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of all communication with that fortress,
disappointed all his expectations. His
troops wanted shoes, and horses, and
money. Some supplies were furnish-
ed in the midst of immense difficulties
by the zeal of his friends. In the
mean time, O'Donnell approached
with the royalist army. Riego had
determined to attack them, when a
letter from Quiroga was delivered to
him, urging his immediate return.
the plains of Taibilla he was surround-
ed by a large body of the enemy's ca-
valry. They were received with shouts
of "Long live the Constitution !—
long live our Country!" and the ranks
resounded with that song which I will
here insert, for it has become the watch-
word of the Constitutional party, and
has been re-echoed a thousand and ten
thousand times through the Peninsula,
just like Ca Ira and the Marseillois in
France, at the commencement of the
French Revolution.

Soldiers! soldiers! hear
Your country's earnest cry!-
Soldiers soldiers! swear
To conquer or to die!
Valiant, daring, strong,
And serene as gay:
Be our song to-day,
Victory's growing song.

Worlds are listening now,
Children of the Cid-
His proud fame, though hid,
Shall revive in you.—Soldiers, &c.
Wave the glorious steel;
Let the trembling slave,
Of the strong, the brave,
All the triumphs feel.

As the mists disperse,

Shall their squadrons fly;
Shouts of liberty

Fill the universe.—Soldiers, &c.
What a glorious day,
Full of light and bliss-
O, how bright a ray
Freedom sheds on this!

When Riego first

Joined our patriot-hands,
And the freezing bands

Of dull slavery burst.-Soldiers, &c.
Honour on his brow!

Honour, praise be pour'd—

Who the patriot's sword

Dares to brandish now.

Long our country's eye

Has been veil'd in tears-
Now the smile of joy

On her cheeks appears.-Soldiers, &c.
We have heard her call!
Could she speak in vain?
We have sworn for Spain-

11 ATHENEUM VOL. 11.

Sworn to perish all.

No-these eyes shall see
Every fetter broke-
Rescued from the yoke,

Spain shall yet be free.-Soldiers, &c.
See, our fetters fall-
And the slaves whose will
Wears those fetters still,
Shall our ranks appal!

Free--to freedom true,
We assume again

All the strength of men ;-
Slaves are cowards too.-Soldiers, &æ.
Hear! the trumpet! hear!
Shame and slavery.
They may fear to die-
What have we to fear!
While the patriot file
Moves serenely on,
Doubt and danger frown

On the mean the vile.-Soldiers, &c.
Lo the joyous breeze
Martial music brings :
Cannon's thunderings
Shout your victories.

Mars has call'd you his ;
Spain was ever brave :-
Who would be a slave

In an hour like this!-Soldiers, &c.
Look-the enemy-
Steady as a rock

To the battle's shock-
Look-they faint-they fly.

Can a servile crew,

Bought by tyrants' gold,
E'er withstand the bold,

Freedom led—as you.-Soldiers, &c.

They reached Cordoba;-there were only 300 left, and were received in melancholy silence by the inhabitants, who only saw so many victims marked out for certain signal sacrifice. They sought again the hilly parts of the province. The days were dark and rainy; the roads almost impassable; the A little band, enemy always at hand. too few for mutual defence, and unavailing, of course, for attack,-a little band reached Bienvenida; and one of its commanders, Evaresto de San Migues, speaks of its disperion in the following affecting terms :

"Our remaining united now served only to expose us to the irresistible attacks of the enemy. We had no breathing time-we had no repose. We were driven to the hard necessity of separating, and this was determined on at a council of all the officers who were left. Tender and sad was this parting! We had made costly sacrifices to our country-our only reward

was then the prospect of passing the rest of our days in exile !"

But the progress of the revolution in the rest of Spain is well known to you. Province after province threw off the yoke. The troops sent against Quiroga proclaimed the Constitution, and demanded to be united to those of the Isla, to combat for the holy cause. Madrid was in commotion-the king's life was threatened he, before whom millions had bowed in abject servility, was left without one faithful counsellor, or one devoted friend. Such is the fate of despots, when the mists of delusion and of falsehood are blown away by the presence of truth and honesty! How did the patriots punish the tyranny and perfidy of the king-the injustice and the cruelty of his agents? Hundreds came forth from damp and dismal dungeons, from long and mourn ful exile, to which they had been most unjustly condemned; and how did they treat their oppre-sors? They for gave- -once and again-they forgave! If their generous charity should be rewarded, as it is feared it is about to be rewarded, by new acts of perfidy on the part of the monarch and the reptiles that surround him, who can answer for human endurance? Not I!

