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like the day of judgment between the trumpet and the summons.

John Mary. People sweated so! Ferdinand. Here the foolish heretic remained some hours, and, the sailors say, returned just as well satisfied as if he had conversed with anyone who could have set him right.

I will continue: "It has been resolved that the above deliberation, together with its causes and consequences, be notified to his Majesty the king of Great Britain and Ireland, with a request that he will consider them attentively, and further the resolutions formed thereon by their Majesties the Catholic and the Faithful. Desirous of avoiding all possible cause of offence to his said Majesty, and of strengthening the ties of amity and interest which reciprocally bind and unite them, and furthermore of manifesting to the world their sincerity, in their adherence to the principles of the Holy Alliance; and resolved in no instance to depart from their upright and pacific views, their aforesaid Majesties propose to his aforesaid Majesty : "That he should proscribe and exterminate the sect of freemasons, of which his said Majesty is a member, save and excepting his own sacred person; and that he should annul every oath which he has taken upon that occasion, and others, such being contrary to the principles of good government, as inculcated by the Holy Alliance, the excellence of which Holy Alliance his Britannic Majesty has formally and publicly acknowledged, expressing his regret that the constitution of his kingdom did not at that time allow him to become a member of it."

John-Mary. I can not think he said that. Ferdinand. He did though; or his minister lied. John-Mary. He must be a very modest man, to talk of a constitution not "letting," with an army such as his, all staunch and true to him, and a parliament he can dissolve at his pleasure; in other words, as my ministers teach me, with a parliament every soul of which he can fine to the amount of at least four thousand pounds for a murmur; such, it has been proved, is the regular price of seats in it, and a wilful minister could make them come dearer to an ill-advised opponent. Ferdinand. He is indeed a modest man, and does not do half the harm he might do.

John-Mary. Well then, I would not make him bite his own fingers till he cries.

Ferdinand. He is so good-natured and compliant, that I could bend him at last into biting his toe-nails, and saying grace for it.

John-Mary. O then, I would not.

Ferdinand. My brother and brother-in-law and cousin, you enter but faint-heartedly into the system of the Holy Alliance. I have more yet for him.

John-Mary. He may turn upon us; let him lie. Ferdinand. Nothing can alter his sweet temWhen his troops had restored my throne to me, I ordered thanks to be rendered to God publicly in all the churches.

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John Mary. Who would not? I did the same.

Ferdinand. Not without some discontent and scandal; your Majesty rendered thanks to the Almighty for delivering you from the enemies; I│ for delivering me from the heretics; and the Almighty did not hear a word from me about the others. His Majesty the king of Great Britain was so pleased at me, that he sent me his congratulations.

John-Mary. He sent the same to me, who thanked God (it seems) for much less than you thanked him for.

Ferdinand. Listen. "That his Britannic Ma jesty will remove the Protestants from his kingdom of Ireland, placing them in London or Windsor or Brighton, or anywhere it may please his Majesty, under the eye of the police, so that they may not annoy their Catholic brethren; and also that he will be graciously pleased to restore the benefices to the Catholic bishops and clergy. Resolved as their Catholic and Faithful Majesties are, never to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, they are resolved nevertheless to send an army of one hundred and twelve thousand men to assist in arranging the ancient church establishment in Ireland, such as it was in the times of the apostles.

"The loyalty of the aforesaid majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, is too well known in Europe to need any pledge, comment, or illus tration; else nothing could evince it more per fectly than this frank and early declaration of their sentiments and resolutions."

John-Mary. I do not think he can complain that we are not frank enough. The Holy Allies, like other holy men, wait not for asking it is only when they are dead that they must be begged and prayed. Well, the paper seems to me a very good paper of the kind; and after your Majesty has signed it, I will do the same.

Ferdinand. Gently; we are not half through it yet.

