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it tyM appfcar manifest that the subject-matter of contention referred solely to the disputed personal right of Isabella II , or Don Carlos to succeed to the throne . To talk of it as a war
of principle is idle . It was from the very beginning an international dispute concerning the legitimate right of one or other of these parties to the crown . In our judgment , therefore , Great Britain ought not to have interfered ; for we hold it to be a sound political axiom , that one nation ought not to interfere with the internal jurisdiction of another nation .
The British Government , under the auspices of a Whig administration , was pleased to think otherwise ; and having already recognised the infant daughter of Ferdinand as the legitimate sovereign , with an indecisive and trembling hand unsheathed the sword in her defence . His Majesty , at the
opening of the Parliamentary session 1834 , thus announced the projected policy : — " Upon the death of the late King of Spam I did not hesitate to recognise , the succession of the infant daughter , and I shall watch with the greatest solicitude the progress of events which may affect a government , the
peaceable settlement of which is of the first importance to this country as well as to the general tranquillity of Europe . " If then Great Britain interfered at all , it is evident that she ought to have done so boldly , vigorously , and efficiently ; but instead of this , under a shuffling profession of non-interference , she had recourse to the most anomalous and contradictory policy .
In conjunction with France , Portugal , and Spain , she became a party to the Quadruple Treaty , which is , perhaps , as curious a piece of political patchwork as was ever laid upon the table of the House of Lords . It had not been in existence six months before all its stipulations were so manifestly useless and absurd , that it was found necessary to revise the whole ,
and , like the Irishman ' s old mended gun , with new stock , lock , and barrel , every article was remodelled . Already Don Carlos had arrived in Navarre , and placed himself at the head of the insurgents , who , under the skilful generalship of Zumalacarreguy , daily became a more imposing and formidable force . By this second edition of the Quadruple Treaty , the
steps to be taken by the high contracting parties were more clearly defined . It stipulated that France should watch the frontier , and prevent the insurgents from receiving assistance of men , money , and ammunition ; and that Great Britain should supply " such arms and warlike stores , " for the use of the Queen ' s mountebank be critically examined , lie will be found to have been a suspicious , crafty monarch , whose holy eccentricities were infinitely more symbolical of knavery
than folly , w . [* We differ . There is a principle at stake on both sides . But the grand principle ought not to be a point of legitimacy , but of a strictly popular form of iroTerrimSnt , —R , H . H . I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/5/
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