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SATURDAY NIGHT.
A new complication has been given to the state of Spanish affairs by the report of the escape of Don Carlos from France. The report was com- municated to the Government at Paris by telegraph, and reached London yesterday. No particulars of his flight are yet given, though further in- formation may be expected every hour. Meanwhile, an extraordinary ex- press from Paris, received this morning, announces the escape of the Count of Monternolin, the eldest son of Don Carlos; who was probably confounded with his father in the earlier announcement. It will be remembered, that when Don Carlos abdicated his pretensions in favour of his son, the young Count addressed the Spanish nation in equivocal terms, seeming to hint that his expectations would be satisfied by a marriage with Queen Isabella: his escape into Spain is obviously instigated by her union with Don Fran- cisco de Assis, and is no doubt connected with the Carlist outbreak in Ca- talonia.
It now comes out that Cabrera has clandestinely loft Paris, and passed through Rouen on the evening of the 13th: he left that city in a carriage, accompanied by a friend, and took a route towards the sea; where he, no doubt, had a boat waiting to take him to England for Spain. Madrid letters of the 12th instant aver that the popular feeling against the French marriage is assuming a very formidable aspect. The Especta- dor had published "A Record of 1808," in order to inflame the popular mind against the French. The resuscitated record is a tyrannical " order of the day," signed "Joaquin'," threatening cruel retaliation on the Ma- drid people for having risen against the French: all armed persons were to be shot; all houses where Frenchmen had been assassinated were to be burned down; meetings of as many as eight persons were to be dispersed by musquetry, and so on. The journal containing this inflammatory re- miniscence was seized.
The Tiempo announces that the Infante Don Francisco de iussiss is to be elevated to the rank of Generalissimo of the Spanish armies.
Several Paris papers of Thursday, and the correspondent of the Times, confirm the report that Queen Victoria had written a note to liMg Louis Philippe on the Montpensier marriage, "cold "and "bitter."
The Chronicle this morning puts forth a "leading article" calling for all kinds of intervention to stop the marriage. It invites Narvaez to "retrieve the past" by identifying himself with the national party in Spain. It as- serts the right and power of England to insist that Spain should settle the question by herself; declares that "the whole of this transaction wears an aspect at once so hostile and so insulting, that in any opposition our Minis- ters might think fit to offer to its completion they would certainly run no risk of outrunning public feeling" (?); and intimates that England is not to be cajoled by vulgar considerations presumed to have weight with "a na- tion of shopkeepers "—such as offers of commercial treaties. Finally, the Chronicle invites the Liberal party in France to aid England in opposing the marriage.
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