John-Mary. God has endowed your Majesty with wonderful powers; but I never heard of any man who could read so long together. There are those, it is said, who can get through a gazette at a sitting; but they have their chocolate or lemonade beside them, and a nice curled wafer to suck them through moreover, in gazettes they read of festivals and processions; they do not stand upon one leg, like a statue of Fame in a poultry-yard, but keep jogging on pleasantly from one thing to another.

Ferdinand. I once read a whole hour. John-Mary. On what momentous occasion! Ferdinand. I had the dysentery and the Lires of the Martyrs, and did not like to get up. That reading cured me: I could mark the very place that made me whole.

I will show you what I can do.

"It can hardly be unknown to his Britannie Majesty, that a certain portion of the ultramarine dominions of his Catholic Majesty, to wit, from the forty-second degree of south latitude to the fortysecond north, is in a state of most unnatural in

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Ferdinand. Judiciously remarked, my cousin!
a historical fact of the first magnitude!
John-Mary. I heard it from the minister of
France.

Ferdinand. A principal figure in the revolutionary whirly-gig; he always sat upon the ostrich and whipt the one before him.

John-Mary. Now, brother, whom did you hear that from?

Ferdinand. I forget. It was said of Talleyrand; it will do for another, if you remove the ostrich, and put cock or poney in the place.

surrection, and that the kingdom of Brazil too is | such-like indiscreetly given, have not been revoked disturbed. But their Majesties, the Catholic and or reconsidered in all material points. the Faithful, have the honour to announce to their ancient friend and ally the king of the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, that a frigate is despatched by his Catholic Majesty, and a capuchin by his Faithful, and that the well-disposed can not doubt of their success. After which their said Majesties, the Catholic and Faithful, will assist and enable his Britannic Majesty to annul his coronation oath and all others, and to do justice to his loyal people. It being evident that all oaths whatever, made by a king to his subjects, are degrading to the royal dignity, and made therefore involuntarily and compulsorily; yet, willing to second the clemency of his Britannic Majesty, their Majesties the Catholic and the Faithful, declare that they will not oblige or urge his Britannic Majesty to the punishment of any abettors in this nefarious and impious mockery of royalty, and, through royalty, of faith and religion; and that they will advise on the contrary, and sign their names and affix their seals to a general act of amnesty, excluding therefrom none other than the archbishops of Canterbury and York and bishop of London, and such beside as notified their assent to the same unlawful and compulsory act.

"No officer under the rank of captain shall be molested for the same, unless it can be proved that he drank to the health of the constitutional king, and swore or said that he would die in his defence.

"Nor shall any magistrate or justice of the peace be punished with death, or exile, or by anything more than fine and imprisonment, who can be clearly proved to have been ignorant that 'constitutional' is different from 'arbitrary.'

"Nor shall any doctor of medicine, or surgeon, or apothecary, be subject to capital punishment for attending constitutional patients, nor be liable to any other inconvenience than suspension from his profession for six months, until he shall have purged himself from so foul an imputation.

"All degrees, nevertheless, conferred by the universities during the reign of anarchy, shall be null and void; as shall also be all learning (falsely so called) acquired therein; and whoever does not give a full and particular account of what he has read, or heard in lectures, in the whole of that disastrous time, and who does not swear upon the crucifix that he abominates, abhors, and detests it, and that he will forget the whole of it in one calendar month, is exempted from the provisions contained in this act of grace and amnesty."

John-Mary. That is reasonable; I would give them time. The king of Great Britain will see, on casting his enlightened eyes over the world, that it is only in Protestant countries that kings have hitherto been unable to modify or lay aside their oaths at their good pleasure; and that constitutions extorted by the people (it matters not whether long since or lately) and charters and

John-Mary. But the king of France always had friends about him: the gentleman from Gascony, Blacas I think the name is, among tht rest. Ferdinand. He turned his pantaloon, bought sleeves quite new, hired running footmen, and was created duke.

John-Mary. I never heard the word "created" in that sense. Admirable ! it means, to make things out of nothing.

