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From the National Gazette arid Litera¬ ry Register. SPASISH CONSTITUTION. We have thought it well to furnish the public with the principal provisions of the Spanish Constitution of 1812, now re-established. It will be seen from them that the monarchy is a limited one indeed, and that the single legislative as¬ sembly, the Cortes, possesses the great powers of government. There is no for¬ mal acknowledgmeutio the Constitution, offtn hereditary nobility, or privileged order, but the grandees of Spain are men¬ tioned as among the classes from which the members of the Council of State are to be taken. The Spanish nation is fiee and inde¬ pendent, and neither is nor can be the pa¬ trimony of any family or person what¬ ever. The sovereignty resides essentially In the nation ; in consequence whereof it alone possesses the right of making its fundamental laws. The government has for its object the happiness of the nation, for the only end of all political associations is the welfare of all its members. The Cortes are a meeting of all the representatives of the nation, appointed by the citizens in the manner hereafter des¬ cribed. Each portion of the population amount¬ ing to seventy thousand souls, shall send one deputy to the Cortes, conformably to the provisions of the 29th article- Electoral meetings shall be held in pa¬ rishes districts, and provinces, in order to e'ect deputies to the Cortes. The electoral meetings of parishes shall Le composed of all the citizens residing in and inhabiting the respective parishes, in¬ cluding the secular clergy. The parish meetings shall appoint one elector for each two hundred inhabitants. No man can be chosen parish elector unless he is a Spanish citizen, above five and twenty years of age, and an inhabi¬ tant residing in the parish. No citizen shall appear at the parish meeting with side or t-ther arm9. The electoral district meetings shall be composed of the parish electors, who shall assemble ifl the chief town of the district, in order to nominate the elector or elec¬ tors who are to repair to the chief city of the province to elect deputies to the Cor¬ tes. The number of district electors shall be three times greater than that of the deputies whom they shall have to elect. The census shall determine the number of deputies to be nominated by each pro vince, and how many electors each of its districts shall appoint. The electoral district meetings shall be presided over by the principal civil officer or mayor of the chief town of the district. On th^ appointed day the parish elec¬ tors shall assemble, together with the pre¬ sident, in the consistorial hall, with open doors, and they shall proceed to the ap¬ pointment of one secretary, and two in¬ spectors, taken from among the electors. Immediately afterwards the election for one er more district electors shall take place ; they shall be ballotted for in suc¬ cessive order, in a secret manner, by bal¬ lots, on which the name of the person fvhom each voter chooses to nominate, *hall be inscribed. The poll being closed, the president, secretary, and inspectors shall count the votes, and that pers.011 shall be elected who shall have at least one half of them in his favout and one over. The president shall puhlish the result of each election. The provincial elecroral meetings shall be composed of all the district electors of the province, who shall convene in the principal city, in order to nominate their respective number of deputies to the Cor¬ tes, to act as representatives of the na¬ tion The electors shall proceed to the elec¬ tion of one or more deputies, who shall be balloted for in successive order. No man can be elected a deputy to the Cortes unless he is a citizen in the full ex¬ ercise of his civil rights, above five and twenty yeat6 of age, an inhabitant of the province, and has resided theiein at least seven years, whether he be a layman or of secular clergy ; and the election may fall on citizens either in or out of the meeting. No one can be a deputy to the Cortes who has not a suitable income of his own. Ministers, counsellors of state, and those who hold offices in the king's household, cannot be elected deputies to the Cortes. The Cortes thall meet every year in the capital of the kingdom, in an edifice ap¬ propriated to that special purpose. The session of the Cortes shall every year last three successive months, and shall begin on the first day of March. All the deputies shall be renev/ed every two years. Deputies cannot be elected to serve a second time, until another election has intervened. ' The king shall personally attend the opening of the Cortes. The k;ng shall enter the hall of the Cortes without guards ; he shall only be attended by those persons who shall bt designated by ihc regulations of the Cor¬ tes concerning the ceremonies to be ob¬ served at hii entrance and departure. The C/rtes cannot deliberate in the Icing's presence. The Fitting, of the Cortes shall be pub¬ lic, and the galleries hall be cleared only in those ca-cs in which