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    ftjlfii & 8 ( rf Wit * butet often , V ? $ now entered fl&fc ^ Boiftl , ^ # hicB # 6 found h young Spanish woman , crying blt ^ fW * il | M $ ih | for mercy . Wetoldherwe would not hdftBeK Wfeiia thtt fcfe& was the wife of a Frenchman not theft to protect Mti I afckfed her if she had any money ? She answered , in Sjb&tiiiB ; ihkt there wa& nothing but her poor self in the housfc ! U ^ BHfepL

    tmik lhquitfed if she cOuld give us some spirits ?—upon which kM pfoducM a bottle and gave me a cake of chocolate whtefi 1 fcit \ # iMi much relish . Here we were not content to remain , bfee&ti&e thferfe was no appearance of money ; the hou&e itliff 16 dtid mtefc ^ bly poor . 1 may remark that , however sdtfcfe iptfy ftftaMi of courage , the generality of men who enter oft H Mfefe of Forlorn Etop £ like the present , do so in the htipi ffi plntid&t . It was , I confess , my own case , for , although veirjjr ill pffeMted , I was determined to have some " blunt , " at all fcvetitfc ; tb I skia , " We will leave this place : there ' s nothing here f upbn

    Whlfefa , supported by the Frenchman and O'Brien , I rfetuTWE itotb tht street and proceeded towards the Market pfece . ft Wfc a dark , though still night . The confusion and uproar I& tfife td # n cannot be conceived . Arrived in the Market p lacfe , wi fouttd a numbfer of Spanish prisoners rushing out of it g&P ^ Mch fead bfefen broken open by some men of the 34 divfetttfi . of

    Th € y appeair ^ d like a tifct savages suddenly $ et free ; ftSinife MA fcfa&ms nittling about their limbs , others none ; indih tftfe &iflst of the crowd were numbers of our own men , chitflt i $ f thi Sth and 88 th regiments , holding lighted candled in infefir hkhdk 1 said to O'Brien , * ' I am getting very tired ; let tis gfc > ibtfae # hfefe wh ^ re we can i 5 nd a place to rest . ^ W ^ tli ^ ii ttifhed dotvh an opposite street , and came to a housfc whlcii i ^ te td bh

    pfetceiv ^ d occupied , and on entering it found a numb&r t ) f Whh thettebeMging to the 88 th regiment ; they were in thit ^ t 6 f pltttideting . One of them seeing blood on my face , tuaftfc lit ) k mil bdttfe , atid breaking it off by a blow with a feiybn ^ t itAtiifediktfely below the tieck , desired mte to drihk . I did fed .

    Hi ^ rte # ai k gbod fire blazing on the hearth , and J advainc £ ti tofaafrdk the liris-place . It iis the custom , I may mentlthb , < &r feoldfeii Virho enter a house under such circiimstanbes , to . hi&ke tk ^ tfe of Whatever they can lay hold of . I have Sfeifr chiiiil , tables , iatiA the most finished mahogany furniture broken kfy tyv tliife ptrttritee ; nay , oti these occasions so tecktess atfe ihfc ^ i iif

    ttit ValWfe of property , that I have seen the face of thfe Bji * it 'Mftf 6 t femsfl&M unto p ieces merely to obtain a bit of lbbk rt |[ - ^ lisfe t 6 rfiatre at I had not lon g been Seated at flife Br 6 ^ Upi 1 ^ h ^ ilt& the scrtamti of feotee one in distre&B toitoi \ i £ ftbvi tne # &mih& Worn , and on enternifv it I foand iht old nttft of m yn ^ ' ^ his trife ^ imploring mlrcy , and oirt ctf the » riti « l %

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/43/