By what I can see of the paper (if that is the place where your thumb is) I am afraid we are still far from land, and have many tacks to make before we reach the port.

Ferdinand. Have courage, my brother and cousin, we are half-seas-over.

John-Mary. Glory be to God!
Ferdinand. Kyrie eleison !

"If any unfounded jealousy, suggested by crafty
and malicious men, for the furtherance of their
dark designs, should weigh upon the breast of
his Britannic Majesty, as to the foreign force
about to be employed in the establishment of his
plenary and legitimate authority; in order to
remove it altogether, it is agreed that an equal
number of troops, belonging to his Britannic
Majesty, shall be permitted to occupy for the
same space of time (in the possessions of his
Catholic Majesty) the whole of Tierra del Fuego,
together with the whole Antarctic Continent, not
however interfering in its ecclesiastical affairs;
and, beside these, the whole northern range of
Sierra Nevada; in the possessions of his Faithful
Majesty, the entire kingdoms of Ethiopia, Arabia,
and Persia; in which his Faithful Majesty shall
retain no more troops than he may in his wisdom
think necessary for religion, on the day of Corpus
Domini, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin,
and John the Baptist. And all the captain-
majors, corregidores, judges of the tribunals
(excepting the ecclesiastical), and justices of the
peace, of his Faithful Majesty, in those countries,
are commanded to give their aid, in order to
carry this ordinance into effect.

John-Mary. Bless my heart and soul! is there another paper still? is that which fell out part of this?

Ferdinand. No; it is a private one; that is, one written by my own order. It being also for the court of St. James, I placed the two together. I think we write better than the Russians and

French. The English beat us in style, I hear ; | the precedent of all times and countries (if prebut the substance comes to nothing.

John-Mary. Here however the French and Russians are very polite and conciliatory. I did not imagine that his Imperial Majesty had our holy Catholic religion so much at heart.

Ferdinand. I assure you, he holds it next to the Turkish; though he may not seem to do it. Theirs of the Holy Alliance is the most civil and inviting; but this pleases me best, being plain and argumentative. I will read it after.

John-Mary. For the love of God, my brother and cousin, read it now, if it were only to break the neck of the cruel long one before us, which, like a serpent in the brakes of Brazil, shows its head where you think its tail must be, and only coils up to stretch itself and spring out again.

Ferdinand. Anything to please your Majesty; and I am happy in an opportunity of demonstrating that we can maintain our dignity. By holy Martha! I will no more pay my debts than I will keep my oath.

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cedent could be quoted against royal will and pleasure) to insist on the fulfilment of the compact and engagement entered into with British subjects by his Catholic Majesty. Nevertheless his Britannic Majesty did reject most royally the authority of precedent, acknowledging (as became his magnanimity) no authority but God's; and asserted no claim whatever in behalf of his monied subjects.

"The undersigned then can not but recommend to his Majesty's minister for foreign affairs, to reconsider the matter, and correct his inconsis tency. For surely no greater can be imagined than to forego what have always been considered as just claims (but which their Majesties the Holy Allies are resolved to consider and admit as such no longer), and at the same time to demand an indemnity for ships detained or captured, in places where the navigation of British and all other foreign vessels has been declared and acknowledged illicit, and this by the British government, for many ages.

"The undersigned.. high consideration".. High, no doubt! for a blunderer whose best argument he has been reducing to dust between

"The undersigned.. has the honour amity . . good understanding . . good faith. ." Ha! here we have it; we are fairly out of the phrases at last, and in the midst of the busi- | his fingers. ness; not without surprise and concern that John-Mary. Any two men living would agree the minister of his Britannic Majesty for foreign affairs, after declaring (as he was bound to do) that he would not insist on the payment of the loan contracted in the sittings of the Cortes, or of the interest thereon, should still insist (if indeed he be in earnest) on the indemnity for British ships detained and confiscated on the coasts of South America.

