The Spaniards, in order t...
The Times, 1824-05-27T00:00:00

The Spaniards, in orderto suspeud what we hope we may call the imminent recognition of the independence of the Soath American States by this Government, put forth at intervals wild reports of the arniam2tits which they are going to send out for their sabjugation. So, last night, news was said to have reached this country from Madrid, that an expedition, consistina of 36,000 men, was fittiiig out at Cadiz, which woul(d be ready to sail by the beginning of Jaly. Exaggerations of this kind need no refutation, more especially as the motives which give birth to them are ob-* vious. However, many ptople think that we liRger long- and needlessly in making the recognition. Oae mgal good would spring from it even to the Government of Old Spain,-that it would be saved the guilt of many an untruth; and farther, though we may not be deceived by the pretences of FERDINAND and his Ministers, it is not clear that such pretences are equally innoxious elsewhere. It is probable that the embers of discord may be kept alive in the separated provisnces by somne reliance on the promised exertions of the'mother country in behalf of those who still adhere in their hearts to the obsolete system. And in this view the sQspension of our recognition is actuallyinjurious to the interests of humanity, But there is one course which would answer all the pur- poses of recognition, and would render the forinality almost superfluous. The French say that their presence in Spain is necessary, in order to prevent scenes of civil discord from being acted between the conflicting parties. In reply to this we have only to say, that we are very sure the liberal party needs not the protection of the French,but would be quite content to beleft to defend itself against the fary of its adversaries; and if, as was pretended at the coin- mencement of the invasion, the Royalists were by far the most numerous, and only needeed to be freed from a certain temporary predominance of the opposition faction, thatgood has been eftected. Surely, therefore, these "1 most nu- " merous" subjects of the KING have still less occasion to require the protracted stay of an army of foreigners in their country. But if the presence of the French in the FPiin- sula does no good to Old Spain, we are.sure that it does in- finite harm to the trans-Atlantic provihees; for the hope of assistance to the vanquished Royalists there, can only be founded upon the continuance of the French in the mother- countrv, and the consequent disposability of the native force. The stay of the BOURBON army, therefore, even should it be allowed that it preserves peace in the Penin- sula, occasions the continuance of bloodshed in South America. It is our ditty, therefore, to urge the return of *''.ii,& of%b able to recom~ mzeit uaepenenRcelupsswlwu cn e canuor db while it is held by the foreigner)-the independence of New Spain will follow of course. The inhabitants of this latter country will then settle into tranquillity, and conform with more readiness to the new order of things, which they will perceive to be irreversible. For ourselves, we shall consider every sanguinary tumult, every disturbance or commotion, in the trans-Atlantic States, as occasioned by the continuance of the French in Old Spain.