A rumour was spread in th...
A rumour was spread in the city -.yesterd ay, which we should think improbable; but which, nevertheless, obtain- ed some belief from persons well acquainted with the af-. fairs of Spain. The rumour was to this efflect-that the French, finding it impossible to instil any thing like a libe- ral policy into the mind of FEnaRNAN3D, or to obtain his formal consent to a Constitutioilt wifh proper 'checks and balances, were endeavouring to prevail upon him to resign the crown in favour of his brother Don CALLOS. For our own parts, though we gre convinced that no good would re- suit from such a measure towards tranquillizing the Pe- ninsula, yet we should not be sorry that the French should adopt it. It would show to the world the dependwnt con- dition of Spain: for what clearer act of severeignty can one State exercise over another, tlhan that of changing its reigning King at vill ? This would be d la Buonaparte. The invaders, having entered the country under the pretence of supporting the legitimate monarch against his rebellious subjects, end by deposing this selfsame Mr. Legitimate, and putting up his brother in stead: that is, they impose their own satraps at pleasure. And then, what benefit, we ask, is to arise from the new sovereign ?- Ask what good Don CARLOS can do ? Just as much as Don FERNANDO i From every thing we have heard, the younger brother is not one titUe more enlightened, more liberal, or more hu- mane than the elder. But we would seriously ask the French, or rather their governors, this one question.-viz, whether their inability to settle the concerns of Spain does not prove that they have no business there? They have now been in that country for nearly two years: the object of their visit, as they assured the world, was an affair that would be settled " in no time:" it was only to liberate the KING from a small party that had got possession of his ungainly person, and restore hiim to the wishes of his peo- ple. For that purpose " the son of our love" was sent into the Peninsula, which country he has quitted very much in the mainer of BUONAPARTr, loaving ten times greater confusion behind him than he found on entering. Let the French, then, we say, march out of the Peninsula: let them bar their own kingdom against the entrance of a single Spaniard : let other nations then, also, if they please, in due time and with proper precautions, cast back the Spanish refugees upOII their native soil, and let Spaniards fight out or negotiate their own quarrels among themselves. 'F'liey will sooner come to a solid conclusion of their troubles, than if all the nations of Europe were to interfere (wbich nonc bas a right to do) upon the pretence of pacifying Spain.