The Massachusetts Spy

FOREIGN NEWS.

[From the Boston Palladium of March 14.]

By the Packet ship New York, at New-York from Liverpool, papers to Feb. 1 were received, from which the following important articles are copied:—

FORMAL HOSTILITY.

PARIS, JAN. 28.

The Chambers of Peers and of Deputies, assembled this day. At 1 o'clock, the King took his seat on the throne, having his Royal Highness Monsieur on his right, his Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme on his left, and the Duke of Orleans at a little distance. M. Dambray (Chancellor of France,) the Prince Talleyrand (Grand Chamberlain,) and the other great Officers of the Household, occupied chairs appropriated to them. Some minutes before, their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Angouleme and Berri, and the Duchess of Orleans, were seated in a richly decorated gallery assigned for them.

The whole assembly stood up uncovered. His Majesty invited the Peers to be seated, and the Chancellor, in his name, conveyed the same invitation to the Deputies. His Majesty after uncovering for a moment and bowing to the assembly, delivered a Speech, from which the following extract is made:-

Extract from the Speech.

"France owed to Europe an example of that prosperity of which no people can obtain, unless by a return to religion, to legitimacy, to order, to true liberty. Such a salutary example is this day held out.

"But divine justice permits that, after having, for a long time, occasioned other nations to feel the terrible effects of our own disorders, we should see ourselves exposed to dangers, which are producing similar calamities among a neighbouring nation.

"I have left nothing undone to insure the safety of my people, and to preserve Spain herself from the greatest of evils. The blindness with which the representations made at Madrid have been rejected, leaves little hope of the preservation of Peace.

"I have ordered the recall of my Minister. A hundred thousand Frenchmen, commanded by a Prince of my family, by him whom my heart recognizes as a son, are ready to march, invoking the God of St. Louis to preserve the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV.; to preserve that beautiful kingdom from ruin, and to reconcile her to Europe.

"Our stations are to be reinforced in those places where our maritime commerce may need such protection. Cruisers will be appointed to act, wherever our shores may be open to attack.

"If war be inevitable, I shall omit no effort to narrow its circle, and limit its duration. It shall be undertaken for no other purpose but to conquer that peace which the state of Spain would render impossible. Let Ferdinand VII. be free to grant his people the institutions which they can hold only from him, and which, by securing their repose, will dissipate the just apprehensions of France. From that moment hostilities shall cease. This solemn engagement, Gentlemen, I enter into in your presence.

"It was my duty to lay before you the state of our affairs. It belonged to myself to deliberate. I have done so maturely. I consulted the dignity of my throne, the honour and the security of France. We are Frenchmen, Gentlemen. We shall ever be united in defence of such interests."

This speech, according to the report, was received with loud demonstrations of applause by the Chamber; and the Duke d'Angouleme, "that worthy descendant of Henry the Fourth to whom he bears so striking a resemblance, when he was alluded to as the Prince whom the heart of Louis delights to call his son, and as the leader of the 100,000 Frenchmen, who are to march and invoke the God of St. Louis to preserve the throne of Spain to another worthy descendant of Henry the Fourth—the Duke assumed a valiant air, and theatrically clapped his hand on the hilt of his sword.

PARIS, JAN. 26.

It cannot be doubted, that an intimate connexion has been recently established between England and Spain. The arrival of Lord Somerset at Madrid as Ambassador, at the time when the Ministers of the Holy Alliance were quitting that capital, is an incontestible proof of this.

JAN. 28.

When the case of the Duke de San Lorenzo, (the king of Spain against the bankers Overard and Lowenberg as agents for the Spanish Ultra Royalists) was called out this morning, the King's Advocate read a letter from the Keeper of the Seals, which declared that all bonds of amity having been broken between the Governments of France and Spain, the cause could not be pleaded.

A Madrid paper of the 13th, contains the Notes which the Ministers of Prussia, Austria and Russia addressed to Senor San Miguel, on the publication of the Spanish Answer to the former Notes of the three Courts. In these Notes the Ministers demand their passports, as threatened in the former, in case the Spanish Government made no concessions.

The Russian Minister's Note expresses the real pain "with which the Ambassador has received the Spanish answer. Europe," it proceeds, "will judge between the Powers who are animated by the noble desire of doing good, and a government which appears to be resolved to fill up the cup of the misfortunes of Spain. With respect to the determinations announced in the Note of his Excellency Senor San Miguel, all the responsibility will fall on the heads of those persons who are to be considered as its sole authors; and while the same persons deprive their legitimate Sovereign of his liberty, while they deliver up Spain to all the evils of a sanguinary anarchy, and by means of keeping up a culpable understanding, endeavour to extend to other States the calamities in which they have involved their own country, Russia can maintain no relation with authorities which tolerate and even excite such disorders."

Answer.—"I have received the very insolent Note which your Excellency transmitted to me yesterday; and limiting myself for my sole reply, to stating that you have shamefully abused (perhaps through ignorance) the laws of nations, which is always respectable in the eyes of the Spanish Government, I transmit, by order of his Majesty, the passports you desire, hoping that your Excellency will be pleased to leave this capital with as little delay as possible.

"I am, &c.

"Evaristo San Miguel.

The Austrian Note speaks of the "calumnious insinuations" of the "Spanish Circular, and declares, like the Prussian, that the Cabinet of Vienna cannot continue its diplomatick relations with Spain.

The Answer is simply, that the Spanish Government "is indifferent whether it maintains relations or not with the Court of Vienna."