The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-01

THE Ex.QuEEN's LAST DAYS IN HER KINGDoM-AN
INTERESTING NARRATIVE.

In the Madrid Epocs of March 9th. inserted
(says the newspsper,) because "impsrtislity and
justice are our duty and our strength and be-
cause the correspondent who forwards it is ga
person Immediately attached to Queen Isabel In
the days which preceded and followed the revou
ton of September; probably, therefore, one Of
these three-Archbishop CIaret, the king consort,
or Marfori himself. 1t Is too long for our col
umns, but the burden may be very briefly stated
as follows:
wants, indeed, kept her in ignorance at st. Sebas
tian Of what was doing at Madrid, at Cadiz, and
everywhere else, not sending her any kilograms,
at least not an teBp0re utsS, or intercepting and
Withholding such ss were occasionally sent-aot
communicating with one another, except to her
prejudice-in short, betraying her cause, from
first to last, and consulting each his own dirty ad
vantage. instead of his most ordinary and obvious
duty. 2. Her Majesty was most ready to 60 to
Bullets with the mslcontents; wanted to return to
Madrid for that purpose; wanted to send her hus-
band in her stead to take the command of her
troops whether OIL not with his concurrence Is not
ssid); wanted the two Conchas to do the work for
both; but was kept in the dark, or dissuaded,
until action became impossible, and until she
ascertained that her own life would be as.
suredly sacrificed 10 assassins were she to per
severe. g. II was the urgent advice OF the active
fnancier, Saiamanca-who offered. II It were
once accepted, TO prmmel Ia punetdzos) Pfim and
Serrano into obedience; OF Gonzales Bravo. OF the
Conchas, and, il seems, OF ell about her, from the
first moment of the insurrection, that she should
abdicate in favor of her son, the so-caled prince
Of the Asturas; but then they were all traitors;
and, besides. the maternal instinct prevented her
separating his cause from her own, and so she
refused the only condition upon which, according
to those advisers. the dynasty might have been
saved. 4. In her fight over the Bidassoa, not one
of them did her the poor honor Of his company.
The only member of the local "Deputation (or
Counci) OF Gupuzera who escorted her fight was
Agurre, and he was 'rof Republican opinions"
What follows is curious.
Her first and last source OF information about
the revolution was "the Emperor Napoleon"
himself. Days before the pronuncidmien,o of the
feet, and the return Of the exiled generals from
the Canary Isles, the ruler Of France was In pos
session Of information, how acquired we are left
to guess, which moved him 10 dissuade her from
paying, Just at that time her proffered visit to
de Ezpeets returned to 81: Sebastian from BIZ
arritz, with the reply" That letter contained
zone notable and significant phrase, viz: that
her majesty alone could properly decide whether,
in the actual posture of Spanish politics.
1t was prudent or imprudent for the royal
fact, at Biarritz," adds the correspondent Of
the Epocs, "theY were in possession Of inteli-
gence anticipated and knew Of what was going to
happen at Cadiz and Of what had just happened
ct Ceuta." AS In the beginning so also at the
end IL was from BiarTitz that Dona Isabel derived
all her information Of what had happened,
wss happening or going to happen. "From the
sad day on which the queen set her foot upon for
eien soil, no other news reached her from Spain
than what was communicated by the Emperor
Napoleon, until the reception OF the correspond
ences and apologies of the Generals Gssset,
Reina, Pezuels, and the fugitive governors Of the
provinces adheriDg to the movement Of Madrid"
Is this too an accusation! sr in what light does
her majesty wish TO present the conduct of her
late ally and present host