goza in 1833, was visited by Cuevillas, then a Brigadier, who assured him that the Royalist Volunteers were ready to come forward upon the summons of Don Carlos; that this was communicated to his Royal Highness, who returned for answer that his brother whilst alive was his king and theirs, and he should consider all those making similar offers as traitors.

Nothing discouraged, however, by this threat, it seems that Don Tomas Reyna went to the Infant, deputed by his regiment, the Horse Grenadiers of the Guard, on a similar message, and that the Count del Prado, Alcudia, Vallego, Belingero, and Col. Fulgocio, all did the same, and were all disapproved.

These anecdotes being, as the Reviewer declares, of a private nature, we cannot take upon ourselves to state whether they have any foundation or not; but this we know, that Brigadier Cuevillas in 1833 was a Captain, and by no means of a calibre likely to influence or to be able to engage for all the influential men of the Royalist Volunteers; that Don Tomas Reyna was a Lieutenant, and not likely to have been sent upon such a mission by his regiment; for although a part of the Horse Grenadiers were supposed to be disaffected, the majority were known to be Anti-Carlist. Alcudia was an ignorant bigotted man, who may possibly have made offers to Don Carlos, though we are very sure he never published having received such an answer as the

Reviewer attributes to Don Carlos. Vallego was the only clever man who frequented the Infant's apartments, but he was reckoned mad. The others are mere men of straw, and their devotion was cheap, for they had nothing to offer. But Don Carlos would listen to none of their offers, for the very reason which the Reviewer is so good as to supply us with that they were made in 1833, when it was too late for intrigues, and when nothing but an open declaration of war against his brother could have served the Infant's cause: and that was forbidden by the discretion which has always been the better part of his Royal Highness's valour.

The Reviewer, however, with a simplicity in exposing himself, which is really laughable, says, that the offers were made "at a period when Don Carlos knew, as all the world now knows, that the advisers of the dying Ferdinand were preparing a violent change in the succession, to the exclusion of Don Carlos." Why, bless the mark! All the world, except the Reviewer, then knew that the King's illness at La Granja took place in 1832, and that in 1833 there was no advising, no preparing a change of succession, for every thing connected with it had been notorious in Europe for several months. The Reviewer obligingly adds, that it was" this intrigue (the preparing a change in the succession) which prompted those offers ;" but as the intrigue could not at that time have

existed, may we without offence be permitted to infer the same with respect to the offers?

As the Reviewer, however, really must be desirous of some information upon the subject on which he has been writing, we assure him that he might as well attempt to make the people of Spain believe, that the Infant had not apartments in the Palace at Madrid, as that those apartments were not the focus of the Carlist plots, which were so abundant during the King's life. While we are upon this subject, as we do not wish to be left behind by the Reviewer, we also will contribute one or two anecdotes, but they shall not be private.

The Reviewer naturally never heard of Bessieresbut such a man existed nevertheless, and although originally, as it is said, a boot cleaner at Barcelona, and at one time actually condemned to death for a Republican, he ended by being a Major-General, and enjoying the complete confidence of the Infant, in whose "Cuarto" he was constantly to be seen; his plots and conspiracies carried on in the name of Don Carlos were notorious in Spain, and never disavowed by the Infant; but in 1826, (when none of those intrigues existed, which, in the Reviewer's opinion, justified Don Carlos in taking measures against the traitorous machinations of his enemies), having attempted at Guadajara to raise the country and to proclaim Don Carlos, he was taken and immediately shot with his companions; and if any one in this country believes that Bessieres acted

without the cognizance and secret approbation of Don Carlos, we can assure him that no one in Spain is of that opinion. Ferdinand's attachment to his brother was of the most tender descriptionin their relative positions this attachment amounted to weakness, for, although perfectly aware of the Infant's proceedings, he always attributed his conduct to the influence which the Infanta and the Princess of Beira exercised over him. He accordingly gave the most express orders, that whenever the evidence in the investigations of the different plots began to touch the Infant's "Cuarto," the investigation should be stopped, and the proceedings quashed.

In the inquiries instituted upon Bessieres's conspiracy, upwards of 30,000 persons were involved in different parts of the kingdom, but the evidence having been brought directly home to the Infant, every thing was stopped, and no one was punished. Upon one occasion, however, Recacho, the chief of police, led away by his zeal, disobeyed the Royal order, and placed on record the proofs he had obtained of Don Carlos's participation in a plot. Ricacho was banished.

In 1833, a great number of Gardes du Corps were sent away from Madrid for their Carlist opinions, and previously to their departure they went in numbers at a time to take leave of the Infant. When they came out of the "Cuarto," they boasted of the assurances they had received, that in a few

months things would be settled according to their mode of thinking, and they displayed the money that had been given to them.

We could mention the names and the acts of all those who formed the "Junta Magna de Don Carlos" in Madrid, and could go on ad infinitum recounting anecdotes upon a subject so notorious in Spain. But the patience of our readers must already be exhausted, and we will only add that the King, foreseeing the troubles that were likely to come upon the country, proposed upon two occasions to Don Carlos, that his son should be married to the present Queen, then Princess of Asturias, which was refused in the most peremptory terms by the Infant.

The Reviewer next, with every appearance of that bliss which ignorance sometimes produces, informs his readers that we have misstated the question of the Succession; and complains that we have not given the slightest hint why we called the Cortes of Philip V. a mock Cortes. We did not give this "hint" for the same reason for which, if we had been writing about the Commonwealth, we should have thought it unnecessary to explain why we called the Long Parliament long-it was because we thought that certain historical facts and denominations are sufficiently notorious not to require explanation; and that those who do not know them, would go and study before they exposed their ignorance by writing articles in Quarterly