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, t ( Extract from a letter , dated June 13 th . )
* So much for business—and now , quoth you , — -what news ffOiii the Northern Frontiers of Spain ? How goes the Civil Wat in the Provinces?—how wags the cause of her Catholic Majesty , Isabella Secunda ? The truth is , I hate the politics of thfe and of all countries ; the complexity of political science increases and bears a corresponding ratio with the difficulties aiid intricate distresses of the nation it concerns ; the study therefore is as painful as confusing . In fact , a combination of
seTnsn -projects and decrees , engrafted upon an unrighteous oV ^ fsight of the first principles of human nature , constitute the superstructure of'most governments ; hence the analysis of anoihfclies and abuses is perplexing * in the extreme , and ft ofttiti becomes hard to determine whether the twigs of branches shbtQtfTte pruned , or the whole forest , overshadowing palace , hj 6 u £ e . ana cottage , utterly exterminated . Here e . i . 'ls a 1
ctiftntry torn by internal dissensions arising doubtlessfrom sofne ignorant or injudicious administrations of authority , and td terminate the civil contest the most uncivil means in the vrbrtd are resorted to ; that of inarching foreign troops iridlr ^ c&tr levied and equipped , for which no government is responsiolfc , to settle the whole affair at the point of the bayonet ! Yoti'iAVe ^ man < 4 wha * thinks ; " help ine to a theory—c ^ ne I
shall like , will you ? I am no conjurer .- —I know nothing of politics ; I am as faithful as the devil can wish to her Catholic majesty ; unambitious of exploits I have yet done , I fear , my share of mischief;—but I don ' t understand it . However , on that critical day , the 5 th of May , the legion acted most gallantly . At half-past four in the morning they went out from
St . Sebastian in the face of entrenchments of the most perfect description ; thrown up it is presumed by some skilful French engineer , and persevering literally under a blaze of bullets , took possession of them . It was , however , & near thrnp :. Twibe under the heavy firing our men were repulsed ; and just at tire turn , as it were , of their fate , the Phoenix war-steamer operifecTher fire ; threw her shells with the most mathematical
precision and effected a breach in the line of entrenchment , thro #£ l \\ vhieh the troops rushed likeso many fire-proof detirdii * . No quarter or mercy was shewn on either side . The abldterd of thte legion bad the satisfaction of killing all the-Carlisle they fonnd in the entrenchments , some of Tf ho ' tn fchdfsivocrred to cotiitetil themselves in wine casks , ^ h ^' the * barllfcts in iheif
turii Kift'tiie pleasure of bayoneting ttnd fcttc ^ fcthttg stech tff them ft were unfortunate enough to ftll ititd \ hmv liHtids ,
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.,.. . i / BA 1 TLK OF ST \ SEBASTIAN .
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420 Battle of St . Sebastian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/28/
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