The French expeditionary force in Spain in 1823.
Watercolor Original signed PO (1824). Al. Brown Univ.
"The results of the English Civil War exceeded all expectations by making prompt we get them. [...] The French armies have justified the confidence reposed their courage, their good discipline, as their loyalty. The writer is proud of having to draw beautiful pictures and to prove the absurdity of English patriots who threatened the French army of Forks Caudine .
From the principle of the insurrection on the island of Leon, I had sought, particularly by comments inserted in The Daily , to demonstrate the need to extinguish the outbreak of military insurrection so dangerous by example, who had turned in Spain. It took three years of experience to prove to Europe as the basis of the thrones of the civilized part of the world was, for the moment in Spain. [...] The system changed in 1822, with the ministry, and finally striking the reason of conviction of the royalist ministers, it was decided that they would issue a monarch whom the conspirators were trying to demean the dignity and sanctity. The solidarity of scepters was established in principle. The English war was regarded as European, necessary to save the company from disruption of the principles upon which the peace of nations and the stability of legitimate governments. He was regarded as essential to stop the progress of this ambition throne which had become the spirit and ambition of the century, when a fortunate soldier came to the empire by the glory of his soldiers. Since then, all legislation of the peoples and the rights of sovereign drifted a military movement, and finally in Spain, a few battalions insurgents at the tip of the peninsula are sufficient to change the laws of the monarchy of Charles V., and dictate to the heir of Philip V, king of Spain and India, the code by which he would rule over the descendants of the Cid and women of Sagunto.
France, just out of the chaos of revolution, had the honorable task of consolidating the monarchy, and was responsible for the destiny of Europe. She presented to an astonished world the state of finances than thirty years of dilapidation and extortion have been upset, and she entrusted the restoration of the moral state of the army who, some years earlier had fought for one who, knowing only passive obedience, as the first soldier, demoralized the people by forcing them to recognize that sovereign of men rejected the legitimacy.
Honor to you, wise king, whose insight has penetrated the heart of the French! You've read the word loyalty, and you have given to the glory of Marengo, Austerlitz, united to that of Conde and the Vendee, not only the crown of St. Louis, but that of all the sovereigns of the universe. Your confidence was not deceived, all the French have responded to the call of your heart and honor: the fraternal embrace was given on the battlefield, and had to witness and to guarantee his sincerity, the flag unsullied. [...]
An expeditionary walked directly to Cadiz, while other bodies covered the flanks of the main operation, and the provinces were issuing side with those that Prince [the Duke of Angoulême] crossed. Success has crowned this bold undertaking, calculated on the courage of the king's troops, and the dedication of the English people for their sovereign. Honor to the prince, whose plans are in harmony with the character of the French, who never sees the victory! Through Spain to attack by assault, the Trocadero, despite the views of a council of war, is a concept worthy of a descendant of the victor at Arques. [...]
... Spain was divided by two opinions, one royalist with absolute government, the other constitutional. The first opinion was that of all the inhabitants of the countryside and the clergy, the second was confined to the coast of the Mediterranean, particularly in Barcelona, to factories, and in which people living on the proceeds of their work, subject to the extent of trade, are sufficient to impose on the party saw its territorial revenues. Few inland cities shared the exasperation revolutionary. [...] Note that, wherever religious morality had influence, the people were devoted to the absolute legitimacy: that greed prevailed, had the vice anarchic empire. Comparing the two masses, one sees that the most important was the monarchy without alteration, and we shall be convinced that the English soil is conducive neither to complacency or concessions. The revolution is, as elsewhere, upset things, but the men stayed intact, and immutable principles. [...] "
Louis Marcillac History of the English Civil War in 1823:
campaign Catalonia, Paris, Le Clere, 1824.
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