Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-25
The oncen If spain and Her Court

The last number of Blaekwoods Magazine
contains most scathng review of the life OF the
Queen Of Spain, aud charges the commencement
of her unpopularity toh her RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1t a
vers that the excuses that have been shared IN
by the present Queen of Spain find no parallel
except that in the annals of the Orleans egeney
aud Of the reign of the Fifteenth Louis. To graft
ify her victious propensities, the daughter OF
Ferdinand VII, (well worthy of her sirs) has not
scrupled 10 associate herself with men and wo-
men OF low birth and station, whose companion
ship alone is disgracefu to one i'll her exalted po-
sition. In n small capital like Madrid, contain
ing AN idle and scandal loving population, every
thing becomes known. 1t would not appear, in
deed as if very great precautions were taken to
conceal conduct, which the Queen ought TO have
known would sink her fathoms deep in her sub
iects' estimation. For tits to be observed, and
history shows it that Spanlards, however great
the missgovernment they have submitted to,have
never tolerated profligacy on the part OF the fe-
males Of the royal family. Nor do they now
Sulen silence on the part Of the people, when her
Majesty drives abroad, and resolute holding a
loot on the part of the respectable portion
of the nristocracy, sufficiently mark the nations
ds-estenm. When first this unfortunate Prin-
cess abandoned the limits of propriety, the dis
order of her conduct as fragrant.
Within the last two years she has attached
herself to one favorte, who has assumed great
ascendency over her, and whose ambitious aspi
rations, real or rumored, have excited public in
dignntion. Considering her mothers shameful
neglect of her education, and the disastrous mar
riage into which she was ensnared by the vilest
intrigues, the Spanish nation might perhaps have
been disposed to close its eyes to certain ex-
tent, to this iiaiSoa, had it been conducted with
dccorum, and had the object of her Majesty's
preference kept strictly aloof from politics. Nj
Their of these two conditions have been observed,
and in the latter respect especially, great offence
has been given. Ii is true, and undenlably true,
that young cavalry officer of the name of Arana
is all powerful at court, whore he has introduced
"A number of his own friends, and established II
sort of coterie or cdmdrfiid, that surrounds and
influences the queen. 1t is true that applicants
for court favor know no surer channel by which
to obtain their wishes, than that of this young
man that tho asprants TO power do not scruple
(such is the corruption of this country and the
vieness of its public mem to seek his society, to
hatter him, and to make hiai their intimate com
panion, and continually to show themselves with
him in public rlaces; and that some of the minis
tcrs now in power do not think it beneath their
personal dignity, or that of their Office to retain
place by deierrng TO this person, and to anvil
themselves of his influence and interecssion to
carry, in high quarters, points which they other
wise might have to abandon. The ascendeney
acquired by this favorto over his sovereign is
highly perlous, and may ultimately prove fatal
to the Bourbon dynasty in Spain.