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Amongst others Captain Scarman , a relative of Mrs . * s , was cruelly mangled . Sb " rriticTi for the Glories of Wnr ! I saw Colonel Tupper fall . He was shot through the head while endeavouring to rally his inen . Some of us think that , not being popular , he was shot by one of his own men . This may be a vague conjecture , but certes he was no favourite . The loss on the part of the English has been much overrated . Eight hundred and fifty have been returned killed and wouiided ; but the fact is only one hundred and twenty were killed . on the field ; and the majority of those returned as wounded , were
only slightly hurt , and will be ready for duty again before you receive this . But one thing is , perhaps , important for you to understand ; by this victory little or nothing has been gamed , Trqe , we fcaye now possession of the heights immediately round St . Sebastian ; but we have made no valuable impression on the enemy ; the Queen ' s arms are far from being efficiently stamped ; the Carlists are still in strong force and good spirits , and only the other day attacked us . They were , however * repulsed . It is supposed that the legion will not again go intQ the interior of the country . Fin glad of it—I ' ve almost had
enough . It is our policy to garrison the coasts . Our next attack will be on Hernani , which is now in possession of the Carlists , and well garrisoned . Including Spaniards , General Evans has now about 12 , 000 men under his command , aiul Lord John I ^ tay 1 , 000 British Marines- so that as the latter fight ashore , the intervention on the part of the British Government , is sufficiently direct . '
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THE KANTKSIAN PHILOSOPHY .
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There is a sort of hard , mathematical-minded men , who either will not or cannot attain u perception of any truth without absolute demonstration . They believe in nothing but their quotient . There is an opposite sort of sanguine , fanciful-minded people , who catch up half-formed impressions , by t . lio right or wrong end , with equnl zest , and are enraptured with themselves and their subject in proportion either to its wortUlessnessor to their deficiency of understanding . No metaphysician has ever met with less , or so little attention in this country as , and thau , Emmanuel Kant . The subject itself is the most difficult pop ^ ible , and his new nonienclatural phraseology double * tlmt difficulty . Nevertheless it lias not made him , iuipossil > Uv Pntt } u £ aside those insecurely bapp ^ individuals wUo have fancied they understood him , and talked rare and equal mixtures ofelubomte meaning and nonsense , and
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Battle of St . Sebastian . 4 ftl
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/29/
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