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PREFACE.
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other countries prepossessed with the persuasion that Don
Carlos’s claim was well founded, and that his partizans in
the field are yet sufficiently numerous to operate a change
in affairs either by heroic efforts, or by taking advantage of
the political and military errors of their adversaries—it is
to those cabinets and influential persons that the arguments
of Dr. Zopfl are especially addressed. It is to those who
bond fide believed, and still believe Don Carlos, and not
Isabella, to be legitimately entitled to the throne, that the
appeal is made. Had they not laboured under that delusion,
surely they never would have given him countenance and
pecuniary aid—they would not have contributed to the pro-
secution, in his name at least, of a sanguinary and devastating
civil war, the horrors of which have made all Europe
shudder ! However tardy may be the conviction of the
legitimate right of Isabella, it is not too late to prevent, by
its candid recognition, the continuance of many dreadful
evils,—it is not too late to retrace many false steps, and
thereby contribute to put an end to a bloody strife, during
which the exasperation of political parties, the blind spirit
of revenge, and the ambition of individuals, must prevent
those wise ameliorations in the laws and institutions of Spain,
which the progress of society and the interests of all classes
demand, and which may serve as a guarantee to the rest of
Europe that order shall not be disturbed.
London,
November, 1839.
C. T. O’G.
vii
other countries prepossessed with the persuasion that Don
Carlos’s claim was well founded, and that his partizans in
the field are yet sufficiently numerous to operate a change
in affairs either by heroic efforts, or by taking advantage of
the political and military errors of their adversaries—it is
to those cabinets and influential persons that the arguments
of Dr. Zopfl are especially addressed. It is to those who
bond fide believed, and still believe Don Carlos, and not
Isabella, to be legitimately entitled to the throne, that the
appeal is made. Had they not laboured under that delusion,
surely they never would have given him countenance and
pecuniary aid—they would not have contributed to the pro-
secution, in his name at least, of a sanguinary and devastating
civil war, the horrors of which have made all Europe
shudder ! However tardy may be the conviction of the
legitimate right of Isabella, it is not too late to prevent, by
its candid recognition, the continuance of many dreadful
evils,—it is not too late to retrace many false steps, and
thereby contribute to put an end to a bloody strife, during
which the exasperation of political parties, the blind spirit
of revenge, and the ambition of individuals, must prevent
those wise ameliorations in the laws and institutions of Spain,
which the progress of society and the interests of all classes
demand, and which may serve as a guarantee to the rest of
Europe that order shall not be disturbed.
London,
November, 1839.
C. T. O’G.