. Spanish life in town and country . only,—touse the Spanish description of it, a little talkbut no fight,—and it may be classed with thevagaries of the amiable people in England whoamuse themselves by wearing a white rose, andalso call themselves legitimatists, praying forthe restoration of the Stuarts. The truth about the Carlist pretension is solittle known in England that it may be well tostate it. Spain has never been a land of theSalic Eaw; the story of her reigning queens—chief of all, Isabel la Cafolica, shows this. Itwas not until the time of Philip V., the first ofthe Bourbons, that
. Spanish life in town and country . only,—touse the Spanish description of it, a little talkbut no fight,—and it may be classed with thevagaries of the amiable people in England whoamuse themselves by wearing a white rose, andalso call themselves legitimatists, praying forthe restoration of the Stuarts. The truth about the Carlist pretension is solittle known in England that it may be well tostate it. Spain has never been a land of theSalic Eaw; the story of her reigning queens—chief of all, Isabel la Cafolica, shows this. Itwas not until the time of Philip V., the first ofthe Bourbons, that this absolute monarch limitedthe succession to heirs male by pragmatic sanc-tion ; that is to say, by his own unsupportedorder. The Act in itself was irregular; it wasnever put before the Cortes, and the Council ofCastile protested against it at the time. This Act, such as it was, was revoked byCharles IV.; but the revocation was never pub-lished, the birth of sons making it , however, his son Ferdinand VII. was. Land and People 9 near his end, leaving only two daughters, hepublished his fathers revocation of the Act ofPhilip V., and appointed his wife, Cristina, Re-gent during the minority of Isabel II., then onlythree years of age. At no time, then, in its history, has the SalicLaw been in use in Spain: the irregular act of adespotic King was repudiated both by his grand-son and his great-grandson. Nothing, therefore,can be more ridiculous than the pretension oflegitimacy on the part of a pretender whose partysimply attempts to make an illegal innovation, indefiance of the legitimate kings and of the Coun-cil of Castile, a fundamental law of the , the party of the Church against thenation, came into existence when, during the firstyears of Cristinas Regency, Mendizabal, the pa-triotic merchant of Cadiz and Iyondon, then FirstMinister of the Crown, carried out the dismem-berment of the religious orders, and the diversionof their enormous we
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