;To add to the misfortunes of Don MIGUEL, he has
loSt all hope of, assistance or coantenance from :Spain. The Queen Regent has directed her Minister to quit the head-quarters of the Usinper,•and has.formally acknowledged Donna MARIA as Sove- reign of Portugal. -This is a prudent and decisive measure on the part of the Spanish Regency ; and whatever may be the future line of policy whipted by that Government, it is one which might haye been surely anticipated NM the discernment of ZEA BuitmuDEZ. To continue a friendly intercourse with the close ally of the Pretender Don CARLOS, would be Obviously' the plari of an imbecile, or a traitor to the Queen of Spain; neither of which do we suspect ZEA Bsamunaz to be, howeYer decidedly his views may tend to the establishment of an dbsohite monarchy. We think, therefore, that the nmes is quite premature in inferring a change of system on the part of the'Qiieen Regent, from the mere fact of her having recogniZed Donna Manta. That. journal .says, it ".will form a new sera in the:Queen of Spain's policy ;" and that, " after this, her disposition to'effect ultimately such constitutional ameliorations as may assi- milate the government of the. two 'countries; cannot be any longer auhtfiil." : .We consider it to be extremely doubtful; and even if her disposition to liberalize the institutions of Spain were admitted, we much question her power to indulge it. - If, indeed, it can be Alwyn that . the Government of Lours PHILIP will not support the modified absolutism which it is understood .that ZEA BERMUDEZ wishes to consolidate, and that he will give his hearty cooperation towards establishing a Constitutional government,.then we admit that there is some prospect'of the Liberals gaining the ascendancy, —provided the Carlists, and' the Absolutists at present of the Queen's party, continue 'at *hence. ',There is, however, no rea- son* to siippese that the King of the French is very much attached to Liberal opinions, or that he would be at all desirous to see them predominant in the Peninsula. There is still less reason, we fear, to suppose that the majority. of the Spanish nation itself is either attached to or can appreciate the blessings of constitutional governiaent ; the establishment of which, therefore, cannot with prudence be attempted, especially under foreign auspices, for some time to come. Under modified despotism, or, perhaps, what is termed a juste milieu system, it is possible that the Spaniards may be gradually prepared for freedom ; and if the, Queen Regent and her Minister succeed in constructing such a system as that udder which the Gernians, for example, are governed, they will accomplish all that appears to be practicable and safe at the present time.
The accounts from Madrid are favourable to the Queen. The Captains-General of the provinces continue to send in their ad- hesion and professions of fidelity. The insurrection in Biscay, however, gained strength; and symptoms of disaffeitiOn had ap- peared in Navarre. There have been some skirmishes between: the Rebels and the Government troops, in one of which 'Simms LADRON, a Guerilla chief, was taken prisoner : he was immedi- ately tried by a military commission, for being in arms against his lawful 'sovereign, and shot the next day (the 14th of October); at Painnehina. We shall probably soon have decisive .news from the seat of' the insurrection ; as the Queen's troops had adianced: in considerable force to the vicinity of Burgos, where the Rebels wcre.frepared to encounter them.
We have no authentic intelligence of the movements of Don CARLOS; but a proclamation bearing his name has been published in Paris. It is dated from Abrantes, on the 1st October, andtleclares all who do not join his standard, more especially all governors and generals, to be traitors. o their King. The following passage ex- plains the motives which induce him to dispute the claim of -his niece to the throne.
" I am not ambitious of the throne, and would refrain from prosecuting with ardour any of the goods of this perishable world ; but religion and the accom- plishment of the fundamental law of the succession, and the special obligation I am under to defend the imprescriptible rights of my sons, and my other beloved relatives, compel me to support and defend the crown of 4ain, of which an at- tempt has been made to deprive me by an ilkepal process, destruttive of the law, which ought to remain sacw1 and withered." Who can mistrust So pious a *ince?
