ple to all those who are called to contemplate it, and throw discouragement on the zeal of the boldest and most confident, who, animated by the desire of good, and exalted by the nobleness of the enterprize, have spared nothing to preserve that country, or at least to arrest the tide of its calamities. I have the honor to be, shie Ups &c. &c. &c (Signed) Pozzo DI BORGO. P.S. Count Ofalia has just entered with me again on the subject of the proceeding in Spain, with reference to the withdrawal of the troops. He told me, that before quitting Madrid, he was com pletely ignorant of the determination of his Court. on this point, and that the instructions which he has received from it, refer solely to the liquidation of the English debt, and to the non-ratification of the convention to which I allude in the Despatch ; when the Camarilla was entirely under the control, "we dare not say corruption," of the Russian Ambassador, we shall point out to Spaniards of both hemispheres, the influence which has hitherto prevented the commercial re-union of the Spanish nations. It may suffice, for the moment, to add, that the South American states offered to assist Spain in defending her constitutional liberties against their overthrow by France, for Russian ends, with a subsidy of 20 millions of dollars.ED. that, to speak the truth, his Minister sent to him, whilst on his journey, a copy of the note presented to France by the Ambassador, simply for his information, and without adding other directions; that having well meditated on this note, he saw that it related to the establishment of a negotiation between Spain, France, and England, for the evacuation of the Peninsula, and that if this negotiation took place, it was natural to embrace in it the future state of Portugal, as a condition of the proposed evacuation, and of the cessation of the extraordinary military measures taken by the Cabinet of Madrid; that this mode appeared to him the fittest for bringing about a satisfactory conclusion, and that he was the more confirmed in his opinion after the audience which he had just obtained of the King, his Majesty having told him that he ardently longed to see the moment arrive, when the troops might quit the Peninsula without inconvenience, but that in the actual state of things, the interest of the King of Spain, and his own, required the continuation of the occupation, until the relations between Spain and Portugal should be established on a certain and unalterable footing. M. d'Ofalia will write, therefore, to-morrow, to his Court, to request to be authorised to give the above-mentioned developement to the proposal of the withdrawal of the troops, in such a manner as to make it depend on the arrangements which refer to the future state of Portugal, in order then to make use of this authorisation, when he repairs to London. Without adding implicit faith to the ignorance in which he pretended to be of the proposal of his Cabinet, at the moment of his departure from Madrid, I told him that since the King had spoken to him in so explicit a manner, it appeared to me indispensable to take into great consideration the words of his Most Christian Majesty, and to make of them the text of new explanations in the sense the most adapted to give to the step of Spain the character of reason and prudence, which it did not appear at first sight to possess. The course which the Spanish Minister is preparing to adopt, already announces that he has ceased to hasten, or that he never intended to hasten, the decision. We shall see the answers that he will receive from his Court, and the ulterior communications that he will make. Affairs with this government invariably assume |