1S23.] 



•was abolighcd solely by violence in ISl-i. 

 — 3. Tlie Constitutional King of Spain 

 freely exercises the powers vested in liim 

 by tiiefiindaniental code. — 4. The Spanish 

 nation does not, in any way, interfere 

 with the institutions and internal regime 

 of other nations. — 5. Tlie remedy for all 

 tlie evils which may afflict tlie Spanish 

 nation only concerns lierself. — 6. The 

 evils which she experiences are not the 

 eifect of the Constitution, but of the 

 efforts of the enemies who endeavour to 

 destroy her.— 7. The Spanisli iiHtion will 

 never admit the right of any power to in- 

 ' terfere in her affairs. — The government 

 will never deviate from the line traced 

 out to it by its duties, the national honour, 

 and by its unalterable attachment to the 

 Constitution sworn to in 1812. I autho. 

 rise yon to eommunioate verbally this 

 paper to the minister of foreign affairs of 

 the power to which you are accredited, 

 and to dehver him a copy, if he require it. 

 His majesty hopes that the prudence, 

 the zeal, and the patriotism, which dis- 

 tinguish you, will suggest a firm conduct, 

 such as is worthy the Spanish name under 

 present circumstances. This is what I 

 Lave the honour to communicate to your 

 excellency, by order of his majesty. 



i renew to you the assurances, &c. 



(Signed) EvARisTo St. Migoet.. 

 Madrid, Jan. 2. 



The Notes of the Russian, Austrian, 

 and Prussian ministers, on demanding 

 tlieir passports, were answered as 

 under. 



Answer to Prussia, 



I have received the note which your 

 excellency transmitted to nic under the 

 date of the loth, and, contenting myself 

 with stating in reply, that the wishes of 

 the government of his most Catholic ma- 

 jesty for the happiness of the Prussian 

 states, are not less ardent than those ma- 

 nifested by his majesty the king of Prussia 

 towards Spain, I tcansmit to your excel- 

 lency, by royal order, the passports for 

 which you have applied. 



EvARisTO San Miguel. 



Jan. 11, 1823. 



Answer to Russia. 



I have received the very insolent note 

 -which your excellency transmitted to me 

 yesterday, the 10th instant ; and, limiting 

 myself, for my sole- reply, to stating that 

 •you have shamefully abused (perhaps 

 through ignorance) the law of nations, 

 which is always respectable in the eyes of 

 the Spanish government, I transmit, by 

 order of his majesty, the passports you 

 desire, hoping that your excellency will be 

 jilcased to leave this capital with as little 

 dt lay as possible. 



Answer to Au^tiia. 



I have received the note which your 

 excellency *va« pleased to remit to me, 

 Udtcd jtstcrdiiy, the Jolhj and, having 

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now only to say that the government of his 

 Catholic majesty is inditferent whether it 

 maintains relations or not with the court 

 of Vienna, I send you, by royal order, 

 the passports which you have required. 



The answer of the Spanish govern- 

 ment to the note of M. de Villele is 

 equally firm and dignified. It states 

 ^vhat is a severe, but a just rebuke to 

 the Holy Alliance, that " the Spanish 

 government was never without the 

 conviction that the institutions adopted 

 freely and spontaneously by Spain 

 ■would give rise to jealousies in many 

 of tlie cabinets of Europe." It further 

 states, that " Spain is governed by a 

 Constitution promulgated, accepted, 

 and sworn to, in 1812, and acknow- 

 ledged by the powers which were as- 

 sembled in the congress of Verona" — 

 the very powers who now seek to over- 

 turn it. " It was natural," says the 

 Spanish government, " that this order 

 of things should produce discontents: 

 that is an inevitable consequence of 

 every reform which aims at a correc- 

 tion of abuses. Individuals are al- 

 ways to be found, in every nation and 

 in every state, who can never submit 

 themselves to the empire of reason 

 and justice." 



France, it will be recollected, offer- 

 eti her assistance to Spain in tranquil- 

 lizing her, and the Spanish govern- 

 ment points out the way in which she 

 may do it. " The assistance which .it 

 is now incumbent on the French 

 government to give to that of Spain 

 (says the state-paper,) is purely nega- 

 tive. The disbanding its army of the 

 Pyrenees, — the restraining the factious 

 enemies of Spain and the refugees in 

 France, and a marked and decided 

 animadversion on those who take 

 pleasure in blackening, in the most 

 atrocious manner, tiie government of 

 his Catholic Majesty, as well as the 

 institutions of Spain and her Cortes, is 

 what the law of nations, as respected 

 by all civilized countries, requires." 



Message delivered by the Cortes to the King 

 of Spain. 

 " The Cortes manifest to his majesty, 

 that they have heard with the greatest 

 astonishment the assertions contained in 

 the notes of the cabinets of Paris, Vienna, 

 Berlin, and Petersburgh, because these 

 diplomatic comnninications, besides being 

 inconsistent with the established practice 

 of civilized nations, are insulting to the 

 Spanish nation, its Cortes, and its govern- 

 ment ; and that they have at the same time 

 heard with the greatest satisfaction the 

 judicious and decurout answer made by 



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