Long before this reply reached Paris, Napoleon had left for Spain.

But on November 19th, he charged Champagny to state that the Spanish rebels could no more be admitted than the Irish insurgents: as for the other parties to the dispute he would not refuse to admit "either the King reigning in Sweden, or the King reigning in Sicily, or the King reigning in Brazil." This insulting reply sufficiently shows the insincerity of his overtures and the peculiarity of his views of monarchy.

The Spaniards were rebels because they refused to recognize the forced abdication of their young King; and the rulers of Sweden, Naples and Portugal, were Kings as long as it suited Napoleon to tolerate them, and no longer.

It is needless to add that our Government refused to desert the Spaniards; and in his reply to St.Petersburg, Canning expressed George III.'s deep regret that Alexander should sanction "An usurpation unparalleled in the history of the world....

If these be the principles to which the Emperor of Russia has inviolably attached himself ...