New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-19

thOrity that his own EmDfssauot ~ ans CVusP"V"
against him With Christns and Narvaez aud so poor
in resources that be found means to ward of their
miserable iutrigues, or the petty tricks OF Louis
Philippe. SO little did be understand his own post
ton that he made an nconsderste stand against pub
lie opinion when it simply wanted PreteAt to break
him to pieces
In May 1s43 his popularity having long sinee iaded
sway. he retained Lineage, Zurbaro and rue o'hel
members of bis military camsrilla, whose dismissal
was loudly called for; be dismissed the Lopez Mn
i,try. who commanded large majority 10 the Cham
Der Of Deputies and he stubbornly refused an am
nest, for the exiled Sloderados then claimed on all
hands. BY Parliament by the people and by the army
itself This demand simply expressed the public
disgust with bis administration. Then, at once,
! hurricane Of pronunciamentos against the "t!rant
"Espartero shook the Peninsula from one end to the
| other; a movement to be compared only from the
rapidly of its spreading, TO the present one Moler'
ADDS and combined for the one object Of
getting rid Of the Regest The crisis took him quite
unawsres-tle fatal hour found him unprepared.
! Nsryaez. accompanied by O'Donnell, COncha and
| Pezuela, landed with handiull Of men at Valencia
On their side all rapidy and action considerate
sudacity energetic decision. On the side OF Espar-
tero all was helpless hesitation, deadly delay apa'
thetic irresolution indolent weakness. While Mar
ysez raised the seige Of Terrue and marched into
| Arrseop Espartero retired from Madrid, and con-
sumed whole weeks in unaccOuntable inactivity at Al
bacete. When Navarez had won the corps of
| Seosne and Zurbaro at Torrejon, and was marching
on Madrid, Espsrtero at length effected junction
with Van Halen, for the useles. and oiious bonn
bardueIt of Seville He then fed from station to sta
ton at every step ohs retreat BY his troops
till at last he reached the coast When he embarked at
Cadz that town, the last where he retained party,
babe its hero farewell by also pronouncng against him.
| An Epglisbman who resided in Spain during the ca
tastrophe gives graphic description of the sliding
scale Of Esparteros greatness: " 1t was not the ire
"mendous crash of all instant, after well-tought
field but little and bit by bit descent after no
! fighting at all from Madrid to Ciudad Real, from
Ciudad Real to Albacete from Albacete to Cordovs,
"from Cordoya to Seville from Seville to Port st.
Mary, and thence to the wide ocean. He fell from
idolatry 10 enthusiasm from enthusiasm to attach
"mept, from attachment to respect from respect to
Indifference from Indifference to contempt from
contempt to hatred and from hatred he fell into the
| "sea."
How could Espartero have now again be-
come the savior of the country, and "sword Of
the revolution, as he is called This event would
| be quite ncomprehensible we're it not for the ten
years Of reaction spain has suffered under the brutal
! dictatorship of Narvaez, and the brooding yoke IF
the Queens minens, who supplanted him. Extensive
and violent epochs Of reaction wonderfully fitted
for reestabli.Ing the fallen men of revolutionary
mscariG2es. The greater the imaginative powers
of a people-and where is Imagination greater than
] a. hair
impulse to oppose to individual ncarnations of des-
pOtm individual incarbatiOns OF the revolution. AS
they cannot improyiso them at once, they excayato
the dea3 men of their previous movements. Was not
Naryasz hmselfo the point of growing popular at the
,1penfe of Sartorssi The EsparterO who, on the
29th Of July held his Triumphant entrance into Mad
rid, was no real man. he was ghost, name, re-
miniscence.
Itis but due to justice to record that Espartero
never professed to be anything but a constitutional
nonarchist and if there had ever existed any doubt
upon that point i! must have disappeared before the
enthusiastic reception he met with during his exile at
Windsor Castle and from the governing classes Of
England. When be arrived in London the whole
stocracy locked to his abode the Duke of yelling
ton sud Palmerston at their head. Aberdeen in his
quality Of Foreign Minister sen. him an inyitltion
TO be presented to the Queen: the Lord Mayor and
the Aldermen of the city entertained him with CASTRO
monte homages at the Mansion House; and when it
became known that the Spanish Cincinnatus passed
lis leisure hours in gardening, there was
no Botanical, or Horticultural, or Agricultu-
raj Society which not eager to present
him with membership He was quite the
| lion Of that metropolis. At the end Ok lSi7 an
amnesty recalled the Spanish exes, ani The decree
Of Queen Isabella appointed him Senator He was,
however, not allowed to leave England before Queen
Victoria had invited him and his Duchess to her Ia
Bile, adding the extraordinary honor of Offering them
nights lodging at Windsor Castle. 1t is true,
believe, that this halo thrown round his person was
tero had been and still the representative Of
British interests in Spain. 1t is less true that the
Espartero demonstration looked something like
demonstration against Louis Philippe
On bis return to Spain he received deputatiOn upon
deputaton, gratulatons upon gratulations, and the
city of Barcelona dispatched an express messenger
to apologize for its bad behaviour in l543. But has
anybody ever heard his mentioned during the
fatal period from January 1916, till the late events
Has he raised his voice during that dead silence
of degraded SPAIN IL there recorded single &c.
Of patriotic resistance on his part! He quietly
tires to bis estate at LOgrono cutiystng his cabbages
and flowers, waiting bis time. He did not go even to
the revolution till the revolution for him. He
did more than Msbomet. He expected the mountain
TO come to him, and the mountain came. Still there
is exception to be mentioned. When the revolu-
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