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and Great Britain is one of the most 
industrious countries in Europe, at the 
same time that it is super-eminent in 
skill. If we consider the diversities of 
climate, of produce, of manufactures, and 
of capital, in Great Britain and Spain, 
the proximity of the two countries, and 
also the circumstance that France is, 
from its situation, its extensive popula- 
tion, its vast resources, the enterprising 
genius of its people, the similarity of its 
productions to each country, decidedly 
independent of both, no two states in 
Europe are better calculated for entering 
into the closest commercial relations 
than the two former. Each country has 
many wants which the other can best 
supply. A long period must elapse be- 
fore Spain can become a great manu- 
facturing country, in her present scarcity 
of skill and pecuniary capital, and 
whilst her population is so scanty, when 
it is compared with the productiveness 
of its climate and the fertility of its soil. 
Spain will be essentially benefited by 
the exchange of many of her super- 
abundant productions for many of our 
super-abundant manufactures. Our ma- 
nufactures, if we consider their price 
and their intrinsic value, do, on the 
whole, surpass those of every other 
country; and our merchants have the 
largest pecuniary means, and, if we ex- 
cept perbaps our descendants, the Anglo- 
Americans, the boldest spirit of enter- 
prise. 
To the British, the wool the wines, 
the oil, the fruit, and the barilla, are all 
very acceptable, and, if her government 
were wise, they would moxe extensively 
encourage that neglected department of 
their agricultural economy, the planta- 
tion of mulberry trees, with the increase 
of silk-worms and of silk. It is true, the 
Spanish wool is become an object of 
less consequence to the British merchant 
and manufacturer than it formerly was, 
because the wool of Germany, under the 
restricted name of Saxony, has been 
greatly improved, and has become so 
acceptable in our manufactories. But, 
on the other hand, Spain has much less 
wool to export than she had at the 
commencement of the present century, 
because her flocks have been thinned 
from the effects of the war, and the ra- 
pacity of the French, very many of her 
sheep having been sold, and very man 
slaughtered. 
Never did the statesmen of any coun- 
try lose more favourable opportunities 
of promoting the manufactures and com-_ 
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merce of their country, than did the re- 
presentatives of Great Britain during the 
epoch of the Congress of Vienna, and 
during the drawing up of the articles of 
the treaty of Paris, and at the period of 
its conclusion. It was a critical and 
commanding moment, the great advan- 
tages of which they ought to have seized. 
To Spain the same remarks are applica- 
ble. How important, how substantial, 
how splendid had been our services with 
respect to that country; and, at one 
time, how great was ourinfluence! The 
basis of a treaty of commerce, advan- 
tageous to both countries, most benefi- 
cial to the agriculturalists and consum- 
ers and finances of Spain, and to the 
industry and commerce of Britain, might 
ae been broadly as well as beneficially 
aid. 
The privileges of British subjects have 
often been violated, and their honoura- 
ble pursuits and commercial undertakings 
frequently thwarted under the iron sway 
of Ferdinand. 
A liberal, a well considered, a cor- 
rectly expressed treaty of commerce be- 
tween Spain and our own country, 
would be beneficial, perhaps equally be- 
neficial to both parties: it would in- 
crease the employment of the manufac- 
tures of Great Britain, would promote 
most materially the interests of her ship- 
owners, ‘and her merchants, and at the 
same time, that it increased by its ope- 
ration the comforts of a large portion of 
the people of Spain, who made use of 
British manufactures, would promote the 
languid husbandry of that country, by 
opening a wider door for the exportation 
of her products. . 
FEELINGS OF THE LEGITIMATES. 
Although the congress of Aix-la- 
Chapelle did not feel any disposition 
to help Ferdinand out of his difficulties 
with Portugal or the United States, there 
is great reason to believe the excesses of 
his government had excited considerable 
alarm in some of the crowned heads, 
lest such a system if persisted in, should 
bring loyalty into somewhat greater dis- 
repute than it had already fallen, through 
a nameless variety of other circumstances. 
The consequences of these very natural 
fears were, that previous to the dis- 
persion of the sovereigns, most of the 
foreign ambassadors here received or- 
ders to remonstrate with Ferdinand on 
the inevitable tendency of his destruc- 
tive policy. When the communications 
on this subject were made, his Majesty 
is said to have got into a violent pas- 
won, 
