The Edinburgh Review Volume 14 by U S Government
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Author: U S Government
Number of Pages: 236 pages
Published Date: 14 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781234152550
Download Link: The Edinburgh Review Volume 14
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ...blindly suffered to remain, but which, being equally uselefs to the state and oppreffive to the people, Buonaparte will most likely part with. It is to be seared that thefe and fimilar changes are already beginning to work in the tyrant's favour; and that their immediate and senfible effects on the individual interests of men, will tend, if not to conciliate his new subjects, at least to make them regret, much lefs bitterly, the government of the Bourbons and the Juntas. A sew days after the inhabitants of Madrid had sworn to bury themselves under its ruins, we find them hating the French no doubt, but hating them in secret--working in their fhops, and crowding the theatres. The question with respect to the south of Spain, is therefore reduced to a very narrow compass. Have we any fair grounds for expecting, that the remains of the Spanish forces collected there, will resist the French armies more effectually than they did, when their numbers were much greater, and their confidence more entire? The antient practice of ascribing all the disasters of our allies to treachery, has no doubt been resorted to, in order to explain what was sufficiently intelligible, the deseat of raw troops under inexperienced leaders, by an enemy persect in discipline and skill, and superior even in numbers. But, granting that the Spaniards did wisely in butchering their generals when they were beaten--that St Juan, so highly praised by Lord W. Bentinck, was a traitor as well as Socorro, Filangieri and othershave we any right to expect that all this disloyalty shall stop short at the Sierra Morena? And admitting, what is much more likely, that Castanos was deseated from his want of capacity--that the battle of Rio Seco was lost by the jealousies of Cuesta and...
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