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enterprise equally rash and criminal. +.
The numerous confidential communl-
cation. that took place between the tour
courts during this period, (ene OF the most
remarkable iD the history of this alliance
having led to a perfectly satisfactory IN,
ders.anding with respect to The affairs oil
the east, nothing remained 10 be done al
the congress OF Verona. but TO confirm the
resul, OF this understanding and the pow
ers allied with Russia may hatter them
selves with removing, by JONI proceed
ings, HE. obstacles which still iRpeded the
entire fulflment o! their wishes.
| "Other events, deserving the entire at
| tention of the monarchs, have liked their
attention on the depIorable condition OF
the eastern Europe an peninsula.
"Spain now endures The tate which
| waits all states that are so unfortunate as
to seek what IS good in a way in which II
never Can be found.
"it passes through the fateful circle Of
| its revolutions revolution which delu'ed
or ilI-disposed men would willingly have
represented as blessing. nay, as The trI'
umph OF an enlightened age AL govern
ments are witnesses OF he zeal Wild which
these men have endeavored TO persuade
their contem porsries that this revolution
was the necessary and wholesome fruit OF
the progress of civilization; and the means
by which 1T has been Effected and support
ed, the noblest essay of generous patriot
ism. II il could be the object OF ciyiliza-
ton to overthrow human society-it 1t
were possible TO suppose that the armed
force, which has no other vocation than
that of maintaining the internal and exter-
nal peace Of the state, might with inpu
nifty assume the supreme dominion over II,
the Spanish revolution might certainly pre-
tend to the admiration OF all ages, and the
military Instruction of The island of Leon
serve as model for reiormers. uttruth
has soon asserted Der rights. and Spain at
the expense Of her happiness and her glory,
has only furnished a new and melancholy
example of the inevitable consequences
OF every trahsgresslon of eternal laws OF
the moral order OF the world.
The legitimate authority fettered, and
changed into forced instrument Of the
overthrow of all rights, and all legal pri.
viIages; all classes OF people buried a.
ment violence and oppression exercised
under the forms OF laws whole kingdom
given up a prey to disorders and convul-
sions OF every kind rich colonies which
justify their separation by the. very same
maxims on which the mother country has
founded us public law, and which il would
wii'n. ly, but in vain, condemn in another
hemIspber tee last resources OF the
state consumed by civil war; this is the
picture which The present state OF Spain
presents such are the evils by which a
generous people, deserving Of better
fate, is visited; such, in line, are the
grounds OF the just apprehensi0ns which
such an assemblage OF elements Of trouble
and confusion must excite in the countries
more near in contact with the peninsula.
II ever in The bosom OF civiiiZat on pow.
er arose, hosltiely aIienated from the prin.
c,pls Oh preservation, from the principles |!
in which the European confederation re. !
poses, such power is Spain, in its present
slate ot dissolution.
Gould The soyeregns have contempla-
ted with indifference so many evils heaped
upon one country, accompanied with so
many dangers to the others? Depending
in this important affair only on their own
judgment and their own consciences. hey
have been obliged to ask themselves
whether they were longer allowed 10 re-
main calm spectators OF an evil which
every day threatens 10 become more ter
rible and dangerous, and even by the pre-
seDce of their representatives. to lend the
false c0lorng OF a taCit sanction 10 the
measures OF faction which is ready 70
undertake every thing tor the maintenance
OF lis destructive sway. The decision Of
the monarchs could not be doubtful Their
legations have received orders TO quit the
peninsula.
Whatever may be the consequences
OF this step, the monarchs thereby approve
to Europe, that nothing can induce them
10 wayer in a resolution which their most
intimate conviction has approved. The
more sincere the friendship is which they
feel towards his majesty the king Of Spain,
the more lively their interest in the wei
fare of a nation which has distinguished
itself by so many virtues at all periods OF
its history, the more strongly have they !
felt the necessity of adopting the measures
on which they have decided, and which
they shall know how 10 maintain.
"Tbe preceding view will give you the
conviction that the Monarehs in their last
negotiations have not departed from the
principles to which they have renamed
ural'erabIy faithful in all The great quss- !
.ions relative to order and preservation, to !
which the events of our times have gwen
such great importance. Their union. es-
sentialIy founded on these principles tost- .
erlng its early character, obtains from one ,
period to another more soIidity and ener-
~ II would be supel6uous further TO de-
fend their upright and benevolent inten-
tions against unworthy caiumnies. which
are daily retuted by notorious facts. All !
Europe must at length acknowledge that
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