Two other decrees have been issued by the Spanish Regency.
One, signed by the Queen, promises her royal approbation to those magistrates and others who cheerfully and zealously co-operate with the views of the Regency, and holds out the prospect of speedy punishment to all who intrigue against it; from which promise and threat we may reasonably conclude, that the intriguers against the Queen are as numerous as her supporters. Another, signed by her Majesty's orders, satisfactorily defines the object and extent of the late Royal amnesty. They are thus classified- " 1st. All emigrants and exiles for political motives are at liberty to return to their houses, to the possession of their property, to the exercise of their pro- fession or industry, and to the enjoyment of their decorations and honours, under the secure protection of the laws. "2d. It Is not understood that by this decree those offices and salaries are restored which such persons obtained in the time of the convulsions in which they were implicated ; but they are competent, like all other Spaniards, to soli- cit and obtain any employment which the Government may consider them fitted to fill.
" 3d. No process for the crime of disloyalty committed prior to the 15th of this month shall be formed against any person, although the accusation may have been already laid. " 4th. All suits for disloyalty already pending shall be immediately quashed, and the accused placed at liberty. " 5th. The sentences pronounced prior to the date of this decree, which have not been already carried into execution, shall remain without effect, and cannot be cited in judgment, nor out of it, except in the sole case of relapse. Conse- quently, the condemnations which are in process of accomplishment by virtue of such sentences cease and determine, and the goods sequestered shall be re- stored to the accused; nor shall the costs occasioned thereby, which have not already been satisfied in the course of the said trials, be exacted from the accused. " 6th. The trials for purification shall cease, and those which are already pending shall be terminated in favour of those interests. " 7th. By this amnesty, an act of eternal oblivion is passed on all crimes of disloyalty (but not on other crimes), under whatever denomination they may have been classed. " 8th. Are excepted from this Royal determination all those who voted the dethronement of the King at Seville, and those who have headed an armed force against his Sovereignty, conformably to the tenor of the said decree."
The Royal Gazette-writer having ventured to omit, in the offi- cial copy of the amnesty, the expressions of her Majesty's regret at being obliged to make any exceptions from that act of bounty, he has been dismissed from his office. So much for editorial cor- rections of royal documents.
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