Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-03-20
THE EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
SPAIN
{ From she Gazette de France efSl,maay }
MADRID, January 10.
(By an Extraordinary Courier.

BY an Extraordinary Courier.
Yesterday, the Cortes held an extraordinary
sitting TO deliberate upon the letter of NJ. The
Count de Viilele to Nj. The Count dc Legarde,
and the Notes of Russia, Austria, and Prus-
STA, The galleries were thronged with multi.
tude OF spectators, well prepared, and well
disposed, 10 applaud every utterance of re.
vohitionaEy character.
NJ de San Miguel, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, opened the sitting by stating that the
Government of his Majesty had received Of
ticlal communications from the Cabinets OF
France, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, through
the medium OF the Ministers of these Powers
at Madrid. Although, he observed, the az
fairs TO which these Notes related did not pre-
cisely come under the province of the Cortes
yet the Government was DESTROYS Of giving a
proof of the harmony which reigned between
the two principal Bodies Of the State, by max
ing known 10 the assembly the contents of the
said documents, as also the answers of the
Governments OF His Majesty. The latter
iiatters himself with having followed, on ,hi.
occasion; the course indicated to him BY his
patriotism and the national dignity.
NJ. de San Higue, after having read the
letter addressed to Nj. de Legarde, read the
following answer
10 the .tft,aster PlenieotentiGry,
etHis Majesty at Paris. &c.
"The government of His Catholic Majesty
has just received communication of a note sent
by His Most Christian Majesty TO his Am.
bassador at this Court, and Of which YOUR Ex
celleney will receive copy for your informa-
ton.
"Ihe government of His Majesty has few
observations 10 make upon this note, but in
order that your Excellency may not be en-
barrassed as to the line OF conduct you ought
to- ttnIor q.
deemed it its duty frankly to state to yoi its
sentiments and resolutions.
THE Spanish government has never been
ignorant that the institutions spontaneously
adopted by Spain would excite the jealousy of
several ofthe Cabinets of Europe, and that they
would be the object Of deiberation at the Con
gress OF Verona. But, frmer in its principles.
and resolved at every haz ard to defend its pre-.
sent political system, and the national indepen-
dence, 1t has TRANQUILITY awaited the result of
the Congress.
"Spain is governed by a constitution pro.
mulgated, accepted, and sworn to in 1912, and
recognised by all the powers who assembled
themselves ia Congress at Verona.
"Perhdlous couuseilors prevented his Cath.
olic Majesty, Ferdinand VII from swearing on
his return to Spain, to the fundamental code,
which the whole nation desired, and which was
destroyed by force, without any remonstrance
on the part of the powers who had recognised
it-but an experience Of six years, and the
general viii engaged His Majesty in 1920, to
the views Of Spanlards.
ST was nol a military Insurrec,ion tbst es
tablished this nc order Of things at the com
mencemert Of the year 1920. The courageous
men who SO decidedly declared themselves in
the Isle de Leon, aad successfully in other
provinces, were only the organs of general O.
DrOn and he Il nftt. ,l,t,.
at was natural that change OF this nature
should make some Charlottesville an inevta-
bic consequence Of I'll reform which has Tor its
object the diunutiol Of abuses.-In all ma
tons there are individuals who can never ac-
custom themselves TO the yoke of reason and
justice.
"Ihe Army of Observation, which the
French Government maintains at the foot of
the Pyrenees, cannot calm the disorders which
affilct Spain. Experience, on the contrary, has !
proved, that the existence of this senatorv
Gordon. lrecenly trans ormed into an Army OF
Observation,l has only increased the hopes of
The fanatics who have rropogated the cry OF I
rebellion in our provinces, by cher.shing the |
ideas of an immediate invasion of our terrific. |
ry.
"The principles, the views, or the fears, |
which have influenced the conduct of the |
Cabinets which assembled at Verona, cannot |
serve as gnide to the Spanish Government. |
1t abstains, for the moment, from making any |
reply to atportion of the instructions Of NJ. /
the Count de Lagarde, which Immediately re.
lates to the said Congress.
"The days of calm and of tranquility which (
the Government of his Mos, Christina. Majesty
wishes to the Spanish nation, the latter does
not less anxlously desire for herself and her
Government Both being persuaded that the |
remedy can only be the work of time and per-
severance. they are, as they are bound to do, !
making every effort to accelerate their useful !
and salulary effects.
"Ihe Spanish Government appreciates the
offer made to it by his Most Christian Majesty,
TO contribute all in his power, to its happiness:
but It Is persuaded, that the means and the
precautions which his Majesty ADOPTS, can
produce only contrary results.
'T'he aid which the French government /
ought, at the present moment. to give to that
of SPAN IS purely negative it must dissolve |
its army OF the Pyrenees, repulse the factious
enemies OF Spain who take refuge in France. /
and oppose uselfin the most energetic manner
against all those who indulge in dsfaming, in
the most shameful manner, the government of
his Catholic Majesty, as also the institutions !
of Spain and her Cortes. This is what the
right Of nations demand, right respected By
those states in which civilization reigns.
80 say that France desires the welfare OF
Spain and her tranquility, whilst fre-brands
like these. Which feed the evils that affiict h.,