El 'Observador Espanol' in London, a pro-absolutist newspaper opposed to American emancipation

This article studies the apparition, contents and repercussion of El 'Obser vador Espanol' in London, a pro-absolutist review published in the capital city of Great Britain in response to the support given by public opinion to the American emancipation. His director was Miguel Cabral de Norona, who h ad been critical of the Spanish conquest and a radical liberal in the Cadiz of the Cortes. This project was doomed to fil, but it was contested by imp ortant writers favourable to the American independence.