Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-11-25

nemles
This is deed worthy of ancien, Greece
10 her most heroic ages. The character
as we'll as the late of BozzarT may bear,
with tina OF Epaminondas:
snt the Suliotes remind Us OF the heroes Of
Thermopyle Such men are WORTHY 10
Sight for liberty and TO enloyn
Translated Tor the N York Daily Advertiser.
From Ike Constitutional.
RIEGO.
1.-THE insured ion of the Isle Of L..
on. which SO many wish to see punish.
ed in the person OF one ofirschief., had
been confined to partial insurrec,ior.
without receiving support fron the ma.
zion, and. conseque nt'y. had been with.
GU, success, the head o! Rlego oush, to
have fallen under the applics ION Of tho
law. :.gainst rebellion: but the consti.
,u;ion Grst proclaimed At Cadiz, was
soon after proclaimed 10 Madrid and
Throughout, all Spain: the impulse Be.
came general, and whether the consti.
tution oil the Cortes was reasonable or
no, it was preferred to the absolute
power under which Spain had sro.nsd
ever since 1914 Tbs most moderate
sp,rits Of Europe. in regrettibs ,h,.
The constitution Of 1912 was not given
with notifications, were convinced
however tina, Spain demanded one. and
even when we were ming agalnt
that onsl tuition, we rece ,ed the assn.
rance that it should Do replaced by one
better suited to the manners and ancisn,
institutions Of Spain. There wss there.
fore something Legitimate, and recog.
Missed as such, in the necessity which
provoke ed the revelation ., CsdIz.
However it was. this revolution gsu
tie government to tho constitutional
lists the king united himself with thea,
accepted tho constitution the establish.
ment Of which was proposedto him, and
this pew order Of things, although re.
marked With pain by certain courts Of
Europe, was recognized sno sanctioned
by the continuation If diplomatic rsl,.
tioos, ano by the presence Of ambssn'
oors rom all the great powers at Mad.
rid. Three years passed BY without
any prote.,stion on the part Of the ca.
binets, and aIl their exposition VI"
''On or VI modification rr,I. ::
ever state Of things was reeo. n':.a u !.
was that; IT the chsrac, or of ie.n.
t'on was ever effaced, it wa, inco,,.
'soty 50 IN the revolution at Csd,z
'h'sis not all. When il VA, m.a.
question al the congre,, Of v.. "'oe'
impose another cons.i,u,iopaI Isn,.,. 70
lion on tho Spa nisrd., i. wa, M, NO.
oertaksn a. if rebels wer. 10 h. n",, '"'
o. bot on the contrary, the ',.".
which wste taken went no further th.n
10 propose to them certain mod,G..,,"a D
IA their fundamental code. IN. o,on'S
AIKEN was tina, it was necessary to 49,.
soi''h IN Europe a sort of poli,ic.I
'srmony, negotiations were made =.
'e,"een equals, aho not az betv,.n .
aoge aud criminal. The .mbs.,,.
of' Who IN tie name Of the allied
owe's' proposed to the Spanish 70.
'rnmen' to change certain part. Of
'e'r institutions, addressed themselves
al the members of the Cortes. thew
'oressed themselves to kisgo h,m,,E
g very man whom they would now
20 TO The scaffoId as q traitor and A
Tho Same government with ubi,h
~ changed diplomatic notes made
me 10 ell the different states. The
o,nets permitted these loans. sutbo.
60 their negotiation, and allowed III.
nme'cs in the funds which resulted
|" them. Would they permi, rebel,
'eg1.'ats loans publicly in all COM
rcisl places?
Would it no, be an act of bad f,itbn
''der and to punish a. . rsyol.sr tho
'or Of. rev luton pubIickly s,pc.
Cd oy Europe? The was the c,ss
70 10 government in fact. recognised
ne confedersted sovereigns from
nrH entrance into Paris in 1914.
'rd'ng to the principles of the pow.
inc oethroned conqueror was 40 ..
o. and he had his origin in in,ur-
on; bot did they attempt to punish
g!e one Of those who had served
'ostained his power? Was it not
At that time that . CO.
nens, afsr having existed fors
20 nme' although it might lot have
reda Legitimate character, at least
reed from that Of revolt, and that
". could NO longer descend upon
who had raisaH !. nd .,,oo.,.j; -,