RAMBLING REMINISCENCES OF THE SPANISH WAR; WITH A REFUTATION OF THE CHARGES OF CRUELTY BROUGHT BRITISH LEGION; AND A DEFENCE OF BRITISH POLICY. DEDICATED TO THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. BY THE REV. THOMAS FARR, Late of Trinity College, Cambridge. LONDON: J. RIDGWAY & SONS, 169, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXXXVIII. 371 PREFACE. I HAVE now, for nearly twenty years, been an almost constant traveller; and I hope, at the same time, a most conscientious and constant inquirer after truths, moral, religious, and political, whatever countries I may have visited. However interesting these inquiries might be to myself, I never had the vanity to suppose that my Sayings "and Doings" in " High-ways and Bye 66 ways," in "Court or in Camp," could ever be interesting to the public: for the simple reason, that hundreds of others must have witnessed the same things, placed in much superior positions, and with much superior acquirements to myself. I, therefore, at the very outset of life, came to the resolution that I never would, with my name, or without my name, give to the world a history of my wanderingsand that I might not might not be tempted to deviate from that resolution, my constant habit has been, not to keep the smallest date or journal of passing events—not even what is called a Pocket Book. But when I find that the most reiterated and repeated charges of cruelty have been brought against the British Legion collectively, and General Evans individually, and knowing well that these charges are not |