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      ITS BIRTH , ACHIEVEMENTS , A \ D PRESENT STATE , IN ONE BRIEF AND DIPLOMATIC CHAPTER . I am no astrologer , and not more deeply skilled in astronomy than the majority of my neighbours , but [ cannot help believing that the British Auxiliary Bantling was born under the auspices of some very unlucky star ! Its parentage , notwithstanding , hath been sufficiently august ; its father being no less a man

      than one of the most eminent ministers in the councils of his Britannic Majesty ; its mother no less a woman than the most illustrious personage in the realms of Spain ! It hath nevertheless been invidiously alleged that the infant was unlawfully begotten . Some have even gone so far as to throw out vile insinuations , which heaven forbid any body should believe , against the purity of the Queen mother ! Others , again , have sworn that they could prove , by a document called the ' Quadruple Treaty / that not only is the child an hybrid , but an offspring of four different nations ; nay , that there is an admixture of English , French , Spanish , and Portuguese blood actually flowing through its veins , which is altogether

      incompatible with a sound and healthy constitution ! The inauspicious influence of the star that presided over its nativity had peradventure given rise to these mephitic rumours ; for we have the highest authority for believing in the legitimacy of its birth , the date of which is established beyond a doubt by

      the parish register in St MartinVle-Grand , London , wherein it appears that the said child was born at No . 5 Charing cross , opposite the two black lions on the top of Northumberland House , on or upon the 10 th day of June , in the year of our Tribulation , 1835 !

      Laying aside all ante-natal reflections—political or physiological—the great evil hath been this : it was born in too great a hurry ; but this could not , at the time , have been well helped . Hence the head ( which my uncle Toby well describes as symbolical of the staff of an army ) was preternaturally large , and soft , and quite disproportioned , from its bulk , to the size of the rest of the body . f The right hand ( which my uncle Toby

      ? This is literally the fact . These unfortunate men are fighting suicidally to maintain the cause which the Quadruple Treaty pledges itself to support , because it is not the policy of England , France , or Portugal to send out a regular army . Why not , if so pledged ? Political treaties , now a days , seem to be not worth a straw . f When the Legion arrived at Bilboa , it was observed that the staff of his Excellency Lieutenant General Evans far exceeded in the number of officers the staff of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war . It was out of all proportion to the ize of the Legion .

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      History Of The British Auxiliary Bantling;

      HISTORY OF THE BRITISH AUXILIARY BANTLING ;

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/2/