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    like the sun in splendour , and like him becometh suddenly overcast with clouds and with eclipse ! Human glory abideth not ! so happened it in the present case ; for as the old lady and child were shortly afterwards proceeding to a place called Fientaraba , or the Fountain of Araby , they were overtaken by a violent storm of hail and wind and lightning ! The old lady bore up with

    her charge gallantly , but to no purpose . The nearer they approached the walls of the town the more dreadful it became . It was a hurricane of hail-stones as heavy as lead ; so she presently turned her face to the east , and with her young charge , who was sorely scratched , and bruised , and beaten , retreated under night fall into San Sabastian . That night there was no illumination in the great square ; but the evil star which had

    presided over the nativity of the child , and which had waxed faint and dim since the 5 th of May , now arose and cast a sick and pallid glare over the city . It grieveth me to add , that it still , at this very hour , shineth balefully bright in the ascendant . Alas ! the illustrious father , —the august mother , have cruelly abandoned the idol of their creation ! They have left it to shift for itself without a single stiver ! The old lady hath

    • ti .. /» . 1 . .. p ~ _ implored remittances from the unnatural parents again and again , but in vain ; she hath applied to the same effect to the godfathers and to the godmothers , and to all the sponsors who presided at the baptism , but in vain ; she hath endeavoured , by appealing to all the stock-jobbers and money-lenders on the Bourse and on the Exchange , to raise a loan , but in vain : the

    winter hath in the mean time set in , and surrounded by the bleak and snowy heights of San Sebastian , her beloved charge is pining and dwindling away ; it is eaten up by an inward consumption ; it is impossible it can survive beyond the 10 th of next June . But if in the mean time any charitable institution , hospital or workhouse , in Europe , or in any other part of the world , will give it refuge , I am authorized to announce

    that the same will joyously be accepted , and the righteous deed handed down for the admiration of generations yet unborn . Don Cleofas , Clerk to the War . San Sebastian , 27 th November , 1836 . Anno Secundo Legionis Auxiliarii Britannicce f

    ? Our Correspondent means to hint , we presume , at the extreme likelihood of the residue of the unfortunate men who were deluded into the service by the golden promises , being eventually brought to England on crutches and in carts , and either shot into the roads or thrown upon their respective parishes ? This is the cruel reward they will probably receive for their wounds end mutilation . The Legion bat undoubtedly proved its courage on various occasions , and has done quite as much good as could reasonably have been expected of so ill-concocted a body ; hut Don Carlos is as strong as before , perhaps stronger , and tho hideous civil war is atill to Continue while Ministers shuffle between land and sea . —Ed . > '

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    History of the British Auxiliary Bantling . 53

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/6/