The New York herald., 1872-07-09
TIE DVKE DE MOyTPENs!Ea AGAIN.

The Durze'a Love OF Country Manifests
Itseif in Favor Of thc Son Of IsRbclIn--
After Helping 20 Dothrone the Mother
He Now Desires 20 Elevate the Son.
The following Is q translation OF the letter a d.
dressed by the Due dc ontpensier to q friend In
Spain which he's recently been published In the
Madrid Journals
Now that the electoral struggle is finished my
voice can no longer cause alarm to the public
authorities nor excite suspicion in the minds Of
any party. / con, therefore, discharge the agree
the Asturias Catalonia, Andalusia and other
provinces q public testimony OF my gratitude for
the repeated requests which nave been made to me
the Cortes. Deeply grateful as | was for such
an honor, I have, nevertheless, felt 1t
Welding to the powerful reasons Of public interest
with which you are acquainted In accepting last
year the nomination as a. rep &repressentatiye s OF the
electors OF San Fernando, l believed that ought
and would be able to take my place in the Congress,
and to contribute to the welfare Of our beloved
spain; but very quickly saw not without sorrow,
that my personal Intervention In the debates, far
from asshaglng political passions, might furnish
pretext for exciting them. From that time ab-
stained from attending the sittlngs OF the Congress-
J did more. quilted spain, determined to remain
a stranger to events and TO the violent conflicts OF
parties. Now that all passions are still more ar
dent than at tina; time, that political groups are
broken up into fractions as they never were before,
tIat oil evils are aggravated, That all minds are oc
cuNied with formidable problems FOR the future,
have not desired that my name, introduced into
the nolit,caIcOntest should be employed to increa
these unhaDDy dlscor,is. and also wished TO avoid
responsibility fOr mtsiOrtunes which oresaw.
theretore resolved 10 remain. not Indifferent cer-
family but aloNf nom every conflict. Still, II In
the midst OF tile struggles with which we are
rnepaced by the rress table force OF events or by
the means authokzcJ Ivy the eNisttng laws, spain
should and self once alal called upon to dispose
nf iia IrsttnltA believe that The constitutional.
traditional and eredltary monarchy persOuihed In
the Young Prince .ABonso. It's Legitimate rcpresen-
tatiye can alone Ol Tor TO troubled spain wide basis
upon which to place the edlnCe OF its modern and
i'm mDreecriptible inst ttutons, and Insure at the
eaI time under tho protection OF strong and re-
spected AUTHORITY, thA true liberty which II the
guarantee OF all progre -, ana tiat order which Is
the FIRST condition Of all liberties. without per-
sanaI ,epsions. with n,, other ambition than TO
see my family occupying upon the stens OF the
throne the place to which the ancient laws Of sue
CO ssion have always assig1'ed 1t, viii not allow
my name to be used for party cry. When the
time comes II IL he tao, VIII OF Spain, !
will resoutely defend that noble cause which
Ia TO my mind that Of no party exclusively.
lis triumph would, indeed, be danger to none,
would not involve either passionate reaction or
the reestahiishment OF laws on institutions which
time has swept away. stu 1883 would u permit
our existing laws, our customs a'iu institutions 10
lose whatever OF utility and advantage they may
have derived nom successive rev0luilODbnnd crises
All may range themselves around inc banner OF
peace of compromise and concord, certain that
within It's ample and generous folds there VIII be
room or all WHO desire that the crd OF Disturbances
should terminate and whose hearts are geV0ted 20
the welfare and prosperity OF Spain. leave yon,
my dear Marens. 10 make wnat .yer use Df this
letter you may consider to be most advisable ana
remain, &C.. NJ,
PANS, Aprn II, 1872. ANTOINE D'oRLEAss.