stciecy i* required The persons of the deputies shall be in¬ violable, and they shall not be responsible in any case for their opinions before any tribunal. In criminal cases they shall be amenable to the tribunal of the Cortes only, in the form and manner which shall be prescribed by the regulations for thek internal government. During the sessions of the Cortes, and for one month after¬ wards, no deputy can be prosecuted or arrested for debt. No deputy shall, during the term of his office, which shall be reckoned from the time of his election being made known to the permanent committee of the Cor¬ tes, accept for himself, nor solicit for an¬ other, any office at the king's disposal, nor even promotion, unless it be in the regu¬ lar cowrse, according to the profession which he exercises. The Cortes shall have power— To propose and deciee the laws, and to explain and repeal them if necessary ; To decide upon every question of fact or law concerning the succession to the crown ; To approve, before they are ratified, all treaties of offensive alliance and of subsidy, and special treaties of commerce ; To allow or forbid the admission of for¬ eign troops into the kingdom , To determine every year, on the king's proposal, the number of the sea and land forces, and how many are to be kept on foot in time of peace, and to what extent they bhall be increased in time of war ; To determine the expenses of the pub¬ lic administration ; To lay annually the imposts and taxes ; To protect the political freedom of the press ; To enforce the responsibility of the mi¬ nisters of 6tate and other public function¬ aries. The king sanctions the law*. He shall sanction them in the follow* ing form, signed with his own hand ; u r,P* it Hp p*ppmtor) into a lavf." The king sha'l lefuse his sanction in the following form, also signed with his own hand : " Let it be returned to the Cortes " and he shall explain his reasons for not sanctioning the same. The king shall be allowed thirty days for the use of that prerogative ; but, if during that period, he has not given, or refused his sanction, it shall be understood by that alone that he has given it, and he shall actually give it. If the king shall refuse his sanction, the same bill shall not be brought in again before the Cortes of that year, but may be brought in before the Cortes of another year. The Cortes, before they clo-e their session, shall appoint a commirtee, which shall be denominated the permanent Com¬ mittee of the Cortes ; it shall be composed of seven persons taken from among the deputies, to wit : three deputies from the European provinces ; three from those of the ultramarine dominions ; *.nd the se¬ venth shall be chosen by lot from among the European and ultramarine deputies. The permanent committee shall have power— To see that the constitution and laws have been duly observed, in ordei to ren¬ der an account to the next Cortes of all the infractions which have come to their knowledge ; To convoke extraordinary Cortes in the cases prescribed by the constitution. The extraordinary Cortes shall be com¬ posed of the same deputies who constitute the ordinary Cortes, during the' two years for whiih thev are dr.-:ci The person of the king is sacred and inviolable, and he can do no wrong. The executive power shall be vested exclusively in the king, and his authori¬ ty shall extend to all that may be condu¬ cive to (he preservation of the public or¬ der and safety nf the state, conformably to the constitution and laws. Besides the prerogative of sanctioning and promulgating the laws, the king shall also have power— To declare war, and make and ratify treaties of peace, laying the same after¬ wards witti the documeuiS before the Cortes ; To appoint the magistrates of all the civil and criminal tribunals, on the nom¬ ination of the council of state ; To notniuate to all the civil and mili¬ tary offices ; To direct the diplomatic and commer¬ cial relations with foreign powers, and appoint ambassadors, ministers, and consuls ; To appoint and remove from office the ministers of state and others. lie shall not alienate, grant, or ex¬ change any province, city, borough, or any other portion of the Spanish territo¬ ry, however small its extent may be ; He shall not enter into an offensive al¬ liance, nor make a special treaty of com¬ merce with any foreign power, without the consent of the Cortes. He shall not of his sole authority levy any imposition, either directly or indi¬ rectly, nor demand any supplies under whatever denomination, or for any object whatever; but all grants of public mo¬ ney shall be directed by the Cortes. He shall not grant any exclusive pri¬ vilege to &OYperson or corporation what- ever. He shall not deprivnany individual of his liberty, nor of his own authority in¬ dict upon him any punishment. Before he shall contract marriage, he •hall give notice thereof to the Cortes, in order to obtain their consent, and if he {hall omit that formality, he shall be considered as having abdicated the crown. The kingdom of Spain is indivisible ; and from