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


nass Of mar Kind can never be CT too moders.s q
character. They eIult in the erection Of 4 lib
ersl Arl'tocracy and the supreme rule Of the
Bourgeoisie, blended with the greatest possible
amount OF the abuses and traditions OF the an
Gent regime. Martinez De Ia R-sa-over
rhelmed with politeneis, courted and f.t.ered
by the successive French ambassador, AZ Mad.
rid-tLe Prince Laval de- Montmorency and the
Count Lsgsrde-lmed to modify the Cons.i:u.
ton Of l-l2, by establishing House Of Peers
giving the King an absolute veto, Introducing
property qualification for The Lover House, and
laying restrictions upon the press. From l534 to
le3G this ncorrigible doctrinsire had the pleas
ure of witnessing the introduction and the down.
fall of tie sbortive Constitution he had hs.ched
in 1922. The French diplomstisss inside him un-
derstspd that the Court OF the Taileres would
approve Of institutions similar to those which
then existed in France, while be fsttered him
self that the King would not be averse to char
ter which bad enabled Louis XVIII to do what
he liked. The King. on his part cajoled the
self conceited MoJerado, whom he intended. as
was afterward proved, to send directly from the
palace to the scafold.
According to the plan concocted between the
CANA, lila and the Ministry, all conspiracies were
10 be wnked at, and confusion was to be suffered
TO reisn, 60 as, afterward, by the assistance Of
France, to introduce order, and give the nation
moderate Charter, capable ofperpetuaung power
AID influence in iss original promoters, aud win
ming over the privileged classes to the new sys-
TEN. Consequently, in opposition to the secret
societies of the Liberals, . secret society was
founded on moderate princires-tse Society of
the Anlo, the members Of which were to act
CONFORMITY with the Ministry. Money wss plen-
tfully scattered among the Royal Life Guards,
but these distributions being denounced to the
Ministry By members of tie municipal police,
they ridiculed them, treating the information as
symptom Of radicalisn and republicsnism.
The regiment of the Royal Cuirassiers, cautioned
in Andalusia, was completely seduced; alarming
reports ere spread in the different provinces
whittier were sent, Is Political Chiefs members Of
the Society Of the Anillo. At the same time the
tribunals received secret instructions to treat
with gres. indulgence ali conspiracies that might
fall under their Judicial powers. The object OF
these proceedings was to excite an explosion at
Madrid, which was TO coincide with another at
Nslencia. Gen. Elio the traitor of 1914,
then q prisoner in that town, was to put
bmself at the head Of the couater revolution
in the eastern part Of SPAIN the garrison of Va
leDcia being composed Of only one regiment,
greatly attached to Elio, and hostile, therefore,
to the Constitutional system. The Deputy Ber
tram de Lys, in the Assembly of the Cortes, en-.
treated the Ministers to withdraw this body of
soldiers from Valencia, and when they remained
infe1lble, brought in motion of impeachment
The day appointed for the explosion was the last
day Of May, OS22, the feast OF st. Ferdinand
The Court was then at Arspjuez. On given
signal the guards rushed into the streets an
backed by the Arapjuez msb, assembled in
the front of thepalace, shouting cries of Long
| olive our absolute monarch Down with the Con-
"ttituton This riot was however, instantly
suppressed by Gen. Zsyas and the Simultaneous
revolt of the regiment of Valencia proved, after
bloody combat between the militia and the sol.
diers, no more successful. The failures of Aran.
juez and Valencia served only to exasperats the
Liberals. On oil sides parties prepared for self
defense. The agitation becoming universal, the
Ministers slone remained passive spectators in
the midst of the confusion that announced an ap-
preaching storm.