The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-05


Ftrdinsnde, but no desired that he should wed
Queen Louisa than Queen Isabelle, and that he might
ven be assured that my should espouss the In
fanta until the queen was married. Lord Aberdeen
added, and when sho shall have borne child Be II
So replied Il do not desire better for il the Queen
were to remain sterile the Infanta would become the
necessary the inevitable heress and that would net
suit nae no more than you bat however, there must be
reciprocity in this affair and give you your Sc
curites Is JUST that in return you should give
mine Now mine are that you will do all in your power
thst Queen Isabella shall choose her husband from
amongst the defendants of Philip ". and that Prince
Leopold of SAKE Coburg be set aside Be 1t so replied
Lord Aberdeen We are OF the same opinion with you,
that the lest which BIO done Ia that the should
select her husband from amongst the desce ndants OF
Philip " Ws cannot take the initiative this ques
ton as we have done but will suffer you to act
shall merely follow you. and at all events we will not act
In oppoeition to you As to Prince Leopold you may
tranquil with respect to his pretensons for 1t
that no shsl DO neither knowedged nor supported
by England, and that he shall interfere with you-
Guzot to whom have just read this reci's admits It's
curacy and sm certsin Of tho Same testimony on the
part Of Lord Aberdeen II could read Il TO him Never
thses however anxious Lord Aberdeen might be that
his agents should act honoraby he has DONE thsi
proceedings did not answer either his expecta
TONS They had recourse to all expedients to mslign
Count Trapsni, because they aware hat he had
Queen her daughter, who repested constantly her
ministers Quero Trapan Il will havo Trapani) This
young prince was represented as dwarf which he is
He rides admirably, and no has even gained several
prizes in the tournaments Of Naples They then OBJ
obterate the recollection that he Is grandson Of Philip
" and Of Charles ILL., and to his having been educated
in convent of Jesuts at Rome in order to represent
him as bigotted superstitous, and fanatic Those
directed by the journals of the prosressst par
N who unfortunately have enjoyed the favor Of tho
British agents in SPAIN succeeded covering the poor
Trspsn with real uupopusrity II then that BY an
extraordinary man@uv which originated In the pa
transition Of the Queen Christine In favor of the pre-.
tensions Of the Prince Of Ceburg-to cast tho
popularity Of Trspani,s protensions by making the
l. Louis Philippe who wished to impose Trspani
the Queens Of SPAIN, who had not, could not
have any other for him than that which re-
suited from my knovledge that he OF the de-
scendants Of Philip " to whom the two Queens accord
ed their preferencsrI well known dare to say, for
ment should abstain from all interference whatever in
the internal affairs of other countres-in spain in
who dissolved the ministry Of NJ Theirs n 1886 to pre-
vent the imminent invasion OF the French armies in
facts Of many proofs of respect for the independ
Of all States and Of all governments have boon
exposed to this accusation directed sgsnst per-
sonslly in tho article recently published in the Times,
under the title Tin large ohsracers) Of French Dicta-
ton in Spain
''Au these mar osuvres brought about that step to
which Queen Christina ao wed herself to be persuaded
agent despatched by her, bearing letter
from herself to the Duke of Coburs for the purpose Of
demanding tho hand of his cousin Prince Leopold Of
SAKE Coburg, for the Queen her daughter The open
OF Lord Aberdsens Character induced him to give
oonce aled from w 20 Madrid adding at the sene time
that neither @ Victoria nor Prince Albert, her
So demsnd q ft ousen cSrns W.
represented e. m that after what had passed upon tho
snhjsct, Untitled to demand of bim more posi-.
tive expresson Of tbs ntrigues Of the Englsh agents.
which had led TO this step the part Of Queen Christi
ma; and in fact Lord Aberdeen addressed very
reprimsnd to MIR Bulwer who the point, It
said his resignation he remained, however,
at Madrid.
