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the foul assassins. Franée and human 
nature are scandalized by such abuses 
~of human intellect. 
The Fabian system was the policy 
of Spain, but it failed for a time, 
owing to the complicated treachery of 
the men placed in important com- 
mands. Can we wonder at the fate 
in France of Dillon, Dumouriez, Cus- 
‘tine, Houchard, Pichegru, and Mo- 
reau, when we view the successful 
treasons of Adisbal, Morillo, and 
others, whose names recent events 
have consigned to infamy, without 
‘even the grace of previous military 
achievements to qualify their degra- 
dation. 
Betrayed on all hands, the noble 
body of the Cortes sought refuge in 
the impregnable fortress of Cadiz,— 
the French banditti, in consequence, 
overran the country,—armed party 
against party,—countenanced or sup- 
ported frightful re-actions of the 
priests against the intelligence of the 
nation,—and, having thus excited an 
universal civil war, they announce a 
design to leave the Spaniards to them- 
selves, and retreat to the Ebro, coolly 
to look on, and doubtless avail them- 
Selves of circumstances, 
Such hellish policy will, we trust, 
not succeed, ‘They have, in their re- 
treat, accounts to settle with Ballas- 
teros, Mina, Martin, Quiroga, Sir 
Robert Wilson, and an insulted nation. 
Ballasteros has. an unbroken army 
between Cadizand Madrid; Martin is 
at the head of a body of heroes in the 
centre of Spain, cutting off the com- 
munications between Madrid and the 
French frontiers; Mina, the ever- 
memorable, has an invincible force in 
the north-west, sufficient to give a 
good account of the driveller Moncey ; 
while Quiroga and Wilson, by their 
noble and well-timed defence of Co- 
yunna, have rescued Gallicia from the 
treasens of Morillo; and, if the Galli- 
cians prove now what they always 
have been, neither Frenchman nor 
traitor will escape from that pro- 
vince. 
To deprive the enemy of the influ- 
ence of royalty over ignorance, the 
Cortes had the precaution to convey 
to Cadiz the precious bodies of Ferdi- 
nand and his family; and the defence 
of Cadiz is entrusted to an honourable 
Spaniard of the name of Valdez, and 
who has signified his determination to 
defend it to the last extremity; and 
then, rather than surrender, blow up 
himself and the royal family, about 
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whom so much hypocritical concern is 
expressed. 
At Corunna the numbers of the 
banditti have been thinned in two or 
three actions; and we regret that, at 
the time of our going to press, the ad- 
vices are imperfect. At Barcelona, 
General St. Miguel has also diminish- 
ed their numbers; and it appears that 
_the garrison of Cadiz are not idle in 
the work of destroying them. The 
Paris papers are filled with a regular 
tissue of the most profligate and deli- 
berate falsehoods. It appears, how- 
ever, that the Portuguese are lending 
themselves to the infamous cause of 
France ; and, if so, the Spaniards will, 
we trust, unite boih countries under 
one free government, as soon as they 
have destroyed the French banditti. 
It is most honourable to one French 
regiment, that it refused to march 
into Spain; and we hope the determi- 
nation will be contagious. 
On the defection of Morillo, Quiro- 
ga issued the following proclamation : 
CiT1zZeNs,—Whatever be your political, 
opinions, think of the greatest of evils 
which afflicts our mother-country and our- 
selves. It is not a war of mere opinion 
respecting the system which ought to 
govern us, that which we now witness. 
That this existed hitherto is certain. But 
those who have declared against the Con- 
stitution of the Spanish Monarchy know 
that the evil which our dissensions have 
drawn on us, is one of more consequence, 
Spaniards of all parties see themselves in- 
sulted by the French—by those same 
French whom we repulsed nine years ago. 
People of all classes; the armed bodies 
which defend liberty and those which 
defend absolutism are, indiscriminately, 
the objects of the oppression and the 
contempt of the French army. Thus per- 
ceiving their error, and warned of the 
misery and privations which they expe- 
rienced, whole battalions of those which 
were called of the Faith have deserted and 
joined their brethren the Spaniards, to 
combat the invader. Do not believe that 
the Duke @’Angouleme or the Cabinet of 
Paris have proposed to themselves, as 
they say, to restore our King to the Throne, 
which we never took from him, but which 
we on the contrary defended at a high 
price. TO possess themselves of Spain 
is what they intend, for an object similar 
to what Napoleon proposed to himself. 
The latter took us after his conquest to 
gain possession of the North of Enrope. 
The present French Government has 
offered us to Russia, to conquer with us 
Turkey, which she has not been able to 
subdue hitherto. We shall all be slaves, 
annihilated and expatriated, if we do not 
unite, Do not let Spanish blood be shed 
by 
