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    Guipuscoan province , the troops were marched by way of Castro , Laredo , Limpias , the valley of Medina , &e , to JJreviesca . Here both officers and men felt more keenly than they had done at Bilbao , the wretched nature of the service into which they had entered ; the troops were quartered in convents , which were not furnished with the most common barrack neces ^

    saries ; they had neither tressels nor bedding of any description to lie upon ; they wanted clothing and shoes ; in fact , every description of resources began to fail ; there were no stores in the hands of the quarter-masters ; no Spanish contractor to supply provisions ; no money in the chest . The misery which officers

    and men suffered cannot easily be depicted . The hardships of a soldier ' s life may be endured , or are at least mitigated by the stirring incidents and excitement of an active campaign ; but here were fatigue and privations to be daily undergone without any moral or mental stimulus derived even from the prospect of being engaged with the enemy ; it was military drudgery

    without the excitement of military operations , and physical suffering without the prospect of any adequate compensation . While matters were in this gloomy state General Evans excited among his officers much dissatisfaction by the following General Order , by which Captains of companies were deprived of eighteenpence per day of the usual allowances : —

    " G . O . " Head Quarters , Breviesca , " November 22 , 183 f " The personal field allowance of a Captain is two shillings per diem , and by the British warrant the officer commanding the troops or company

    receives an allowance of one shilling and sixpence a day , to provide and keep up a mule to carry the tent . But the Legion not having tents , and therefore no troop or company mules , the allowance of one shilling and sixpence henceforward must not be estimated for by the paymasters of Regiments . "

    The officers argued that , as they subjected themselves to the inconvenience of bivouacking among the mountains without the protection of tents , they ought to have been permitted the usual allowance ; that it was not their fault that proper tents had not been provided for them , and that at any rate General Evans evinced an unkindly disposition to curtail them of their allowances to the very utmost . Immediately after this came a sort of compulsory proposition from the Colonels of regiments

    to their officers , that they should individually and collectively make the Spanish Government a present of the temporary use of two ~ thirds of their quarter's pay , which , however reluctantly , w $ 8 necessarily assented to . Here also we cannot forbear Stating the fact , that many of the Colonels , Lieutenant-Colonels , and M < 4 ° rsf of regiments , who had just as it were stepped , scarcely fledged , into office , assumed a tone of irii-

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    198 Th $ Civil War in Spain ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/8/