"Now the undersigned is commanded by his royal master, to remark that there does indeed appear to be a shadow of justice in the claims of those Englishmen who advanced him money: for although the interest was onerous, in proportion to the difficulties of his Majesty, the exhaustion of his treasury, the rebellion in America, and perhaps also in proportion to the false ideas that ignorant and malevolent men entertained of his Catholic Majesty's good faith, so often and so fully proved: yet his Catholic Majesty had sworn to observe, defend, and maintain in all its parts and provisions, the new constitution;* and his Britannic Majesty was officially informed of such oath, and kept a minister at Madrid. Therefore his Britannic Majesty was bound by

* In the Proclamation signed by him at Cadiz, Septem

ber 30, 1823, he says, "I promise a general, complete, and absolute amnesty of all that is past, without exception. I promise that the debts, contracted for the nation by the existing government, shall be ratified. I promise that all generals and other officers of the army, who have defended

the constitutional system, shall preserve their rank, ap

pointments, and honours."

That he violated all these promises, is too notorious for any remark.

A rogue may have some urgent reasons for being a rogue ;

but an honest man can have none for aiding and abetting him in his roguery, nor for countenancing him after it. What then must we think of those princes who reinstated and upheld him?

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on the propriety of this remonstrance; the only doubt would be, whether a debt contracted by your Majesty, the regularity and justice of which was not protested against, nor one particle excepted until long after the whole amount was spent, is debt or not; and consequently, whether it ought or not to be discharged; which I consider as a part of the same question.

Ferdinand. Such reasonings suit much better the tradesmen of Lisbon and Cadiz than monarchs who have quelled rebellions. Do you owe the English any money, my brother? If you do, don't pay them.

John-Mary. They would force me.

Ferdinand. Not they truly. What can they do, poor devils, without the ministers?

John-Mary. To borrow from a people and not to pay, would be as just a cause of war as to seize upon their property by sea or land, in my ports or upon my roads; and greatly more villanous. I ask for assistance in my necessities, and it is given me in reliance on my good faith..

Ferdinand. Brother John-Mary, you reason like a broker. Send the ministers of England a better logic, and newer, and more kingly. They service of plate, and they will furnish you with will beside tell their people, "Rash men! you lent the money at your own risk: we did not advise you."

sent out ships: we did not advise you what John-Mary. They might as well say, "You have we to do with pirates? Your Majesty pledged your royal word"

Ferdinand. They have it then in pledge: let them do what they will with it: I shall not molest them about the matter.

John-Mary. You promised to pay principal and

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interest; and the obligation lies the stronger, as the most loyal of your own subjects would not supply a cake of chocolate for your breakfast. Ferdinand. If kings are obliged to pay, they are not free. We are answerable to God only; and when he tells me, I will do it as becomes a Catholic. Your argument on the ships is idle. The ships pay the king of England the duties of export and import but he is in truth so little of a king, that he can not put his hand even into the pouch of a tinker, much less into desks and purses, and take out what he wishes. Why should he care then who helps himself to the money not destined by Parliament for his taxes? If I had detained a herring-smack, he would bluster and bully and threaten me with reprisals; but when twenty or thirty of his merchants go to ruin by trusting me, he thinks as I, and as all other wise men do, and says, "The greater fools they !" John-Mary. He had acknowledged your government as it then stood: he is bound in consequence to protect the property of his subjects entrusted to its good faith.

Ferdinand. Bound! By Santiago! according to your doctrine, we kings are no better than private men. By Christ and the Blessed Virgin! I won't pay. Now then I can't: I should break my vow if I did: and what is a promise to a vow? Is the king of England such a heretic as to push his horn against it? Religion is religion all over the world: : vows are sacred at Tunis and at Mecca. John-Mary. Very true; but it is only for royalty and religion that men are authorised to violate them. I should be in some fear of losing my dominions in America, if my son did not swear to them that he would make them independent. Ferdinand. I do not well understand how that ensures them.

