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    • THE CIVIL WARiJN THE NORTH OF SPAIN.
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      By av Eye-witness . [ We have looked with an eye of interest to the affairs of the Peninsula , and have occasionally given brief statements and opinions concerning the principle and progress of Spanish affairs . But , previous to entering into any practical detftjls , or elaborate discussion of the question , we resolved to wait

      until we obtained such authentic particulars concerning this Civil War as an intelligent and honest-minded eye-witness could alone collect and communi cate . We are now placed in possession of a series of facts which have npt hitherto been made public ; and with a full copy of all the " General Orders " lying before us , we are enabled to give our readers such an account of the character of the war , and the movements and military government of the British Auxiliary Legion , as will demand the attention of Ministers , and be interesting to all parties . Some of our friends may not be pleased at what they will find ; but all tjiose among tne philosophic reformers—to whom this magazine is chiefly addressed—will be glad to obtain truths , whether pala table or otherwise , as constituting the orily sound basis for future arguments ajicj deductions . —R . H . H . ]

      Thp north pf Spain is still the arena of a civil war as cruel apd sanguinary as any that has ever yet been recorded in the annals of any nation . To us , just returned from the seat of military operations , little appears to be understood in this country concerning either the physical and moral character of

      the ytty , or the prospects of the contending parties . His Majf ? 8 ty , in the speech delivered by commission before the House of Lords on the opening of the present session ( 1837 ) , it made to say that < ' he laments that the civil contest which has agitated

      the Spanish monarchy has not y&t been brought to a close ;*' that "he has continued to afford to the Queen of Spain that aifj which , by the quadruple alliance of 1834 , he engaged to f ive if it should bepome necessary : " and that " he rejoices that lir f i > , film * . ; . * ^ r -t . ' j j /» i A ** * \ . i _ is co-operating force has rendered useful assistance to the troops of h ^ r Catholic Majesty . " His Majesty ' s Ministers should not make their Royal master rejoice when there is WQto

      t ^ ing rejoice at ; for nothing has been yet accomplished which promises to terminate the struggle or pacify tne disturbed state of the Peninsula . The origin of this ciyil war is too well knoiyn to require any very circumstantial rec ^ pty ^ Uitipn . It js notorious that Ferdinand the Vllth , ( who in real life dramatized bigotry to the utmost , prostrating himself ostentatiously before priests and altars , and even embtoifieririg ^ Jjth % bwrt Royal fingers tippgts and j ^ i ^' ^ AeTp mix t yd mm * m $ w tSm muguw of lupines * , « u ; % to * tm > m

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      The Civil Warijn The North Of Spain.

      THE CIVIL WARiJN THE NORTH OF SPAIN .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/3/