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into effect with incredible activity. In 
the towns of Malaga, Alicant, and se- 
veral others through which "General 
Riego passed in his late journey, -artil- 
lery companies’ are besides forming. 
Tn imitation of the Greeks, the Spa- 
piards are endeavouring to nationalize 
their theatres, with the view of aiding 
the popular enthusiasm. By a Royal 
Decree, theatres are everywhere esta- 
blished.. The publication of dramatic 
works, founded on national history, is 
encouraged ; and nothing is neglected 
_to associate the progress of the fine 
arts with the progress of liberty. | 
' General Mina has published a pro- 
clamation, in which, for the last time, 
he offers an amnesty to those men 
whom ambitious chiefs have seduced 
into rebellion. He grants them to the 
20th of November, "and it is not till 
then that he is resolved to give the last 
blow. The General hopes before that 
period to recall a great part of these 
misled men to their duty. He does 
not forget that the rebels are Spa- 
niards ; but he declares that he will be 
inexorable to those who will not profit 
by the amnesty. 
In the Sitting of the Cortes on the 
13th of November, Signor Canga 
made a motion to prevent the circula- 
tion of a Papal Bull, which condemns 
several works published by Constitu- 
tional writers; and the motion was 
adopted by a large majority. 
PORTUGAL. 
The speech of the King of Portugal, 
on closing the sittings of the Cortes on 
the 4th inst. is highly satisfactory, and 
proves him to have far more sense 
than thosesovereigns who oppose them- 
selves to the lights of the age.—‘* The 
lory of kings,” says his majesty, ‘* is 
inseparable from the happiness of their 
subjects; and he who presides over a 
free nation, is as happy as those are 
miserable who rule over slaves.” 
The sitting having been opened ata 
quarter past eleven o’clock on the 
morning of Nov. 4, and the deputation 
prepared ‘to receive the king in the 
usual form, his majesty entered the 
hall at half past.eleyen, preceded by 
the deputation, accompanied by the’ 
ministers, secretaries-of-state, and the 
chief officers of his household ; and, 
having seated himself on the throne, he 
delivered the following speech: 
“ GENTLEMEN—At the moment when 
you are going to close your labours in this 
Legislature, I come to congratulate myself, 
Politieal Affairs in November. 
[Dec. 1 
with you and the nation, on the wisdom of 
the legislative measures which you have 
adopted for the reformation of the social 
edifice, My attention is naturally fixed 
on the political constitution, a fundamental 
law of the state, which I'swore to volun- 
tarily aud deliberately, a and which receives 
this day the sacred promise of all the,citi- 
zens. Yes, gentlemen, they minst feel a 
virtuous pride in beholding the” tights of 
mao, as a member of society, established 
on principles as solid and durable as eter- 
nal morality: the throne, built upon the 
law and the prosperity of social institu- 
tions, supported by the sublime power 
of the divine religion which we profess ; 
the safety of individuals. and property 
combined with the interest and | security 
of the state; the agreement, the, harmony 
between the ‘hights of the citizen and his 
duties ; the civil liberty of tlie individual, 
and the well-being of society, vuaranteed 
by the responsibility of the’ pablic func- 
tiovaries, and by the just liberty of the 
press. Ah! gentlemen, what a som of 
happy results do the conditions of our 
social compact promise! 
“ Faithful representatives of the nation, 
yon embraced the whole extent of, the 
wants of the people. While research and 
meditation prepared the work of the Con- 
stitutional’ Code, your care provided a 
remedy for the evils that most urgently re- 
quired it. Thus the administration of jus- 
tice and finance, the restoration of public 
credit, commerce, navigation, agriculture, 
manufactures, ‘public instruction, and phi- 
lanthropy, received the impulse of wisdom 
and patriotic zeal, which characterizes and 
distinguishes the regenerators' of a nation 
in an enlightened age. To the spirit of 
justice and order with which the plan of 
the political regeneration of the monarchy 
was conceived, we owe the relations of 
friendship and, interest which happily! sub- 
sist with foreign powers, and very, particu- 
larly with the constitutional and represen- 
tative governments of both worlds ; and. I 
have particular satisfaction in being able 
to announce to you, that the Most positive 
declarations of the governments of France 
and ingland have fully secured Us against 
the fears of any attack upon ‘our rap 
pendence. 
«To this same wisdom, and to the’mea- 
sures of, conciliation with which you have 
endeavoured to maintain theintegrity of the 
United Kingdom, and to strengthen, the 
fraternal ties which bind us to the Porto- 
guese of Brazil, the dissenting provinces 
will owe, I hope, the return of their tran- 
quillity, and of the blessings which they 
campot expect but from their union’ with 
the Portuguese of Europe. ‘This'subject, 
gentlemen, awakens recollections which 
deeply. afflict my heart. 1) would’ not 
touch on it were it notso intimately con- 
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