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Ordinal Letter on the Insurrection in Madrid 1766 ; 4 & $
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ORIGINAL LETTKR ON THE INSURRECTION AT MADRID IN 17 && To the Editor ofthe Monthly Repository . ' .
sir , Clapton , Aug . 5 , 1808 . The following letter , which may be peculiarly interesting at the present time , came into my hands with the original letters of Franklin , printed in your first volume , p . 3 37 , 192 * 2 . 55 , This , from the post
mark , appears to have been received in the ordinary course , though , evidently for the writer ' s security , it has no signature . It is plain , however , from Mr . George Whatley ' s indorsement of the letter , that his correspondent was a friend with whose hand writing he was well acquainted . Yours , J . T . RUTT .
Madrid , April J , 1766 . t wrote to you , dear Sir , a short letter on the 31 st March , in a very great hurry , and as I kept no copy of it , I may , perhaps , repeat some things over again , but I am willing to acquaint you with all that passed from the beginning to the end of the late insurrection here . I mentioned to you the * 7 th of March , the edict published against wearing any more at Madrid flapped hats or lone :
cloaks , so that every body appeared here on ihc 15 th March with hats cocked up , and cloaks shorter than before . This gave very great discontent , but as every one conformed thereto , it was ge- neraliy thought that all people would continue to silbmit to this new custom . " But the Spaniards * so strongly a verSe to novelties , and so fonct of their old favorite drees , could riot bear being de-
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prived of it , and some people for their own private ends , worked upon ths minds of the common people , and imagined this would be a good pretext for the ruin of th $ late minister who was soodious to the public .
Emissaries -were spread in all parts of the town , and on palm Sunday in the afternoon , several ' appeared with flapped hats , and towards the evening one passed by a guard of some * few soldiers , who , according to the orders given to them , secured in their guard-room the man with the flapped hat , but he was soon rescued by the mob ,, and soon afterwards the insurrection was general .
Xhe Marquis de SquilJace dined that day in the Country , about two leagues off , and ' tis thought , that the design was to sacrifice him on his return , but he h ^ d notice of what passed before he entered the town , and hy a large circuit round the walls , he got safe in his coach to the new palace . His lady and children on their rbturn from airing were met by trie
Dutch envoy , who carried them to his own house , and by great g < Jod fortune it .-was kept ' a secret . Part of the , mob went to Squjllace ' s house and broke the windows , but never offered to bnjak open the gate . About ci ^ ' ht o ' clock * they returned again t . o his house , thcn ^ broJte the windows of the Marquis de Grimaldi and two of the principal'' magistrates , and destroyed every new lamp in the ' streets , expressing the greatest rage and fury against these" very useful ornaments .. The "Walloon guards fir m ed on the mob * of which some few were killed , as were some of the soldiers : the whole night passed in noise and clairiours . -JLo ' ng live the lung , and , t ) ip Squill ace * were repeated in every street . . . < - \ . f ., - ¦ .
'^ * Letters ; ^ cc . in " Tracts , " &c , p , 14 $ * ^ 1 > • . . . •
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bemgrepublished by Dr . Leland suppress it ; but the learned ediwhen it had become scarce , and tor of ^ Tracts by Wartiurt 6 n V . with great fairness ' and magnani * - . &c . determined to bestow . . upop mityj placed between his own both these ill-starred -productionsdissertation and' the defence * , ail the immortality > yMch B . ls 'Shis literary ' . offspring became at classical prefaces may be'"fe ^ pcctej 4 length , like the 7 th dissertation , . to a ttain ,, till ,.. ; .. - - ¦ .. disgusting to its reputed parent , Our . sons their fa thersV falling language who is said to have taken pains to ^ ch as chaw . er is ^ shaUDrydea be . \_ To be concluded in our next . ] - [ We regret that we are pot able to conclude this . article of biography in the fvresetvt number , the whole of the copy not having yet come iato our hands 3 . - -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/7/
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