London, Friday, November ...
It should really appear that the French (ercipiendis exeep/is) are going to quit Spain ; and the Paris journals, each in its respective sense, are cloquent and argumenta- tive on the subject. Thle Journal des Dehats dreads the return of anarchly and the reviyal of the Liberalparty. The Constilutionnel, on the contrary, fears for the Liberals, wlhom the presence of the Freneh troops protects from massacre. " Leave them all to themselves," we again say. If the Constitutional party cannot defen(l itself, theni has its attempt to impose a limitedl inonarchy been premature and ill-judlgedi, and its members must suffer the ordiinary fate of unsuccessful reformers. With respect to the Royalists, also, or Ultra-royalists, or by whatever other title they are designated, they have obtained all that they asked-the liberation of the Ki;xe&'s person: they, there- fore, have been long witlhout a pretext for opposing the re- turn of the foreignier. WVe think the Spaniards will know by this time-if any thing can enlighten their stupid pride -who it was that drovc the French out of the Peninsula before. 'Flie period fixed for the evacuation, accordinlg to treaty, is the ist of January approaching-an awkward thr,e for the passage of the Pyrenees: and it still appears that the i nvaders are to retain some of the strong places. *Ve wish to see the foreign force removeil, and Spain left to herself. 'Whatever then may be her fate, we shall be content. If slie shall prove unable to work out for herself a free conisti- tution, that inability will prove her unworthy of it. Ty- ranny, Popery, and the Inquisition, will have sunk her sons below the level of free men. 'I'lhere let them remain, till some happier occasion slhall awake their genius andl ener- gies. As soon, however, as the foreigner shall be with- drawn from the Peninsula, we trust that the Spanish re- fugees in this and every other country wvill thinik it their dIuty to press homewarld, andI take a part in the troubles (if we mulst so call them) or afftirs of their country. The Journal des Debets thinks that there will be danger to the Royalist party from the evacuation of Spain. Wheni will there not be that danger ? Wihen will the period arrive, at which those who have iniro(lueed a foreign army into their country tbr the support of their cause, can safely con- fide in the love of their countrymen, and deprive them- selves of their foreign.protectors? We answer boldly- never, till all those by whom the entrance of the foreigners wvas oppooscl arc massacred. If the French, therefore, mean to leave Spain trariquil, in their sense, anil the despotism secure, let them begin the wvork of lestruction to-morrow. 'I'heir stay upon any other terms loes but augment the dlanger of their departuire. 1. FADON. RIDAY rA. NO VEMB fr? 12. 1824.