There is to be a meeting at the Crown and
Anchor, on Monday next, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of sympathizing with the recent attempts of the Spanish people to improve their political condition. A perusal of the resolutions, intended to be proposed, will sufficiently ex- plain the views of those gentlemen who have called the meeting.
"I. That in 1812, a Liberal Constitution was established by the free-will of the universal Spanish nation, then contending for its independence in concert with Great Britain ; and was acknowledged by Great Britain, acting as an ally of Spain. " 2. That the Constitution, after being temporarily suppressed by the treachery of Ferdinand on his restoration, and happily reestablished in the year 1822, was only to be put down by a foreign force of a hundred thousand men, under the,Duke of Angoideme; thus affording an evidence of its practical strength, and adaptation to the wants and wishes of the Spanish People. " 3. That this Constitution has high claims on the respect of the People of England, as being founded on an extensively popular representation, giving to every Spanish citizen the right of voting for electors in the primary electoral assemblies, though modified by the fact that it is only the electors thus chosen who finally elect the Deputies. "4. That the principal defect alleged against the Constitution of 1812—that it is without a House of Peers—is not one upon which the People of England are at this moment disposed peremptorilylo "3. That this meeting hails the redeclaration of the Constitution of 1812 in like manner, and for like reasons, as it rejoiced in the recurrence of the " Three Days" of July 1830 in France; and as affording the only human pro- bability of restoring peace in Spain."
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