The despotism of Ferdinand VII. was untempered by any thing which could make it tolerable; it had no splendour like that of Napoleon; it had no external influence like that of Alexander; it had no national pride in it like that of Charles III.; it was naked and unadorned; it had the clamorous impotence of decrepity, and the silly waywardness of childhood; it commanded no respect; it conciliated no affections.

I knew PORLIER. His death might serve as a model for a dying patriot ;it was solemn-it was noble-it was worthy of the worthiest ! Every thing which cruelty could invent to aggravate-every thing which malignity could imagine to degrade, accompanied his execution. His remains were bu ried on the sea shore, and on a day when the roar of the waves, and the chorus of the winds, were most magnificent. I wandered along the sands to visit "the place of his rest." Poor

triumph of baffled hatred-Could Porlier have desired a sublimer sepulchre ? Nor were my thoughts unaffected by the awful and well-suited inscription over the gate of the cemetery before which I had just passed :

"El termino de la vida es lo que veis!— "El dela muerte será segun obreis."

QUIROGA has a martial air; he is in the prime of life; somewhat above the middle stature, with a pleasing, sometimes even fascinating, expression of countenance. But I shall secure my sketch from severe criticism-you will judge of him yourself, for he is about to visit England. He was, as you know, the commander-in-chief of the liberating army. Neither he, nor any of his compeers had obtained any considerable distinctions, nor had been much known before the great events of the Isle de Leon. It is a strange fact that those who had failed in various attempts to rescue Spain, were most of them men of signal reputation; Mina, whose whole public life is one of chivalry; Porlier; Abisbal; Lacy; while those who succeeded in the perilous enterprize were men, till then, obscure and unnoticed. Argo Aguèro's talents, as an officer of engineers, were distinguished. Lopez Báno, and, indeed, all the rest, had served bravely and honourably in the Peninsular war. They had every one of them been engaged in Abisbal's plot; if tyranny had trampled them under foot; contempt and scorn would have been poured upon their ignoble heads;-your worldly-wise ones-your servile, slavish creatures-would have called them rebels and traitors—and have linked their names to shame and infamy; but the bright and glorious success of the few heroes who triumph may repay us for the disappointments of the many who are baffled in their struggle for national liberty.

Quiroga was well aware of the perils of the task he had undertaken. He told me that he had determined, however, never to fall alive into the hands of his enemies; he always sleeps with a pair of loaded pistols under his pillow, and in case of surprise he had vowed that he would destroy himself and his wife; (then in an advanced

state of pregnancy,) "That nothing," he added, "of me or mine might witness the horrors they have prepared for me." His wife is of an English descent and during the events of the Isla his only child, a daughter, whom he called Victoria, was born. "I passed," he said, 66 many moments of doubt and of agony."-" And which were the bitterest moments?" I enquired. "The first when we attacked the Isla; for I knew, that if it were defended bravely, we never could succeed against it: the second, when Riego left me with his division: the third, when I knew that his troops were dispersed, and that he, a fugitive, was wandering alone among the mountains." And let it be owned, the heart must have been made of stern and solid stuff which would bear its noble projects onward amidst a series of events like these.

But it has been remarked of Spaniards, and it has been well remarked, that they never calculate difficulties they conquer them. Their no importa- it does not matter,'-leads them through every perplexity. When Mina made his unsuccessful attack on Pampeluna, Spaniards were not disheartened" No importa, Spain will be free." -When Porlier was hanged-when Lacy was shot, the answer to all one's sympathizing regrets was, "No importa, Spain will be free ;" and when, in the enthusiasm of joy and congratula

tion, you hail their deliverance, the reply is ready, "I told you before that all which happened no importa, and Spain is free."

