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    continuing a course towards the city , the whole turned short , and made for the A-: —~ , in the same portentous hush of voice , but hurried rush through the water ; and on the nearer approach , the others drew a little off , while the particular objects came directly alongside , and there lay to be gazed at by our people from chains , gangways , and shrouds , to which we crowded ; and then that yell

    rose up a second time . In the towed boat a wretched created © lay , a man apparently about thirty years of age , lashed \ yith cords to the boat ' s thwarts by the extended wrists , and the knees and ancles , thrapped down by the shoulders an 4 loins . There was enough of fastening to hold a giant motiQjiless . He wore what had been a gorgeous French uniform ; it was now battered , rent , soiled , and bloody . An aiguillette , torn from his shoulder , was tie 4 by a rope round his neck in derision ; his hair was matted and

    clotted with gore , a stream of which still trickled from . hi » cheek ; his face was ashy pale ; his ghastly but glistening eyes were cast upward , as in a faint voice he said , ' Messrs . Anglais , a little water ; I would not a § k it of these generous Spaniards ; ' and his smile a $ he spoke was horribly sublime in the strong scorn of exhausted nature . One of the fellows who sat beside nim threw a fiendish

    laugh at hiin , and then towards his own compatriots , and with the heavy hilt of his knife struck the bound man a blow over th « mouth , and the blood gushed forth from it . Wine and water was handed into the boat ; none there would give it him ; but one of our reefers dropped from the main chains , and , after wiping hia face , applied the oeverage to his lips . In a few minutes they rowed away amid shouts and yells of laughter from the crowd . I am not sure who or what that French officer was , but I believe he had

    been in high authority either at Cordova or at Valladolid , and one of the chief political movers and partisans at that feverish season . Messrs . Englishmen , it was to strengthen that power , to re * store that dynasty , and reinstate that order of things which wou } d continue and perpetuate , in Spain especially , the fanatical ferocity and bigoted ignorance which were displayed on this and a thou-r sand other occasions , that you won ' honour and glory * on the

    Peninsula ; for it you patriotically called yourselves ' brave anc | generous Britons ; ' for this you dashed forth your subsidies ; for this your paeans of loyalty were shouted , and thanksgivings at God ' s altars were sung ; for this your four hundred millions of debt were doubled ; for this the heart ' s blood of your brethren wag poured in sluices ; and for ihi * you goon talking of the obligations and gratitude you owe to Wellington ! Pah ! But it is to * horrible to be sickening .

    This affair did , indeed , ' change my g low into a shiver / an < J if I glowed again that night , it was with indignation at tho * e wretches ; for then , reader , as I have elsewhere * tat ^ 4 , I l ** d w > % learnt to direct my abhorrence and indigimtipu to t , he pr * p # f

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    Autobiography ofJPef , Veryuivt . 4 # *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/63/