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    nation than their experience . That they have behaved gallantly , there is no doubt ; that they have produced , directly of their own force , no important effects , or laid the ground-work of any permanent advantage , seems equally clear ; but that they have , at the very least , deserved honourable treatment of the

    government whose cause they espoused , and the just fulfilment of its contract , does not admit of a single question . They will find no honour in the government . * " There is no money , " it will be said . Then , without alluding to the large promises painted forth in rich perspective , the Spanish government has played the part or a political swindler—obtaining men on false pretences—since it was bound in all honesty not to enter into engagements for a

    certain rate of pay without having funds for the purpose , and more particularly when this pay was absolutely needful to procure the majority the necessaries of life . It was a pretty thing truly to see whole regiments with empty bellies , rags , on their backs , no shoes , no money , but witli money due to them , reproached for objecting to fight or suffer any more for their unreasonable debtor ! All this was to have been foreseen . We

    did not wish to throw a damp on the cause , but we could not resist expressing our opinion in several popular publications , that those who volunteered in the service would save themselves much dissappointment by making up their minds to be as disinterested as possible . The patriot-services all bear a close

    resemblance to each other in their organization and general conduct . Tliose individuals who have served in the Columbian , the Brazilian , the Venezuelan , or the Mexican services , all tell very much the same tale-. The majority of the volunteers are undoubtedly mercenaries ; but as they fulfil the terms of their contract , and are thus far men of integrity , they expect their

    employers should do the same . Among them there are a few men of honour and character , who give up a certain position in their own country , and a few younger volunteers , who are enthusiastic in the cause . Except on compulsion , as in the instances of Lord Cochrane and Captain Napier—the threatened or actual sale of your own ship being the only means of obtaining * prizemoney for the ships taken , or fair settlement of pay from the

    government—the officers and men engaged in patriot services have scarcely ever met with any just remuneration . In the land ^ service the troops are much worse off , having no property as security in their own hands . The government , having had its ends answered , generally gets rid or all the foreigners in a cavalier style , snapping its fingers , through the medium of some irresponsible officer , at all agreements . Sometimes they also manifest a misplaced feeling of the vindictive . Thus : we may be sure ia all these cases ( and it is just the same in all regular services ,

    * Unle * through the «¦ honest face * of some loan from England .

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    $ 8 & 3 fadrid in 1835 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/14/