Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-08
From the London Times, July rs.
The Result of the Revolution.

The Moniteur announced yesterday that the
Queen of Spain, as last resource, had sent
for General Espartero, and intrusted him with
the duty of forming an administration. This is
no ordinary change in the policy of O court--it
is the capitulation of the Spanish monarchy to
an armed Instruction. From every quarter of
Spain intelligence has been received that town
after town had abandoned the cause of the
court-in other words, of the miserable schemers
and Adventures who, by a series of despicable
intrigues and despotic measures, had too long
abused the patience, grown fat upon the spoils,
and dishonored the name Of the Spanish nation.
Of Queen Isabella herself what shall we say
She had long fallen as woman ere she fell as
queen. 1t is more than questionable if all
the trickery of her minister's all the violent acts
of her military agents, would have succeeded in
rousing the country against her throne, had she
been but true to herself. We denounced her
in the period of her power as guilty of high
treason against the cause of virtue and morality,
| but in the hour of her humiliation we cannot
| forget into what hands it was her misfortune to
| fall. What counsel was she to receive from
| the lips, what example from the conduct of her
mother? What support, what protection what
| check from the husband into whose arms she
was tricked by an artifce which will remain
infamous even among the annals Of politi.
cal infamy? Ola truth, the Spanish MARI.
ages" have borne good fruit to those who plan.
| ned Them and to those who were the objects of
the plans. The Spanish nation, however, could
| not accept any such paliation for the conduct
| Of their queen. There was not father, hus-
band, brother, or son in the country who could
speak without blush and curse of the life
of his queen; and could that last? If we
pass, however, from this point to the political
aspect of affairs at the present moment, there
can be no doubt that if the queen, in the mo-
ment of her distress, has sent for General Es-
partero, and bid him save her throne at am
| cost, she has avaied herself Of the last chance
| left for her upon the cards. Any other course
would have been open to the most violent OBJ
| jections. 1t may now be taken for granted that
armed resistance on the part of the court is
out Of the question. Partial concession also
would be equally unavaling. Now that the
struggle has once begun, there is no doubt
that the nation and the army would fight
heartily against such another as that of NJ.
Sartorius. Could the queen find general
even though that general should be Narvaez
himself-to take her part on the strength of
halfconcession, the speedy result would be his
destruction, and the humiliation of her own
last chance of retaining the throne of her an
cestors. She will not be retained, at any rate,
for her own sake, but simply as symbol of
order, and to avoid the Inconvenience of
disputed concession. The pretensions of the
Count de Montemolin are as completely out of
the question as were those of Charles Edward
to the English throne in 1745; the young
Duchess de Montpensier-to make no mention
of foreign complications-has no hold upon
the feelings of the people; so that the name Of
Isabella III. is still useful one to the nation
if they are not called upon to pay too high
price for it. For the moment, the best thing
for Spain is liberal government under the
direction of General Espartero or any other
chief in whom the nation may have confidence.
The question will then remain, if the queen be
willing to abandon her proAgate mode of life
for the sake Of her throne?