Considerable curiosity, a...
Considerable ujo-iikt_y and -a feeling yet more intense than simple curiosit; prevailin' with respect to the ocur- rences which have recently taken place between the Spanish Government ana-certain great"Capitalists of this country?l wve are happy in baving the means of laying before the public some of the pTincipal facts. It is certain that an ofTr was made to FERDINUT,D and his Ministeis, from! persons of undoubted competence to fulfil their engagc- ments, to advance m.oney upon loan; but the indispensable condition was, that the old Spanish bonds, the bonds of the Constitutional Government, should be taken ?p by them; and at the rate, as they proposed, of 33 per cClt. iNow, these bonds being secured upon monastic property, it was required, not only that the Spanishi clergy should allow of that security or pledge, but that also the POPE should sanction the transaction. To this proposition FERDIN 4ND refused his assent,and the negotiation broke off. It was easier to disoolve one negotiation, than to raise money from an- othier. The necessities, however, of the Spanish Government, induced them to listen to any thing; and the English ad- venturer at .Madrid, who has been before spoken of, and ,who had been a bankrupt, offered himself as the aaent of certain jobbers in London, xvho did not feel themnselves boundby the same honourable principle of taking -p the old bonds; and who *would, as the agent professed, ad- vance money to FERDINANDn without imposing upon him that stipulation. The result of this proposition is ullCer- tain. Ini the mean time, the Spanish Government derives a temporaTv support from the bonds which continue to be issued bv M. GUEBHARD at Paris, an(d which are of easy manuracture, as they are only countersigned by the Spanish Ambassador. Nione of these bonds have, we believe, as yet found their way to England ; but to what degree oi credit they are entitled; either here or elsewhere, will ap- pear from this statem'ent.