quilted tho itish Cabinet and succeeded by Lord
PAmerston very short time after his installation Ia
the Foreign Office, Lord Palmerston made communion
tsry To kkaT AZ. IF
that he had despatched to Mr. Buwer relative to the
affairs Of Spain and which he had already sent OF few
prsyious notice. proo .sdns bs no means cossosmsbis
20 ctrdss' anfcrstansr and to tho manner &c
which relations of reciprocal confidence with Lord
Aberdeen had accustomed US. In these instructions
Lord Pamstou cunn-d to three the rumber Of princes
whose pretensons to the hand OF tho Queen of Spain
Isabella Eagand admitted, that is to say, Prince Lso
pold Of SAKE Coburg Don Francisco OASIS Duke Of Ca
dir Don Enrico, Duke Of Seville.
name Of the Prince Of Cobura niso.a his and
pacsd at the very top He told Lord Pslerston thst it
was quits at vacancs with the constantly
given by Lord Aberdeen and he required that this
didste should be struck out of the list. LORD Palmer
son replied that was utterly impossible in every way,
over the having been adopted the Cabinet
he unable to make any change in 1t alone and that
he was not disposed to propose any to the Cabinet
The rest of his instructions wero not of nature to
DO at all more Satisfactory to They In oom-
petey different tome and had quito another tendency
TO those Of Lord Aberdeen. There not indics-
tween and the entire tendency of the instructions
went towards assuring the progresst party Of the
eyes at least only at bottom thu more revoluionaSy
party the ascendancy Of which in Spain had Caused
many deporabe events we'll the affair of Grans,
by placing the young Queen and leaving her under
the yoke OF Esparteros regency
"Such instructions these necessarily excited fears
of a return Of similar disastrous and, in fact,
they excited tho most serious oarm in the Palace Of Ma
drid they we're known. Tbs consequence was
that all who led to mako the proposal the
Duke of Cohurg Queen Christina at their head, COM
psty turned fesrpg tho renewal of the Progres
that had been but recently Ia
Gacia and had led to the expulsion of Don Eprco and
to us, with the demand fjrthe immediate and
simultaneous two marriages of the Queen with Don
francisco dAssis and Of the nfantA with Montpenser
Ems was NOT only the n non OF queen
che had desired until them but the desire Of the
ministry and Of all spanisrds, who locked upon the
prompt conclusion Of these two marriages the only
of putting end to AL the inoertitudes upon
which based the hopes of party Of men who were
getting up new instructions.
" As soon as this change known the English
agents, than month after the instructions Of
Lord Pslmerston, which admitted candidate Prince
Leopold Of Coburg made every effort to support the pre-
ter .ons of Don Enrico Nothing could he more untme
tey since It ony too notorious that Don Enrico was
the chief rather the agent of all the different revou
tionary parties and Lord Paimerston ct render
ed those pretensons Impossible by recommending them
in official documents
long explanation that the side Of England the line
Of conduct sgrcsrpon with me was not at all maintain
cd that the prebns OF Prince Leopold OF Coburg
positively accepted by his being placed at the head
OF those TO whom tbs English government made no OBJ
jection that combinations absolutely contrary to these
to which had sgreed to confne ourselves, were rem
dored probable and even imminent; and that thus
found self warranted and necessitatsd to use my IL
berty the pur Of avoiding those nbnatons a.
my government hid always declared that It would do II
impeed TO II. II Was not |, consequently who nrst
commenced gsve the example ia devistiog from our
primary convenbns only yielded to the necessities
Of the deviation tnmenced elsewhere add quite con-
trsry to my expectations.
" This much explained, will now sincerely state In
what the deviation on my side consisted. IL con-
ssts in my arranging and bringing about the marriage
OF the Duke CT Mont not before the marriage on
the Queen of spain for che will be married the Duke
Of CAdiz at tho lime my son 10 The nfanta but
before the Queen has child This Is only deviation
nothing mors. and nothing less This fact | desire
SHOULD be appreciated 1t merits by cnterng into de-
tails which you viii Icy before Queen Vctoris best
you may be AID; for consider them essential to the
completes eucidson of the affair and it is no petty con-