The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1863., [Electronic resource]

Speech of the Queen of Spain.

My relations with foreign Powers continue to be friendly. I hope for a satisfactory conclusion of the difficulties that the disagreement of the plenipotentiaries in has opposed to the exception of the treaty of London. The unexpected obsoletes that have prevented that execution have not changed the cerise I feel for the accomplishment of it, and the realization of the idea upon which it was based. At the proper time it will also present to you the communications respecting the grave events which have happened on the coast of Cuba; and I feel confident that those events will not change the excellent relations which I maintain with the United States Government. Our colonies are becoming every day more flourishing in spite of the injury that the American war inflicts upon their commerce and their productions. Their distance from the Peninsula incrosses my solicitude in their behalf. In their Government and Administration reforms are wanted, destined, in accordance with the example of my august ancestors, to make one napkin of all Spaniards in every country in the world.