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      In the publication of the articles on the Civil War in Spain , by an Byg-withess ( which have recently given , as we intended and clearly anticipated , a certain impulse towards the recovery of the legislature from its prolonged blindness on this equally painful and important question ) , our only object has been to show in true and forcible colours the actual condition of the parties , so that sound-principled and effective measures should at once be adopted to prevent the useless waste of money , time * and human life . It was with feelings of considerable

      satisfaction that we observed the implicit reliance placed in us by our contemporaries of the Radical press , and that , in no one instance did they impugn the singleness of our object , open as were our statements and opinions to animadversion , owing to the Tory purposes to which they were certain to be applied . For the soreness of the Whig organs we were of

      course prepared ; but with no great degree of sympathy . The question , though in a very narrow shape , was brought forward by Sir Henry Hardinge , who subsequently complained that hi ? arguments had been evaded and perverted by his opponents ! This , to a certain extent , was the case ; indeed he carriedrjty § compliments to General Evans rather beyond than beneath the merits of that gallant officer . But the incessant reiteration on

      all sides , as to the personal courage of General Evans , and tbfi great difficulties of his position , is a mere waste of time , nor body haying ever denied either , and the grand question at issue being in a very trivial degree affected by the admission or denial . Granting , however , that the elaborate rejoinders of Mr H . L . Bulwer , Mr Sheil , Mr O'Connell , Dr Lushington , and

      finally , the never-to-be-happily-exhausted eloquence of Lord Palmerston , did really refute the arguments adduced by thp Tories , they certainly left matters so for as the affairs of Spain , and tbe wretched condition of their countrymen fighting in itp service , are concerned—just where they were before * They all defended the private and public character of General Evans ., wliich Had not been attacked ., but over-complimented ; xuqmJ lauded his military capacity , which had formed no p ^ rt of ilip

      original motion . They spojce volumes concerning the political history of the war and tbe Quadruple Treaty ; but as to the broad and vital question ( propounded b y the True Sun ) " whether it be the interest or the duty of this country to figUt f fM : Continental liberalism , " they never troubled themselves to ejat ^ r upbti the discussion ; while as to the efficiency or non-efficiency

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      " As when the drummers btai their hollow drums . "

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      ' THE INNOCENT DEBATES ON SPAIN .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/50/