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Wtailar to Whftt wds once the situfftlori of the foHottefg of ' tBmfate Pritice * ehtrigjf . " fhei * itt&fehfaSiit to BSh CiliaS is tiiibattolded , " Ffto M ^ h * fttie # ifc $ " ig thdif cgfililit eicdlatflStiott , imd uhdetf hid bkiinefs they fight # th tfig iigif rseklea * enihusuasun . Iii him they tecognke iibt 6 n \ f their Infill King , but the chain £ ibn of their ancient rights Slid jtfivilegfes . Iri ari evil hbtii' the Government df the Queeii
itijudtcibtfely abolished tile Fueros ; or certain fiscal ittrtatliiiiiieS # Hich the Bisicayaris , Qdipuscdahs , Alavfeie , atlfi a ltU ] j £ fe jp roportidn 6 f Navate ^ e , had long enjoyed ; sind this haiS git en ib the bivil wSr a Venddeah ch&ractei- it rietrer oth ^ wii ( 3 ^ biiltt
have assumed . A race of hardy , well-arinfed ; and disciplined mountaineers , fighting in their own mountainous pnrcmncefc £ & theit ancient rights dhd privileges , is ? i v € iry serious etiettiy t& contend against ; They have a motive for actidn , T ^ hi ch iitspires theni with k zeiil by which their aiitatgoriisits b&ntitii M atiitoatfed . They generally fentfe * into actibn § ttgiiig thfeir tiitiottd airi ; and bh tnatiy occasiotis we faaVe beeti itittirised it
their datitltless courage and ffeats of gallantry . Oh the Hi bf Oibibberi 1836 , Wheti they ftttacked the stron | ly fottified liftfei 6 f Sftn Sebastian , the Chappel Jurries in front of Alza came lip to the attack trailing thfeir guns and singing as usual , dhd stbbd under k very heavy fire Froin the battery , to be HtSrfclly mowed dowti by grape aM caiiister . Ott tjife lOffl Bf July , 1836 , at the ikSmt bf Fbetiterrabia , they agaiii foiighi fitfi
desperate resolution , and succeeded in decidedly repulsing the Lfegion . As bur troops were retreating across a brid g thr ^ ee Carlist officers , leading their own companies , pursued aid gallantly leaped in among the 3 rd regiment with the MUM ihtfention bf taking prisoners . It was a rash , ' or rathfer mad Act . One was shot dead , one threw himself over the bHdge and wa « drowned , the enemy , as he was fctvare , having commM of the river , and ttie bther very n&hrdftty tMkp &A with life . Oh d late occasion , while a party df English officer ^ b 8-
tottglhg tb thfe Legibtt wad fconve ^ ing With & CiiUit officer in the neutral ground between the extreme outborts , a shell from thfe Rodil bftttfery biirst near the gtoub , ivhlch excited stiffifcient durprise ; upon which the Carlist officer , wiilioilt bettfttifag the Bligtlt ^ st emotion , said , in d good-natured matlner—^ Yoiir Attillery sotnetimes injures us here ; but "—pointing tb ihfe hi gh tknee bf this Guipuscbiin mountains— " there We do nbt cifb
Invlch about it S Vovl cannot carry yoiir cannon far intb the in ^ terior : " and certainly the moiititainbus character of iW country opposes physical obstructiohs to the option of ari invading tirtliy , which cah steely be adequately appreciated . Yei , ih thb midst of iMh inbtlntkihfe Are emiling Viiilfeyfi and fertjte § mm $ mdk mum mm ox ho cuWvAtioS . tbi ^ i&ii ^ ib
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/10/
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