The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier have published a formal
protest against their expulsion from Spain, which is said to have affected the Queen exceedingly. We can quite believe it. Though decorously worded, it is an unmistakable declaration of war to the knife against the authors of the expulsion. The writers neither deny nor admit complicity in any intrigues, but say that if they were called on for defence they would reply, "If unhappy Spain is now passing through a crisis which we deplore from our hearts, we have not produced it. The origin, whatever it may be, of these lamentable agitations which are made the pretext for con- demning us must be sought for elsewhere." The expulsion is called " an extra-legal act, contrary to the fundamental law of Spain and all principles of natural justice," and Queen Isabella is warned that "the ties of family must be forgotten in the arbitrary conduct which sends us into exile without even an indirect warning." It is characteristic of both parties that the officials at Cadiz received orders not to salute the Villa de Madrid, in which the Duke and Duchess were embarked, though the vessel
bore the royal flag, and that the illustrious victims mention this petty insult as an injury almost as great as exile. So James AIL included in a list of leaders net to berpardonedoomeilshermen who had searehe I him by .nristake. kis stated that many Spanish Generals, General remota 'among kthem, are resigning; either indignant at the banishment of their comrades, or at the doubts of the Army expressed in a recent circular to the Captains-General.
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