John-Mary. They would else rebel. As matters now stand my beloved son, aided by England, will oblige the people there to pay me several millions of dollars, and will bring over from Germany some thousands of soldiers, under the pretext of agriculture, who shall cut every throat through which hath passed the impure seditious cry of "independence." He seemed at first afraid of this perjury but I procured him absolution from Rome for it, and sent him at the same time a consecrated rose and a father's blessing.

Ferdinand. For how long a time are those good? John-Mary. The virtue of the consecrated rose is durable in proportion to the money paid for it, and the father's blessing to that obtained by it.

Ferdinand. If the Brazilians should relapse, your Majesty might employ the English fleet against them, which, taking advantage of the wind and the snuff, could blind them all, without a cannon-shot.

John-Mary. The English are dexterous engineers at blinding people: but the Brazilians have strong eyes, better in my opinion than the English.

Ferdinand. If sheer lying is the manoeuvre, they

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have the bravest and most experienced fugleman in Europe, as my ministers tell me.

John-Mary. God forbid that any man should lie for me, who has not the grace to go to confession after it, to make an oblation, and to take the Eucharist!

Ferdinand. The Holy Alliance and the English ministers (for they enter fully into its spirit) are ready to punish those monied men who have encouraged and supported constitutions, and will leave them to harangue upon their empty coffers. Your Majesty will also see that this absurd claim of indemnity for maritime losses will be dropped and abandoned. I am uncertain only upon the question of the slave-trade, and not very upon that, knowing that the principal friends and supporters of the British minister for foreign affairs, are persons connected with slavery and fed upon sugar. On this subject is the following paragraph.

"Their Catholic and Faithful Majesties having been unwarily led into the impracticable scheme of abolishing the trade in negroes, do by their royal will and deed retract the stipulation; it having been proved that his most Christian Majesty made the same promise with the same solemnity, and that nevertheless the faithful subjects of his most Christian Majesty never at any former period have exercised the trade so extensively as at present. But in order to obviate all real evil that may arise from the continuation of the trade in negroes, their Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, declare and protest, that, whenever a slave is dying, the crucifix shall be put to his lips and upon his breast; that every force, moral and physical, shall be employed to make him cry Credo!' and in such a manner that, if unluckily God should not hear it, the cherubs and seraphs in waiting, or some two of them at the least, shall be able to declare it on their words of honour; and finally that extreme unction shall be administered to him in olive oil, when olive oil does not exceed seven reals the pound, and, when it does, in such other as Holy Church may decree to be salutary and effectual.

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"Their Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, are far from wishing to wound the feelings of his Britannic Majesty, by any recapitulation of disasters which may have befallen the arms of his Britannic Majesty: yet the glory of God and of the true religion is all in all with them, and they can not but entreat his Britannic Majesty to consider in his royal wisdom, whether the late discomfiture and destruction of his troops on the coast of Africa, by the Ashantees, is not a sufficient proof that the God of armies and Lord of Hosts has animated them to vengeance, for the millions of souls that are lost to his heavenly kingdom, by not being conveyed where the mysteries of the holy Catholic religion may be imparted to them. On which contemplation their Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, propose that his Britannic Majesty will treat as pirates those who impede or obstruct this salutary traffic; and that, in conjunction with the naval forces of his Most

Christian Majesty, a small auxiliary fleet may be | ciliation and love toward God and one's neighbour. always stationed on the African coast, to that Only think that the Russian minister should purpose and effect; which united fleets however co-operate with the minister of the most Christian shall be removed, when the whole population of king, in making us say what we are made to say Africa is brought over to the words of everlasting here. life, and duly obedient, in its ecclesiastical polity and discipline, to the see of Rome. In that predicament, it shall no longer be permitted to export the negroes, who shall be treated with the same lenity as those under the same denomination (from their stubbornness) in the European kingdoms of his Catholic Majesty."

John-Mary. Such clemency, I am afraid, would irritate the higher clergy and the Apostolical junta I mean to say, if your Majesty should really treat the negroes of Spain as kindly as the negroes of Cuba and Puerto Rico are treated by their masters.

