"I  am  very  proud,"  said  Thiers  to  Louis  Philippe.  "I,"
replied  the  King,  "am  prouder  still,  for  I  am  too  proud  to
say  so."  Louis  Philippe  in  fact  was  watching  his  young
Minister,  prepared  to  take  strong  measures  to  stop  him,
at  the  council-board  first,  and  afterwards,  if  necessary,
elsewhere.  A  revolt  against  Queen  Isabella  took  place  in
Madrid  on  August  12,  1836,  and  forced  her  to  submit  to
the  dictatorship  of  the  most  revolutionary  elements  in  the
country,  in  order  to  break  down  the  Carlists;  and  this
hastened  the  ministerial  crisis  in  Paris.  Thiers  declared
himself  ready  to  give  immediate  assistance  to  the  Queen  of
Spain,  to  enable  her  to  beat  Don  Carlos  and  to  relieve  her
of  the  necessity  of  taking  her  instructions  from  rebels.
General  Lebeau,  who  had  taken  command  of  the  Foreign
Legion  at  Pampeluna,  made  an  announcement  to  that  effect
on  August  15 ;  but  Louis  Philippe  repudiated  the  General
and  his  promises  by  a  note  in  the  Moniteur  of  August  24,
1836.  This  was  tantamount  to  repudiating  Thiers,  who
had  informed  Austria  of  his  intention  of  "annihilating  Don
Carlos."  On  the  following  day  the  King  insisted  on  the
disbandment  of  the  recruits  whom  his  Minister  had  raised
in  order  to  increase  the  numbers  of  the  Foreign  Legion.
The  two  policies — of  the  King  and  of  his  Minister — came
into  collision  at  the  Council  held  at  the  Tuileries  at  the  end
of  August.  "The  King's  will  was  law,"  as  the  Prussian
Ambassador  said.  "We  must  take  a  decided  step,"  said
Thiers  anno3'ed.  "The  King  will  not  have  an  intervention.
