New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-27

French having evacuated Gslicis at the end Of
1909 our Marquis and Commissioner Of the Cen
trail Junta entered Corubna United in his
person all public authority, suppressed the
district juntas, which had multiplied with the
insurrection, asd in their places appointing
military governors, threatening the members
of those juntas with persecution, actually per-
scouting the patriots, affecting supreme
bepighity toward all who had embraced
the cause Of the invader, and proving in all other
respects a mischievous, impctent cspricious
blockhead. Ard what had been the shortcom-
ipgs Of the district and provincial Juntas OF ia
licisi They had ordered general recruitment
without exemption Of classes or persons; 'ney
had levied taxes upon the capitalists and propri-
etOrs they had lowered the salaries OF puohc idnc-
tiopsries; they had commanded the ecclesiastical
corporations to keep at their disposition tue reVe-
nues existing in their chests In one word' they
had taken revolutionary measures. from the
time of the glorious Marquis de las Romerlas,
A,turias and Galicia, the two provinces most dis
tipeuished by their general resistance to tho
French, withheld from partaking in the war of
independence, whenever released rem immedi-
ate danger of invasion.
In Valencia where new prospects appeared TO
open ss long as the people were left to them
selves and TO chiefs Of their own choosing, the
revolutionary spirit was broken down by
the influence Of the Central Government. Not
contented to place that province under the gener-
asbip of one Don Jose Caro- the Central Junta dis
patched as "their own" commissioner, the Baron
Labszora. This Baron found fault with the pro-
vncisl junta because it had resisted certain supe-
ror orders and Cancelled their decree by which
the appointments to vacant canOnship, eccesiasti-
cal benefces, and commentaries had been judi
ciously suspended and the revenues destined for
the benefit of the military hos pitals. Hence bitter
contests between the Central Junta and that of
Valencia; hence, at a later epoch, the sleep of
Valencia under the liberal administration of
Marshal Sucbet; hence its eagerness to proclaim
Ferdinand VII. on his return against the then
revolutionary Government
At Csdiz, the most revolutionary place in
Spain at the epoch, the presence of a Commits
soBer ofthe Central Junta, the stupid and conceit
ed Marquis de Vittel, caused an insurrection to
break out on the god and 23d of February. 1909,
which, if not timely shifted to the war Of indie
pendence, would have had the most disastrous
consequences.
There exists no better sample of the discretion
exhibited by the Central Junta in the appointment
ofther own Commissioners, than that of the dele
gate to Wellington, Senior LozaIo de Torres,
who, while humbling himself in servie aduIaton
before the English General, secretly informed the
Junta that the Generals complaints on his want
of provisions were altogether grOundless. well
liDgton having found out the deuble-tongued
wretch, chased him ANONYMOUSLY from his camp.
The Central Junta were placed in the most
fortunate circumstances for realisiDg what they
had proclaimed in one of their addresses to the
Spanish nation. ut has seemed good to Provi-
"dence that in this terrible crisis you should not
abe able to advance one step toward indepen-
"dence without advancing one likewise toward
"liberty." At the commencement of their reign
the French had not yet obtained possession Of
one.third Of Spain The ancient authorities they
found either absent or Frustrated by their con-
nivsnce with the intruder or dispersed at his
bidding. There was no measure of social REFORM
transferring property and influence from the
church and the sristOcracy to the middle-class
and the peasants, which the cause Of defending
the common country could not have enabled them
to carry. They had the same good luck as the
French Comh6 da salut public-that the conyul-
sion within was backed by the necessities of de-
Tense against aggressions from without more
over they had before them the example Of the
bold initiative which certain provinces had
already been forced into by the pressure of cir
cumstances. But not satisfied with hanging as
dead .weig on the Spanish revolution they actually
worked in the sense of the counter revolution, by
reestablishng the ancient authorities, by forging
anew the chains which had been broken, by sitting
the revolutionary fire wherever it broke out, by
themselves doing nothing and by preventing others
from doing anything. During their stay at Seville,
on July 20, 1909, even the English Tory Govern
ment thought necessary to address them note
strongly protesting against their counter revolu
tionary course "apprehending that they were
" likely to sufocate the public enthusiasm" 1t
has been remarked somewhere that Spain endured
all the evils of revolution without acquiring
dictionary strength. If there be any truth in this
remark, it is a sweeping condemnation passed
upon the Central Junta.
We have thought it the more necessary to
dwell upon this point, as its decisive importance
has never been understood by any European his
torian. Exclusively under the reign of the Gen.
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