The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
Arms from England for DON Carlos
In Spain.

Arms from England for DON carlos
In Spain.
Among our numerous cable dispatches OF
the last two or three days on the internal dis
orders and warlike events and movements in
revolutionary Spain one of the most signif-
cant and suggestive items of information is
the report that the Carlists have disembarked
large quantity of arms and ammunition from
England at Requito. This fact in connection
with the proposition favored by the Duke de
Broglie for the recognition by France of the
Government of Don Carlos, leads naturally to
the conclusion that the royalists of England
and France are doing all they can to assist in
the extinguishment of the Republic in Spain.
England, since the time of the ''Invincible
Armada" nearly three hundred years ago. has
taken lively interest and generally active
hand in the wars of Spain, foreign or
domestic, and has been mainly instru-
mental in reducing her from first to q
third rate Power among the States
of Europe. Conspicuously from the epoch of
the First Napoleon to the establishment on the
Spanish throne of the now exiled Isabella,
England, directly or indirectly, has welded
the balance of power in Spanish affairs. But
from the expulsion of Isabella to this day the
neutrality OF England towards revolutionary
Spain has been somewhat remarkable AS "a
nation of shopkeepers," the English have per-
haps found their Spanish trade too profitable
to be disturbed by political complications. In
deed, since the downfall of Napoleon the
Third the British government appears to have
pursued the policy of neutral spectator of
continental troubles, as if the continental bal
ance of power had ceased to be matter of any
moment to England except in its bearings
upon the Eastern question. Nor do we think
that this remarkable British neutrality towards
the bellgerents in Spain of the last five years
may be considered as broken from the trans
portation of English arms to the Carlists.
As in the late war between France and
Germany, the English traders on the one
hand supplied horses to the Germans, while,
on the other they furnished arms and ammo
milton to the French, so in these supplies of
arms to the Carlists the English dealers are
simply taking their goods to market During
the war of our late Southern rebellion, in vessels
of-war, blockade-runners, arms, ammunition,
and military stores of all kinds to the Southern
Confederacy the enterprising dealers Of the
fast anchored ISLE drove thriving trade.
We believe, too, that the point was established
in the Geneva Tribunal that Her Majesty
government WAS in some cases so far neglect
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bilities Of neutral in the aforesaid transactions
as to be justly liable to exemplary damages,
and that in consequence of this judgment
some fifteen millions five hundred thousand
dollars is to be paid over in coin
from John Bull to Brother Jonathan in Sep
tember next But while behind these examples
of British neutrality was the temptation of the
dismemberment of the great American
Union, no such inducement is offered for a
perfdious neutrality in regard to the present
belligerents in Spain. The British govern
ment is doubtless satisfied that the Republic
in Spain is failure, and that whatever may
be the issue of these intestine troubles to the
Peninsula one result is and will be good
market for English wares 1t is the English
shopkeeper who regulates English neutrality
towards Spain in these latter days.
Nevertheless, as it is apparent that the
present monarchical Assembly of France will
seize upon the first plausible justification for
the recognition of Don Carlos, SO we have
no doubt the government of England will
avail itself of the earliest opportunity to
proclaim Don Carlos the legitimate ruler of
Spain. So far England, at least, is prepared
to adhere to and support the ''divine rights Of
kings" and, from present appearances, her
opportunity is close at hand