The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

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ch has, it is alleged, sent M. Pageo,
o the courts of the great European monarchiess
pretensions to an alliance between the youth-
Spain and any of his unmarried sons ; likewise,
to add that his Majesty insists on the Queen
of the family of Bourbon, and that the accept-

of the I

ad from any other Royal house will be viewed

_ The latter item of this mis-
mstrous, that we must have much higher autho-
an that on which it has been stated, to induce
t its accurrcy. We do not believe that so sa-

an act of hostility

ionarch as Louis Philip has done anything so
violent as to declare that be will prescribe
of mankind from which Queen Isabel shall
I that if her Majesty venture beyond it, he
Nar either with Spain or Europe. The state-
is internal evidence, cannot he true ; be-
❑ld include amopg the princes from whom Queen

by permission of the French King, choose
lenri of Bourbon—a selection which would be
able to Louis Philip than even a Coburg. The
moreover, most improbable, because it would
st of Europe a determination on the part
rt to reduce Spain to a state of vassalage ;
ag of the French entertained such a design,
eet to put England and Austria on their
premature declaration. Unless, indeed,
is since October last has chased sagacity
f this greatpersonage, and driven in passion;
ilip's nature has been suddenly changed,
particular statement, in its present form,

:ic schemes of marrying the as yet unmarriage-
Spain, about which two of our contemporaries
,ssipped, there are two or three matters entirely
Spain has a constitution and a Cortes ; its
reign has or will have a woman's affections and
and events are great destroyers of human de-
ipanish people will doubtless permit their queen
iushand for herself without paying much atten-
dies or objections of any other monarch. Spain
Leading-strings of either France, Austria, Rus-
id, and interference in its domestic concerns by
all its allies combined, will be treated by the
it deserve will be resisted, and we sin-
iccessfully repelled. If the Spanish nation pos-
o Ithe spirit which we believe it still possesses,
, in its earliest
to any prince, either of
initiation, any attempt on the part
' marry Queen Isabel
ndividual choice—of
any choice save one of her
pied will, there being no national impediment to
The success, indeed, of such an attempt would
the commencement of the ultimate overthrow of
11 government in Spain when it is subject to no nation can be con-
a- as the selection ofject to any interference on
second-rate
at
h statesusba is n dfaorfairtcses,oivfewrehiegnn..
endence of
Laughters of royalty ascend the thrones they have
e diplomacy or intrigues of the great powers has
em with a consort; a, the tendency of Euro-
las of late years been fartoornuch to injure and
vith the independence of these smaller ones.
international difficulties are not solved by inter-
ef., but are settled as may be n m
[ objects of the great powers. most
favourable to
equilibrium
ich once meant justice between men a
id nation, has now become a phrase o7dridaliceue:
Ind is adjusted merely to compromise the
I France, England, Austria, and Russia mayajea;
,r concerning, each other. That phrase has,
of fearful import to the second and third-rate
; by its perversion Prussia is becoming
part of Italy has been transferred to Pins_
Italian peninsula subjected to her dornl.
vedish monarchy has been deprived of
• ,ces, and recompensed by the un-
and Norway ; by its perversion
`" European map, and Tur-
teeting Europe from the
rock nerched on the crest
it An France hopes
_
e e' or Belgium, and by
1' vas a day pregnant with
----:p s. and sent

hV its perversic

s of the

because

now she has

the ally of min.,r Europe. With "non-
" non-interference" perpetually on the
► for the last fifteen years, she has been
and invariably to her

nterfermg everywher

—.l interests. England let slip from
miance of power when she joined the councils
rs?f European tranquillity. She interfered

, .
it affairs of Greece, and established a Russian
he Mediterranean. She interfered in the inter-
Turkey, and deprived the Ottoman Porte of
interfered in the internal affairs of Persia, and
in Affghanistan. She interfered in Spain and
kingdom with blood, and destroyed the finest
free institutions of the Middle Ages.