: drew out of the battle. The Goths, who still stood, missing him, were most part put to the sword, the rest betook themselves to flight. The camp was immediately entered, and baggage taken.. What number was killed is not known; I suppose they were so many it was hard to count them for this single battle robbed Spain of all its glory, and in it perished the renowned name of the Goths. The king's horse, upper garment, and buskins, covered with pearls and precious stones, were found on the bank of the river Guadelite, and there being no news of him afterwards, it was supposed he was drowned passing the river."-MARIANA'S History of Spain, book vi. chap. 9. Orelia, the courser of Don Roderick, mentioned in the text, and in the above quotation, was celebrated for her speed and form. She is men tioned repeatedly in Spanish romance, and also by Cervantes. Note V. When for the light Bolero ready stand, The Mozo blithe with gay Muchacha met. St. XXXIII. p. 35. The Bolero is a very light and active dance, much practised by the Spaniards, in which castanets are always used. Mozo and Muchacha are equivalent to our phrase of lad and lass. Note VI. While trumpets rung, and heralds cried, " Castile." St. XLIII. p. 41. The heralds at the coronation of a Spanish monarch proclaim his name three times, and repeat three times the word Castilla, Castilla, Cas M tilla; which, with all other ceremonies, was care fully copied in the mock inauguration of Joseph Buonaparte. Note VII. High blazed the war, and long, and far, and wide. St. LVIII. p. 45. Those who were disposed to believe that mere virtue and energy are able of themselves to work forth the salvation of an oppressed people, surprised in a moment of confidence, deprived of their officers, armies, and fortresses, who had every means of resistance to seek in the very moment when they were to be made use of, and whom the numerous treasons among the higher orders deprived of confidence in their natural leaders, those who entertained this enthusiastic but delusive opinion may be pardoned for ex pressing their disappointment at the protracted warfare in the peninsula. There are, however, another class of persons, who, having themselves the highest dread or veneration, or something allied to both, for the power of the modern Attila, will nevertheless give the heroical Spaniards little or no credit for the long, stubborn, and unsubdued resistance of three years to a power before whom their former well-prepared, wellarmed, and numerous adversaries fell in the course of as many months. While these gentlemen plead for deference to Buonaparte, and crave Respect for his great place-and bid the devil it may not be altogether unreasonable to claim some modification of censure upon those who have been long and to a great extent successful ly resisting this great enemy of mankind. That the energy of Spain has not uniformly been directed by conduct equal to its vigour, has been too obvious; that her armies, under their complicated disadvantages, have shared the fate of such as were defeated after taking the field with every possible advantage of arms and discipline, is surely not to be wondered at. But that a nation, under the circumstances of repeated discomfiture, internal treason, and the mismanagement incident to a temporary and hastilyadopted government, should have wasted, by its stubborn, uniform, and prolonged resistance, myriads after myriads of those soldiers who had overrun the world--that some of its provinces should, like Galicia, after being abandoned by their allies, and overrun by their enemies, have recovered their freedom by their own unassisted |