Ferdinand And His Ambassa...
Some of the consetquenecs of King Ferdinand's dishonesty and breach of faith in pecuniary miatters are of serious andi lamentable importance: others are not a little ludicrous and at,using. JBy re- fusing to acknowledge his f4rmner debts, no foreigners will advance him further loans; an.l bv misgoverning the nation, his subjects can pay hin no taxes. He himself may live at free quarter in convents, eating sweetnieats and singing canticles with the monks; but his Envoy to England is stopped at Paris, for want of fundq to crossthe Chiannel; and a diplomatic intrigue has lately been crushed ia the bud fronm the action of the same retributive poverty. The Duke of San Carlos, it appears, is well received at the Court of the Tuilerics, because he gives the French Ca- binet no trouble; and he displeases to the same extent the Court of ilfadrid, because he remains inactive. A successor was therefore resolved on; but it was necessary at first to involve the design in mystery, lest San Carlos and the French MIinistry should defeat it. A Senor (with a strange name)-a Senor Revillaye- gido accordingly received orders to prepare himsel" for a mission to Paris, where, if possible, he was to appear in thehotel of the Spanish Embassy as unexpectedly and as suddenly as Asneodeas from the glass bottle. He could not, however, travel througlh the air like this spirit. It was necessary that he should keep the high road, and have cash to pay for his dinner and post horses: it was necessary to be able to lull the French spies, or to bribe the French police- - fore enim tutum iter etpatens Converso in pretium Deo." But where was this money to be found ? In loaking about for ex- pedients, the affair got wind; and Talaru, the French Ambassador at Miadrid, telegraphed it to Paris. It was too late for iNl. de Chateau- briard to prevent the departure of Revillayegido; but it was not too late to prevent his coniing to disturb San Carlos in his hotei. An order was accordingly immediately despatched to Bayonne to refuse Iiri post-horses. Before tl:e order arrived, he had gnt to Bordeaux, and h2d nearly altogether escaped the vigilance of the Government agents, by the modesty of his equipage, the smallness of his suitc,and his economical mode of travelling. Probably no Ambassador was ever so self-denied before. WVe remember aboy at school giving the following clacsical translation of these words-ecrsar venit in Galaiamn szmnzr dili,e'ntti-" C&nar came into Gaul on thc top of the Diligenre." Now, Senor Rivellavegido took nearly this mode of travelline. fle came to Gaul, 'not '- on the top," but in the interior of the Diligence, He was, however, found out, and was placed under arrest at Bordeaux till further orders. He is even kept confined in his chamber at the small inn where this said Diligence deposited its passengers, lest he should get out into the 7dltra coteries and excite scandal. There is no doubt entertained at Paris that this envov of his Catholic Mlajesty will be again packed up in the same vehicle, and re-imported into Spain. PBI?DINAID AND ITIS AMBASSADOR.