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    tails . * That General Evans himself might not have been aware of these , and many cases in which the power of inflicting the lash was abused , may be true ; but he certainly is responsible for having issued an order which , ex facie , admitted of being so grossly abused . At the Convent de Corban at Santander , flagellation was carried to a still more atrocious extent

    than , perhaps , at head-quarters . It there frequently happened that a man , being condemned to receive 500 lashes by sentence of a Court Martial , was given at first one half the number ; he was then necessarily sent to the hospital , and , when his lacerated back had just skinned over , he was again taken out of the hospital , tied up to the triangles , and the remainder of the punishment was inflicted . This refinement on military torture , and indeed the whole of these details are calculated only to

    excite loathing and disgust , and are quite sufficient to cast ant indelible stain on the escutcheon of the most gallant General that ever stepped . Early in the September of 1835 the British Legion left San Sebastian , and proceeded to Portugualette , and thence to Bilbao , and it is worthy of observation that they encountered no obstruction in their route , for the Carlists had retired from

    the immediate neighbourhood of Bilbao and the banks of the Nervion . Arrived at Bilbao , drilling , parading , marching , and counter-marching were the order of the day from sunrise until sunset , and it is much to be regretted that the troops were not garrisoned either in this town , or at San Sebastian , during the ensuing winter , in which case nearly a third of the troops would not have fallen a sacrifice to the ravages of disease , and the men would have been in fine condition to commence

    military operations in the spring . This was not the fault of General Evans . Towards the latter end of October 1835 , the whole strength of the Legion was ordered to join the main army of Cordova at Vitoria , and on the 30 th of October moved from Bilbao , leaving 1800 Spanish soldiers to protect the town ; many of the heights surrounding which had been fortified under the directions of Lord John Hay . Intelligence having

    been received that several Carlist battalions had taken up positions on the heights round the village of Arrigoriaga , for the purpose of intercepting the main road , and the troops of the Legion being yet scarcely in a state of discipline to encounter them on equal terms , the route ori g inally intended was relinquished , and one much more circuitous adopted . Instead of proceeding as Cordova had expected , direct through the

    ? The cats-o-nine-tails , for the use of the Legion , were supplied by Lord John Hay from his own vessels of war , so that his Lordship , under the Quadruple Treaty 9 may be said to have carried his co-operation in bombardment to a very latitudina * rian extent .

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    The Civil War in Spain . 197

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/7/