New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-23


people entered on their legitimate rights. Ny
50 resolution was free oni rolamary" Ferdinand
VII, despOtic coward. tiger with the heart OF
hare, man as greedy Of authority as ul6. to
exercise IL, prince pretending to absolute power
in order to be enabled 20 renounce it into the
thing. namely, his perfect mastery in hypocri.y.
He eIjoJ ID sort OF satisfaction in exaggera.ing
bis own self humiliation before victorious enc
NY, resolved, as be was, 10 aseDge, at the 0ppor-
TUE mOmebt his AFFECTION by still more as.
founding peIfdy. When prisoner Of Napoleon,
be humby th aDked him for the refuge be had az
forded him. and begged for the hand Of Q princess
OF the BonsParte family. When Bonspsrte neso.
ss'ed With him for his restoration 10 the Spanish
urone' be protested, in an sduiAtory letter, that
ne should be the neanest IF mo tails, and become
eo!"oro 10 Europe, if he ever proved ungrateld
20 hs imperial benefactor, simultaneously writing
secret letter TO the Regency at Madrid, infyrm.
iDg tnem that, once set at liberty, his frs. act
would be to betrsy the French Emperor When
on July 9, 1870, he swore anew to the Constitu.
uoh' declaring that his resolution was free and
" voluntary" the Count of Espagne and Mr..
POns were already negotiating in bis name. A,
Paris, with the Pavilion Marsan-viz., the Count
of Artoia (afterwsId Charles X and his coterie-
on the means Of subvertng that same Constitu.
ton.
There were some moments 10 his politicallife, a.
for instance the decree of September 80, 1923,
when he made false promises in the most solemn
msnDer, for no other possible purpose than
the mere pleasure Of breaking them. The serious
work of counter revolution, he committed en-
tirey to the partisans If the ancien. regime, re-
serving to himself to encourage their efforts in
every possible way, but with the mental reser
vation of drowning them if unfortunate, aud
quietly delivering them to the resentment of
their enemies if beaten. No mortal ever bore
Others suferiDgs with more stoical apathy.
For his own official part ne limited himself to
showing bis disgust at the Constitution by play
ing the fool with it. One night, for instance,
he writes to the head Of the Cabinet, letter TO
the effect that be had appointed Gen. Contador as
War Minister. The Ministers, at loss to Cad q
Contador in the army litt, are astOnisbed at dis.
of squadron, a years old, long since disabled
for any kiud of service. The Ministers so inso
ieDtly Knocked, rendered their resignation. Ferdi-
nand, having succeeded in composing the differ
ence, proposes to replace Contador BY Gen. Mar.
tlnez Rodriguez, as unknown ~ his predecessor.
New troublesome researches having taken place.
1t appears that Martinez had been Dangerously
hurt 10 the head at Badsjoz, by the explosion of
powder barrel, and had never recovered his
ienses since that accident. A sort of yrtuoso in
the art of passive audacity and active cowariics.
Ferdinand VII never shrunk from provoking
catastrophe, resolved, as he was to be before.
hand with the danger
The majority of the Cortes was composed of
deputies to the Cadiz COries, the authors of the
Constitution and their adhereDts, while the mi
Bority consisted of men who had conspired to re-
establish the Constitution. The majority con.
sidering the proclamation of the Constitution a.
the final term of the revolution, while the mi
nority considered it as it's beginning; the former
having laid hold Of the Government while the
latter were still striving to seize it.; schsm be-
tween the Liberals of 1912 and the Lioersls of
1870, between the Moderados and the Exaltados,
became inevitable. If the influence of the Lber-
als OF 1919 was prepsDderant in the COrtes, the
Liberals Of 1920 were the stronger in the clubs,
the press and the streets. If the former dis
posed Of the Administration, the latter relied
upon the army of the lila, which, strengthened
by some regiments that had not participated in
the military revolt, was still concentrated in
ADdalusis, and placed under the supreme com.
mand of Riego, Quirogs having been sent a. a
deputy to the Cortes. Ia order to break the
stronghold of the Exaltados, the Marquis de Lat
Amaras, Minister Of War, disbandsd the army
Of the Isla Riego having before been removed
ftom his troops on the pretext of being installed
rs Captain. General Of Gslcia. Hardly WAS the
army Of the leila disbanded-the only military
corps in Spain that deserved the name of an army
when the first Bands of the Faith were seen tc
appear in CASTLE and in the North of Spain.
Rego, secretly summoned by his pa, tissns on
the 3lst August suddenly appeared at Madrid,
where be became the idol of the people. who 70
ceiyed him with turbulent oystions and with an
overflow of enthusiasm, which the Ministry
viewed as a general calamity. They resolved
upon exiting him to Oviedo-severai other Isla
officers being also banished to different places.
Although Rieeo did not resist this arbitrary act
of prescription, the Ministers, apprehending an
insurrection as likely to break out upon bis noe
turnal departure from Madrid, called the garri-
con to arms, occupied the principal places, filed
the streets of Madrid with artillery, while on the
following dsy. Arguelles proposed in the COrtes