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    wa $ orig inall y projected , the name * of General Evans appeared at the root of the adVeftisettierit , countersigning the conditions of General Alava ; and the officers * and men who vohtnte&red their jservktes certainly did consider that—if not in a strietty legal sense a party to the contract , yet , as the CommattderitMDhief under whose directions the Legion was organized *^ - General Evans undoubtedly held a very responsible situation ;

    that he was in every sense bound to stand between them and the Government , and see the conditions under which they enteted the service fairly and honestly fulfilled . Instead of this , on the very first questio vexata that occurred , he betrayed the decision of it into the hands of the Spanish Government , and announced , through the medium of one of his staff-officer * , *

    that be had pledged himself to nothing , was responsible for nothing ; in fact , that all he had signed was a declaration , or certificate , that " the original" document of the conditions , < # with the seal and signature of the Ambassador /* was in his possession , at No . 26 Bryanston square ! This declaration excited a general feeling of astonishment and disappointment throughout the Legion . His signature to the advertisement had induced a very different impression , for every individual

    ivho had entered the service under his command conceived that h £ was responsible in a moral , if not legal sense , for seeing gvtfry article of the contract to which he had annexed his signatute fulfilled . Nay , what officer would have entered the fcenvice unless the fulfilment of the conditions had been so

    ff tiftfanteed ? who would have trusted to a notoriously vaeilating and now defunct Government , for the recognition of a single right ? who cared to know that the ori g inal document , provided it were safely lodged , was preserved in the cabinet of General Evans in Bryanston square ? Is this a sufficient apology for hia having countersigned the conditions of the service ? We think not . The truth is , that the signature of his Excellency to the document referred to , led , and was eminently calculated to lead , to a false impression . In the meantime , after

    a ldng period of sluggish inactivity , which doubtless arose from the want of co-operation on the part of the Spanish ggn& ^ als , the British Legion has at length made a movement , and Will , we have no doubt , in conjunction with the QiA 3 en * s troops , achieve many an apparent victory ; but these ought to be their due value The truth

    ^ ij ^ ated at . is , that the Carttsts , when & 100 lp $ % '& ^ upierior and determined force , will often abandon position after position , evacuate village after village ; they will TirfrMM ^ iiitd their taoutitain fastnesses , osten&W defeated Mt i ^ Il ^ * Bf * Iitttef publfehed in th * Courier .

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    9 M The Civil Wur in Spain .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/16/