CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE. Paris, 19th October, 1836. The information published in the " Portfolio" with regard to Spain, the execution of the quadruple alliance, and our relations with England in general, has produced a great sensation here; we have reason to believe that it has been appreciated in the highest quarter, because it explains the true state of the case with regard to important points; and it could only be received with joy by the public, which recognizes in the English alliance and in the execution of the quadruple treaty the guarantee of a happy future. The result has been the cessation at length of the common-place accusations, according to which our Government was said to be allied with Don Carlos and with Russia, or at least such assertions, if they are still repeated in certain journals, cease to produce any effect. There only remain some reproaches of a secondary character, according to which our Government is said to be not sufficiently energetic in preventing succours in favour of the Carlists—a negligence which, if it were true, might be capable of an injurious interpretation. These, and other reproaches, have even found their way into the columns of two journals of note-the "Morning Chronicle," and the "Courrier François." Whilst acknowledging the good faith of these journals, which may have been deceived by reports, we think it im portant to establish the truth on these points also. The London journal has, above all, insisted on a pretended carelessness of the Custom-house officers in the South; the "Courrier François" went farther; in its columns of yesterday it states: "1. That under M. Thiers we had a legion in Spain; this legion has returned. "2. The Douaniers no longer exercise any surveillance. "3. There had been a rivalry of good-will between England and France in favour of Spain; scarcely have the doctrinaires appeared than every thing is changed; we retire from the contest: and is not this," cries the "Courrier François," "a change in our policy-a change in our relations with England, according to which we may shortly see an end of our alliance ?" Our reply to these questions is, that the French foreign legion has not returned to Spain - that the Custom-house officers perform a stricter guard than ever, and that they are supported by the troops of the line-that France and the French Government, opposed to Don Carlos, continue to show their interest towards the Government of Isabella— finally, that the French Ministry, whilst renouncing an intervention in Spain, seeks the alliance of England with infinitely more zeal than did M. Thiers. But, instead of opposing assertion to assertion, we will combat facts which are not authenticated by official documents whose correctness no one can contest. What we have already said on the subject, we should have been able to prove by documentary evidence; but, henceforward, in order to reply to assertions the most generally spread at present, we shall lay before our readers the following communications: : I. From M. Molé to Count Campuzano. (TRANSLATION.) MONSIEUR LE COMTE, 6th October, 1836. General Alava had placed at the disposal of General Harispe, for the military service of Spain, funds, of which a sum of one hundred and twenty or one hundred and fifty thousand francs has remained unemployed. Several reports which have reached the King's Government on the present position of the legion but too clearly confirm what had been previously said of the extreme destitution of this corps, so distinguished for its bravery and its discipline. Under these circumstances, of which it would be superfluous to explain the consequences, the King's Government conceives it may be useful to serve the interests of Spain, to suggest the proposal that the funds remaining disposable in the hands of General Harispe should be applied, as soon as possible, to the most pressing wants of the Foreign Legion. I, therefore, have to request you to have the goodness to recommend to the Cabinet of Madrid a request, against which I can the less foresee any objection, as the definitive application which it is proposed to make of the sum in question will not be at all at variance with the destination which the preceding administration in Spain had assigned to it. (Signed) Le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. MOLE. To Monsieur le Comte de Campuzano. II. From Count Campuzano to M. le Comte Molé. (TRANSLATION.) MONSIEUR LE COMTE, Paris, 8th October, 1836. I have the satisfaction of being able to inform your Excellency, in reply to your letter of the 6th instant, which only reached me yesterday evening, that, by the courier whom I had at that moment sent, I warmly recommended the state of the Foreign Legion, in consequence of a conversation I had had with General Bernard, and in which I had learnt the state of destitution of that corps, so distinguished by its bravery and by its discipline. It will thus be an easy duty for me to bring the object of your Excellency's letter to the knowledge of my Court. In this persuasion, I beg your Excellency to receive the assurances, &c. (Signed) LE COMTE CAMPUZANO DE RECHEM. To Monsieur le Comte Molé, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. To the Minister of the Interior. (TRANSLATION.) MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE, Bayonne, 10th October, 1836. In consequence of the recurrence of the fraudulent practices of the exportation of horses, and conformably to the reiterated instructions of your Excellency, the individuals composing the guard of surveillance have been on special duty day and night. Independently of the Custom-house officers, the special commissioners perform alternate duty with the subalterns and brigadiers of the gendarmerie to establish ambuscades; and the troops of the line are called upon to assist in this duty, and to multiply its efficiency on a greater number of points; but, when one has to combat the action of a whole population trained to this sort of traffic, in a country eminently adapted to smuggling, one cannot hope for greater results than those which have been obtained. The present state of things is as follows:- The merchants take care that the horses shall arrive at Bayonne, or in the villages, on the market days. The traders of the frontiers arrive; those who can afford it purchase a horse; those who have not sufficient funds give a pledge for payment, or the same individual has several passed to his account on paying a premium, which varies from forty-five to seventy francs. When the horses are once thus separated, they spread over the frontier, and from that time the whole family of guides is employed by espionage in lighting the paths, the woods, the ravines, that they must traverse. Lights, cries, whistles, (the meaning of which is known to the horsemen), give them warning. The uniforms of the gendarmerie and of the troops of the line facilitate the discovery of the ambuscades. The Custom-house officers disguise themselves more easily, and conceal themselves with more skill; but the country is so well known by the smugglers, that they almost always guess, if they have lost sight of them for a moment, the spot where the discovered posts may have been re-established. Still, notwithstanding these difficulties, the subjoined report of the Director of the Customs proves, that out of sixty-six horses who have attempted to pass, nine have been seized, and four have been turned back. (This account is from the 31st of August to the 5th of October, 1836. The result is in substance, that attempts at |