the promulgation of the consti¬ tution the :>ur(ec'ion to the throne shah be always taken from among the lawful descendants, malt or female. The males shall |iavc the preference over the females, niuj the elder always over the younger, when iu the same de¬ gree. The Cortes shall exclude from the suc¬ cession that or thdse persons who shall be unqualified to govern, or who shall have by their deeds deserved to forfeit the crown. If it shall happen that all the lines herein mentioned ifcafl become extinct, the Cortes shall call anotherfamily to the throne whom they shall think most for the advantage of the nation, and the or¬ der and rules of succession already pre¬ scribed shall be followed. When a woman shall wear the crown, her husband shall have no authority whatever over th'> kingdom, nor any share in its government. The kingdom shall be governed by a regency during the minority of the king. It shall likewise be governed by a re¬ gency if the king, from some physical- or moral cause, shall be incapacitated from exercising his authority. The extraordinary Cortes being assem¬ bled, they shall appoint a regency com¬ posed of three or live persons. The regency shall exercise the royal authority in the manner which shall be prescribed by the Cortes. The regency shall see that the educa¬ tion given to the minor king be suited to his high dignity, and conformable to the plan which shall be adopted by the Cor¬ tes. The Cortes shall fix the annual provi¬ sion for the king's household, which shall be commensurate t'> the high dignity of his person. There shall be seven ministers of state, to wit : One for foreign relations. One for the department of the penin¬ sula and adjacent i lands. One for the department of the ultra¬ marine dominions- One for the department of justice and favours. One for the department of finances. One for the department of war. One for the department of thfnavy. The ministers of state shall be respon¬ sible to the Cortr* for signing ordinan¬ ces contrary to th** constitution and laws, and their having been ordered by the king so to do shall not be admitted as au excuse. In order to enf»,rce the responsibility of the ministers of s*atc, the Cortes shall fir^t decree that til^re is cause of accusa¬ tion. Such decree ha*ing been issued, the minister of state ^hall be suspended from his functions.,and *'l<> Cortes shall deliver to the supreme tribunal of justice all the documents relative to the cause ; the said tribunal shall take cognizance there¬ of, and determine °" its merits, accord¬ ing to law. The Cortes shall fix the compensation which shall be paiJ to the ministers of state for their act^a' services. The council of -tate -shall be composed of forty persons, vho shall be citizens, ifl the full exercis- of their rights. All the counsellors of state shall be nominated by the fciogj ou the presenta¬ tion of the Cortes. The council of |MB is the only coun¬ cil of the king, w»° shall take their ad¬ vice on arduous ard important questions, and principally or the subject of giving *>r refusing his satfrtiou to the laws, de~ cldtitig *at, $nd making tl'eVtick, That council shall have the privilege of presenting to the king three candidates for earh vacancy in ecclesiastical livings and offices of judicature. No i ounsellor of state shall be remo¬ ved freiu office, without lawful cause, which shall be certilicd by the supreme tribunal of justice. The Cortes shall fix the compensation which -hall be allowed to the counsellors of state. The tribunals shall have the exclusive power of applying the laws in civil and criminal cases. Neither the Cortes nor the king shall in any case exercise the judicial func* tions: prevent the U ial of pending suits; nor order a review or rehearing of ad¬ judged cases. No Spaniard shall be tried by special commissions, in civil or criminal cases, but by the competent tribunal, invested by law with proper authority. The judges and magistrates shall not be removed from office, whether appoint¬ ed for a limited time or for life, unless legally convicted of improper conduct ; and they shall not be suspended from their functions, unless there shall be an accusation depending against them iu legal form. A popular action will lie against all judges and magistrates who shall be ac¬ cused of bribery, corruption, aud preva¬ rication. . The Cortes shall fix the compensation which shall be allowed to the judges and magistrates. There shall be established in the capi¬ tal of The kingdom a tribunal, which shall be deiomioated the supreme tribunal of justice. Tfu tribunal shall have power- To iry the ministers of state, after tfie Cortes shall have decreed that there is cause if accusation against them ; To take cognizance of the accounts of public functionaries, who are bound to render the same by law ; To take cognizance of appeals for er¬ rors in law, which may be interposed from the sentence of superior tribunals, to correct the errors, remit the proceed¬ ings, and enforce the responsibility. No Spaniard cao be deprived of the riant uf having his differences terminated