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worthily occupy, in signs ‘of the total 
destruction of the Moorish rate. A'new 
sect, still worse, is doing its utmost to 
conquer, on the ruins of tle sacred tem- 
ples, which you see either shut up or 
annihilated daily. If you wish to be 
pure, and to ‘conquer’ the road ‘to 
fieaven, follow my example, which will 
shew you that of victory; and the stand- 
ard ‘of the “¢rucifix; that ‘1 bear ‘in your 
front, shall be the fundamental base and 
nnerring guide of all your actions. j 
“The Lord is pleased with sacrifices; 
being, as you are, Christians, and I being 
at your head, I depend upon you, in order 
‘to gain the end so much desired. Ma- 
Yanon directs you to fresh victories, like 
that which you have just gained; and 
our enemies, as well as'those of religion, 
the spouse of Jesus Christ, will be saved 
only. through our generous exertions. 
Let us, therefore, swear and declare be- 
fore the Heavens, and in the presence of 
the image of the Lord, not to lay down 
our arms before they are exterminated ; I 
mean the philosophers, troops of the line, 
and militia: Unanimously, and with one 
accord, let us cry, Long live our Re- 
deemer! long live our absolute King! 
and for the safety of these, blood and 
flames to every Constitutionalist ! 
' “LONG LIVE THE FarTH!” 
Tt will be seen, by the confident tenor 
of this address, that it must have been 
written. for a different result: Brother 
Antonio had, in fact, reckoned without 
his host! Such, however, are the emis- 
saries employed, and suck the doctrine 
preached, by the anti-social faction of 
Europe. 
I have, in some of the preceding letters, 
“attempted to show, that the christianity 
of monks and priests, such as those who 
established the Inquisition, is not the 
christianity of Christ; will any man lay 
his hand on his heart, and say that roy- 
alty was originally designed to be a 
curse to him who rules, and to those who 
obey? If ministers, priests and courtiers, 
have. hitherto done their utmost to con- 
vert princes into a degraded cast, heaping 
on it critmes of their own invention and 
pea let us hope that the time 
is at length arrived, when the public 
opinion of an enlightened age will scout 
such monstrous anomalies, and prevent 
their recurrence, 
’ 3 ‘ENGLAND, 
Although . the. French. Government 
seems to have taken the alarm more than 
any other, and that its fear of the political ° 
-has been infinitely more than of the 
physical contagion, the policy pursued at 
home by other powers is a stiflicient ‘in- 
dication of their disposition with regard 
to Spain. It will, be a long time. before 
England can become popular in the Pe- 
ninsula; it has been our fate to sink in 
the estimation of the Spanish, as we have: 
in. that of other peoples: Some of the 
causes are noticed in the course, of my 
letters; others» might» be | named, ; but 
where is the use of» multiplying them, 
when ‘these already pointed: out are. so 
conclusive. Our return to the good 
graces of the Spaniards can be the effect 
only of a change which would make 
England the dispenser and protectress of 
human liberty, instead of its-most active 
and formidable enemy, as she is now re- 
garded throughout the Continent, if not 
in the New World. Whenever that 
blessed epoch, for which 1 ana-prond to 
think millions of my countrymen ardently 
sigh, may arrive, we shall also regain our 
lost name and influence with the people 
of Sicily, Greece, and Italy ; Ireland will 
be regenerated, and tranquillity restored to 
adistracted people at home. Ifsuchacon- 
summation, which the wise aud good can- 
not but invoke, be ever realized, it’ will be 
a sublime spectacle to see the cradles of 
ancient and modern liberty become the 
sanctuaries of reform; not less»so, to wit- 
ness the glorious march of civilization un- 
opposed by passion or prejudice, moving 
steadily on to the goal of freedom, ‘pros- 
perity and happiness. Should England 
much longer neglect the opening she has 
had during the last thirty years, it is not 
surely, ungenerous to hope, that, as in the 
case of the Spanish Liberales of 1812, 
some other nation will arise and super- 
sede her in the abandoned path of glory. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Since the preceding was printed, we have 
seen With profound grief, the insidious and 
undefined imanifestoes of the European 
Legitimates against the march of intelli- 
gence and liberty in Spain. ‘Their own 
odious’ despotisms are miade the, standards 
of social perfection, and nations, like Pro- 
crustes, are, it seenis, to be reduced in 
Government to ore measure, aud that mea- 
sureiis to be determined by despots, pro- 
vided they can bring a sufficient number of 
slayes and barbarians into the field to effect 
their unhallowed purposes. | 
The Spaniards ought, however, to bear 
in mind that they are alarmed despots, who 
denounce their free Institutions, and that 
every 
