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the navy ; in all schools , public or private , and in all nurseries throughout his Majesty's dominions . The child , however , bore the infliction with exemplary patience and magnanimity ; but treachery , foul treachery , followed . A Spanish old woman , who hath since been publicly castigated for her duplicity , * and who declared herself distincly related to the child by some
military connections , insisted that it should be brought to Vitoria , and there be placed partly under her control . In an evil hour , through an inclement season , thither the child was brought ; and , it grieveth me add , that it was there subjected to every description of privation and misery . It was ill clothed , ill fed , ill lodged . No mendicant ever went forth more tattered , no half-starved prisoner ever eat coarser food . Sickness now
began to sap its constitution ; day after day its body wasted , and wasted away ; while its two arms ( according to my uncle Toby ' s symbolical allusion ) hung down useless and dangling by its sides . Every one asked why the old lady brought tha child to Vitoria ? Nobody could answer , f She ought—so
they argued—to have Seen through the hollow pretensions of the old Spanish woman , whom they now openly accused of having treacherously invited the child there for the purpose of betraying it into the hands of its enemies—but whether this horrid charge be true or otherwise , it behoveth me not to determine . Certain it is , that ever after this , the two old
ladies fell to loggerheads—they were wrangling one day , and sulky the next At length the old woman of Westminster , putting a bold face on the matter , told the other , one morning , to go and be hanged ( a result long since deserved ) and that she herself would go with her charge to San Sebastian , where it might probably thrive and fatten . Happily she fulfilled the threat , and her prediction was verified ! At San Sebastian the
* Signor Faxardo , the Commissary General , went to Bayonne for the express purpose of horsewhipping Cordova . He met him in the public street , and shaking him by the collar , told him he was a coward , a traitor , and a disgrace to his country . He then laid the horsewhip over his shoulders . When the circumstance was reported to Lieutenant * General Evans , he exclaimed " Good God 1 What will the Press of England say to it ? " A few hours afterwards Signor Faxardo was seized by two itensdarmes , who hurried him into a racketty voiture , and seating themselves one on
each side of him , the vehicle moved on towards the quay . No sooner had it stopped , which it did where passengers embark , than the voiturier , accosting Signor F ., asked him for his fare ! " Fare , " quoth the Signor , with astonishment . ** Fare , " for bringing me here without my consent I Cent hitn comiquej" The voiturier was earnest in his demand ; the gensdarjnea looked at each other with vacant simplicity ; while the Signor , still persisting in the " non , non / " was hurried on board a vessel in the harbour . —from which he took a boat and returned to San Sebastian I
f The movement of the troops from Bilboa to Vitoria ( which , perhaps , the Lieutenant-General could not avoid ) proved most disastrous to the Legion . Hera upwards of 2000 men fell victims to sickness . Imagination can scarcely conceive the privations and sufferings to which they were subjected . Had the Legion , then oompQsed of recruits , been garrisoned during that winter at Bilboa , the men might fyave been disciplined and brought into excellent condition to commence operations as early as the season permitted . As it was , they fell a sacrifice to imprudence , illtreatment , and neglect .
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History of the British Atoxiticm ) Bantting . 51
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/4/
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