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S ^ ssss p s ^ mq * Aj ; r ^ B ^~ We ar # , ^ am riiimica&ans fc ^ Uf # ? e ? # Jvt&Aa «» rofle « ifl the ^\^^ r <^ p ¥ ^ Hi ^^ kM . ^ B ^^ vm ^ to whom we \ in vain " heW fojrgi ' j » in # titc # iheii : departju ^ . beggrog diem to be of as pure a p 11 rintinui jiu , pfljifMui mfyj&v&toeiqpectwythhig but desperate 'firrHrr-Vtiii i ^ j ^ ljfrc Jtfj ^ nie # V Jn the conceding remarks of an article on * Madiid in $ 835 ; ? * fcSrik in
app ^ Mretl our September number , we said all we now have to saytywtfiigfr tfe results of the service . As mere matter of news , however ^ ^ boo " latest intelligence / ' we hare to mention the receipt of a letter dftte 4 November 17 th , from which we learn that , " this afternoon the vsikm bitants and idlers in the streets of San Sebastian were roused frbm t&glr apathetjjc , gossiping state of feeling-, by the fire of distant manque ^ y It was found that a part of the 6 th regiment had gone forth t& burja
sojne picket-houses opposite the Antigua Convent , a little to jt&e J § & $ && behind the lig hthouse . They met with little opposition in doing it * lsggb when i ^ was done some two hundred Carlists made their ^ ppearax ^ ce , ai commenced firing ; but were presently silenced by the effective barai ^ skeH eloquence of the Phoenix . These picket ^ houses were destroy ^ on aocoun ^ of the nightly shelter they afforded parties of Carlists ,, wJiO ; rwere in ;^ e Iiabit of annoying the English at the Antigua Convent with . fuor dry bullets at day-break . Before these houses were burned , Jiowemir ,
ttey were of cooirsje pillaged in due form . One soldier brought t < MWi * prize uixder each arm in the shape of two bundles of sheets ; a ^ p ^ ter came back with some loaves of bread stuck on his triumphant bajfgftgfejf anotiuer came with a calf , pulling it onwards first by the noeq , tb ^ , ^ tjh ^ B tail ; another droye a Carlist prisoner on before him , with . $ * e SMb list ' s Uttle boy seated astride upon the conquerer ' s sjipulder ^ , ^ 4 ^ had a droll , and very anomalous effect ; but one of the *; iGftEppjt prisoners was found in possession of a parcel of letters , and . th £ g 6 j -ftHKe
consulejrod the best booty of all , owing to their ' suggestive V e ^ i ^ aj ^ A few nxen were killed and wounded on both sides . It was r ^ po rtp ^ tjrt ^ the lieutenant-General meditated an attack on Hexnaai ; hx& g ^ f t assured nothing of the kind is , at present , contemplated , The wjoyfer threatens £ o \> e dreadful . The heavens begin to lower up « n ^ is , , * ggl pour forth . A Poussin-like gloom hangs over the wjiole town , ; The effective strength of the Legion has just been estimated at 40 p 0 ^^\ TlM ^
are between seven and eight hundred men in the hospitals * , , \ JV ^ utfcJi only act on the defensive with such a < force , ' and expect to garrison San Sebastian for the winter / ' >\» 3 . Theatres . —It is a favourite proposition of Hazlitt ' s , that man is governed by his passions and prejudices , his sympathies and imagmm ^ , not by his interest . The closer and the more extensively we wajtcn tpe actions of men , the more palpable does the truth of liis theory mAke itsellf
manifest . As a striking example , let us look at the conduct of the P ^ ftmt Managers of our theatres ! In vain do their houses nil with th # mropfi& drama when represented "b y competent performers ; they give S ^ tHmSjtp with the wish that he may fail to attract , and finding them ^ elvfcs jaiBGffr pointed , they return to the wild-beast shows anfl red fire { s In Vp , & the theatres nft ^ ecifed after the first three nlghis of wild ^ ast ' l&W ^ m red fire , —they persist in continuing the vulga r ^ fbHy , ^ rnicli . id ^^ Sr pasgioli , atxd witih whow objects alone their } nmf ! lh ! $ ty ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 779, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/63/
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