Don CARLOS, who was supposed to be living quietly at
Brom pton with his wife and children, made his appearance (disguised) in Bayonne on Wednesday sennight, to the great delight of his partisans, and the discomfiture of King Louis PHILIP and Lord PALMERSTON. He did not tarry longer than he could help in the French territory, but passed the Spanish frontier into Navarre the next day; and issued a proclamation to his rebellious subjects, promising them true liberty, the convocation of the Cortes, and something very like universal suffrage, in the place of " that shadow of representation which is but the deceit of a party. He reminds them of PELAGIO'S retreat into the Asturias, whence he issued for the deliverance of Spain ; and declares that he will never forsake his faithful followers until he has subdued the 4" other Moors," against whom he is about to lead them.
" His Majesty," as our Tories term him, of course wants money to carry on the war ; and M. JAUGE, his banker at Paris, has published " officially " the intelligence of his arrival among his subjects, and called upon all faithful Spaniards to come forward and take shares in the new loan of five millions sterling, which has been negotiated in Paris at 60 per cent. or three millions in cash for five millions of stock. M. JAUGE is a very respectable person, supposed to be incapable of fraud; but the French Govern- ment choose to consider the whole story of the Don's passage through France and arrival in Navarre as a mere stockjobbing hoax, and have therefore arrested the banker. It is certainly pos- sible that ZUMALACARREGUY may have resorted to this plan for raising the spirits of his troops in the approaching contest with Rome; and there are some rather suspicious coincidences of dates which may serve to discredit the story : but, on the other hand, it is so mortifying to the Governments both of France and England to be completely duped by this sluggish Spaniard, whom they so kindly conveyed the best part of his way from Portugal to Navarre, that it is natural they should be unwilling to believe the disagreeable intelligence. The actual truth, however, will soon be made to appear. In the meanwhile, it is certain, that if Don CARLOS is in England, he is in close concealment. His wife and servants declare that he sailed from Portsmouth some time ago. Those true patriots the BERESFORDS, LONDONDERRIES, and WEL- LINGTONS, are supposed to be in the secret of his movements, and to have been the prime instigators of the expedition.
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