killed in the field of battle up to the 1st of April,

1836, is

280,535

From the 1st April, to 8th October, 1806, 33,927 Carlist prisoners to 1st April, 1836,..

Ditto, to 8th October, 1836,

54,493

11,760

Total of Carlists killed, and prisoners,

...

380,715

Muskets taken during the above periods, 113,221; battles gained, 597, which are further divided into 327 partial affairs, and 270 total routs.

Mr. Honan states the case fairly, when he observes there is not much to choose between the Carlist and Christino despatches, as far as veracity is concerned; he says these narratives, "(Official Christino despatches) were sent into other countries uncontradicted, except by some private letters, to form the ground-work of financial delusion, by which, in turn, each money-market in Europe has been sacrificed, and for the conception and execution of which, the Spanish Ministers of the Treasury enjoy a special reputation." I was even told by the officer of the day, on one of these great battles, whose duty it was to count the bodies of the slain enemy on the field, that he found but forty-five corpses, while the Gazette represented no less than three thousand four hundred, put hors de combat, an instance of exaggeration only to be matched by a Carlist Bulletin, lately published, of Cordova's retreat to Vittoria, which, headed "Victory! victory! victory!!!" declared that

nine thousand men were destroyed out of twelve thousand, although, in good truth, not more than sixty poor fellows bit the dust "-Honan's Court and Camp of Don Carlos, p. 6.

D.-Page 261.

"The courage of the Navarrese, and not only of the Navarrese, but of the Spaniards generally, is of a nature that requires some explanation. Of late years they have made the worst regular troops in Europe: but this springs from a total want of confidence in their own officers, who are drawn from those classes I have described as utterly demoralized, and who have often abandoned or betrayed their followers, or sacrificed them through ignorance. It is also true, that generally in a fair, stand-up fight, the Spaniards will not behave with the determination of French or English soldiers, who like a few decisive actions, and then to have done. The reluctance of Napoleon's marshals and generals, towards the end of their career, to enter on fresh battles, in which, when once engaged, they behaved with so much heroism, is a striking proof of this disposition; and the French veterans with whom I have conversed, as well as some French deserters serving in our ranks-as brave men as ever wielded a musket-bear me out in the assertion, that whenever the troops of that nation have

reaped a harvest of glory, they grow tired of fighting. This I believe to be the case with all the nations of the north. Their soldiers have cheerfully run the most imminent personal hazard in the actions in which they have been engaged; but, after a time, they like to sit under the shadow of the laurels they have gathered. The courage of the Spaniard, on the contrary, although it will not urge him with such determined bravery in the face of danger, will lead him to run a greater risk, by remaining for years, or a whole life-time, in warfare, the continuance of which, sweeps his race from the earth, with more certainty than the most bloody battles of a brief campaign or two."-Campaign with Zumalacarregui, by Captain Henningsen, Vol. I., p. 63.

E-Page 275.

"Well aware that it could only be by the rapidity of his marches and the hardiness of his men, that he (Zumalacarregui) could hope to struggle with the fearful odds against which he opened the campaign, he equipped them as lightly as possible. Instead of the cartridge box and sword, which, dangling on a soldier's thigh, greatly fatigue him on a long day's march, he had leather belts made to buckle behind, holding in front twenty tin tubes, and two pockets, containing each two packets more of cartridges, all covered with a leather flap. This

contrivance had the advantage of saving many cartridges, which are often let fall in the confusion of action, when the soldier has to take them from his cartouch box. The belt, too, rather aids than incommodes him on his march, and allows him to fire much more rapidly. This cartridge belt has, hitherto, been objected to in France and England, on the plea of the danger of the cartridges placed in front igniting from the fire of the musket, when the men fire in line. In a mountainous country, where men must be so much dispersed as skirmishers, this objection was overruled; and even otherwise, I am a staunch advocate for the adoption of this method, as the danger is little greater than that of the cartouch box exploding from the fire of the second or third line, and the advantages are immense. Instead of the knapsack, he adopted little canvass bags, in which the soldier was allowed to carry only a shirt, a pair of sandals, and a day's provisions; although, afterwards, when our marches became less arduous, they were tacitly permitted to load themselves with any thing they pleased, but then, of course, they had no right to complain. They had always a decided objection to the knapsack, which with the shako, the stock, and the cartridge box, were articles of the enemy's spoil they always left on the field as useless. The national béret he substituted for the heavy shako— a gratuitous torment to the soldier, which does not even parry a sabre cut in a charge of cavalry, as it is vulgarly imagined; for no stroke is given perpendicularly down

wards by a trooper, all are aimed diagonally, according to the rules of the sword exercise. With men who had

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thus nothing but their musket to carry, troops armed as heavily as those in regular armies usually are, stood no chance of competing on a march."-Henningsen's Campaign, Vol. I., p. 106.

F.-Page 280.

In the House of Commons, on Monday, the 17th of April, LORD JOHN RUSSELL having moved, that "the Ordnance Estimates be referred to the Committee of Supply,"

Sir HENRY HARDINGE moved, as an amendment :

"That an humble address be presented to His Majesty, praying that His Majesty will be graciously pleased not to renew the Order in Council of the 10th of June, 1835, granting His Majesty's royal licence to British subjects to enlist into the service of the Queen of Spain, which Order in Council will expire on the 10th of June next; and praying also, that His Majesty will be graciously pleased to give directions that the marine forces of His Majesty shall not be employed in the civil contest now prevailing in Spain, otherwise than in that naval co-operation which His Majesty has engaged to afford, if necessary, under the stipulations of treaty."