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arnis in her defence . However , with so small a force as that of the Legion , even with the full complement of its ori g inalstrength , it was impossible to undertake any extensive military movement . Neither the Spani s h generals in the field , nor the Spanish authorities in garrison , gave it either support or : assistance . It had to contend in the field with the treachery
of Cordova , and at Vitoria and San Sebastian with the lurking , hatred and antipathy of the Governor , Alcalde , and inhabitants . At Vitoria " los pobres Ingleses , " while a dreadful fever was carrying hundreds to the grave , were refused by the town authorities the most essential and even trifling necessaries * When the French Legion arrived in that city of pestilence , their General , understanding that it was proposed to quarter the men in the same wretched churches and convents as had beett
appointed for the English , boldly expostulated with the authorities , and declared that unless the French troops were billetted in houses as the Spanish troops were , he would order them to force billets for themselves that night , and the next
morning they should recross the French frontier . This remonstrance had the desired effect ; but a large proportion , nearly one third of the men , under General Evans , died like dogs in holes and corners ; a rag of a blanket was eagerly grasped at by the dying hand of half a dozen fever-stricken victims ; and as for medical
assistance , no supply of medicines arrived at Vitoria until the month of March . The disinclination of the Spaniards to ren * der the Region any service was on every trivial occasion manifested . After carrying the lines of San Sebastian , and securing for the inhabitants the privilege they had not for months enjoyed , of walking on the glacis , a comp aint was made to the Governor of the difficulty of procuring forage for the cavalry and artillery horses of the Legion ; upon which , witjbf characteristic Spanish gratitude , he significantly replied , pointing in direction of the Carlist lines , " there is plenty of hay and straw to be had at Hernani ! " It appeared to us that at Bilbao , Vitoria , and San Sebastian , many of the inhabitants were in reality Carlists , afraid of
expressing their real sentiments , and entertaining a deep hatred towards all the foreign Christino auxiliaries . , lt may be _ that , tired , harassed , and perhaps ruined by so protracted a civil war , a large proportion of them now care not whether Isabella II , or Don Carlos , succeed : but it is
pot to be concealed that Don Carlos carries with him the hearts of the peasantry in the North of Spain , and has an influence over them very similar to that which Prince Charles Steuari had over his own clans in the Highlands of Scotland . This is not a dreamy analogy . The mountaineers in the ranks of the Jret ^ e ^ s arroy iajhe Nort ^ pf £ pa ^ ar $ in * jy ^ MjKfiqr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/9/
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