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    and was unprepared for the treachery , apathy , and paltry bickerings of the Spanish Generals with whom he was to act in concert . On the 30 th August , 1835 , the British Legion was , for the first time , led , or rather surprised into action with the enemy ; the following are the details of the affair : —After the Sunday

    parade , the 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd regiments , and right wing of the 7 th , were marched along the Hernani road ; the Chappel-gorries under command of General Jauregui , and the San Fernando and African regiments were in advance . Altogether the Christino force out on the occasion , Spanish and English included , amounted to upwards of 4 , 500 men . The Carlists were commanded , as was subsequently understood , by Gomez ; and had

    recourse to their usual tactics of apparently retiring , and inducing their antagonists to follow them en retraite until an opportunity occurred of falling with advantage on their flank or rear . They did so on the present occasion , and after a brisk engagement during the day the Christino troops were obliged in the evening to retreat into San Sebastian . # * # #

    The system of military discipline which General Evans adopted on his arrival at San Sebastian was directly contrary to the military ethics which he had inculcated in his political career . He had in England , it is notorious , inveighed with eloquent indignation against flogging in the army , —he had declared , and that too in the capacity of a military man , that the practice was not only a " dishonour" and " disgrace" to

    the British army , but absolutely useless . On the 21 st of July , 1834 , when a petition was presented by Mr Tennison in the House of Commons against corporeal punishment in the army , he rose and said that he also was opposed to military flogging . He was of opinion it defeated the very object it had in view . * Again , on the 8 th of August , 1834 , in presenting a petition on the same subject from the overseers and parishioners of St

    Martin ' s-in-the-Fieldb , he assured the Honourable House that " in his opinion this mode of punishment was not necessary to maintain the discipline of the army . He was not one of those philanthropists who viewed the question merely as a matter of cruelty inflicted on the offender ; but he looked at it as a dishonour and disgrace to the British army . "f No sooner , however , had he crossed the Bay of Biscay than he saw the matter in a new light ; the atmosphere of San Sebastian , it

    he expected that ho would be able to settle the whole affair and return in a few xnonths to resume his Parliamentary duties . On being applied to by one of bis constituents to know what his intentions were concerning his s « at in Parliament , ho replied , * ' I shall not resign ; it is not necessary ; I shall not quit the country just vet , nod before the ne . * t session I shall be back again . " --Evening faptr » June 13 and 14 , 1886 . * Hansard ' s Parliamentary Debate * ' 1834 . f Jbid > l 834 »

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    ] 94 The Civil War in Spain .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/4/