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sferord and fl ^ me ; a » no doubt he will G * eat cotnril&ihte htive been m * de of this speech ; b * it not exactly on th ^ right gttVuiwI ; It tells only what wa * known > before ; the curiosity « wndi « f « ill it * being told at all , and in language so remote from the % * ttfbli 6 h 64 phraseology of sovereign paternity . In this particular the apaochi has inerit , for nothing would have been more easy than its trans ^ -
lation into the dialect of regality and diplomacy . It might have been'fitted up as a very gracious imperial speech . We prefer it as delivered . We often hear of the fiiry of democracy , and do not object to such a frank exhibition , in the person or its great champion , of the excesses of the monarchical principle . In justiee to royalty more happily situated , because more shorn of power , we cannot refrain from placing on our pages the following simple and affecting decree of the Queen Regent of Spain : —
[ FROM THE ' GACBTA DB MADRID OP NOT . 1 . ] ' ROYAL DECREE . * If , on all occasions , it is grateful to my heart to dry the tears of the subjects of my beloved daughter , it is much more so when to this duty of humanity is united the sacred obligation of repairing past errors .
General Don Rafael del Riego , who was condemned to an ignominious death by virtue of a decree issued subsequent to the act of which h « was accused , and for having given a vote as a deputy of the nation , in which capacity he was inviolable , according to the laws then in force * and to the public rights of every representative government . Was one of those victims whom , in moments of political crisis , fanaticism strikes with the sword of justice . At a period when those who , by their votes , manifested their approbation of the same proposition as was supported by
General Kiego , are filling distinguished posts , either in Parliamentary Assemblies or in the Councils of my august daughter , it must not be permitted that the memory of that General should continue to be sullied by the stigma of crime , or that his orphan family should be plunged in misfortune ; in these days of peace and reconciliation between the defenders of the legitimate Throne and of Liberty , all bitter
recollections ought to be , as far as possible , obliterated . I am desirous thai this my will should , as regards my beloved daughter and her » uc ~ cessors to the throne , be the bond by which , in the future annals of Spain , the inviolability of speech , propositions , and votes , mode end given in the general Cortes of the kingdom , may be secured . I havq therefore , in the name of my august daughter . Queen Isabel II ., decreed an follows : —
Art . 1 . The good name , fame , and memory of the late General Don Rafael del Kiego are re-established . Art . 2 . His family shall enjoy the pension and widow ' s allowance to which they arc entitled according to Che laws . ' Art . 3 . His family is placed under the special protection of my beloved daughter , Isabel II ., and , during her minority , under mine . 4 will understand this , and communicate it to the proper authorities . ,
* Palace of the Pardo , 81 st October , 1886 . To Don Juan JUrat * y Me * dto * b * l , Preetfei * of the Council ad interim !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/7/
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