Ferdinand. Mere masters are one thing, kings are another. I will consider what befits my crown and dignity, and if I have promised too much, I will issue an ordinance of revocation.

"The aforesaid duties being executed on the Coast of Senegal and Guinea, and insurrection being suppressed on the continent of America, the maritime powers of Europe are alike all interested in bringing under regular government the rebellious slaves of San Domingo; and the more so, inasmuch as the insurrection there has assumed more settled features, and the slaves commit the cruel mockery of regularity and peace, preserving in civil and domestic life the most exact order, and in political and military the most exemplary decorum and the most perfect | discipline. Their affectation of honesty, of industry, and of happiness, under a republican form of government, shows the malice of their hearts, and leaves it doubtful whether they can be brought to reason by any other means than well-concerted force. Nevertheless, if they will resign their visionary laws, together with their fathers and mothers, their wives and children, their houses and plantations, the high contracting parties on the other hand will restore to them the mild dominion of their ancient laws, and their former most affectionate and loving masters. The colonels of regiments shall enjoy the privilege of the whip, and the judges shall be assayers of molasses, wearing a red cuff on the left wrist, but without sleeve above it; and moreover, about their loins an apron of white cotton a full yard in length. None but the principals of the insurrection shall be hanged, and none but the president shall be quartered."

John-Mary. I am rejoiced to find that the Holy Allies are become so mild and gracious. There were some prejudices against them in the beginning, particularly as everyone of them took from the next principality as much as he could take, disregarding all similarity in sentiment and all confederacy in action.

Ferdinand. I never approved of that conduct I gained nothing. The present paper is greatly more moderate it breathes a pure spirit of con

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"It is the resolution of their Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, to assist his Britannie Majesty in bringing into the union of spirit and the bond of peace the dissenters of Scotland, and to divide the Catholic church (thus happily reinstated throughout the British dominions) into two parts, as elsewhere, the high clergy and the low; convinced as they are (no less than is his Britannic Majesty and his ministers) that both church and state ought to be formed upon the same model, and that two chambers are as necessary to the one as to the other; without which subordination sufficient lustre and dignity can not be given to the church triumphant, or sufficient obsequions ness and humility to the main body of suffragans and preachers. Be it however provided and ordered, subject to the approbation and determination of His Holiness the Pope, that no more than forty-five bishops and eight hundred canonics be appointed for the service of the church in Scotland, and leaving it entirely to the wisdom of his Britannic Majesty to assign them their revenues from the bleaching-grounds and manufactories of that kingdom, converting them into suitable epis copal domains, monasteries and convents, to the glory of God and his saints."

John-Mary. This is not so explicit as I could wish. In the manufactories, I am told, there are magical lights, called gas lights. The fathers and nuns would not wish for these abominations, and the places should be lustrated with sulphur and salt-water. When the tubes for conveying these devilish lights have been cast into the furnace and melted down, I think the mischief arising from them will certainly have ceased. They may be sold for the benefit of the ejected; the religious being sure to find as many pipes and conduits for their purposes as they want, from the warm zes! of the faithful.

Ferdinand. "That there may in future be no cause of war or dissension between his Britannie Majesty on the one side, and their Majesties the Catholic and the Faithful on the other, it is de sirable and earnestly recommended, that his Britannic Majesty be pleased to take some title different from Britannic; seeing that, in almanses and similar publications, it gives a handle to the disaffected to place, as they call it, alphabetically, the name, style, title, and dignity, of his Britannic Majesty, before the name, style, title, and dignity, of their Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful, to the great scandal of the vassals of their said Majesties, the Catholic and the Faithful. In consideration of which (constitution and heresy being uprooted), if there is any star or cross peculiarly agreeable to his Britannic Majesty, it shall forthwith be conveyed to him, with whatever ceremony the said king and his king-at-arms may appoint just as freely and lovingly as his Britannic Ma

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