by arbitrators chosen by both parties. No suit at law shall be commenced, if it shall not appear that conciliatory mea¬ sures have first been resorted to. No Spaniard shall be arrested unless an information* or inquest of facts upon oaih, has been previously taken and re¬ duced to writing in due form of law, and unless from that inquest or information it shall appear that the offence charged subjects the offender to corporal punish¬ ment. Nor shall sueh arrest take place, without a special mandate from the judge, which shall be made known to the party at the time of arresting him. The person arrested, before he is com¬ mitted, shall be brought if possible be¬ fore a judge, to be examined ; otherwise he shall be carried to prison, and the judge shall examine him withiu twenty- four hours thereafter. If there is cause for commitment, the judge shall issue his warrant to that ef¬ fect in writing, stating the cause, a copy of which shall be delivered to the jailor to be entered in his calendar. The jail¬ or shall be made responsibleif he receives any prisoner without that formality. At whatever stage of the prosecution, whenever it shall appear that the offence does not subject the offender to corporal punishment, he shall be set at liberty on NEW GOODS. fTlHE fubferiber refpeflfully ;nfonn| _I_ the onMic that he has riW..*- well feleded aflbrtment of has received giving bail. Within twenty-four hours the accused shall be informed of the cause of his de¬ tention, and the name of the accuser, if there be any. Torture and other like compulsory means shall never be used. The estates of criminals shall never be confiscated. No punishment, for whatever crime, shall extend to the family of the offender for any period of time ; the culprit alone shall suffer for his crime. If, in extraordinary circumstances, the safety of the state shall require that some of the formalities prescribed in this chap¬ ter for the security of offenders, in the whole or part of the monarchy, be sus¬ pended, the Cortes shall decree such sus¬ pension for a limited time. The Cortes shall every year establish or confirm the taxes, whether direct or indirect, general, provincial, or munici¬ pal. Those already established shall subsist until a law be made to the con¬ trary, or new ones be laid. The taxes shall be assessed upon nil the Spaniards in proportion to their abil¬ ity, without exemption or privilege. The minister of finance, in transmit¬ ting to the Cortes a general view of the sums wanted, shall also submit to them a plan of taxation commensurate with the sum required. No payment made by the national treasury shall be admitted into the trea¬ surer's account, if it has not been made by virtue of an order frem the king coun¬ tersigned by the minister of finance, in which shall be explained for what ser¬ vice such payment is required, together wilh the decree of the Cortes authorizing the same. The accounts of the national treasury, which shall contain the yearly amount of the receipts and expenditures of the pub¬ lic monies, shall, as soon as they have obtained the final approbation of the Cortes, be printed, published, and for¬ warded to the provincial and municipal councils. There shall be a standing naval and land army for the external defence of the slate, and t'he preservation ol gootl order in the interior of the monarchy. The Cortes shall every year fix the ne¬ cessary number of troops, according to existing circumstances, and devise the best means of raising them. There shall be in each province corps of national militia, which shall be com¬ posed of the inhabitants of the said pro¬ vince, in proportion to its population and circumstances. Grammar schools shall be established in all the towns of the monarchy, where children shall be taught to read and write, arithmetic, and the catechism of the catholic religion, in which shall be in¬ cluded a short explanation of the duties of a citizen. There shall be likewise established a competent number of universities and other institutions, where the sciences, belles lettres, and the fine arts shall be taught. The Cortes shall, by special statutes, regulate all that belongs to the important object of public education. Every Spaniard shall enjoy ths right of having his political ideas written, printed, and published, without a previ- vious license, revision, or approbation, but under such restrictions aud responsi¬ bility as the law shall determine. Every Spaniard has a right to petition the Cortes or the king, iu order to claim the due observance of the constitution After eight years shall have elapsed from the time at which all the parts of the constitution shall have been put into execution, it shall be lawful to propose alterations, additions, or amendments, to any of its articles. No alteration, addition,oramendment to the constitution shall be made, unless the assembly of the Cortes who shall have finally decreed it have special powers for the purpose. Those powers shall be granted by the proviucial electoral meetings. 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