber revolution
p /as etwitentrasedr or Could be conceotrated, within her
or
rheas!, Unrif . But this is not the case; this Revs-
tion, even lie gra it orris ed at maturity, had been the
cause of great lusters in other States ; it was this Re.
Volution which, by the contagion Oita principles and of
its example, assil by the intrigues of Its principal parti-
Lois, created the Revolutions of Naples sod Piedmont ;
ii was this Rirolution which would have excited in.
aerreetion throughout Italy, menaced France, and com-
promised Germany, bet for the intervention of the
Powers which preseteed Europe from this new ecteflagra-
lion. every where the destructive means employed in
Spain to prepare and consummate the Revolution, have
served as a model to those who flattered theotsslves that
they were paving the way to new conquests. Every
where the Spanish Coestitution has become the rallying
point, and the war whoop of a faction, conibised alike
against the acuity of Thrones, and the repose of sub-
jects. The dingerons impulse which the Spanish Re-
volution had given to the whole South of Europe, placed
Muria under the painful necessity of having recourse
to tonsures which 111 accorded with the pacific course
said) she would desire invariably to pursue. She has
witnessed a portion of her dominions surrounded by
sedition, and fettered by incendiary plot., and on ski
very eve of letting attacked by conspirators, whose
first efforts were directed against the frontiers. It was
only by great efforts and great sacrifices, that Austria
succeeded is re establishing tranquillity is Italy, and
in deea.ing projects, the success of which would
have been any thing hut indifferent as to the fete
of Ner own provinces. Besides, in the questions
relative to Spain, his Imperial Majesty cannot do otherwise
• than support the same principles which he has always so
decide's manifested. Even in the absence of any direct
danger to the people confided to his care, the Emperor will
emcee hesitate to disavow and reprove what hr thinks false
and enlpahle. In regard to the general interests of human
society. Faithful to the system of preservation and peace,
for the maintenance of which he has contracted inviolable
engage nerds with his August Attica, his Majesty will never
cease to cansider disorder and subversions, whatever portion
of Europe may bra the victim of them, as an object of deep
solicitude for all Governments. and whenever the Emperor
can make his views manifest amid tire tumult of these de-
Elnrahle crises, he Mull think that :m has fulfilled a duty
wig, which no consideration can induce hint to dispense.
It would he difficult for me to believe, M. Count, th it the
declared judgment of his imperial Majesty on the events
whidS are rasing lit Spain can he misunderamod or misin-
terpreted in that country. No object of private interest, no
conflict of re ••iprocal pretension, no sentiment of mistrust or
jeslnuev can inspire in our cabinet an idea in opposition to
the welfare of Spain. Th.: House of Austria has only to
tura to the annals of its own history. to find the most power-
ful motives of Mt ichment. regard and good-will towards a
nation which may, with just pride, recall those centuries of
g'orious memory, in which her sun of grandeur cover set;
towards a ratios. which, powerful in respectable institutions,
her .ditary virtues, religious sentiments, and in love to her
'singe, has rendered herself illustrious in every age by a
p drintism always loyal, always generous, and very often
heroic. During a period still recent, this nation astonished
the world by the courage. devotion, and perseverance.
which site opposed to tire ambitious usurper, who endeavour-
ed to deprive her of her Monarch and her laws, and Austria
will never forget how useful was the noble resistance of the
Spanish nation, at a time of great dower for herself. It is
not to Spain. either as a nation or as a Power, that can be
Implied the severe language which is di: are.l to his Imperial
Majesty by his conscience and his love of truth; it applies
only to those who have ruined and disfignred, end who per-
xi it in prolonging her sufferings. On meeting his August
allies at Fermis. his Majesty the Emperor has had the
happinese again to find in their councils the same tutelary
and disinterested dispositions which have constantly guided
iris own. The tone of the dispatches which will be erldres-
eel to Madrid, will vouch for this fact, and will leave no
doubt of the sincere anxiety of the Powers to serve the cause
of Spain. by demonstrating to her the necessity of pursuing
a different course. It is certain the grievances which oppresa
her have lately segmented in fearful progression. The most
rigorous measures, the most hazardous espeitents, can no
longer give authority to her administration. Civil war rages in
some of her provinces; her relations with the greatest portion
of Europe are deranged or suspended ; and her relations with
Fragee have even assumed so problematical a character as
to Justify serious disquietude reapecting tie consequeuces
which may thence result. Would not such a state of things
juitify the most fatal forebodings? Every Spaniard, who
knows the real state of his country, ought to feel that, in
order to burst the fetters which now bind the Monarch and
his subjects. Spain must terminate that state of separation
which has been the result of late events. The relations of
confidence and sincerity must he re-established between her
and the other Governments • relations which, by guarantee-
ing, on the one hand, her firm intention to associate herself
In the common cause of the European Monarchs, may, on
the other hand, furnish the means of estimating her real
will, and of rejecting every thing calculated to pervert and
restrain it. But to attain this end, it is especially indispen-
sable that her K'ng shoold be free, not only as regards that
personal liberty which every individual may claim under tie
reign of the law's, but that liberty which a Sovereign ought
to enjoy, in order to discharge his high vocation. The King
of Spain will be free from the moment that he shall have the
power of putting an end to the evils which afflict his sub-
jects, of restoring order and peace in his kingdom, of stir-
roadies himself with men equally worthy of his confidence,
by dibbb priesipies aid talents; ; and, finally, of substituting
toe a regime, ocknowledged to be impracticable, even by