f truth and honesty was perpetrated by a man who is lauded by the
_savons_ of France to this day as one of their illustrious number. His
Memoir of Sir Robert Peel is popular in England, and he has since been
received with favour in London! The whole administration of M. Guizot,
foreign and domestic, was a dishonour and a curse to France, and
supplies one of the dark pages of her history.

It was on the 10th of October that Louis Philippe and M. Guizot
consummated their treachery to England, and their selfish policy towards
Spain, and laid the foundation for an alienation between the French and
English governments, which continued until the hypocrite king was hurled
from the throne of France.

_Spain_.--The policy of the King of the French to Spain was not regarded
with any interest by the mass of the Spanish people. The English
government and citizens supposed that the Spanish marriages would bring
about a revolution, but the people looked coldly on. The French king
understood the Spanish nation better than it was understood in England.
There was, however, a large party in Spain which regarded the designs
of the French king with an enlightened and politic alarm. Thus, when the
Spanish government selected him as mediator with the pope, to effect a
reconciliation between the courts of Rome and Madrid, the language of
suspicion uttered by Senor Leijas Lozano expressed the real views of
most men of cultivated minds in Spain:--"For my part, I admit that I
had much suspicion, mingled with fear, when it was determined to select
France as our mediator with Rome, and these fears I have not yet got
rid of. The question is, are the offers of service made by France to the
Spanish government sufficiently frank?--are they sincere? I fear
they are not. _Her interests are not identified with ours_. I may be
mistaken, but my firm belief is that it is the interests of France
that we shall remain as isolated as possible until the great events she
desires be effected."

A strong conviction was entertained by many eminent men in Spain, that
Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Aberdeen had complicated the question
of the Spanish marriages; that, although the Whigs repudiated with
sincerity all interference, these two statesmen had coquetted with the
question of a Cobourg alliance for the Spanish queen, and that in doing
so they were only carrying out the wishes of the English court; that
the knowledge obtained of these facts by the secret agen