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MfAunded and the dying . They seem to have a brutal gratification in cutting out the tqqgijie , plucking out the eyes , stripping pfF t&e eps . After the battle of the 5 th of May , several of the Spaniards were actually seen kicking the dead bodies of some of the Carlists who had fallen in the action . A private « oldier of the Legion was carried after that engagement into San Telmo Hospital , San Sebastian , with 39 bayonet wounds .
It appeared that , while he was lying wounded on the ground , every Carlist as he retreated past him gave him a stab with his bayonet ; but they were all flesh wounds , and the staffjnirgeon . who mentioned to us the fact , informed us that he eventually recovered . It is melancholy to think that any part of Europe should , in this enlightened age , be the theatre of such revolting exhibitions , and we have no hesitation in
declaring our conviction that the presence of the foreign auxiliary troops aggravates this brutal and revengeful disposition . It is perfectly evident that hitherto the war has , by the Spanish Generals on the part of the Queen ' s army , been conducted without system , without energy , often without adequate means ; and we are well aware that Lieu tenant-General Evans has had to contend with difficulties which could not have been anticipated . Nevertheless , had he shown as much firmness and independence in his military negociations with
the Spanish Government as he has done courage and personal gallantry in the field , his men never would have been subjected to the ill-treatment they have endured ; they would iiever have mutinied ; his best and most efficient officers would not have withdrawn from the service , and those who yet remain in it would not be sighing for the arrival of the 10 th of next June .
[ We are here reluctantly obliged to pause , and reserve the remainder of this article until our next number . Our correspondent proceeds to give a circumstantial account of the manner in which the Legion has been conducted , and Retails a variety of facts , which for the first time clearly expose the cause of the dissatisfaction which certainly has prevailed among both officers and men .
and led to the propagation of so many rumours in this country prejudicial to the Queen ' s cause , which comes far nearer to our notions of liberty than the principles notoriously avowed by Don Carlos We have reasons for thinking , however , that the radically Constitutional party is increasing in strength ; and the compulsory assent of the Queen to the Constitution of 1812 is only the stepping-stone to more enlightened changes . —R . H . H . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/12/
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