Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-04

the most enterprising and well skilled in modern gunner,
Of the boldes European mariners to her thousands
| of armed cruisers upon the Atlantic ocean.
Spain has not nterfered with the domestic laws of an,
other nation will she for the future tolerate any ma
tion interfering with her domestic laws In proof of this
determination she her disposition to forget and
forgive all past efforts to her subjects to rebel
every other hostile action to deprive her of her colony
Cuba which she has cherished and nourished with q
mothers for the last $50 years.
In order therefore, to define her true position and to
make secret of her future action, Spain has issued
this public declaration to all whom it may here
after concern EE
Monarchy is the Government of great States to which
institutions made for duration marvellousy suitable,
the most soid foundations required for vast edi
ce Even if the love of Spanards for monarchy be only
prejudice it must be respected Spain is great State
and she wishes to be preserved at home and abroad the
power which the choice position of her territory and
sixteen millions of population give her. She is both
agricultural and commercial. Her manufactures also
add immense personnel to her real capital These demand
Of her stability Of institutions the of confidence
and as the mother Of credit. All these conditions Of a
regular and prosperous life the monarchy produces to
Spaniards Any other form can only compromise them.
Spaniards q people not to be shaken, the
citizens Of single city, even if called Athens Rome.
The republic could not acclimatze itself the French
soil; pershed from its e4cesses because it
in the instinct Of the nation Span for the future
will correct by her good many evils which have
afflicted her.. She desires to lead the life of great
on, and not that precarous and scky existence which
wastes away the social body.
The national finances Of Spain in very satis-
factory condition. compared with those of any other Eu
ropean Government.
lst By the decree Of the Cortes of 9th August 1852
the aggregate national debt of Spain consolidated
and its holders have since that date accepted the terms
said decree viz beginning the payment Of interest from
the year 1851 to the amount of about 600 per year.
until the year 1869, when 1t will amount to ST.
per year. then representing aggregate capital Of about
at specific interest of three per cent per
year; $6O0,0 per year provided sinking TO
hquidate the capital, commencing in 1852
"a. The annual revenues of Spain not less than
OOO without collecting any funds from her colo
MES Under the guidance Of the eminent military men
who have since the 1st Of August 1854, been placed by
the spontaneous voice Of the Spanish nation to fill the
stations of the heads of the Executive Government pro-
gressye future Of prosperity peace and honor is counted
upon and this win be the failure condition of the sixteen
millions Of souls composing the population of Spain AS
it has been demonstrated, she possesses all the ee
ments Of power to perform either in peace war; all the
functions of q frst-rate European monarchy.
At Madrid, on the 22d March, 1854 tae Council of Min
listers made their report to the Queen of Spain the
scarcity of laborers in the island Of Cuba upon which
document issued the Royal DEGREES of March, 1854
published at Havana in May, 1854 insuring to the pro-
petors Of negro slaves all the rights them acquired by
the existing laws of Spain, but at the time repeat
ing its determination to annhiate every remaining pres
ge of the nhuman foreign the ports Cuba
and every other colony Of Spain.