462 SPANISH AMEKICA. 



that legions were in consequence formed, 

 and contracts were made for all sorts of 

 warlike equipments and stores, by enter- 

 prising capitalists of Great Britain, and all 

 forwarded to the land of promise. 



I will not attempt to give an account of 

 the merchants who have been ruined, of 

 some hundreds of adventurers who inglo- 

 riously lost their lives by sickness, or of 

 those, still more numerous, who took the 

 panic, and saved themselves by flight : of 

 all this the public have been informed by 

 pamphlets and books from various of the 

 surviving sufferers, written at the time, and 

 of course bearing the stamp of their irritated 

 feelings; and it may here be observed, as 

 one proof of all those who returned not 

 having done so for want of courage, that 

 Langan the pugilist was one of . the se- 

 ceders from the Irish Legion. It; must be 

 confessed, that at the time he retired, there 

 was no great chance of 'prize-money. But 