The plot which was carried on to its full accomplishment by Quiroga had been cherished and conducted by ABISBAL, whose conduct throughout has been mysterious and irreconcileable. It was he who had fostered the spirit of opposition in 1819; it was he who arrested Quiroga, Arco, Aguèro, and their fellow officers, amidst cries of "Long live the King ;" and it was he who consummated the revolution by proclaiming the constitution at Ocana, in 1820. All parties he had seemed to serve all parties he had seemed to betray. All have forgotten services whose sincerity was, at the least, doubtful; and Abisbal, who might have be come the most illustrious character in Spain, has sunk into obscurity-not to say, disgrace.

Every sort of national honour which can be gratifying to the pride or the patriotism of the heroes of the Isla de Leon has been conferred on them by their grateful country. One of them is already no more. Arco Aguèro was lately killed by a fall from his horse in the midst of his youth and of his glory. Riego has been of late the object of the attacks and persecutions of a proud and selfish faction-but Riego is the object of the idolatry of his fellow-citizens.

"ICHABOD."

1 Sam. iv. 21, 22.

THE tumult of battle is o'er,
And the shouts of the conquerors cease;
The chariots are rattling no more,
And confusion is changed into peace;
But "where is the glory?"

A thousand glad hearts are exulting,
Removed from the feelings of woe;
But to us those loud joys are insulting,
Those shouts are the shouts of the foe;
And "where is the glory?"

To the idols their praise is ascending,
And glad tears of rejoicing fast flow;
But our tears and our groans are still blend-
ing,

The groans and the big tears of woe;
"For "where is the glory?"

We mourn for the fate of the dead,

And we strew o'er their ashes these flow

ers

But on that that grave were our bed,

And the death-shade of cypress were our's; For "where is the glory?"

The sun of our glories is clouded,
O'er Shiloh is darkened the star;
For the ark which the Shekinah shrouded,
Is lost in the chances of war;
And where is the glory?"

Accursed be the day of this sorrow,
O'er its front let the tempest be spread
And blest be the dawn of to-morrow,
Which numbers my name with the dead;
For where is the glory:

Stephensiana, No. XV.

(Monthly Magazine, Feb.)

ARTHUR ONSLOW.

THIS celebrated speaker of the House of Commons, for the purpose of relaxing himself from the multiplied cares of his office, was in the habit of passing his evenings at a respectable country public-house, which for nearly a century was known by the name of the Jew's-harp-house, situated about a quarter of a mile north of Portlandplace. He dressed himself in plain attire, and preferred taking his seat in the chimney corner of the kitchen, where he took part in the vulgar jokes, and ordinary concerns of the landlord, his family and customers. He continued this practice for a year or two, and much ingratiated himself with his host and his family, who, not knowing his name, called him "the gentleman," but, from his familiar manners, treated him as one of themselves. It happened, however, one day, that the landlord was walking along Parliament-street, when he met the speaker in state, going up with an address to the throne, and looking narrowly at the chief personage, he was astonished and confounded at recognizing the features of the gentleman, his constant customer. He hurried home, and communicated the extraordinary intelligence to his wife and family, all of whom were disconcerted at the liberties, which at different times they had taken with so important a person. In the evening Mr. Onslow came as usual, with his holiday face and manners, and prepared to take his usual seat, but found every thing in a state of peculiar preparation, and the manners of the landlord and his wife changed from indifference and familiarity to form and obsequiousness. The children were not allowed to climb upon him, and pull his wig, as heretofore, and the servants were kept at a distance. He, however, took no notice of the change, but finding that his name and rank had by some means been discovered, he paid the reckoning, civilly took his departure, and never visited the house afterwards.

CALAIS.

Towards the close of the 12th cen

tury, Calais was a fishing village, with little in it to excite interest or attention; but when the inhabitants had acquired importance from success in the herring fishery, we find the church ready to extend its tyranny and usurpation on the occasion. In the year 1180, Pope Alexander III. granted the tithe of all the herrings there taken to the Abbey of St. Bertin, celebrated for its immense wealth, but to which bad effects were attributed, from its improper use. de Becquigny is the author who informs us of the rapacity thus excited, and the luxurious, worthless, and dissolute lives led by the abbots and monks.

M.

The honest fishermen, however, not clearly comprehending the Pope's right to give away their property, declared they would sooner decimate the monks than suffer their herrings to be decimated. But the unjust sentence passed on them in this transaction, far from being combatted, was confirmed by the civil power, and they were reduced to obedience by the Count of Flanders, who was then their regent, as guardian to Iola, Countess of Boulogne.-See also 'Histoire de l'Academie des Inscrip tions and Belles Letters,

SCIENCE in FRANCE.

