Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-07-15

Independent until the King Shall be released.
and asserting that =" To put in practiC the Con
sttution of 1912 is physically and morally
impossible :" the other is the answer of Count
d'Abisba dated the 18th, declaring " that the
majority at the nation does not desire to con
tinue the Constitution of 1879" and suggest
Ing the adoption of some measures.
The substances of this letter was placarded
through Madrid on the 10th of May, and on
The nth, the Count Abisbal issued Procla
nation (which will be found below exhortine
the inhabitants TO recetre The French army as
friends On this subject, as the Courier re-
marks, one very important consideration is.
whether ABIsBAL has acted in concert with
the other Constitutional Generals, or whether.
having the defence of the capital entrusted To-
him, his surrender of it has been merely an
insulated act of negotiation. lie we are to
suppose the former, then We should say, there
remains no chance of Spain making success
ful resistance but if the latter should turn out
tn be the case, then, whatever may have been
hitherto the probabilities Of ultimate triumph.
they Will not be materially diminished by the
Transaction
The Quotidienne, speaking of this news.
adds, that the Southern province of La Man
cha is In full insurrection against the Consti-
tuition that Ferdinand is expected shortly at
acted in concert with the Generals Morillo and
Ballasteros. One thing is very evident.
whether the war be brought to close in CON
sequence of this turn Of affairs, as the London
papers all predict, or not, there has been a
lamentable want of something in the Spanish
cabnet-they have certainly shown more en-
ergv in writing than fighting.
The Morning Chronicle of the cath, states
positively, that tho definiiive formation of
the new Spanish Ministry has taken place, a
subject on which there has been some hest
tation, aud, We might add many intrgues.-
The names are as follow M. Perez de Cas-
tre, Minister of State NJ. Zarcn del VAIL.
of War NJ Calatrava, of the Interior NJ
fandlola, OF Finance; VI Capaz, the Navy:
and vi. VadIIlo, of Ultra marine Affairs
The two latter have been in their place for
some time. The Minister of Grace and Jus
tce has not been named
| We had proceeded thus far, before our pa
prrs of the Slst of May reached us. The Sun
of the latter date, assures the public that what
they shave prev Ously said respecting nego,
Citations between France and the new Spanish
Ministers has been confirmed, that they are
now actually in progress, aud that the whole
has been arranged with the full knowledqo
and sanction of the British Government. Il
Is added. that many of the Cortes have really
ahSsnted themselves, upon the understanding
thai they are not 10 be molested when the
new order of affairs is established. The pa
| per further SAYS, that there is no foundation
| tnr The report that Austria was assembling an
army. and that we way confidently add that
! Austria, Russia, and Prussia have determin
! ed tOadopt the same neutral policy which
has rcgu atcd IN" conduct of the British Min
/ IsierS. The next Information cXpected from
/ Spain will, il is supposed, state The return of
/ 10 IL
/ of the differences between France and Spain:
and ircn. the same quarter we learn that the
terms offered by the former are such rs will
he satisfactory TO Europe in general
BY the Paris papers oftbe 28th. i would
seem that the French ministry frlt disposed to
raise their tone, not little IN consequence of
The change Of The face Of thiags in Spain 1t
is even declared that " France is not really
DESTROYS of an accommodation with Snain,
except ON the basis of the restoration of Fer
! dmand VII. To the exercise ofarbitrarv power.
| The Journal des Dehats. contains the follow
! Ing remarkable sentence The truth is that
! the Duke Of AngOueme win treat with no
General, with no separate Army, but only
with King Ferdinand when SCI free or with
TIE Gov eminent which King Ferdinand shall
freely have established" We do NOT believe
however, that the French will adhere to any
such resolution. There is no doubt that they
wish themselves out Of the scrape, and viii
accept Ofany offers that will save what they
consider their honor
The London Morning Post Of the S1st,
broadly accuses Abisbal of treason, on the
strength of an article from the Journal dts
Debdts, which admits that he had addressed
letter to the Duke of Aug0ulemc drawing
an Instructive and terrifying picture of the
desperate ate of the aiflirs Of the party
| fouiD th, .,rd IF tls, ,,n;,ar-
sal disposition Oi all men of DnIa to
| "bahdUn, or even TO overurn an authority
whose prolonged agony might still occasion So
many unavdillng caauiilrs The letter NJ
this General. CONTINUES the Journal dss Debate,
" Announces that his IT easurt was combined
with the Commanders most esteemed by the
troops, such as Morilio and Balastt rOs, and
declares that lie principal Chiefs Ofthe army,
| 'brylng with reluCiance Il Ministry without
| Kill, and an Assembly without political
weight, invited with AL their wishes better
order of ihugs, aud were ready to hail as
iberator he noble Prince, who had no other
desire than that Ofpromptly closing the sOr-
Ots part which he had assumed"
| The French entered Madrid on the esd
| May, aud the Dui' d'ADgouleme on the morn
| iog of The 9Th Some O( the accounts assert
| that Abish-l had been derived of his COM :
mand 10y his indignant soldiers, and that Gen. (
Lagos has been appointed in his place ThsE
statement though confirmed hy the FACT, that
a General Of that name headed the COnsuu- I
tionalsis in the defeat of Besseres and in The /
evacuation ofthe Capital is cDutradicied by
the Journal DIES Debnts.
There has been no battle in CidalOni1. btu
although Nina has retreated before the FrrDcl
beyond Barcelona, yet the Intelligence from me
army of Money, dIsClOses no particular az
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