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child rallied wonderfully ; it acquired indeed preternatural strength ; so much so , that on the 5 th of May , 1836 , it performed a marvellous and almost incredible feat . '—it cut its first wisdom tooth . Great was the rejoicing thereat ! The bells of the old cathedral rang all day a merry peal ; the great square was illuminated at night ; and the Queen mother , on receiving the intelligence , not only condescended to express herself gratified in the highest degree , but ordered a medal to be struck in comemoration of so memorable an event ! The old lady who had acted as Lancer to the child—who henceforth designated
her as Gummy Lancer—and who conceived herself entitled to no small degree of credit for the triumph , went half mad with joy ; she gave ribands to almost every one of the under nurses and lint-scrapers ; and then set about promoting every body . She made the dairy-maid the house-maid , which offended the kitchen-maid ; and the house-maid she made the lady ' s-maid , which offended half a dozen other maids . Many took the huff
and went about their business ; it was a painful thing indeed to see so many old and good servants leave her Excellency , but what was to be done . Scarcely , however , had this marvellous achievement been accomplished , than on the 6 th day of June , just before day break , a troop of wolves of the original Moorish breed , which notoriously infest the neighbourhood , rushed down with savage ferocity , and threatened the destruction of the
infant prodigy . The alarm was sudden . The old lady , armed with no ordinary broomstick , hurried out , and , assisted by her whole household , drove back the savage assailants into the very heart of their ravines , and woods , and natural mountains . Great again was the rejoicing . Animals , however , of such royal blood , are not so easily subdued . Again , on the 12 th ,
and again on the 28 th of the same month , the cannibal-like attack was repeated , but in vain ; for the gallant old lady and her cortege drove them back on each occasion in the uttermost confusion and dismay ; and great indeed w ^ s her triumph , which now waxed brighter and brighter , and threw a halo over the whole extent of the political horizon . But as hath sagely been observed , human glory hath but a fleeting duration ; it riseth up
• This picture is true to the facts . After the glorious affair of the 5 th of May it rained all sorts of honours on all manner of heads . His Excellency disposed of the Order of San Fernando without any discrimination , just as Napoleon occasionally scattered small silver coin from his carriage window among the poor of Paris . " True ' tis pity—pity ' tis ' tis true "—it adorns the breast of muny a man who was never under fire ; and among those who were , and were awarded it , how many deserve it ? The promotions too were made with an equally unsparing hand , and in many cases without reference to the order of seniority in rank . Hence junior officers were , in several instances , placed over the heads of senior officers , which gave such offence that many of the best officers in the service resigned their commissions . The rapidity of promotions has been absurd . The Legion is now almost a mob of field officers . The expense thus entailed upon the Spanish Government would be enormous—if ever paid !
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52 History of the British Auxiliary Bantling .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/5/
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