French Papers.
The Times, 1824-11-12T00:00:00

(Frerl the /tile.) The Frenicih weec to leave Spain on the let of last July. Iit ta- tliolic Majesty, however, could, if he deemed it necessary, call for the pro!ongation of'the stav of Otr arusy. lie judged thi.s vwould be u.eril, to enable iiiiin to owaiplete theorganization of his army. anri ;. new convention, whichi fixed the perio-; for evacuating Spain fer the I1t of January, 1825, was co%ciuded on the 30tli of la%t July, between the two countries. It is this convelntion which is about to be execu:ed, and whiel has for somiedays occupied the atientio,n ot all our journals. They have till now contrete%d themlsbivcs witl presenting to their readers the evaciationi of Spain as a piece of news which they hastened to cotn- m,micate. But this day, two journals, which call thlemselves the organs of the opposition, take occasion from the simple exectition oi a treaty, io attack two (Goveinniente, lhose of' France anti Splain, and to paint In colours the most gloomy and1 ala.ining the Ittur. s .Ate of the Peninsul:, tone of themn, the .Jourrrsl des Dehaf.?, imi(ruiree, *'W-hat lpledees the present state of Spain oflhrs for thc security of !he Spanish Royal Family? W liat resourcei, wlhat iiii;tary means, do see leave in the hantda otf King Ferdinan;d, to consolidute and defend hIis aturhevity ?" IV/iat pledges !-Do you niot kniow thern ? A sk tt!e whole of the I French arny, which lhis seen tlhe Spanish po-letjoa ruils before i it, with shout- a thousand tiuaes -epialed, or * LInng live Ferdi- nand !'" long live the Bourbons !"' To Spain we ma) trust tlte I task otc defendinig her King, iow that she is no longer kept dowin by a rebel army. ;Whai fitx'zial rerotrres !-Why-obviously those ot Spain-. of hier soil-of her coloni-s-which caninot regain order but by subi. *nitting to the nmother countrv. Somc years of tranquillity will re- store to Spain what the revoluitionists have taken asway fronm her. 7aStt mniliar;y mev,te .-Wly, t he rebel army is tisbanted ; the I King is surrount-td by a Roy..list (;itard, by volunteers raised in every instance at his eall, atid our soldiers will occupy the strong places, to confile theml to itithtul Spanish troops so Soon as they 2hall be org-anized. '- Here, tien, after so many efttrts,- exclaims the publicist ot Dc' Vebutr, " are all thie fruits whicth Ministets have known how to draw from the exploits oi the Duokc d'Angotilenae and from the victories or the Fretihl army. With the exception of thc personal ! liberty of the King, we find ourselves as forwar! nov as we wvtre whetn we crossed -he Ebro." Is it, the.i, notihing tu have securedl the peisonal liberty of the ,;ing ? And was not that the dole oblect of the noble expeditionl of' our armny, and of the heroic Prinice who coniniandcd? flas the jourar3l which opposed the war yet to learn tie benefits thence arishig ? Ct'e revolution0 annihilateti in Spain, and witih it a Constitutional anny of 75,000 itle,' tWhicli had introtlucedt it, and which defended it; the Sp.anish nation (a n.-tion of Royalists and Christians) ile. livered from the yoke ot a mr.ilitary insurrection; the army ref'orming itself on new bases: the tortrew4em of the kingdom anid Cadiz, where the revolution hAd iks birth, confidied to FrenchimeA, wlio will know how to defend them from attacks like those made on Tarifa, if these should bb renewed ; Spaiii, lorgettigK for ever, through our late glo- rieie intervention, a former crinitial invasio-; in fine, the Royal Fanmily and the clergy snatched from their gaolers anil executioners: thiS is what France has done-this is what our army and its tiene- rali.simo have accomplished since they crossed the Ebro. '- How Wifierent the result if the Minister had followed the inspi- rations of Andriujar ! Supreme mediators between parties who were disarmed, you would have made both of thiem feel the benefits of a nciessary guiardianship. In protecting existing establishments, who would have turned their thouzhts from chimerical constitutions." l'hat, is it you, who before the war were so loud against inter- tentioi, who niow give us such counsel ? You cite to us the ordi- nance of Andujar, hot you forget that when the Prince Generalis- simno issued that orditnance, the King of Spain was still a prisoner in Cadmz. The Prince exercised then all the authority which resulted fromn his positian, and from the glorious end which he proposed to him- self; and he had grounds to fear that the safety of his army might be compromised. But on the Ist of October, King Ferdinanel was free; and from that day the Duke d'Angouleme was no more than the Generalissimo of tile allied striny-of a King who was his rela- tion. What would you wish that the King's Government should have done ?.-that it should have intcrposed between the Spaniardis and tlhcir King, betwveen Spaniards and Spaniarrls, and that it should have re-est4blished the Cortes par cslamtenlos? But, once aiore, wesay thiss would be to govern Spain though the King were free. Besides- do you thibk the Spaniards would suffer such a media- tion?. 7 a it with .such projects that we entered Spabi ? Was it with 4a,0p0 mnen left in Spain that w e could accosiplisli such designs? Open the history of Spain, ani you wvill learn to know that nation, always sojealoiis of its indlependetce-always so distnguished for defetiding it. You are alarmed afler the war, but you were also alarmed-beforc it. Your yredictions now, will pY'Oveas vafili as they werer trton. The L'or,sIi1,idsrncZ speaks more ingennously thian you. It does not trouble itself about the saiety of the Spanish Royal Family, but for the oppressed, " who breathe but under the sladow of the pro. tection of our army, and who A-ill stee it retire with fear." 'V'o this we have but one word to answer : it -was against the Libe- rals, and not for them, that our army enteredi Spain. As to thle irfinence of the Cabinet of London, the recent events in P'ortugal, which the Constil!ntionnel cites asi ain exam pIc to the FrenchX Government, every body lknows that the English had not even an ambatssador in Portugal then and it would be to shlut our eycs to evidenlee, not-to recognize with all Europe, thlat the Inflepce which prevailed on tliis occasioni was wholly exercised byFrance,and that by her poiy yslhs hasre-established the Royal athority in Por- tuggl, ts licha(preio (ly one by her arms in Snain. FRFATCI PAPBRS. 1EVACUATtON OF S1'AIN BY T[1E FRENCIH ARAMIV