Caroline Herschel, sister to the astronomer of that name, is not the only female who addicts herself to the study of astronomy, and has reached a high degree of improvement in it.

Madame, or to borrow her own designation, the female citizen, Le François, wife of Le François, nephew and assistant to Jerome Lalande, who presides over the national observatory at Paris, seconded the zeal of her husband and his uncle, so as to combine and blend the results of their different observations and calculations.

In the midst of the convulsions that agitate Europe, and exposed to imminent danger from the commotions that render the times dark and perilous in their native country, these three persons

were occupied in the bloody year 1794 in the labour of making a catalogue of the stars; and they published the result of their united efforts and powers, in 40,000 calculations.

During those popular tumults, science was nourished. Citizen Mechain was sent, in 1792, to Barcelona, to make admeasurements, and Delembre, in the same year, was employed in measuring triangles, and taking the distances between Orleans and Dunkirk.

cellency the Governor of Gibraltar, that they may be laid officially before the Court of Admiralty there; and I would recommend the case of the taking a Sardinian vessel to make other captures to be sent to Compte de Fidmont, to be laid before the British government, for I am of opinion that such conduct ought not to be permitted.

THE EMPEROR DOMITIAN

assumed the title of God, and dedicated the form of a Letter to be used by his

LETTER of LORD NELSON relative to procurators-"Our Lord and God commands," &c.

PRIVATEERS.

The time when judicial speeches were not suffered to exceed was previ

ously fixed, according to the nature of the cause, and was regulated by the dropping of water through a glass, called Clepsydra.-Bewick 428.

Head of Melancthon introduced in

to a picture, by Christopher Amberger, of the Adoration of the Magi, as one of those coming to pay homage to the infant Christ.-Copied by Mr. Lewis.

Termagant to be sent with the Dispatches coming by the Seahorse. To write Mr. Nepean that although I have full power and authority over his majesty's fleets in the Mediterranean, respecting military affairs; yet with respect to privateers, they being private property, I have not the smallest controul. When commissions are granted them, the owners give security in a large sum of money for their good St. Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins. conduct, and I should, and so would "Oldys is of Father Simon's opinthe sovereign, be liable to a prosecution ion about this Legend, that those who by law should he force them to any first broached it, finding in some old act. Their conduct can only be judged Martyrological MSS. St. Ursula et Unby the High Court of Admiralty, on decimilla, V. M. (that is S. Ursula and which there are two in the Mediterra- Undecimilla, virgin Martyrs), and imagnean, one at Malta, the other at Gibral-ining that Undecimilla, with the V, and tar. However, to shew my sincere dis- M. which followed, was an abbreviation position to do all in my power for the for Undecem Millia Martyrum Virgi security of the neutral navigation, which num,-did thence, out of two Virgins, I am sure will never be interrupted by make eleven thousand."—Biog. Brit. H. M. ships, 1 send you a paper for each of the vessels, which may possibly make the privateers consider a little befor they will detain a real neutral vessel and cargo; but I must apprize you and desire that you will inform the government of Sardinia that any paper from me will not have the smallest weight in an English court of justice, where they adjudge from what is proved, and not from any opinion of others, however high their rank or station in life. I am very much of opinion that the conduct of Privateers of all nations is oftentimes very irregular, to say no more of it; but I can only again repeat that I have no controul over them, their conduct and seizures can only be judged in the Court of Admiralty. I shall send your letter and papers to his Ex

When Protector Somerset, some time before his arrest, sent for Cecil, and communicated his apprehensions, the Secretary, instead of suggesting any means to avoid his impending danger, coldly replied, "that if he was innocent he might trust to that; and if he was otherwise, he could only pity him." King Edward's Journal.-Pity indeed, if he really felt, it was all that he bestowed; for it does not appear that he interposed either publicly or privately, to avert the destruction of his former patron.-Macdiarmid,

A gentleman told me (says Berwick in a note on Apollonius, p. 149) that he was present at a meeting of Jumpers in Glamorganshire, who said, that in proportion as they jumped high, they approached nearer to the Lamb.

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