A Short Extract Srom the Life of General Mina. , 
the produce Of this book oblige me to de- 
clate, that. T will not permit its being re- 
printed without my sanction, by any person, 
I likewise hope, that the delicacy of the 
Seapine. toe of the Public Papers 
will take this notice into consideration. 
: “ ‘Eespoz y Mina.” 
© ‘Understanding, of course, the spirit 
of this admonition as equally addressed 
to the periodical and to the diurnal 
press;) and*fully,coufident, that the ob- 
jécts’alluded too can» be no: other than 
such '@8'°are’ truly honourable to an 
heroié and éxalted mind, we neverthe- 
less ‘Conceive that we should be acting 
rather in hostility than in unison with 
the furtherance of those motives, should 
we. give so unqualified an interpretation 
to, the, injunction, as to preclude such 
notices-and extracts as may be calcu- 
lated»to.xexcite attention to a work, 
which; they more it is known, will be 
likely to be the more widely circulated. 
Prom it’ we learn that General Mina 
was born of honest but humble parents 
at Idozin, a village of Navarre, in 1781 ; 
that he devoted himself to the care of 
the little farm, which constituted the 
patrimony of his family, till he was 26; 
that excited bythe treacherous inva- 
sionof Napoleon, he enlisted, as a com- 
mon soldier, in Doyle’s battalion ; be- 
came shortly the elected chief of seven 
Guerrillas; was immediately after named 
‘Commander-in-Chief of the Guerrillas of 
Navarre, by the Junta of Aragon; and 
became, by successive promotions un- 
der the Regency, independent Com- 
mandant General of High Aragon to 
the left of the Ebro,in 1812. Relative 
to the use, he made of this authority 
he speaks as follows: 
* Immediately after I was named Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Guerrillas of Na- 
‘vatre, I disarmed all those who were at the 
ead of them, and particularly one named 
Echeverria. This man, under the mask 
‘of “Guerrillero, with from 600 to 700 in- 
fantry, and about 200 cavalry, was the 
terror of the villages, which he plundered 
and oppressed in a. thousand ways; which 
obliged them to complain to me concern- 
ing him. In consequence, I proceeded 
to Estella on the 13th of July 1810, and 
having myself arrested him, in a house 
where hie was at the time, though my force 
‘was considerably inferior to his, I caused 
Hint on the same day to be shot, together 
with three of his principal accomplices ; and 
)Tcinebrporated: his soldiers with those» I 
seOmmanded, who. did not execed at that 
time, 400 men of, all arms. — During. this 
caippaign, I gave battle, or. sustained the 
attack (without reckoning small encoun- 
tess) it 143 regular or occasional ‘actions ;” 
611 
of the most distinguished yof which he 
gives a list in alphabeticalorder/So. again 
we find himin p.43, with the same prompt 
and vigorous. policy ‘augmenting “his 
forces that should protect, by ‘suppréss- 
ing the disorders’ that ‘distracted the 
country’ : 
‘© When I was named, Commandant-Ge- 
neral of High Aragon, my first.care was, to 
clear that country of the bands, of armed 
men who harassed it in various. ways under 
pretence of carrying on the war there; and 
after having established a system. like that 
in Navarre, I formed three, battalions, of 
infantry, and two squadrons of cayalry, 
which served to augment my, forces.’’, 
For the essential services which, with 
such, apparently inadequate means, he 
rendered, during that. war of indepen- 
dence which placed the. ungrateful 
Ferdinand on the throne, we must. refer 
the reader to the brief and simple state- 
ments in the work itselfs;but one.or 
two passages, as particularly character- 
istic, we cannot resist the temptation 
of extracting. [His own force; it should © 
be noted, was, at the time he’ is speak- 
ing of, only about 3,000 men.) 
“ T kept in check in Navarre 26,000 men 
for the space of 53 days, who otherwise 
would have assisted at the battle of Sala- 
manea, as they were on their march to 
join Marmont’s Army; and by. cutting 
‘down the bridges, and breaking. up. the 
roads, I prevented the advance of 80 pie ces 
of artillery, which would otherwise haye 
been employed in that battle.” 
After enumerating a series of facts 
of a similar description, he thus pro- 
ceeds: 
“ The French, rendered furious by the 
disasters they experienced in Navarre, and 
by their fruitless attempts to exterminate 
my troops, haying begun a horrible mode 
of warfare upon-me in 1811, hanging and 
shooting every soldier and officer of mine 
who fell into their hands, as also the 
friends of the volunteers who served with 
me, and carrying off to France a great 
number of families; I published on_ the 
14th of December. the same year, a solemn 
Declaration, composed of 23 Articles, the 
first of which ran thus: Jn Navarre, a war 
of extermination, without quarter, is declared 
against the I'rench Army, without distinction 
of soldiers or chiefs, not, excepting the Em- 
peror of the French... And this sort of war- 
fare  Icarried. on for some time, keeping al- 
ways in the valley of Koncal a.great depot - 
of prisoners, so that if the enemy hung or 
shot one of my officers, I did the ‘same 
with four of his; if one of my ‘soldiers,’ I 
did the same with twenty of his.'. In this 
iianner I succeeded in terrifying him, and 
obliged him to propose to me the cessation 
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